Transcripts For KNTV Late Night With Seth Meyers 20240713

The Trump Administration formally notified the United Nations today that the u. S. Will withdraw from the paris climate agreement. Even more depressing, they did it via oil spill [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause according according to the new york times, President Trump rarely tweets in front of others because he does not like the glasses he needs to wear to use his phone. [ laughter ] i also dont like wearing my glasses, said melania [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause thats right President Trump does not like the reading glasses he needs to wear to use his phone. Plus, as a rule, he has to pick on himself nice glasses, four eyes shut up [ laughter ] yesterday was daylight savings day which means six months of freaking out every morning when you see the clock on your stove. Oh, no, no, no [ laughter ] oh, no, im late oh, no, no. [ laughter ] according to reports, white house Senior Adviser Steven Miller got engaged over the weekend. No word on where he got the ring or as he calls it, the precious. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause officials at Harvard Law School recently sent a message to students to request that they stop feeding a bird that is loose in the library he doesnt deserve handouts, said a rich bird who got in because his dad went there [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause i mean, can you imagine. Despite fracturing his pelvis last month, former preside sunday shel weekend and told the group that he was, quote, absolutely and completely at ease with death. Replied his students, were seven. [ laughter ] a clerk at a Medical Clinic in louisiana was arrested recently for selling High School Students fake doctors notes to get out of class. Teachers first became suspicious when bryces ovaries broke [ laughter ] now, the question is the question is will the next one win him back [ laughter ] no thats a question were about to get an answer to [ light laughter ] and finally [ laughter ] a pig in iowa recently broke a Guinness World record by performing 13 tricks in one minute though, the real winner was the pigs pimp [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ladies and gentlemen we got him. Theyre back we got a great show for you tonight. She is legendary writer, activist and feminist organizer whose latest book, the truth will set you free but first it will piss you off is available now. [ cheers and applause Gloria Steinem is here, everybody. How about that they are the cofounders of legendary band the roots and executive producers of amcs terrific new documentary series, hip hop the songs that shook america. Aruestlove and Black Thought [ cheers and applause and we will have music from one of my favorite bands, wilco is here [ cheers and applause so we got a great show tonight also, very exciting. Tonight at midnight on the west coast, the premier of my standup special on netflix lobby baby will be available for the first time which means if youre watching on the west coast, you could watch it as soon as youre done watching this show if one hour of me isnt enough for you [ laughter ] and then if youre on the east coast, you have to stay up until 3 00 a. M or just watch it tomorrow. But im very excited for yall to see it. I think its a lot of fun. And lets move on. White house officials are stonewalling the impeachment inquiry as republicans shift their defense of the president for more on this, its time for a closer look. [ cheers and applause seth weve established this repeatedly, but its worth remembering as the impeachment inquiry intensifies, donald trump is very unpopular he lost the popular vote in 2016 by a greater margin than any president in history and more people have had a negative opinion of him than a positive one since virtually the start of c no politician has been this unpopular for this long since gerald ford pardoned nixon and then fell down that flight of stairs [ laughter ] remember when we thought slipping on wet stairs was the dumbest thing a president could do [ laughter ] my god we were adorable. [ laughter ] now, in trumps defense, he is not at risk of slipping on wet stairs because he keeps toilet paper on his shoe to dry [ laughter ] each step as he goes [ cheend see trump has always been unpopular. By contrast in 2018, democrats won the house with the largest midterm margin of all time, smashing the record for the popular vote in midterm elections. In fact, thats the reason this impeachment inquiry can even happen in the first place. Democrats won an election. And now they have the power to impeach the president. It is important to remember that whenever you hear someone calls it an illegal coup or when republicans say stuff Something Like this. You have to accept that President Trump is president thats the problem they dont accept that oh. President trump won the election as a country on the sore loser planet this is an unfair process being driven by sore losers. Seth theyre sore losers they won in the midterms. You guys are the ones who whenever you lose pass a bunch of laws making it harder to vote thats why republicans love voter id and gerrymandering so much if they lose the next election, theyll probably introduce a bill mandating that all voters must have a valid drivers license in at least three different states and at least six business years prior to the election [ laughter ] and the only dmv in the country is located in an abandoned hotel on a cliff in yosemite [ laughter ] and is open from 1 00 to 4 00 a. M. On alternate wednesday in months beginning the letter q and [ laughter ] and and theyre going to call it the freedom to vote act now [ cheers and applause trumps historic unpopularity is clear and the polling on impeachment as well. A majority of americans now say in polls that trump should be impeached. Yy to change public opinion. Trump instead chooses to believe that the polls are fake. Mr. President , according to several recent polls, more americans want you to be impeached and removed from office [ talking over each other americans who dont. Youre reading the wrong polls. Boston wall street journal nbc, abc, washington post. I have the real polls i have the real polls. [ laughter ] seth oh, you have the real polls. And they show that no one wants you impeached. And youre keeping those polls to yourself. Well, that makes sense [ laughter ] trump seems like the kind of guy who would keep good news to himself. [ laughter ] i mean, these polls say people love me. But, i dont know, bragging about it just seems, i dont know, is it, like, tacky . [ laughter ] trump will always be a lowrent new york city con artist he is like a guy with table outside the nike store going, psst, over here i got the real shoes. [ laughter ] and then he sells you a pair of air gordons. [ laughter and applause so trump deeply unpopular in National Polls and most americans say he should be impeached. The only thing we has going for him is that we still have a dumb Antiquated Electoral College system that lets, like, six states decide the winner and trumps unpopularity is clear whenever he steps outside the bubble of his rallies or fox news like last weekend when he got booed at the world series. Now, you might be thinking, if the president cant even to go a baseball game without getting booed, where can he go and apparently his advisors were wondering the same thing because somebody thought surely he can go something, like, say a ufc fight without getting booed. Right . Loud boos and some cheers for the president. I [ booing ] seth is that one of those real polls he was talking about . [ laughter ] even more embarrassing for trump, the winner in one of the ufc fights that night posted a photo of himself afterward with a caption, bernie sanders, you bastards. [ laughter and applause i mean, the only way the only way this could have been more embarrassing the only way it could have been more embarrassing the only way it could have been more embarrassing for trump is if bernie himself won the fight put up your dukes. [ laughter ] in the octagon, im the 1 . [ laughter ] the fact is there is nowhere trump wont get booed save for his rallies. So the day before he got booed at that ufc fight, trump decided to bask in adoration of his crowds at a rally in mississippi. Now, these rallies are such fawning affairs that trump routinely makes up words and no one seems to bat an eye which is exactly what happened not once but twice at his rally on friday first they engineered the russia hoax, that was a total hoax the single greatest lies ever foistered upon the American People its all a phony deal, this whole impeachment scam to try to undermine the 2020 election and to delegitamatize one of the greatest elections seth oh, yes foistered and delegitamatized. [ laughter ] usually if you hear a loved one talking like that, the next question you ask them is, do you smell burnt toast . [ laughter ] my favorite part of trumps made up words is how he ramps up to them for effect with a long pause and then gets them wrong [ laughter ] its like watching one of those dudes run up to a pool to do a cannon ball before then realizing its frozen. [ audience ohs ] ah, foisted again [ laughter ] putting aside the fake words, trumps argument fundamentally boils down to accusing the democrats who won a record margin in the midterms of trying to undo and election. An argument he repeated later at the rally without any made up words. And then they figure they can take us out a different way very dishonestly, right with the lying, and the spying, and the leaking. [ cheers ] and we are kicking their ass seth yeah, but youre not. You see they just passed a resolution on the impeachment inquiry. And theyve spent weeks gathering damning testimony from direct witnesses how are you kicking their ass . Trumps like a Football Player who does an endzone dance whenever the other team scores a touchdown. Patriots up 410. And it looks like the jets running back is diving into the crowd. [ laughter ] hes having fun. Also, what is going on here . With the lying and the spying and the leaking. [ laughter ] seth is he working on his Arnold Schwarzenegger impression [ laughter ] with the lying and the spying and leaking impeaching, colluding and investigating of the crimes things of that nature. [ cheers and applause with the leaking and the creaking and the peeping [ laughter ] and the peeking. [ laughter ] so now democrats are moving forward with the next phase of their impeachment inquiry. Today they began releasing transcripts of their depositions with key witnesses and in response, trump has started suggesting that those transcripts might somehow be fake last night trump attacked house intelligence chairman adam schiff tweeting that schiff will change the words that were said to suit the dems purposes. Republicans should give their own transcripts of the interviews to contrast with schiffs manipulated propaganda. He is a proven liar, leaker and freak. [ laughter ] calling him a freak . You look like a dollar store action figure called mafia goodfella. [ laughter ] but trump keeps putting republicans in a bind because he keeps insisting that his president of ukraine was not just unimpeachable but perfect for example, yesterday trump spoke to reporters and insisted yet again that his phone call was perfect. Although this time he put a little extra flourish on it. The whistleblower gave a very inaccurate report about my phone call my phone call was perfecto seth it was perfecto [ laughter ] sounds like a tourist trying to fit in during a trip to rome le phone call, it was aperfecto [ laughter ] and now as a reward [ laughter ] so trump thinks his phone call with the president of ukraine was perfect. Now, youll recall that in that conversation, trump tried to coerce the president of ukraine to investigate democrats like joe biden by telling him, i would like you to do us a favor. And when he heard that, the president of ukraine was flustered, or as trump would put it foistered [ laughter ] seth so, as democrats start releasing transcripts of their depositions, the white house is obviously desperate to do anything they can to stop the process. Today, for example, four white house officials refused to show up for their scheduled hearings the witness list for today appears to have gone from four people to zero cnn has learned all four white house officials who were scheduled to testify today will not be showing up. In fact, most of the witnesses scheduled to testify this week plan to stonewall. Seth theyre just refusing to show up now how long before trump tries that tactic the day he gets impeached, hell probably be holed his bedroom, hiding under a pillow fort you cant impeach me if you cant find me. [ laughter ] and this is an invisible door. [ laughter ] trump and republicans keep changing their defense because they dont have one. Democrats have now passed a formal impeachment resolution and theyre releasing transcripts of damming witness testimony. Trumps freaking out as the imachment inquiry moves sterern foistered [ laughter ] seth this has been a closer look. [ cheers and applause well be right back with more late night, everybody. [ cheers and applause announcer for more of seths closer looks be sure to subscribe to late night on youtube. paul the holidays at sprint are truly a magical time. sprintern i turned my iphone 6s into the new iphone 11. paul its true, switch and trade in an iphone 6s or newer in any condition anst 0 a month. Rful sprintern magic for people with hearing loss, visit sprintrelay. Com grandson wow. grandfather that was me, seventy years ago. So things are worth preserving. 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So, wed like the share them with you now in a segment called, jokes seth cannot tell. [ cheers and applause seth these are two of our writers. Amber and jenny, everybody [ cheers and applause im black and im gay and were both women. Seth and im not so, ill read the jokes and amber and jenny will read the punchlines here we go the company glade is currently selling a Scented Candle called warm flannel embrace. Warm flannel embrace, or as lesbians call it, first base. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause seth Ice Cream Company Cold Stone Creamery recently introduced a limited edition blace the ice cream itself is not limited. Just societys expectations of it [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause discovered a 20inch long statue of a stone penis ugh, thats weird, said lesbians about every penis [ laughter ] seth historians recently marked the 400th anniversary of the first slave ship landing in north america. What you do get for the 400th anniversary again . Oh, thats right, reparations. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause seth according to a reason article, mayor Pete Buttigieg only packed four shirts for his bus tour around iowa said lesbians, why do you need four shirts . [ laughter ] seth jenny, whats your favorite shirt well, im a lesbian so its a denim button down. But im a mom, so its a denim button down. Seth oh, okay. [ laughter ] seth the worlds first Vagina Museum is open the london men are allowed, but they dont know what to do once they get in there [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause [ laughter ] seth they sort of just just sort of bang around, right . [ laughter ] victorias secret has announced the hiring of its first plus side model and this is cool. Shell be working in the stockroom. [ laughter ] seth National Pancake day was last month finally, a day to celebrate white womens flat asses [ laughter ] seth oh, no. I forgot to get my wife a gift [ laughter ] the next one is about women, so either of you can tell it. Which one of you is going to neither of us we brought a friend to do itche seth Gloria Steinem, everybody thank you so much for being here i cant believe im here. [ cheers and applause im delighted to be here seth okay. Are you ready . Yeah, i think so. Seth all right, lets do this the makers of the game monopoly have announced theyre coming out with a female version of the game called, ms. Monopoly. Its just like regular monopoly, but when you pass go, you only get 158 and thats only if youre white [ laughter ] seth very, very nice that was great that was really great. Okay, but now its your turn. Why donyo oh, come on seth, you got to tell one yeah. Seth no, i feel, like ill get in trouble if i do one of these. Oh, no. No. Speclly you, Gloria Steinem all female space walk. Laughter ] nasa recently held their first they got lost. How dare you seth you told me it would be okay its the guys whos need the maps seth oh, my god. [ laughter ] shame on you. 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Yeah. Definitely. Get a discount up to 30 with drive safe and save™ from state farm. [ cheers and applause seth welcome back everybody. Give it to the 8g band right over there [ cheers and applause weekn wh perry farrell. Fresh off a summer tour with be sure to follow him on instagram. [ cheers and applause thank you so much for being back brendan. Our first guest tonight is an author, activist and feministic icon her frlatest, but first it will piss you off thoughts on life, love and rebellion is available now. Please welcome to the show, the one and only, Gloria Steinem, everybody. [ cheers and applause seth welcome to the show i cant believe im here. I mean, im supposed to be on the other side of the screen watching you seth oh, well you can im your fan. Seth as of tomorrow, wed love to have you back there watching [ laughter ] okay. Seth but so happy to have you here tonight can you i just want to start with the title, the truth will piss you off did the title come to you pretty easily yes the world brought the title to me very easily [ laughter ] seth yes right, right. Right seth sort of left it on the doorstep theyou had to write a book for it. Yes, right, absolutely. Seth what is theres too many truths thats definitely pissed you off, right seth what the is most uniquely or most specifically pissing you off now . Well, i guess you can say the person in the white house. I mean, i cant you know . Seth yeah. Theres no other way of saying it theres no other way, because he was not elected and there he is, and uh, you know. [ laughter ] seth yeah and hes there every day. Yeah [ laughter ] fortunately, hes making us woke, i think. Seth oh, you think hes is helping us awaken us yes, because ive never i travel a lot and ive never seen the degree of activism that im seeing now. Seth so this is sort of an optimistic [ cheers and applause i sort of wonder, because you have this incredible perspective on this having basically, you know its called, being old. [ laughter ] seth well, yeah. I was trying to be no [ laughter ] you have such wonderful cause i know. You know, obviously, you became a feminist activist in the late 60s. So, there must be you obviously have seen so much positive change. Uh, and yet, there are many things to still be upset and frustrate about. How has the definition of feminism changed, as far as you see it, from the late 60s, early 70s to now i dont think it has changed because its just the radical idea that women are full human beings [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause seth there we are with that. [ cheers and applause but, i think now were much more likely to realize how deep it goes. Seth umhmm. You know, to realize to be really political for a moment, that controlling reproduction is the first step in every hierarchy, in every totalitarian regimen and everything and that means controlling womens bodies so, you know, it was true of the national socialists, as they were called, in germany. Its true of groups here and i dont think we put that together i mewe issues were womens issues we didnt understand the connections to Everything Else seth did you you sort of began as a freelance writer. Did you find your activism through the work you were doing as a writer or did you begin your writing as an activist . No. I think i definitely thought of myself as a writer because i just wanted to be there with my little notebooks [ laughter ] you know, not being on television and talking [ laughter ] seth uh, you sort of famously want to your earliest pieces, i believe was, you sort of went undercover at e y clubs and wrote a you to fame and prominence, but obviously that you couldnt be taking notes yes, i was, but in the bathroom [ laughter ] seth yeah. Putting them down my costume. Seth was that then after that that people thought you would just be this undercover reporter well, yes, i got some terrible assignments after that. [ laughter ] i was glad i did it because it did improve the working condition of bunnies, which was awful. Seth yeah. But, it also typecast me in a way that now, old as i am, people say oh, she was just a former bunny [ laughter ] seth theyd right, they dont realize that you were only a bunny to write the piece in the first place. Yeah, and then when i explain, i say, no, i dont want to desert those women they were just looking for, to make a living. You know seth yeah. So, its a moral dilemma. Seth and you know, i think that across this entire issue, you realize, like, anyone who had seen the idea of what a bunny was, at the time, im assuming was like, gosh, they look like theyre having the best time in the world. So, it was helpful for you to write a piece like that. Yeah, but how can you be having the best time when you are unclothed and wearing a costume thats so tight it would give a man a cleavage . Seth yeah. [ laughter ] and everybody else is clothed. Thats political in itself seth yeah. No, that i would not be happy in a situation like that yeah [ laughter ] as much as i like serving drinks to my friends. [ laughter ] somebody once did try a male bunny thing, but it just didnt work [ laughter ] i dont even know what animal is the equivalent, like what did they what was it . Do you know . What . Seth like, just a bunch of guys with, like elks, Walking Around with giant antlers . [ laughter ] thats a good question. I dont know seth yeah, were going to get to the bottom of it. Okay. Seth tweet us whatever you think it is. [ laughter ] what is how can men, you know, again, youve gone through this so many times but how are men most helpful as allies in a time, like this. Well, i think its even more helpful to realize mens stake in it. You know, because actually, if you look at the cause of male deaths, speeding and violence. And, you know, you add them all up, the Womens Movement and the dissolution of gender roles means that you would have about five more years of life to live. This is not bad, is it seth yeah. Who else can make that offer . [ laughter ] seth i would love that yeah, that would be wonderful. And also getting to know your own children seth yeah. Yeah, because the system as it is, means that, frequently men are estranged from their children and men get to be whole people, by being active in the home and raising, or being raised to raise children just, like we get to be whole people by being active outside the home seth youve started a couple magazines. Youve helped start a couple magazines. Do you feel, like theres still a role because obviously its a very scary time for print journalism, but for sort of vibrant journalism to bring attention to these issues are you worried at all about the fact that there are less platforms for people, a young version well, less perspective [ laughter ] but, somebody starting out their career now do you feel, like there are enough ways for them to have the impact that you had . Yes, because online, you know, is huge. Seth right and magazines are still very important. But what worries me more is the lack of fact checking. Seth mmhmm. And i think the only way were gonna get really accurate facts is to pay as we do for newspapers and magazines, at least a Little Something seth right because, advertising is always gonna to, you know, the biggest numberey which it how we got the president. Seth yeah. [ light laughter ] if there werent advertising, we wouldnt have had that show that was, like watching a roadside accident. Seth yeah. [ laughter ] right seth and its cause the one thing about roadside accidents is they dont show commercials during them, which is very nice [ laughter ] you have this you make this very interesting observation in the book that men have an issue with women in power because it brings them back to their childhood. Because often, the last time they saw a woman of authority was the school, when they were very young no, i think as long as were all raised by women, women too, but women we have of course, a little selfcorrection because we realize we can do other things but for men, i think, really the last time they saw an authoritative woman, it really, an authority over them, they were a child and they feel regressed when they see it. I mean, otherwise, i cant explain why my grown up male journalist friends say things like, i cross my legs whenever i see hillary clinton. What is that about [ laughter ] you know, she reminds me of my wife outside i mean, you know, its intelligent men say these crazy things seth yeah. Maybe were just not that intelligent. [ laughter ] no, no. No, im not going there. [ laughter ] seth do you seeing this field of candidates, obviously its a very diverse field right now. Theres a lot of candidates. Are you optimistic moving forward . How do you feel . Yeah, i am it is the most diverse field of candidates. And my position is, i would work my heart out for any one of them seth yeah. Its character that matters and they all have so much better character then [ laughter ] [ applause ] but, i do think that we have a problem of looking up, you know. We have the case of the shoulds. What should i do seth yeah. And then we dont become uncertain. But when we look at each other, we know what to do seth all right well, i hope we all do the right thing when the time comes. Thank you so much for being here its such an honor to have you awe, thank you. Seth Gloria Steinem, everybody. [ cheers and applause the truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off is available now well be right back with questlove and Black Thought. [ cheers and applause seventh generation gets the ingredients in their laundry detergent from plants, not petroleum. And this stuff beets stains. Its kind of a big dill. Lemon tell ya. 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Thats what it took to break the color line there suddenly, their ratings grew. And tv was wide open oh, what other cool black people can we support . So here comes prince lionel richie, the pointer sisters. Here comes kool and the gang, and probably the coolest of them all is run dmc seth please welcome to the show, questlove and Black Thought, everybody [ cheers and applause seth welcome to the show guys thank you thank you seth so good to have you here i usually see you guys downstairs your studio is directly below us yeah. And you can hear us from seth i can hear you often. Yeah you guys are a little bit louder than a normal late night house band sorry about that. Seth thats all right. Thank you for apologizing. You guys have known each other for 30 years is that right . Or longer . 30ish seth 30s how did you first meet each other . We met in high school at the high school for creative and performing arts in philly. Where i was i cant remember what was happening i think i was being suspended for something. And he was bringing like a bouquet of flowers for the principal. [ laughter ] seth and you thought, i should hang out with that guy. Like get me off the hook. Yeah, yeah, like, yeah. I need i want someone with you know yeah. We were both on the bench for totally different reasons. Seth when did you decide you wanted to do hip hop as a career oh, lord. Um probably i think like 88 seth okay. Is when like sampling Technology Like i started noticing my dads Record Collection was coming back to life through music i was h nd your dad was a musician my dad was an oldies doowop musician seth and how did he feel when you told him that you wanted to do hip hpoteop as iala i tell the story that most people dont believe, but my dad didnt know that the roots were a thing until our second album [ laughter ] because he wanted me to, like, go to juilliard, and, you know or go to an Ivy League School and that sort of thing and, like, i wanted to sneak and do hip hop so i kind of kept our first album a secret, like, hiding the paper [ laughter ] and yeah, because we werent a huge success, it didnt take that much work to keep it a secret [ laughter ] seth ive heard one of the keys to the success and the longevity of the roots over 30 years is two tour buses at least two tour buses yeah, at least, at least. Seth at least two tour buses. Gryffindor and slytherin. [ cheers and applause seth the names of the tour buses are gryffindor and slytherin . Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Seth and how does it split up who goes where cool people go where i go [ laughter ] [ applause ] hey, man my buses were the dweeb bus. Seth yeah. Were the Criterion Collection watch [ laughter ] you know, early leaving, no after party, none of that stuff. Seth you kind of cracked the code youve collaborated with so many people over the years. And one of the plans is have food salons. Like, basically, have good food around, and then, people will show up, and then you sort of have them on the scene and you, questlove, you have a new cookbook out yes seth very exciting is this sort of are you basically saying if you cook these recipes, some of the biggest names in music will show up at your house pretty much seth yeah, yeah. [ laughter ] Chrissy Teigen could be coming to your house too [ laughter ] no, its just that when, in order to get like the Music Community of philadelphia to gather towards us, we used some of the worlds best cooks. You know, it would be like coming to the house for dinner, and, oh, by the way, there are some instruments [ laughter ] help us write a song so thats how it came to be. But actually, tariqs the one that should be writing a cookbook because hes the best cook seth better chef well, better than he for sure [ laughter ] ive got a recipe in there seth you got one in there . Obviously 30 years, youre very recognizable youre the band for the tonight show. But you get recognized a lot incorrectly. Yeah, yeah. Seth okay, who do people think you are . Oh, people are like, oh, my god. I love rick ross youre so great. Yeah, and i just i dont correct them ive never corrected anyone whos mistaken me for rick ross, because, a, i mean, its just going to be a longer conversation [ laughter ] its going to extend the interaction that much more and you know, i want people to, you know, sort of have their moments. So i was like, cool, you feel like you met rick ross today . [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause seth i want to talk about the show so this is six episodes. You guys pick six hip hop songs to sort of deep dive on each one. Yeah. Seth and sort of what they represented because they each represent a moment yeah. Seth but it must have been hard to pick six just to narrow it down to six . I mean, the best thing about being a fan of hip hop is sort of the debates that you have, at least without getting to pugilism or anything seth yeah. But im thinking that, you know, for us to make this series, which is like a cross between like ken burns, were to make a music version of espns 30 for 30 thats what the series is. And so, we we try to use our best judgment for what could extend to the audience that we want to reach. Seth and each one, so for kanye, you pick jesus walks. Yeah. 2004 is jesus walks. 84 is run dmcs rock box. 89 is Queen Latifahs ladies first. Outcast elevators for 96 Kendrick Lamars alright for 2015 seth thats wonderful. And unless anybody thinks that youve come lately to your music knowledge, this is just one of the rooms of your vinyl collection, yes. Yeah, yeah. Its up there. Seth and he brings each one of them on the bus yeah, yeah. [ laughter ] seth no wonder people want to hang out. How many but this is not all of them. Thats about maybe 40, 40,000 i have a total of about 100 maybe like 130,000 [ laughter ] seth do you think youve hit your cap or now is it such no dude, i just right now im into collecting like you know like kitsch art you know, like the dogs playing poker and that well im into collecting horrible music like some of the worst albums ever created someone just sold me their Record Collection in portland. Seth yeah. Like over 10,000 pieces seth thats fantastic. If youre into collecting horrible music, then yeah, you got a lifetimes worth of work. [ laughter ] seth yeah, theres a lot out there. Theres a lot out there. Horrible. Not mediocre but horrible seth oh, yeah, it cant be a gray area. Guys, congrats on the show thank you, sir. Seth congrats on everything you do 30 years [ cheers and applause for everything you do downstairs questlove and Black Thought, everybody. Hip hop the song thats shook america, airs sunday nights on amc. Well be right back. 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So tangled in the wil seeing myself as something more mean out in the countr sadness wants me further away from the scen right now, right now love is everywhere right now, right no love is everywhere where the sunligh grabs the lake its frozen in the flames beneath the sleeping town with the riots raining dow its all yours now its all for yo right now right no love is everywhere right now right now love is everywhere so many things i do i cant explain to you right now right now love is everywher right no im frightened how love is here beware our love is everywhere our love is everywhere [ cheers and applause [ electrical buzzing ] [ dramatic music ] ahhhh ahhhh elliott. You came back [ cheers and applause seth my thanks to Gloria Steinem, questlove, Black Thought, wilco, brendan buckley, and, of course, the 8g band. Stay tuned for lilly singh well see you tomorrow [ cheers and applause lilly tonight on a little late with lilly singh, i sit down with tracee ellis ross, star of blackish and mixedish. Yup lilly tracee, i noticed that all of your shows end with an ish. Oh, yes i have noticed that. Yes. Lilly mmhmm no, i feel like i could have, like, a hundred ish shows. Really . Lilly brownish. [ laughter ] gayish, famousish, youngish, ishish. [ laughter ] whats whats i dont know whats the ishish