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now I want to rock this ring
ground to come me to and show me what to
do to know how to make it laugh
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all right my next guest tonight is a
founding member of The Red Hot Chili
Peppers starting tomorrow you can see
him in the big Labowski please welcome
flee
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it's very cool meeting you though thanks
it's very funny to be
here is funny I'm telling you why is
this so funny it's just like falling out
of an airplane or something you know
it's a very nerve-wracking experience
last time I came on a talk show I did
this trick where I fall on my face where
I walk out you trip and fall on your
face it's a little crowd pleaser I
actually got it from a friend of mine a
friend of mine and myself were once
arguing for a girl we're both trying to
win her affection and that's a sweet way
to say it he did I was sitting there
with her you know telling her poetry and
how beautiful her eyes were and whatnot
and he came and just tripped and fell on
his face and cut his head open and you
know she fell in love with
him he just loved him and that man's
name was Jerry Lewis now do uh I'm
curious about something cuz you're
you're famous you're so famous oh you
guys you're you're very famous for being
an amazing showman you give your all
every time you go out there and you do a
show and I was wondering over the years
when you look back anything at all that
you regret you look back on and think
okay I went a little too far there I
wish I hadn't done it um no not really I
mean there were things that I did in the
beginning of my career as a rock
musician where I would do anything to
shock people and in the course of that I
definitely uh hurt people's feelings and
did things that I wouldn't do now that
I've become a more mature man
mhm as evidenced by this hat and these
clothes you know yeah what like what
kind of thing well I mean I remember
urinating on the audience that was a
real uh no
no yeah that takes to tends to take the
pep out of a crow it's uh no it's you
know it's art and action coming together
uhhuh well uh I know you guys are well
famous and I just want to know for for
this the sock idea being completely
naked and using placing a sock
strategically on a part of your body to
uh to cover yourself and I was always
wondering where did that idea come from
like who had the idea hey I know know
what's great for photo or let's play
with just a sock well it's actually it's
something that we were doing around the
house long before we took it to the
stage and uh was it an accident did you
just like you know where did I put that
sock and hello no like hey Mom can I
have a bone sandwich no but you know
it's it's um little did we know that I'd
be talking about it on a talk show 15
years later we actually haven't done it
in years and years and uh it's something
that gets attention it's amazing the
longevity of of the in aak routine yeah
I we thought it was a one-off joke you
know yeah yeah that's a nice phrase you
have there for
it the uh I notic I'm noticing the uh
tattoos and of course you have a lot of
tattoos I do everybody knows that I have
several tattoos I a you know something
that my circle of friends started doing
a long time ago and uh we're kind of
always trying to outdo each other with
beautiful tattoos and but the finger
tattoos they're another story I mean
fingers are one step away from neck and
face and once you get finger tattoos
it's kind of a jailhouse sort of thing
you know and I I noticed since I got the
finger tattoos when I go into the liquor
store into any store you can sort of you
see the people behind the counter sort
of reaching under for the alarm button
there getting ready and you see the
ladies kind of tightly gripping their
purses and is it the tattoo or the fact
that you're walking and only wearing a
sock that
may the sock is nothing I mean whenever
the Chili Peppers play in Europe I
usually play Stark naked which is a uh
this is a good experience do you ever
just I me I mean you must be just so
comfortable with your body
that you're just out there and you're
playing in front of thousands of people
naked do you ever just stop and suddenly
kind of realize oh man I'm naked I'm
completely cuz that sounds like a dream
that you would a bad dream you'd have in
high school that you're out playing a
show for everybody and they're screaming
and they love it and you look down and
you're naked um I took off my clothes
and felt free the breeze blowing up me
um no it's just a thing a that's a
Charming
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Diddy te Chanty
the uh hold on wait I I can't take
credit for that Diddy who Diddy is it
it's a captain beart Diddy oh okay
you're a big fan of Captain beart yeah I
love Captain beart he's the greatest
it's a as a matter of fact it's just a
sad thing today that someone like
Captain beart just can't get heard
because of the uh the fast food media
culture the way music is presented
through MTV and stuff it's uh there's no
search kids you got to search for music
you can't take what you get on MTV you
have to look and find what you want to
hear
yeah it's kind of sad well I mean I know
you have a you have a a daughter A young
daughter when when what what happens
when she's playing the Spice Girls and
you walk by the room you go in there and
start yelling at her well actually I
told her that I'm joining the Spice
Girls Papa spice Papa spice yeah okay
that horrified her that made her stop
yeah well when I sing The Spice Girl She
cringes cuz that's that's that's what I
do I embrace it when you have a fear or
an insecurity or something you hate you
have to embrace it and love it to death
that's true they say that then that
conquers your fear yeah so that's what I
do with the Spice Girls have to get to
the big uh that's your big fear for
other people it's crashing in an
airplane or catching on fire for you
it's the the Spice Girls uh we got to
talk about the big Labowski oh yeah
you're in this movie which is by the Cen
brothers who are probably my favorite
filmmakers I yeah well for American
filmmakers I'd say they're probably you
know in the top one or two filmmakers
you know and since there's two of them
that covers it but um they're you know
they're amazing filmmakers and I was
very fortunate to be asked to be in
their film and also to work with such a
superb actor like Jeff Bridges and the
rest of those guys but when I when I did
the film I worked for about 12 or 13
days or something and I thought I was
doing this really special part and I I
play a German so I went to a dialect
coach and I prepared and I was you know
I was really ready for it and all those
days and and I saw it the other night
and it's kind of like if you blink you
miss me you know so well we have a clip
we have a clip are you in the clip I'm
kind of ashamed of the clip what's the
clip the clip is the bathtub scene no
I'm happy to be in it but you can we
show the we show the clip right it took
days to do it but it's you know well
let's see you and look carefully cuz
flea is in there somewhere clip from the
big Labowski take a
look said money he want the
money you think if you're are kidding or
make with the funny stuff who think you
haven't dreamed of laosi yeah he beli in
nothing he believes in nothing laosi
nothing and tomorrow we come back and we
cut off your Johnson excuse me I said we
cut off your
Johnson you're on
the is that about it or there's a little
more than that there's a little bit more
all
right um well the big Labowski opens
tomorrow and uh flee is is over there on
the left and uh you we also want to
watch for your solo album which is
coming out soon and you're going to do a
duet with your daughter is that right I
am yeah that's very cool yeah I'm sorry
I'm on the eve of recording my solo
record it's actually not coming out soon
but it's something I'm really excited
about it's a it's a record of of
melancholy kind of sad songs and if this
if this is any hint I played some of
them for my friends the other day and
they're they these real sensitive songs
you know I'm sad and sensitive and I
have a lot of feelings and and those the
actual lyrics no cuz you got a problem
yeah but they they started laughing at
me so I don't know what that means but
I'm really proud of this embrace your
fear my friend Embrace failure uh flee
it very cool having you on the show
thank you so much for coming by best of
luck with the movie and with the with
the album come back sometime free
everybody we'll take a break we'll be
right back with Kevin Brennan you