Sushi Glory Hole

Hey, everybody.

This is really exciting.

I'm talking to Andrew and Akiva just a few days after they dropped a new digital short.

Hey, yo.

I already forgot everything.

Oh, my God.

That's how fast you're living these days?

That's how it turned out.

Yeah.

Oh, it feels different.

It feels different.

It's not a nostalgia pod anymore, you know?

Yeah, no, now it's fresh.

It's like the daily.

Yeah.

This is now officially turned into the daily for digital shorts.

Yeah.

First of all, I had heard Sushi Glory Hole maybe 10 months ago.

Yep.

Driving around in Andy's car, and it's the hardest I've ever laughed.

Maybe in my life.

It worked on you.

Yeah.

Also, the first time I'd ever been in a car that Andy was driving, which made it incredibly novel.

Excellent driver, Rain Man Ref.

And been looking forward to it for a long time.

And I was just delighted.

Keeve, did you direct it as well?

Mike Diva did a lot of heavy lifting, and I would say we did it together.

And you had worked with Mike before.

Yeah, so Mike Diva is a good friend of ours who we met back in LA, and he helped us when we were about to go on tour.

He's just a really funny video director, and so we had him do all the background.

So, anybody who saw us on tour, he did what was up on those LED screens.

Did he do We Fell Off a Horse?

He did.

I mean, another time that I laughed, baby.

An unhealthy amount.

A very quick tangent for those who didn't see the tour.

The quickest way I'll tell it is basically we did a photo shoot for an album.

It had a horse.

We all three got on it bareback.

It bucked a teeniest bit, maybe five inches, but enough that none of us had anything to hold onto.

And we all fell off the horse.

And it was on video.

And we gave the video to Mike Diva and he made a beat with his brother.

And it was a little interlude song called We Fell Off a Horse that played.

And then, you know, it had like a big metallic 3D horse shooting lasers by the end.

Also, it is caught on camera, but exactly how you want that moment caught.

It wasn't being shot like it was a movie.

No.

Someone was just sort of getting BTS stuff of a photo shoot.

Yeah, it was on an iPhone.

And so it was really great.

Yeah, you guys fall off the horse and it's like immediately it's like

screening.

It's like Cloverfield style footage.

Yeah footage.

It was our Cloverfield.

It was your Cloverfield.

And then Mike, when me and Andy started doing Bash Brothers, we were like, this is a lot of heavy lifting.

Who could we bring on?

And we brought on Mike.

So he co-directed all of Bash Brothers with me as well and co-edited with me and everything.

And then we recommended him to SNL.

And he's been working there for like three years now?

Two years?

How many seasons has he done?

Two or three.

This is his third, I think.

There you go.

Also, by the way, Joram, I know you weren't in it, but are you just going to sit, hear this whole podcast and not say anything?

Oh, yeah, Jorm's not here.

I mean, Jesus.

We should probably point out Jorm's not here.

Jorm is not here.

That's fair to that.

I do like that people are listening being like, oh, fuck, Yorm must be mad.

He wasn't in sushi.

It is currently 4.35 p.m., which means it's like 2.30 in the morning, I think, in Finland.

Yeah, it's not a good time to get a Finland Yorm for this podcast.

He sends his regards.

Technically, though, I want to make something clear.

This is not about sushi glory hole.

We've talked about it, but everything has to be in order on the Lonely Island of Southmeires podcast, correct?

Yeah.

So in about 85 episodes?

In about 85 episodes, because now we could talk about it now and it would be fresh and probably like insightful, but it's better to wait, I think, a year and a half where it's just a lot of, um, maybe.

I mean, we could talk about it a little more, don't you think?

Okay, good.

So I have a question about your look.

I feel like I maybe had a different take on what your look was than what everybody then said what your look was.

What was the look you asked for?

Wall Street was the first reference, the original.

You know what you guys look like to me

is the dudes in a Guy Richie movie.

Because you know, a lot of Guy Richie movies are like 30-minute montages of people explaining like how they're they're making drugs underground.

Yeah, yeah.

And I feel like the sushi glory hole guys, I think there's a lot of like basically the gentleman is Matthew McConaughey.

The first 30 minutes is like, hear me out.

That's right.

Yeah.

We do look like we're like some Savil Row, but kind of experimental.

It's a little more colorful than I think of when I think of Wall Street.

Yeah.

Well, we didn't just stop there.

We basically pulled, you know, Michael Douglas pictures from Wall Street, and then we also started pulling like cool fashion forward stuff that like ASAP Rocky does, but nobody would have that stuff because that's like really, you know, right off the runway stuff.

And we said, We just want to seem off, we're Wall Street guys, but there's something wrong with us.

And then they put it all together, and we were both kind of like, oh, these are just actually kind of cool in an off way.

It was a little bit back to the thing you said about I Ran So Far, where Kanye thought you were actually looked good.

When Keeve got dressed in his for the first time, I looked at him.

This is going to be lost on almost everyone, but I was like, who do you look like?

And then I realized it was the old Golden State Warriors color commentary guy,

Jim Barnett.

Oh, yeah.

I love Jim Barnett, by the way.

Great color commentary.

Do you want to say who else I look like in it?

R.

Crumb.

No.

It was a little.

It was R.

Crumb if he actually invested well.

He looked like R.

Crumb before he put the wig on.

Yeah.

I look like Eddie Murphy in white like me.

Oh, that was my favorite moment of the whole week.

When he's in full white face, that's what he looks like.

Yeah, there was a moment where the lighting was kind of low, and I walked up and I was like, Keeve, you look exactly like Eddie Murphy in white like me right now.

And it was, we laughed a lot.

Yeah.

Do you guys want to talk about how there's a whole new streamlined process to shooting shorts now?

Yeah, it was crazy.

Because there's basically just like a location now, correct?

That they use every week.

Yeah, it's a huge building.

Yeah, they have sound stages now that was born of COVID when they needed somewhere to shoot when no one could be on the streets.

So they rented huge sound stages and now they do everything there.

The difference between when we did them and now is, is, let me just say, people there might have got bored of hearing us go, whoa, this is so different.

Yeah.

But it is, it is enormous.

It is like the difference between five people and 400 people.

Like it is exponential.

Were you jealous of it?

In part, because it made certain things that were very difficult before very effortless.

Like they just have assigned wardrobe people and assigned makeup people and assigned FX people for afterwards for when you're doing VFX.

So there's a lot of things where there's just a machinery to get stuff done.

And the SNL crew is so good.

And I know I always hear people say that.

And maybe I hadn't experienced the opposite, but having experienced the opposite or just having been in the real world maybe for 10 years, experiencing other crews, when I went back, I was like, oh my God, they are amazing.

This woman, Jill, who did the wardrobe, we gave two references quickly through other people.

And we showed up and she had eight suits suits pulled for us, had her favorites laid out on the floor.

They're basically exactly what we wore in the video.

No notes.

We just tried them on, did it.

She understood.

She put all the things.

We'd be like, oh, should we have a tie clip?

There'd be eight tie clips within a second.

And that is not what it's like in the rest of show business.

And same with Jodi.

That's just less surprising because Jodi, we've always known is amazing.

But shout out to Jill.

Jodi's hair.

Extraordinary.

Yeah, Jodi's hair and killed it with those wigs right away.

But there's no learning curve.

They all know what you're getting at and can jump to it.

Whereas anywhere else in the world, there's so many rounds of notes and things move in slow motion.

I also think everybody gets better by working with the department heads, but also the department heads are so good because they are constantly working with very green writers and cast members.

And so because Lauren empowers even the newest writer to be in charge of their sketches, the department heads are like, oh, we can't learn how to talk like this person.

We have to teach this person how to talk like us.

And so so very quickly when you're at SNL, I think you learn how you can just give a little bit of information and the department heads will go off and like make the best choices.

Yeah, it's really amazing.

It was nice to be back.

Yeah.

Who came up with the idea of sushi glory hole to begin with?

That would be Akiva.

I don't know why.

He just came in and just said it.

Yeah, I just said it.

And then I was like, okay.

And then he kept saying it.

Yeah.

I was like, all right, let's try it then.

Did I say hear me out?

You didn't say hear me out.

No.

And we tried a whole version of it.

Yes.

That didn't have any of the hear me out out stuff on a different beat.

And it just felt kind of like, yep, feels like what Chat GPT would do if we punched in Lonely Island Sushi Glory Hole.

And we were like, yeah, it's fine.

And then we were like, we do like some of these lines and some of these ideas.

And then so we started it on a different beat that we ended up using.

And then once we started writing, the hear me outs just happened organically.

Because of course those guys would say that before you would even react because they've pitched this a hundred times and it's gone bad every time.

Yeah, they know.

But what I like is for guys who it's gone bad every time, they still walk in with a real douchey energy.

They're real cocky.

Oh, yeah, they know they're about to kill it.

I want to see almost the pre-scene where the two of you are like, this time, do not show fear.

We could do this, dude.

It is a good idea.

Good idea.

I love good idea.

That's definitely Andy writing that for me.

I have to think.

You got nothing to fear, sushi glory hole.

It's a good idea.

And it's not weird.

So hear us out while we tell you what the concept's all about.

Is sushi being fed through a hole in the wall?

Where are you going?

Where are you going?

I love hard Akiva.

I love when Akiva is like just like that ice water in his veins.

Rap persona.

Yeah.

Braindead is how I would call it, but thank you for that.

What do you call it?

Yeah.

Braindead?

Okay.

Like, half the time I'm in there, like, oh.

There's definitely a little Jose and Mark dynamic on this one.

Yeah.

Some of the Mark McGuire has infected other things now.

Who is the very intelligent man, IRL?

Yes.

My characterization.

Exactly.

I did love,

because again, you explain it what it is.

And then, as soon as you hear sushi glory hole, certainly for me, you like mind's eye it.

And yet,

so funny the first time somebody puts their mouth up and sushi comes out because it looks just enough like it might be a penis.

We purposely left a few extra frames of anticipation on the first one of James, where it's just he's sitting there waiting, and you're like, wait a second, what's coming through that hole?

You're like, oh no, And then just like a little bit of salmon, a little bit of salmon right away.

You're like, is it?

By the way, it looked nice once it came out.

Yeah.

It did.

Again, it's the, the, uh, the quality is worth the risk, right?

And that's kind of, I think, part of the hear meow.

Yeah, that is it.

The quality of the fish is worth the risk, as you say.

Yeah, yeah.

There's not a lot of our songs where we come out the gate and the first three words are the entire premise.

You'll never really learn more than in the first three words.

Yeah.

And then the rest is like backtracking and explaining.

I think the dumbest, I mean, again, my favorite thing is like maybe the worst selling points of the business plan, sushi glory hole, are the last two.

Sushi Glory Hole.

We're offering a five-star omikaze, like really good stuff.

And you might be at kind of a cheap place.

Yeah.

And Devin and Chloe got those things.

Like they expressed them perfectly because we've all been there.

You have all been there.

I will say I really like the way Chloe sort of leaned her head against the side of the bathroom stall in pleasure.

Yeah.

She was like, that's some good sushi.

That's a really good sushi.

Honestly, there's some urgent poop energy, some diarrhea energy, if I'm going to say the gross word, from all of them.

Dismukes had some real, like, I'm going to go shit my pants, but it was just.

He just get in there.

He's slamming the door open.

He's flopping down on the thing.

He needs the relief of good sushi in his mouth.

Well, yeah, because he forgot to eat.

Yeah.

I don't want to poke holes in sushi glory hold, but it did seem like

you can't be eating omikasi in the middle of the street.

I feel like Dismukes ate it a little sloppier than like a normal person would be able to.

In the middle of the street?

Yeah, no, but I mean, like, if you got, say, deli sushi or whatever, you'd be able to pick it up and put in your mouth, right?

Without it just, like, crumbling everywhere?

I mean, I think it depends on the piece.

You know what I'm doing right now?

I'm realizing what I'm doing.

I'm hearing you out.

There you go.

Thank you.

You immediately spoke in a way that made me hear you out.

You haven't left.

How were the NBC sensors?

Was it running it back again with beloved Betsy Torres?

I did get her on the horn once

when there was a note that we weren't sure about.

And I was like, let me just talk to her.

And so I took it that one extra step.

And she was delightful, honestly.

And the reason she...

quote unquote won the thing that I was asking about where I was like, oh, okay, is because it airs in primetime on the West Coast now.

Gotcha.

And that is a big difference.

What can you tell me what it was that she went on?

Basically, we had an alternate for the sake.

So there's a moment where he looks down at his phone and he chooses, Oh, I'll have a sake.

And then you see him drinking from a little cup of sake.

Yeah.

We had an alternate where it was like essentially shooting through with like a water gun.

Gotcha.

So it appeared kind of reminiscent of someone was pissing through the hole into his mouth.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because it was a bathroom.

And the phone is very clear, and we made it very big so you would not miss it.

But when she was like, this is going to be on at you know, nine o'clock p.m.

in Los Angeles, I was like, okay.

We were on the fence about it anyway, because we did really like how adorable the little sake cup sip was.

It's true.

Yeah.

I guess I was dumb of me when I heard the song.

I guess I kind of thought that the sushi would come through the glory hole and then you would take it in your own hand.

See, we talked about that.

Yeah, we talked about it, about it being just you're being fed.

Yeah.

Well, because then it was always my understanding that it would be shoved straight in.

Yeah.

And that's my understanding.

And again, of glory holes, I'm pretty sure that's

it's almost hands-free.

I feel feel like there's an expectation that most of your Glory Hole stuff will be hands-free.

It would be nice, though, if anything that came through Glory Hole was presented on a flat hand, you know?

Yeah, it's true.

Seth, have you ever seen a Glory Hole in real life?

I haven't.

Neither have we.

Yeah, I also have not.

Always hoped to, but never, never happened upon one.

Just going to the wrong places.

It's possible that I've seen them, but didn't know about it yet.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

And didn't put it together.

I was like, hey, weird.

When you were just as tall as one, a little peephole.

You were like, huh.

Oh, yeah.

Before my growth spurt last year.

Well, bravo.

Do you guys have anything else?

And again, we're going to obviously revisit this in 85 episodes, but do you anything else to add about?

Oh, what did Lauren think of Sushi Glory Hole?

He said, good job and shook my hand at the after party.

He liked it.

You know, it played later in the show than maybe we would have hoped for, but we understood that it was a little dirty.

A little dirty.

Yeah.

Yeah.

When we made the song, we were like, will this ever get a video?

Videos are expensive.

We don't have an outlet for it.

So it was just kind of there being like, man, it'd be so cool to do one.

And shout out to Lauren because Andy brought it up to him since he's there doing Doug.

And he said, okay, give it a go.

But you did go over to the table and say, we got you, man.

You paid for it.

Yeah, of course.

We got you to pay for it, dude.

You know where we were when we got the news, Seth, that it was going to be on?

That, like, oh, you're on.

And we had to go make the

path to your 8H and go to where we always stood right under the main stage.

We were in a dressing room in your show.

Oh, yeah.

You were the overflow dressing room.

Yeah.

And you know what was interesting about it?

What's that?

No hand soap.

Yeah, no hand soap.

No hand soap?

No.

And no paper towels.

And went out of the room, went to that sink that's kind of communal in the like bullpen area of the dressing rooms.

No hand soap.

Went into like three other unoccupied.

Yeah.

Couldn't get it.

Yeah.

No way to wash hands.

So what's up with that?

Is that something you do on purpose?

Is that the same at your show, or is that just for SNL on the weekends?

You know, it's one of the many budget cuts that is affecting late night television.

But thanks.

First, it was the band.

Did it go first?

First, it was the band.

Oh, they got rid of the band first, then the handsoap?

Yeah, well, the problem was like, what can you cut from the budget?

And we cut hand soap, and they came back and they're like, not even close.

Oh, man.

Not even close.

Seth, I don't want this to make you feel weird if you don't know this, but do you know what they do to your main studio during an SNL night?

I would imagine they fill it with sort of

maybe makeshift hair and makeup stations for extras.

That's right.

Yeah.

And all the extras were sitting in your audience.

Yeah.

Because I went in there to take a prank photo for you of like, oh shit, the studio's open.

I'm going to go goof around on the desk.

And then there was immediately 200 people staring at me.

And I was like, oh, never mind.

I'm out of here.

That's such a burn because you love a prank photo.

That's my main thing.

It was taken from you.

The last time we were all on, Andy was saying to our listeners, hey, I'm going out there to do the show.

I don't, I'm, oh, no, you were were doing it from your hotel on a Friday in New York.

Oh, right.

And I was like, I don't even know if I'm going to be on or not.

Yeah, you didn't want to give spoilers because you didn't even know if you'd get cut or what it would be.

Yep.

And in hindsight, we've seen things on Instagram that one thing you were in did get cut, which was a kind of Game of Thrones.

Yeah, House of the Dragon Piece, Joe Strope.

Exactly.

Got to do my Legolas.

Next to Jelly Roll.

Got to do my Legolas.

And Seth got to say.

Mordor the way they say it in all Rings of Power and all the movies.

And it was very satisfying for me.

Give us that real quick.

so good

and they're all so proud that they're doing it right and it's like really the the way that you're supposed to do it from the books and stuff and uh it made me really happy to get to partake do you think that joast only wrote it because he was so like excited to get your legolas back out there i think no okay but i was happy to get to do it again but now andy this is a very kind of opposite of your experience on the show which is you are basically they've got you there for the purposes of being in the cold open.

Yeah, political cold opens.

This was not your life at SNL.

No.

You were not a guy where like, I'm definitely going to be in the cold open.

Correct.

And in fact, I got to say live from New York with Maya and Dana a couple of days ago on the second show.

And I was thinking about it and I was like, that might only be like the fifth time I've ever done it.

Yeah.

There's definitely some people that keep a count online who could tell you who's done it the most.

Okay.

But we could find out how many times you've lived from New York.

Do you remember your first live from New Yorking?

No.

Yeah.

Seth, your point, point, though, about that we always were the ones that couldn't go to dinner and couldn't do anything because we were always making the shorts.

Andy got to have one of those nice normal SNL weeks where he just had, you know, two sketches blocking at normal times.

And I heard about that there was like a pretty good dinner that was had that last week.

Oh, so good.

We had a really good dinner.

We had a good dinner.

I heard about it like four times.

Andy's honestly kind of reeling from it.

I think it hit on all cylinders for him in a way he hadn't experienced, which is New York City, amazing ambiance and amazing food with perfect buds and perfect old-fashioned.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

I've heard of them.

Yeah.

They're really good.

And we had a seven o'clock res.

This is our new life.

I would say we probably never, in the seven years we ever lapped at SNL, we probably never had dinner at seven.

Definitely not.

Maybe a couple late lunches started at seven.

It was heavenly.

And then divine.

We sat down.

We ate a ton of food.

I think I had three old-fashions.

I only think you had two.

Is that right?

Or two?

Two.

I cap it at two.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, that was a work week.

It was a work week, but then then we we rolled out maybe at 9 30 and andy was like should we go get a drink and i really had to say no

my kids are deaf up at seven and you remember what i said what'd you say oh thank god

well then the next day i mean again i did have to wake up at like 6 30 get my kids to school go to work and then i think at 11 a.m andy texted shoemaker and i and said oh my god i've been up so long just kidding just woke up

first time in a while.

Had a great morning, been out and about.

Just kidding.

Just opening my eyes.

So glad we didn't get drinks.

Got Queen Bee, though.

You did.

You did Queen Bee it.

But, you know, Keeve, that was the problem.

Like, you came out, but it was all digital short time.

So you guys were breakneck.

Oh, yeah.

It felt weird.

It was Tuesday.

I was in the middle of, I'm on deadline on Naked Gun.

I'm trying to get the edit in right now.

And all of a sudden had to drop everything because Andy was like, it's on.

We're on a flight.

Tomorrow morning, let's go.

Yeah.

And it's, you're in it.

Yeah.

You're the other guy.

And I I had a great time, but it was a whirlwind.

And then we were back Sunday.

So it felt crazy.

The other nice thing I'll say that me and Andy, when we were out on the stage and we're watching it play live and we're looking up at the monitors and looking up at the audience and it was playing really, really well, we were both like, left that thing being like, wow, I didn't know if I'd ever have that feeling again.

Yeah.

So it's appropriate for this podcast of us being like, oh my God.

It genuinely felt special.

And it did feel different.

Like my relationship to all of it felt a little different in a good way, I think, in a healthier way.

Yeah.

It was a little bit like time travel also of like, oh, we're just back in the same spot praying that it lands.

And then when it starts to work, you're like, oh, thank fucking God.

Yeah.

Also a couple like touchdowns to the past where you have Maya and Keenan.

But I thought the current cast was all super funny in it.

They were.

Agreed.

Yeah.

Did you have any sense?

I know I'm putting you in a possible situation.

Did you have any sense that anyone was like, oh, wow, this is so cool.

I get to do a short.

A lot of them would say it a lot.

And honestly, it was really heartening and nice.

I I really liked it.

I felt a lot of warmth from people in a way I wasn't expecting.

That's really great.

Andy?

Yeah.

I mean, there's always a thing of like being super flattered versus being like, oh my God, how old are we?

Right.

When we came back in 2016 and did the finest girl from Popstar, it felt like people were still in competition with us.

Yeah.

And it was a little like, hey, what's up, guys?

And now it's been long enough that everyone there is not.

Yeah.

They're just like, oh, they were here before a while ago, which is correct.

Exactly.

So there was more, I felt a lot more just friendly warmth from all the new cast members and writers that I met.

That was like my first year.

I remember Ackroyd came back to do something and I was like, hey, this is my show now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It hadn't been long enough.

Get out of my shit, man.

It was me.

I misplayed it.

Yeah, it might have been an oversight.

I was, I was like, the fourth show.

What was I doing?

Apropos of not, well, except for the fact that I made up a story.

Ackroyd was one of those guys.

Every time he came back, he would come over to you and tell you something he loved that you did that was such a piece of minutiae.

Yeah.

Like, it wasn't like, hey, I love that hit sketch you did.

He was like, oh, there was that scene.

You did a voice.

You did a voice from the Atlantic Midwest.

You know, the sort of like, you know, the Atlantic coast accent.

You never hear it.

You nailed it.

And it's just like crazy.

That's the beautiful thing about it coming from people that have actually worked there, though.

Like that has happened organically for me going back.

When I talk to the cast that are there now and the writers even too that I I know stuff they've written, it's never what most people would say to them because we work there.

So, the things that excite us are much more like what you're describing.

Yeah, well, you actually, I feel like you're getting it both ways, Andy, because you're both working with the current cast and you get to do sketches of Dana Carvey every week.

I know, by the way, that is the coolest.

Also, it's not heyday, Dana.

It is Dana now has an all-new,

super cracking impression that nobody figured out except him.

That's right, and he got losed with the ice cream too in episode two.

Yeah.

He got me and Maya.

We were not expecting that.

He's very, he's very fun to watch.

He's so good, man, and such a nice person.

It's been really fun, honestly, hanging out with all of them.

Gaffigan too is great.

Like, everybody's so awesome.

Have you ever met Burgettzi?

No, we developed a show with him way back in the day, our company, but I don't think I've even met him during that time because we were so busy with other shit.

Speaking of shows you developed in the past, you have an animated show.

Yes.

Digman.

Yes.

I did a voice on it.

That's right.

Coming this season.

I'm very excited.

But another person who did a voice was on my show today, Nathan Lane.

Oh, amazing.

Nathan Lane had very lovely things to say about you, Andy.

That's so wonderful.

I have nothing but good things to say about Nathan Lane, the legend.

He also had very nice things to say about the French pole vaulter you played on our show.

Is that right?

Yeah.

Nathan Lane also always goes, Did you see their new digital short?

And he was like, Sushi Glory Hole?

Yes.

It was just everything.

No way.

That's the best.

It was generally great.

Hey, since Yorm's here, and I know Yorm is the one who really hates plugs.

But you know what?

Since we're real-timing the podcast now, it was announced today the release date of my HBO special.

That's right.

I saw the trailer.

It looks very funny.

Saw the poster.

Poster?

Yep.

October 26th on HBO.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Chris Martin from ColdPlay did come up and say, where's the third one?

That's my best, Chris Martin, but he did ask.

Where's the third one?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's what he calls Yorma, the third one?

Yeah, well, he's like, isn't there supposed to be three of you guys?

That's great.

And he was barefoot in the halls, and Keith told him about JJ Casuals.

Did you really?

Yeah, yeah.

I was like, hey, you don't wear shoes on the stage.

You know what?

Our very first sketch was just about that.

We knew another singer who'd preferred to go barefoot on stage.

I pitched him the whole sketch.

Yeah, he was delightful.

Yeah, I saw a supercut of different SNL hosts announcing a now Cold Play.

And it is such a trip how long they have been doing SNL.

Yeah.

Like sort of from like an early Baldwin on.

Oh, wow.

Longer than us.

Yeah.

Definitely, definitely did the show.

Favorite Cold Play song, Seth?

I think Yellow.

Yeah.

First thought, best thought, right?

Oh, but you know what?

Here's, wait, I have a Cold Play story.

Can I tell my Cold Play story?

Yeah, sure.

And it's a genuine story.

Remember, Polar had a baby like late Friday night before a show.

I got a text from her at like one in the morning being like, you're on your own tomorrow, kid,

because I had to host update by myself.

Ah, yes.

And it was terrifying, the very idea of going out there and doing it by myself.

And Cold Cole Play was the musical guest that night.

And, you know, the first musical guest is right before update.

And the song was Viva La Vida.

Remember the song?

Yes.

And Chris Martin was wearing like a very colorful jacket.

Had a lot of like weird patches.

It was kind of jacket that like he pulled off and I would never be able to pull off.

Maybe some epaulettes.

Yeah.

There was a lot of garnishes on the jacket.

And I was so nervous and I was watching Chris Martin and he seemed to be having such a good time singing a song, wearing his kick-ass jacket.

And I just said to myself, go have as much fun as he's having right now.

Just like pretend like you're Chris Martin and you're wearing the cool jacket.

Yeah.

And that's literally what I, that's like, I, I, I told Chris Martin that once, like, how it gave you the focus.

I just like was looking at him being like, you're allowed to be that happy when you perform.

And so I'm going to go do that.

Did you feel that when you did it, or were you consciously aware, I'm faking that, but then you faked it till you made it.

Yeah, after every joke, I'm like, good, that is how Chris Martin would have done it in the jackets.

The jacket.

Think of the jacket after each joke.

Again, it's fun to be like, that sounds like a story about a 16-year-old giving an oral report in class.

And I'm like doing the math.

I'm like, 37?

How old?

How old was I when I had to be like

just be the boy in the jacket?

Oh, my God.

You can also wear the jacket.

Definitely too old to be saying that.

Viva La Vida.

I do, before I let you guys go here, are you enjoying Doug?

I'm enjoying Doug a great deal.

I mean, my first pitch when I got asked to do Doug was, can I first walk out to teach me how to Dougie?

And everything after that was icing.

Yeah.

So you really, you feel like you've captured the man.

I mean, it's not a stretch for me.

No.

Just kind of like an upbeat dude who really loves his wife.

It's true.

Who really loves his uber-talented wife who could like do things he couldn't even conceive of.

Yeah, a lot of like, I can't believe this.

Yeah.

And I mean, I feel like the Maya Kamala doesn't get enough.

I think it's getting an incredible amount of credit, and I still don't think it's enough credit.

It's amazing.

It's incredibly accurate while also being funny and has energy and moves.

And yeah.

The vocal range of moves she's recognized from Kamala is off the map.

I mean, Maya's a killer.

We know this.

She's a stone cold killer.

You two together is very winning, as Mr.

Sheen would say.

Thanks, Keith.

Thanks for putting it exactly that way.

Good callback.

Yeah.

I also don't think that's how Charlie Sheen was using it.

No, it's not.

No, he was in the process of winning.

Yeah, yeah.

He was hitting like the jackpot.

Yeah, it wasn't like a winning personality.

Yeah.

He was like, oh, I thought I was being winning.

Yeah, yeah.

He's like, I fucking drank shark's blood or whatever.

Winning personality is what I have.

And also the people that I associate with have winning personalities.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Like just warm and confident and nice.

Yeah.

So I established that I heard this song 10 months ago in a car and it was like fully like everything about about it was done.

It was finished music 10 months ago.

I'm assuming not one isolated song.

Oh, Seth, what an interesting query.

I'm querying.

Well, truth be told, during the writer's strike, we were sitting on our hands a little bit.

Yep.

Doing our proper nothing.

And we were like, what can we do?

So we did kind of hop back up in the studio.

And we did make some songs.

Unclear how many because we're not sure how many we we deem releasable, right, Keith?

And there's still a bunch that are half songs that we're like, God, if we could get some time to go back in the studio, we might be able to crack the rest of that one.

Is there anything?

And I'm putting him on the spot.

Is there anything you've fully bailed on?

Like, is there anything you've like, we tried it, bailed?

Yes.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

Def.

Do you want to throw any out?

Well, no, because like, what if we do like a deluxe edition?

Or what if we really do solve it?

What if we crack

like we did with Sushi Glory Hole?

Yeah, shorthand for that.

Sushi Glory Hole, we were very proud of ourselves because, as Andy touched on earlier we had a first chorus fully recorded it's a full listenable chunk and it did feel as you put it like it was made by chat gpt and we were like that's the old us it doesn't sound new or like something else yeah but it's hard to go deep into something and put it aside after wasting an entire day on it and then start totally fresh the next day on the same thing The trick is figuring out what to do with them now because we don't have an outlet like SNL.

And that, again, was why it was so great that this Doug came up and then this worked out where we were like, oh my God, we figured out something to do with it.

We were like, when is the time though?

And then we were all, the time is nigh.

The time is nigh.

That's exactly right.

Yeah.

To go to Mordor Dor.

Mordor.

Mordor.

To the very depths of Mordor.

Sorry for everyone listening.

That's hard to listen to.

I like that you guys keep saying, because first came Doug, and then I think that when you meet him, you can give him a real firm handshake, Andy and be like, hey, without you, no sushi glory hole.

Thanks, man.

You were the gateway in.

I think that has to be 100% accurate.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, that's very exciting.

New music, and it was really wonderful.

I was very excited to see you guys doing a digital short again.

Thank you, Sethlington.

Thank you.

Yeah, we'll see what happens.

Yeah.

And again, this is going to be fun to talk about again when we do the sushi glory hole episode in two and a half years.

Yeah, when it's further away in two and a half years, that's when we're going to dish all the fucking dirt.

Well, that's when we're going to get to hear what Yorm's take was.

Oh, no.

He's going to be like, it was wonderful.

I was knee-deep in Lula.

Lula.

Neath the pine.

Nees the pines.

Lula.

All right.

So I guess next week we'll talk about our first showback from the Writer's Strike of 708, which is Tina Fey.

And until then, I love you guys.

Love you, buddy.

Love you.

Bye.