Listener Q&A Episode 12

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1. Pod's hat trick: Seth and Yorm solo

   0:40

   This installment is a two-host story edition with no guests beyond Seth and Jorma. Jorma's 'Woo! More of me' sets the tone for a lighter, self-referential episode.

   Today, it's just Seth and Yorm. Woo! More of me.
   Quaid Army

2. Fans point here

   1:30

   1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 28 likes.

   thought that was me trying to grab a little bit more credit for your your work that maybe i deserved oh no i loved it i loved it i did like that um after i gave you the burrito though uh when we were talking on the off… — Jorma

3. Quaid Army and the righteous kill call

   4:31

   Quaid Army is the collective name for listeners. Shouting it at the hosts gets a 'righteous kill' reply, which Jorma says he varies over time.

   It's like, oh, righteous kill. And then somebody shouts it out again. You're like, oh, yeah, righteous kill.

   Goes back to righteous kill, Ep. 52, 38:17: Oh, Righteous Kill. Have we ever talked about Righteous Kill as a saying?

   Quaid Armyrighteous kill

4. A listener demands a ten-minute theater rakes segment

   6:10

   A YouTube commenter threatened to 'snap' unless the pod discussed theater rakes, which Seth says it finally did.

   if there isn't a 10 minute block of this pod discussing theater rakes, I'm going to snap.

5. Fans point here

   6:10

   2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 1 likes.

   And so somebody wrote, if there isn't a 10 minute block of this pod discussing theater rakes, I'm going to snap. Yeah. Yeah. There was, uh, there was, and, it was, it was, uh, it was delightful. — Seth

6. Fans point here

   7:20

   2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 9 likes.

   Oh, you did multiple burns. You had a comment early on where you said, I always hate it. Oh, no. Talking about movies. I always hate it when the sound doesn't look good. — Seth

7. Andy's jealousy after MacGruber screening

   9:33

   After the MacGruber screening at Soho House, Andy's angry remark that it made him jealous was the highest praise Jorma received from a friend.

   that was the nicest comment that i got was that andy looked at me and angrily was like that made me really jealous

8. Quid: the British Quaid

   9:55

   British listeners are called quids, a coined term that drew responses from UK fans, including a wish for a Quid joke.

   We established two weeks ago that British members of Quaid Army are called quids.
   QuidQuaid Army

9. Jawb: Jeremy Allen White Body

   10:54

   J-A-W-B abbreviates Jeremy Allen White Body, a listener suggestion for a faster way to say the phrase.

   J-A-W-B has been suggested as a faster way to say Jeremy Allen Whitebody.
   jawb

10. Snorm, Yorm's laugh snort

    13:39

    A snorm is the snort Jorma emits while laughing; the pod plays a clip at 29:55 of it.

    A snorm. No, sorry. Yeah. A snorm, which is a yorm snort.
    snorm

11. Hit us in the tittus, British edition

    14:08

    Listeners proposed British alternatives for the call to weigh in, and the hosts considered a YouTube poll to choose between them.

    Two suggestions for how to say hit us in the titties to our British listeners.
    hit us in the tittuspunt us in the cuntus

12. Live pod in England idea

    15:03

    Jorma pitches touring the pod live in England, with Wembley or the O2 suggested as the venue.

    let's make it a goal to like go to England altogether.

13. Laura's I Think I Might Have Killed the President fan video

    15:24

    Listener Laura contacted a friend from an old LiveJournal fan community about her 2000s fan video, which the pod played.

    Today I had the great honor of reaching out to an old friend to inform her that you were playing her I Think I Might Have Killed the President fan video on the pod.
    Quaid

14. Watch the whole thing

    Ardy Party

    16:09

    The hosts play this one in 3 parts from 16:09 (42 seconds of it in all, talking over the rest). Watch the whole thing here, from benjilinus on YouTube.

    Watch the whole thing (3:50) benjilinus on YouTube

15. Fans point here

    17:07

    1 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 4 likes.

    It's amazing how much stuff I had forgotten that we did. It's really, it's very enjoyable. I mean, this is Cal Penn showing up in this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. And by the way, great footage of Artie flailing…

16. Laura's husband tries to impress her

    17:50

    Laura's husband tried to impress her about SNL by mentioning Andy's Lonely Island group, and the couple now watches SNL with their eight-year-old.

    When I met my husband in 2009 and he found out I was a diehard SNL fan

17. Unaired short shown to Catholic high schoolers

    19:28

    In 2008, Jorma showed an unreleased Lonely Island short to Teresa's Catholic high school friends in his in-laws' home, a memorable and bold judgment call.

    you pulled out your laptop and showed us not just any short, but what I now recognize as Criterion Collection
    Criterion

18. Seth's mom and the 'Yorm' name

    20:31

    A listener recalls Seth's late mother, who called Jorma 'Yorm' long before the wider fanbase did. The story frames the show as a comfort tied to family memory.

    She always called you Yorm long before the rest of the world knew that was what true Quades called you.
    Quaid

19. Jorma's 'Yorma' name evolution

    21:37

    Jorma notes that he has become the personality of his name, which the hosts connect to nominative determinism. The bit becomes a running name joke.

    You've sort of become a Yorma, like that you become the personality of the name you have.

20. Seth's middle name and McDuck attempt

    23:01

    Seth describes his name options and his teenage attempt to change his middle name to McDuck, which cost $400. Jorma and Mari joke about a future McDuck married name.

    And I was like, yeah, I went to like City Hall. And they were like, what did you try to change it to? And I was like, McDuck.

21. The McTurds house sign prank

    24:15

    Jorma recounts putting a carved family-name sign on his house that read 'the McTurds,' which backfired when neighbors and Wiley's friends started calling him Mr. McTurd.

    it is on the front of our house... It's the McTurds?

22. Fans point here

    25:29

    2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 1 likes.

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23. Seth's train story with iPad and coins

    27:10

    Seth describes a Friday commuter train trip where his iPad fell out, a stranger handed it back and said 'Quaid Army,' and a bag of coins spilled. The story is then retold from a listener's view.

    And I got my one son has a friend on the train.
    Quaid Armyrighteous kill

24. 'Quaid Army' and 'righteous kill' on the train

    27:55

    A stranger uses the Quaid Army greeting and Seth replies with 'righteous kill,' the established Quaid password. It is the standard exchange between Quaids.

    And then he goes, Quaid Army.
    Quaid Armyrighteous kill

25. Fans point here

    29:02

    2 YouTube comments timestamp this moment.

    i'm like so i'm so stressed and then i just kind of run out and i was gonna come on and apologize basically say that like i deserve a demotion and quit army for how badly uh i behave and then as luck would have it uh… — Seth

26. Theodore's letter from the train

    29:08

    A listener named Theodore writes that he was the 'Quaid' on the train and apologizes for unintentionally throwing Seth off, then describes Seth's food and the coin spill from his point of view.

    I was the Quaid on the train this Friday. I feel like I unintentionally threw him off his rhythm.
    Quaid

27. The 'buffet on the train' and 'straunt'

    29:59

    Theodore calls Seth's snacks a buffet 'like it was his favorite straunt,' a riff on restaurant slang the hosts use throughout the show.

    like it was his favorite straunt.
    straunt

28. Wife-as-Quaid-Army text exchange

    31:14

    Theodore texts his wife about the 'Quaid' moment, and she jokingly responds about Total Recall, pulling in the film's character name that the Quaid name comes from.

    me total recall stuff wife the movie question mark me it's the name of the character from the movie wife
    Quaid

29. Carrots as a parenting cheat code

    33:09

    Jorma offers carrots as an easy trick to keep kids quiet and eating while watching TV, a light parenting aside.

    Carrots, I feel like are very easy. You just pop them in their hands

30. Fallen Angels on Broadway

    33:20

    Seth describes seeing Fallen Angels, a 1925 Noël Coward play starring Rose Byrne and Kelly O'Hara, and notes how the sarcasm still plays.

    One detail here is not in the transcript.

    we went and saw this play called Fallen Angels on Broadway.

31. Lorne poster pose

    36:06

    Jorma texts Lorne Michaels after sitting in the same pose as Lorne on the documentary poster, and Seth copies that pose under the poster in the hotel lobby.

    You've been texting with Lorne Michaels based solely on the way he's sitting on the Lorne documentary poster.

32. Jorma's first pitch at the Mets game

    37:36

    Jorma describes throwing out the first pitch, calling it more of a lob, and says he wished he had celebrated longer. The walk-up music was 'Turtleneck and Chain' after the team refused 'Dick in a Box.'

    I wasn't going to do the walk-up music for Diaz

33. Andy's failed Queen B voice note

    40:30

    Andy calls in at the last moment to say he did not get Queen B on the Spelling Bee, which the hosts treat as a failure. This ties into the show's puzzle-game lore.

    I did not get Queen B.
    Queen Bee

34. 'Later, Quaid' sign-off

    40:53

    The hosts end with 'Later, Quaids,' the official parting words of the podcast, with Arnold Schwarzenegger's recorded line invoked as the sign-off gag.

    Take it away, Arnold. No, wait, wait, wait. Later, Arnold. Later, Quaid.
    later, Quaids