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Chapter 1: What is the significance of 'Just 2 Guyz' in The Lonely Island's history?
It's the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast! Keeve, whoo! Here we are.
Okay, now I'm recording, Yorm.
Hi.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, Keeve! Hey, there you are.
Thanks for the energy, Yorm. That's awesome. No problem. Hey, guess what I'm eating, Keeve? Uh-oh, a burrito? From the same place or a different one?
It's gonna be burrito brain.
You don't have to give them the promotion this time, but is it the same place or a new place?
It's the same place. I'll give it up to Buddy's Burritos, Brooklyn.
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Chapter 2: How did the creators feel about revisiting 'Just 2 Guyz' after many years?
I feel like you were always more judgmental of how you were in old home videos because we were friends at the time and we definitely have old like skate videos of the two of us hanging out. And granted, like we weren't the coolest guys in the world, but I feel like you're cooler than you're giving yourself credit for it.
Well, that's very nice. But again, no, it's like a manifestation of the insecurities I felt at the time and even thinking of myself now back at it. I can like bring back those feelings of just... I felt like I was... If I had acted like the Just Two Guys guys, it would have been a more honest representation, I think, of myself. But I was always...
at least self-aware enough to try to put on a good face, put on a facade.
It feels like the manifestation of how you felt when you talked to someone you liked. That's how I felt at 11 and 12. Freaks and Geeks was an exact replication of how I felt in those particular years of junior high. And whenever a dance would come up, I would be like... This is a nightmare. Like I'm supposed to go to this thing, but people are going to be freaking and slow dancing.
And just you guys was basically like, yes, how I felt inside when thinking about trying to do something cool when I felt very, very uncool inside.
This is fast-forwarding many years later, but one of the reasons we really related to and liked the idea of Pen15 when they came to us with it was because it just seemed like a version of this.
Years of awkwardness. Yeah. And we've talked about this before, butāoh, I'm sorry. I got burrito in my mouth.
No, no. This is fine. There are different rules when it's just me and you. You can just go nuts. Thank you.
Thank you. Yeah, I don't have Andy's judgment. Well, okay. So what the fuck were you just talking about?
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Chapter 3: What insights do the hosts share about the making of 'Just 2 Guyz'?
playing with our pockets because these guys are so terrified to be on the mic. They're fidgety. Yeah, they're scared. It took us a while always to get into character and be like, is that awkward enough? Fully saying a line and stepping away from the mic as we do it just because we're so nervous.
It is funny. There was no cameras on us. You're talking about when we're recording the song. Yeah. Yeah, we're acting it out. If you watched us do it, we would be fully in character. You had to be. And then, all right, so I've done the disclaimer. I'm going to talk about this. So I'm going to stop with the disclaimer. But we would go off beat and then it would sound intentionally off beat.
And then we would go on beat and it would start to sound slightly too good if you can even believe that. And so there's just a sweet spot these guys have to live in that is shockingly slightly more difficult than you would think for how bad they sound.
Yeah. It happened every time we did a new one. It would always be like a 30 minute period of like us being like, that's not quite right.
They're not that awkward, but they're not that cool. And it's just this little lane they have to be in. It's delightful. But it was always delightful and never stressful because I think for a few reasons. I mean, the first one we're doing, we know is just for us because we don't even have jobs and we're doing it for fun. And then the rest of them, we kind of always knew was still that.
Like we knew at worst, we'll just put it on YouTube. It doesn't have to be on the album. It certainly will never be on SNL because we knew they didn't want them. So it would be the thing we would fit in the cracks when Andy was busy. And just, I don't remember a single stressful feeling around these four, which is really nice.
They're a joy and a joy to shoot the videos for as well. That feeling continued like all through video shoot.
Yes. So his name will come up a lot, and we've talked about him before, but our friend Jonah Goldstein, who was at NYU with Chester and Andy, who came out to LA, he was our go-to guy when we had something goofy like this, because he just is a great guy and has good energy and was just down to come be the third Just Two guy in terms of, if it's a shot of the two of us, he can be behind the camera.
And I think maybe, did somebody else ever help us? My memory is it's the three of us, but I think Chester might have helped on one or two.
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Chapter 4: What were the challenges faced during the production of 'Just 2 Guyz'?
So clearly somebody was also looking at how long. The third comment is 18 years ago is extremely upsetting. That was from a year ago. It's not being watched quite that much. These are not the most recent comments. These are just the highest ones that have come up. The next comment is, it's been 15 years and we still don't know who the hell invited Steve.
No one is the answer on who invited Steve.
This is not about how old it is, but I just realized they were just two guys having a good time. That's a great comment from six years ago. So this guy, it took him 14 years to realize that that's what they were.
Fuck, should we watch this first one?
Yeah, so it's me and Andy's apartment that we shared after the original Lonely Island apartment that was the three of us plus Matt that we've talked about from Radio Silence who directs all the screams and ready to nots. I was about to do the mummy right now. Then Jor moved out and Chester moved in and it was us four. And then they raised our rent and we all moved out separately.
And me and Andy ended up living together at this place right off Melrose.
I mean, we shot so much shit at this house.
Yes, exactly. So we're on the second floor of this little thing right across from a high school. All right, let's just hit play here.
First of all, you're looking real cool off the bat.
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Chapter 5: How does the humor in 'Just 2 Guyz' reflect on friendships?
That's a true art. I've never met you before. I know. It's just this, I've never, I don't think I even noticed, it says Danger Andy's Room. That is Andy's room right there.
Yeah, yeah. I forget why someone bring that once for him or did we buy it?
Somebody must have given that sarcastic. By the way, 20 years ago, you really see it on both of our faces. We look much, much younger.
Yeah, but that makes sense. It's half our lifetimes ago. You would expect some changes. Just a few. We're much closer in age to the characters we are playing. Okay, but actually, Jorm, you bring up a great point, which is as we continue to make these... we very quickly were making them after things that were successful.
And the amount of people that couldn't wrap their heads around these, like the fact that we made I'm on a Boat and then chose to make We'll Kill You, The amount of comments or even people we knew being like, oh, that old video. Like, they would believe that we had made it, that they had just come to it for the first time, but obviously it was 10 years old.
Like, why would they choose to look so bad and make some of that sound so shitty when they are clearly capable of I just had sex or Jack Sparrow or, you know, I'm in a boat. They would never... Why would they make themselves look this way all the way through?
So in a way, it was complimentary because by the end, we're much older and people still somewhere were buying that these were videos from the past.
I loved when you first brought this up because it's such a keen observation to be like, you have fucking helicopters and a giant yacht and I'm on a boat and it looks slick as shit. And then why would you ever want them? And you're in tuxedos looking badass. And then to, like, do this to yourself. Yes. Like, we're on a freeze frame of Akima's face that is so whack.
There's a type of fan that couldn't wrap their heads around choosing to look bad. They just assumed if you looked bad, it was an accident, no matter what. Yes. That was delightful. Anyways, all right.
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Chapter 6: What is the backstory behind the character 'Steve the Cunt'?
And then you're pointing about, I mean, the whole premise, obviously, not to explain the joke, but we're just two guys who are having a good time by choice is kind of the main idea here. Oh, and then we're having a rad party. When clearly they don't have a friend in the world.
This is basically like a video representation of the phrase, thou doth protest too much. It's like, oh, what is the problem here? These guys clearly have no friends and don't know any women at all.
Yeah, they didn't want to come to your party anyways. All right, they're having their own party, but there's nobody in any of these places.
The den hanging out on the stairs. Spinach dip. Real hot chicks.
You're so mad I put my hands that close to your face. But basically, I'm reaching over into Yorma's frame, and it just cuts to close of Yorm when it shouldn't with just my arms over his face.
It's also a really funny thing because then you're like, these guys edited this. Like, why did we leave it in?
Yeah, well, that's where we stretch reality. I don't buy that you put in this shot.
Spike the punch and take a sip.
We have to play act everything because we wouldn't spike the punch and take a sip. So it still has to just be our hands being like, spike the punch and take a sip because we don't have punch. We don't have anything to spike it with. It's all just, it's all pantomime.
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Chapter 7: What questions do fans have about the 'Just 2 Guyz' series?
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I'm doing just fine, thank you.
I have a dream, Keev. One day I have a dream that our families go on vacation together.
That would be very, very fun.
I feel like my kids would love your kids. Yours are a little older too.
Yeah, but they like babysitting and they like hanging out with younger kids and showing them stuff and doing things.
Yeah. They'd have a blast. They got good vibes. One of your kids does magic tricks. I feel like that would be a real hit.
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Chapter 8: How do the hosts plan to continue the discussion of their past works?
No, I think that was Cambodia. Okay, great. I was going to say someplace with no jet lag, but then you went so far away that I'm like, I think that might just line right up.
Yep, it just goes around the horn. You just got to do it.
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Wait, hold on, hold on real quick. We're looking at a frame of Akiva where your body, you're wearing swim trunks, you're standing in a pool, because that's cool. We went to our friend's house to get this shot. So we did travel to different locations.
Look at the detail work. I'm standing crazy pigeon-toed. I do not stand like that.
We did buy these shorts. I do remember that we had to go to Kmart to buy these shorts. So we did do some costume design.
Yeah, so we could have matching shorts. And you are gleaming white. Yeah, that didn't have to work on that. I just had that. Pretty great.
Built in. Cool sunglasses, though.
Yeah, we were very lucky to have one friend that had a house in the hills with a pool and would let us go up to it.
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