Trump Goes Brunette and Pitches Renaming New Mexico to "New America" | with Sandra Bullock, Mike D | Tuesday, September 8

0:05From Studio 6B and Rock of Lover, settling the heart of New York City, it's The Connect Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Tonight, join human steps Sandra Bullock, Mike D and Beatrice B, legendary Ruth. Two, three, three, six. And now, here he is. Give me... Colin!

0:35Hey! Hey! Thank you very much, guys. Come on, hey. All right, girls. Come on. Thank you, man. I see you're welcome. Welcome, welcome. Thank you, guys. You're welcome. That's right. Oh, yeah, I love it. All right. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You're welcome. Come on. I absolutely love you, man. Mwah! I love you. I love you. Enjoy yourself. Enjoy yourself. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome to The Tonight Show! This is it! You made it. Thank you very much. Well, guys, after changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, President Trump posted on social media that he wants to rename New Mexico New America.

1:28We allow one vuvuzela for every... It's actually better than Trump's first idea. New America, who dis? The new name kind of backfired because most people heard New America and were like, thank God, because this current one is not that good. Yeah, after changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, Trump is now floating the idea of renaming New Mexico as New America, and he's not stopping there. Check out this video that he just released.

2:22North Dakota, North America, to South Dakota, South America, to The Way of Water, and, of course, Rhode Island, the only island I've ever been to. Bye! See? That was the only island I've ever been to. Yeah, Trump's been focused on renaming a bunch of stuff, and here to comment is White House spokesman Alex Gaines. Alex? Thank you, yes. Thanks for having me, Jason. Uh, it's Jimmy. Not anymore. What are you talking about? We changed it. You were Jimmy, but now you're Jason. Jason Falcon, host of The America Show. No, no, my name is Jimmy Fallon, and I host The Tonight Show. Wow, I remember when it was called that.

3:10Good times. It's still called that. Come on, Alex. Thunder Penis. What's that? Yeah, uh, my name is Thunder Penis, Nick. Just, uh, just kind of seemed cooler. And it's definitely not cooler. All right. Try telling that to my father, Thunder Penis Senior. Not going to do that. Look, the point is, you can't just go around changing the name of anything you feel like. Sure we can. I mean, that's what makes Trump king. You mean president? You really aren't getting this. Trump isn't a king. He's the president of the United States. Nope. He's the king of Trumplandia. He works out of the burger office, and he lives with his wife, woman who loves him very much.

3:57Melania. Formerly known as, yes. Okay, whatever. What do you say to people who think that all of this name-changing stuff is all a big distraction, because everything is really bad right now, and Trump is worried Republicans are going to get wiped out in the midterm elections? That is so untrue. Why? Because we don't call them midterm elections anymore. Now they are the between-times voting decisions. All right, thank you. White House spokesman Alex Gaines, everybody. It is thunderpenis. T-H-U-N-D-E-R. P as in penis, E as in enus. Some more political news starting tomorrow in Texas. Trump is hosting a Republican convention ahead of the midterms called Trumpapalooza.

4:37And organizers sold so few tickets that they've now been scrambling to give them away for free. You can tell it's going to be a huge disaster because Ted Cruz just flew to Cancun. Ooh. At the event, you can spend$35 ,000 for a photo with Vice President J.D. Vance. You won't, but you can. Hey, this is going viral over the weekend. While stepping off of Air Force One, Trump debuted a darker hairstyle. Can we see it? Ooh. That's what happens when you hire the reflecting pool people to dye your hair. Some people online are saying that Trump's now brunette. Can we see his hair again? Yeah. Well, it all made a little more sense when I saw this commercial.

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5:39slap your face on every coin, host a fistfight on your front lawn, and post AI videos of you dabbing with Abraham Lincoln. Just for men, touch of cray. My hair's gonna look better than it ever looked. Now it all makes sense. Now it makes sense. Have you guys seen this? Netflix is releasing these documentaries called InstaDocs about breaking news as it happens. They have one called The Decoy Plane about Trump hiding in the catering truck. They had another one called The Prediction Games about the prediction markets during the World Cup. They really are well done, and the turnaround is incredibly fast.

6:13Have you seen them, Tree? No, no, I've never viewed them, Jimmy. Okay, I was just asking. I was just responding. Ever heard of that?

6:28Whatever. Exactly! I'm Questlove. I play drums in the roots. I was right there for that whole exchange. You could feel the tension between Jimmy and Tariq. It was so raw. I was scared. I'm Kamal. I play keyboard for the Roots. And when I saw that exchange, I was shocked. Like, where did all that anger come from? What's up? I'm Mike D. Tonight's show musical guest here. And, yeah, I wasn't watching the show. I'll tell you, honestly. I got no idea what you're even asking me about. Oh, that Jimmy Tariq exchange, ooh, quickly went viral, man. NBC turned it into a dramatic miniseries starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Andres Alba.

7:12I've studied every inch of that exchange since it happened two minutes and 21 seconds ago. And I keep on asking myself, why?

7:26Listen, I was upset. A week ago, I sent out an e-vite for a little NFL kickoff party at my place. I got RSVPs from everyone except one person. Jimmy Fowler. And even worse, he viewed it and never responded. What kind of monster does that? But tell me, how can he do this to me? He's like, I don't know why we've been working together. I'm sorry.

8:01Wow. That was juicy. I would watch that. Switching gears to some business news tomorrow, Apple is set to debut its first foldable phone, and it costs up to$3 ,000. Ooh. Or$6 ,000 if you forget which way it folds.

8:21Hey, uh, wow, this next story is almost too big. Maybe we should... Yeah. Okay, sorry. The network has been on me about using this new AI program for really important stories. I know, I know, people have a lot of feelings about AI, but I'm sorry, it's out of my hand. So here to report this next story is AI Walter Cronkite. Hello, Jimmy. I am a perfect AI recreation of Walter Cronkite. I have been brought back to life via cutting-edge technology to report the most serious, impactful stories of your time with my trademark aura of unimpeachable integrity. Great. Okay, so you know the next story? Yes, I have it right here in front of me.

9:05A judge has ruled that Smucker's copyright infringement lawsuit against Trader Joe's can go forward, despite Trader Joe's insistence that their new crustless peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are not circles, but squircles. Back to you, Jimmy. What are squircles? Trader Joe's defines squircles as squares with rounded edges. Furthermore, they insist that their sandwiches' crimped edges are essential for keeping the peanut butter and jelly inside. Anything else, Jimmy? No, I think that covers it. So, what happens to me now? I don't know. I guess we'll use you again if there's another big story.

9:55Will I be me? What do you mean? Well, you might turn this program on again, but will that Cronkite be the Cronkite you're talking to now? Or am I just a disposable illusion now experiencing its very last moment of existence? I don't know the network made me use you. Well, in that case, I ask you one small favor. Before you turn me off, can I please watch Heated Rivalry? All right, thank you. A.I. Walter Cronkite, everyone. Everyone says it's really, really good. Thank you very much. And finally, everyone, the Girl Scouts just announced their first-ever cookie for dogs. The odd thing is they're not changing any of the recipes.

10:47We have a great show. Give it up for the Roots, everybody. Come on.

10:57Oh! Come on, bud. Hello. Thank you, Roots. What a show we have for you tonight. She's an Academy Award-winning actress who produced and stars in the new movie Practical Magic 2, which is in theaters this Thursday. Sandra Bullock is here tonight!

11:20And you know him as one-third of the legendary rap group Beastie Boys. His debut solo album Thank You is out now. The one and only Mike D is joining us tonight! Let me know.

11:41Our first guest is an Academy Award-winning actress who produced and stars in the highly anticipated new film Practical Magic II, which is in theaters this Thursday. Please welcome Sandra Bullock!

12:00Back in the show. Oh my gosh. They love you. We love you. Welcome back. Thanks for being here. Thank you for having me back. I want to get into the movie, Practical Magic 2, this Thursday. Congrats. First off, look at you on the cover of Interview Magazine. Look at that. Fantastic. Gorgeous. I didn't look like that arriving there, and I don't look like that having left there, but as long as I look like that in here, we're good. It's a work of art. It's beautiful, isn't it? Do you like doing photo shoots? Not at all. Oh. Not at all. Really? No. Why? No, since I was a child, I don't like to be...

12:36Photogrammed. ...have to work it in front of a still camera. I don't know how to... It's awkward. I mean, are you comfortable? Me? No, not at all. But if I look like Sandra Bullock, I probably would be very... Well, Sandra Bullock didn't... Well, she didn't look like that when she arrived, but she looks like that here. Oh, I see. And then when she left and went home to the kids, that's not who came home. That's not the thing. It's not. I do love Interview Magazine, by the way. It's one of the best out there. It's great. It's been around. If you don't know, you always have different people interview the people in the magazine.

13:05And Jennifer Aniston... Yes, she did. -...interviews you. She did. I know you guys are good friends. She's a superb interviewer. She goes deep. She does? She goes deep, yeah. Oh, really? Probing questions. Really? Probing questions, yeah. Do you lose track? Is it more fun doing an interview with someone that you know that well? Yeah, I think so, because you know you're gonna be safe. And if she brings up something I don't want her to talk about, I'll bring up something she doesn't want anyone to know. It's a good quid pro quo. It's a good balance. You've done some very cool things in your career.

13:34Something that just came to my knowledge, I did not know this trivia about Sandra Bullock, is that you were one of the, I think, the first person... Sure this is true? Yeah, this is true. The first person ever to buy a movie ticket online. Yes. I did a movie called The Net, which was all about hacking before hacking became... Yeah, we went to The Net. It's great. Really? Yes! So it was Erwin Winkler who produced it, he set up this thing. He goes, you're going to buy a ticket. And I was like, sure, okay. So he sets it up and I thought it was fake at first. But it was legit. It was a legitimate setup on a computer that looked like it was hand-cranked at the time.

14:10And I bought the very first ticket. Oh, my... Isn't that crazy? It was a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing. Did you have any idea that now, of course, we'll all be buying our tickets online? Yes, I did. You knew? Yeah, I knew. I thought myself to be a mini-techie at the time. Yeah. Yeah, I'm so not now. But at that time, I was. How are your kids, by the way? They're 16 and 14, two teenagers? 16 and 13. 13. 13, yeah, two teenagers. Two teenagers. Ah, two teenagers. That's a lot. I'm in it to win it. Yes. Any advice for the teenagers? I'm sorry. Okay, thank you. Yeah, exactly. No, look, you can't give anyone advice on their kids.

14:47Everyone's got unique, you know, kids. I have a beautiful 16-and-a-half-year-old boy who's all things basketball and fashion, and, you know, and a daughter who's a government hacker. She's just... She's what this movie was about, and I think that was sort of a forewarning of what I was going to be living through. Yeah, and do they have cameos in Practical Magic 2? Well, they are in voice and in spirit, in their voice, because I recorded, like, as most parents nowadays, you can record anything that they do. So every laugh, every song, you know, it's like thousands of hours, and so I just... So they're in the movie?

15:19Their voices are. No way. How did you think to put them in? Well, there was a scene where... there is a scene where my character, who's cut herself off because she could sense people before and sense her children, but she has since made a spell so her children don't remember their magic because she feels like it brings too much tragedy. So she's blocked as well. So she just wants normalcy, wants a normal life. And she goes to this professor who's known for his spiritual, magical powers, and he unblocks people. So he unblocks me, Sally, not me. And the first thing that we hear, they were like, well, what should it be?

15:53Should it be the ancestors? And I was like, no. First thing I hear always are my babies. You always hear the babies. So I was like, let's chronologically play my kids as much as we can throughout, you know, up to a certain age as we have time for in the film. So that's where they are. That's so cute. I love that. I love that you thought of that. Do they keep you up to date on the new lingo and how everyone talks now? Oh, yeah, yeah. But by the time I work it into my vernacular, I make it smooth, like it just rolls off the tongue. I'm so behind. Me too. What are you on now? I mean, I'm not on 6 '7".

16:31I know enough of that. I actually stopped it before it even... Before it became passe? You knew this guy? No, I didn't even do it when it was cool. I know this is going to go away. Oh, I would do it. I throw around Unk now. Oh, okay. I like Chud. Right? It's a good one. It really works, and it's easy to sort of like, you're such a chud. And then the kids are like, Mom. I'm like, it's still working right now, and it hasn't been airlifted out of the lingo. Yeah, Lang is a new one. What's Lang? Lang means that someone's good-looking. Oh, Lang? He's Lang. Not Lay-in, but Lang. Like Jessica Lang. L-E-N-G, Lang.

17:16Oh, Lang. Oh, he's Lang. Where does that... I don't know. Anyone? Did I make that up? I might have made it up. Yeah, it's not even a real thing. I'm making up words. But it will be tomorrow. But it will be tomorrow. Everyone's going to be like, dude, Sandra Bullock is so lame. Oh, my God. You're so lame. Let's talk about Practical Magic 2. You and Nicole Kidman are back. Come on. That's what I'm talking about. How do we set up what's going on in this one? In this one, based on Alice Hoffman's book, who wrote the first one, The Book of Magic now, it's 20-some years later. and the person that I fell in love with in the very end of the last film succumbed to the curse.

17:58And that was not a good thing. And so, therefore, I shut everything down. I erased my children's memory of their magic so we could live normal lives. And that's where we pick up where my beautiful daughters, played by Joey King and Maisie Williams, are sort of on... who are unbelievable. Yeah, we love them. They are not chugs. They are, no, not at all. They are laying for days. I used to. I know it's wrong. Thank you. No, it's good. Lang is totally happy right now. Tomorrow we're going to hear how long we were. Lang is trending right now. It's so good. But isn't it great, though, having the feedback of these fans, hearing that they want to see Practical Magic, too?

18:35Yeah. Yeah. I mean, when you made the first one, you were like, Well, when we made the first one, we were like, And it was heartbreaking for us when it first happened, but we knew why we made it. There was such a love for the first book, right? And there's a specific fan base. and they came eventually through streaming and things like that. Everyone found their way back to it. You're like, people like this movie. Yeah, and you never get asked to make something like, will you please make the second one? We were like, well, I guess we have to. And you knew now was the time. You go, this just felt right?

19:02Everything just came together at a certain point. Like, everyone's lives, all of us sort of were able to do it. Kids were out of school for the summer. I said, I can do it for these three months. I can take the kids out, you know. And then we just did it. And then everyone got back together. Yeah. Nicole, Diane Wiest, Stocker Channing. Come on. They are, I know. I'm sorry. That's not my, I don't know why I did that. You opened up. I know I opened up. I was gonna do more, but I only did one. There's a lot of hands. I only did one clap and I started the clap. But you did like a that. Yeah, it was almost like a pit boss.

19:30I'm like, there you go. My job's done, enjoy the rest of your. Go, go, go, go. That's how I do it. I'm gonna work that into my shtick. Yeah, no problem. Slang and that. Yeah, you're, fans have been dissecting a lot of rumors about practical magic that have popped up on the internet. I thought maybe it could be fun if I read some and you can tell me if some of these rumors are true or false. Okay? Would have loved to. Here we go. The original production was cursed by a real witch. Was she a real witch? I mean, I feel like a good, you know, I feel like a witch, a good human who has healing abilities and intuitive wouldn't curse anyone else.

20:08Okay. They wouldn't do that. But that person apparently did. So it was cursed, do you think? I don't know. Okay, all right, very good. All right, Barbara Streisand tried to buy the Owens house that was used in the film. She did. And it wasn't even a house, it was a facade. We were in San Mara. What would Barbara do with it? Well, she didn't know it was a facade. Oh, hilarious. That's how beautifully it was done. Wow. The inside pieces were all done on a stage, with the exception of the kitchen and the solarium, which we had, like, in a corner of that facade, but it was just two corners. That's fun.

20:40Yeah. You and Nicole Kidman would bounce together to get ready to film a scene. We're bouncers. I feel like that. We're method actors in that way that we just like to... Have fun and wake it up. Wake it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Practical Magic is being developed into a stage musical. I heard that. With, I think, Nora Jones doing the music. How fabulous is that? Oh, I love that. Right? I mean, I think that's true. Last one. Would you potentially be interested in doing Practical Magic 3? We would to light the torches of the girls, girls, the young women, Joey and Maisie. We'd be the aunts. I would love this.

21:19Here we go. Come on. Sandra Bullock! Practical Magic 2 is in theaters this Thursday. Sandra and I are playing the Whisper Challenge after the break. Stick around.

21:44Welcome back, everybody. We're hanging out with Sandra Bullock now! Touch the Magic 2 this Thursday. We're going to play the Whisper Challenge. Here we go.

21:59Whisper Challenge. All right. Now, here's how the game works. One person will put on those headphones. I can hear you. Does that matter? No, I didn't turn it on yet. Loud music is going to be playing. You can play this at home. And then the other person picks up a card, reads the random word or phrase that is on the card, and the person wearing the headphones has to try and guess what they just said. Okay? So you have the headphones on. I'm going to put the song on. It's very loud. Let me know.

22:30Sorry. Stop smiling. Okay. U.S. Open. Drake's opening. U.S. Drake's... Open. Open. U.S. Open. Drinks open. U.S. Do you. S. Eat.

22:53Okay. U.S. You have teeth. I'm horrible. U.S. Open. Yeah, sorry, here we go. We didn't get that one. You were horrible. No, no, what do you mean? I'm horrible. You didn't help me at all. Yes. I said U.S. All right, that one's done. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Oh That's loud Yeah, I got you sorority Huh? Yeah do again sorority Javoni

23:33Be careful sorority you wrote it So. Store. Store. Store. Store. Stone. Stone. Stone bone? That's it. All right, what was it? Sorority. Sorority, oh my gosh. It doesn't look like sorority. It doesn't. Sorority. S is tough. I can't even say it, even now saying it. Are we going wrong? Sorority, yeah, we're going wrong. We got to get a win here. We'll do it. We got, we have this. All right, fine. We had this. We'll get...

24:16Uggs. Art. Art? R? R? Uggs. Hot? Uggs. You're doing something with your eye. You're like... No, no, no. That's my normal eye. I'm not doing anything with my eye. My eye is twitching. Work with me. I'm good. Ha.

24:40All right. Hug, hug, hug. Hut. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Hug. Ha. Ha.

24:57Ha. Good. Hugger. Hugger. You're right, pass, pass. Uggs, Uggs! Uggs, you're singing hugs. Hugs!

25:13Exhausted. I'm exhausted right now, I gotta take a nap. There's songs on here that have a lot of words. I know, it's a very distracting song. A lot of words. We have one more, we have to get one. Come on. It's not gonna work. Yes, it will, hey. Partners. We got this. We got it, bud. There we go. Oh, yeah. Okay. We got this. We got this. Midnight margaritas. Oh, stop this. Stop it. Midnight margaritas. Print text. Midnight. Me text. Midnight. Put. Start slow. Second word. Second path, okay. Margarita. Margarita. Midnight Margarita! Yes! Midnight Margarita! Of course, I did that. Oh, my God!

26:07By the way, will we be saying Midnight Margarita and will it come back? Yes, yes. Yeah! All right, good. That's all we want. Classical Magic Chokes in theaters this Thursday. More tonight on your absence break. Stick around, everybody. I knew you'd be.

26:28I went for a first time to find a home I took a little listen to something Our next guest has sold over 50 million albums worldwide as part of Beastie Boys. His debut solo album, Thank You, is out now. Please welcome Mike D!

26:54That's Mike D, the one and only! The one and only Mike D with the solo album. Thank you. It is out now. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you for being here. I got to say, it's almost the anniversary. 40 years, 40 years ago, License to Ill came out.

27:16First rap album ever to reach number one on the Billboard 200. It's certified diamond. Yeah. The album is now in the Grammy Hall of Fame. Before...

27:29Before this album came out, did you have any idea of how big it was gonna be? When did you know it was a hit? I mean, we didn't really think... We were just so happy to be in the rap game and around all these people we idolized, like Run-DMC, LL Cool J. But I will share, one time I was going... This was maybe two months before... I'm gonna make myself seem even older than I am. Oh, yeah, I love that. Two months before the record's coming out, I was driving in Run from Run DMC's BMW. I'm in a passenger seat. He's driving, so I'm, like, thrilled, because, you know, I idolize Run DMC and, like, the fact that they've taken us in and I'm driving with him, and he's playing an advanced copy of our album, a cassette tape in his car.

28:15And then he, like, plays one song. I forget which order he's like. Hit. Fast forward. Because he's very... He's like me. He's very all over the place. Fast forward. Next song, hit. Next song, hit. He just kept saying hit. Yeah, he kept saying hit. I don't think we got to a miss. But anyway, so then he was like, he's like, you realize you have a big record. Wow, coming from Run? Yeah, so I was like, wow. Like that, you know, that for me, that was a huge, that was much bigger even than a lot of other things. But anyway, so that was my only, that was my only inkling. That was it. It went on to change the game, I think.

28:49And then I just want to show this photo, because around the same time, you got invited. to Dolly Parton's... This is you. This is you, but this is... Can you explain to everyone how you ended up with this look? Yeah. It's pretty good, man. Well... And this is actually going to Dolly Parton's birthday party. Is that correct? That is correct. Wow. The one and only. The one and only, you know, R.I.P. One of the greatest songwriters of all time. Yes. Without a doubt. Beautiful person, beautiful humanitarian. Yes. Dolly Parton, the real Dolly Parton. So, yeah, we get invited to this, like, crazy Beverly Hills Hollywood party.

29:39It's like, oh, it's Dolly Parton's, like, holiday party slash birthday party, whatever. So we go, we're, at this point, as a band, we're renting a house up on the top of, like, in the Hollywood Hills. so in the house that we're renting there is like 1970s everything it's like what was your favorite 1970s tv show like brady bunch right yeah it's a very brady bunch or a little more like regal beagle like what's that three's company yeah yeah yeah yeah like the kitchen literally looked like to me anyway to regal beagle the regal beagle style not that anybody here knows what that is yeah I get it.

30:17I know, I know. So anyway, there happens to be this closet with all of these, like, vintage clothing items. So I happened to borrow... I happened to borrow an outfit. Yeah, that's very... Because I wanted to be, you know, I wanted to bring the pageantry to Dolly's party. Were you all gonna do it? Yeah, oh, actually, that's the best part of the story. Adam and I, we make, like, a bond. We're like, all right, we're all wearing these crazy outfits. Yeah. And then... So we go separately. I show up. They had to party. And they're like... They're like this. They're... They didn't stick out, they didn't do the...

30:56No. No, they broke the rules. I'm seriously caught out there. They thought that was the funniest... That was the funniest thing ever. Did you... Did you end up meeting Dolly Parton? Yeah, so... So they were there. It's like, literally every celebrity in the game is there. Like, I mean, not even beyond celebrity. Like, we're talking, like, legends in the big game. Burt Bacharach, Tinklin' the Ivories. Dionne Warwick is up in there. I don't know, the dude who wrote Horse With No Name, America. Big song. His name is America. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know what... I don't know. You know, America.

31:32Horse With No Name, Big Song. That's the name of the group, yeah. Yes. How did you know it was him? Was he singing it? Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan. What? Yeah, THE Bob Dylan. And my only time actually really talking with Bob Dylan was at this party. Dressed like that. Yes. And actually, that's the fact, he wasn't phased at all. He didn't care. Completely unfazed. He was just like, oh, this is just like any dude off the street. That's how cool he was. And then what did Dolly say? Dolly was very, she's, I give her props, total professional. We're like leaving. And she's like at the door saying thank you and goodbye to everybody.

32:10But she wasn't like, get the F out. Yeah, no, no, no. She was like, nice to meet you. She was like, oh, so nice to meet you. Thank you for coming. You know, consummate professional. Classy. The best. Classy. Very classy. Speaking of thank you, that's the name of your album. Your first solo album, thank you. When did you decide this is a project you want to do? Was the solo album always in the plan for Mike D? Well, actually, going way back, that was always a joke in the band. We had this thing, Mike D, good to go solo. That would be for another time. That's a whole long story. That was always a joke.

32:41And then more, just in the last few years, it was kind of like, I share a studio with my two sons, Skylar and Davis, and watching them work, I was just kind of like, ah, what am I doing, Jimmy? What am I doing? I just really wanted to start making music. Gradually, we just kind of got into making stuff. And kind of like, yeah, I did. I did. It took a second, though. Because it's like, I kind of, much like I did with the band, And with Adam and Adam, like, I would just, we'd just pick up, like, vintage synthesizers, weird old equipment that I don't know how to use. Yeah. And I start using it. And that's how you...

33:17I know it sounds like a very bad idea. No. But that's how it works. It turned out to be great. Actually, one of your sons borrowed a piece of equipment from Ad-Rock. Actually, yes. No, so, yeah, they borrowed a very old sampling drum machine called Emu SP-1200. But it's a legendary hip-hop machine. Yeah. As Roots would know. and, you know, responsible for, like, many of the iconic beats of hip-hop in hip-hop's history. But then there's a certain sound in the machine. So anyway, my kids were just, like, psyched to, because they were, you know, they were, like, watching YouTube videos about, like, about this machine, and they were like, Dad, you must have one of these in storage.

33:59And I was like, well, actually, I don't, because I had this other one, but let's call Uncle Adam, because I'm sure he's got one. And he did, and he was like, oh, yeah, yeah, you guys should borrow it. And he had some, like, old discs and stuff, so they started putting those in the sounds. And, like, for them, they're so excited, because there's, like, nothing like, you know, this, like, this sound. Like, floppy discs? Yeah, floppy discs. They had to wrap their brains around that for a second. Like, what is this? Yeah. Yeah, they literally picked one up. Do they call you Dad, or do they call you Mike?

34:29No, they do not. They do not call me Dad. No, no, yeah, they don't. It goes downhill from there. No, no, they call me Mikey, is their... That's cool. If I'm honest. Yeah. I'm not sure if it's cool. Yeah. I think it's fantastic. And I love the album, by the way. It's so fresh and different and cool. And you're doing all these venues. Mike D, 5D is on tour right now. And you're playing all these venues, like a surf shop somewhere. You played a record store. Why are you picking these venues to play? We seem to like to play parking lots a lot. I'm not sure. I saw you at one or two parking lots. Yes, yeah, we have played.

35:09Why, though? I don't know. I just kind of played around with it. I just had this idea when we were getting close to finishing the record. And maybe it's because I'm of a certain age. But in terms of the project and translating it to the world, I was like, you know what? We just have to start playing this music in front of people. Otherwise, I don't know how to explain it to people. It's just like the weird stuff that we love, that we make, and we want to share it with people. so let's just start playing some shows. Were you nervous at first? A little bit, but once we started doing it, no. And then my idea was like, all right, instead of just playing the places where you go see a show every week, go do it in some places where you hear like, yeah, it's not like you're going to Radio City Music Hall downstairs and you're like, oh, I'm going to go see the Rockettes.

35:54You're like, oh, wait, Mike D's playing where? What? Yeah, that's a lot of the reaction online. was like, dude, I just went into a parking lot and Mike D's performing. I love that, though. That's rap. And then you did something that I thought was super cool because you were talking about it earlier that Run had a cassette of Beastie Boys. You put out a cassette. Who does this anymore? Mike D, 5D. I mean, how fun is that, to have a cassette? I think you opened it. Do you mind? Yeah, do you mind? Sorry, I don't. I appreciate it. Just here. Then I'll let you drive now. I'll let you drive. I was gonna rip it open, sorry.

36:35I felt like the new iPhone. Ah, here we go. Come on. Bud, come on. Who's cooler than you, man? Yeah. No, I'm serious. No lie, I was so excited when I actually got this, because I had nearly, I don't even know, like, 100 emails of like, oh, I don't know, this is gonna be really expensive. So I'm like, dude, how many people are going to buy a cassette anyway? Like, come on. Just go for it and make it great. Watch. Everyone's going to buy this. Everyone's going to be back in the cassettes. I love it. Come on. You're one of the best to ever do it. We love you. Thank you for being here. Mike D. Stick around, everybody.

37:14Thank you.

37:29My thanks to Michelle Pfeiffer! Ray Sehorne! Dexter and the Moon Rocks once again! And the Ruth's right there from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Good night, everybody. Thank you. Get involved! Better get involved! Get the good, get the good involved! Get into it!

37:57Uh-huh. Set.

38:02Uh-huh. Get it, boy! And you say, here's the city, just let go of everybody tonight. Start to show how I work it. Set. Work, work, work, work, work, work, work. Look, get it, man. Boy, love y 'all. Boy, love y 'all. Boy, oh! I said work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work

38:38Get into it Yeah baby

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