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Yauch: I don't think we do reference him.
Loder: You sure?
Yauch: In fact I know we don't.
Diamond: I mean, if we did, we would say so. Because he's a talented MC.
Loder: He's risen up and really blown up in the six years you guys have been away ...
Horovitz: Well, three ...
Loder: The three lost years when you guys were away. And you were one of the first white rap groups, I think we can say. Well, I just said it. And then Eminem came along and he's very successful, and ... how do you look upon that?
Horovitz: He's done good for himself.
Loder: He's done really well. How do you look upon his work?
Horovitz: He's a good-looking kid. Good-looking guy.
Diamond: Good hygiene. Keeps it clean.
Horovitz: He wears clean clothes. Looks like he's got a lot of clothes. He's got his own clothing line!
Diamond: Yup. So you know his clothes are going to be clean, because he's got them available.
Horovitz: He can get all the clothes he wants.
Loder: There's no Beastie Boys clothing line, is there?
Yauch: We sell a couple of T-shirts.
Loder: There's a track on the album called "Crawlspace," and judging by the liner notes, I gather not everybody agreed about including it. I can't imagine why. It seems like an adequate track.
Horovitz: It's a hit! It's a hit record.
Loder: I notice it's not the first single, but ...
Horovitz: We're saving it.
Loder: Ah. Later, in the summer. One of those driving-around kind of things ...
Yauch: Big record for the group.
Loder: You mention Lorne Greene on the album, the late actor.
Horovitz: He actually appears in the video.
Diamond: Lorne Greene is the man. I mean, "Battlestar Galactica," "Bonanza." Alpo. I mean, Alpo alone ...
Loder: He is an icon.
Yauch: In the dog-food world he's big-time.
Loder: And DeForest Kelley ...
Horovitz: He's in the video also.
Loder: Aren't they both dead?
Yauch: That didn't stop them.
Diamond: That's not an obstacle for us, being deceased. We make it happen.
Loder: Anybody else?
Diamond: Doctor Spock!
Yauch: Mister Spock. Leonard Nimoy.
Diamond: Because there's no child care in the video at all. That happens off-camera.
Loder: What do you think of the FCC's current "decency" campaign, sparked by the Janet Jackson semi-breast-baring at the Super Bowl?
Horovitz: You know what I say? Finally. Finally somebody is watching out for this stuff.
Diamond: Spend some more money where it's needed. Forget about education. Forget about safety. Let's focus on "exposure." The scariest aspect, to me, is the idea that to speak our minds against the government is now anti-patriotic. And that trickles down to, you know, certain songs not getting on the radio, because certain conglomerates want to please the administration and all.
Loder: Obviously, you guys have changed a lot since you did your first album.
Horovitz: Just a bit.
Loder: But do you still have fun? You're not all just sobersides now, are you? Sit around reading Balzac ...
Yauch: Balls who?
Diamond: Balls ... wait, wait ...
Horovitz: Still funny. Always funny.
Loder: Let's talk about the tour. When will it start? What will the show be like?
Horovitz: We haven't really thought that far ahead.
Diamond: But there's an added element, which ... okay, this is an exclusive: We made an arrangement with Sasquatch, and he's going to join us for parts of the tour. Not for the whole thing, obviously. There's certain places he can't travel.
Loder: This sounded better on the six-year thing.
Horovitz: Yeah, it's not working for this one.
Loder: I'm trying to be serious here and promote your tour.
Diamond: We're gonna play some shows here in June, and then the real U.S. tour starts in August.
Loder: Who'll be opening up? Who are you listening to, who's cool?
Yauch: Balzac.
Diamond: I don't think he's living, is he?
Loder: No, he's dead. He died. So how's it feel coming back? Was it hard working together again? Do you guys still hang out?
Horovitz: I don't like to hang out with them. At all.
Diamond: A lot of people don't realize, but we fight a lot.
Yauch: Physical fights, he means.
Diamond: We like our beats fresh, so we beat up each other. So I have to spend a lot of time in the studio giving these guys time-outs. They have to go stand in the corner.
Horovitz: It's lonely in the corner, too.
Loder: Not if you both get sent there.
Diamond: Well, it would be different corners.
Loder: Speaking of coming back, Prince is back, you know? Are you Prince fans?
Horovitz: I'm not up on new Prince. I'm up on Prince and the Revolution, but I don't know about the new Prince. He didn't go away or anything, did he?
Loder: Well, he was in Minneapolis. That's sort of like going away.
Horovitz: Oh, come on ...
Diamond: He just did his own thing, you know? He was selling his stuff directly through the Internet. It's not like he went anywhere. He was still making records.
Horovitz: The weird thing is that Sasquatch is actually in Minnesota. I mean, Prince, Sasquatch — big connection happening.
Diamond: Prince probably knows about the Sasquatch thing.
Loder: He knows about lost years, I think.
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