Kyle Mooney

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We drink lots of codeine and sit around. That was my favorite. A jam comes on and we all do the crump.

Wow. There's a certain something here.

Oh, was that the name of the theater? Oh, in Petaluma?

Ask anyone who works there. That's all that matters. That's all that matters.

I was just listening to it again. It's so wonderful. Put down your phone.

Well, the plan was we wanted to see how it played. We were like, we've got this video. It probably can't air, but we'd love to put it up in front of the audience. Or at least that's what we said to Lauren, right? And we were like, and maybe he'll be like, it played really great and I will air it. But we were like, if they say no way, we'll understand why.

So we did it at Dress, and he was like, I want to air it because it played well. And then Jeff Zucker came down to watch it, and he ultimately made the call, right?

Turn off the TV. Digital world. We're living in a digital society.

That's how I remember it, yeah.

Right, something like that.

Yeah, and we shot it in New York. I mean, we should talk a little bit about the production because it was unprecedented for us at that time, which Keith already mentioned we did it on record label money, but because we did it that way- We had a lot of time to plan and there was like an outside DP who came in and it just... We were going much bigger than we had gone on any other video before.

And we like rented out a nightclub and had dope lasers and like just treated it like it was for MTV instead of something we were throwing together in 48 hours and had long lead time, had a long time to edit all of the things you would want in the real world.

I feel like that's every music video though.

I mean, that's why there's so much fucking product placement in all of them for the last 10 years, right? It's impossible.

Well, you're talking about greasing palms. Yeah.

Seth, you know I got queen bee hours ago, you bitch.

Yeah, it's a nice cover for sure.

He always will be. I'm always going to be the handsome one to Jorm because that's his mnemonic device.

Seth has teeth. That's long. You run the risk of getting caught, but I think worth it. I think worth it.

Well, we could talk about the writing and recording part. We skipped over it, right?

Great. This was back in Encino when we were making Incredibad. I will take full cred for the concept. Oh, yeah. Full cred had been given without you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was one of those days where I was sort of locked in the studio alone listening to beats. And the beat really, in this case, as it often does, led me to the idea where it's this like

tense club jam and then on the chorus it's just this big give like it just feels like it goes like release and i was just like oh well i know what this could be about so yorm correct me if i'm wrong i believe i was in there and i wrote the first verse and chorus and then i was like keeve was not there that day for some reason and i was like hey come in here

Yeah, it was the jams on. Your Jimmy Jam song. Yeah. It's a time to get your Jimmy Jam on. Yes, that one. Hey, Jimmy. No, it's Jimmy Jam.

Yeah. But so for some reason we were doing that like pretty, everyone said jizz in my pants, we were doing Pet Shop Boys, but in my mind we were doing more like tricky. Yeah. Was it also like the streets was popular at the time? The streets was popular with you. Yeah. You kept trying to get us up on the streets and you loved the streets. That's the name of a band.

I think it's a hybrid of what we're both saying, Jorm. I think I wrote the first verse in chorus and said, come in here. It's like that vibe we were doing. And then we wrote the rest of it. And you wrote your verse. And I remember being very happy.

Yeah. I would assume something Keeve brought up or we all just felt because you know it's coming more and more each time. So you have to up the ante a little bit and not waste people's time as a rule is what we try. Yeah, the dumber the joke, the faster you tell it.

I don't know if I always agree with that. Sometimes the dumbest joke you really want to luxuriate in.

Oh, yeah, that's the lesson we learned on Wish It Would Rain.

I do not like my hair in it. I'll just say that. Your hair is not as good.

Such a treat to have. So rad of her to join us.

Yes, turned out she was a full-on goof and was loving hanging out and doing it. It was really great.

Yeah.

Yes. Do you remember what it was?

Very well phrased, in my opinion.

Yeah. But you do a lot of it right out of the gate. It has crazy energy and a lot of it is manufactured in edit.

He's a piece of shit. Yeah. A lot of these guys are bad pieces of shit. Bad guys. Yeah.

Characters. Correct. We're in character. None of this stuff is autobiographical, Yorm.

Did Smythe know her? I feel like Rob maybe knew her somehow. It was definitely a case of people being like, what about them? And we'd be like, yeah, that'd be incredible.

Whoa. I would be down with that for the record.

I can't remember. He was around, but he did us a huge solid.

Well, it is an interesting topic because outside of the show, these things were so bona fide once this album came out that it was like, yeah, that sounds dope. That's a cool thing that's happening. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, totally, totally.

Go back to the Justin thing.

The reason Keith was being so adamant about it, and we all are, is in this moment, I remember when this video aired and we were still like, I'm going to see every single thing that got written about us on the internet. I'm going to look at everything, you know? And it was, all the headlines were Justin.

Yes, it got so much more attention where it's just like Justin Timberlake in another one of those videos. And you're just like, oh, wow, he has like two shots in it. But that's how red hot he was.

Yeah. So he came through and hooked us up. That's what's up.

Saw a film with a horror film. I saw a film.

No, it's real. That's an independent theater near NYU that I used to go watch movies at when I was in college. I saw Princess Mononoke there. There you go. Look at that. Fucking nostalgia. Yeah. You say soar in your first verse, right?

Yes, like I wrote soar-a film, as I recall, as a horror film, but I stole soar from Jorm from inside the song. I would not have thought of that if he hadn't just done it.

Yeah, walked outside into the rain. And that was a flip phone because flip phones were a thing, I assume. Is there a chance I still had an actual flip phone? That might have been my phone. Yeah, I don't think that was like a joke.

These guys don't have BlackBerrys, though, for sure.

We were BlackBerry boys. Bricks, forever.

Well, here's a question for the group just on the subject of the song. When you guys jizz, do you think it feels good? That's on the subject of the song.

Well, don't tell it again. Okay, I won't.

I would drop to my knees and bow to them and praise the heavens for their existence. How fucking wonderful. That's incredible.

I think saying us is generous.

We should say happy birthday, shouldn't we?

Yeah, Susie, happy birthday. Happy birthday, Quaid. Hey, thanks for being part of Quaid Army. That's what Keeve wants.

Yeah. Also, like I like to fill in the blanks for his character and just be like, yeah, it's his fuck nest.

So this is probably, outside of the censorship issues, the most controversial part of the song.

Because it is ruining the movie. Oh, but don't you feel like the window's closed on that? Well, that's what we thought. It had been a long time.

Because- New generations.

What's the actual line? When Bruce Willis was dead at the end of Sixth Sense, I. Right.

Yeah, like maybe there's someone listening who hasn't had it fully spoiled. But to anyone out there who this line spoiled the movie for you guys, I truly am sorry. I would hate that myself.

She's like, spoilers make the FCC so mad. I saw the Sixth Sense in the theater with my family and we all came out of it just like, whoa!

You don't know so many things. Oh. You love that scene, Keith. You quote that all the time. Yeah, yeah. I used to. You don't know so many things. You would say that all the time.

Yeah, if you see another member of Quaid Army out there, you give them a Righteous Kill. All right. Oh, wait. We did find the missing scene from Everyone Loves a Critic. We did. Do you guys want to talk about what it is? Sure. It was that we go to talk to Casey Wilson's interview character, but we don't pull the painting out there. Right. She says something that then leads us to pull out again.

Okay, gotcha. You guys wanted to hear the clean one. Listen.

All right. So that was it. Bravo. And now, Jorm, you keep track of numbers. Is that song Platinum or something? How does that do?

It's never too late though. Just leave it on stream all day long, fellow Quades. Yeah, Quade Army, let's make this happen. Just stream it all day long and mute it. You don't even have to listen to it.

Every part of anything we've ever done as Lonely Island being successful is inherently funny. Yeah. Yes.

Yes, but that is funny.

It's a participation trophy made out of clay.

Yeah, it's like soft clay, though.

And Will Forte is a college professor teaching a film class, right?

Your fingerprint's fucking on it. Watch. And then they take your fingerprint off it and they use it to open up all of your computers and stuff.

Yeah. On like meta cinema.

I was going to say, there's a whole genre here at Play, and it works for me every time, which is just you guys, this, Steve Brule. Honestly, Kyle's album and a lot of things Kyle does.

Yeah, just excruciating, almost like a little kid pretending to be doing something. But kind of lovable. You're like, I love her. She's hilarious. Love her. More than kind of. All of them.

I love the shorthand. It's just Jizz.

I think we shot jizz that week. I shot jizz all over the place. Come on. You're right.

Gray shirt DJ. Fuck. That's my favorite character of yours. Gray shirt DJ.

Yeah, let's pick it up. Hey, so remember earlier when I was like, does it feel good for you guys when you do a jib? It doesn't hurt, right?

So that's a no?

Big app.

Spelling bee? Bring back spelling bee. Bring back the bee. You heard it here first. All right, love you guys. Love you. Love you. Bye.

So it pulls out of a TV and yeah, we don't show Casey the painting. And then Forte says, it's a special treat. I got the writer-directors, Andy Samberg and Paul Rudd, and we come in. I mean, do you want me to just play it? Could you guys hear that?

I don't know. Farf. Guy blows his own brains out. More barf. Kenan's drinking glass cleaner. Forte puts a shotgun in his mouth. We get blood sprayed on us again. Oh, good. And we're super bummed looking.

I think it was actually a good cut in seeing this. And the reason was the moment when it cuts away from Casey interviewing us is not funny enough. There's no joke. Right, right, right. So it's just dragging it out. If we had had it happen in the Casey one and then we pulled out of that and then we did it again in the classroom, that might have worked.

The other thing, do we want to talk about what the painting actually was? Yes. Have we ever said? Don't leave people guessing.

Hitler's surfing and he's talking and he's saying miso horny, like miso soup. So it's one of Murad's bodies on the couch. So it looks like it's actually a painting of the couch and the posing naked. But the head is Hitler. The fingers are hot dogs. Yeah.

By a long, long while.

I would just say it's from the same universe. There's no way they could have known. No. Because we never told and we never showed.

Correct. And Hitler is saying in a dialogue bubble, me so horny. As in miso soup. Miso soup.

Yeah. Because there was a restaurant we went to in Vancouver when we were shooting Hot Rod that their catchphrase was miso horny M-I-S-O. Oh my God. And they had all these famous figures from history saying miso horny on the wall.

Definitely. Do you think Hitler ever said miso horny, but he was talking about miso as in miso soup?

Oh, yeah, we should get a voice note maybe. Yeah.

You didn't see it in there? Number one or number two. Yeah, you might have been facing the wrong way. Yeah, maybe it was right behind you.

No, I was going to say nothing crazy. Probably just like 75%.

I clean three out of four. It makes sense.

Depends if we're a mixed company, you know, people that I don't know very well, I would definitely ask them as an icebreaker.

Classic misdirects.

Exactly. Right. Seth, maybe ask Rudd if he wants to send a voice note addressing A, if he still has the painting, B, if he does, where it is, and C, how he feels about Jorm telling everyone he has a bar in his house.

Ah, Seth fucked up. Yep.

John, we'd like you to record it the week of your show when you're in the thick of it.

So you got the adrenaline pumping. Between dress and air, please.

Preferably between dress and air. That's Akiva saying that. And I back him up fully. He's my friend. I support him. Thank you. Yeah.

I know, Jack. That's fucking killer. That's great. I am excited.

Was the first one with Ludacris also though?

That's probably why we brought it back.

Yeah, no Matt Murray on this one because he had moved on. So it was just us three lonely island boys.

Well, look at the wonders of the computer age now.

I think that was implied by what I said.

All right, love is your boys. Without them, you are weak. They give you strength and believe in you and are always down to let you be who you are. Even if sometimes you're not down to drink and smoke. Let's face it, you're always going to be down to drink and smoke. Or from his flexing Baby Yoda on Saturday Night Live. Baby Groot? Do me a favor.

I hung out with my friend Mark. We watched the MTV New Year's Eve special. So I would have, I guess, been enjoying Carson Daly riffing with Kathy Griffin.

Hi, Mom and Dad. I don't know that I was particularly super nervous or frightened as to what could happen when midnight arrived.

But my mom prepped, and she got some goodies just in case, I guess, the world was destroyed in some way or another. I guess, I mean, in the moment, it just sort of came and went. I don't know what thought I gave to it until I just started minorly obsessing over it. It would just hit me every once in a while, the story we were always interested in telling

was to a degree a riff on teen culture of the era. Specifically, like, all of these movies were coming out that were geared towards us. It was She's All That. Did he ask you to the prom? Can't Hardly Wait, American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You. Number one, no dating till you graduate. Number two, no dating till you graduate.

But what if something did? I was 15 when Y2K happened. And for those of us who were alive during Y2K, it was a letdown. Nothing really happened. And I think I've always been sort of minorly obsessed with that. So one day the idea kind of struck me to make up a movie about teenagers go to a party and Y2K actually happens.

To a degree, I don't know that I thought in terms of, like, this is speaking to teenage-dom as to, like... This is sort of like the culture that was kind of being blasted to me, and I wanted to return to that.

At midnight, the machines go crazy and start killing people, essentially. Oh, shit. A Tamagotchi just drilled through a chick's head. Come on, we gotta go. It's weird. I don't feel like I've ever made anything that has maybe been so violent, but I was really excited by just taking left turns and doing something that elicits reaction.

I really hope that if people see it, there are some laughs, there are some tears, and there are some moments of like, oh my shit, that's fucking crazy. Did I say, oh my shit? Oh my shit. That's actually not, I kind of, I don't hate that.

I mean, I think that fear is constantly present. You know, it's like HAL 9000 or something like that.

I feel like with the introduction of electronics and robotics, there's always been that thought that when is the point that these things are going to turn on us? And even in the course of... Working on this movie, we started writing it in 2019, and now it's 2024 that it's coming out.

We've seen an evolution of AI, and it's seemingly become more threatening and more real than even it was when we first started talking about this.

We made playlists for them. We sent them lists of movies to watch. And, you know, any phrase or reference they didn't know, obviously we'd fill them in. It was really on them to decide how much they wanted to invest in learning about...

The culture and the time, like, I think the characters, like, even though they are these archetypes of the period and, like, some of them are very distinctly late 90s, early 2000s, there is a universal quality to them. And I think that, like, even our young actors, I think, could relate, like, I know a comp to this and I know the vulnerability of being this age. I say let's go to the party.

I think so. I mean, I can't say that I'm, like, the king of the zeitgeist by any means. You know what I mean? I'm not, like... Unfortunately, I'm not incredibly aware of what's happening in the moment at times, but, like, you kind of got a sense that Y2K as a fashion aesthetic was coming back, But it's grown in the time from like the conceptualization to now.

And now I feel like now I'm just like lucky that we're getting it out sort of in time because I feel like we're probably at a moment where people will be sick of it after this. You know what I mean? And we could be like a month or two away.

You know, Y2K was something that we were overprepared for. And like we said, nothing happened. And that's also not to say... I mean, I feel like every time I say that or anyone says that, there were people doing stuff. You know, there were people... working on these computers and, like, making sure that we were ready.

So, like, there are these sort of unsung heroes that who knows what would have happened if they hadn't done the work that they did. But, you know, I think we've seen in our fairly recent culture and history that, like, there are moments that we were not prepared for and that then, like, kind of shifted our lives. And so there is something...

to always being thoughtful about like, okay, we should maybe take this somewhat seriously and think about it and make sure we're all good if something bad were to happen. I think let's not be super obsessive about it, but let's be smart about it.

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