KURT: So the record is done now, how are you going to unleash this upon...

MIKE D: Well, it's almost done.

KURT: What do you mean?

MIKE D: Well, we still have some final...

KURT: It isn't going to be delayed is it?

MIKE D: No, no.

YAUCH: We still got to do mastering and maybe a little more sequencing.

AD-ROCK: Basically done.

MIKE D: A little tweaking, a little fine... sort of getting in there with some fine instrumentation just very subtle.

KURT: Nothing that will hold it up.

YAUCH: No, I don't think so.

MIKE D: Unless we figure out a way to in a holographic form project the image of me spinning on my head throughout part of the album and we don't quite have all the technology all the way there.

YAUCH: That's a great idea though.

KURT: Are you looking forward to getting back into this... making videos, touring? Don't you wish you played more? Don't you feel guilt about not playing more, actually?

MIKE D: Tremendous.

KURT: Why don't you play more?

YAUCH: What do you mean?

AD-ROCK: We do play.

KURT: Well, you think in a few years you drop by and play a show?

AD-ROCK: I mean, yeah, not really. I mean, you would probably get sick of it after a while.

KURT: Well, you could do it twice a year, that wouldn't be so hard.

MIKE D: Well, maybe this year we'll do it twice.

KURT: You're a great band, with a new album, you can play a little more.

MIKE D: Well, we're going to do that. We're going to go out and play. No, actually we were just talking about, Adam and I, a real special moment out there looking at the Boggle game and we were thinking how much fun it's going to be.

AD-ROCK: Internationally, playing Boggle.

MIKE D: Internationally, as this record is actually done, behind us, being finished, and then we will be just traveling the world the three of us playing Boggle.

YAUCH: In other languages.

KURT: So how do you occupy your time?

YAUCH: A lot of times, when I'm focused on the Tibet stuff and Mike is working on the label, this guy (Ad-Rock) is going nuts on the SP1200, and a lot of the beats on this record are all stuff that Adam has made over the last couple of years on the SP12. He's just got boxes and boxes of disks [1.1MB QuickTime] of stuff that he put together.

KURT: Is some of the stuff left over from this record?

AD-ROCK: There is a lot, and a lot, and a lot of stuff left over.

KURT: Finished tracks? Almost finished tracks?

MIKE D: Well, a variety. Some are finished and some, I don't know like we have the boards out there of all the stuff we worked on, it's just like a lot of ideas. Some unfinished, some more finished and some finished.

AD-ROCK: Some un-good.

MIKE D: Yeah, some just not good and should not be heard.

KURT: A lot of the samples on here, there are some amazing blazing, kind of deep sounds on here. Are any of them really unusual, I mean samples from some strange sources that you can tell us about?

YAUCH: There is one point when we were in the submarine crossing the Atlantic. We had a sound studio on the submarine. There was a flock of whales that actually came by. They were huge whales, actually some of the biggest whales in the world and Adam went out with scuba gear with the boom mic and actually caught some of the whales mating and some of the kick drums that you hear are those flock of whales.

KURT: You aren't taking my question seriously. I was genuinely interested. I really wanted to know. I thought these are the greatest sounds I have ever heard.

YAUCH: So what, you don't buy that whales come in flocks? What was the problem here?

MIKE D: Where was the lack of validity?

KURT: What went wrong with the story? I think it was when we were in the submarine, just the start of it.

MIKE D: That part is true.

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