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The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

What Was That?

05 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 2.997 Andy Samberg

So I've been gone, but can I just start with a question?

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3.298 - 3.859 Jorma Taccone

Yeah, sure.

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4.28 - 6.585 Andy Samberg

When do we think your arm's going to not be sick anymore?

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7.146 - 11.395 Jorma Taccone

Oh, dude, it's lasted... I mean, this is much better. I sound slightly better.

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11.736 - 29.641 Andy Samberg

Well, it's funny you bring that up because I am sick now. And when we, the three of us, Seth, we had a Zoom with a reporter who was doing an article about the 10-year pop star thing two days ago. And right when I got on, I think Andy, but maybe it was you, Jorm, said, they heard my voice and went, oh, Keev, you sick? And I was like real confident, like, no.

30.022 - 35.709 Andy Samberg

And then I was sick like 12 hours later. So you guys know me better than I know myself.

36.029 - 36.249 Jorma Taccone

Yeah.

Chapter 2: What updates do Andy, Seth, and Jorma share at the start of the episode?

36.31 - 40.635 Jorma Taccone

That's what this pod is for. It's for us getting really deep with each other.

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40.801 - 50.426 Akiva Schaffer

It's like wearing one of those health rings that tell you when you're going into the zone. If you do a podcast with bros that have known you since high school, they're like, hey, man. Hey, man. Maybe slow down.

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50.486 - 52.612 Andy Samberg

You guys are like my life monitors.

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52.892 - 56.128 Akiva Schaffer

Yeah. You've missed a lot, Andy. You've missed a lot.

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56.348 - 56.569 Andy Samberg

Right.

56.709 - 80.454 Akiva Schaffer

And I'm very excited to kind of update you on things at the top of the pod. First of all, I'm very happy to report Scott from Seattle sent me what is my second bottle of Martinelli's sparkling apple juice. So did you get it? This one had a note, and the note just said, yeah, I got it. Hey, Andy, I just noticed that you wrote me at 11 o'clock last night, awake, question mark.

80.755 - 81.135 Andy Samberg

Yeah.

82.043 - 92.164 Akiva Schaffer

what was, what were you reaching out for? I was not. I was in New York. And so you thought me, a father of three would what? Like just bust, like bust out and hang out with L.A.

92.184 - 95.251 Andy Samberg

If you guys went and got a drink in New York, no man, I just wanted a wrap.

Chapter 3: What is the digital short 'What Was That?' about?

254.562 - 258.646 Akiva Schaffer

Quades. Quades. Yeah. Or quinox.

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258.666 - 261.209 Andy Samberg

Quinox. Quades.

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261.709 - 269.858 Akiva Schaffer

All right, so Andy, you're going to nail this one. What do we call our New Zealand listeners? Queewees. Yeah, 100%.

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Chapter 4: How did the hosts feel about the digital short before it aired?

269.878 - 275.063 Akiva Schaffer

You got it. Are you a crossword guy, Andy? Because the crossword people were sending messages to us this week.

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275.279 - 276.602 Andy Samberg

Well, you were in it, weren't you?

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276.803 - 279.99 Akiva Schaffer

I was in it, and also Digital Shorts was an answer on Sunday.

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280.752 - 282.957 Andy Samberg

Why are they trying to Winter Soldier, bro?

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283.258 - 285.544 Akiva Schaffer

I know. They're just trying to Winter Soldier all the time.

285.564 - 297.306 Andy Samberg

They think we're not onto them, and then they're like, what? What are you talking about? We don't Winter Soldier people that host a podcast. We're just words. We just do words. Which is exactly what someone that does Winter Soldier people who do a podcast would say.

297.326 - 297.526 Akiva Schaffer

Exactly.

Chapter 5: What insights do they share about the creation of 'What Was That?'

297.586 - 314.23 Akiva Schaffer

Akiva, exactly. Hey, I think I was there this day, and I do remember multiple takes of this moment in Hot Rod where Danny McBride shoves Jorm into the van. Yeah. And they said, like, it really looked like he really shoved you.

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314.47 - 318.836 Jorma Taccone

Yeah, he did. Well, when we were shooting that, I was like, harder, harder, man. Yeah.

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318.856 - 327.413 Andy Samberg

That was what I was going to say. I remember it, too. Yeah. I vividly remember Jorm going, hey, don't hold back. Shove me, like, really hard so I fly. But then you were injured, I remember, as well.

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327.574 - 334.328 Jorma Taccone

Like, you complained about it after. I was trying to snap my neck back. It's always funnier when it looks like it hurts, and then it did.

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335 - 349.224 Akiva Schaffer

That was the lesson we learned on Hot Rod. It's like, it's funnier if it looks like it hurts and the easiest way to do that is to actually have it hurt. 100%. Yeah. Did you see that Will Forte was on The Boys, the Amazon Prime show, The Boys?

349.665 - 349.885 Jorma Taccone

No.

349.905 - 369.549 Akiva Schaffer

No, I didn't. Was he good? So he was playing himself, and I'm a little bit behind in season five, but it does seem like what has happened, it was Seth Rogen, poker game, Kumail's there, Forte's there, Christopher Mintz-Plasse is there, and there's a couple of the evil heroes, Homelander, Soldier Boy... sort of interrupt the game.

370.11 - 385.067 Akiva Schaffer

And Forte basically is talking about a lot of people in Hollywood have been sort of executed for their, you know, opinions about these sort of fascist superheroes. Forte says he's so psyched. He's been so psyched ever since Hayter died because he's getting a lot of offers now on parts.

388.291 - 397.322 Akiva Schaffer

But then there's a moment, and this is what people wanted you to know, Jorm, which is there's a moment where Forte says, can we just get out of here?

Chapter 6: What are the poll results regarding the British version of 'Quaids'?

505.707 - 523.655 Andy Samberg

I think a single episode about the ALF pilot is a good idea. I think so, too. I just have heard about people being like, they should do a full ALF rewatch pod. Oh, no, no, no. I'm telling you guys, it's good. I think we'd start with the pilot. If it goes great, then Jorm can tell us another specific episode at some point to watch, and we can tell everybody to watch this episode.

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523.755 - 524.897 Jorma Taccone

Okay. All right. Sounds good.

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524.877 - 536.748 Akiva Schaffer

Well, also, like, it's, I think, you know, obviously, this is something that I think Andy's angling at, which is, like, how Dax does Armchair Expert and then, like, four other podcasts. Like, Andy would love to have, like, the alpha one be its own thing.

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536.768 - 549.539 Andy Samberg

Oh, yeah. More. More podcasts. I just keep showing up to these hoping that eventually one of them is going to end and I'll be allowed to leave purgatory and go to heaven. It's not how it works.

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549.699 - 554.884 Akiva Schaffer

So do you think in this thinking, was the first podcast, like, the day you died?

554.864 - 569.711 Andy Samberg

Definitely, yeah. So this is all just a limbo. That's correct, yeah. Can we call it the Alf Limbo Podcast? Well, it's not Alf. It's just any episode. He's like, of course, we're watching Alf so that hopefully we can go to heaven at the end. It's the middle space, Akiva. And you know what?

569.871 - 577.345 Jorma Taccone

I couldn't ask for a better group. I feel like Alf would be like finding the hatch in Lost. You know what I mean? It's like a little reprieve. Spoilers.

577.325 - 595.063 Akiva Schaffer

Oh, and the last thing, a comment I enjoyed was not enough. This was a comment about the last episode. Not enough theater rake talk. Andy, you probably didn't listen to the Over Your Dead Body pod, but Joram and Keeve did like 10 full minutes on theater rake seating. It was like five minutes.

595.043 - 603.503 Andy Samberg

I've been told by multiple people they like that this pod is about, you know, the craft. The craft, exactly. That includes pre-production, writing.

Chapter 7: How does Andy reflect on his recent film project?

1292.09 - 1294.633 Akiva Schaffer

Did you have a moment of like, oh, this shouldn't air?

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1294.613 - 1298.398 Andy Samberg

I don't think it was that strong. That's a good question.

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1298.719 - 1299.179 Akiva Schaffer

Yeah.

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1299.199 - 1322.375 Andy Samberg

There's also an interesting choice made in it where I wish we had kept it all as TV feed cameras, but we switched to glossier steadicam. And watching it now, I was like, oh, it would have felt more protected if we hadn't been like, now check out. The slick version. So it felt more like an actual thing that was happening with these kids and then this one really old guy pretending to be a kid.

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1322.395 - 1323.897 Jorma Taccone

Why'd you make that bad decision, Keev?

1324.378 - 1342.87 Andy Samberg

I haven't seen this since the day it aired, so I don't even remember. I forgot that it was at a UN-y kind of thing until you just said that. Let me say this, though, Keev. That is not why it didn't work. Well, Andy and me and Andy were texting last night. Andy was more bullish about this than me.

1343.13 - 1357.525 Andy Samberg

And I was going to, I'm going to put you in the category you're in because only because you probably, even though you weren't there when we shot it, you were there when we recorded it. Um, but I, I, I didn't dislike it, but it was definitely a shrug for me a little bit where I was like, I get it and it's fine and let's do it.

1357.606 - 1361.83 Andy Samberg

But I don't want to put words in your mouth, Andy, but you were just more into it for whatever reason.

1361.81 - 1389.454 Andy Samberg

I think that that happens occasionally with me and Andy in particular on recording where I really sort of like us fucking around and occasionally it's maybe a little thinner I don't know Andy do you agree with that sometimes yes and sometimes no you know like you gotta see them through to find out like there are certain ones that we were like I don't know if that's even anything but then because you started and you do it you realize it's one of your favorites by the end and then sometimes it isn't

Chapter 8: What ideas do they discuss for potential rewatch podcasts?

1480.635 - 1486.442 Andy Samberg

But for me, I was just rewatched it and was like, oh man, I just would have done so many things differently or not done it.

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1486.802 - 1488.684 Akiva Schaffer

All right. Well, Keev, you want to lead the way?

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1488.985 - 1492.208 Andy Samberg

Loading it up. Okay. Maybe fucking today.

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1495.692 - 1498.095 Jorma Taccone

So fast. Thank you, Andy. That was great.

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1500.623 - 1514.885 Unknown

Next on the day's agenda, a very, very special treat. The winners of our Model UN competition are going to address the General Assembly and present their thoughts on world history. So please, welcome.

1514.905 - 1519.772 Jorma Taccone

I like that side angle.

1519.792 - 1550.931 Andy Samberg

Hello. Based on our hours log deliberating at the Model UN, here are our key thoughts on world history thus far. oh yeah what was that hiroshima so it goes into the study right away well yeah that was just an intro but it would have been fun if it was if we had just committed and shot it this way it just seemed like a tv broadcast

1562.251 - 1568.36 Unknown

The Inquisition? What was that? The Khmer Rouge?

1568.38 - 1570.062 Jorma Taccone

I like these kids. Kids rule.

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