-Thank you so much, first of all,
I just want to say for everything you´re doing
for Puerto Rico right now.
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Hurricane Maria happened.
You still have family there, correct?
-Yes, that´s right.
My aunts and uncles and my cousins
are all still on the island.
And in a lot of ways, you know,
it´s going slower than anyone wants.
You know, 75% of the island is still without power,
25% still without water.
We´re making -- -I´m so sorry.
-Yeah, we´re making up for
this sort of slow initial government response.
But what´s been amazing is the reaction
and the outpouring of support
from everyday citizens like you guys.
From I mean -- we --
Just at the Hispanic Federation, we´ve raised $20 million.
And that´s small donations from you.
[ Cheers and applause ] That´s from you.
Thank you for the $2.5 million.
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-It´s the least I can do. I mean --
-So like it´s this weird paradox
of wanting to jump up and down about the government response,
but being so overwhelmed
and hopeful about sort of everyday people.
-I mean you are -- that´s the thing that I love about you,
is that you´re very hopeful.
And you spread that message.
We were saying -- talking backstage --
we were talking about even children
that are giving their babysitting money.
-Yeah, kids sending their allowance money.
Kids breaking piggy banks.
Parents matching what their kids raise at lemonade stands.
I mean, it´s been incredible to see that outpouring of support.
-That´s what we can do. That´s what we are.
Yeah, exactly.
And then, "Almost Like Praying" --
How did you come up with the song?
How did you come up with the title?
And how did you put it all together?
-Yeah. -´Cause it´s amazing.
And 100% of the proceeds go to the Hispanic Federation.
-Yeah, you know, I´m like
everyone who has friends or family on the island.
I was waiting for word from my family,
and I needed something to do.
And so I started writing this song, trying to kind of --
and the challenge became, you know, what lyrics can you say?
We didn´t even know
what the immediate aftermath was gonna be.
So I said, "If I could name all 78 towns in the lyric,"
which in many way is the dorkiest possible response.
"I´m gonna name all 78 towns."
[ Laughter ] But it was important to me.
You know, there were a lot of towns that don´t feel heard
and don´t feel like they´re getting the same relief.
And so I wanted to sort of elevate them.
And then I called every Latino superstar I know.
And I tweeted at the ones I didn´t know.
And we got -- It was from writing the song
to releasing the song was about two weeks,
which is really fast. -Oh, yeah.
-So it was really incredible. And everyone said yes.
J.Lo and Marc Anthony and Luis Fonsi
Fat Joe -- -Yeah, I saw that.
-I mean, it was this kind of incredible --
everyone said "yes" without having heard the song.
So that was really amazing.
-It´s an amazing song.
But you played it for your son.
That´s when you knew that it was going to be good.
Because he´s a very harsh critic.
-Yeah, my son doesn´t like "Hamilton."
-He doesn´t like "Hamilton?" -No.
He´s sort of the one -- He likes "Dear Theodosia"
´cause he thinks my wife wrote it.
Because she sings him to sleep with that song.
And so if I try to sing it, he goes,
"You did not write that song."
[ Laughter ]
"Mommy wrote that song."
But -- So he´s a harsh critic.
I play him stuff.
And he says, "I don´t like that song."
But I played him "Almost Like Praying."
And he got up and went, "I am Puerto ´Lico.´
You are Puerto ´Lico.´
We are Puerto ´Lico.´
We are Puerto ´Lico.´"
He doesn´t have the "R´s" yet.
-Puerto "Lico." -Puerto "Lico."
-Puerto "Lico." -Yeah, and how big is he now?
-He´s like this big. -He´s a baby.
Yeah, I love him. That´s so cute.
We got to hang out.
We were out East and we got to hang out over the summer.
-We did. -With the baby and your wife.
And we were having fun. -We were at your house.
Yeah, it was awesome. -Do you remember --
-Do you remember a moment where
we were at one point in a basement?
-I remember leaving our wives
to go to the basement to listen to vinyl music
while our wives were upstairs
talking about probably real-world issues.
We were listening to every polka track
that "Weird Al" Yankovic has ever done, on vinyl.
[ Laughter ] ´Cause Jimmy has them all.
-And you said to me -- He goes, "Aah."
I was like, "Oh, yeah, I got" --
´cause I have a comedy section of vinyl.
And you go, "You have Weird Al? Oh my God. I love Weird Al."
-I go, "Me too." And you go, "Do you have ´Polka Party?´"
-Yeah.
-And I go, "Do I have ´Polka Party?´"
[ Laughter ]
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[ Rim shot ]
Oh, I have -- I have "Polka Party,"
which has you know, "Living With a Hernia" on it.
It has -- "Polka Party" is the song that we --
-We sang it at the top --
I think our wives came to see what the matter was with us.
-We cranked it. We sang it at the --
And I have never met anyone since --
I don´t even know if I met anyone
in grade school or high school that knew this.
-It was special.
-And we sang every single part of that song
at the top of our lungs. And we were laughing.
And I was crying laughing. -We were crying laughing.
-´Cause I couldn´t believe you knew --