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I'm going to start. Here's what's going on right now. It's a big day. Not only do we have a guest joining the pod, but also Jorm's back, everybody.
Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. Yeah.
Last day tomorrow, guys, of the shoot. Oh. So back on the pod, still in Finland. And Jorm, let me just say, we missed you a lot. And I've heard from people who enjoy the pod, it was a nice dramatic built-in arc that you were sort of both in Finland and didn't understand time zones. It was all of a sudden our podcast had a like serial element to it.
Yeah. And then I got drunk and then I disappeared, which, you know, could have been related to that. You know, they had a story arc to it.
I do really like that when you get drunk, you will find the nearest celebrity and drag them to do a podcast.
Immediately. Well, that guy's pretty willing, I got to say.
I feel like there are nights you've been drunk where you have then texted us all, hey, you know, I could bring this person, too.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like you're at a bar talking to someone and being like, you want to do a podcast?
I was considering doing it with Juliette Lewis, but I was like, no, I won't do it again. I won't do it again.
Oh, bummer. That would have been good. I'll see you about tomorrow, then. Hey, Lutz, you want to say hi, and then we're going to do the intro to the show.
Hi. The Lonely Island Sapphires Podcast.
2004.
And you were also on 30 Rock. And I never remember, what was your character's name? Lutz. Right. Yeah, it's a bit of a stretch.
I feel like you did remember that, Seth. I maybe did. Typecasting.
I remember when they just started 30 Rock and they were like, we just need basically background actors who you will be in the writer's room in the show, the fake writer's room. Interrupt me if I'm wrong, but I remember this because Liz did it for a little with you.
Yes, that is correct.
It was just basically like them realizing on 22 episodes of the season, we're going to see these background actors. So wouldn't it be nice if it was people we like as opposed to just randomly casting background actors, but we can't pay them as actors because they're not going to have lines. They're just going to be there.
Yes.
And then that slowly grew to you actually being a character on the show. Cause you were right there and you're funny and they're like, well, why not throw them some stuff?
For the pilot, Tina said she wanted to cast it all with people she could trust with a line if she needed to give it to them. Right. And then when it got picked up, she was like, oh, I have an episode that I want to write for you where you'll call me the C word.
Whoa.
Because I don't want any of the regular cast members to be hated by the fans.
Oh, good.
So that was great. Give it to Lutz. But yes, for the first two years, I think I was paid. I would be paid as a principal if I had a line or I would be paid as an extra if I didn't.
And so for our listeners, a principal, like as in the principal of a school.
Oh, geez.
And what is a principal's salary?
$32,000 a year.
Private school, then public. Oh, you're still on that. Yeah.
Yeah, couldn't you tell? It's weird that they either pay you as a background actor or as a principal of a public high school. Yeah. I completely agree, Akiva. I completely agree with what Akiva said. It's a weird scale. It's part of why we went on strike.
Yeah. The extras actually make more money than a principal does. Yeah, that's how bad the public school system is. Wow.
So Lutz, this was a time in your life where you were sitting around in writer's room as a full-time job and then you would sometimes get days off and you would use those to go pretend to be a writer sitting in a writer's room all day.
Yes. Named Lutz.
Yeah. In both.
With all the same, like the set was the same. The carpets looked like 30 rock carpets. The elevator bank was the same. Everything was the same.
It seems like the beginning of a Charlie Kaufman movie where you have a job playing yourself. After work, you go and play yourself on a TV show.
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