I'm On a Boat

Hey, everybody.

The podcast is about to start, but before it does, we have some very exciting news.

Which one of you wants to tell them?

Let's all say it at the same time, guys.

One, two, three.

Popstar is on Netflix right now.

Man, I felt like that was a cruel tee-up, Seth.

Seemed like maybe it was getting something like I'm sorry, bud.

Popstar, which is a fantastic film, and I look forward to doing what I'm certain will be a two, if not three-part episode of this podcast.

Popstar is now available on Netflix, and it's never been on Netflix.

And a lot of you are going to watch it for the first time based on how it did in theaters.

Thanks for calling it a film, Seth.

It was nice of you.

It's a great movie.

I love it so much.

I'm genuinely so excited that it's on Netflix.

We got all kinds of credits on that movie.

Producers, actors, writers.

Two out of three of us were directors.

And fucking real producers, too.

PGA fucking approved, guys.

Oh, yeah.

Full on PGA.

Everyone knows what that is.

And unlike NYPD Blue, you guys had the courage to show a full dick.

That's right.

We show butt right away.

We get that out of the way in the first like three minutes.

There's a butt.

Andy's.

I was like, where's he going with this?

Again, they paved the way, though.

All respect to them.

Yeah.

Without blue, blue walked so you could run.

We name-checked Dennis Franz and we show him.

And like NYPD Blue, we had the courage to drop our Chicago accents.

Wait, there's something I want to say.

Oh, I just feel like, you know what?

We've never actually called on you, Quaid Army, but this is it.

Quaid Army, let's get the views on this.

Trending guy.

Trending.

Exactly.

Top 10.

Please.

All right.

Enjoy the podcast.

It's the lonely

island and Seth Myers podcast.

How close are you, Andy, to your spelling beat climax?

I got it hours ago.

Fuck this guy.

Let's see if Seth mentions it when he comes back from either number one or number two.

Okay.

You want to know my guess?

He's going to avoid the subject.

You really think he's just that dumb?

You just think he's a dummy.

No, I just think when he doesn't achieve his goals, he avoids talking about them.

Who are we talking about?

No one.

So how was your time away, Seth?

Anything you want to bring up?

Maybe some texts?

Whether or not I queen bead?

Oh, that's an interesting subject.

Did you, Queen Be?

No, I haven't got.

What a fool.

Do you know anyone who did?

Yeah.

Supposedly somebody did it with no hints.

Yeah, that was me.

Your best pud.

One of your best buds.

I said best bud, but then I was like, wait, wait, we got a lot of best buds.

Yeah, of course I'm recording, Jeff.

I don't want to miss Andy shitting all over me for not getting the B.

I don't think our listeners want to miss that either.

How many points do you have so far, Seth?

Because I have 39.

I don't have my phone in front of me, Joran, because I'm doing a podcast and I feel like that's inappropriate.

So I can't tell you exactly how many I have.

Oh, well, I guess you're never going to queen B then.

Yeah, I guess not.

I will say, it's very exciting to start a pod knowing that Andy is already bead.

Yeah.

It makes me wonder what he's going to do on his phone for the next hour.

I mean, he's staring at something.

I'm doing strands.

I just got the spangler.

And once that is put to bed, obviously I already got connections in Wordle.

Then I will try and get letterboxed in two words.

When are we going to invite the New York Times gentleman on to talk about this crucial issue?

We really do have to decide two things.

When are we going to have Sam on?

And do we just agree now that we show the Doritos people?

Here's what I think we do.

We get on a Zoom with the Doritos people.

We don't record it and we just watch them watch it.

Right.

I think that's fair.

I would love to see that.

The new guard at Doritos being like, oh, I see why that's in prison.

And we're just like, you don't have to say anything.

You don't have to do anything.

We just want to

be able to say to our listeners what they thought.

Strands done.

Strand's done.

That's great.

We should watch it with them and then immediately hang up before we hear their opinions.

Just judge it off their faces.

I really believe.

Letterboxed has a J, an X, and a V, not to mention a U and a V.

This is going to be tough.

What is letterboxed?

This one.

And what do you do in it?

You can use one letter from each side at a time.

Oh, yeah, I know that one.

Okay.

I mean, I used to do it and be like, snooze fest, because it was so easy to get it.

And let's say today it says in six words, but then I think I talked about this already.

Dan Gore said him and his brother.

I'm going to cut you off real quick because I think I might kill myself if I listen to you talk about that anymore.

All right.

So Jeff, our producer, just put in the chat that James from Doritos is a listener.

It's just you asked.

So that's just the only reason I was talking about it because you asked, you fucking piece of shit.

Sorry, go on about Doritos.

Yeah, go back to host mode, Seth.

Shut it down.

Shut this motherfucker down.

All right, so James from Doritos, our question is, are you okay getting on a Zoom with us?

We will screen share Yorma's magnum opus, the normal guy Doritos ad, and we will watch it together with you.

We won't record you.

We will discuss it afterwards, and then we'll bring it to the pod.

We don't want to do anything that's going to jam you up, James, but we would like to get this going.

I really like that we use this pod to talk specifically to one person.

Hey Quaid Army, you never know which day we're going to talk to you.

Going through you guys individually.

Hey, Quaid, what are you cooking?

That mac and cheese?

Quado.

Oh, you're still talking to our Quaid.

Yeah.

Quado, make that tea.

Our boy Jay Quaid.

Yeah, our main Quaid.

Yeah, kind of the main Quaid at this point.

He's our main Quaid.

Yeah.

Only Quaid who's checked in so far.

I mean, we're going to use this time because Keeve is coming.

You know, a lot of times I think the fun thing about this pod is the first 15 minutes, the other three hosts think the fourth host is coming, and then we have to announce they actually are not.

Okay, that was my bad line.

It was everybody's bad.

I'm not pinning that on you, Jorn.

So this is the podcast.

Keeve is coming, but I have another exciting update.

I mean, there's a lot.

I mean, Sam Azerski from the B, he might be on soon.

James from Doritos, we just asked him directly using the pod.

I ran into Steve Steve Martin again last night and I said, we really do want you to come on the pod and talk about surf meeting.

And he said he would happily do it.

He doesn't know when it'll happen.

You know, he's in the middle of shooting murders season five.

Right.

But I think he needs, he needs the Quaid Army to bear witness to what we did to him.

And I think it'll be really, I think it'll be really cathartic for him to work through it.

Oh, man.

Can we see if Dennis Franz will get on the pod too?

I feel like he should talk about his book.

It would be very funny if Dennis Franz, this would be his return to the public.

He walked off the set from NYPD Blue and said, I'm going to live a private life now.

And then he held it all the way until he got invited to come on the Lonely Islands at Myrtle's Pocket.

And then he was like, I guess I really am retired.

This proves it.

I feel like the odds are low.

Low that he'll come on?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It'd be so fun if he just really wanted to talk about that episode and that moment and just how it worked, the shower scene,

how it

I like to think that he's he's still confused about what she was trying to do.

Yeah.

I don't know what the fuck she was up to.

I don't get it.

The blocking was wonky.

What was that?

I mean, I was.

Hey, we could grab a second.

Look, it's the Bradley Cooper show, but really, it's the I'm on a boat show.

So we're going to get there.

But can we take a second to just talk about some things in the Bradley Cooper show?

Yes, please.

Totes.

There was a game show.

Bradley Cooper hosts a game show called I'm going to have sex with your wife.

That's right.

And he comes out, very game show talk, very 70s game show.

He like

that kind of, you get it.

Yeah.

The three contestants are Will Forte is super excited to be on the show.

Fred Armison, super excited to be on the show.

And then he goes, and then our returning champ, and then it cuts to Bill, and Bill's super bummed out.

Because Bill had been on the show last week.

And now it's starting to dawn on you what happens in order to win the game show, I'm going to have sex with your wife.

It's starting to dawn on you.

I mean, it is the name of the the sketch.

It's starting to dawn on the late bloomers.

Understood.

So,

Vorte as Fersky walks over and does a little host band.

Says here, you run a PR firm in Cedar Rapids.

I sure do.

Terrific.

And I understand you brought your wife with here tonight.

I sure did.

Hi, honey.

That's great.

That's great.

That's great.

Now, Ron,

I'm going to have sex with your wife.

I'd like to see you try.

And then Michaela runs up and Bradley and her go offstage.

And it's just hearing that same music, a single on forte.

Well, he goes from like pretty confident to like definitely sure that his wife is having sex with a game show host.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

So then three notable update guests.

Andy, you all remember when Michael Phelps got caught smoking weed?

Yeah, of course I remember that.

So my question to you is, you came on and commented as a famous person.

What famous person did you come on and comment as?

I'm going to assume it was Mark Smitz.

It was 100% Mark Smitz.

Yeah.

Hey, Keith's here.

Yo, Keeve, I just want to.

Oh, that's our guy.

I just said a jumpy writing.

Can you hear us, Keeve?

Yeah, I'm here.

Hey.

Talking about three update features.

We have not talked about, I'm on a boat yet.

There were three update features.

First one, let's see if you can get the question right that Andy just got right.

Michael Phelps gets caught smoking weed.

Andy plays a real person on weekend update commenting on it what historical person did andy sandberg come on historical i just mean a real person oh it um

mark spitz mark spits you kind of played mark spitz as a skeevy guy and i feel like mark spitz might have some issues with the way you chose to play it i mean it was all just like 70s vibes it was all mustache and chest hair yeah yeah i would just like to flatly read some of the dialogue Oh, by all means.

I hope it's better than the stripper sketch from last week.

It is.

It was a flat read there, too.

I did kind of run it through, and I'm like, no, it's better.

It's not great, but it's better.

That was you thinking about it.

I did text with Klein about the stripper sketch, and we were like, obviously, we were still learning.

And if we were to do it today, the nipples would have come out on page three, which is technically page two and a half.

Well, this is interesting because this is only a week later.

So maybe this was the first step in your education.

Yeah, maybe we fully cracked it a week later.

You came right at it.

You said, back in the day, I was known for my breaststroke, and I was a pretty good swimmer to Zang.

Zang.

Who wrote this?

I believe it's you and Melanian Joast.

Then you had this line.

Let's just say a lot of girls laid their head at the Spitz Carlton.

Jeez.

Yeah.

Sure.

The audience did not go with you on that one.

Right.

Because it's a long-ass walk and their legs were tired.

And then you said, then you tell, you explained to me, weekend update anchor Seth Myers.

Yeah.

That works on two levels because Carlton is also what I call my penis.

There you go.

Fully landed the plane.

Thank you.

And then I said, I don't think it works on either level.

All right.

Now it's another trivia question.

You can ask follow-up if you need clues.

Okay, thank you.

This is during a financial crisis.

The setup is no nation has experienced the economic crash worse than Iceland.

Here to comment.

Whig as Bjork 100 well done wow yeah only for two

I feel like that's the only Icelandic celebrity that has ever been portrayed on the show yeah

it's historically notable to me in my personal life because she rolls out and says greetings snarf

greetings snarf

how is your skeleton

uh good how how's your skeleton it's itchy

and from that day forward, our friend Neil Brennan has never called me anything other than Snarf.

What do you think of Snarf?

That's great because now people can call you that on the street when they see you.

Yeah, it made me very happy.

And then the first question she asked me is, how's your skeleton?

Pretty great.

There's two Seth Corners I'd like to talk about, and then we'll get right into both.

Sing me in, Jorm.

Seth Corner, it's been a minute since I sang this song, but here we go, said take it away.

Were you bummed you didn't get asked to audition for for snarf in the new masters of the universe movie i mean i'm bummed that i'm never asked to audition for anything oh well okay that's fair so i can save the questions that are similar to that one moving forward thank you for that info you had a bunch of them you had a lot you had a bunch of are you bummed you weren't asked to question yeah yeah are you bummed you didn't get asked to audition for a complete unknown

By the way, we never talked about...

I'm derailing Seth's corner.

I'm sorry.

That's fine.

You know, it's all of our corners.

Well, a long time ago, we talked about the Elvis auditions, which was really fun.

And And we didn't ever talk about what those Complete Unknown auditions must be like.

Oh, yeah.

Who do you want to be?

What actor do you want?

Just do Andy.

Come on.

Hey, what's up, Andy?

Hey, how's it going?

Auditioning for Bob Dylan, Complete Unknown.

Oh, so excited.

Hey, Quaid Army, by the way.

Oh, my God.

That is so nice.

Yeah, we just love the pod.

And, you know, Gary over here said, you know, Andy's such a good singer.

And I'm listening to the pod and I'm remembering all those old songs.

So we're just so happy to get you in.

Wow.

Warm room.

I was not expecting that.

Thank you very much.

That helps me relax.

Okay.

So whenever you're ready, and obviously pick whatever song you're most comfortable with.

Okay, great.

I'll leave.

I'm just going to go.

Yeah.

As soon as it started,

I apologize for bringing you in.

Yep, that was my bad.

Apologies for bringing you in.

Let me know if you need like a stoner in the background or something.

Somebody who like he's really like rude to and then gets the best of.

That's a real, that's a real dream outcome for me because I knew exactly where that was going and it still was a full delay.

I'm pretty sure I blew out the mic.

I didn't know the song choice.

Yeah, I didn't either.

You didn't know it was going to be Girl from the North Country.

No.

I didn't know that.

Girl from the North Country, I had

a Talking Heads shuffle channel on this morning and it started playing the one from

with Johnny Cash when he stopped smoking.

Yeah.

Dylan stopped smoking.

Oh, did that change his voice significantly?

Well, yeah, I immediately yelled out, Girl from the North Country, everyone's favorite version.

It is like the best stop smoking ad of all time.

You're like, wait, how long did he stop for for his voice to completely change?

I think it's BS, and he just decided to change it and make it sound like a Muppet.

Yeah.

He was an ad for smoking.

It's that voice, right?

Yeah.

Le, lady, lay.

Like, if I start smoking, how long till I have a cool, raspy voice?

You've got a good one.

And we're going to get into your voice.

I can tell you're fishing.

We're going to be talking a lot about your voice this podcast.

So can we please

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Yorm, could you just sing in real quick to remind people where we are right now?

This was the part of the show where Seth was supposed to be doing his corner.

Take it away again, Seth.

Okay, great.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We got a little bedlam spillover from those non-Seth apps.

We're used to talking more now.

Sorry about the melee and bedlam.

Too much bedlam.

Too much melee.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Seth, hit us.

This was a perfect combination of two of my favorite things of my life.

When I was a child, I were the Pittsburgh Steelers in Saturday Night Live.

I was at Super Bowl.

I was there live with my parents when the Steelers beat the Arizona Cardinals.

Maybe the greatest play in Super Bowl history.

James Harrison intercepts Kurt Warner, runs it back 99 yards.

And then I write a weekend update feature where Keenan plays James Harrison still breathing into an oxygen mask about how tired he was.

And mostly just bring it up because it makes me very happy.

I was just always like, oh, look, this is 13-year-old Seth's perfect dream.

Come true.

I also read a sketch you were in, Andy, called Bad Guy's Good Conversation with Bradley Cooper.

Any memory?

He was the Johnny from Karate Kid.

Talk show host, he was Johnny Lawrence.

Can you name the three guests?

I'm going to assume I was Alan Rickman.

You were Hans Gruber, and it's a better impression than I remember.

Yes.

Yeah.

For once.

And then who were the other two?

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Almost certainly Bill as Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs.

James Gum, yeah, 100%.

And

it's hard.

I'm going to jump in.

You're not going to get it.

Michaela Watkins as Glenn Close and Fatal Attraction.

Oh, fun.

It's very fun.

I will say I wanted it to be better looking back.

Sure.

Didn't quite get past premise.

Very much in the Two First Names talk show kind of sphere that we were doing that year.

And if the best memory of Two First Names is when it pops out to Kangles.

Really, a part of this that I forgot is while Johnny Lawrence, aka Bradley Cooper, is doing a long intro, all of a sudden you hear Sadakis scream, start the show, and it cuts to him.

And he's like the evil sensei from Karate Kid.

Oh, God, I thought it was that.

He's like the kind of Gelman from the Today Show.

I'm sorry, live with Regis, but he's, you know, wearing a headset, and he's telling him to start the show.

He's the sensei, though.

He's not the put him in a body bag.

Yes.

No, wait.

He is put him in the body bag.

He's the bad sensei.

But the sensei doesn't say put him in the body bag.

The buddies.

No, that's like Johnny or Joey or whatever the fuck.

That's a different guy.

It's the more aggro second guy.

It's uh, his name is John Creese.

Whoever, whatever cared, I wrote it down.

It's John Crees.

Yeah, he's like, he's like the shitty coach.

Okay.

And the one thing I'll say that was really fun in watching it back is: you have a really good Hans Gruber, but also Bill makes Bill play Buffalo Bill like a real kind of a guy who's having a lot of fun being on a talk show.

Jamie,

why are you bad?

Oh, I'm a crazy person.

And I would say that.

He's really loose.

And it's good times.

I remember liking that sketch.

John Creese is the main bad guy.

You know, is the sensei of Cobra Kai.

All right.

Well, guys, now, I mean, this is a giant one.

Does he wear his khakis with a cuff and a crease?

Before we get into this, before we get into this.

Wait, Norm, shut up, shut up.

But what is Denzel Washington's character in Man on Fire?

Keith, Keith, John Keith, Keith, Keith, Keith, Keith, Keith, Keith, Keith.

It is really exciting, Keith.

Does he wear Keith?

Does he wear his khakis with a cuff and a crease?

Yes, John Creese does.

Woo!

That's that West Coast.

Wait, I don't know the answer to this, but I know it's close.

What is his character from Mano Fire, Denzel?

It's close to John Creese, but what is it going to be?

Sound off in the comments.

Hit no switches on them Lolos, girl.

She calls him Creasy the whole time.

Guys, can we

go back to John Creasy?

Wait, hold on.

His name's John Creasy.

Jorm, I want to apologize for telling you to to shut up 17 times straight, really fast.

That was fucked up.

And I was trying to get on my Westside thing.

And now I feel like shit.

And I can't fucking sleep because I did that to you.

And I love you.

You're trying to sleep.

I know I can do better.

And I will do better.

This is the moment that I do wish people saw a video because Andy's being really up on the mic and the video camera right now.

And he looks great.

But Andy, you can't just say cuff and crease west side and think anybody knows what the fuck you're talking about.

What are you talking about?

Ask Keeve and Yorm.

They both know.

Okay, what is it?

I mean, it's some sort of like ice cube west side connection type of a thing but i don't know the exact it's how you wear your khakis i mean you're wearing why west side by the way i like andy you were like ask them they know and then just two real soft answers well i know the the the basic things you know it's the look that like ice cube and all the la kind of gangster people wear where it's like you know probably those dickies khakis and yeah but it's it's like a uniform for west side connection exactly it's in still dre that's the most oh still dre thank you

And I still got love for the streets.

It's the DSC.

It was DR.

Anybody?

No one?

Yeah, of course.

I guess I'm the fucking piece of dog shit, idiot loser.

It's just hard to access thoughts that fast sometimes.

All right.

Now, I'm not trying to create another Anthony Edwards here, guys.

That's what I'm saying.

Create another

Doug

Hauser-Hauser situation.

I'm just letting you know that the fictional character of John Creese, who is the sensei of Cobra Kai, is named John Creese.

And then I'm assuming for SAG reasons, John W.

Creasy, he added the double.

Oh, Man on Fire, Creasy.

Creasy.

He is Denzel Washington, a.k.a.

Creasy Bear.

Creasy Bear, yeah, we love that.

He's referred to by Takona Fanning because that's like his Manny, you know.

Yeah.

While they're down in Mexico or somewhere, and

you know, he's her bodyguard.

I don't have to tell you about it.

You've seen Man on Fire.

But, anyways, the names are very similar.

Yeah.

Keith, on a related note, what does Creasy Bear wish that that one guy had?

More time.

See, now that I'll know.

I thought you were going to perform it.

I wish you had more time, but he's the one that's going to blow him up.

I know, then he kills him.

It's so tight.

He could make his own wish come true, I guess.

Hey, I'm just looking at the IMDb page, Keith, and I'm worried about this is continuing because Christopher Watkin in the film is named Paul Rayburn.

Need I remind everybody in the last episode Christopher Watkin hosted, there was the greased lightning sketch where he kept saying change the lyrics to Gene Rayburn.

so we're probably just living in a singularity at this point well and you're talking about christopher walking who played a yago and also was in a laser cats right and yeah he played a yago in a

denzelo

currently athello right now and famously was not in a laser cats famously not yet

maybe he's for the movie i guess it would be really funny if lauren asked denzel to host and denzel said uh i don't want to host but i'll do a laser cats and then lauren had to pretend that you guys were still working on the show.

Oh, yeah, Stephanos.

Like Lauren hat in hand coming to you guys to do a laser cats.

Wait, you guys, I still have something to say.

And we can.

Oh, that's right.

We have been sort of steamrolling you, Jorn.

We can put this at the beginning, but before we get into this cool digital show, I like that you said you're so confident you think whatever you're about to say, we're going to put at the beginning.

Well, we might want to because it's about last week's episode, which that was great.

I thought it was very enjoyable to listen to.

You guys were very entertaining.

It did go a little off the rails, I will say.

Seth did a very bad job keeping it on the tracks.

But

I got a voice note from Simon Rich that I'm going to play for you guys right now.

It's very, very

cinematographer who

we see in the mirror for a second.

Simon Rich, a wonderful comedy writer.

Here he is.

This is Simon Rich.

I can confirm that I did indeed play the role of cameraman in Laser Cats 4.

I'm very proud of my work

in this film.

I could also confirm that I provided my own wardrobe.

That's definitely one of the three shirts that I owned at the time, along with the pants and shoes that I wore each day.

Okay.

I told you it was going to be short.

Clearing up some controversy from last week about the pants and the shoes.

Yeah, there was a part of me that was hoping he was going to end right after I can confirm I was the camera man.

Thank you, Devil.

No one asked, but thank you.

It's just awesome that I like just like you are

throwing full breaks on the pod to be like, I got breaking news.

Hold on to your hats, sailors.

There you go, guys.

Thank you.

Hey, you know, if you ask somebody to do a fucking voice note, you gotta fucking play that shit.

Yeah, it was very good.

Thank you, Simon.

I'm on a boat.

I'm on a boat, everybody.

So I'm on a boat.

Yes.

This is an album song.

Well, our album's coming out, right?

So what's the date of the end?

But like, who paid for it?

The video was fully the record label.

So that, I guess that's what I meant by album song because it's label money and you can see it immediately.

Yes.

You can see that we're in Miami.

So that would, it would have been hard to shoot that in New York.

I mean, how thorough do we want to get?

This is people want us to get very thorough.

Easily one of, if not our biggest song ever.

I will say, listening to it again today, I realize, because watching the video, I had forgotten a lot of things in the video.

And I think one of the reasons is how often I will just listen to this song without watching it as a short.

It needs the visuals the least of any of your songs.

It's possibly musically the best song that we've done.

I think that's probably true, right?

Can we talk about just how it came about?

Sure.

Get him.

Since it's still a fucking thorn in my side.

I know.

Go ahead, guys.

Sorry, Yormi.

Full thorn.

Yorm was out of town for the weekend or something while we were recording Incredibad.

That is correct.

So this is, wait, would you say this section of the pod is called Yorm Thorns?

And that's going to be a reoccurring section, guys.

So Yormthorns, go.

Yes.

Okay.

So these fuckers.

No, no, no, no.

What's the theme song, dude?

Yormthorn.

Fuck these fucking guys.

Yeah, that's good.

Get this shit out.

Yeah,

we're back in Encino.

We're back in the episode about Incredibad when we skipped I'm on a boat.

So all the things from that still track for this.

As mentioned, you know, part of our sketching a record deal was receiving tons of real beats from actual producers.

And one of our first bundles of them had a bunch from this dude, Wishmaster, and this beat immediately we singled out.

I remember personally being like, we absolutely have to do some idea to this beat.

It's so fucking rad.

We loved it.

So I was around for that part of listening to that beat and being like, oh shit, this part.

It's fucking smash.

And the reason I was out of town was because it was my anniversary.

And so I went up, I don't know where we went to, I don't remember that part,

but I came back like two days later, and these guys had basically completed the entire song.

And the first thing I said was, that's a fucking hit.

You got to let me on that.

And they were both like, absolutely not.

The song was done.

It was pretty unanimous.

And I was like, what?

The only thing that would make it better is if you had thought of the beat the entirety of your anniversary and you came home and you're like, I've got it.

It's called Cinnamon Swirl.

Well, I will say the dynamic of that song and the music video in particular has continued to haunt me in a loving way, I would say, for the rest of our careers.

Of now I'm the landlubber who wears a dunce cap that's a land lover.

And we've put it into concerts now.

I was in video being ostracized.

And so it's a joke that keeps on giving to these guys.

Anyway, so the conceiving of it was not super interesting as it never is.

But I remember our friend John Silk was visiting the house.

He's an executive at Netflix now.

We grew up together in Berkeley.

He just happened to be visiting and he can vouch he was in the room.

We were playing that beat and I just started yelling, I'm on a boat.

And I remember Keeve started laughing and I started laughing and we were like, I guess that's the premise.

And it was, you know, obviously there was a lot of boat stuff in rap videos at that moment in time.

Yeah.

Especially because that Miami scene was really popping off, and we loved that, and we're really engaging with it a lot as listeners and viewers of videos.

Name some tracks that we liked at the time.

We taken over kind of all the college, Akon, T-Pain shit that was happening down there.

Rick Ross and Lil Wayne was obviously guesting on a lot of those songs.

It was definitely a trope of the moment in that era of champagne and big boats.

that was kind of of the moment.

Was it what am I wrong in saying that Big Pimpin was shot on that boat?

A similar yacht.

I don't think it was that boat.

No.

There may be an Acon video was shot on the exact one we used, but it might be just that we did on our location scout looked at a few different boats and one of them was an Acon boat.

I don't know that we rented the Acon boat.

Okay.

Yeah, I can't remember.

I don't think we did.

I think the Acon boat had a helicopter on the back, like on the boat.

Did it write fast when you had the idea?

Yes.

Fast enough to exclude Yorm.

Well, yeah, they knew I was coming back, so they had to get it in.

You know what I mean?

They're like, oh shit, we got like 15 minutes.

It's definitely a song we did not overthink.

And we weren't like, what's the other twist to it?

We were like, yeah, that's the chorus.

Now let's just start writing.

And we definitely wrote our own verses.

And I doubt even helped each other on them at all, honestly.

Just said, all right, write about being on a boat.

And then we both just did.

And sometimes I do on new songs that we're trying to crack, sometimes I try to harken back to that of like, we don't need to always think of three twists.

Like sometimes if the premise is good and the song sounds good, maybe we should just go straight at it and just do the simplest version.

And sometimes that happens and sometimes it doesn't.

Well, especially with a title like that, like when it's a song that's just like, hey, this is the premise.

Exactly.

I also think it weirdly counts as heightening by the fact that they don't ever switch to anything else.

Correct.

Yes.

It's like Who Said We're Whack, but musically crazier.

Yeah.

Where it's like part of the joke is doubling down, tripling down, quadrupling down, and never stopping.

And then they can't get over the fact that they're on this boat and that they're bragging about it.

I mean, it's also, it's also Turtledeck and Chain, which is another one that came from just stomping around the room saying something.

Like occasionally that is how songs come about by just one of us just repeating something.

Are there any other songs that are like that?

I'm sure we have like 50.

Just saying something and then like, I guess that's the song.

Sushi Gloria was a version of that.

Have you, I guess my question is, have you guys ever done two in a row that weren't that?

Thank you, Sally.

What about

was this song nominated for a Grammy?

Yes, absolutely.

You're jumping way ahead, but you.

Well, I just feel like I, you know, again, I want to talk about quality, and I was reading comments, and that was something that was said.

So

what was it nominated for?

It was Yormthorn, another Yormthorn.

We gave you writing credit.

Yeah, we did.

You were nominated for that Grammy.

Yeah.

That's true.

Yeah, you didn't even show up.

Yeah, I still, yeah.

I didn't show up for the Grammy.

It was your anniversary week.

It was our half anniversary.

No, I was

seven anniversaries a year.

No, I was raising money for Mari's play, and so were you, Seth.

The reason I wasn't at the Grammys is because I was doing it.

Me and Andy had a great time.

You can look up the photos of us there.

We were having a blast.

Yeah, we wore our sunglasses the whole time because it was rock and roll.

Yeah, because we were part, we were now.

Well, if you jump into the Grammys for a second, we were nominated under best rap sung collaboration against songs like Run This Town.

we were literally up against run this town which thank god won yes i don't know if anyone's ever gone to the grammys hoping to lose more where we were like if we win we can't get on stage we were only confident enough to go because we were that sure that we were going to lose correct you're right that might have been a a weird tipping point that you wouldn't have recovered from agreed yeah we were in the wrong category we were a little salty about not being nominated for comedy album right yes because we i believe we had had the biggest selling comedy album of the year and as everyone knows if you sell a lot that means it's high quality.

But it is true.

We did have the number one like Billboard album, a comedy chart album for like three.

Incredib I was number one for two years.

Yeah.

I think until our next album came out.

That's right.

And then they nominated us, which let us know they knew we existed.

But then you guys lost comedy album to Rick Ross.

Existed.

That was his album of impressions.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And he was fine getting on stage.

Yeah, but it was

good.

It was good, though.

He was really good.

I will say, I remember hitting the carpet for the Grammys.

Yeah.

and we bumped into T-Payne, and we were so excited to see him.

Of course, we love him.

And before he said anything, we were like, I know, I know.

He's like, dude, because we hadn't talked since we got nominated, and we were like, oh man, this is not a good look.

And he was like, you know how many fucking songs I did this year?

This is the one that got nominated.

And we were like, we know, we're sorry.

It's going to go away.

I will say the fear though, the fear that you must have had is because of pain, because that would be the only reason that i think it would have crossed the finish line and maybe i mean it was never it was never going to be run this town that's such a smash yeah we never for a second thought we'd win which was again a relief in why we could take the whole day as kind of a fun joke that we were there as musicians and just wear i think i wore the tux from the video and just put it on but i will say everyone else that had a good rap song collaboration that year sorry yeah yeah exactly somebody else could have used that that slot yeah yeah yeah yeah did any other people from the rap world engage with you that night on like how they liked the song?

I don't think we really bounced around asking people.

Hey, what'd you think about ours?

Hi, I'm Kiva.

We're like you now.

You might remember me from the video where I was wearing this exact same outfit.

I dressed in my costume so that you'd recognize me.

You know, I feel like what goes over great at the Grammys is insecurity, you know?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I remember, though, like, you couldn't buy a drink there, and T-Pain had some way of getting us them.

So we did end up, because we were sitting with him.

So we did end up very nicely.

He was sending some assistant type person.

He was like, you guys want some?

Getting like Jack and Cokes or something.

Was he still on Applejacks?

Because he's the only guy I have ever seen drink Applejacks.

It was not that.

I remember it being, the reason I remember being Jack and Coke is because I remember when Pink was up in the rafters doing her, what's it called?

When you do that, essentially the ballet up on the ropes.

Not ropes, but like.

Oh, yeah, she killed it.

It was amazing.

She's singing her whole thing, you know, 50 feet above us, but glitter was raining down from her and it got into my drink.

And that's why

I'm thorn digging it into his side.

I'm so fucking glad you guys had such a good time.

Seriously.

Well, it did.

Not a great time.

Keith got fucking glitter in his drink.

Oh, that's true.

He did have glitter in his drink.

Shit, that sucks, dude.

I still drank it.

Keith didn't do this during Jizz of My Pants.

I'm just saying.

Yeah.

Or I just had sex coming up soon.

Yeah.

Be classy.

Take a note from your good friend Keith.

Yo, yo, be classy, bro.

Be classy.

Well, so we, so we filmed it in Miami because we were like, we have a label.

We have a few off weeks because it's the back half of the schedule.

So it was whatever the off weeks were before February 7th.

Timeline, if I can interrupt the timeline real quick, when did T-Payne get involved?

Like, how soon did he sign on to be in it?

We recorded in the summer.

It was obviously Andy doing the chorus.

We reached out to T-Pain and he said yes in the summer, but we did not get him on the track for months and months.

It was one of those things where it's like, he's in.

And then we were like, cool.

And then we could not get him to record because he was just on his own timeline and probably didn't realize SNL's on the fastest timeline.

And Keeve or Andy, when did T-Pain, the thought of T-Pain, occur to us?

Just because I think it's a fun immediately.

Just the beat alone, we were probably like, this sounds like the kind of thing that T-Pain's the number one person you'd want singing for.

Right.

But also when he came to the show, though.

Oh, good memory.

Yes.

The reason we thought he might say yes.

So when T-Pain came with Mariah Carey, we had met him in the hallway and we were fans of his, but we didn't think he had any clue who we were.

But then he saw us and he did the ultimate punch from Hot Rod in the hallway.

And we all went, what?

And he went, ultimate punch.

And we were like, oh, shit, we love this dude.

And obviously within a minute, we're like, we would love to do a song with you.

And he was like, just let me know.

So we knew he was down, which is our favorite thing and has led to many collaborations because people say that.

So we go, let's write towards them then if we know that they want to do one.

And he came, he was at Radio City.

Yeah, he did the 50th.

He was great.

Which was fantastic.

I think that was like extra special when he came out.

I was like, oh, yeah, no, I wouldn't have wanted to see somebody else do this part.

Absolutely.

We also did it with him live at Summerfest in Milwaukee.

Yes.

When we did our and on our tour, he just happened to be there doing his own set.

And then we were like, we're going to be there too.

And so he stuck around and came and did it with us.

Did he also come when we did the San Francisco one?

Did he?

Yes, because

he was doing the stage next to us after us.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

When we did our very, very, very first concert at Cluster Fest in San Francisco the year before our tour, he came and did it with us live.

And I feel like every time we see him, he's on to a different signature kind of drink that he's drinking, which I always appreciate about anybody.

Yeah, it's nice that he has the ability to change, you know, and more of that.

And grow.

All right, so now it's Miami.

Well, so our album's coming out February 10th.

This episode is February 7th.

So we know it's the one that we want to put out to get everyone's attention to the record.

We did, yeah, we had written the whole album and generally speaking, like the head of our label was like, that one sounds pretty good.

Like everyone was sort of like, you should do a video for that one.

And you all agreed.

Like you all knew this was the one.

Yeah, I will say yorm yes i don't want to stir up shit no no you always say this but you're confusing me with mr neil brennan but go no no that's something different okay i remember you saying it sounds good but you didn't think it was that funny uh

i don't remember saying that but i more remember saying that's a fucking smash can you please put me on it and then you guys got kicking me out of the room and

that's crazy because i don't remember any of that

my guess on the timeline is this andy jorm said this is a smash Can you put me on it?

And then you guys said no.

And then Jorm said, well, good, because I don't even think it's funny.

It's not funny anyway.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm sure that's what I mean.

I think that Seth has broken it down accurately.

Like, you didn't even give it a beat, Jorm.

You were just like immediately like, well, good.

News for you.

No, no, no.

Andy, I do think that I did probably say something like that and was trying to punch up certain parts.

And I think that we tried to, because we always try to respect the third guy who maybe doesn't fully see it.

And then we retracted everything that was trying to be more funny.

I believe that is what happened.

We did try some goofier lines.

I can't remember what they were or where they were, but I do remember trying them and then erasing them.

Yeah.

My experience with it today is I watched the uncensored first, which doesn't have the SNL laughs.

And then I watched the actual feed from the episode.

And it's interesting because it doesn't have that thing Lazy Sunday has.

There's really no break to laugh.

Definitely.

And so there's a, when we start going through the song, I'll say a couple of the laughs.

And it also like, it's just so good that people are, I don't think, even, I think they get out of like comedy head for it.

And you realize how funny it is the second or third time you watch it.

I think there's a part of it that, again, the doubling down and tripling down, but also the relentlessness of it.

There's a moment two-thirds of the way through where it's clearly the moment in another song where it's supposed to go back to the chorus.

And instead we just do, get the fuck up, this boat is real, and straight back into verse.

Yeah.

But the horns come in like it's a chorus, but we don't stop just doing verse stuff where it's like the whole song is basically one continuous hockey stick

to use the Silicon Valley terminology.

Just goes up, up, up, up, up, and then ends.

Yeah.

And there's no like peaks and valleys.

It like blossoms with T-Pain getting to do a verse and then it ends.

Yeah, exactly.

It also starts with a chorus and ends.

It's just bookended choruses, right?

There's nothing in the middle at all.

Correct.

We just do I'm on a boat twice.

It's a weird format for sure, but I remember being like, I guess that's okay.

We just like how it sounds.

Yeah.

And it's also really short.

You ran a boat like that.

I'm assuming you're on the clock the minute.

I can give you the very quick rundown of what I remember on a production level, which is it's the weeks before we know that this is our target to try to have it come on this show so that it'll support the record.

We had already even sent the song to iTunes, and it was going to songs came out on Tuesday back then.

So we knew the song was going to come out Tuesday of this week.

So it was already out

as a single on iTunes previous to the video coming out, just you know, by four days, five days.

And we decided to go down to Miami because we wanted to look legit and we had done Jizz My Pants and we knew it was possible.

We had planned a two-day shoot and T-Pain had confirmed and we were very excited.

And then days before, he was on tour with Lil Wayne and they were in Canada and they got snowed in and they were afraid that if he came to our shoot, he would not be able to fly back to Canada and that he'd get fined a ton for missing a night of the tour.

And so we were down in Miami.

We went for an extra few days because we were going to shoot MTV bumpers as well, you know, because we're on a label and they're setting up cool promo stuff.

So we went down to Miami and we're going to have five days in Miami, even though the shoot was only going to be two.

So we could do MTV promos, which we had devised with some other guys that did a great job.

They were, I wish I could remember their names and give them credit because I actually, it's one of the few things we've ever done with other people where I was like, hey, they did an amazing job.

And it was the premise and they mean

shout out to their other collaborator.

They did, honestly, they were people probably hired for IMTV or worked for MTV that did their little promos that would, like in their minds, they said it's $7 million of free ads because it was basically a full week where you'd be the thing bumping you out to commercials and back of every MTV show, like throughout the whole week.

And it was Daytona Spring Break 88 was the theme.

And it was like we were at a wild 80s MTV spring break.

And I'm sure you can find them online.

I remember those now, yeah.

So we got to have a really fun week in Miami, and back to the plane thing, all of a sudden it was like the whole thing was about to fall apart.

So, our budget, I forget what it was, but we had to take essentially half of it to a private jet for pain to get him down and get him back.

And so, it became a one-day shoot, maybe a day before the shoot.

So, we had to collapse a two-day shoot into a single-day shoot right before shooting.

We had like a really skeletal second unit kind of second day, like which I think we had like three hours on, but it was like real fucking bare bones.

Like maybe

the camera was just still with us, but it was one way we achieved it is that the one day became like a 16-hour day, like an insane day.

It was insanely long.

And we had two cameras, which we weren't going to have.

Music videos would almost never need two cameras because you're always looking at the camera.

So you'd have to, you can't have not like a movie set where you're.

Right.

So there's no need for a second camera, but two cameras allowed us to break apart and be shooting, let's say, Andy's single on the boat talking about, you know, with the the mission accomplished sign, let's say, at the exact same time as Yorma making copies.

Making copies, right?

That's right.

That's right.

I do remember I wasn't even allowed on the boat.

That was so cool.

Yorm be classy.

That was for the SNL audience to kind of catch it, you know.

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So keep going with the shoot.

And then before we talk about the song, I do want to say my favorite memory of this song is Andy's Bachelor Party in Las Vegas.

Oh my God.

Do you remember this, Andy?

Why you got to keep bringing up my bachelor party?

I'm just saying it was the best, my favorite moment of the bachelor because it was your absolute nightmare.

It was.

Where the DJ said at the club, hey, everybody, make some noise

for Adam Sandberg.

Oh, yeah.

So first loudly called you Adam Sandberg and and the needle dropped I'm on a boat.

That's right.

Fucking spotlighted you.

Oof.

You were at your absolute, like just a total valley for you.

And then that song started and it was no part of it was comedy.

Like that club went off.

Right.

People did get excited.

You know, it's not like we're, you know, I don't know, dancing to like eat it.

You know what I mean?

It's just fully a fucking banger.

I mean, the night after we shot the video, we went out to a club and the dude who was showing us around had the DJ at the club put it on.

Wow.

At a place that they will have like that kind of premiere.

Like, let's see how this plays before it comes out.

So they're literally like, I remember there was like people in glass elevators.

It was like a real Miami scene.

People dancing on top of tables and shit.

And they put it on, like, oh shit.

So we're looking around the club being like, how's this going to play?

This new song that no one's ever heard with T-Pain on it.

And it was a real fucking moment in our lives.

It went pretty good.

Yeah.

People did not stop dancing.

Well, they're not hearing it's a joke.

They're just hearing that great beat.

Exactly.

And then some guys kind of squawking raps that they can't quite tell what they're saying.

And then T-Pain singing, and what's the difference?

Might as well have just played the beat raw and people would have kept dancing.

We do, we get reports.

This and like I just had sex gets played like in Thailand.

Like friends will continually, once a year, we'll get a text from someone randomly who's on tour somewhere in Vietnam or Thailand.

They'll go, dude, I was just at a place and I just had sex with playing non-ironically at a disc in a real place.

And then you're like, Why are you in Thailand?

And they're like, I don't want to talk about it.

Do BTS for White Lotus?

This would play in Australia, apparently.

I'm on a Boat would play on like Australian MTV just in rotation.

But it would play backwards, right?

Yeah,

of course.

Yeah, because it's down on your

so dope.

The boats would be going the other way.

Just like their toilet.

Rom, rum, rum, rum.

Hey, how fast did uh, were you then ready with something like this?

I had a question, Keith.

Did the unedited version go on YouTube right away?

Yes.

So you never put up the SNL one?

Well, we knew even if it didn't air on SNL, we were putting it out no matter what.

Because we owned it, essentially, the label did.

And the album was coming out, so we needed the promotion.

It needed to come out one way or another.

Right.

We were releasing it.

So this isn't a case of either or because it was always ready for release.

Exactly.

So we were ready with both right off the bat.

By the way, it was fun as fuck.

Like the stress of condensing the shoot was stressful, but then we were like in Miami shooting a music video it was really cool with a helicopter and a yacht i wish i remembered our wardrobe guy's name who was our tour down there too he was so cool you're talking about max pierre my friend

amazing that you don't remember that what a great name max pier

he was great also the reason that i remember it is because i went back to miami with three other couples and myself who are all people with kids and i was like we got to hang out with this guy named max pierre who's the best and at the time he was a

ambassador for Hennessy Black.

So everywhere he took us to, which were all like the most high-end clubs, we had to do shots of Hennessy Black.

And I was like, my life is pretty cool.

That's the best.

But yeah, he's the one that played the song and he's the one that

had access everywhere and knew everything to do.

And it was such a blast getting to see Miami.

Max Pierre, accent or no accent?

No accent.

Yeah, no accent.

Could see that breaking either.

Not French.

We went to Joe's Crab Shack, which was bomb as fuck.

Yes.

yes well also and there was a hotel i uh that payne wanted to stay at we didn't know where to stay so we were just like just put us at the hotel he requested so we were at this really nice hotel i want to say it was the mandarin or something i think it was just the mandate in at the skame bay and i remember us pulling in and there were like two bright yellow lamborghinis or something parked in front and we were like oh shit and then we were like you see those and he's like those are mine

we were We were just living the fantasy life of I'm on a boat for the whole well, also, and then being like, sorry, we got to go do an MTV thing where we're pretending to be Daytona Screen Break, but it was a weird reality folding in the way that Beastie Boys must have experienced a little bit where even though we weren't going to do any debauchery, we were pretending debauchery for an entire day

with young people in bathing suits acting like you're doing screen break.

So we were doing like a fantasy camp version.

Like we're really cool guys.

Yeah, but none of it's real.

We were doing all the same things with the boats and the champagnes and the nightclubs and the and the MTV Spring Break and we're filming it really for mtv so the reality was like it was like cosplaying at the highest level um guys we hinted at it earlier andy you're great in this

best of keeve he goes so hard you know i remember uh talking to liz when it came out and liz was like i think this is the most into my husband i've ever been oh really i thought it was just you guys that she liked but yeah no this is i mean it's nuts how great you are in this keep yeah they invented the term ham because of this.

They saw Keeve doing it and they were like, whoa, that guy's hard as a motherfucker.

Look how nicely we've got Yorm to be so involved in it that he feels like he's part of it to the audience.

This is a video.

Well, it wasn't quite a video invention, but it was an invention of the...

No, it is, right?

It's not on the album, the free boat ride thing.

That's not on the album, right?

No.

So we invented an entire new concept in to include Yorm that helps the whole video.

When we were working on the video, we went, oh, here's how we do it.

And it actually is the premise premise of the video now and taints the whole thing in a good way.

Taint sounds negative, right?

It's historically negative.

It paints it.

There's no such thing as a good job.

Talk about paints.

Oh, yeah, sure, sure.

I have many positive connotations with taints.

Oh, my God.

Okay, go on.

And I got to be involved in other ways, too, because for like all of our albums, I do the clean versions of them.

I sort of, you know, remove all the curse words.

So I got to remove all of Kiva's curse words.

He says it 16 times.

He says the word fuck 16 times.

So in a way, I was really involved.

Just rhyming motherfucker with motherfucker right out of the gates.

Yeah, that's one of those complex MM style

rhymes.

The word before rhymes.

Can I just say I had forgotten there's a Santana champ ref in this?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We had an arc to the album.

We shipped it down, too.

It's in the vid.

We were like, oh my God, we got to get some.

And it was hard to find.

These are things I had forgotten.

I had forgotten there was a reference to George W.

Bush

Mission Accomplished Banner, but it's on the visual.

A visual.

A visual reference.

Yeah.

yeah, thank you.

I was like, I don't remember that part.

There's another thing I really liked watching the video back, which again, historically, I haven't added that element to my re-listens.

It's all about like champagne and boats and tuxedos and also hamburgers.

Oh, yeah.

It's very funny.

Like, there's this real sort of low-end thing with hamburgers.

Like, every time he cuts back to Kiev, he's like holding up two hamburgers like it's diamonds.

They've never been on a boat before.

This is what they think it's going to be like.

But it's great.

Because again, it's like everything is like high-end, but they also are just like, you just can tell these guys also like hope they're burgers on the boat.

They're regular Jones.

I think all that is born out of them flipping burgers and you're flipping copies, right?

And then we just had burgers handy and picked up some shots.

Yeah, it's just a setup.

Yeah, then it's like, it just cuts back to it like four times.

And Keith is, and it's a little bit like I'm on a boat, how that's the lyric you keep hearing.

I also feel like visually, Keith wants you to know he's got burgers, too.

Yeah, you need to know that.

Balling out.

I'm watching it on mute right now, and it's just reminding me of some other things, which was like, so we had one day, we had this boat, we had to go out into open water, and then drones weren't a thing yet.

So we had to get a real helicopter, and the helicopter was flown by exactly who you would think it would be, which was an ex-Vietnam pilot who had done this thousands of times.

And because of that, and you're going to lose time, that's also why we needed two cameras, because a camera had to go on that helicopter and had to, or maybe it's a filming helicopter, and and it always would have a camera on it.

I can't remember, but essentially somebody had to go.

And it had a rig built into the front of it.

Yeah.

That's my recollection.

No, no, for sure, but I don't know if you supply the camera that goes in that rig or not.

Oh, I don't know.

I believe we did.

But there was a moment when, as the director, we would have to disappear to go on it, but we couldn't because we all had to be on this boat and be free to shoot.

So this guy, so we had the same team of this guy, Jonathan Leah, and Robert Smythe who had done jizz.

And Jonathan Leah volunteered to go on the helicopter and be the helicopter guy and who had done jizz the video, Jizz and I know, but it's just one i mean it makes me so happy that you said that i knew exactly what you meant and i'm like what a body of work that you guys have that you can be like and then you know you do jizz we did jizz yeah the number of times we've casually called it that planning the tour so we'll go straight out of dick in a box into jizz and then we'll do

i think we should open with jizz yeah classy guys yeah so he he was up in that helicopter but it was an hour it was basically like at a certain point he had to go get on that and we had to get into open water and just be on this boat not so i think we filmed the scene when we're underneath in the cabin of the boat with those big circle windows like while the boat is booking out into the ocean right because you're not allowed to film in a helicopter in the bay you can't bring a helicopter in there so the boat had to go way further out to allow a helicopter like at some gps coordinate to meet us in open water so then we're now we're out in open water where it's way rockier and the boat is moving way more because we're not in a nice bay for filming and we have to go climb out into a part of the boat you're not supposed to be standing on in dress shoes.

And they put like rubber on our shoes so that we hopefully don't fall off into the water.

And got the speakers hidden somewhere there so that they could blast it.

He's on walkie, and all of a sudden we just see a helicopter come up, and they're like, Yep, it's us.

And Joram, I believe you're in the boat, right?

Looking at a monitor.

Yeah, I was like hiding as soon as the helicopter came.

Yeah, you're hiding in the boat with Nikru that was on the boat with us with a walkie talking to Jonathan in the helicopter, calling out when, like, all right, three, two, two, one, I'm hitting playback because he can't hear the music either.

And then the helicopter knows when to like come in on us.

Yes.

And it was the craziest, it's still the craziest shoot I've ever been on at that moment.

Like crazy, coolest.

Having a helicopter swirl around you is, it's so deafening and fucking, and it was getting close.

You see the wind on us.

That's wind from the chopper.

And it was getting so close to get the shots.

And we could barely hear the music because it's so loud.

I've never had a helicopter get that close in any other.

It was, and even T-Pain was was looking at us like, holy shit, what are we doing?

Oh, it was genuinely cool.

It was definitely the moment we like reached another level of how big and crazy we were going, obviously, but we were not unaware of that fact.

Like as it was happening, we were like, how fucking far are we going to take these dumbass songs?

Like,

like we are fully shooting a crazy ass huge baller video for a record label right now off the coast of Miami with a helicopter and a yacht.

It felt massive and insane.

The only other setup we ever did that came close was Roof of the Met Life Building for just that sex.

Yes.

But this was the first time we did it like this and it was, we couldn't believe it.

Our minds were blown.

The other thing that's great about the fact there weren't drones yet, Keeve, is there's two shots from the boat with the helicopter in the background.

Yes.

One of those is comped, I believe.

Yeah, yeah, but it's real, but it's comp.

It was even in the same shot the helicopter came.

It just came at the wrong timing for it to look like a cool shot.

That's not even like us, the effects comp, that's just me and Final Cut Pro.

Yeah, it's like a split screen where I'm just grabbing the helicopter from like 20 seconds later and moving it to the time.

But I believe the other one is real.

Yeah, one is just untouched, and one of them is lightly touched, but it's still the same thing.

But yeah, I just changed the timing of it.

When you did that shot, though, Keith, I remember being in Edit, and it's the closest we've ever been to like being like how Travis Scott's friends all are when he first plays them his songs.

Yeah, being like, no,

no, fuck, is fucking so dumb.

It looks so huge.

Oh my god, we're about to run this shit.

You split the shot in half of the split screen.

I remember feeling like that when it played at air, too.

Of just like, even though, because I did feel like it had sort of stunned the audience a little bit, and so there maybe wasn't the laughter necessarily, but it felt like it was like, oh shit, I think that this is gonna really hit in a different way.

I mean, it was, it was, it's always crazy to see it play live, but that one in particular was like, oh, shit.

But if you want to jump to that night to what Seth was talking about and what you're talking about, I remember feeling disappointed.

Go ahead.

Do you want to talk about the footage situation?

I mean, we can talk about it for a second.

I don't know how interesting it is, but yeah.

So one of the crazy things along the journey of the video was

the, I guess the DP.

Yeah, or DP made the choice.

Yeah.

Who we used again.

What did we use, Aaron Platt?

It was Aaron Platt, and we used him again on something more recent.

And oh, you know what he did?

When we did a reshoot on Popstar, when we were getting additional stuff for videos,

he shot like the Emma Stone music video in Popstar, right?

Nice guy, fun dude.

Yes.

And could really shoot.

Keith specifically, I believe, had asked him to make it feel really frenetic and crazy.

Yes.

And he was doing this trick while he was shooting footage where he was popping the lens in and out.

Which is great.

He was popping it off of the camera.

Yes.

So I just have this vivid memory, Keith.

Correct me if you feel this is different different, of going in there the first day of looking at the footage.

We shot it on and off week.

And then top of the week of SNL, we started cutting at 30 Rock and going in and Keith looking through the footage and being like, we can't make the video.

It's all just fucking flares.

There's no fucking footage.

I don't have a take of the jokes, of the lines.

I can't see anyone's face when we're saying the fucking lines, like super in a spiral.

And I remember being like, looking at it with you, be like, okay, calm down.

I'm sure it's fine.

And then looking with you and being like, oh,

like

there's not a lot of options here and keeve bless your heart grinded that fucking edit from monday till saturday oh wow took a lot longer to edit than other things pulling tiny little moments from every single moment when you see the finished product you would never know it because it's so high energy and dope and in the end i'm actually glad it was shot that way because it gives it this freneticism that is fucking incredible yeah it's so different yes it just made it much more difficult.

But it was like, if you are seeing a shot in that video, there is no second option of that shot that was usable.

That's what it really was.

You're just seeing all the parts and it worked and we got lucky or whatever you want to call it.

And he did a great job.

But yes, there were moments where it was like, there's a lot in here that the shot we planned is not the shot that's in.

Because we would go, I'd go to the shot that was planned for whatever it is, like holding champagne.

And I'd go, oh, all of them are out of focus.

We can't do the shot of champagne.

And then slowly, as we went through all of it, we would find the right, a different take that was rad at that moment.

And there was a second part of it, too, which was there'd be tons of setups where all of a sudden you'd be like, oh, here we go.

Here we go.

It's clear.

We can see.

And then the boat would rock, and one of us would fall super hard.

And you definitely see the confidence go out of our face a lot.

Yes, yes.

Where we would, where it wouldn't be necessarily a fall, like something that would be funny to see, but it would be like, we're trying to seem like we're the most confident guys in the boat, and you'd feel us like, oh,

don't you, don't you?

Um, all right, so then let's go to the it airing at the show.

Yeah, are you good?

Are you good, Keith, by the way?

I think I do have to, I'm gonna probably just bail in like five minutes and just be gone, but you guys can keep going, okay?

But let me say, Keith, in case we're gonna lose you, I mean, you know, we'll play it, I'm not gonna read it, but it's my favorite, uh, you know, four lines.

Just it is you it is total Keeve in the fucking pocket and it's just the best that guy's really proud of being on a boat so much that he's proud that the engine makes noise.

Yeah, and it was quite noisy down there.

I don't know.

Did we use a shot from down there?

I don't think we ever did.

I don't think we did.

Do I say it on camera as another kind of there's definitely a couple of little snippets of it from when you're down by the boat engine, but it just looks like it just looks like pipes or something.

Yeah, yeah.

We did go down there.

And again, this boat is real.

Makes me laugh a lot.

It's a really dumb thing to say.

Do you remember asking me if I could get Kevin Garnett to say everything is possible for the video?

No, did we ask you that?

You asked me, you're like, do you know anybody at the Celtics?

Can we send somebody?

Because they were playing the Knicks that night.

Yeah.

Ah, yes, yes, yes.

And you guys realize you're like, we would send somebody over and get them.

And I did know somebody at the Celtics.

I believe they're still at the Celtics and now have a way bigger job, but I won't name drop them.

But I wrote them and they very sweetly wrote back and they're like, here's the thing about Kevin.

Like, I don't want to talk to him before a game.

I was like, totally understand.

Yes, yes.

Like, everything you know about Kevin Garnett and game day preparation.

Yeah, we needed uncut gems, Kevin.

Like, done with his career.

Sandler realized, like, timing's important.

Yeah.

I'm going to ask him after he retires, buddy.

Oh, yeah.

You can't ask him when he's not retired.

I'm looking at the video.

The boat engine make noise is a shot of me fucking with your like touching your head or, you know, messing with you.

So it totally works, but it is not what we intended.

I probably allowed it to go so frenetic so that you would have to use that genre.

Yeah.

All right.

So it airs.

It airs.

Changes the game.

I don't know what I expected from that audience because it is all the things you said loud and frenetic.

And like there aren't laugh spots.

It's barely jokes to Jorm's credit for saying it's not, it's conceptual a joke, the whole thing, as opposed to there aren't laugh moments.

But I remember it getting applause at the end.

And I'm sure if we listen right now, we'll go, those are strong applause.

But, but in my warped ears at that moment, having worked so hard and having so much writing on it and feeling so strongly about it in the audience, I felt like, I don't know what I needed them to do, stand up and do us, give us a standing O at the end of it.

I don't know what it would have made me happy, but I remember having that reaction and going, you know, like a mix of like disappointment and

the people at home are going to know like excuses in my head.

Like, this is us, this is an audience that just comes here and stays up all night to get tickets because they just want to see the laughs.

They don't get what this is.

This is for real people outside, whatever my excuses were in my head.

But I remember not being like,

I was not feeling like high-fiving after it, Eric.

Oh, see, I felt like it was that probably because I was just so jealous.

You might have had a clearer sense of it.

I don't know.

No, I genuinely felt like it was going to pop to the home audience.

So I sort of didn't care.

And it did, right?

Like, it was immediately a hit.

Yeah, yeah.

And I didn't,

I was giving the extreme example of my thoughts.

Like, I also was like, no, I know that's good.

And I felt good about it.

But I, Keeve, it was twofold because I had the same reaction as you, not exactly the same, but I remember being like, it played okay.

And part of that was, you know, at this point, we had done a lot of them where it played crazy

in the studio.

Right.

Where we'd be like, fuck, that just smashed.

And it feels insane for you when it happens and you've made something and you feel so happy.

And so this one for such a long windup of like having written it the summer before, people all being like, that one feels like it could be a hit.

Then going to Miami, spending all the money from the label, pulling out the edit, and then being like, fuck, here we go.

It's like the buildup at SNL is never that long.

It's always like, I thought of this two days ago.

Yes.

And now it's on the show.

So the expectation of it was like, and also what, like you said, this is the one that's hopefully going to kick off the album because it's coming out so soon.

And then the reaction couldn't help but feel a little bit like a letdown.

And then I feel like also people at the show were like, hey, good job.

That was it.

No, like if you went on internal SNL politics of people being nice to us, like the Reba short is

diamond, you know, like 10 times platinum.

Like it was after that aired, the way Lauren congratulated me, you'd think we had just made I'm on a boat to how the world is.

And the way everyone, like

every other castmate or Higgins would be like, now that's good.

And when this aired, people didn't kind of say shit or they went, hey, nice one tonight.

As if it was any other, like, you know, small, like the third Blizzard Man or something.

We were all pretty mad at how bad you guys had fucked over Yorm.

Yeah, yeah.

Yorm had poisoned the well.

I thought it was more stunned to me.

That's how I viewed it.

Well, Seth, you're the only one that wasn't us.

What was your vibe of yourself and other people when that one aired?

I don't remember.

I will say, it's interesting to not really remember Night of.

Whereas, for example, I know exactly how I felt when I saw Jack Sparrow, right?

Like that was fuck.

And I think maybe even just even for like comedy SNL people, like we were probably waiting for, because again, we never see these things until dress.

You're waiting for bigger laughs.

Yeah.

Or just like, what's the turn?

And then again, you realize, like, oh, it's, I mean, again, it's so funny the second time when you know that these two dummies are just going to sing about this boat the whole time.

Yes.

And part of it is that you guys had trained us to be ready for anything.

And so then when like the thing we were ready for, it was like, oh, no, that's it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Totally fair.

I mean, I don't think any of us thought it was our funniest song.

And I will also say, in a way, we didn't even realize that it was more broad than we understood, which is a mistake we always make as viewers where I'll see something and I'll be like, that was whatever.

And then it explodes because normies are like, I understand it like this.

You know what I mean?

Like we were not who go on boats.

It was also for them.

It wasn't just making fun of them.

It was also for them.

Like, did we think for the next 10 years, people are going to be like, we played that shit at Lake Havasu?

We were just like, what?

That was confusing.

Again, I filmed Lobby Baby in Minneapolis on a Friday night.

On Saturday night, I was going to go see you guys do your concert at the Armory in Minneapolis.

On Saturday afternoon, me and Shoemaker and Brooks Whelan went out on my friend's boat in Minnesota on Lake Minnetonka.

We literally went by another boat full of people playing I'm on a boat.

And like, just unironically, our boat started screaming it to their boat, just screaming the lyrics.

And it was just like people on boats being so happy to be on a boat and finally have a song to express.

I mean, that's the best.

That absolutely rules.

Yeah.

It's so fucking rad.

It's so stupid and wonderful.

Yeah.

It's also like weirdly like that thing of like, you know what?

For too long, I've not been allowed to be this happy about publicly happy about how I feel about being on a boat.

Guys, I told my fellow podcasters that I have to, I had a very hard out here for my family.

So my apologies to the Quaid Army, but I'm bailing here.

If there's more to talk about this next step, I'd happy to pick it on up.

Hey, family first, Keith.

Family first.

I love you.

Love you, buddy.

Love you.

Love you, dude.

All right.

Bye.

First comment, because there were a few dislikes on the video, and somebody wrote, all the dislikes are from people on land.

Land lovers.

Was it you, your?

Like myself.

Yep.

It's all me,

just under pseudonyms.

And then somebody, I just like, I like a YouTube comment section, how, you know, everything's written flatly.

You know what I mean?

Like, nobody's putting anything in it.

And someone just wrote, My favorite part is when they were on the boat.

Yeah, I like that.

I like that too.

I don't think we need to go any further.

I think.

Can I just say one last thing?

Yeah.

Because Jorm, you're my dear friend.

And I can see that you're a little still maybe sore about not being on the song.

But I do want to just point out:

we have a history of this.

Yeah.

And I never complained when in four iterations, I was referred to as Steve the

who invited Steve.

That dude's a.

I don't know what you're talking about.

And there I was, front and center for my close-up.

Yep.

Happy, just happy to be included.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Just happy to be included, my man.

So just be classy.

You know what I'm saying?

Just keep it classy.

We're going to continue to keep it classy, guys.

Guys, I just want to say the pot is back.

The energy was great.

Woo!

We've got all four of us.

And there's lots more.

Honestly, there's lots more to talk about.

About I'm on a boat, but this was a ton.

And you know what?

I think we're going to

just chill until we get Keith back.

And we love everybody.

Yeah.

Love you guys.

Love you.

Love you.

You are my, I especially love you.

I love you too.

Always.