The Beastie Boys Expose The Truth About Gold Records | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

you come out first album you're touring. with Madonna 1985 if you're going to. tour with Madonna 1985 I'm thinking is. the time me just must have been an in. you're in the center of an insane. Whirlwind you couldn't have calculated. that it was it was pretty crazy for. her think about it she talks about it. she never got over it think about it. yeah yeah no but it was though a thing. where we were on that tour and it was. like it was a huge deal that we and.

totally absurd that we got asked to do. that tour that's a bit of a story unto. its but uh which Adam could tell or I. could tell either of us could tell it. but but or you just read the book and. it's in. there which would make what we're doing. now completely irrelevant yeah what if. this whole thing was just read the book. and then we just ended no you don't have. to go into it I'm just saying no my da. she but my point is actually that she.

she booked the 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 was I. think by the by the tour before the tour. was finished I think she was like on the. cover of Time magazine or something so. it was like she was this she was on her. way to being a cultural uh phenomenon. and but then she really was one by the. end of that right tour is it a. coincidence that we were on 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 theaters yeah I mean she used. to be at the same we used to play the. same clubs in New York yeah I'm just. saying and no one ever no one ever talks. about that part of the you're right in. the podcast ERA this is. compelling well actually it is cuz she's. floundering around she's in theaters. it's going nowhere you add the mixture. the key element of the Beasty Boys. suddenly she's on the cover of Time. Magazine which at that at that moment. was a big deal course now no one knows.

talking about you don't know who Joe. Franklin is dude yes I do we were on the. Joe Franklin show in 83 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 Nam 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. had like a real studio in New York like.

you'd go and it was like very V villian. right yes and a lot of his references. would go over the head of anybody here. but uh Joe Franklin is an iconic New. York institution and being on the I. can't imagine the Beasty Boys on the Joe. Franklin show so great and then at the. end he was like well you know fellis. whatever he called this I don't know. he's like I see big things happening to. you since you are going to be on our on. this show and he was basically like you. know you're giving the The Joe Franklin.

bump it was pretty great it was pretty. great you're like I don't know next. thing you know yeah then we go so what. you're saying Joe Franklin blesses you. then you guys Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. bless Madonna and then Rock and Roll. Hall of Fame yeah all true you're right. 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 cuz we made more than.

seven records I have bad news for you no. I don't I you know I mean everyone. everyone's got a couple of Duds everyone. I like them I mean you know I love that. uh your mind works that way because. that's exactly didn't work there's seven. that did but what didn't work yeah. that's exactly how I didn't know um a. music uh Insider would you like some. musical Insider information yes I would. so we were at our studio here in in. California.

and uh I was smoking the pot this was a. long time ago oh God and we had uh. trying to discourage kids from doing. this we had our a gold record on the. wall it was our record uh Paul's. Boutique MH and I was looking at it and. I could see it has our label and I could. see that it has you whatever like nine. songs on the one side and I was looking. at the actual gold record it 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 record player.

and record like I mean broke the broke. the glass and took the put the on there. and it was somebody doing like piano. versions of like Barry Manalo like. feelings and yeah just some other. when someone has a gold record they just. take any record. apparently I don't know about anybody. else I mean but I'm telling you I'd like. to think that for you know yes Barbara. strand Donna Summer like a real star. that it was actually their record in our.

case it was some like say documentary. whoever's record that was I'm just talk. this should lead to like a quiz show. kind of Investigation because I think. all gold records need to be examined. they all need to be recall and you need. to go to Every you know and you should. check them out because it's probably not. their record and it's not on a massive. scale recount it's a Rec yeah we need a. recall of. all gold and platinum plaques maybe the. most important thing facing America.

right now at least for the next couple. of months all energy should go well I. think you could be a big part next time. you know say Lady Gaga is here you could. you could you know really urge her to to. do the same play her you guys have come. to the right place I have incredible. power in the music industry I didn't. know you could play those I just thought. they were decorative I thought I didn't. know either I didn't know I thought well. it turned out it basically seemed like I. guess yeah it was somebody's record that. was spray painted gold or something I. don't know who would who would break the.

glass and put it on a turntable they. weren't counting on you guys no you were. the X Factor we were the sleuths that. uncovered this incredible crime could be. this could be an action movie with John. Cena oh I'm just saying John Cena and. The Rock The Rock The Rock the I can't. afford the rock no one or the other we. can't do both just stick to John Cena we. can get John Cena he does commcial.

too much oh all right but how about this. Jason Stam 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 uh 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 like chasing pushes me into like a.

fruit. cart I think uh Adam at Rock would like. to be pushed into fruit in the. background of a but wait minut fruit is. that like a safe landing like what is. there just always the thing where like. people are walking they're like oh and. and the car they get pushed into the. thing of there's always a chase scene. that right like goes through like like. Hotel kitchen secret back entrance this. was my coffee reference to Cafe Sor um. I'll see that that is done I'll see that. that listeners listen yeah that and the.

and please yeah help us uncover this uh. Platinum plaque gold controvery uh it. wasn't platinum in the story it wasn't. it was you're right it was gold I'm. sorry stickler for the details I'm going. to say that probably the same for the. Platinum yeah who knows maybe it's a. status thing like gold you're like eh. spray paint that yeah I don't know that. album by the Platinum maybe they had a. yeah a better eye for detail and they. yeah he.