Movie Awards

Digman's coming out on the 23rd of July.

That is kick-ass.

I can't wait.

Season two.

Yeah.

It's before Naked Guns, so I'm saying mine first, Keeve.

That's fair.

Yeah, as well.

You should.

The 23rd is a Wednesday.

It is.

So it's this coming Wednesday.

It's this coming Wednesday.

Yeah.

Don't be a houser, guys.

Fucking see it.

Yeah, don't house out.

Yeah, come on.

Don't house out.

And, you know, once you check out the season premiere, hit us in the tittis.

Let us know what

you think, how them jokes landed.

Let me tell you about the thing I

Hey, gents, how are we?

Hi, really good.

Every time anybody mentions that they have a bad memory on this pod, I'm just thrilled.

I'm so good.

That's interesting you started with that because, can I?

Oh, I interesting.

I thought you said you were thrilled, not that they have a bad memory, but they were remembering something bad.

Because there's a takeaway from the last pod, Yorm.

A lot of people

think you're a bad person.

It's really the feedback.

I think maybe a lot of people were on Team Yorm because maybe we bully you a little bit.

And now they're all like, oh,

he's been the, he's the villain.

I see.

He's like a POS.

Also, they can probably tell there's a certain amount of glee that I have.

Some people would call this justice.

It was a little bit.

They're all, I think everybody's like, oh, thank God those three are keeping them in check.

Yorm definitely, last one, was like a serial killer that wanted credit.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Where he's like, arrest me, Mr.

Penny.

It's the level of glee.

Yeah.

It's the level of glee that I had.

I'm like, and then, and then she lost her mug.

My dastardly deeds came to fruition.

Somebody did write, Jesus, I realize now Yorm would do a purge if it got a laugh.

Yeah.

I'm just like Theodore.

I'm the Theodore of the group.

Really good.

Yeah, people are definitely.

Although somebody also called this out.

Yorm, questionable peen joke, steals mugs.

Andy hates rat dog.

Kiva, I'm sure I'm shady in some way.

Seth, you guys are some of the most ethical men I know.

It was a bad episode for me to sort of shout out how you guys are good dudes.

That's what makes the joke so funny.

That's how low the standard is.

Yeah.

A couple of quick things before we get into the movie awards.

Somebody did say, I can't believe you guys, not one of you said Muglis should be pronounced Moogless

after we spent so much time on Douglas.

Oh, like a Moogless Hazard.

And I do appreciate a missed callback that is pointed out in the chat.

Or Moogie, I guess.

Moogie, yeah.

Moogie Hazard.

I have some pretty exciting pod-related news.

Great.

Oh, wow.

I attended the first ever Culturistus Awards last night.

And I heard you crushed.

Oh, from whom?

I heard from Jason Carden, Darcy Carden has been.

Oh, wonderful.

It was very fun.

I do something on it.

Yep.

I heard you crushed.

It'll broadcast on Bravo.

It's on Bravo Bravo early August.

But the headline, pod wise, is I saw Quato.

Oh, the real Quato.

Yeah.

Quado in person.

Dashing, tall, charming.

Yeah.

Just, it was, I mean, he said righteous kill.

It was the first, it was one of my, it was one of my favorite in-persons.

So it was very sweet.

Do you think if Quato knew he was going to see you, he would have brought a big old Tupperware of mac and cheese and just been like mowing down on it?

That would be.

I was trying to think of what the joke should be but that that isn't

so you like podcasts so much you went to an award show that is from a podcast you know does that make you feel like we should be doing the quato awards or i think it's just a testament to how much i like bowen and matt you know yeah like they have the one podcast that well and honestly though i showed up because it was going to be on tv oh right okay yeah yeah yeah but also 2 000 people in the audience right something like that yeah it's at the orpheum downtown which is a great theater i got a little sad watching clips from the MTV Movie Awards because I was thinking, this used to be an awesome platform for comedy, cable, television used to be just the hugest deal in the world, right?

Like as big as network television to do the MTV Movie Awards.

And then I got happy again because I was like, oh, I'm sorry this platform doesn't exist in the same way anymore.

And then I remembered that like Matt and Bowen, they figured it out.

Like different people are figuring out ways to still do cool ass stuff.

Yes.

And by the way.

Such a fun time.

Great.

The show they put on was just pure joy.

I've been loving just watching the announcement videos on there.

The announcement videos are so funny every year.

The way they read up serious, but then have genuine laughter is maybe my favorite thing.

Their tone.

Yeah.

And they're in their nice suits and the music is perfect.

It's

so stinky and wonderful.

And just the hyper specificity.

Oh, yeah.

Can I also mention in terms of watching fun stuff last night or doing fun stuff?

I went to Weird Al's concert in Saratoga Springs and it blew the doors off.

So fuck.

It was so great.

Those videos you sent me and Andy looked incredible.

Oh my God.

I do want to see that show.

Just introducing your kids to Weird Al is such a like just a multi-general.

It's so hard not to geek out and be like, oh, and did you like hear this line?

Like to your 10-year-old.

Introducing them to his work or to him personally.

Well, they watched UHF on the way to

the venue, and then they were just quoting it the whole time, just being like, just call me Mr.

Butterfingers.

And I don't know.

I just, I just was taken back and it was great.

That's amazing.

You said last week a lot.

We were trying to figure out why were we in good moods and what were we doing that summer?

And we, and you were like, were you going back to the studio?

And no, that's a year off because Incredibad had just come out in February.

So just to set the premise of this episode, which I'm sure the title already did, this is the summer where we kind of did random things because Yorm was doing the Magruber movie was going to shoot late in the summer.

And me and you were both executive producers on that and were involved in it to some degree.

And then Andy was hosting the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, which was a huge full circle moment.

And anybody who has listened to this pod from the beginning would understand why, because

he started the whole thing.

So

the 2005 awards was the Jimmy Fallon one that got us SNL.

And now just four years later, we're back running the whole show.

So it was, it was crazy.

It was so fucking exciting.

Yeah, we were hyped.

And it was a delight to watch.

I remembered the promos were really outstanding.

And it does speak to a time where, and again, I know, Keeve, you always shoot things and make it look like they cost more than they did.

No, but there was just money and promos.

Yeah.

I mean, watching those promos, they probably each one of them cost like, what, five digital shorts costs.

I remember being on set of them, and I did not direct them.

A fellow I had named Jason Carly did.

And I remember being on the set of them.

I mean, we obviously, me and you, Andy, like, and I'm sure other people on the writing staff with Ackerman, but rewrote them all, you know, but I remember we would just show up to set and be like, damn, they're doing this for real and be very excited.

And the DP was lighting me.

And I remember thinking, like, oh, I wish we would light stuff like this sometimes.

Like, I remember being very impressed while we were doing them.

Yes.

I routinely think about the best fight one, which is you and Rashida having just a very small,

very relatable couples fight all the time.

She's just like, do you want to have an appetizer versus?

What is that supposed to mean?

Like, why wouldn't I want to have an appetizer?

But it's just like, it's just that kind of fight.

Best fight.

It was also a reminder of the fun of what the MTV movie awards were, right?

Yeah, exactly.

Best fight, best kiss.

And so this series of promos would be Andy sort of sitting in a, you know, a wing back chair.

And here is a nominee for best kiss, best fight.

And then it would have a dumb title for these fake movies.

Like, I remember.

Knuckle Up was the name.

Again, best fight.

And the name of the film was Knuckle Up so a lot leading you to think it's a fist fight

and Then it's just you and Rashida having like a really passive aggressive couple fight

Yeah, I loved it.

Things will work all right?

Why do you have to fight me on everything?

I'm not fighting.

I'm just talking.

This is not a fight.

Fine.

It's not a fight.

Fine.

We're not fighting.

Also, I got a lot of respect for my wife.

I got a lot of respect for Ezra, who's, you know, Rashida's partner.

Rashida's so fucking hot in these promos.

I'm just going to say it damn dropped it drop it she's a friend I hope she listens I hope she hears she's a friend stupid fucking clothes she makes she makes saying it the way you would say it to us to you like hey bro you look hot today she makes you I think you will understand what I'm getting at because she makes you look like Frisbee in the two-shot

I mean they were so well shot that's more than fair I remember when we were shooting the Rashida and 91 thinking wow these guys should be in a romantic movie together this looks like a real rom-com and then you guys did make one together together.

We did.

Yeah.

Well, her and her buddy Will wrote Celeste and Jesse Forever, and she said

to be like exactly.

Do you think that the casting was based on Knuckle Out?

100%.

I'm not sure because she said it to be just like, hey, what do you think of this script from a writing perspective?

Because we're friends.

And then I was like, can I be in it?

The word did get out, don't try to get a script bounce off Andy.

Yeah,

he'll cast himself.

So here's my thoughts.

No notes.

Copy in it, don't.

Speaking of, though, like how Hollywood works, though, right?

Like, and how simplistic sometimes that is of, like, seeing people on screen and then being like, they should be in a movie together.

I remember when we did Natalie's rap that we got calls from producers.

I'm not going to name names of who was calling, but they were like, what if Andy and Natalie were in a movie together?

You're like, yeah, you saw them on screen and now you have that idea.

I like when

you were going to be like a Viking and she was.

I was just going to say, when yorm says i'm not gonna name names it implies that he remembers the names yeah yeah yeah i do remember this one i'm not gonna tell you not gonna say which one it was the northman because i was a viking viking yeah the northman yeah

uh i would love to run through them real quick because they're all really fun and they are also on a youtube they are more accessible on youtube than clips from the actual show it's because they're on our youtube they're on the lonely islands youtube So you can go and look at these.

They're all really fun.

The first one is Best Kiss.

The name of the movie is Pommel, and it's a gymnastics movie.

Andy, you look confused.

Do you not remember Pommel?

Do you think you were the first Pomer horse guy?

He went pretty viral at the Olympics this year.

Oh, right.

Oh, yeah.

Do you think he was jacking my Steeds?

Yeah.

It's just good writing.

Yeah, you wore glasses when he went away from the Pommel and no glasses.

And you're not wearing glasses on the Pommel.

Hold up, hold up.

Pomhorse guy, you jacking my steed.

Look, Keeve said it first.

I'm just agreeing.

Yeah.

Keeping Jr.

is your coach.

Maybe your dad.

You call him dad and then you correct yourself.

No, he says that's my, he later says that's my white son.

So yeah, that's how it's confirmed.

It seems like he's maybe one of those really hard-ass dads who's like, I'm your coach when we're out here.

That's right.

Don't call me dad.

That's right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But then he gets so proud and overwhelmed with emotion.

It's a big moment clearly in the film where he, where he, you know, announces that's my son.

You also, it's called Best Kiss.

We know you guys are comedy people and it's a gymnastics scene.

So you're kind of wondering the whole time, are these two going to kiss?

Yeah.

And then it's that it's a super slow-mo.

As you go over the pommel, you kiss the pommel.

Got it.

You kiss the pommel horse.

Got it.

You have no memory, Andy, huh?

I do not.

Great.

Yes.

We have too much to get through, so we're not going to do slow screen share today.

Okay.

But I will just present the moments just for some memory lane here.

It's beautifully shot.

It really does look good.

It does look good.

You guys have similar hair because you're father-son.

Because father and son, yeah.

Very, very funny.

Andy running.

Yep.

Doing doing a full pommel run

and uh and then yeah great little kiss on the pommel how well done that is you do you and cuba do have the same hair which does imply that you were his white son yeah you guys have the same wig on he's great in it he's really genuinely great in it

Then there's a real Andy like celebrating and crying move that is one of my favorites right here.

This one.

A lot of

rusty kind of stuff happening.

Just like extra credit stuff.

Yeah, just like a double-jointed shoulders.

There's another best fight, which is Slaughter Shack.

You walk into like a biker bar with a dead deer over your shoulder.

Yeah.

And you and Arnett, super tough guys.

And then you kind of have like a little, a very, um, very childlike slap fight.

This one specifically, I got, it never works, but I got inspired by it like 10 different times when I was trying to think of movie ideas, being like, how do I make this into a movie?

Just the roadhouse vibe into a comedy movie.

There's something about this one, not the specific characters and what they're saying, but where I went, I think there's an entire tone there.

That's our favorite tone.

And it's in Magruber and it's in Naked Gun a little bit, but where I'm like, there is something in the like treating something ultra seriously biker bar.

Yeah.

I don't know.

The more I want man, you like just hardcore guys and then

sleeveless denim vest things where I want a whole movie there.

There's also a great moment because at the end, there's a crazy tone shift where you guys are like barely fighting, and then Hater comes in.

Oh, it's Van Helsing, stabs Arnett, screams, I killed that vampire, and Andy throws up.

He's Van Helsing.

Obviously, a big movie.

I think that must have been a movie that year, right?

Yeah.

Sorry then, you queer pool kicker.

I killed

Also, the two lines of dialogue that you have with Arnett is he says, I thought I told you to die, and you say, fuck you.

That's the kind of clever stuff I want to do.

Good writing.

Let's get writing.

These look great.

They look great.

I mean, I will say the real, truly, truly genius one is best male performance in the one who dared to leave, which is kind of, I mean, it's this one.

It's fucking insane.

it take first of all this is the one i do remember andy is in a concentration camp we see a swastika yeah to know so that's a real like there's a swastika in an ad for the mtv movie

yeah it's a full holocaust movie it's a holocaust movie eva mendez is sort of a nazi commandant who's doing what happens in every single concentration scene which is she's about to like bring holy hell down on you and andy's move is he's just had it

he's the one who dared to leave.

And he stands up and says, I'm out of here and walks out of the concentration camp.

How dare you, insolent boy?

You know what?

I'm beginning to think you Nazis

really suck.

I'm out of here.

It's fucking nuts.

He's just fed up.

She's so good in it.

She's so good in it.

Then you walk by two Nazis at the door.

They're subtitled.

He looks really mad.

We better let him go.

You flex on one and he fully flinches.

Oh, yeah.

The one who dared to leave.

Most.

And then Eva Mendez, we realize she's maybe a little.

How to do it.

She's maybe a little into it.

Yeah, she's into it.

She like holds her heart when you leave.

And then what do I say at the end?

When it comes back to the chair?

That was not entirely accurate.

There it is.

Well, it's fun watching things that we would never do today, but are still some, I think, all right, but let's, you know, leave them in the past.

You wouldn't do it today because the present would chill it, but it's the comedy of it is still fucking rock solid.

Oh, this is different.

It's not one of the nomination ones, but the first one I watched was Jack Black and Michael Sarah as your parents.

Oh, yeah, I love that.

And it's just really like, it's so subtle.

Hi, I'm Jack Black.

And I'm Michael Sarah.

And that over there is our son, Andy Samberg.

He's our son.

We love him.

Now, I know what you're thinking.

How is that possible?

What's the biology?

What's the physics?

Well, don't worry about it.

He's our son, and we love him.

And we're proud of him.

Oh, boots.

You're a good son.

And this is where it gets really good.

Sarah, it's good.

Our son Andy is hosting this year's MTV Movie Awards.

So proud of you.

I'm so excited.

Andy!

Come on.

Save it for the show, Andy.

So be really nice to him because he's a cool dude.

But most importantly, he's our son.

It's our only son.

He came out of our penises.

Our penis.

No.

Oh, your beat.

I forgot that I made the beat for that.

Hell yeah.

I like that beat.

God, they're so funny in it.

There's so funny in it.

And let me just say, it's been a wonderful year for both of them.

We've talked about Jack Black.

Michael Sarah is so great in Phoenician Scheme.

I don't know if you guys saw it.

I haven't seen it.

Yes.

Very, very good.

And I mean, I know it's a year ago, but he was so fucking funny in Barbie.

So funny.

Yeah, it was really fun watching him in that.

He, I'm going to butcher it, but he came on my show.

The last time I was he was on my show, he was so funny, but he said he lives in Brooklyn, and what he likes about Brooklyn is every time he walks outside, he hears somebody go, hi!

Just like some tiny observation.

Like somebody's always just like yelling at somebody else down the street.

Now, I don't know if we have to talk about this one, but I just cannot remember.

Oh, oh, we did a second Rashida one.

This is Best Villain, and Andy's like an old-timey, like tie-you to the railroad tracks villain with a big old handlebar mustache, black top hat.

I bet you this was almost an alt where we had, yeah, we had Rashida, we had the location we were filming, and we were like, let's just try two different ones.

Because obviously, they're in, it's the same exact place with you guys, dressed exactly the same.

Oh, there is a basket full of people.

But he's never villainous.

It's just he seemed to like those dogs.

Just fine.

He's clearly a villain.

And then at the end, Rashida says, You are the best villain.

Oh, got it.

Because he's not villainous at all.

He just doesn't.

By the way, it then cuts back to Andy who basically says, Do you get it?

I love you so much.

I love you too.

You're the best villain.

You get it?

So

he was a villain.

But he was best.

And then the last one.

This one is an Ann Hathaway one, I believe, right?

How many did you guys do?

So many.

That's what I'm saying.

I don't understand.

And we did like a huge photo shoot with multiple posters and billboards.

yeah there was so much push behind it back then that's great it's great i remember liking all these this is best female performance and it's like a period piece and you're dying you're an old woman who's dying and ann hathaway is so fucking believable and good she was really rolling tears it's nuts yeah it's crazy she's this sad person and then andy says like when i die andy is miss eloise i will but yeah ellie's was he goes when i die you just look over your shoulder and i'll be there yeah and it's really sweet and then you do die and then you disappear.

And then you appear over her shoulder as a ghost and she fucking freaks out.

I mean, these are solid for promo links.

Every one of them.

I mean, they're promos.

It's crazy.

Also, I remember she.

She's also like, watch this reaction here.

Hold on.

She's happy for you.

She's gone.

Here I am, right over your shoulder.

Kimmy scares the ghost, too.

Wait, you have to watch this other one, Keeve, where you're the, it's the MTV promo behind the scenes of Tommel.

When we were doing that one, I remember shooting that with Anne Hathaway and she was like crying and I was like, are you okay?

And she was like, oh, yeah, this is not hard for me.

I was like, oh.

I've been blown away by it.

Okay, so like people are really good at acting.

It's really funny, too.

Cause, and again, you're playing a woman, so it's different, Andy, and it's full comedy, but you're like, hello.

And then she talks and it's like, oh, I fully believe she's sad that you're about to die.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, so then, Andy, are you saying, though, that when she won the Oscar, you're like, who gives a shit, right?

I thought this was better than her performance in Lame Miz for what it's worth.

Yeah.

Because it just got through it a lot faster.

If it's easy, then who gives a shit?

I'm just like, that song was written before that movie.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

This was an original.

That's true.

So, yeah, that's the original.

That's just where I'm coming from.

She had to be able to access that emotion while staring at you in an old lady wig.

Which harder, exactly.

It's harder.

It's much harder.

To me, it seems more challenging.

Yeah.

She's not playing against Hugh Jackman, like giving back in a mirror what she's getting.

She was getting jacked shit from you.

Yeah, to roll tears looking at Andy's face has got to be a little bit more difficult.

This is a good one.

This is only 23 seconds, but just watch it to enjoy Keeve.

Is this the camera that's going to be in like black and white?

And then this is the one that's in the...

Hey, we're just normal guys.

And then over here, we're rock and roll.

Normal.

Hey, what's up?

What's up?

We're laughing.

Hey, what's up?

We're guys.

We're writers, but it's MTV.

Got your name coming.

Give me a little more of it.

Hey, we are watching NBC.

Oh, you're watching MTV.

This is TBS.

MTV.

Really good.

It's really good, Key.

That is great.

That's great.

Technical improv.

Oh, and then one last one is the host, not host, which is, again, you just grabbed it, obviously, in the parking lot, but it has a real Andy punch of people.

Oh, yeah, it's the walking in a frame.

Yeah.

Oh, X-Mark's the host.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

More with Jack and everybody in Yorn B.

Oh, he wanted to be the host.

So nice of these guys to do this.

He's got my number today.

It's nice and awkward.

Very extreme activities challenge.

Yep.

All right, so there you go.

Fantastic.

I have, I have not listened to this, but the guy that directed those randomly sent me an email in January, Jason Carley, that was saying he was a fan of this pod.

Oh, that's nice.

And that he had.

I thought you're going to be like saying, you owe me money, bitch.

No, and he just was thinking back on how much he enjoyed making them and how fun it was and how cool and blah, blah, blah.

And so I had his email, even though we haven't seen him since 2009.

So I asked him for,

when he did that, he said, if you need a voice note ever, I'll do one saying my memories of shooting these things.

It's amazing.

Here we go baseball.

So I did not listen to it, but he sent it to me.

So here we go, baseball.

So here we go.

Jason Carley here.

I was the freelance writer for the MTV Movie Awards promos.

I pitched the idea that Andy wanted to win the movie award in every category.

So we would make fake...

for your consideration videos of ridiculous movies that didn't exist.

And that's how I found myself in a hotel room in LA with two-thirds of the Lonely Island, who I was a massive fan of, writing and rewriting promo scripts.

I wonder if he didn't direct them.

Maybe he just wrote them.

I also remember the whole thing being a really big deal to Andy because you guys had gotten your start writing on the movie awards when Fanon hosted.

And now he was hosting.

It was all coming full circle.

And I was super pumped to be even a very small part of that.

It was definitely an career highlight.

That's it.

Thanks, guys.

Love the pod.

Later, quaids.

I mean, righteous kill.

That's awesome.

Thank you.

Later?

That was a good later quaid.

We got a later clip, Quaid.

Somebody said, you should get Arnold to record Love You Quaids for anytime somebody leaves the pod early.

And I just want to say, like, this isn't a situation where I can keep going back to Arnold.

I was going to say, it's not like we have like constant access to Schwarzenegger.

Also, imagine if I just was like rolling lines with him.

And now, can I get a love you quaid?

Like he already had no idea what I was asking him for.

Like show up at his house with all his like miniature ponies.

But like who's on the show Monday, Seth?

Just get whoever that is to do it.

Yeah, that's true.

Whoever's on Monday.

Oh, my God.

The next guest I have, I will have them record Love You Quaid.

That's part of it.

No matter who it is.

No matter who it is.

Now I'm so excited.

Oh my God.

I wonder who it is.

Homework.

Maybe, and if I can't get them to do it, maybe every time one of us has to leave early, we'll just play Arnold saying it's not a tumor.

Great.

Yeah.

Like, we're leaving.

Kindergarten cop, I believe.

Hey, I have to go, but.

Yeah.

It's not a tumor.

Yeah.

Great, great.

Maybe a movie I've never seen, and maybe I've heard him say that line a thousand times because of how many times that commercial plays.

It's oft-quoted that and get to the chopper.

Yeah.

Predator.

Genius.

All right.

So.

It's Predator, right?

Or is it Commando?

I think it's Commando or Predator.

Yorm?

I want to say Commando.

I don't know if he says Get to the Chopper in Predator.

i don't just because you mentioned predator somebody was giving me shade for the fact that i busted you guys on writing total recall sketch and then i wrote a harry carry where he was talking about predator which is even older than total recall but the whole point was that harry carry it's not no hairy i was writing harry carry talking about predator that was his references yeah that was his point of reference i was wrong it is predator it is predator andy i was yeah hell yeah

maybe that's it maybe that's it when you have to leave the pot early you have to say i've got to leave early i need to get to the top of

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You know, guys, we talk a lot about Finland on this podcast, which never thought would happen.

But as my name is Jorma Takonen, almost,

it makes sense.

And one thing that you guys may not have realized is that I stayed at an Airbnb when I was in Finland in Pampere.

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It's great for family traditions.

Vacations are how you bring people together, guys.

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First time I noticed that Yorm is wearing a weird Al sweatshirt with an accordion on it.

A lot of respect for that.

And I fucking bought it too, guys.

I'm a real fan.

Okay.

You went.

We got it.

He didn't steal it, is his point.

I didn't get it from Al.

Yeah, well, now that's right.

Everything Yorm has, he has to establish on the pod he didn't steal.

From now on, for sure.

It was so fun because I was backstage with the family.

So if anyone out there wants to book us, just know Yor might steal from you.

Yeah, this fucking little kid left his sweatshirt.

I fucking knew I did immediately.

And it was so funny.

He was saying to his dad, like, I can't find it.

And his dad was super mad.

You know, Yorm's about to steal when he goes, here comes Theodore.

It's like in punch out when that guy would like start shaking right before he punched.

It's his tell.

Alvin, Simon, Theodore.

Dating ourselves left and right over here.

Where were we?

We were,

oh, I went to, it's been a long time since I've been to a proper movie theater, Keeve, but I went to see Superman

last Sunday night because I had James Gunn on the show this week.

And it was really fun.

One, to see a movie in the movie theater.

Total brag.

And two, also got to see a naked gun trailer, which was referencing, like, basically Liam Neeson giving shade to Superman, which was very fun.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

He did a little bespoke intro outro.

Yeah.

God, that's great.

So that it would be Superman,

a little thing to get your attention in the theater.

Enjoyed it.

Bespoke comedy trailers in theater, kind of a lost art.

I'm really glad you guys are bringing it back.

It's very Mike Myers-y in a way that I love.

Yes, the Adams Family Waynes World one is the one that seared into my brain where I think it was before Adams family would play, right?

Or Adams Family Values.

And you'd hear the snap, snap.

Yeah.

And then it faded up and it was Wayne's World?

Yeah, it was Wayne Garth.

Yeah.

So we're pretty deep in here and we haven't really talked about the awards.

Well, I want to ask a question.

Who is your writing staff?

I'm going to forget everyone.

But they sort of had the way you guys were staffed before Fallon showed up.

They had put together a staff for you guys.

Like how many friendly students?

No, no, Scott Ockerman.

Yeah, we asked Scott Ockerman, who is our friend and who is obviously one of the all-timers, if he would head right.

And he agreed, and we were so excited.

And he had a bunch of people that he wanted to bring in, some of whom were Neil Campbell, Paul Rust, Jason Manzoukis.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

Before that, when in the pre-tape phase, I think we had me and Keeve, certainly, and our friend Matt Murray, Panther,

and his Harvard buddy, Ryan Coe.

Yeah.

Do you think, Andy, because these awards were in May, Kevin, you say May 31st that they aired?

Okay, so May 31st.

So the last SNL was, I believe we said May 19th, the Will Farrell one last episode.

So that's only a couple weeks later, and we had to have this whole show.

So Andy, my question is, do you think previous off-week to SNL, that must have been when we did these permissions?

Correct.

We got to jump on it because it was so much work.

So we had done done some stuff before the finale.

So we were jumping in between L.A.

for the movie awards, me and you.

Yes.

And Jorm was busy in Magrub.

I think I was writing Magruber still at that point, but then right after the season was going in location scouting.

Exactly.

So then as soon as that Will Feral ended, we went to L.A.

and were 100% on this for two crazy weeks or three crazy weeks or whatever leading up to it airing.

That's right.

I do have the writers in front of me.

Can I read through real quick?

Sure.

Jordan Allen Dutton, Scott Ackerman, aaron blitzeen neil campbell tim kalpikas al kaplan john kaplan tim kalpakis thank you peter karinen ryan perez our friend ryan perez oh yeah right yeah john ritchie uh-huh jordan rubin brian saca jordan right uh laura valdivia derek barbosa eric weiner and melissa a wong so the jordan rubin side of it uh is he was heading up separate than us in another room handling all the non-host writing got it like all the presenters, like we didn't want that on our plate.

Yes.

Handling what, you know, random celebrities were going to say to present awards.

Which is standard, by the way.

Yes.

There's always

exactly.

And he did a great job and their room did a great job, but it was also nice not having to think about that stuff and be like, yeah, they're handling the rest of the show.

Because one of the hard things about that job is like you have to do so much interfacing with the presenters.

And so as a host, you want your writers to be like just focused on you and not going into a room and trying to find something that works for the presenters.

Seth, as as you would say.

Yeah.

Well, no, but question though, because you guys have both hosted these award shows and I'm always impressed with both of you guys when you do them because it's such a everything riding on your shoulders and like all the pressure.

What would you say the worst part of it for you guys?

Like having done it, like it seems so nerve-wracking to me.

And I'm always impressed when I've seen both of you guys because I think both of you guys do a great job hosting.

Thanks, Jorm.

Yeah, I don't, I mean, I don't, there's no hard part.

Yeah, it's hard, it's hard work, but there's no part that's like worse than anything we were dealing with at SNL or anything.

Just like the sheer tonnage of doing.

Yeah.

I would say the hard part from an outside perspective is just being judged really hard.

People are really mean about award show hosts, and it's a really mean.

They were less so at this exact moment, I will say.

I agree.

Yes.

To me, at this moment, I can just say personally, getting asked to do this was like, oh, fuck, we're doing so good that they're asking me to do this.

Yeah.

Yes.

Because, you know, we were still pretty young and in our world, there was nothing cooler than this in terms of like music and movies and comedy all sort of intersecting.

Yeah, we loved it.

And we had grown up watching the movie words and seeing like Stiller and everyone that we really admire do really funny shit on the show.

It's also, it is a cool show to even see those promos again and feel how actually kind of, I mean, you were being sarcastic about it, Keith, but it is kind of punk rock.

And even like those stupid beats and like the, it it feels very much like you, Andy, like that thing of

you coming out of their penises.

It's just, it's a real fuck around and it's very much your tone.

I did the, a couple years later, I did the Espes.

And I also think the fun thing of like an Espies or a movie awards is it doesn't have that historical, like the 77th annual.

And, you know, there's a lot, you know, I will say like hosting the Emmys of the Globes, which are both also fun.

There's a lot more like, we need cuts because there's, you know, and we have a package.

We, you know, the immemorium is long, you know, and it's just, you're just up against real estate in a way that I feel like the MTV movie awards didn't have in the same way.

Seth, when we visited you at the Espys, I remember going backstage and all in sports, this is like a thing.

Almost everyone's like really big and powerful in sports.

Like a lot of people work out and they go to the gym all the time.

Oh, do tell observations.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so like, so, so almost everyone was very unrelatably large.

And And then I remember the U.S.

soccer team coming in.

I was like, oh, my people.

Yeah.

Everyone's like handsome.

So I related to that.

And then, you know, short.

But like regular human-sized people.

Regular human-sized people.

Just so you guys know, we have voice notes from writers.

Oh, great.

Since we're in the writing.

part of this, do we want to be one?

Yeah, and I feel like historically, writers can be very funny, too.

In the same way that sports figures can be large and they have their own sort of thing, writers can often be funny.

Totally.

Jorm.

Well said.

Thank you.

Boy, and Jorm.

I feel like Jorm just described athletes and then writers in a way that no one's been able to pin down before.

That's what Jorm does.

He articulates things you know, but haven't been able to put the correct words to.

He identifies like tropes.

Yeah, and he doesn't use any big words, they're all the normal ones.

Yeah, doesn't get fancy about it.

You know what?

Podcasters are the new prophets.

We just don't make prophets.

We certainly do.

God damn it.

Why don't we start at the top with our boy Scott Ackerman?

He was nice enough to send a voice note.

Okay.

Hey, guys, Scott Ackerman here.

So I remember writing in Andy's dressing room at the Universal Amphitheater where the show was taped.

So we would go to Universal City Walk every single day to write the show.

And

we were basically Andy's writers.

So I think stuff was kind of already in motion.

Like I said,

Andy already was filming the opening video, which was

30s,

inserting himself into these other movies.

I think the Lonely Island medley was already in motion at that point,

already being orchestrated, which was basically

a medley of Lonely Island songs, which I know you guys replicated on the SNL 50 Waste Not Want Not.

I understand.

Waste Not Want Not.

That's right.

We did.

And so I think that and then I think a teen wolf parody video was already being shot.

And I think Keeve, you were editing these in the room on your computer maybe at the time.

That's sort of my

recollection of it.

But so what we were brought in to do was to write like opening monologue stuff,

bits.

Basically, the host is told on these things, if there's anyone you do want to introduce, and if you have a funny intro for anyone specifically, let us know.

And you get first crack at doing these intros.

And any of the ones you don't want to do, we'll leave to other people or the voice of God announcer.

So we got a list of everyone who was going to present.

And we really took great pains to write the worst intros possible.

And Andy, I remember you loved them and really wanted to do them.

So

I remember a couple.

One was we heard Lil Wayne and Leighton Meester were going to be presenting together.

So I think the intro was something akin to like, if you put their last names together, they sound like a Hispanic man doing an impression of Batman's butler, Meester Wayne.

It was just awful.

And then, and then one I remember we ended, we loved, but we ended up not using for a couple reasons.

But her name is My Favorite Carnival Ride.

His name is My Favorite Tree.

Please welcome Anna Ferris Wheel and Chris Pine Tree.

Jesus sucked in the girl.

We had a lot of fun doing that.

Still, still gets me.

Yeah, people remember that.

Are you so mad you backed off it, Andy?

Are you like, what was wrong with me?

I can't believe we didn't do that one.

It's perfect.

I got to say, for having had to write so much powder at the MTV Movie Awards, I'm like, that's a great one.

Like that.

Those are the kinds of things that would definitely not air.

And then having a host like Andy is when they're like, approved.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

They gave us the keys.

Did you direct?

What did you direct in this, Keith?

Nothing because we were at SNL, so we couldn't do any prep work.

So we would do kind of another version of how we work when we want to have creative control, but work with a director where we helped them prep and kind of got on the calls with department heads with them, kind of going, this is how it should look.

This is what it should be.

Almost the way as a writer at SNL on a live sketch, you're not the director, but you're in charge creatively.

And then certain ones I did edit myself.

Like the pre-tapes were

an opening that is like the Billy Crystal MTV Movie Awards classic, where you insert the host into the popular movies of the year.

And then there was the music video, Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions, which kind of has a life of its own on our YouTube channel.

But this is where that's from.

Yeah.

And there was also a Fatal Farm video they did, right?

Yeah, they did like two or three for us where we hit up, we were fans of these guys fatal farm that we still are and that helped me on naked gun and have helped us on um like they're the guys on i think you should leave when we needed to do the uh everyone falling out of their coffins for coffin flop yeah and on our budget on the show there's just no way we can use our main unit to waste an entire day trying to shoot naked dead bodies flopping out of coffins and hidden pavement

so man i

hire them because i don't know how they do it but they're able to take the money we have go off on their own and create magic.

No one could have done it better.

When we did the McGruber series,

that was a hit series on Peacock.

Everyone's seen it.

But we took a bunch of PR money and just were like, hey, what do you guys want to do?

And they were like, well, we love this old current affair where they're interviewing.

Kern Affair was this show in the 80s, guys, where they're interviewing Charles Manson from prison.

He's like a total psychopath.

And they were like, we just want McGruber to be that.

And we were like, great.

And then they did a whole fucking promo.

That promo was great.

It's a great promo.

I don't know if it makes people want to see a show, but it's fucking great.

They did some stuff in Naked Gun that I won't spoil, but they handled some things for me.

Yeah.

And they're awesome.

Yeah, they're great.

If you want to look them up, their own stuff, one of my favorite things they ever did, I mean, it's all really, really good, but they did this thing with RoboCop that.

It's hard to find now.

I tried to find it recently.

Yeah, but shout out to Zach and Jeff.

They're fucking amazing.

Yeah.

Yeah, they were.

And they did lasagna cat, which was these live-action recreation of Garfield strips,

lasagna cat is so good, and then they did these opening these live-action uh recreations of like 80s sitcoms where they would like change how the opening was to Alf or to DuckTales.

And this was all even back then.

So, what we had them do this, and one of them they did a few things, but the one that's on our YouTube that you can find right now is an 8-bit version of.

So, there's a movie called Doubt that was a big movie that year with Philip Seymour Hoffman.

That was an Oscar movie that was extremely extremely humorless on purpose, a very serious thing about nuns and

about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

Yes,

it wasn't just about nuns.

Spoiler.

No.

Keith's like, it's a pretty fun movie.

It's about nuns.

It just couldn't be further.

We did not watch the film, Seth.

Could not be further from

what this is.

Oh, my God.

They're so good.

I love the movie Doubt, but do you guys remember the last line of the movie Doubt?

Which is very funny to me to this day?

No.

What is it?

I have doubts oh my god i fucking rip like crazy that's great

uh so i do want to talk about the opening because you were talking about inserting yourself into other movies which uh billy crystal had done and uh this is a very good execution of it it starts you're on the phone go into the bathroom and then you cut to the exterior and it's the slum dog millionaire scene yes uh where you're in an outhouse and uh we find out you're on the phone with barack obama yes good reveal then for some reason reason, you hold up a picture of Carrie from Sex in the City, right?

Yeah, I think it's just because that movie had come out that year.

Yeah.

You know what I found interesting just about watching this now?

Cause I did watch, this is the only part I watched, rewatched, was this open, was just seeing us in this mode of being like, we know the assignment of where we are.

Whereas we usually kind of bristle at being topical, that's topical from that moment.

Yeah.

But having to be like, nope, we got to talk about the movies of this year.

So for instance, having a photo of Carrie that's like a cheap laugh and kind of irrelevant but it's just playing to the audience yes we're playing to the audience in a way that we normally don't do i would say correct i would say it still feels pretty solid though yeah it's just the assignment it's super solid i always feel like these things are not mic'd well enough and you can't the audience feels like they're laughing three rooms over yes also forgot that we put the reader in there which is so funny to think about the mtv audience no one knew what that even was is my guess pretty cool that it was a lead prequel Oh, yeah.

Do you think that's a situation where they saw you and Kate Winslet and were like, we should put them in a movie together?

It was a prequel.

A prequel.

I think that's definitely it.

14 years later, they were like...

I always think about that too.

Not only that, but in a bath scene.

Yeah.

A nude bath scene.

That's right.

They were like, we got to do this.

It is a nice tie together because now you smell like shit because you've jumped in the outhouse and Slum Dog Miller.

That was my favorite part of it is when I walk in front of the fan.

Yeah, it's great.

It's a great joke because then you're in Twilight.

Yeah, in the science lab in Twilight, and he goes in stands in front of the fan and there's all these really great shots of rob pattinson uh that really look like he's smelling something horrific because it's like his reaction to the first time she enters the school right it's that her scent is too much for him is that right yeah that's what it is yeah the other interesting part about this seth is later in this podcast we're going to come to a sketch called firelight that is a twilight spoof that you wrote that um stars taylor swift from which he hosted and look who's in this one.

Yeah.

And I remember when we were shooting at me going like, this is so weird because it's the same scene we recreated.

Yep.

And I'm like, this is the second time I've been on set with Andy Taylor Swift recreating the science lab scene from Twilight.

I really like, again, very good read by Taylor Swift who asks if you have a date for prom.

You are, it should be noted, still covered in shit.

And

you say to Taylor Swift, I don't go to this school perv.

Yeah.

I had forgotten about that line, and it did make me giggle.

Then you do, you're so right.

It's a, you cut yourself into the reader,

which is

no way.

I literally, when I was watching it today, thought, this can't be the reader.

Oh, it is.

Why'd they pick that?

Yeah.

I mean, I think certainly people were talking about the reader a lot.

I, can I give a shout out to a different award show?

Because Hugh Jackman hosted the Oscars this year and did an opening song.

He sang about all the best picture nominees.

And I don't remember any of the jokes in it, except that at one point he goes, The reader?

Nobody here has seen the reader.

So even the Oscars, they were making that joke.

I think Dan Harmon and maybe Rob Shaw with him worked on that one.

That is 100% correct.

We know that song well because it beat us for the Emmy for song.

For mother lover.

Wow.

Yeah, no hard feelings.

And Harmon, bless his heart, was like, it should have been those fucking guys.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

He was very, very sweet on stage.

Yes, it was very nice.

But you're not wrong that the Hugh Jackman song was very good.

Yeah, yes.

Then you disappear from the reader, and you're into Star Trek.

And very, very funny Aziz Ansari, cameo.

Yes.

Where he's, I think his name is Triple J, and he's the 3J.

3J, you're right.

He's the activities coordinator on the Enterprise.

I'm sorry, man.

That's my fault.

I thought you were someone else.

Who are you again?

3J.

3J.

I am the ship's activities coordinator.

Right.

I organize Ultimate Frisbee games, ping pong tournaments.

Right.

Beat Spock in the ping pong tournament.

No one beats Spock.

Spock, is that true?

Yeah.

Look down, Spock.

Look down like a little bitch.

I'd forgotten how much nudity I did in this.

Yeah, you did.

You're very exposed.

Yeah.

Yeah, you look real comfortable about it, too.

Like, chill.

I was overconfident.

I was young and overconfident.

Then

you get beamed into the back of a limo, and it's you and JT.

And Timberlake sort of sends you off to host.

He sure does.

I was surprised how much it made me giggle when I'm climbing over him.

It's a real good.

It's a real good thing.

It's good old-fashioned dumbness.

Just my butt up in his face.

Now, Mother Lover was only two weeks ago, and so I liked that it time stamps it.

What's up, man?

So you're naked.

Yep.

Yep.

Hey, remember when we did Mother Lover?

Yeah.

Yeah.

This is good as dig in a box, right?

I think you should go.

Yeah, here's good.

I'll just go.

I'll just back up.

That's

fucking great.

Really got a little butt wag in there.

I'll just do one little hop.

Okay.

Okay, not working, not working.

Okay, not working.

Yeah, not working.

There you go.

Yeah, that's great shit.

Great shit.

Well played.

You put your butt in his face.

Yeah, bless his heart.

Bless his heart.

Team player.

Yep.

Solid opening.

Solid opening.

Mixmaster Mike gives you a beat.

Oh, yeah, we do.

So cool.

The throw your hands in the air thing.

Yep.

And a very funny Fred cameo.

Wouldn't do that now, not for any political reason, just because I don't like it anymore.

That move?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It just feels like old rap.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Agreed.

It makes me cringe now, but I go, yeah, it was fine for back then.

It was cool that Mixmaster Mike did it.

And I like seeing all the people you're talking to in the crowd and stuff.

Yeah.

Oh, there's a that's my boy connection, right?

Was in Layton Meester your wife, your fiancé, and that?

Yes.

And there you do a bunch of Leighton Meester jokes talking about how that she farts in this.

Yeah.

I do.

Yeah.

Oh, no.

You're like, just if you want to fart tonight, fart Leighton Meester.

It's totally fine.

And she's a great sport.

I don't know if you heads her up, but she's

thinking on these things, we heads up everybody.

Layton is a very laid-back, nice person.

I'm sure she didn't care.

But she was great and very charming.

Yeah, you're setting the ground rules, and the first ground rule you say is it's cool to fart in here.

Yeah.

Great.

Oh, Jesus.

And then assign it to Leighton Meester fully and then call it back later.

Oh, my God.

Neil Campbell is in the Throw Your Hands in the Air section.

He's the guy with no arms.

Yeah, he sent a voice note.

I don't know if he talks about it.

Let's hear it.

Okay.

Hello, this is Neil Campbell, and here are a bunch of random memories of the 2009 MTV Movie Awards.

So it was the Twilight year, and the audience was filled with kids who would go nuts anytime they saw Robert Pattinson or Kristen Stewart, or Twilight was mentioned at all, really.

And I think there was a joke where Andy came out and said, I just want to test something.

Twilight.

And then the audience screamed for about 20 seconds or so.

And Andy was like, okay, I thought so.

The opening number, opening live number was a song where Andy would tell different people to throw their hands in the air and it would cut to them.

At one point, he says, if you've got no arms, throw your hands in the air.

And it cut to me with no arms and two bloody sleeves.

There was also a bit where it's like, if you party too hard, throw your hands in the air.

And Fred Armison threw his hands in the air.

And then like an intervention was arranged.

I hope I'm remembering this correctly, but I believe the writer's PA was the actress Olivia Taylor Dudley, who went on to star in The Magicians, amongst other things.

And when we would order lunch, it was the first time I ever heard someone, Andy, mention that we should get something for the Tabes.

What else?

We all got really obsessed with the movie Delgo, this computer-animated fantasy film, and we wrote a bunch of Delgo jokes, but I don't think any of them made it to air.

Akiva pointed out one day that I had worn multiple different built-by-wendy shirts to work, which was true because those are my cool shirts.

Who can forget Kings of Leon rocking the house with you, somebody?

And finally, my main memory of the 2009 MTV Movie Awards is that it is how I met my dear friend, Andy Sandberg.

Anyway, please tune into Digman, airing Wednesdays on Comedy Central after South Park.

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Can I tell you something?

Somebody wrote in something that was really funny, and I just really appreciate the sarcasm.

I'm not really a fan of the digital shorts.

SNL is sometimes funny, but I'm a huge fan of the podcast crew, especially when they talk about the New York Times spelling thing, Seth's dog, and podcast timing issues.

Oh, just bitingly sarcastic.

Just, yeah, just like fucking firing one across the bow.

Good for you, whoever that was.

Speaking of Seth, how close did you get today on the B?

I'm two away,

but not clean.

Not clean already.

No, so you got me, buddy.

You got me.

Ackerman mentioned a medley.

You guys had a fantastic medley in this one as well.

No Andy at all.

This was just other people singing your songs.

Yeah, sort of like orchestral reimaginings of our songs treated real fancy.

Not dissimilar, as Scott pointed out, to what we did at the 50th.

And that was not lost on us.

When we were like, what do we do for the 50th?

We were like, I loved that thing we did in 2009.

Is there

a version that continues that using, you know, newer songs?

And we had some super awesome guests.

Leanne Rhimes opens it up.

Yes.

And it's so fun.

Leanne Rhimes.

Because literally the first thing she sings is Jizz in My Pants.

The first word.

Let's just revisit little bits of it.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome multi-platinum recording artist Chris Isaac and Grammy Award winner Leanne Rimes.

Chris Isaac, too.

Also, of course.

The screamiest audience of all time.

MTV.

I mean, by the way, I sound like a lunatic the whole show because they were so loud.

Still very good.

She sounds great.

Right there.

She's also like in a beautiful evening dress.

She looks gorgeous.

Yes, and the lighting.

Oh, there's a full violin string session over there.

Selling the shit out of it.

Yeah.

I mean, these real orchestras and crowers.

No, no, it is just a string section.

It's awesome.

Whole choir.

This is well, well shot.

Yeah, it's definitely being shot as if it's serious and lit like it's serious.

Ladies and gentlemen, Academy Award winner, Boris Whitaker!

Dickin-A-Box!

Boris Whitaker!

Dickin' a box.

Fuck you, Richard.

Also, the staging of putting him way up there.

It's

spotlight up and up high in the side.

I remember hanging with him a little at the after party and being so happy.

I mean, that is showing up.

They took the dickore

acting up.

It's what

Dude, just a few weeks after writing it, there it is.

Mother Lover getting input in.

That's pretty great.

Damn, they really did it well.

Yeah, that was exceptional.

Standing O from

kids.

Yeah.

Crying, weeping, and holding on.

Oh my God.

I will say, for me not having been involved in these guys creating this, like flying into town to be in that shot, it really did feel emotional like just to watch it and be like this is what you guys put together this is incredible like it was so fucking sweet and like just like oh that was amazing god that that's really fun um all right so that was awesome we are eternally grateful to those singers and forest um forest whitaker so rad cool guys don't look at explosions yeah so whose idea i think it was mine okay i believe that unless it was a kiva's was it yours Keeve?

It honestly might have been.

I have no clue.

Okay.

I mean, but it obviously was a trope that many people, I'm sure, had noticed of the people walking away from explosions and not noticing that there'd be like a, it'd be really hot and there'd be a lot of danger and wind concussion.

And just there's a lot of reasons to keep your eye on an explosion.

We were literally had just written it into McGruber, so we were about to do it.

This exact trope.

Oh, right.

That when the van blows up, he's no, no, when he burns the the car, the Campbell.

Oh, right, right, right.

When he walks away after lighting on fire.

John Oliver did an end of a season explosion thing like this once.

And I've heard him talk about it where he basically said, the stunt guy came up and said, so, because it was that exact thing of not looking back.

And he said, so it's going to feel like you're on fire.

Like basically, like the amount you have to ignore because of like the heat of it.

Yeah.

And the idea that somebody not in a movie, they would not like run faster or look back.

I think his was particularly insane, though, though, because I remember that one.

I think that he did like 50 gallons of gasoline or something.

It's a massive explosion.

It's a massive one.

It's like an old quarry.

As a layman, I always thought, you know, like somehow, because you know that the stunt people put this stuff together, special effects people, that there's like a safety to it.

And there is, of course, but it's still real fire exploding in fireballs.

And it's not unlike when you used to go to the backdraft ride thing at Universal Studios and you feel the heat.

It's still giant fireballs.

Like a lot of it is gasoline explosions.

and even one gallon of gasoline in a bag is insanely large.

So, like, to go big, big time is, yeah, very scary.

So, it's taking advantage of the fact that the movie awards has relationships with all the studios where you can use clips from movies.

So, it's a good way to get to use all the clips and get to show explosions from movies.

And it was Bruce Springsteen Andy.

Yes.

Yeah, esque.

And the coup, obviously, here was getting Will as Neil Diamond.

Yeah.

Yes.

Which he had played before a few times, once in a gap ad, I believe.

Well, he had done it on SNL.

Yeah.

Yeah, and then J.J.

Abrams had directed the Star Trek that we had spoofed earlier.

So he was in the conversation that year in general.

Yes, and we had met him.

I had gone and seen an early screening of Star Trek at the Paramount lot, and we had become friendly from that.

He was very, very nice.

I think we had met him at Comic-Con randomly, I think when Ottrod was there or something.

And we were just geeked to meet him and know him.

Yes.

And he plays piano in this, and it's the most successful anyone in his family has been musically.

He does, and we actually have a voice note from him.

Oh, great.

Oh, terrific.

Shooting that video was one of the most fun and surreal experiences I've ever had in my life.

What I remember is I had to go to an AFI event immediately after, and in fact, I had to go before we finished shooting, so I couldn't be walking with you guys at the end when the explosion happened,

which is the biggest regret of my life.

Anyway, it was the most fun, and it was absolutely hilarious.

And putting my hand up and doing the Paul Schaefer during the solo was,

I think it's the highlight of my career.

Anyway, there you go.

Love you.

It was very good in Netherlands.

Thanks, JJ.

Thank you, JJ.

Very, very good in it.

But we just thought it would be hilarious that it was him, and it was.

But then he showed up and Asa had played the piano solo for us and had made it ridiculously fast and everything.

And then he was like, I learned it.

and was kind of doing the right moves on the keyboard.

It was pretty fucking on point.

No, I think he actually plays piano.

No, he does.

It turns out he is a musician.

And I think this might be totally wrong.

So we'll leave it to the Quaid Army, but didn't he maybe have a hand in the Felicity theme song, even?

Oh.

And when you go to Bad Robot, he's got a huge music studio there and really is a musician.

And then you are correct that maybe it runs in the family.

Can I give one more factoid, fun, surprising factoid about JJ?

When I did this movie in Finland, I met a graffiti writer who writes for CBS, Can't Be Stopped, big, big time graffiti crew.

He's from Norway, and he showed me pictures of him doing crazy pieces, the big, big, filled-in graffiti pieces in in LA.

And lo and behold, JJ Abrams doing it with him.

And I was like, whoa, JJ's got a lot of fucking hidden skills.

So there you go.

He's an artist.

Yeah, artiste.

So we didn't even give a shout out.

So this guy, Troy Miller, is who directed all these.

And he did it many years, I believe, was his thing.

And he, I believe, directed a lot of Mr.

Show.

Yeah, was his, is it Dakota or something was his company?

Yeah.

And so, you know, we would tell him what it had to be and then he would run with it.

But he did something I've never seen before or after, which is when we wanted a lot of the really high energy swoopy stuff when

Farrell and you and JJ are up on stage, the kind of main centerpiece performance shot.

He was on a segue, like feet on a full segue.

And this is before people zipped around on those one-wheel things around L.A.

and stuff.

He was on a full segue that had been rigged with a steady cam.

And a steady cam, as you know, is pretty hard to operate.

They weigh like, I don't know how much, 100 pounds, and they kind of go over your shoulders in this crazy, like, big vest, and you're holding the camera.

And it's, but he was doing it at, you know, 15 miles an hour, zipping around on a segue, holding a full camera rig.

That's right.

To get the shots.

And it looked great.

Yeah.

It was rad.

Yeah, yeah.

Shout out, Troy.

He's a nice dude.

And then this is when we took off their plate for editing because we were like, this is our speciality.

And so we edited this one.

It's very cool.

And it is a fun trope that people, even after you pointed it out, people did not stop doing it.

Like, I think action movies think it's so kick-ass, they don't mind that it's a comedy trope i remember us discussing like i mean this is how up our own ass we were we were like so now people are gonna stop right

like we put that to bed yeah and everyone was like

you nerd

they were like all of a sudden in movies like the rock was like oh

i bet you we did stop some people that we'll never know because they didn't do it yeah yeah we'll never know i know it's a very funny observation like for how much people like things exploding and watching things explode the idea that you're like i've seen too many of these

it's true i do think maybe i might be wrong and i don't remember the movie i feel like years later farrell did a bit in a movie about the same idea or something explicit it's in the other guys yeah in the other guys he's like whoa you know yeah yeah they are going to and they get like flattened by it i think so not only did people stop doing it they didn't even stop doing comedy observations about it

we just opened Pandora's box.

Or it was just like already open and you walked by it, and people were like, What?

You guys didn't have anything to do with this.

But I will say, I was very happy with this one.

I thought the idea, you know, everyone got it.

We had Will, we had JJ.

It looked good.

And it was funny.

Got in, got out.

And it lives on.

It's got 50, 51 million views.

It lives on as long as a thing we made.

That's exciting.

Do you have more voice notes about it, Andy?

Yeah, bust another voice note.

Hey, before you guys do any more voice notes, I do have to go.

Okay.

I need to

later get to the chopper.

Fuck it.

Later, Queen's.

No, just play.

So they're going to insert whoever his guest is on Monday's voice just got played.

Oh, okay, gotcha.

Well, no, I won't have it by then.

We'll just insert get to the chopper for today.

No, just get to the chopper.

Sorry, so I got to go.

I need to.

Get to the chopper!

Love you guys.

Love you too.

All right.

Love you, Seth.

Bye, Seth.

Take care of yourself.

All right, Seth just left.

We have more voice notes, but we've been here for a while and we want to listen to them all.

And so why don't we just listen to them on next week's next new things?

It'll be the first thing we do.

We'll listen to some more voice notes and we'll talk a teeny bit more about this.

Well, I got to tell you, Keith, I think it's just a great idea.

Well, thank you, Andy.

I love it, Keith.

Andy, you watched anything good this week?

My man, no.

Wow, that's what's up.

Marvin Reader.

I've been pretty buried.

I've been watching some of K-pop Demon Hunter, the movie, K-pop Demon Hunters, with my daughter.

Oh, Bingo.

It's pretty good.

I think so.

I'm not going to lie.

It's pretty good.

Tell me what, because some of those songs are becoming real hits, I heard.

I mean, that shouldn't be that surprising because they're pretty good, but they're also, I think there's a history of like high school musical songs going that would, if those movies came out now, they'd be hits

in the same viral way.

And the Descendants movies.

Don't you think they were hits?

I think they kind of were hits, weren't they?

That's what I mean.

I think they were at the time.

And I think the Descendants movies had some pretty big songs.

Yeah, those were big.

And I think the zombie movie, Zombies did.

And I, of course, know them all.

So I don't think it's without precedent.

Yeah.

So wait, that show is for like teens?

It's a movie.

And yeah, it's exactly for my daughters.

Got it.

But that's not saying we can't appreciate them.

It's pretty, this is just free promo for whoever made it.

I don't know who made it, but it's clearly, it's Sony Pictures animation.

So it's clearly out of the same world as Spider-Verse, Phil and Chris's movie, and Rodney's.

The animation's dope in that way.

And there's cool, funny jokes, and it's stylized.

And the songs are good K-pop songs.

Yes, man.

We're just watching a lot of animation movies.

That's what we're up to.

Yeah, that's what we're into.

And I'm watching Love on the Spectrum.

Oh, that's a great show.

Thanks.

Came out a while ago, but yeah.

Yeah, I just heard about it.

Yeah, I'm kind of late to the party.

Well, there's nothing wrong with that.

Yeah.

Better late than never, as they say.

This is so great that we always do this segment at the end where we talk about what we've been watching.

And

what did you read?

Me?

What did I read?

I've been trying to get through Holly by Stephen King for six months.

Yeah, what's on your Kindle, dude?

Yeah.

Fantastic, Mr.

Fox with my child reading it.

You know how there's always the top three, which we do at the end of every pod.

Every week I sit down with a nice mug of tea and my Kindle, and I just crack open a new novel.

That's our lives.

Novels.

That's really good.

I'm really happy we talked about all that, guys.

All right.

Well, it's been a pleasure.

We don't have Seth here.

We can talk about anything.

That's my point.

No, I know, but it's just been so long, so we all want to leave.

Like a perfect example of something we could talk about, like, what's on your Gindle?

What's on your Gindle, guys?

What do you have on your movie?

What's on your Gindle?

Your Gindle?

Yeah.

I guess that is how I said it.

Oh, man.

Every time I read a book on my Gindle,

I just enjoy consuming the written word on my Gindle.

I don't want to pay for anything, so I've just have the first 10 pages of like 50 books, and I'll just read the first 10.

It's usually mostly the table of contents, the kind of the page that tells you when it was published, what year.

Then you get maybe like a preface written by somebody else, a dedication page, and then I get like two pages of just the meat of the intro.

And then I'm like, well, that's that.

And I kind of consider that honestly a book read.

I think that's fair.

So a Gindle is like the gist of a Kindle.

You just get the gist.

And you're like, yeah,

well, that's all.

I also bought the cheapest Gindle they make.

And it's honestly, it's 50 megabytes.

So

once you get 10 books on there you're you're pretty much toast but i can but i figured out a cool so guys for people that have quate army a cool hack for your gindle a cool hack for your gindle is just download the previews of the books and then you can fit like 50 previews right on your gindle keith back in the movie words days would go up to the musicians at the show and be like hey i love your stuff i mean what i've heard of on iTunes preview button exactly the previews button always gave you like 30 seconds right the gist of your album it was great

I assume what comes before and after is just as good.

Exactly.

I was just rocking them right there on

my Guypod.

It's like a gimbal, but it's a really small guy pod.

Oh, I love plugging in tunes on my guypod.

My guypod.

We always, at the end of the show, we always wrap it up with like letterbox, what's your criterion closet?

And then just like, hey, what's on your gindle?

Yeah.

And then always a life hack, just like at the end of the Queer Eye shows, another show like Love on the Spectrum on Netflix.

yeah if you put your wallet in the uh you know like those gas stations where you can't pull up the handle because it doesn't have the little stopper thing if you have a wallet put it in there prop it up and then you don't have to like sit there the whole time that's a fun one oh that's such a good life hack thank you for that great life i didn't think i was gonna have one but i had one it seems dangerous like the gasoline might overfill and not dangerous work it's a life hack at work i don't know that you want to prop it to where the gas can't stop coming out of the uh the mouse just like generally as a rule at a gas station i don't want to be like waving my wallet around

to you.

Hack it and keep it.

Leaving it unattended, jammed into making the gas.

Jam your wallet in and then go inside to get a Slurpee.

That's a really, really good idea.

Hey, I know I've never been to this gas station, but I trust you guys.

Just try it.

Definitely not going to explode my car.

It's fine.

All right.

Well, I feel like this was a great way to wrap things up.

Yeah,

we found it by the end.

Some little snicks here and there.

We definitely found it.

Yes.

Yes.

All right.

Well, love you guys.

All right.

Love you too.

Talk soon, Tigers.

Classic.

Oh, talk soon, Tigers, and see you around, Arnold.

Later, Quaits.