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27:30Yeah. Which would make what we're doing now completely irrelevant. What if this whole thing was just read the book and then we just end it. You don't have to go into it. I'm just saying. Madonna, my point is actually that she booked a tour and she was playing like theaters and by the time the tour was actually happening, she was so beyond selling out a theater in terms of stature. Like she literally went, I think by the tour, before the tour is finished, I think she was like on the cover of Time Magazine or something. So it was like she was on her way to being a cultural phenomenon. But then she really was one by the end of that tour.

28:08Is it a coincidence that we were on that tour? I mean, I don't know. I don't know. All I'm saying is before you guys signed up, she's in theaters. Small theaters. I mean, we used to play at the same clubs in New York. Yeah. I'm just saying. No one ever talks about that part of the show. In the podcast era, this is compelling information. Well, actually, it is. Because she's floundering around. She's in theaters. It's going nowhere. You add the mixture, the key element of the Beastie Boys. Right. Suddenly, she's on the cover of Time Magazine, which at that moment was a big deal. Huge deal. Of course, now no one knows what you're talking about.

28:46You don't know who Joe Franklin is, do you? Yes, I do. We were on the Joe Franklin show. No. In 83, 84? Joe Franklin, just for our listeners. Yeah, how do you explain Joe Franklin? Joe Franklin, a guy who never should have had a show, but magically did. He name dropped everybody in show business. He had a small, it almost would today look like a cable access show. And he sat there and his show was on for 40 years. Forever. Yeah. And he had like a real studio in New York. Like you'd go and it was like very, I guess, you're more of a student than I am of this stuff. But he's like, it's vaudevillian.

29:23Yes, and a lot of his references would go over the head of anybody here, but Joe Franklin is an iconic New York institution. I can't imagine the Beastie Boys on the Joe Franklin show. It was so great. And then at the end, he was like, well, you know, fellas, whatever you call this, and he's like, I see big things happening to you since you are going to be on this show. And he was basically like, you know, you're giving the Joe Franklin bump. It was pretty great. It was pretty great. You're like, I don't know. Next thing you know. Yeah, let me go on tour. So what you're saying, Joe Franklin blesses you, then you guys bless Madonna, and then Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

30:01True. You're right. It all goes back to Joe Franklin. Seven. You guys have seven platinum selling albums, and that's thanks to a man named Joe Franklin. What's with the other ones that aren't platinum? Because we made more than seven records. I have bad news for you. I know. No, I don't. I mean, everyone's got a couple of duds. Everyone. I like them. I mean, you know. I love that your mind works that way. Because that's exactly. It's what didn't work. There's seven that did, but what didn't work. Yeah. That's exactly how mine works. I didn't know a music insider. Would you like some musical insider information?

30:41Yes, I would. So we were at our studio here in California. And I was smoking the pot. This was a long time ago. Oh, God. And we had a gold record on the wall. It was our record, Paul's Boutique. And I was looking at it and I could see it has our label and I could see that it has whatever, like nine songs on the one side. And I was looking at the actual gold record and only had four songs on it. And I was like, wait, wait, you guys. And so we opened it and we put the record on the, on a record player and gold record. I mean broke the glass and took the record out of the thing and it was somebody doing like piano versions of like Barry Manilow like feelings and yeah just some other shit when someone has a gold record they just take any record apparently I don't know about anybody else but I'm telling you I'd like to think that for you know Barbara Streisand, Donna Summer like a real mega star that it was actually their record In our case, it was some...

31:46I'm saying this is a documentary. Whoever's record that was, I'm just talking. This should lead to a quiz show kind of investigation because I think all gold records need to be examined. They all need to be recalled, and you need to go to every... And you should check them out because it's probably not their record. And if it's not on a massive scale, recount. It's a recount. We need to recall all gold and platinum plaques. Maybe the most important thing facing America right now. Oh. Yeah. At least for the next couple of months. Okay. All our energy should go into it. Well, I think, Gordon, you can be a big part of this.

32:20At least until December. Next time, you know, say Lady Gaga is here, you could, you know, really urge her to do the same flavor. You guys have come to the right place. Platinum. I have incredible power in the music industry. I didn't know you could play those. I just thought they were decorative. I didn't know either. I didn't know. I hadn't thought about it. Well, it turned out it basically seemed like, I guess it was somebody's record. there was spray painted gold or something. I don't know. Because who would? Who would break the glass and put it on a turntable? They weren't counting on you guys.

32:51You were the X Factor. We were the sleuths that uncovered this incredible crime ring. This could be an action movie with John Cena. Oh. I'm just saying. John Cena and The Rock? The Rock breaks the glass. We can't afford The Rock. No, no. One of them. We can't do both. Just stick to John Cena. we can get John Cena because he does commercials Jason Momoa? too much oh alright but how about this Jason Statham is the bad guy who makes the plaques this is way too hot for me right now I love it I want in on this and I'd like to be a producer but also I'd like to be in the film I can I just say this now that we're we're in Hollywood California anybody that like makes action movies I just want to be in the background during an action scene I want to get pushed into like a a thing of fruit that's what i just want to be in a movie where like they're chasing and somebody pushes me into like a fruit cart yeah i think i think uh adam ad rock would like to be pushed into fruit in the background of uh but wait a minute fruit is that like a safe landing like what is it's just always the thing where like people are walking they're like whoa and the car and they get pushed into the thing of fruit there's always the chase scene that right like goes through like that's what i'm saying like hotel kitchen and the cafe secret back entrance this was my coffee reference to cafe Yeah.

34:09I'll see that that is done. I'll see that that happens. Just the listeners. Yeah. That and please help us uncover this platinum plaque. Yeah, gold. Controversy. It wasn't platinum in the story. It wasn't, you're right, it was gold. I'm sorry, stickler for the details. I'm gonna say probably the same for the platinum. Yeah, who knows? Maybe it's a status thing. Like gold, you're like, eh. Just spray paint that album by the Parkage family. I mean, Platinum, maybe they had a better eye for detail. Guys, you moved to LA. What year do you move to LA? I'm going to get this thing back on track. We came out here to record Paul's Boutique because we were working with these producers called the Dust Brothers who are from out here.

34:53And then we'd had this whole falling out with Russell Simmons and Def Jam. And we just wanted to get away from like the New York scene that we were in. And so we were coming out here to record that album. Now, did you have, because I'll admit to having an attitude a bit about coming to LA. Did you have an attitude about LA? Yeah, I definitely have an attitude, but then - I think I still do. We got it. Because I'm not good about driving. Are you good about actually driving to all this stuff? I'm one of the best drivers in the world. Well, I saw I've been driving, but do you actually make the effort?

35:24Like, do you go downtown to the Arts District? Oh, downtown. Oh, God, no. No, I live in a bubble. It's just the neighborhood. That's my point. It's my house and then there's like a frozen yogurt place six minutes away and I have my playlist and that's it. Right, Sona? Yeah, you don't like to leave. I've never seen the sun. So fro-yo, that's it. No, I do try. And one of the things that was good for me is a bunch of years ago when I started doing live sets in preparation for something, just going to these weird theaters that I didn't know about, Dynasty Typewriter Hotel, places downtown. and then I got into a thing where a couple of friends of mine and I decided, let's just eat at diners and restaurants that were established before we were born, which was 1963.

36:10So we just ended up finding all these places that had been in, and they had to be in continuous operation. So we'd find these weird places to eat in downtown LA that had sawdust on the floor that the cops in the 1940s used to frequent. And so then I started to really appreciate, there's tons of amazing stuff in LA, but it didn't come naturally. I have a lot of things that I need to say I wish I should have written them down Wait, which was a sandwich place With the old Philips Was Philips on your list? Was your diner thing a specific dish Or was it just to find a rest Find a place that was in My friends Rodman and Greg and I Would say it has got to be in Big Rod?

36:49Not Big Rod Not Big Rod I've seen his ride, it's fine Oh Why did I go to a dick joke? Well, I'll tell you why. I have two moves. You stick to it, and they're sitting on marijuana. That's the two. Pot hands. Pot hands. Pot hands and two. That's all I've got. If you look at my milieu, my oeuvre, that's all there is. All right, so, it's just about the diner and the thing before. Okay, do you know what the Mille Mille is? Is that what it's called? No, Mille Mille. Is that what you're trying to say? So, you're the best driver in the world. I went to Italy this summer, a little vacation. and I asked Michael Diamond, I said, what do you think of Bologna?

37:30He's like, I went through there on the Mille Mice or whatever. And I had to Google it because I didn't know what the hell he was talking about. Mike, go. I sort of luck into things in my life. And one of the things I have lucked into. You're here, aren't you? Yeah. See, see, huh? High five. Or at joke. Yeah. One of the things I got asked to do was this classic, this rally race that runs every year in Italy and has since like basically the birth of the automobile. So you did that. So I did that. And when I had an incredible dinner in Bologna, it was how good was the food in Bologna? 10 out of 10.

38:1210 out of 10. Yeah. Was it Italian food? So much Italian food. Oh my God. There's like Italian food everywhere. I just would be funny. i just would have liked it if it wasn't a dying thing i did get chinese one night and uh and you know not so much yeah are you a chinese one night and we're just rolling the dice i don't know switch it up we've been there for like three weeks i was like yeah i didn't see that but still i mean that's wow yeah that's a high risk maneuver so um adam you've been interested in acting as i would say when i first would watch the videos i thought it's like there was almost like a cross in the road where you could have it could be music but you very much seem like a comedic actor performer that's felt like that was in your bones almost like a dead end kids kind of thing i don't know if you know that a lot of yeah yeah yeah a lot of people like a lot of people want me to go solo for one side note right i can't i couldn't do that to them do You still have the letters?

39:17Yeah. Wallpaper. You know, yeah, that's what I thought I would do when I was a kid. I wanted to be an actor. And then I did a couple of things. I hate the hours. Yeah. I know what it's like for comedy. I mean, but acting itself is, it's a hassle. You're not going to talk about Ronald? Well, we can. I feel like that's your opportunity to jump in if you want. Adam had a very great role in a great TV show with an esteemed actor, Edward Woodward. The show is called The Equalizer, long before Denzel Washington discovered said property. Right. I remember this TV show. And then Adam played a rich kid gone bad.

40:08We were all, how old were we? Like 17 or something? Yeah. 16, 17. And the highlight of the whole show was in busting the drug crime ring. Edward Woodward takes this silver chain, I think it was silver, from around his neck. and he throws it around the villain and lassoes him with his necklace. Like Wonder Woman. Yeah, it was a very Wonder Woman-like act. The episode is called Mama's Boy and I was Mama's Boy. You were Ronald. And my first line, professional acting line, there's kids that want to get into the back room and I go, yo, chill. That was my first thing that I did. and uh yeah and at the end uh the guy has a sword and the equalizer comes in he's like oh you caught me red-handed he throws at him and the sword gets flying and yeah anyways that's that's where the necklace goes i don't you know but you had kind of like a uh rubber-faced comedian like i could have been i could there's so many things i could have done i mean i still could are you offering me a job yes yes i am we're in hollywood should i have a show like like what like i want don't know like like stand-up or no i don't think it's stand-up i think it's yeah but it's in acting that's the show it's in acting that's the problem that's what you don't like you don't want the hours that suck yeah yeah you got to stick around you got to hang around you got to stay in your trailer someone knocks on the door and says be another two hours that's not for you no i get tired you know well there's a bed in the trailer i know but then you got to wake up it's just a lot It's a lot of hard work.

41:51It's really hard work. Mike, no? No, I agree. A lot of work. But I'm going to also say stand-up not for you. Because stand-up is really a lot of work. You have to write your bits. You have to keep coming up with new bits and then keep trying out the bits. And you have to leave your house. That part sucks. Yeah. So you wanted something where you stay in your house and you sleep most of the time. I'd like it. Okay. I can help you. I can figure this out. Does it feel to you guys now that you're looking back? Rubber face? Yeah. I knew you'd come around. Yeah, but yeah, what is rubber? That's the way you can kind of bend your face in this great way.

42:32It reminded me of, why am I blanking on his name, that fantastic actor from the Dead End Kids? Satch? Yeah, Satch, but who played him? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I see. Gorsi? Leo Gorsi. No, no, Leo Gorsi, not Leo Gorsi. The guy who's not Leo Gorsi. Yeah. I know how you're talking about. Think of it. But anyway, I swear to God, you were channeling him sometimes. We actually, my - Am I right? An old friend of mine, Max Perlick, was obsessed with the Dead End Kids. We used to talk about it a lot. Yeah, yeah. Leo Gorsi. He was the main guy. He was like the leader. Leo Gorsi was like the ringleader.

43:05And then there was, help me. Help me somebody. They're on it. Yeah, I see. Three of us are Googling, frantically Googling right now. Yeah, yeah. Okay, well. All right, so I'm not the lead guy. I am like the goofy sidekick. I don't know. I swear to God, I got a dead end kids vibe the first time I saw you and in the different videos. And, you know, I just thought like, okay, that's a possible avenue for this gentleman. Clearly what you chose was spectacular. We are lucky it worked out. Yeah. Hunt's Hall? Hunt's Hall. Hunt's Hall. Yes, that's it. Hunt's Hall. You got a Hunt's Hall vibe. And I mean that as a great compliment because I think he's one of the all-time comedy greats.

43:43So there you go. Thank you.

43:54i did have something i wanted to say to go back to what you want to say which was something on topic you would it were you talking about the comedy aspect of our band and stuff and we talked about it's like um when we would write lyrics and we'd write our rhymes the you know one of the most important things was to say something that would make the other two laugh right or the other two to be like oh that you know i mentioned rod carew and they'd be like that would get something inspired you know whatever but the main thing was to make each other laugh and we put out a record people seem to respond to that and so it's like anything in life you get a response and you just sort of go with that thing yes yeah that was our writing room right like we are was just we just sit around with these uh you know our spiral notebooks Sometimes the composition books, the bound ones.

44:44Just loose paper. Once a while. But anyway, that was the biggest, that was the most nerve-wracking thing was like getting the approval of these two guys, Adam and R.A.P. Yauk in the room of either the laugh or the, oh, that shit is good. You know, that was the thing. After that, it didn't really matter. It's so funny because to think about you guys, the three of you sitting there with composition books loosely whatever working it out is makes perfect sense to me as someone who's been in not that it's a similar process but in a different world different mind shaft but it makes perfect sense to me but also seems absurd of course you'd have to do that of course you'd have to sit around and figure this out writing it down to me the ingredient that i think the magical ingredient that you guys had was it always was clear to me that you were having fun that you there was something really joyous about the music the process three friends doing this together making each other laugh and getting to do this on a grand scale that felt like the magic elixir to the whole thing it didn't have to have a job it's fucking awesome yeah but you know there are so many groups where they manage to lose that there are so many groups that manage to after the initial success, they lose sight of it and it becomes a job.

46:10And I feel like Beastie Boys, that never happened. No, I agree. I mean, listen, there were compromises we'd have to make. Everybody has to make them in life. Oh, really? Yeah. Do you want to snooze? This is insane. Snooze to me. Snooze to you, Adam. Adam's never compromised, but I guess. I mean, we're both wearing the same clothes. You're saying that I chose.

46:38I think you said it though very well of just that I do feel I think we're both super grateful of the fact that we got to basically just like do what we always did right we would just get together in a room with each other and try to make each other laugh but somehow it operated on this big scale you know it's and it's this thing of like so that's what I mean of compromise is like yeah of course we would let let be like okay you want that to be the single on the album like we don't ever want to listen to it but fine if that's what you want to do. you think people are gonna listen to fine. It's funny because I just, just looking at the video for intergalactic, you know, planetary or, or, um, sabotage, or I just see, and it actually almost every video I can think of you guys made.

47:19I kind of wish I was there because it looks like you're having a really good time. We were screwing around really, really fun. And, and that comes through to me. That's the secret sauce and it is hard to sustain. I mean, as you say, I'm sure there are bumps in the road or compromises here and there, but it never looked that way from my vantage point. Well, apparently they're those records that didn't turn platinum that we found out about today. Those two. Yeah. Who cares? Because they're not really your records anyway. That's true. I don't know. Spoken word records. Yeah. I don't know what happens.

47:59We got very lucky. We just happened to be friends that just wanted to hang out. Which we would do when we weren't recording. We'd always kind of like just be together anyways. But we didn't have to. I don't know. We got lucky. I was friends with my friends. Worked with my friends. But no, I think it is unusual. We prioritized being friends. I mean, I guess I'm friends or I know of other bands that are of our similar age that are still going, whatever. But everybody's on their own tour bus. Yes, they're not talking. Whatever. I would say not talky. That's strong. Do you want to say names or? No.

48:37They speak through lawyers. They hate each other. No, no. I'm not even saying hate each other. They're just, you know, they don't, they're not, they're not doing the tour to hang out with. The soda's gone. They're not doing the tour to hang out with each other. That's what I was going to say. Soda's gone flat. Yeah. All right. That's funny. You need to fix. Like a flat soda. It's good if your stomach's upset. Ginger ale, it's flat. Really? Better for your stomach. I didn't know that. Hold on, wait. You wanted to go look flat. The effervescence is what is good for your tummy. I don't want to talk about this anymore.

49:05You said something controversial, and you just want to glaze over it. I want to shut this down, because I realized I think I made a mistake, and I just want to shut it down. No, the ginger ale is real, though. I only know that because my mom told me. That's what my mom told me. Yeah, my mom wasn't a doctor, though. My mother was not a doctor, either, yet she operated on many a brain. Oh, my mother was Irish, though. Mine, too. So maybe that's what it is. So you're saying as an ancient... Are you a mix, then? I think safely everybody in this room can say we are. Yeah. Yeah. Not me. I am 100%, 100.000 % Irish.

49:40Really? No Portuguese? No. No Portuguese? Nope. Why? I've put one ingredient missing. Why Portuguese? Boston, New England, a lot of Portuguese. No, but we were in Ireland bouncing around. Whatever. I don't want to. It started with flat soda. Guys, I blame you. It's your dynamic that has ruined what could have been, I think one of the greatest podcasts ever recorded. But no, Miele Miche. And then, what the fuck? Where are we now? I feel like that's what you're gonna say on my tombstone now, my D. Miele Miche. Does Miele Miche actually mean anything? No, I don't think so. Why did they get us back here?

50:24I don't think so. I brought us back here. it's it's mele mele and then m-i-g-l-i-a it means thousand miles yeah yeah me mele me you don't have to lean that front of the mic you don't have to actually i don't know how this works jesus christ not a good mic person i've always had a memory because you guys have that line about never rock the mic with the pantyhose when i was on late night there was a guy i could see you know all those years i could see a band getting set up and that lyric was always in my head and there was a band setting up which will go unnamed just because i don't think anyone remembers them but they had a hit that week wow and they were setting up and we could watch them prepare on camera because the the cameras were just on throughout 30 rock so i'm getting ready for the show doing my stuff and i see this guy getting ready and then i see him driving uh i see him tying panties and bras to his mic stand and i go downstairs and i go in and i say to the guy you gotta take those off.

51:19You might stand. And he said, but this is our act. And I said, if that's your act, you have no act. Oh, man. But we did it because I remembered your guys' lyrics. Is that pantyhose? Is that pantyhose? It wasn't pantyhose, but I take those down. You're kind of like passively, aggressively blaming that action on us, basically. I'm saying you were responsible for this. they weren't going anywhere. Also, he was at a hardware store two weeks later. Their families remember them. Their friends remember them. No, they were all taken away. Yeah. Because that's how bad the band was. But also, to be clear, but the lyric is about the, you know, the, like, I mean, this is not patty hose on our mics that we're using now.

52:01But it's, you know, it's kind of like a technical term. So I misheard your lyrics, took it out on a guy who was just trying to make it on a late night appearance. And now they're all gone. I'm backing you. They're doing it all wrong. They're doing it all wrong. Because there's no pop filter aspect. but that's some tchotchkes he's putting on his mic stand. I mean, it's disgraceful. It was Steven Tyler's shit and it had to stop. Yeah. I mean, it's Steven Tyler, at least it's Steven Tyler. He's supposed to have the sparks. People know Aerosmith. I know. They did go on to have quite a lot of success.

52:34Yeah. It was Aerosmith. Oh, do you think Aerosmith were on Joe Franklin? Is that Conan O 'Brien bump? All right, wait, hold on. Aerosmith could have been on Joe Franklin. They had to have been on Joe Franklin in like 72. Everybody was on Joe Franklin. And Joe Franklin, I was not on Joe Franklin, but we had Joe Franklin on my show in like 93. Really? Yeah, or 94. And I think I sat in a hot tub with him. It's possible. In a hot tub? I'm going to ask listeners. Was he fully clothed or not? Well, that's, I don't want to talk about it. That's personal. We're shutting it down. We're shutting it down.

53:08I want to congratulate you both on this incredible run. Of being old? No, of just making it to this podcast. Okay. of all the things you've achieved, you could argue this is the acme of your career. It's a bookend, Joe Franklin. Yes. Not without, I don't want to get whatever, sappy or anything, but when you go back and listen to the music, one of you is not here. Is it a joyous thing for you to hear, Adam, when you're listening to that music now? Is it ever rough to listen to him or has enough time gone by where it's all good? Well, I'd say, A, we probably didn't, neither of us listened to, not to burst the bubble.

53:50Well, we don't listen to our, we're not going to listen. Yeah, I mean, you go back and watch an old episode of your show or The Simpsons. At night, I wear a tattered wedding dress and just watch in my mansion. No, I don't. Yeah, shocking. We're not the audience for our own music. But no, I don't know. I think it's all of the above. I think enough time has gone. There was definitely a period of time where I couldn't even open up a computer music file, something that we are working on, because I would just get too sad. The process would bring me right back to making, because we really worked with Adam up to very close to the very, very end, because that's what made him happy.

54:33So anyway, I feel like that time has sort of worked its way through. and then there's times like i'll hear something and be like oh yeah oh you know the rest is like when you now i think once in a while like our things will get licensed to like uh i don't you know we'll we'll give a sync license to um like mario brothers or something so you'll be like on an airplane or something and that will you'll have forgotten or at least at my uh point of aging i'll have forgotten that we've licensed that song and then the thing will come on in the airplane oh oh, yeah, oh, that's kind of, you know, it's sort of actually nice.

55:07I mean, Beastie Boys music in a good way is, it's out there. You're going to hear it. You know, it's not, you don't have to go looking for it to hear it in the best way. So I'm just curious if that, you know, when you hear your own music, is it evocative of anything or do you just think like, yep, that was then, this is now? Well, two things. For me, I feel very similar. It was very hard at first because not only, you know, did we record all the music together with Adam, but we were also, you know, best friends for decades. And so we were together every day. And so when you lose a friend like that, it's really, really hard.

55:46And, you know, not everybody has a friend who's like a musician whose voice you hear every day. It's hard. It's definitely less shitty now, right? But the thing about us hearing our music, like for me, hearing the music, the whole thing is weird. Do you know what I mean? That anybody likes our band that we've played at Madison Square Garden or that we have platinum records that people want to listen to. The whole. Platinum records that are not our records. Multiple platinum records. The whole thing is weird. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. So when you hear it in a movie or you hear it from a car or something, it's very weird.

56:22Still, I don't think it'll always be weird. I think that's healthy because it is miraculous. anything like that is miraculous and to get to a point where it's like but of course for we are the beastie place it's like you've that's no we're also not like we don't know how to make songs that's the other thing we don't know how to like craft a perfect song and write a good melody that brings you in with like the pre-chorus into the chorus with the vamp and the thing we don't actually know how to do so what you're saying adam is you might have been like a potential hunts hall but you were no this whole time but you were no linda perry i am hunts hall not linda perry yeah well congrats on the 30th anniversary yes oh wait no i have a question though so i mean you're not allowed to ask me questions that's not how this works yeah go ahead no i think it's funny like what i'm saying like i really think did resonate with all three of us even when yak was alive of just that we felt like houses work that we're just basically making these inside jokes and that it actually other people get let in right it's sort of miraculous that other people could even appreciate them but when so when you're crafting a bit on whatever level whether you're writing for somebody else or your own anyway yeah all right but no what writing but no but just do you feel the same way that like oh this is just something we thought was funny to us like i can't believe that just going out on the air and people most of my career has been all of my career i think has been me thinking of things that i think might make one of my other comedy people laugh and then later on someone's talking to you about it because they saw it on television or it meant something to them and i still find that uh crazy you know it's just we're we're all uh getting away with highway robbery just we're having fun and uh making things that delight ourselves and um then it's a thing and so it's nice it's a it's i think i'll always be more fascinated by your side of the business by music because i i try to understand it but i don't it's just not it's not in me i i like to play it i like to play at it but to create music on the level that that that you guys did uh is mysterious to me and really endlessly fascinating and every comedian i know secretly wishes that they were in a group and they were making music and playing madison square garden no but there is a big there is a huge comedy music yes crossover appreciation like when we that last video that we did that yuck directed for make some noise and you know we had some reason you weren't in it but we had basically every sounds like you were close but we had every comedian alive was in it i remember uh me insinuating i don't mean that it's a shot no no I think it was shot on the Warner Brothers lot and I'm talking, I was talking to Yalke and it would have been so easy for him to say, hey Conan, do you want to hop in?

59:30You have five minutes. I mean, and I think he had a camera rolling. Yeah, I mean, he's like, I mean, you know. I remember him pushing me out of the way of the camera. He actively avoided asking you to be in it. He leaned against me to push me out of the way of the camera. Yeah, he was like, oh, you know Will Ferrell. He was like, you know Will Ferrell, right? Oh, I know. I mean, he just happens to be here. Yeah, yeah. He's not. No, he wanted my Rolodex. That's what he wanted. No, there is a funny crossover. And when I would see you guys, I would think, oh, to make music that everyone wants to sing along to, but also get to be funny at the same time as you guys were.

1:00:06It was like, that'd be fun. But no, I'm here with you, Sana. I'm sorry. Yeah. No, I love it. Okay, that's nice. This is fun. Not you specifically. but I love the process. Guys, I'm going to wrap it up just because I'm not getting paid. It has been 30 years. Where are the sponsorship breaks? We don't do those here. That's dirty linen. Where's the ads for medicinal marijuana and stuff like that? We used to have really fun ads and then this is like a crazy humble brag but at the beginning and then this thing got big where the ads now are all for like legitimate, boring companies. It used to be for like fracture prints, which turned photographs into glass.

1:00:53And I had more fun doing those ads. Yeah. Then it became, you know, oh, American Express. That's no fun. Magoosh. Magoosh was fun. Yeah. Please, I don't want to waste their time. What's Magoosh? I don't really remember what it was, but he just kept, the name of the company was Magoosh and you just kept screaming. Okay, please. Now you're, please, we don't want them to get into the Magoosh thing. Guys, I - You can't call me a Magoosh. He's a Magoosh. I'm a Magoosh. You're a Magoosh. I don't remember what Magoosh did. Gentlemen, I thank you for being here. It was really nice having you. And I wish you both well.

1:01:29Please come back if you ever can. Thank you. Because you're super smart, funny, gifted people. And it's nice to hang with you. And I appreciate it. Wow. Thank you. Like I said before, we don't have jobs. So we're around. welcome to work here if you like well let's not get crazy it's just nice to be here yeah i mean that would ruin everything then that would be a job i mean conan o 'brien needs a friend with conan o 'brien sonam of sesian and matt gorley produced by me matt gorley executive produced by adam sax jeff ross and nick leo theme song by the white stripes incidental music by jimmy Vivino.

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