After Party

The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

The episode features the 'Threeadore' trio reflecting on musical history and personal anecdotes. They dive deep into the creation of their s

Key takeaways

• The hosts recount meeting Santigold in Soho while working at SNL to record 'After Party'.
• A listener named Jonathan provided a frequency analysis of the word 'dookie' from a previous episode.

Main topics

• Santigold and 'After Party' history
• NYT Spelling Bee competition

Notable quotes

After the party, it's the hotel lobby.

Conclusion

A nostalgic and humorous exploration of the intersection between comed

Transcript preview

Speaker 6 (0:12) I Speaker 5 (0:12) love it. I like how they swear and use so many bad words. Speaker 5 (0:20) So Speaker 3 (0:21) I just came from an escape room my first time. I thought I was pretty bobo. It's a little bit like getting the vocabulary down of, like, say, like a mini crossword, though. Like any kind of crossword where you're like, oh, this means this, and, like, there's a language to it. But I thought it really sucked. And it's also because the whole time I was like, I got to get to this podcast. I hit this exit button. Speaker 4 (0:43) Have you done them, Keev? Have you done a escape room? Yeah, they're Speaker 5 (0:47) a Speaker 4 (0:47) little like video games come to life as well. Like once you know the language of certain styles of puzzle video games. Yeah, that was like Link. It's like Mario Odyssey or whatever, where you start knowing to like, wait, let me look at each detail. You know, each doorknob has a different symbol on it. Like you kind of learn the language of them. So you are right in the crosswordiness of escape rooms. But my kids love them. Were you with other people that had done them before? Well, this was the other thing about it was that I was with seven people, four Speaker 3 (1:16) of them being children and two of them kind of freaking out because it was a scary one. So, you know, I Speaker 4 (1:21) think we always make sure it's not too spooky for one. It was like a Speaker 3 (1:24) lot Speaker 4 (1:25) of screaming and being like, I Speaker 5 (1:26) don't like this. Speaker 4 (1:27) Yeah. Well, you can't do that. But I Speaker 3 (1:29) guess Speaker 4 (1:29) my question was, were any of the adults like seasoned escape room people that could tell you if you were in a good one or a bad one? We had Speaker 3 (1:35) one. girl, she was seasoned, so she sort of knew that you had to like really poke around. Because I was kind of like, eh, can we just guess the numbers? Speaker 4 (1:44) And did she say this is a lame escape room? Or was she like, no, this is pretty much par for the course? Speaker 3 (1:50) I think it was probably an okay one. I had to sacrifice myself at the end. Dang. I know. Speaker 4 (1:56) That's drama. That is a spooky one. Thank Speaker 3 (1:58) you. Speaker 4 (1:58) Is that a Speaker 6 (1:59) better volume? Speaker 4 (1:59) It Speaker 3 (2:00) is better. Speaker 4 (2:00) Yeah, you sound great. Do Speaker 6 (2:01) you want more, though? Speaker 3 (2:02) Turn up my Andy. You know what I mean? Like Eminem would say. If Speaker 4 (2:05) you're asking, do I want more like the Roots album, then the answer is always Speaker 3 (2:09) yes. Can I Speaker 4 (2:10) get an encore? We Speaker 3 (2:11) want more Andy. I need more Andy in my cans. Can Speaker 4 (2:15) I get an encore? Do you want more? Now we have to pay for that. Bro, we're going to be doing After Party today, so we're going to be dinked in the doink on the ads because Republic Records. Speaker 5 (2:29) Podcast time! Andy hates it! Woo, woo, woo, woo! Speaker 4 (2:33) Oh, Speaker 3 (2:33) Andy hates it. Uh-oh, somebody loaded up the buttons, y'all. Great. It's 1030 on a Sunday, guys. Welcome back. Speaker 6 (2:43) Yorm's world, Andy hates it. Yeah, Yorm's all jacked up from his escape room. Speaker 4 (2:47) Yeah, he's like, I just sacrificed myself. I'm the hero. All right, Andy, what'd you get on the B? Oh, he's starting it right off. Jack Black! Speaker 5 (2:57) Spelling bee! Speaker 5 (3:01) Spelling bee- Speaker 6 (3:04) Might as well get it out of the way because it's way too early and it's a monster bee. I haven't finished yet. I like hearing this. I'm four away. Speaker 4 (3:12) The wheels are off. It's just the three three-a-doors and we can do the bee right at the top. Are Speaker 6 (3:18) you going to do Speaker 4 (3:19) this while Speaker 6 (3:20) we do our pod? It's Speaker 4 (3:21) a Speaker 6 (3:21) 79-word bee. But you know what? Let's do this. No, don't do it the whole pod. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yesterday, clean. Day before, clean. Day before, clean. Day before, clean. That's a Wednesday through Saturday sweep? Speaker 4 (3:37) Mm-hmm. But what happened Tuesday? One hint. Speaker 5 (3:47) You Speaker 6 (3:47) loser. Oh, my God. Idiot. Keith, it's never good enough for you, dude. This guy, he's very bad at it. Keith, you've been mogging Speaker 4 (4:00) me on the fucking minis, dude. Yeah, with the really bad scores that you just happened to get one second worse. Yeah. That was... That was kind of crazy. We had a horrible one yesterday, which was two minutes and 50 seconds. You guys don't say that that's horrible. But Speaker 3 (4:16) he got Speaker 4 (4:16) 54 and I got 53. So bam, 250. But for that many seconds to have passed and us to be one second apart. Disastrous. Keith, you're one second smarter than Andy. That's Speaker 3 (4:25) awesome. Speaker 4 (4:26) I've always said that. If I'm sub 52, I'm like, yeah, that was an okay job. Anything above 52 seconds is horrible. I'm moving on. 30 is the goal. But this was a whole other... Low 30s. Oh, Speaker 5 (4:36) and Speaker 4 (4:36) Andy, you got winter soldiered pretty bad. And I can still see your black Speaker 6 (4:40) eye is still healing. Speaker 4 (4:42) What kind of things did you do when you got activated? I mean, obviously, you don't know. But did you check the news Speaker 6 (4:48) the Speaker 4 (4:48) next day for any mysterious... I got cuts and bruises all over my bod. And Speaker 6 (4:52) I'm just like, who did I off, you know? So that was Speaker 4 (4:54) Friday, so we got to check the news Saturday morning and see if there's any suspicious news articles. Seems like anything that you read about the next morning was definitely me as a Winter Soldier. This was the clue. Comedian Sandberg. Mm-hmm. Four letters. Yeah, and I... Pretty tricky. Speaker 6 (5:10) Maya forwarded it to me, Maya Rudolph. Yeah. And I was like, did you put Sven? And she said, I did. Speaker 4 (5:18) Now, Andy, I texted you about this, but I just want to, I mean, we'd have to check back with the fine folks in New York Times Games. The clue right above yours is dad bod. So if you read it together, it's dad bod, Andy. Do we think this is coincidence? I mean, if they've seen me lately, Speaker 6 (5:35) I don't think so. Right. Speaker 4 (5:36) But I'm working on it. Now, I'm going to read the whole thing to you as a sentence. Okay. And you guys tell me if you think that the whole. Because if you recall, usually the activation of a Winter Soldier or, you know, Charles Bronson is like an old poem or something, like a Robert Frost poem or something. Airbnb, obviously we do a lot of Airbnb ads on the podcast. Yeah, sure. So Airbnb, Ice Age, Andy's favorite animated film. Dad bod Speaker 5 (6:04) Andy, Speaker 4 (6:04) itty Ottawa fooler. You tell me. Apologies if I just activated your arm by saying them all out loud. Speaker 3 (6:12) Well, yeah, I didn't get any of those. So I'm not even done yet. But I did get Andy. And I put in Adam. It wasn't that. No. It was my sweet burn. Such a great joke. I always love that Speaker 6 (6:21) joke. So thank Speaker 3 (6:22) you. Thank you. Speaker 4 (6:23) All right. I'm going to share something that somebody sent. Your name means little dick or something. Speaker 6 (6:27) No, Speaker 4 (6:27) it doesn't, Andy. All right. So this is from Jonathan. Speaker 3 (6:32) Yeah, this is great. Okay. Speaker 4 (6:34) Quaid Army, I spent my lunch today doing a frequency analysis on the variance of the word dookie in episode 127, Trouble on Dookie Island. Oh, dear. What a great person. Here is the raw data with timestamps, which everyone on the pod loves. That's true. So it's broken into three columns. The first is the statistic. The second is which Theodore was involved. And the third is the timestamp. So, for instance... The first row here is first dookie. The Theodore is Akiva. And the timestamp is 0.0721 seconds, Speaker 5 (7:07) I guess. Speaker 4 (7:08) Final dookie is Howard Parker at one hour and four minutes. I love Speaker 6 (7:12) final dookie. Joram, how do you feel about final dookie? Well, it's inevitable, you know Speaker 4 (7:17) what I mean? Speaker 6 (7:18) Okay, Speaker 4 (7:18) sorry. Keith, continue. Now, don't look at it for a second, Andy. Okay. How much would you guess was the longest time between dookies? Three minutes. No, it was 10 minutes, 51 seconds. Oh, okay. We're so mature. We must have really gotten off the topic for a while. Well, I overcompensated because I was like, this is going to be crazy. Stop looking at it completely. I'm going to keep asking you. Okay, I'm not looking. Now, Jorm's already seen it. That's why I'm focusing it on Andy. Yeah. Okay. Also, I'm just more interesting. Speaker 3 (7:45) Nice one, Andy. Who Speaker 4 (7:46) do you think had the most dookies? Who said the word Speaker 6 (7:50) dookie the most? Speaker 4 (7:50) Yeah. Speaker 6 (7:51) The voiceover guy. Speaker 4 (7:53) Yeah, Howard Parker had 41 dookies. Speaker 6 (7:54) Okay, but after that is a tougher one. Speaker 4 (7:56) Now, who had the fewest? Seth. Well, he wasn't on the episode, so I don't think he was included. But he's Dave anyways, and I told you the column is labeled Theodore. Fewest dookies? Between the three of us. Speaker 6 (8:09) God damn, is it close? He didn't give me the statistics on it. He just Speaker 4 (8:14) named the person. I wish we had the statistics of the exact. So, Jonathan, if you wouldn't mind, for next week, will you email over how many each one of us has? A bit Speaker 6 (8:22) more thorough, Jonathan. I'm going to say just for fun, me. I was the fewest Dookies. No, Speaker 4 (8:27) it was actually me. Akiva. Speaker 6 (8:28) What? It was my first guest. I should have just trusted my instincts. Speaker 4 (8:31) Hardest Dookie. Hardest? Like who said Dookie the hardest? Yeah, it's obviously. Yorm. It's Speaker 6 (8:36) in Speaker 4 (8:36) the song. Yeah, it was Yorm. Okay, and then how many dookies were said the entire episode? And I'm assuming this includes the ones in... Wait, Speaker 3 (8:44) let's guess on this one. I didn't look at this statistic. I'm Speaker 4 (8:47) assuming this was in the song as well, the dookies that played. So every time a dookie was mentioned on the episode. Now, Jorm, you can get in on this one. You didn't see this statistic. This is a little like when you're at the carnival or like the kids' fair. Sure. And they have a jar full of marbles and you have to guess how many marbles are in the Speaker 3 (9:04) jar. Well, there's a gimme. There's a gimme on this, which is... Howard Parker said it 36 times. Three times 12. Speaker 4 (9:10) Hey, hey, Speaker 3 (9:10) hey, Speaker 6 (9:10) don't tell us. Well, no, that's Speaker 3 (9:12) a Speaker 6 (9:12) gimme. Speaker 3 (9:12) You Speaker 4 (9:12) come to your conclusion and then you can walk us to how you got there. Okay. Just tell me when you both have your number. Speaker 3 (9:18) Okay. One, two, Speaker 4 (9:20) three, 72. I'm going to say 83. 127 dookies. Fuck, that's some Speaker 6 (9:26) fire Speaker 4 (9:26) ass podcasting, you know? It might be the Guinness record for the most Dookie said on a single episode of a podcast. What if Speaker 3 (9:35) they take our award for best podcast hosts away based on that statistic? Could Speaker 4 (9:40) somebody reach out to the Guinness people and see if they'll just award it to us? It already happened. Speaker 3 (9:46) Well, I do want to say that I really appreciate, Jonathan, you going through that. Yeah, that's the Speaker 4 (9:51) kind of stuff I like, Speaker 5 (9:52) and we appreciate it, so thank you. Breakdown on Dookie. Speaker 4 (9:55) Oh, this one was interesting. Hans was at Burning Man, and he heard the sounds of our music permeating through the continual EDM. What? And it was Natalie's rap, but then he thought it was just going to be that song, but then it continued and continued. Somebody was just playing, I guess, a bunch of our songs. So he took a little video that I'll share with you guys. Speaker 6 (10:14) I just watched the Burning Man docuseries, so this is making me extra excited. Did it make you want to go, Andy? Yes and no. Like, Speaker 4 (10:22) the people who are glamping are clearly like... Speaker 6 (10:25) Everyone hates their guts and it's not in the true spirit of what Burning Man was originated on. But that's what Speaker 4 (10:30) you Speaker 3 (10:30) do. Speaker 6 (10:30) But Speaker 4 (10:30) you're like, but that's what I'd want to do. Speaker 6 (10:32) I'm like, well, I wouldn't want to do it because I don't want to go someplace where everyone thinks I'm a piece of shit. Yeah. But I was also like, it looks like, and I have friends who have done it and they're like, yeah, it's awesome, but it is very like. Dusty. No, just, it's a lot of work. Like you're truly coming in, building your entire own camp. And then totally breaking it all down and clearing out and leaving not a trace. And that it's just a hard camp. Speaker 3 (10:56) Wow. That's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. And very creative though, yeah? Like-minded souls. Yeah. Artists. It honestly looks fantastic. It's like being in NOLA. Saxman. Listening to Saxman. Speaker 3 (11:21) It sounds bass heavy. Speaker 6 (11:22) Yeah, it's rocking. Have we ever tried to find the original saxophone before Jack got on it? Oh, that's a great one to try to find. Speaker 3 (11:30) Yeah. Speaker 4 (11:30) Let me see if I can find that right now. Hold on. Speaker 3 (11:32) There's one with Lenny Pickett on it, but he played too well. So then we nixed it for like a shitty ass MIDI. Speaker 4 (11:38) Oh, yeah. It wasn't as funny because even his bad notes are still so solid. I know. Speaker 3 (11:43) You could tell he's talented. Speaker 6 (11:45) Yeah. One thing I have found traversing the industry is when you're doing comedy, it's really hard to get professional people to do something intentionally Speaker 3 (11:52) bad. It's very true. Yeah, Speaker 6 (11:54) really hard. Speaker 3 (11:55) Fucking talent, man. Jorm, Speaker 6 (11:57) how does it feel Speaker 3 (11:57) to be such a cool guy? It's hard, I gotta say. Oh, that's disappointing. Well, no, people see me and then they feel nervous. They don't want to come up to me because they're like, Speaker 6 (12:09) oh my God, where'd you get that shirt? That haircut. Speaker 3 (12:13) And Speaker 6 (12:13) what shirt are you wearing when they say that? Speaker 3 (12:15) It's not all surface level stuff. Well, I went to the Mets game last night. I was wearing my Jermack shirt. I had a couple Quaid sightings, but I could tell just like a majority of the people there were just like way too intimidated. Yeah. Speaker 4 (12:27) Because it was like most of the crowd wanted to say hi. Speaker 3 (12:30) Yeah, there was at least 18,000 people there because it was Bubblehead Day. So, you know, they came out in droves. And so like out of those, I would say at least a majority didn't say hello or a lot of eyes averted on the ground, you know. Yeah. Into their hot dogs. Speaker 6 (12:45) So it sucks because it's lonely, is what you're Speaker 3 (12:47) saying, to be such a cool guy. Well, it's just a weird feeling to be out in public, surrounded by people, but also feel lonely. Damn. That Speaker 4 (12:57) shit is poetic. Sometimes you can feel like the loneliest boy in New York. Speaker 6 (13:01) Good thinking, Keeve. So just for anyone listening, Jorm didn't actually say that. That was one of his buttons. So you had a personalized... Speaker 4 (13:12) Nice one, Andy. A personalized button just for me. And now he's laughing so hard he can't talk. Because he timed it well. It's hard to time it right. Andy was, of course, looking down at the spelling bee. Well, you insulted me, so now I need to prove