This week The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers do an in-depth breakdown of the digital short, Ras Trent! Find out how much Akiva and Andy truly know about Reggae and DanceHall music and what all the references are. Plus Jorma isn't here this week. Ras Trent - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLQbKo-7HfI Weekend Update: Sarah Palin Rap - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQlgkq_EW64 Ras Trent on genuis.com https://genius.com/537527 Ras Trent Playlists https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2CwhfAHY0JvLFtTd0nw5hQ?si=32a94f1810b94c12 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ZF85CSkGX8mZg9wg5a2At?si=d86aa5da4cb64291 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0qEwOOAJYuocoHEiYBbIXr?si=f7ca2ed8c89e492a https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2NByujE8yIDRS9XJSbx6H2?si=0f5e6b9f2be644c2 (Not all the clips we mention are available online; some never even aired.) If you want to see more photos and clips follow us on Instagram @lonelymeyerspod. Send us an email! [email protected] Ridge Take advantage of Ridge’s once-a-year anniversary sale and get UP TO 40% Off right now by going to https://www.Ridge.com/island #Ridgepod Nutrafol Start your hair growth journey with Nutrafol. For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners ten dollars off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code ISLAND. Find out why over 4,500 healthcare professionals and stylists recommend Nutrafol for healthier hair. Thrive Market Ready to make the switch? Go to Thrive Market.com/island for thirty percent off your first order, plus a FREE sixty dollar gift! Maker's Mark This episode of The Lonely Island Podcast is brought to you by our friends at Maker's Mark. You too can celebrate the spirited women in your life with a free personalized label to go with a bottle of Maker’s Mark! Head to makersmarkpersonalize.com and fill in the details in order to create and mail your custom label. MAKER'S MARK MAKES THEIR BOURBON CAREFULLY. PLEASE ENJOY IT THAT WAY. Maker's Mark® Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky, 45% Alc./Vol. ©2025 Maker's Mark Distillery, Inc., Loretto, KY. Produced by Rabbit Grin ProductionsExecutive Producers Jeph Porter and Rob HolyszLead Producer Kevin MillerCreative Producer Samantha SkeltonCoordinating Producer Derek JohnsonCover Art by Olney AtwellMusic by Greg Chun and Brent AsburyEdit by Cheyenne Jones Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the episode about?
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Hey guys, can I just start by saying I held our listeners in higher regard than they have revealed themselves to be. I thought we had sort of an elevated listenership. People whose minds were not in the gutter. And yet multiple people commented because I talked about how Chris Martin gave me his throat spray when I lost my throat. And maybe I... worded it in a way that was a little eggy.
Oh, how'd you word it? I said I was just pumping the Chris Martin juice into my throat. Oh, now I see. And the amount of people that took to the comments to say not only, I can't believe that's how he said it, and I can't believe everybody just let it pass.
But you were saying it to be kind of flowery and funny in the wording, but not necessarily just straight up that he's jizzing down your throat. Well, who would ever say that? And I gave you grace. Thank you. And you deserve it, and you've earned it on this podcast especially.
I guess I thought I deserved a little bit more grace from our listeners.
Why is Andy squinting at his screen so hard? He's just squinting at the computer screen like it was like, what the heck is happening here?
I was just, you know, doing research for this episode of the pod. But I will say, Seth, I didn't blink at it because I assumed you just meant the Chris Martin gist in your throat. Right. Down your throat. Into a down your throat. I see.
And you always refer to them as your juices.
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Chapter 2: What sparked the discussion about Chris Martin?
Was this on the pot already, Andy, that you told the actual that there was a person that said... like a very patois line to you? I feel like it's, did we, you already did it, right?
I think I talked about it in one of those SNL docs, but the story was me and my friends in high school, we went to Berkeley High School in the Bay. We're really into dance hall and reggae, as we've said a million times, but we went out to this city called Petaluma to see a show with this band, the Itals, who are, you know, roots reggae bands.
Not household names in the States, but we were obsessed with them, and it was so cool that they were playing this tiny venue out in Petaluma. And we went all out there together, and it was incredible, and they sounded great. And after the show, it was in this old movie theater almost, like old theater, and it had stairs in the lobby that went up to the bathrooms.
And me and all my friends were sitting in the stairwell there. And this dude who had been at the show walked out dressed like he was straight out of office space. You know what I mean? Like khakis tucked in, button up, and glasses. And he just walked up to us and clearly needed to get by. And he just went, excuse I. And we all were like, what? And we were just like, oh, of course. Yeah, man.
Went to the side and he walked up into the bathroom. And we were all just like. Oh my God, I can't fucking believe he just said that. We're like, is he actually Arasta? Or was he like thinking he was talking to us in a way we would understand? Because we were clearly just like young scrubby white kids and not Rastafarians. You know what I mean? But I guess maybe some of my friends a little bit.
I really, we still to this day don't know the answer. It was a big mystery. But that quote became like a running joke with my friend group for the next like 20 years or whatever. where we'd see each other and go, excuse I, in the most businessman voice you could come up with, basically.
I've got a few years on you guys, and I don't think the hyper-specificity to Rastafarianism was anything I'd seen before, but we definitely had guys I was in college with who looked exactly like Ross Trent. Yes. So I enjoyed it on that level, but I was always aware there was a second and third level that was beyond my...
I mean, so many white dudes we knew, and some of them we knew from elementary school. You know what I mean? Growing up in Berkeley and in the Bay Area. And then all of a sudden... And by the way, this was me for about a month and a half. All of a sudden... Big of you to admit that. They have dreads. You know what I'm saying?
And are like... I'm like, we're all smoking a little bit of weed, but all of a sudden... And I never did this level, but there would be people you know that were just speaking in patois and like basically saying they were Rastafarian. And you're just like, what? Like our parents hang out. Like it's not, you can't do that. You can't just do that.
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Chapter 3: What are the cultural references in Ross Trent?
There we go. It's an important line in the song, but I guess we had our backup plan, which is that you would just stand on the street and they can't stop us on the sidewalk and you were just going to point to the sign. Yeah, it was going to be a Magnolia sitch. It was going to work no matter what.
But the fact that we got to just go behind because it was a bunch of teenagers working there, they're like, sure.
Yeah, that's the nice thing about the Times. The Times Square Cold Stone does not have the head of corporate on site.
I wonder if we got a shot of me outside of Cold Stone first, Keev. Probably, in case we got the boot. Yeah.
Red Stripe is, of course, Jamaican beer. Just doing another, that's another Cool Runnings, basically. Mm-hmm, and Fussing and Fighting is a song. Shabba, Shabba Ranks. He's just a famous artist. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Now you're on the Judy Blume book. It's a nice, made it a visual callback to a joke from a little while ago.
And so this line is two songs. We're just smushing them all together at the end here, all stuff we love. Night Nurse is a song by Gregory Isaacs that we love. Plant the Corn is an Anthony B song. I think, is it called Plant the Corn or is it called Raid the Barn?
but nobody want to plant the corn everybody want to raid the barn and that's a fucking great song it's great no one wants to do the work but they all want to eat the food you know yours kind of makes it sexual that your nice nurse your night nurse never wants to plant the corn it's just it's just he doesn't know what he's talking about he's just quoting stuff which is also admittedly what we were kind of doing skiddly skiddly whoa back to barrington levy yeah
Yeah, Skiddily Woes, Barrington Levy. I mean, there's a hint of Ika Mouse throughout the song, but no overt reference in that same way. But if you thought Ika Mouse, you're not off.
I think there was some yellow man, like Zunga Zunga Zunga Zang that we were debating all the time and just couldn't find a place to put it in. Yeah. Like all the people that did good scatty nonsense stuff. So there you have it. All right, that was it. I think we've been waiting however many years it's been to tell people what was actually in it.
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