Episodes › Ep. 117 2026-06-24 · 1:10:15
I Just Had Sex (Part 2)
The hosts open with wedding chatter and Andy's mood, then discuss Clifford (1994), Jorma's dragon-themed kei van, which Car and Driver covered, and a tribute to Anne Schedeen with an Alf voice note. They move into Just Had Sex, covering how beats are claimed from producers and the Karate Guy/Lil Wayne beat overlap, then begin watching the video, touching on the freezing MetLife rooftop shoot, the 4K vs HD discussion, the Soho apartment shoot, and McEnroe's cameo. They walk through the making-of of the "I Just Had Sex" video: the gray, empty Frankfurt-style city walks, the Starbucks and bathroom continuity gag, the Times Square crowd of real tourists watching a news-style billboard, and the steam room and manure pile, plus the Space Hog reference. They dig into the MetLife rooftop flying-chair shot and how the firework effect was sourced from a Dallas VFX company after a cold call to Dave Myers' production company, along with the slow-motion and parallax techniques. The episode ends with Spelling Bee talk, a Winter Soldier crossword recap, and the sign-off.
Heard here, not in the AlmaNick yet
- Dieter Van Cunt “name for your van oh what is it dieter van cunt oh that's very good hard to argue”
- Dwagon Wagon “dieter van cunt the dwagon wagon it's very good it could be dieter van cunt colon the dwagon wagon”
- Ping us in the dingus “ping us in the dingus oh i think that actually works quite well yeah we might have to start saying that”
- dingus “well you have to say like you can't say pingas because dingus like well no actually pingas and the dingus”
- Pingas and the dingus “well no actually pingas and the dingus pingas and the dingus you just can't say dingus”
- brain flog “you're actually such a dork that you have had sex and now you're like got like a little bit of brain flog”
- Pingus “no it was pingus it was pingus in the dingus pingus in the dingus zingus works too yeah but ping makes sense”
Shorts discussed: I Just Had Sex, Karate Guy, Clifford (1994 film), I Just Had Sex
Guests: John McEnroe (Appears in the Just Had Sex video; shot at 30 Rock and…), Akon (Performer in the Just Had Sex video; had to be shot in…)
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Pop-ups (39 · 6 fan picks from YouTube comments · 2 clips to watch whole)
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Beat claiming and the producer's hold
16:39The hosts explain how beats are sent to many artists and how the group calls producers to put a hold on tracks they start working on. Producers may then get a contract with a payment and ownership share.
when we start working on one, try to contact the producer immediately to put a hold on it.
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Karate Guy and the shared beat
17:40Karate Guy was released after a Lil Wayne song had been built on the same beat, so the credits list it as a sample. The overlap shows how beats circulate across artists.
if you look at the credits of Karate Guy, it's as if we sampled their song.
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Karate Guy
20:36The hosts play this one from 20:36 (6 seconds of it in all, talking over the rest). Watch the whole thing here, from thelonelyisland on YouTube.
thelonelyisland on YouTube
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August Alsina - Why I Do It (Explicit) ft. Lil Wayne
20:36The hosts play this one in 5 parts from 20:36 (78 seconds of it in all, talking over the rest). Watch the whole thing here, from August Alsina on YouTube.
August Alsina on YouTube
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Fans point here
21:331 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 28 likes.
Let's mash it up. I like to kick it. I'm a karate guy.
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August Alsina and the quump
22:49Andy jokes that August Alsina will get a quump, a Quaid bump in viewership, from the Why I Do It comparison. The term quump is a listener-coined mashup of Quaid bump.
will he be rewarded in this moment and get a massive quump?
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Fans point here
24:081 YouTube comment timestamps this moment, 78 likes.
Is that something you'd say? Yes. Yes? Yes. Both of you. Yeah, both Jorm and I, yes. Keeve wouldn't. No, Keeve would never. No, that's not in my purview. He wouldn't dare. You guys ready to rock? Yeah, let's take a…
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Fans point here
26:305 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 18 likes.
He wouldn't dare. You guys ready to rock? Yeah, let's take a little look-see. Totally. All right. I'm so excited. This is Just Had Sex. Sorry. Did you not want me to do it? No, go ahead.
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Rooftop shoot in sub-zero cold
27:18The Just Had Sex rooftop scenes were shot on a freezing day, with Andy's face turning red and Akiva unable to hold a pen. The team had to keep lights low to avoid blowing off the building.
it's the coldest day of the year in, like, 12 years. And Jorm and I's faces are frozen.
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Dorky earmuffs
28:24Seth notes that the earmuffs and dorky look make the Just Had Sex video work, reminding viewers the hosts are not the Bone Squad. The hosts agree they wanted to split the difference.
the earmuffs add to what makes it work so well, which is you guys are like dorky.
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Lighting kept low for safety
29:52Heavy lights on the MetLife rooftop had to stay under five feet to prevent them from blowing off and hitting people below. Some planned high shots were cut.
They're like, we can't have anything above like five feet up because it could blow off the building.
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Akon's frozen face and quick cuts
31:47Akon's face was too cold to move his mouth for the lyrics, so the crew stitched together shots to match the words. The hosts joke he hid in a microwave between takes.
Akon's face was so cold, he couldn't move his mouth to do the lyrics.
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4K footage, HD broadcast
32:25The crew shot in 4K while the show broadcast in HD, so one spectacular take of Akon was reused for coverage. The hosts discuss how much a 4K frame can be enlarged before losing quality.
we were like shooting in full 4K, but the show just, you know, broadcasts at HD, so we don't need 4K.
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McEnroe's cameo and Never Have I Ever
37:10John McEnroe appeared in Just Had Sex after coming to 30 Rock from SNL. The hosts link him to Never Have I Ever, where he voices the lead character and Andy voices a boy's narration.
McEnroe does the voiceover of the main character, who is a teenage girl.
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Popstar poster in a teen show
37:37A scene in Never Have I Ever shows a poster for Popstar with the three Lonely Island faces, which takes viewers out of emotional moments. Seth jokes about a poster of himself in Sex Lives of College Girls.
there's a scene where people are going to lose their virginity and it's under a poster for Popstar.
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Seth poster in Sex Lives
37:56Seth Meyers says a character on Sex Lives of College Girls has a Late Night poster in their dorm. Andy jokes about the poster being a fantasy of college girls.
there's a poster of me in the dorm room of one of the characters on Sex Lives of college girls.
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Gray, empty, wet city look
39:24The hosts note the video's dreary, empty city imagery, which they frame as a deliberate take on the usual sunny music video look.
Empty, gray, wet, just like muted colors.
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Wearing their own clothes
39:30Jorma says the outfits in the walking shots were his own clothes, which fits the homemade look of the walk-to-work scenes.
It's also funny because those are my clothes.
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Travelogue and Iron Curtain vibe
40:14The shots were compared to European travelogue and Eastern Bloc television, a look the hosts say they were aiming for.
This is, like, how they used to do TV behind the Iron Curtain.
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Bathroom continuity gag
42:09The Starbucks-bathroom implication became a running question about whether the character had sex twice, which the hosts riff on.
Why are you coming out of the women's room? Had sex in the bathroom.
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Alfred Hitchcock cameo
42:52A shot in the cafe features an Alfred Hitchcock appearance, which the hosts jokingly reference.
Oh, Alfred Hitchcock makes an appearance.
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Central Park location scouting
45:16The Central Park bandshell area was loosely scouted, and the hosts joke about the classier choice over hobo fires.
I think we loosely scouted this area and the little stage area that's right near here.
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Steady Phil the Steadicam op
45:51Steadicam operator Steady Phil is credited with long, unbroken takes that the hosts say the video depended on.
Keith, what is the name of our Steadicam dude who's so fucking rad?
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Times Square crowd of real tourists
48:08The Times Square extras were largely people who gathered and were pulled into the shot, with the hosts praising the diverse group.
Just all there in the tickets line for Broadway shows.
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Missed ticker idea
48:42The hosts wish they had added a news-style ticker to the Times Square billboard shot to match the news-story framing.
It's also interesting that we didn't put like a ticker on the bottom.
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Nail salon and faux steam room
50:12The spa scene was shot in a nail salon, and the steam room was a white bench in front of a white wall rather than a built set.
It was just like a white bench pushed in front of a white wall.
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Steam room callback to YOLO
50:26The hosts compare this steam room to the built sauna set in the YOLO video, which had piranhas.
Yeah, with all the piranhas. That's more of a sauna. That one we built.
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Space Hog look callback
51:49The sunglasses were compared to the Space Hog look, a nod to the 90s band's style and song.
It is the classic Turn Like a Chain look, but the sunglasses are more space hog.
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Fans point here
51:542 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 5 likes.
It is the classic Turn Like a Chain look, but the sunglasses are more space hog. Yeah. I was trying to put a term that would fit to it, but you nailed it. Space hog. Yeah, we all remember space hog. Yeah, we look way…
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Spaceg In the Meantime
52:55Seth shares a story about a friend who announces surprise visits by playing the Spaceg song 'In the Meantime'.
I'm going to surprise you in New York City.
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Bittersweet Symphony sketch that never aired
55:49Andy recalls a Jonah Hill-hosted sketch about a stuck CD that kept playing The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony, which was never performed.
When Jonah Hill hosted, he wrote a sketch that didn't go to dress.
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Skywriting was real
57:25The skywriting shot was not green screen; the hosts confirm it was real and likely captured on the day.
Also not green screen, which is crazy because it just looks very much like it is, but it isn't.
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Fans point here
59:354 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 27 likes.
Top hat. Top hat and sunnies. Was that the day you went and shot your part in the Tom Petty biopic? I like how you can see how cheap the Sex Olympics sign looks. Keep walked out of this frame and into the don't come…
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Real Sex Olympics banner
1:00:15The Sex Olympics banner is a real hanging banner, with the hosts noting its fake-looking 3D lettering.
This X Olympics banner real despite how CG looks.
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Fans point here
1:00:555 YouTube comments timestamp this moment, 15 likes.
The fact that that's real is so crazy. It's so crazy. So key change. Yeah, on the key change, but the fact that Akon just flew off the second highest building in New York to go even higher.
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MetLife rooftop jib arm
1:01:36The flying chair was a giant jib arm hoisted onto the MetLife building in pieces, built on a secondary roof level during freezing wind.
on top of the MetLife building on the windiest, freezingest day of the year.
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Akon flies above Manhattan
1:02:11The rooftop lift is the video's climax, with Akon rising out of frame while the hosts stay in the shot.
And then he just starts to lift out of the frame.
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Slow-mo joke shots convention
1:06:38The hosts explain that slow-motion shots without lyrics were a deliberate convention for joke moments, giving viewers a break from being spoken to.
if it's a joke shot, we always make sure we get it in slow motion, not saying the lyrics.
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30-frame slow-mo trick
1:07:32Jorma shares a tip: shooting at 30 frames and speeding it up gives an ethereal slow-motion look.
If you shoot at 30 frames and then speed that up, like if you use that as your slow-mo.
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Fireworks effect sourced via Dave Myers
1:08:37Akiva cold-called Dave Myers' production company to learn how the Katy Perry-style fireworks were made, leading to a Texas VFX team.
And I cold called Dave Myers production company.
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Budapest fireworks plates
1:09:10The VFX company had shot fireworks over black in Budapest for two nights, and they turned around the shot in about 48 hours.
They had gone to Budapest and shot for two nights, different fireworks going off for the plates over black.
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Hood flip question
1:10:37A listener asked whether a hood-up shot was played backwards; the hosts say no, it is just the hood flipping up quickly.
is this shot played backwards?
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Radium VFX credit
1:10:52Jorma identifies the fireworks company as Radium, a Dallas VFX firm, after the hosts thank the team.
Radium, a real VFX company from Dallas, Texas.
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Spelling Bee hints talk
1:13:21The hosts discuss Spelling Bee play, including clean runs versus hints and the Queen Bee ranking.
Andy, do you ever, when you do no hints, do you ever say to yourself, no stems, no seeds, no hints?
Goes back to Queen Bee, Ep. 8, 18:30, Seth:
By the way, I also got, he didn't tell me to check my phone, but he also got Queen Bee on the spelling bee, which he texted me right before this started.
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Non-word burn
1:14:10Seth jokes about not getting 'non-word' as a word, in a Spelling Bee day.
I will tell you the biggest burn I got yesterday was that I didn't get non-word as one of my words.
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Winter Soldier crossword clues
1:14:35Crossword clues referencing the Bay Area are treated as winter soldier activation words, a recurring bit.
I think any reference to the Bay Area is a winter soldier.
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Later, Quaids sign-off
1:15:38The show's sign-off includes 'Later, Quaids,' with a cameo-style callback to Arnold and others.
Later, Quades. Later, Ghostface. Later, Quades.
People and sketches mentioned (28)
Jorma Forte Amy Poehler Sarah Sherman Mike O'Brien Charles Grodin Martin Short Brendan McAleer Lil Wayne Del the Funky Homosapien B.O.B. Lang Fisher Monty Akon Blake Lively Jessica Alba Dave Myers Steady Phil Rob Smythe Jonah Hill Arnold Jack Black
ALF Digman Popstar Never Have I Ever Sex Lives of College Girls Bittersweet Symphony sketch (unaired)
Source: whisperx-v2+speakers transcript, read by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 on 2026-10-25; audio timestamps mapped to the YouTube cut by word alignment. Timestamps shown are YouTube time. Report a bad pop-up.