Family Trips: JORMA TACCONE Wanted to Ride in a Limousine

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1. Seth on the Bay Area and the trio's upbringing

   16:06

   Seth notes that Jorma, Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer all come from the Bay Area, and that the details of Bay Area life seem to explain how the three of them turned out.

   along with Andy Sandberg and Akiva Schaffer. And every detail I ever hear about growing up in the Bay Area makes me happier.

2. Jorma's brother's home birth and the freezer placenta

   17:27

   Jorma recalls his brother's home birth, witnessed by Jorma and his friend Ari, and the placenta his parents kept in the family freezer for about a year. It is a vivid Bay Area detail the hosts seize on.

   my parents saved his placenta in our refrigerator. So it was in our freezer for like a year because they forgot about it.

3. Jorma's childhood Bay Area robbery stories

   20:58

   Jorma describes Berkeley break-ins where the only thing worth stealing was the stereo, a neighbor who used the family wheelbarrow and a diaper trail, and a police mobile station parked on the block.

   we got robbed a lot, which was really funny because we didn't have it. We had nothing to rob.

4. The Hawaii trip and the childhood limo fantasy

   26:25

   Jorma explains how his third-grade obsession with limousines set up his disappointment on the family's 1990s Hawaii trip, which had a shack-based squatter setup rather than the glamour he expected.

   I was obsessed with, with vacation. I was like, this is vacation.

5. Jorma's Hawaii squatter shack story

   32:59

   Jorma's godmother Sandra and her Native Hawaiian husband Michael lived in driftwood shacks with tarp flaps on Anahola Beach, Kauai, stealing electricity from poles. The family's stay was a far cry from a limousine.

   But this felt like this to me, to me, because again, I'm 13, but we go. So when we show up to my godmother's, what I thought was a house

6. Jorma's godmother's Hawaii house and the cockroaches

   36:50

   Jorma and his brother stayed in an unfinished plywood house Sandra built with her inheritance, which had electricity and flying cockroaches, while his parents stayed inside. Hawaiian land-rights history frames the setup.

   One detail here is not in the transcript.

   there's flying cockroaches. I mean, just for me, I was like, this is a nightmare.

7. Jorma's brother Asa on the 'scene' of camping

   37:10

   Jorma plays audio of his younger brother Asa describing the trip as a 'scene' where people partied hard. Asa, eight at the time, befriended a local boy named Coco and loved every minute.

   It was like camping. My dad said it was a, quote, scene.

8. Ages 8 and 12 trip contrast

   38:09

   Seth frames the Hawaii trip as a kid-versus-teen perspective difference: the eight-year-old saw wonder and made local friends, while the twelve-year-old wanted his limo.

   This is the best definition of the ages 8 and 12.

9. Anahola eviction tape

   39:18

   Four days into the family's six-day Hawaii trip, federal agents arrived and posted eviction notices, turning the vacation into an unexpected protest episode.

   four days into the trip about we wake up in the morning and about 30 police cars are pulling in and they're federal agents

10. Anahola Beach Park 7 aftermath

    42:27

    Jorma says his godmother and six other people were jailed for nine months after the eviction; they became known as the Anahola Beach Park 7.

    And then my godmother and six other people were in jail for nine months after that.

11. Derek stories origin during pandemic

    45:52

    Derek stories are two-minute Aesop-style fables interrupted by a character named Derek, created during the pandemic.

    Was it during the pandemic that you started making weird nursery, like, fables?

12. Diarrhea as a recurring punchline

    47:53

    Jorma and Andy Samberg bonded early over diarrhea jokes, a punchline that persists in their work.

    a love of diarrhea as a punchline to a joke it's it's still a punchline constantly

13. Mari's Queen's Gambit Berlin years

    49:46

    Mari's directing work took the family to Berlin for about four years, shaping Wiley's school years in multiple cities.

    We had to live in Berlin as well for a little while because Mario was doing the Queen's Gambit out there.

14. Tropical Islands water park

    51:04

    Tropical Islands is a huge water park housed in a former Soviet-era Zeppelin factory about 45 minutes outside Berlin.

    it's in the most massive old like Soviet era Zeppelin factory

15. Writing MacGruber in Berlin

    54:53

    Jorma wrote MacGruber material nightly from a Berlin production office, meeting people and skating to fall asleep.

    I would write from like 7 p.m. to like sometimes 5 in the morning.

16. Vitamin C overdose anecdote

    59:06

    Jorma and a childhood friend ate a whole bottle of vitamin C as kids, calculating roughly 50,000 times the daily allowance.

    we ate an entire bottle of vitamin C and i calculated i was like oh we ate 50 000 times our daily allowance

17. Asa's tape: 'Only Winston understands me'

    1:04:58

    After eighth grade graduation Jorma vanished with his friend Winston; he later told his parents Winston was the only one who understood him, and the family dreaded the Hawaii trip.

    Nobody understands me. Only Winston understands me. That was the quote that my dad remembered.

18. Strike Three comedy rap group

    1:05:40

    Jorma, Winston Ross and Mark Shotland formed Strike Three, a comedy rap group where each member had struck out with girls; it was Jorma's first comedy rap show.

    We were in a group called Strike Three because we each struck out with ladies.

19. Red Pony prank calls and Audible

    1:06:21

    The boys prank called people and filled answering machines by reading John Steinbeck's The Red Pony chapter by chapter; Seth jokes this is how Audible started.

    We would call people's houses and we would find an answering machine and then we would read.

20. Steve Higgins' McConaughey voicemail

    1:07:08

    SNL producer Steve Higgins told Matthew McConaughey to record his monologue story, and Seth receives these recordings as voicemails every few years.

    And so McConaughey recorded this long story about his dad.

21. Lonely Island podcast promo

    1:14:23

    Seth announces a new Lonely Island podcast with Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer covering their famous, unfamous and infamous songs.

    myself, Andy Samberg, and Akiva Schaffer have a new podcast that just came out about the Lonely Island

22. Scarface sample cost

    1:16:02

    The Lonely Island wanted a Scarface sample for Trouble on Dookie Island, but the per-use fee was $10,000, so they went through a contact named Michael.

    Every time you use the sample, it's $10,000. And we were like, we know a guy.