Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell

An a Capella group contacts Humor Me for help punching up their banter between songs. Longtime SNL cast member Mikey Day and his writing partner, SNL head writer Streeter Seidell join Robert for the debut episode, along with a surprise colleague of theirs.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This week on Humor Being.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am in an acappella group, an acapella singing group,
and while we can do the singing, we don't necessarily
have the best banter between songs, so we would it
would really help to have some funny stuff, either introducing
the songs or just little skits or something in between
the songs.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
That's why you're going to those Yeah, the bands, right,
that's the name.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
The Hard but they're open to changing the name, right,
if you have a name suggestion, we're open.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Since you guys are middle aged, one erection.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
So we're thinking maybe to focus group a couple of
new names with you guys.

Speaker 5 (00:39):
So hasty putting in your pants?

Speaker 1 (00:45):
What is there? Dang Hi? I'm Robert Smigle. If you
don't know me, I am a person who makes comedy

(01:07):
like these guys. These are my guests that I'll be
talking to. This show is called humor Me. We're gonna
help somebody who's got a task at hand, getting a
very important text a lot of friends. Yes, I really
do all those movies turn the text says to turn
your phone off. Okay, fantastic, So mikey Day Long Time

(01:32):
Saturday Night Live staple some call him how many.

Speaker 6 (01:37):
Years ten nine ten on the cast and I was
a writer for three.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
People are calling you the white Keenan.

Speaker 7 (01:45):
Yeah, yes, Laura, that's how Lauren refers to.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Keenan doing get them off right, me want now? And
Streeter sideell and you're white Streeter right, yes, white Streeter
got Mikey Day Streeter side And so before you turn away,
these guys are really talented. Yeah, yeah, he's the head writer.
You know. I just you know, because some of these

(02:12):
people are like if it's they're boeing, right, I understand,
no bowing. I'm not going. I'm not showing on. I'm
not showing. I'm not showing.

Speaker 7 (02:21):
He's got a lot to do, Mikey and I don't
have as much to do. So you know, he can't
be on every podact just give us this so hear
them out.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Understand. Not only he's the host of Visit Cake. Yeah, yeah,
give me that. There's that, but these guys are all
time great Saturday Night Live writers, all time great. Wow,
they are in the pantheon. You're in the and I
call it the pantheon to make it seem like it's
really important. I'll take you you're in the pantheon. I'll

(02:55):
take it.

Speaker 7 (02:56):
Take the Wikipedia.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
So we're doing a Penteon invited Michael o'doon, who's ghost
was there the other day trashing the pantheon. I'm in
the pantheon, of course. Of course you're atop the pantheon.
I'm not in it right now, but I weekend there.
Frequently the dudes are crazy in there. But these guys,

(03:25):
the George Washington sketches, right, that's your Yes, these classic
sketches that Nate Bargatsi does, which amazes me because like,
he's not the first person I would have thought of.
It's a very Steve Martin kind of sketch when you think, now,
sing something with a great deal of authority and it's idiotic,

(03:46):
and like the polar opposite guy is doing it and
yet he's pulling yet he's perfect. Yeah. Also, the Beavis
and butt Head sketch. Let's just talk about that for
a second, because what I love about that sketch except
for the title, because is like it really broke my
heart sketch. No, I'll tell you what. I think it
should have been called AI not on on YouTube. It
should have been called like town Hall or something, or

(04:10):
because It broke my heart that people knew that the
joke was coming in some way like I did.

Speaker 7 (04:17):
It was.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
News Nation when you submitted it. Yeah, but then it
got changed or we had just because it had been
around for a while.

Speaker 8 (04:25):
So that's my other.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Sketch existed for like five years, five or six, I think,
it doesn't matter. It was on a drafts folder and
stop I watched I have like a there's a an
NBC database that I got to log into because there's
some one of the twenty seven documentaries that know about

(04:51):
So I got to whatever they gave me access to it.
So the other week I watched the original with Hill
with Jonah Hill. Yeah, he was see this to your
butt heead and and it was like a murder and
it got Peterson murdered interview. But it did pretty well,
did okay? It made it to the show. It was

(05:12):
it was got cut for time.

Speaker 7 (05:13):
It was cut for mike I remember Mikey's standing in
the full butt head costume the hallway and then hearing like.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Beat us in button it's been cut beat us. But
that's incredibly it was probably Tom Broker produced. How did
it take five years for something that funny?

Speaker 7 (05:29):
I mean, we tried it again with someone right in
the in between.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
We put it to the table for Oscar Isaac.

Speaker 6 (05:37):
Yes, and it was this time it was picked to
go to dress, but it was cut on a rare
Friday or Friday Thursday night cut, Yes, because the set was.

Speaker 7 (05:50):
Too big and they're like, we don't have they added
a cold open, They're like, we don't have room.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Did you ever have a pre Saturday cut? Oh, where
you're like, wow, great, can no sketch of mind has
no sketch, So literally I type it and they just
forward it to the Pantheon. Just goes right to the pantheons.
They don't even bother with the show. They just goes
right to the Panther. What I love about the Beavis

(06:18):
and but Had sketch so much was just how quiet
it was in theory, Such a quiet setup, and it's
everybody's speaking at a soft level, and anytime something like
that can kill on SNL. It's just extra special to
me to pick performances by Keenan perfect didn't crack up
in either. Oh yeah, so I think he might have

(06:40):
laughed a little at.

Speaker 7 (06:40):
Dress Dress and then he was like kint it out
of his system.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
And Keenan's so good too. If he does chuckle, he'll
like time it with the camera cut so camera he
knows when it's coming back to him, and he'll be good.
You don't have psychotic people in your cast. Who So
when Sam and Farley were in the on the show
towards the end, they would deliberately when the camera was

(07:05):
not on them, just and they knew it was on
the other guy, Sandler would be He would seriously aggressively
try to make and Farley back to him.

Speaker 7 (07:17):
Does anyone do that? I haven't seen that.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
No one would dare do that. Hartman would never break.
He would just just maintain. He would just commit harder
for no reason. So good, What was it, cave Man Lawyer?

Speaker 7 (07:31):
I'm not familiar, never been a big watcher of the show, right,
soil Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
The audience, So we should probably move on. I should
have started by saying, Saturday Night Live is the sketch
show that airs NBC Wednesday nights, Saturday nights. Yea, yeah, yeah,
and you should check it out.

Speaker 7 (07:53):
Yeah, give it a watch, you know.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
So have we developed a rapport yet?

Speaker 9 (07:58):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (07:58):
I think I'm pretty Just get bowing and get me
out of there. No, No, it's not gonna happen. We're
gonna make this work somehow. We got this out. Okay,
so established report. Just I like to throw out occasional icebreakers,
and just this one kind of pertains to the show.

(08:21):
Favorite a cappella group? Can we may I go first? No,
I'm not finished finished, favorite favorite acapella group to masturbate
two the same answer. I mean, it's got to be rockapella.
I was gonna say that's the only acapella.

Speaker 7 (08:38):
That's the only one.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Pentatonics Atatonics, that would be a better answer. Yeah. And
about that, I mean, I'm just saying there's two. That's
only there's two that I've heard of, not one. Boo yeah, no,
Carmen san Diego, I'm doing Oh yes, I got you know.

Speaker 6 (09:01):
They did all the like in show sound effects too
throughout the episode because they did. They're like, you're trying
to find the warrant, the warrant, the lot they like
all throughout round two.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
They saved money. Who says public television dollars are going
to work? They save want musicians. We're gonna help an
a capella group, that's what we're gonna do. Good, But again,
to remind people of how the show works. Let's play
the theme song. It's good. I'm gonna love this. Wow,

(09:36):
he's a banger, it's a spitch. Didn't make a job
of you. I don't know what to say, what to do?
You of me? Of me exactly fills like a sketch.

(09:57):
Give me it was looking for some right who won't
give me Brusidas because versidas from you know? So, I
guess the first question you have is like, how did
I afford Bruce Springsteen.

Speaker 7 (10:10):
And the whole East Street Band as well? Do you
think that if we do a good job helping this
a cappella group, they would do a cover of your
theme song pro bono and send it your way for
you to have.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
I mean, if you think it can top it can't
the world's leading Bruce Springsteen impersonator now just as just
as a thing. Let me explain to you something. Jeremy
Allen White came to my house and asked if he
could study me for a month. Yeah. Wow, Yeah, he
just wanted to follow me around, did he? He said,

(10:46):
mister Springsteen, if if you if I could just have
the honor just picking up her? And I'm like, I'm
not him again, and then he's like, you are everything
I hoped you would, so modest, you were a man
of the people. God bless you. I mean, oh, that's
why he's here in this building right now. He's actually

(11:08):
he's under the table studying me, studying metuit. A short joke.
It is short joke for it is short Joe. You
get a little laugh and you're empty inside. Thank you
very much. That was short joke. Sorry, Jeremy, you want.

Speaker 10 (11:27):
To get.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, participating in this, this is.

Speaker 7 (11:33):
Really in your head.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
You're going to the Bear next season.

Speaker 7 (11:36):
God, they're thinking of you for a role.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
You could play. He looks like Paul Thomas Anderson kind
of I can play. Paul Thomas Anderson comes in the restaurant. Yeah,
I'd like to see Paul Thomas Anderson host. That'll be cool.
No host is a cake. That would be really cool,
and no one would know the difference.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
He would like it's a little more understated, a little
more articulate.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Right, Let's introduce our guest. His name is Michael Cohen.
But before we meet him, let's listen to his phone call.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
I am in an a cappella group, an acapella singing group.
And while we can do the singing, we don't necessarily
have the best banter between songs, so we would it
would really help to have some funny stuff, either introducing
the songs or just little skits or something in between
the songs.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
That's why you know those.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
And it's a group of all heart believe it's a
group of almost all Harvard graduates.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
That's the a cappella group.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
So when we can certainly have some any type of
making fun of Harvard or anything.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Okay, thanks a lot, any type of making fun of Yeah,
you're small, fucking smart gene. Yeah in Harvard stupid. I
think we're done. Yeah, yeah, Can we meet our guest now?
Is welcome? Michael Color there is Hi, I'm Michael. Nice

(13:06):
to meet you. So you guys are based where Los Angeles. Okay,
so you're right from We're gonna lose half our audience,
the right wing because we have people from Los Angeles,
Hollywood and elites, elite, coastal elites, the coastal elites all
in one. So by now for the rest of you,
tell us what you need from us. We're not the

(13:29):
Hippists crew, so and we don't.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
So we have a lots of times before songs, we
have a little banter that we talked to the audience
either about the song or about the group, and it's
we don't really work on it, and we're kind of
last minute. We just kind of do it, and it's
never able.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
To believe that. Let's hear something. Let's hear a piece
of banter.

Speaker 5 (13:48):
In honor of one of our honorees tonight.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
We learned it from the best tradition of Rosemary Clooney
and Dean Martin.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Mambo Italiano. Okay, that's the guy. I saw some of
your singing. Is that your bass? That's that's the bass guy.
Where does your group perform?

Speaker 3 (14:08):
So we perform at We do some retirement homes, like
one of our members works at the Motion Picture Television Fund,
which is like the old actors retirement homes. We perform
there a few times.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Those people are starving for banter. How you should be
on the ship of a scream got it? Okay, you
call that.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
But then we also get hired by different like rotary
clubs and things like that to come to their like
Chris like Christmas gigs.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Getting depressing with every reference, every step pain work. We're
not just doing old folks homes. We're doing rotary clubs, well,
rotary clubs.

Speaker 6 (14:55):
So and are you trying to attract more better gigs,
because apparently there's like, come on, is there a hot competition?

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Is that what I've read?

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Right, there's like, you know, our group tends to be
a little older, you know, probably ranging from most people
are forty a little over seventy in our group, in
your group.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
In your group right in the group. Okay, so they're
playing to the den, maybe they'll get fast tracked into
the old folks.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
But yeah, but then there's also these kind of like
hipper young groups and so yeah, they'll have like kind
of like sketches like all written out like before the
songs that are funny and stuff, and we just we
don't really have an ketches like.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
What they I want to see the hip cool young Yeah,
a propella group, like what up? We saw your shows? Shit.
I feel like the bar for comedy when you go
to an a cappella show is pretty low, just in
terms of people's expectations, because I remember in high school

(15:51):
I went there was a group it was like some
choir thing, and they did this acapella thing and they did,
do you know some song about Java? They're like Jova Jova,
Jova Jova. They do that. Of course you're dude. I
feel like it's a karaoke book that they haven't bars,
but it's only a capella hits anyway, there's like, the

(16:13):
problem is not the banter.

Speaker 6 (16:15):
I know, I remember this moment for all these years
that has stuck out that in the middle some guy
just goes like really low, He's like percolator.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
And this crushed so hard. It was sorry the cafetorium,
that's what my high school had a stage in the
cafeteria just because they're just kind of singing songs.

Speaker 6 (16:42):
There's not a lot of comedy. So in the one
moment where there's some a kernel of a comedic idea,
people lost their minds. So I feel like.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Wait, so this is students.

Speaker 6 (16:54):
Yeah, this was things performing, but the audience was students students,
and it's.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Like, oh, look at I'm doing that. But you do
an element. These guys just walk into a clater. Their familiarity,
they have that advantage where they're walking they're walking into
a room with people who don't even remember who.

Speaker 6 (17:12):
They are, are, Like wheel them there, My point being,
I feel like the bar is low for us to
get over, you know what I mean in terms of
people's expectations.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
So we can give him our C material you're seeing.

Speaker 6 (17:26):
I feel like our C material might bring the house down.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Let's listen to one more of their banter, because I
think they've got C plus material and I think we
have to top it. Okay, we have to shoot for
B minus much, Thank you very much. That was the
recent hit Boogie Woogie Boy Company B. That's I think
it was Drake. I'm not sure.

Speaker 10 (17:50):
Every moment, and I think you really enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
It actually features my personal favorite solos in the group.

Speaker 11 (17:55):
So enjoyed something and then favorite that sings it. He's
the guy that's yes, that's his solid see. I feel
like he could. I feel like he could stretch that
out quite a bit. Introing and so.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Actually was the youngest one in the group and he
has sent he's left the group because we're not great.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Did he get proached?

Speaker 7 (18:14):
Did someone come in and get proached by like a younger,
cooler group.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
I don't know, but yeah, I think he just got
busy with stuff. But yeah, so that's right. He was
definitely one of our funnier members.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
And what was how many people were in that audience.
I'm just curious. I think that's fifty. That's not bad.
All right, that's not bad. See that. What are you
coming to us for? You're killing killing it out there?
All right? So what do we j banter? Well? I think, god,
do we throw yourselves? You mean differently from the beginning,

(18:47):
the very beginning, Like I'm the this one.

Speaker 12 (18:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (18:51):
I was saying, maybe they have a little personalities, just like.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
How you guys are introduced, like where they Yeah, I'm
this one, I'm that one. I was thinking, more than
all went to Harvard and we're better than you.

Speaker 11 (19:04):
And we're doing this with our lives, Harvor, and we're
doing this with our lives.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
See, I think that's a good way to go. Our
parents spend two hundred thousand dollars year to say, like,
you know, for people who hate we do, people who
have stereotypes about Harvard, we are proof you know that
not everyone from Harvard gets the best job or.

Speaker 7 (19:28):
Is it even necessarily smart?

Speaker 6 (19:30):
A self deprecating, funny intro I think case would be great.
Do you guys have an intro song you normally do?

Speaker 1 (19:37):
No original? No original songs. What do you think you'd
be open to doing an original song or just why not?
And would your crew? Would they shave, would they be
cool with would they be down to kind of make
fun one of themselves? Yes, not like specific. You have
to think about that. Yes, he clearly maybe not Gene,

(19:59):
but everyone else he's a pain in the ass, But
my god, he's talented, talent, Jean's got integrity. Gene quits
every week and then comes back and I'm only Jeane
can get that law. Who's the worst singer in the group.
Is there somebody who's like the worst? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Me, because I was the only one that wasn't actually
in an a cappella group in college. I was brought
into the group to just like play piano and teach
people the songs, and then I just started singing bass
along because you know, just in bass.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Is there anything to the idea that because you're from
Harvard you only got in because your parents made a
huge donation.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
I don't know if we have anyone that actually applies
to But once again, for the sake of comedy.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
The birds, right, that's the name the Harvard.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yard, but they're open to changing the name, right, if
you have a name suggestion, We're open.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
I mean, possibilities are endless. They are. We're not in
this room, but they're in yeah, yeah, this room. Just
tell your group the possibilities are Jeremy hoarding them under
the table.

Speaker 7 (21:12):
They're all puns, right, It's always a punch for an
a cappella group.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
Okay, so we really are shooting for c plus.

Speaker 7 (21:18):
Yeah, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong. You know
the acapella world better. But I think mostly puns.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
That does seem to be the case. Yes, And are
you guys realize that old people now are not old
people like from when we were kids, so like they
don't necessarily love puns ran from the twenty they were
like in Woodstock people.

Speaker 7 (21:38):
Who were who's who's the who's the oldest member of
the group.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
How we have Virginia, she's I think seventy one or something.

Speaker 6 (21:48):
Okay, I would play into that and yeah, Virginia sing
something some and.

Speaker 13 (21:55):
About a young song, Oh yeah, young chapel roan song. Yes, pink,
she would do it. She would definitely, I think that
would you know? Or she could do hot to got.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
To Go would be a little dirty at the nursing home.
She is looking for a husband, so Virginia fine to go.

Speaker 7 (22:14):
What about Virginia is gonna do a song at the
nursing home. And the setup is like, I'm looking for
a husband with money who doesn't know his own name anymore.
And I figured i'd start here and then but I'm young.
She's like, I'm young, I'm young. I know the young
people music. I'm gonna do one of my favorites that
I just heard earlier today.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
It is a tradition that goes back to like the
rapping granny and yeah, wedding were not fire.

Speaker 7 (22:41):
I think there's a good there's a lot of potential
in Virginia to do a runner that she's looking for
a man, so in between songs, even after the banters,
she can just go and.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Again, if anyone out there is single and a doctor,
please contact mighty fine and then you guys off. You
know that sounds like a good idea to me. I
think she would like that because I write for women.
I'm like Mikey, you know, I'm a man.

Speaker 6 (23:09):
I'm thinking that through this, they'll start attracting a different demos,
you know what I mean, not just I think we
should think beyond the nursing.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
I'm the nursing home right now. Anybody would laugh at
a rapping granny. Right, Maybe you guys can help us
do some more hip stuff so we can exactly the
hip I'll give you replacement strange things.

Speaker 6 (23:34):
What else?

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Do the kids like Pokemon? That's it?

Speaker 7 (23:39):
The Pokemon theme song would be a good can never
go wrong with for any grand kids who have been
dragged here against their will. Will do one for you
the Pokemon song.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
You know what about singing like? Yeah? What about adding work?
Would be really funny to hear that in a cappella.
I don't think anyone's expecting that, and that would be fun.
And yes, it would be lost on the older people
in the audience, but it would eventually pay off because
then we can bring our children next time. Can you

(24:11):
do them?

Speaker 14 (24:14):
They did?

Speaker 1 (24:15):
They die? They died only briefly.

Speaker 7 (24:19):
There's ever been a medical incident during a show?

Speaker 1 (24:22):
La la la, I'm sorry, Ma'm are you all right?
No stage a medical incident because everyone will buy it.
Get a plant to die in the audience and it'll
go viral. What if handler did you see the one
where Sandler somebody was fell ill in the audience and
and there was a big viral clip of Sandler being

(24:43):
he was very cool and in charge and oh yeah,
everybody calm and one of you guys, could you know,
play that role. Then they pop up that I died
because this group is so fresh and m boom boom boom.

Speaker 7 (25:04):
You do you play any Harvard functions?

Speaker 1 (25:10):
We have done? Yes.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
I'm like, there's like some Harvard club functions for the
Harvard Club Board, and there's a there's a Harvard Yale
luck event like a Christmas time.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yes, okay.

Speaker 7 (25:21):
I was gonna say, maybe for when you're playing to
the Harvard crowd, since you said you're the worst singer,
you could come out in like a Yale sweater and
butcher a song or something like that, you know, throw
eggs at me?

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Do it? Do they seriously still have a rivalry with
Yale that way? Oh yes, yes, Jesus, Okay, come out
with a little I mean, I'm a Yale boy sing
a song. Now you couldn't get into Harvard sucker.

Speaker 15 (25:53):
Yeah, why my mommy said, I went out by myself
off today the Yale boy value.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
I have velcrow shoes. People are like Yale boy did
not test well with the older folks fun Yale Boy.
It would be great if it turned into like a
wrestling villain.

Speaker 16 (26:17):
Yeah, like a.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
The Boy is back in town, The Boy. You come in.
Everybody booze, know to boo after a while, you guys
boo in harmony boom boom boo song like Rocky Horror.
The room screenings, people bring pacifiers to throw. Yeah, like
it's a thing it'll have. That's a given. You're gonna

(26:42):
have to pay for merchandising and stuff. See. I think
putting w W E type production value and intensity is
a good idea. Throws a charrot. Yeah, I think if
they do crazy ship like this could kind you'd be like,
have you heard of this? A cappella group?

Speaker 6 (27:02):
Yeah, there's this old lady someone at some point, someone
got medically.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Happens every episode, every show is Yale. It would be
a big swing that first show where you're coming out
with short suspenders, a propeller having a big oversized sucker.

Speaker 7 (27:21):
But if it works, I think you gotta do it
first at the Yale Harvard pot luck.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
It's Yale boy. New Haven's a real city, it is,
I tell you, Oh man, Okay, so's think of things
that they might do. Yeah. The more I talk about it,
the more I'm like, they'll know they might if we
get them to do a few of these things, and

(27:51):
they they might eventually come around to the brilliance that
is Yale Boy.

Speaker 6 (27:55):
Yet it I think some audience interactivity from what I saw,
like this is lame. But asking if there's any birthday
and you sing, go shorty, it's your birthday, I feel
like I'm just doing on a guest Starren go shorty,
it's your birth thank.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
You, but sing happy birthday to someone. I was talking
to my friends here, Dave Cyrus and Dave Feldman, also
writers that are there, brilliant guys, and we were talking
about how maybe song parodies of some of some of
the songs on your list might might appeal to your audience.
Instead of just singing the straight song, maybe you also

(28:33):
add a parody lyric for example. So they're going to
do a lot of holiday songs. They got Carol of
the Bells. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
So the idea was to do a song about a
neighbor who still has his Christmas lights on after January.

Speaker 15 (28:51):
Not bad.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Yeah, Like that's the kind of thing that eighty year
olds would laugh at, but even seventy five year olds
over neighborhood has the oh no no like here, No,
we actually came up with a couple of lyrics here.
So is in this right, it's continuing to look a
lot like Christmas, only at your house. It's the middle

(29:19):
of the night and your roof is a beam of light.
It's no surprise that you divorced your spouse. Wow, and
you think they would do a line like that? Yeah,
why not? You keep saying why not as if you're
preparing to argue with the other eight they're just off camera. Fuckno,
I went on a podcast and nobody is giving me anything.

(29:42):
Why not, Jean, I talk to guys who are in
the pantheon. What's a pantheon? At the next meeting, they're
going to be like, how where's the podcast? Did you
get any ideas? Nothing? Useabul It was garbage? Ye boy?
They love yell Boy.

Speaker 17 (29:56):
That's great though, that song. I think I need to
give credit to you guys. No, no, Jesus, I think
we do want credit for Yale Boy. Right, yeah, oh yeah,
that's going to be merchants, because yeah, there's merch there's
a misable show a movie.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Possibly, Yeah, that is that. David Fincher is going to
do the movie. Yeah, it's the Yardbirds. Are there any
more people in the group that we can focus on
the way you did rapping Granny and like who would
have a perfect song for them? Like who sticks out?
There's kind of an older gentleman. I remember I saw

(30:32):
he's he's bald. I think that's guy. That's base guys
Alder another bald guy who seems to conduct, right, that's
what's his That's Mark. That's Mark? Okay? Does Mark sing?

Speaker 18 (30:46):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (30:46):
Yeah, he does?

Speaker 19 (30:46):
Does?

Speaker 1 (30:47):
He does sing, and he's he's sort of conducting because
you both he's singing. And are you guys looking because
the especially the people who take center stage are really
singing out. We're not, we're basically not watching. You guys
should clown on Mark a little bit, like he insists
on conduct. You guys should just kind of maybe there's

(31:07):
a song about him. He waves his fingers all doing
mid show No One. Now, we also have a woman
who is Asian and Jewish. Mm. So I don't know
if you want to do anything to do that or
if that's you know, right, what Asian you to do
and she wants to do is good with me. I'm

(31:29):
staying away from anything possibly offensive moving forward, let me
handle the offensive stuff. An Asian Jew did she even
have to apply to Harvard? I mean it's like boom
right in hand her diploma. I can say that because

(31:50):
I'm Jewish and I have frequently supported numerous Asian restaurants.
I was like, are you singing? Say people organizations? I
met my wife in the group. You guys should French

(32:10):
just make out hard?

Speaker 7 (32:11):
Is it like a Fleetwood Mac situation where you guys
were seeing other people in the group and then it
kind of got pretty messy.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
And I was seeing I was seeing the bass guy.
You know, he got.

Speaker 7 (32:23):
What if you say you're going to do a duet?
What about you can bring her up? This is my wife,
we met here, we're soulmates. Or she's saying this and
she goes, I'm going to do a duet with the
love of my life. And then bass guy comes out
and sings it with her.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
I actually like that, and.

Speaker 7 (32:38):
You're jilted, you know, you're like, or maybe he's joining
in and you're like, why are you singing in?

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Let him say? What crazy?

Speaker 8 (32:47):
What do they know?

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Get out of here. You should definitely gonna stop you
sure you don't need the beast? Do you need me.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
Here?

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Cars out of everybody? Base guy. There's a lot to
do there too, and you should call him base guy.
This is whatever. Mark Mackenzie, he's the one who worked
at SNL, right he was.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
He did the commercial parodies for season twelve and he
was like oversaw production for seasons thirteen and fourteen.

Speaker 7 (33:18):
Wow, all right, wow, excellent. He's still he's still banned
from the building, I believe, right y.

Speaker 20 (33:25):
Yeah, his pictures up and to talk about what he's
at the orientation there you see this guy, Please tell
sec Hammer is acapella.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Friends, end of the Better Day. Do you have a tenor?
Do you have a tenor?

Speaker 3 (33:42):
We have currently kind of two tenors, so something we
have some women saying tenor because it is hard to
find tenors. There is a shortage of tenors.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Right, so that is really good. Tenors are difficult to find. Well,
just because not that many men. Warming speak as a vaccine.
I'm almost yeah, I think I think it's global warming.
And get someone from the audience some some audience interactivity. Yeah,
maybe it's something to think of a fool. You guys

(34:11):
probably think anybody can come up here and let me
tell you something. You're right, you're right. We're going to
prove it right now. And then you like talk to
the person for like thirty seconds and give him like,
you know, like six bobo bos and and it works perfectly.

Speaker 7 (34:30):
Or give him the beat box, you know, like all
you got to do is go, do you.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
Guys do like that Pentatonics kind of beat box ship?

Speaker 3 (34:39):
I mean, I don't really have anyone to do it,
and it doesn't bit most of our repertoire.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Oh he's got a report, all right, right, your repertoire
because it's a lot of old kind of like yeah,
I know you guys see faith Faith is George Michael Faith.

Speaker 6 (35:00):
I should all put on like eighties sunglasses there just
everyone in Unison.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
That's a little like a crossing publicly masturba. Yeah, this
is from the eighties.

Speaker 6 (35:10):
Does anyone know public masturbator George Michael Virginia sing it.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
I guess it would be nice. I think the Asian
Jew I think there's something. There's gotta be, something gotta
be we're just afraid to say no. But if she
says it, it's okay's true.

Speaker 7 (35:29):
Did you sing a honka song?

Speaker 1 (35:31):
We do have edley?

Speaker 7 (35:32):
Yes do she normally guys introduce it? Yeah, do you preface?
It was like time to kind of bum everyone out
with some minor key songs. Now that that we're all
smiling from the Christmas song they are terrible. Let's shift
that to a minor key that is a great intro.
We might have what is a medley, like there's more
than we got.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
Another one?

Speaker 3 (35:59):
Rado and she would bekah.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Oh yeah, that's everyone knows that one.

Speaker 9 (36:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (36:08):
You could probably make a joke that all the Christmas
songs were written by Jewish guys too, because I'm pretty
sure they all were, right.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Something that's a real source of pride, because there's so
many beautiful songs. But then I saw a documentary and
Jackie Mason was on it and talking about everybody's like
singing the praises of all.

Speaker 21 (36:25):
Yeah, well the Jewish guys went on there because you know,
there's a lot of money. There's a lot of money
on Christmas song.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
It's like, what are you doing the whole documental?

Speaker 21 (36:35):
You think about the bowl, think about the hem. You
write a Christmas song, they play it every year. On
the radio every year you make money.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
No, that can't be the only reason. The whole rest
of the documentary was like, Jews are outsiders, they can relate.
Frosty the Snowman are root off the Red Nosed Ring.
It's a song about an outsider and Jews can relate.
And then ching, ching and the guy's got dollar signs.

(37:07):
God damn it. But anyway, that's an incredible Jackie Mason.
By the way, Oh please, I'm every Jewish person can
do an old jew George Burns, George, that's a great. Yeah,
it's is true. It just but seriously, well, maybe the
Asian Jewish person could brag about Yeah.

Speaker 7 (37:30):
She could also then say, after the honkh Medley, now
I'm going to do some Asian Christmas song.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Just kidding. You just started and then you're like, we're
just kidding, just kidding, just kidding. Were married Christmas? Okay,
it would be funny if she says it because she's Jewish,

(37:57):
that'll work, or you I sense your Jewish.

Speaker 17 (38:00):
Cohen, Yes, my sense, Michael Cohen.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
That's Michael Cohen.

Speaker 7 (38:07):
There. You had so you had your life.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Was going great, and then Trump's Trump's buddy. People just
like don't believe a word, he says, he's just all
the weds. It's a different one.

Speaker 7 (38:23):
Me. I'm not a fixer.

Speaker 6 (38:25):
Getting a lot of emails from the Associated Press. Can
you comments not me, I'm.

Speaker 7 (38:30):
The Harvard singing one.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Yeah, you don't do political stuff. You're not gonna even
go there.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
We have performed at some like Democratic One of our members,
he's very involved in the l a like Democratic Club,
So we performed at some of their like they like
open a little like regional center, and we'll go and
perform there.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
So because maybe it'd something that was like semi controversial,
and then it's like check that we're the only people
from Harvard who haven't been sued by the president and
want to keep it that way.

Speaker 7 (39:01):
I could also say, yeah, you're raising money to pay
off Trump, so it doesn't close Harbor down.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
So it's good past the hat, you know, because this
is not our regular job. We're doing this to fund
the you know, fund medical research, and it's been denied
by the Trump administration.

Speaker 6 (39:22):
Put one dude in a Trump suit and a Trump
wig and he's standing there kind of in the middle
of the group, but never have him do a Trump
impression or sing a song.

Speaker 7 (39:33):
So the whole time, like time, what is what?

Speaker 1 (39:36):
When is he going to come out and be like hello, and.

Speaker 6 (39:40):
Then just never have him do anything very alt bits
for the Yeah, I don't know if the Rotary Club,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
They're trying to expand the audience right then, you know,
then there'll be some word of mouth perhaps then we'll
go viral. Right then we'll go, well, let's slow down.
That's step to viral. Now that's the that's the medical emergence. Yeah,
that's viral. That's your best shot at virals. I think
for starters, what's the social media presence. But then at

(40:09):
the end of the medical emergency, there's like a little
clip from you guys smiling like click to subscribe, there's
plenty of money stuff like that and die click to subscribe,
And then that draws them into the Do you get
a lot of Harvard people coming to your vote because
they're you're from Harvard? I mean sometimes well sometimes we'll

(40:32):
also open up for some of the current groups for
like winter break or spring break or something. Right then
you might want to hit the you might get some
positive attention by hitting you know, the the Trump cuts
and the settlement and just say, as Harvard alumni, we
find it very offensive that our school has agreed to
this settlement. No private institution like Harvard should have to

(40:56):
submit to the whims of a government, unless it's the
government of Qatar. That's for the juice. That's when you
play a synagogue, Have you got any synagogue bookings? Because
that'll murder a lot of East Coast schools. A cappella
is like a big deal, right, they're like everyone, Yeah,

(41:20):
everyone goes to the shows. They appreciate the artistry and
the showmanship. I agree that like some of the repertoire
could be spiced up and yeah.

Speaker 6 (41:31):
TV theme songs I think is fun, right, we touched
on them, But like songs that maybe don't have lyrics
that they either could do lyrics for or kind of
do the like I'm thinking of Lostnes.

Speaker 7 (41:46):
You could put some lyrics on, you put some lyrics
on Seinfeld, Yes, but.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
It also could sound really good without lyrics. That would
mean would really about out.

Speaker 7 (42:03):
He's auditioning, Mike, he's got he's got the pops.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
And of course Cosby Showtta, you know Barretta. That could
be something like Cosby Barretta.

Speaker 6 (42:15):
I don't know if you want to add the layer
of instrumental but doing something instrumental.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
The Kevin Spacey show, it's all canceled car disgrace. See
how long it takes for the audience to realize that
you're only doing show you have to save Cosby.

Speaker 6 (42:35):
See if you can find the common time cartoons inspector gadget,
let's go, that is.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
A good acapella under gadget actually would be what was
the other one? Well, Carmen san Diego, you could? I mean,
that's do other groups do that?

Speaker 7 (42:55):
Like?

Speaker 1 (42:56):
What's what?

Speaker 6 (42:57):
How do how does the acapella community view rock capella?
I think I think they're respect of the guys in
our group. Marked, the guy that conducts it was like
friends with them, so he was there when they were
recording there several works.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
It was like the Beatles, was there?

Speaker 6 (43:14):
Is there anything a silly dumb story, like, for instance,
they sang the gambler, right, yes, so like we have
any gambling people like to gamble here in the crowd, right,
And then you guys tell it obviously fake, like some
silly stupid story about how you gambled too much, or.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
Some plot of uncut gems and then someone goes, if
you want to figure it out, I have a little story,
and then they just do the full I worked in
the Diamond District for a time, A bit of a
problem with sports gambling. Yes, yes, Kevin Garnett happened into

(43:57):
my store. Mind you the weekend was banging my girlfriend.
Isn't that what happens something like that? I think that
would be hilarious personally. And I'm in the pantheon. My

(44:18):
friends David and David made some suggestions for for band names,
since you guys are middle aged. One erection pretty good.
That's great, David Cyrus, and that's incredible. This is a

(44:38):
little more Harvard favoring. I think this would alien eight people.
Boys to mensa. Come on, and I like this one.
This is another Harvard reference. Good evening, everybody, We're hasty,
putting in your pants. I wrote for three of the

(45:00):
Putting shows. So yeah, Second, if you would just say
that when you introduce yourself, everyone would stand up. What
do you need us for? I'm Michael Cohen. I wrote
the music.

Speaker 14 (45:11):
I got it.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
I wrote the music to the Hasty. They don't even
have to say Putting Show the Hastys Hasty. Yeah, I
got three hasty I got three Hastys under my belt.
I think they're already going to be on your side
because the name of your group is going to be
one erection, is at your favorite one erection, like one direction.

(45:34):
Maybe you're just also known as at the yard, like
three or four others, one erection. FKA. We're looking for
a new name. And you could like pull the audience.
That's always a winner, gets them involved. Have like twenty
or ten I say three thousand. Skip the songs, but

(45:55):
that's a great in between song bit. Have a bunch
of matics like that. It's a good bit. Offer. Yeah,
and you can come, you can come.

Speaker 7 (46:05):
Up with some We got that runner. We've got the
lady looking for the husband. Yale Boy, Yale boy, of course,
who's making multiple appearances.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
Your pants are on your ankles. Wait, I think we
had the bathroom. I'm Yale Boy has a little.

Speaker 7 (46:21):
Bulldog boxer shorts on, little heart heart, a little little
ship staying on the back.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Hey, yeah, I put my pants on. Yale Boy told
me how to go in the ching. That Christmas song
is fantastic. Oh that was good on David. I think
he had another idea. Cyrus, who had this idea for
a parody of based on the fact that the tariffs,
presumably so SA liberals, will cause inflation. You could do

(46:53):
a parody due to the rising prices. Have yourself very
little Christmas, right, and it's all about like budgets Christmas
maybe half a day from now on, just being glad
we're making other countries made. You're gonna have a Christmas

(47:18):
like You're not gonna believe it's gonna be so small
and so wonderful, so white, so white, incredible, none of
that diversity crap.

Speaker 7 (47:34):
Asian Jewish lady, like.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Can you see your group realistically incorporating any of these
suggestions into your run of show? Seriously? Obviously Yale Boys
a stretch, but you know, I think that's a big
winner of the day. We're gonna give it. We're gonna
give that one to the hip young group. They're gonna
steal it. Have you told the rest of your group

(47:58):
members that you were coming in?

Speaker 8 (48:00):
I did.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
They are aware that I'm doing this, Okay, very cool.
They were worried the only suggestion was going to be
for me to poop on.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
No, there's nothing like that.

Speaker 22 (48:11):
The worst thing Triumph would say to you would be
like a cappella. Oh great, So that's uh. You do
that with no music. Why don't you try no voices too,
you see, because you can't sing. It's terrible and that's
why it's funny.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
Here I am live at the Rotary Club. It's oh man,
the mighty volt dude. If you do it would be
the worst prank ever. If you do a triumph for
all this, I do a Triumph remote at your performance
and interview people about how shitty it is.

Speaker 6 (48:46):
Do you know how funny that would be and how
great I would honestly go to their next performance do
a remote for humor me and be like, I'm here,
the fans are going neutral. Let's step inside, shall we.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Well, thank you guys for all of your help. We
will be happy to implement whatever. Yeah, I'm going to
get back to you with formal material, and then we're
going to see we're gonna sit in the front row.
Yeah we are. That's mine.

Speaker 7 (49:20):
That one was mine.

Speaker 6 (49:21):
Oh my god, they're doing Yale Boy and that's the
only one everyone's.

Speaker 7 (49:31):
I hope, I hope you can convince your bandmates to
try out one or two of these.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
I think I promise you we will do something.

Speaker 7 (49:38):
And I hope this really helps with tenor retention, which
I know is a major problem.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
There is a pharmaceutical company working on retention. You suffer
from retention. What if we got like Bobby moynihan to play, Oh,
he would, Bobby. If we got a celebrity to play a.

Speaker 6 (50:00):
Bobby would be really fun. He'd be so funny, and
the hat and he would commit. Oh my god, that's
going to be an interesting cross section with Bobby. Bobby,
so it's no money. Were you put on a bond.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
Already he's already off the phone ordering something. Honestly, Bobby
would I imagine Bobby would think it is so stupid
and funny. He might actually do it. I think he
might do it in a second.

Speaker 7 (50:27):
I think he might just for the goof.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
He would just because he thought it was insane. And
the older and more sleepy the audience, the better. It's like,
it's like performance art. Bobby would appreciate what it is.
This is happening. All right, that's great, all right, God
bless thank you for talking to us. Thanks for and
we'll get back to you and everything's going to be great.

(50:51):
Thank you for joining thank you for thank you for
taking me sure with Robin Smigel and friends. Work friend.

Speaker 6 (51:01):
Imagine if you had an audio of yeo boy just
absolutely bombing.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Up, nothing would be better.

Speaker 9 (51:07):
Video.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
We gotta get two cameras for the audience response the retirement.
Is he real? We were enjoying the program and then
this horrible man from the little interrupted big Beard. You

(51:30):
scream that was interrupted by someone having a medical We're
shure ever being boy. Okay, we're all set, Thanks for set,
Thanks for having us, guys, you're we really are amazing
writers over here. An honor to have you here, It's
an honor to be had. Absolutely all right, let's let's

(51:52):
hit the pantheon. Yeah, there's a there's a pool. There
a buffet. There's a buffett. That thing that needs to
be funnier, tell us about it at speakpipe dot com
slash humor meaning you ava those of you watching. We

(52:13):
couldn't get a regular studio, so we're in the Boh
and Yang Memorial studio. This is where this is where
it really happens a real podcast. Let's go to stas
the lyrics. I don't all I know is let's go
to lyrics. That's really all you need? Okay, do you

(52:33):
think they took our jokes? Do you think they botched them?
Just like? Where do you think that? I hope so?

Speaker 7 (52:39):
But he was he was kept Remember, he kept being like, yeah,
we'll give a shot.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Man.

Speaker 7 (52:43):
He seemed very confident, and I remember feeling like, I
don't think the rest.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Of the crew is going to go for these, but yeah,
we'll ask him about what the rest of the crew
thought this track? Are you making us? Do you're our brand? Anyway?
Like I said, it's many months later, the world's very
different now. Yeah, Robot Rebellion. Yeah, I mean I think
I think we got to win on our head. Let's
bring on Michael Cohen. First of all, tell us when

(53:08):
you broke the news to the other bandmates that you
were thinking about a character named Yale Boy and many
other how dare you so?

Speaker 9 (53:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (53:17):
I told him about Yale Boy. I think people were
a little skeptical. Sure, Yale Boy crazy okay.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
And the other idea is, overall people were actually very
open to trying it. And then before we had even
had a chance to work on them with you, we
kind of wrote some of them on our own and
tried them at a gig.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Yeah, and actually it was a huge success. You tried
out and to review which ones did you try out on.

Speaker 3 (53:43):
Your own Virginia looking for a husband? I remember that, yes,
And we did a volunteer. We needed a tenor to
come volunteer and made it so they would we need something.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
We brought them up and lead with Yale. Boy. It
was like, I mean like, I mean many way they've
been drinking for two hours. I mean they were. They
were loving it. So that gave you a little more confidence. Well,
this is exciting. We have the entire show here, so
we're gonna scan it. This is the end of their
first song. This is the end of their first song.

(54:18):
Hark here and the bells. Just to get a look
at the audience there. And yo, I'm the current walker
in the aisle. Thank you so much.

Speaker 7 (54:28):
Hi.

Speaker 23 (54:29):
I am Marissa Chandler and we are the Harvard Yardbirds.
We are an a cappella group of alums from Harvard.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
Now.

Speaker 23 (54:37):
I know there are many people out there that have
stereotypes about Harvard, but we are here to show you
that not all Harvard people have great jobs.

Speaker 10 (54:48):
But good job right now.

Speaker 23 (54:52):
So I'm in a theater company, I'm in Pasadena and
we did a show last weekend.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
I'm good here she comes.

Speaker 10 (54:58):
Step back for a minute.

Speaker 12 (54:59):
Okay, Hi, I'm Virginia Kirby collect Haig Green, and I'm
looking for my third husband, thinking about man successful who
can't remember their own name anymore. So I thought i'd

(55:21):
start here and maybe this could be the start of
something big.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
We didn't write that segue, no, but it worked for
this crowd, you know.

Speaker 9 (55:36):
Yeah, I think there and this is the big Steve
Allen classic and this guy's guy's amazing.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
He wants to hear.

Speaker 16 (55:44):
The street.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Okay, we're probably not allowed. The Steve Allen Foundation will
sue us, so let's skip to the next one. Sounds
like an episode of Big Bang Theory. Where did you
get your laugh track? Here? Already feeling fun?

Speaker 9 (56:01):
You know?

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (56:03):
Yes, sometimes in the past that I'm saying, we would
sing songs and we talked in between the songs, but
it could sometimes be a little dreary.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
We heard those segues. No, this is good. You did
a self deprecating joke and a self deprecating bit, and
that that makes them root for you. Okay, let's see
what we got. Oh, it's just bad.

Speaker 7 (56:27):
Because it's the callback.

Speaker 10 (56:28):
And furthermore, this is a few requirements I have for my.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Wrote her own joke a short list.

Speaker 5 (56:39):
Here.

Speaker 10 (56:40):
I'm just gonna pick a couple out.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
Of bandage to the ground.

Speaker 10 (56:43):
Number one, you have to.

Speaker 12 (56:45):
Be able to cook, use a hand drill, and read
my mind rosen some basics.

Speaker 10 (56:54):
I'm also looking for a man with a very big
diamond is preferred. And finally, you must have your own
car and not live in it.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Okay, we can jump ahead. Not that the songs aren't great.
I actually I have to admit Michael had my comments
about acappella, but the state of the world is right now,
robot rebellion all that. I listened to the songs and
I was like, I need this, I need to hear.
It made me feel good and you guys perform very well. Yeah,

(57:37):
you sound great. Here comes Basically.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
My name is Greg Bordon. I sing with the group Yes,
and now we're going to be doing a song that
I think a lot of you will know. It was
made pretty famous by some girls I used to date
collectively and individually Andrews sisters.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
Get Greg wrote that on his own Yeah, okay, so
everybody got into the spirit of such.

Speaker 7 (58:01):
A deplication and getting competitive, Like people felt like Virginia
got too much writing, and we're like, I'm I got
a callback.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
Well yeah, yeah, people were getting littlejealous of Virginia. Yeah
well right now, Yeah, couldn't we get Virginia here? She
stole the show? All right, let's uh, what's next.

Speaker 14 (58:23):
I'm Michael Cohen. I'm the music director of the group. Ironically,
I'm also the worst singer.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
So I did go to Harvard, but the only reason
I got into the Harvard Yardbirds is because my parents
donated a lot of money, and you know that pay
for the scarves.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
I think it's a little much that they asked the
rehearsal space after them.

Speaker 14 (58:45):
Was it because it's my garage Cohen Memorial Rehearsal Garage.
It's a very pretty nice question.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
I get.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
Well, we've been talking about that Virginia's looking for a husband,
and I was lucky enough to meet my wife when
she joined the group, remember this idea, Yeah.

Speaker 16 (59:06):
We were.

Speaker 14 (59:07):
We were so fortunate to meet in the group. And
and to honor that, I'd like to sing a quick
to do it with the live of my life, love.

Speaker 5 (59:19):
Be Weorthy Egles cry on the Mountain High.

Speaker 14 (59:28):
Actually they sound pretty good. Thanks my all right, well,
so give them a hand.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
Here's a song. This is the song parody coming. Oh, yes,
there's a lot I missed that kind of like what
was it?

Speaker 7 (59:54):
Is this the planted medical emergency of each other?

Speaker 1 (59:58):
There's a lot writing on this pair of jazus. I'll
give you three. It's back to them.

Speaker 10 (01:00:17):
I'm Jen Climber and I also enjoy the holidays.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
But there is a limit, right the people that keep
their lights on until Valentine's Day?

Speaker 10 (01:00:28):
No, so we wrote an extraverse to this song. It's
continuing to look a lot like Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
Your house I am at night and your room is
a beam of light.

Speaker 10 (01:00:47):
It's no surprising you divorce yourself. It's continuing to look
take your lights down.

Speaker 24 (01:00:57):
Please.

Speaker 10 (01:00:58):
Every one of the block but you is embarrassed and.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
Helps you do or will chop down all your stream? Wow?
That for those the lyrics did you provide? Yeah, yeah, Okay,
stop it for one second, so Michael, Yes, there's at
least one bit that Michael and the band refused to do.
Do you remember that we talked about that somebody was

(01:01:23):
conducting during the show, but that didn't really happen. Problem
was we didn't have time to practice a whole like
new song. No, but I purposely made the song to
the theme of the Harvard because I knew that you'd
have that excuse. So I was like, Okay, I'm going
to write into the Harvard not fight song, but what
is it that the school song? There's a fair Harvard. Yeah,

(01:01:46):
I'm open to doing it in the future. I think
we just literally didn't happen. Oh, I don't think you'll
ever do it, because it was it was here. I'm
gonna I'm going to sing it really quick. So it
was making fun of Michael for conducting. I was going
to have him conduct while he did it. I don't
know the exact tune anymore, so I'm gonna just He
waves his.

Speaker 25 (01:02:02):
Arm so proudly and so energetically, but none of us
are looking. We're just trying to sing on key. Still,
he acts, says it, he matters that on him. We
all depend, but he lets us pass around his wife,

(01:02:27):
so we all choose to pretend. Yes, his wife has
sex with all love us, so we all choose to pretend.

Speaker 7 (01:02:42):
And he didn't go for that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
He didn't know.

Speaker 7 (01:02:47):
Yeah, I think my wife might have put the mix
maybe a lot of a lot of cuckolding stuff with
you in the show.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
Actually, he did make a point, he said, we've already
got a huckle. It's the show, right. So that was
you know, are you guys coming up with this stuff
for me? Man? Maybe you know enough at time you
skip that one and you go with this. I think
it was also just hard vibe.

Speaker 19 (01:03:16):
Yeah, we don't really go to now they've got rules sexual. Hey,
the Yardbirds don't get into that. You know, we do
a lot of comments, but you know we we know
where to draw the line.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
The crowd to I understand that's why you wanted to
do it. True. Okay, next bit.

Speaker 16 (01:03:35):
I love all these Christmas songs that we're singing, but
I actually don't celebrate Christmas because I'm Jewish. I am Asian,
and I am Jewish. I actually didn't have to apply
to Harvard. They just send me the admission letter.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
It was good, good group.

Speaker 10 (01:03:57):
We have scoured the.

Speaker 16 (01:03:58):
Earth to bring you all of hnic of songs that
we can find, and we have put them all together
in a lovely big medley, which we would like to.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
Do for you. Now. Is this one? This is just
a really shorter Okay, all right, that was a dice

(01:04:34):
you guys all got.

Speaker 5 (01:04:37):
So we're clearly not able to draw a lot of
people with our name, the Harvard Yardbirds.

Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
So we're thinking maybe to focus group a couple of
new names with you guys, so you know, if.

Speaker 5 (01:04:50):
Something resonates with you, feel free to respond. Okay, let's
try this one. How about the Harvard Red Squares? Anybody
like that one? Hasty pudding in your pants?

Speaker 9 (01:05:08):
What is there?

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
Cut away to the old man?

Speaker 5 (01:05:16):
How about boys to mensa?

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
So you guys skipped the one that got the big
laugh in the room, which was one erection. Yeah, once
again people dirty?

Speaker 9 (01:05:32):
Okay, all right, save it. Don't worry no matter how
it goes. We've got Java in our back pocket.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
This is the song up. This one is for the kids.

Speaker 7 (01:06:04):
Did we still say that uncut gem spit?

Speaker 6 (01:06:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
There are some reluctance about whether that would works. I'm
not sure how much of our audience knows the movie.
Maybe just reference a different gambling movie that we can
think of, or something.

Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
You're all familiar with a plot of rounders, right, No, okay,
you're not gonna like the next six, but wait for
something on.

Speaker 12 (01:06:40):
It's me.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
He's a falling Oh my god, Bobby, did.

Speaker 10 (01:06:50):
These harmor guys?

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
I want to sing to.

Speaker 14 (01:06:55):
The only ones who can sing. We're in the middle
of the Show't.

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
Such a slip. You guys are such a mean boy.

Speaker 9 (01:07:06):
If you got clean up their Tom doesn't stream.

Speaker 18 (01:07:13):
No better than me.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
Boy, she's great. You didn't write your lines on your hands.

Speaker 11 (01:07:20):
Just to.

Speaker 14 (01:07:24):
A good schools in New Boys pizza and streets.

Speaker 24 (01:07:32):
I want to say, you guys go up like to
Meati's and snap.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
Ye wow, just what you said Bobby would commit. There
you are, he committed. Let's stop the tape and bring
on the guest of honor Bobby moynahan. Yeah, you're gonna
talk about Yale Boy himself. Wow. A Cappella's Yale Boy.

(01:08:07):
The entrance coming in hot, Wow, nothing setting him up.
Did you get a look at the crowd before, Bobby?
Did you peek out there? And yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:08:19):
I sent some mygo videos of me watching them through
like a slit in the window in the background and
be like, what have I done?

Speaker 8 (01:08:30):
I really wasn't sure how it was going to go.

Speaker 18 (01:08:32):
I've done a lot of these silly bits before, but like,
for some reason, this felt rude. It was like it
was like they were really good too, Like my wife
is a is a very very talented singer, and like
sometimes you forget like a group of people just in
a room singing together can actually be like beautiful and cathartic.

(01:08:52):
And yeah, I'm standing backstage in a sailor outfit going.

Speaker 8 (01:08:55):
Like feel mean where you're like this is beautiful enjoy
to people.

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
And I'm about to kind of like, no one cares.
It's me. It's not exactly the Saturday Night Live audience.

Speaker 8 (01:09:10):
Oh yeah, it's I mean, my entire life is Wait
is that the ratio?

Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
Oh? These people like? Is that Jackie?

Speaker 8 (01:09:20):
It was, but it was a blast. But how many
times I have stood in a tiny all purpose room
in a.

Speaker 18 (01:09:27):
Giant lollipop and a sailor outfits a It's a sad
amount of times.

Speaker 1 (01:09:35):
The commitment is impressive because I would have been back there,
I would have seen the sunlight coming through the windows
and I would have been like, I don't think I
could do this.

Speaker 8 (01:09:44):
Oh, those videos were originally for my wife.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
Those were just a show or like this is what
I'm doing.

Speaker 8 (01:09:49):
I'm forty eight and this is what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
Believe me. I've had that experience when I was forty eight.
It was on my forty eighth birthday. So literally, I
get a call from Lorden Michael's and I am underneath
an acupuncture table in Chinatown holding up Triumph like I'm
on the floor. It's my forty eighth birthday, and there's
an Asian guy who doesn't understand English. The whole bit

(01:10:14):
is that Triumph is turned on by the acupuncture and
wants it to hurt because that's that's what's going to
make him come. And this is what I was doing
on the phone with lord Michael's. How congratulations forty eighth
birth one second, come on, man, rock exactly exactly. So Bobby,

(01:10:36):
all I can tell you is it's it's a blessing
that you can be forty eight and still be such
an idiodt ste.

Speaker 8 (01:10:41):
It's actually a blowing I'm a very lucky yell boy, no.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
Matter what with Bobby being yell boy, ye boys endearing. Yeah,
did you have any experience afterward, like we're any audience
members coming up to you.

Speaker 8 (01:10:55):
I was in the car forty eight seconds after I
left that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
You're like, Lady Gaga, just get me into the limo.
I went, she's gone, She's out of the room. He
was like, with the outfit on. I don't remember taking
the outfit off.

Speaker 7 (01:11:12):
You went so fast, you ran out of the outfield
like appeller hat like spinning in the air like a cartoon.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
So that doesn't sound like you were happy with the
experience if you left that. No, it's like Lebron tearing
his jersey off after Boston be No, it's just that.

Speaker 8 (01:11:27):
That's the thing. It's just the snl of like, well,
onto the next costume. I gotta go put a costume.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
I got three more Rockapella gigs. Okay, give me a break.

Speaker 18 (01:11:37):
That was that was That was probably the least amount
of performing I had to do that, But come home
to my kids and put on a woody costume immediately.

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
That means the real thing. He had kids. It's a
Sunday afternoon. He wanted to get home. Bobby, what do
we need to do to lock you in permanently for
the yard, hurts?

Speaker 8 (01:11:52):
I mean not much food.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
Food three fish sticks in a ride home.

Speaker 8 (01:11:59):
Yeah, just feed me. That's my new drag name.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
Two turntables and a microphone. Well, God bless you, Bobby.

Speaker 7 (01:12:16):
I can't thank you and apologize enough.

Speaker 18 (01:12:20):
Driving home and realizing to go into myself, like the
only reason I showed up was because that was weird.

Speaker 1 (01:12:31):
I think if there's ever a leg like the Yardbirds
come Home Homecoming concert, ye old boy, and Bobby is
willing to reprise his role. He actually went to Harvard.

Speaker 8 (01:12:42):
I'm just gonna go walk around campus the hard.

Speaker 1 (01:12:46):
Yale football game to you. You could play a lost
and alling down.

Speaker 8 (01:12:53):
I have no problem saying this on a podcast. I
am wildly confident I could kick anyone's ass at Harvard.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
Let's put them to the test. We have our headline.
We better know a post more about that later. Not
the Winklebass Twins. No, well, fantastic. I love you.

Speaker 8 (01:13:12):
Thank you for letting me do weird stuff at your
at your acapella group. It was wonderful. It's good to
thanks for coming, Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
Do you have your next gig on the books? We
had a few. We had a number of holiday gigs
went well, do you replace all the holidays stuff? We
won't be doing any favorites, suggestions songs you may have
to do. The cut conductor, the conductor, the concuctor, the concuctor.

(01:13:40):
We're cutting concuctor. You know what, I'm putting it back
in descry and handle it all right. Well, you guys
crushed it. Well done, well done. Yeah, thanksas glad we
could help in whatever way we did. Yes, the group
is invigorated by Seriously, this was like making a fun time.

Speaker 7 (01:13:57):
You might even be able to keep a tenor.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
The one tenor that was there. He quit the group
after this. No jokings. Why I'm having the music. I'm
not some foun exactly he did quit. That's not a
joke yet because of the comedy. No, no, okay, because
OF's some stuff Yale boy said to him. Yeah boy

(01:14:25):
touched him inappropriately, just kidding. All right, Well, thank you
so much, Michael, thank you, Thank you guys, Michael, of
course you gentlemen. It was a lot of fun, thanks
to Bobby moynan. Bobby. All right, another satisfied CUSP. We'll
be right back. So, Mikey Streeter, you guys buy canoes right, oh,

(01:14:54):
absolutely all the time, all the time, right, isn't it
frustrating though? Uh, the trouble you have to go through
every time you buy a canoe. Yeah, you have to
go to the to the store getting at home is
here the salesman spiel. He tries to sell you on
this canoe.

Speaker 7 (01:15:09):
Right, right, And I often know what canoe I want,
you know, But but I got to hear the pitch.

Speaker 1 (01:15:15):
And you got to hear the pitch, and then you
got into the roof. And it's like, given how many
canoes the average person buys in a year, right, it's
a huge inconvenience.

Speaker 7 (01:15:25):
Oh absolutely, I mean I think if you're like me,
I don't. I can't speak for you, guys, but I'm
buying at least a canoe a month.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
Yeah, And so that's that's a whole Saturday, a lot
more than that. And we're heading into February and March,
early March, which is canoe season. Yeah. Right, all I
can say is thank god, finally there's you guys know
about this. Yeah, there's a service called Canoe Direct which
allows you, in the comfort of your own home, to

(01:15:52):
join a club, as it were, and the canoes will
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no more bungee cord on the Yeah. What I love
about it is that you keep the canoes you like, yes,
and you send the ones you don't want right back
to Canoe Direct. You pay the shipping, but you can

(01:16:15):
ask canoe Direct to send you the boxes and what
you need, well you pay if you All you pay
is the shipping. But if you buy enough canoes over
a certain amount of time, you become then you reach
a higher tier. Oh yeah, it's cool too.

Speaker 7 (01:16:27):
The uh and this is a new feature that they
just rolled out, but they're the AI powered algorithm will
learn what canoes you prefer, you know, based on your
order history in which ones.

Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
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Speaker 7 (01:16:41):
Yeah, so it starts tailoring the canoes because sometimes you'll
get like a birch bar I'm not a birch bark
canoe guy, but they were sending you one and I
would always send it back. And now it learned, don't
send them birch bark canoe.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
You know, like the canoe you just got to remember
commenting like where canoe Direct We just like we just
knew Canoe Direct. I mean, honestly, I got into Canoe
Direct for the convenience. I didn't expect the quality of
the canoes to be what they are.

Speaker 24 (01:17:06):
Yeah, you're skeptical at first, but now honestly, then the
subscription piece is nice because I'm not having to think
every you know, saying to my wife, it's the third
Sunday the month, we gotta go, we gotta go to
the canoe cane store.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
They just show up right on my doorstep.

Speaker 9 (01:17:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:17:20):
Kicker kayak is nice too. Once you've bought five canoes,
they send you a kicker kayak yeah, for free, which
is just like a perk, you know. Just it's nice.

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
It's yeah, and I always look nice to break it
up once in a while. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I always
look forward to that day when those five canoes show
up at my house. I'm like, oh, like my wife,
oh my god, my kids run out and they all
know that the canoe delivery man is like he knows
their names. Yeah, you know, it's that white glove delivery,

(01:17:50):
which is nice too.

Speaker 7 (01:17:51):
So they I am unboxes for.

Speaker 1 (01:17:54):
The amount of money yeaeah for one hundred and seventy
nine ninety nine a month. Again, that covers your initial canoe.
You pay for any additional canoes you want, which makes sense,
and the price is by the way better than a
standard canoe store. Well, because you're cutting out the middle man. Yeah,
you're going to overhead the canoe manufacturers, and the rewards

(01:18:15):
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(01:18:58):
I'm sorry, I should have no no, I could spell
it out. Do we have time for me to spell
it out? M U k E? Why? Why?

Speaker 12 (01:19:05):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:19:05):
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