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Jimmy Kimmel Live - Season 24 - Episode 109: Keke Palmer, Kareem Rahma, Kevin Morby
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00:00From Hollywood, it's Jimmy Kimmel Live!
00:04Tonight, Kiki Palmer, Kareem Rahman,
00:08and music from Kevin Moody with The Klee Tones!
00:13And now, Jimmy Kimmel!
00:31Thank you very much.
00:32Mr. Kareem Rahman, thank you for everything.
00:35Hi.
00:37I'm Jimmy. I'm the host of the show.
00:40As you were watching, we're coming here from Los Angeles.
00:43Thanks for joining us here on another weird day.
00:46There is so much nonsense.
00:47And I mean that in a very literal sense of the word nonsense happening.
00:53At the same time, there are also so many awful and scary
00:56and flat-out unbelievable things going on.
00:58The world has been turned upside down, mostly for no good reason.
01:02And so, today, we got a visitor,
01:05one of the very few people who might actually be able to tip things
01:09even slightly in a positive direction.
01:11The King of England is in the United States.
01:14King Charles and Queen Camilla are here
01:19to visit President Beef on Wellington.
01:22And also, they have quite an itinerary.
01:26They're going to New York.
01:27They're making a stop at the Wisconsin Dells.
01:30They're going to a screening of the Delaware's Prada 2 at the Burbank AMC.
01:35And I guess they're wrapping it up with a Phish concert in Vegas at the Sphere.
01:40Trump has a particular affinity for the royal family.
01:43And so, in Washington, they pulled out all the stops to welcome the King and Queen.
01:47The Department of Transportation lined the streets with what they thought was the Union Jack.
01:51The British flag turned out to be the Australian flag.
01:56So, they had to take them all down and swap them out.
01:59Somehow, they managed to screw everything up.
02:02It was a literal false flag operation going on there.
02:07Yesterday, the royals joined the Trumps for afternoon tea.
02:10And boy, would I love to be a fly on the cucumber sandwiches for that conversation.
02:15No way Trump was drinking tea, right?
02:18I bet they boiled some Diet Coke and put it in a cup for him.
02:23King Charles delivered a speech today before a joint session of Congress.
02:26His goal in this trip is to try to calm transatlantic tensions.
02:31Trump heard this. He said, the Atlantic is trans now, too?
02:35But Charles gave a good speech.
02:41He paid tribute to his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth.
02:45The monarchy is a strange thing.
02:46Imagine getting promoted because your mom died.
02:50You know, there's a story today that suggested that Trump and the King may be distant cousins.
02:54They might be related, which Trump saw and posted,
02:57Wow, that's nice. I've always wanted to live in Buckingham Palace.
03:01I'll talk to the King and Queen about this in a few minutes.
03:04Okay, I'm sure they'll be thrilled to have such a formidable roommate in their home.
03:10You know, this idea that Trump might be the King's distant cousin is exactly the plot of the movie King
03:18Rock.
03:20I mean, look it up. It's spot on.
03:24Trump was very excited about hosting the King.
03:27And a lot of it is because Trump's mom was a great fan of the royal family.
03:31My wonderful mother, Mary McLeod.
03:34She came to America at 19.
03:37Met my incredible father.
03:41We loved him so much.
03:42We all loved him.
03:43We loved her.
03:43We loved him, Fred.
03:46And they were married for 63 years.
03:52And, uh, excuse me if you don't mind.
03:55That's a record we won't be able to match, darling.
03:57I'm sorry.
03:58It's just not going to work out that way.
04:01Wait a minute.
04:03Did he just make a joke about his death?
04:09My God.
04:11You should be fired for that.
04:15Only Donald Trump would demand I be fired for making a joke about his old age,
04:20and then a day later go out and make a joke about his own old age.
04:30Just when you think they've hit peak ridiculous, making a big thing out of this joke,
04:34they then top themselves and charge, criminally charged, former FBI director Jim Comey,
04:40who Trump doesn't like because he did his job and investigated him.
04:43They charged Comey once with obstruction and with making a false statement, which went
04:48nowhere.
04:49It got thrown out of court.
04:49So now they're charging him again, this time with threatening the president's life for this.
04:55This is not a joke.
04:56They charge him with threatening the president's life for this photo of seashells that spell
05:01out 86-47.
05:0386 is an old restaurant term.
05:05It means get rid of.
05:06And Trump is the 47th president.
05:08Trump's pets in the DOJ are claiming this is some kind of threat or call to violence,
05:13which even he should be embarrassed by this.
05:16Put that back up.
05:17That is not a threat.
05:18That is a piece of art your aunt with a beach house would buy on Etsy.
05:26But he's being charged with a crime.
05:29And acting attorney general Todd Blanche said the crime carries a maximum sentence of 10
05:34years in prison.
05:35And I'm guessing it's not the five star Bikram yoga prison he transferred Jelaine Maxwell to.
05:40He also said this wasn't politically motivated.
05:44And they just you know what they just don't like people named Jim is what I've learned.
05:48So last night America's mayor Rudy Giuliani rose from the grave to weigh in on the ongoing drama involving me.
05:56That I want you if you don't have it.
05:58I want you to dig out the the one from from maybe maybe one of the most distasteful human beings
06:08in this country.
06:08Jimmy Kimmel.
06:15I have to say it hurts to be called distasteful by a man who farted his own pants off in
06:21front of Borat's daughter.
06:24But excuse me, you know what?
06:25I'm being rude.
06:26I interrupted the mayor.
06:27Please go ahead with the broadcast.
06:29Kimmel was making believe that he was hosting the White House correspondence dinner, which I think he did once.
06:37I don't know.
06:38Probably only once.
06:39And about four people watched it.
06:42I mean, bomb as usual.
06:44This is supposed to be a comedian.
06:52Am I?
06:53Is there something funny?
06:55Could you play it one more time, Ted?
07:02He went through the he went through the bother of putting up like a little stage and.
07:09Right.
07:10He's also like an incompetent jackass.
07:14I have to say it's confusing to be called an incompetent jackass by a man who accidentally held a press
07:20conference outside a dildo store.
07:25Who doesn't seem to have any understanding of when videos are running and when they aren't and has a gallon
07:32of squidding dribbling off the top of his head.
07:35But do you think does this man have any family members who can come get him already?
07:41Team Trump has been using the attempt and attack at the White House correspondence dinner to get out of paying
07:48for the ballroom, he said would be paid for by private donors as a gift to America paid partly by
07:55him.
07:56But now and this is a classic Trump move.
07:58He wants us to pay for it to the tune of four hundred million dollars.
08:02But keep in mind that even though we would have to pay for it once the ballroom is finished, none
08:08of us will ever be allowed to set foot in it.
08:10And while it may seem crazy to be talking about a ballroom with a war going on, it is.
08:16It is insane to do this again.
08:19Anybody who suggests that we have an event like this in the times in which we live in a facility
08:25like Hilton, that's crazy.
08:29We're going to have to accommodate the times in which we live.
08:33And Eric, you nailed it.
08:35There are people out there that are nuts.
08:38And that is why they have no choice but to barricade themselves inside a solid gold drone proof ballroom.
08:45And I love that Trump put Lindsey in charge of the ballroom push.
08:51We're going to introduce legislation that would authorize four hundred million dollars to be spent to secure the to build
09:01a presidential ballroom.
09:02Underneath there will be a lot of military stuff.
09:05The estimate is three hundred thirty two million.
09:08We're going to do four hundred million because I think it's probably going to take more.
09:12Private donations can be used, but I think they should be used for buying China and stuff like that.
09:19China and stuff like that.
09:20You're going to spend three hundred million dollars on China and stuff like that.
09:23The only thing Lindsey Graham loves more than war is dinnerware.
09:26He just send in the gravy boats.
09:32Lindsey Graham.
09:33Man, does this guy have the finger on the pulse of the average American.
09:37All he wants is to cha cha past the president's bedroom with a limoge porcelain teacup in his hand.
09:44But his fellow Republicans are split.
09:46A funding bill would likely require 60 votes in the Senate, which is unlikely to happen.
09:51Lindsey Graham can't just wave his little mermaid bubble wand and make it so.
09:56And if he could, he wouldn't be constantly begging for money.
09:59I need your help.
10:01I hate to say this, but I've been outraged twice by Democrats.
10:04Please go to Lindsey Graham dot com and help me if you can.
10:07I've been with President Trump at every step.
10:09The Democrats have money.
10:10I don't know where they're getting all this money, but I need your help.
10:13Lindsey Graham dot com.
10:14Please help me if you can.
10:16Please help me if you can.
10:18Lindsey Graham dot com.
10:19Like a hostage video.
10:20It would be less embarrassing if he was selling pictures of his feet.
10:25If you need money, start an OnlyFans.
10:29So this foil shooting at the Hilton on Saturday night has created a lot of waves.
10:33One of them was it took the focus off of FBI director Cash Patel, who is weathering a storm of
10:40stories about drinking on the job, which is something he absolutely positively would never, ever do.
10:47We will analyze all evidence immediately to make sure that we safeguard this country.
10:52Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, thank you for your leadership.
10:54Attorney General, Homeland Secretary Longman.
10:56Thank you for your partnership.
10:58Well, get that man a roadie cup, for God's sake.
11:01And of course, all of this self-inflicted stupidity is it's a distraction from inflation and the price of gas
11:09and the grifting and the Trump Epstein files they claim don't exist.
11:15And the fact that we are still fighting a war that the president declared we won on the first day.
11:22We're now on week nine of the war.
11:24Trump is said to be dissatisfied with the latest proposal from Iran to reopen the strait.
11:29But a spokesperson for the White House told the New York Times that the United States will not negotiate through
11:34the press.
11:35That's right. The United States negotiates exclusively through unhinged social media posts from the president's toilet in the middle of
11:43the night.
11:44But most people, sadly, I guess, aren't paying attention to any of this.
11:50Most people are more interested in the movie about Michael Jackson than the war in Iran.
11:54You know, Michael, Michael made $97 million over the weekend.
11:58It's the biggest opening ever for a biopic, even though it leaves out a lot of stuff.
12:04It starts with him in the Jackson five.
12:07It goes all the way to him becoming a superstar.
12:09But it ends before he becomes an old white lady who lives in an abandoned amusement park with a monkey
12:17in a leather jacket.
12:19It's not a complete story.
12:21Janet Jackson doesn't even exist in the movie.
12:24His only sister in the movie is Latoya.
12:26And they don't go into any of the many allegations, which is odd for a movie about someone's life.
12:32But also, would you go to a movie about child molesting?
12:35I don't know.
12:36Seems like it might take some of the attention away from the moonwalking.
12:38But controversy aside, whenever a major blockbuster drops, we send our in-house film critic Yaya to review it.
12:45Here he is once again talking about the movie Michael.
12:52Action!
12:53Hi, it's me Yaya.
12:55I talked about the new movie, Michael Jackson.
12:59Rest in peace.
13:01And he's the cop.
13:03I watch him and I do Jackson five.
13:06I meet him.
13:07He's super nice guy.
13:09He said to me,
13:10Yaya, I like you.
13:12Can I take a picture with you?
13:14Can I take a picture with you?
13:15Say yes, please.
13:16And I take Sylvie by my hand.
13:19And I kiss him in his head.
13:21He have oil too.
13:22Too much oil.
13:23And I meet his two, three brothers, Frido, Jamar, and Peter.
13:29And I meet his sister, Latoya Jackson.
13:33And I got a lot of famous music people.
13:36Alton Jones, Angel Bird, Humberding, Tom Jones.
13:41I saw Frankie Sinatra.
13:42I asked him in Atlantic City.
13:44He told me not right now, next time.
13:47And he died.
13:47What can I do?
13:49Anyway.
13:49Michael, one day he do commission for Pepsi Cola.
13:53And he have too much oil in his hair.
13:55He walk next to the fire.
13:57And his hair got fire.
13:59I swear.
14:01Everything I said true.
14:02You have monkey stay with him in the house.
14:04His name Pablo.
14:07Michael Jackson also, he go to courts.
14:10A lot.
14:10People say Michael do bad sexy.
14:14Dijaj, he say he's innocent.
14:16Innocent.
14:17Innocent.
14:18You understand?
14:20Another guy.
14:21He have problem with sex.
14:22Kevin Spacey.
14:24Bob Daddy, he have a lot of baby oil.
14:27Also, the guy, he do the commission and he's so fat for Subway.
14:32Jesse.
14:33And he's in the jail.
14:34And I don't know what the problem.
14:37Go watch the movie.
14:39Good movie.
14:40Michael, you do moon dance.
14:47Oh!
14:48Oh!
14:49Oh!
14:52Maya, it's okay.
14:57Beat it, Yaya.
14:58We had a fun show for you tonight.
14:59From Subway Takes, Kareem Rama is here.
15:02We have music from Kevin Morby.
15:03And we'll be right back with Kiki Palmer.
15:12The Run.
15:17Hi, you and welcome back.
15:19Tonight, our gentleman you know from his popular underground interviews
15:24on Subway Takes, his new one is in a taxi.
15:26It's called Keep the Meat It Running.
15:28Kareem Rama is here with us tonight.
15:30And then later from Oliva, Texas, this is his album, Little Wide Open.
15:35It comes out May 15th.
15:36Kevin Morby is here.
15:38Tomorrow night, we will be joined by Goldie Hawn and the Deli Boys with music from Duran Duran and Niall
15:45Rogers.
15:46Our first guest tonight is an Emmy-winning actor who was named one of Time 100's Most Influential People of
15:522026.
15:53And it's only April.
15:54Her new movie is called I Love Boosters.
15:56It opens in theaters May 22nd.
15:58Please welcome Kiki Palmer.
16:13How are you?
16:16Hey!
16:18What a great audience.
16:20Very good to see you.
16:21Well, they're excited to see you.
16:22I'm impressed that you're here because you have so many jobs, maybe like a Ryan Seacrest-level number of professions.
16:29Oh my gosh, yes.
16:30I live for it.
16:30Love Ryan.
16:31Acting, singing, hosting, television shows, author, podcast host.
16:39Pilates instructor.
16:41Pilates instructor?
16:42Really a Pilates instructor?
16:43Really.
16:43I have an app, Practice by Palmer.
16:45Get into it.
16:47You do?
16:48You do?
16:49Wow!
16:50Can I ask you a very dumb question?
16:52Yeah, no question is dumb.
16:54This one is.
16:57What is Pilates?
16:59Oh!
16:59I've always wondered what it is.
17:02Well, Pilates is an exercise practice.
17:05Basically, it's a little bit similar to yoga, but not really.
17:09It's a little more active, and it was started by a man named Joseph Pilates.
17:13Oh.
17:13Very modest.
17:14That's why he named it after himself.
17:15I still feel like I don't know what it is, though.
17:18Like, it's just, it's kind of, is it, how is it different from yoga?
17:23Because you're not as in many, as, in as many static poses.
17:27Okay.
17:27So, you know, you're always kind of moving.
17:30It's not as intense as what you would think of a natural strength training workout.
17:34A lot of it you can do without any other tools.
17:37You can do it right on the mat.
17:38You know, a little ab prep, a little planking going on, a little bit of, you know, double leg stretch,
17:43you know.
17:44Yeah, I don't like any of that stuff, but yeah.
17:47Yeah, no, it hurts my stomach.
17:48It's fun, especially on the reformer.
17:50I'd love to get you on a reformer.
17:52Yeah, I've seen those machines.
17:54Oh, yeah.
17:54Maybe sometime.
17:55I would try it.
17:56Yeah.
17:57I could use some reform.
17:58Yes.
17:59It's good for alignment.
18:00Reformed.
18:01Is it called a reformer because it reforms your body?
18:03I mean, I think, I mean, it could be true.
18:05I don't know if that's exactly why, but it definitely does get you into alignment.
18:09And on top of all these things, you are exercising, you're working, you have a son.
18:14Your son is three years old.
18:16He's the best.
18:17His name is Leo?
18:18Yes.
18:19We call him Leo for sure.
18:20His name's Leotis.
18:21Leotis?
18:22Yeah, it's a very old school vibe.
18:23Okay, all right.
18:24And are you having fun with him, I assume?
18:27I'm having the best time.
18:28Does he do Pilates with you?
18:29He actually does do Pilates with me.
18:31It's the cutest thing.
18:32In the morning, he'll get on the reformer with me.
18:35Uh-huh.
18:35And then he'll get on the floor and he'll try to do a little push-up.
18:38Okay.
18:38It's really cute.
18:39It does sound cute.
18:40It's so cute.
18:41And is he working yet?
18:43Does he have a job?
18:44Well, you know, that's what we're working on.
18:45Okay, yeah.
18:46That's what we're working on.
18:46Because he is very bossy.
18:48I think he could be a good little baby director.
18:50We've never seen that before.
18:51Oh, he is.
18:52A baby director would be a great...
18:54A little Doogie Howser, but in the media.
18:57You know?
18:58What movie came out of a three-year-old director would be pretty great.
19:02Something with monster trucks and spiders.
19:04Oh, he likes monster trucks and spiders?
19:05Loves it.
19:06And YouTube.
19:07I got to get him off of there.
19:08Yeah, yeah.
19:08You do have to get him off of there.
19:09Because there's no getting...
19:10Once they're in there, that's it.
19:12They love the flipping.
19:13They don't...
19:13Yes, that's what they like.
19:14That's what they like.
19:14The control of going to whatever they want.
19:16Yes.
19:16And I think it's probably really bad for their brain.
19:20Yes.
19:21And yet, we allow it anyway when we want to sleep.
19:23Well, you know, everything in moderation, including moderation.
19:26That's...
19:28That's good.
19:29I like that.
19:30Your...
19:30Now, your mom...
19:32Yes.
19:33Is she still your manager, your mom?
19:35Yes.
19:36She is.
19:36She's still a part.
19:37She's the foundation of the Kiki Palmer business.
19:39And that's not a problem for you?
19:41It's not.
19:42It's not.
19:42It's not a problem for me.
19:43Good, good.
19:44She comes with you everywhere you go.
19:46She's backstage right now.
19:48Does she live with you?
19:50She doesn't, but I think that she does feel that my house is...
19:53It's her house as well.
19:54I was actually on the phone with her the other day, and she's coming up, you know, to my
19:58house, and I think there were, like, just trucks blocking the way.
20:01And she said, hold on, Kiki.
20:02I need y'all to move out the way because I need to get to my house.
20:06Like, this ain't your house, though, Jared.
20:10But I understand.
20:11If you said, I need to get to somebody else's house, they may say, no, you're not going.
20:14Exactly.
20:15This is a good point.
20:15So does she make her...
20:17Does she act like it's her house when she's in the house or just when she's outside it?
20:20She does.
20:21And I think the biggest tell is that, and guys, I'm telling you, this is really not my doing.
20:26She puts pictures, solo pictures of me up in my own house.
20:29I swear I'm not doing that.
20:30People come to my house, and they're like, wow, what is this selfie picture of you doing
20:35up there?
20:35I'm like, my mom put that up there because she really...
20:37She has this thing where she's like, wow, Kiki, look at how much you've accomplished.
20:42Look at you.
20:43You remember that?
20:43You look so beautiful.
20:44Then I'm like, mom, why did you put this here?
20:45It looks like I'm obsessed with myself.
20:48Do you then take this stuff down?
20:50You follow her?
20:51I mean, I keep it up because, well, you know, it's giving the feng shui, so.
20:55Don't mess up a good thing.
20:57You recently purchased an Airstream trailer.
20:59Yes.
21:00Is that to put your mother in or is that for travel?
21:03I literally love this Airstream.
21:05So, you know, I'm a Midwestern gal.
21:06I'm from the rural, you know, suburbs of Illinois.
21:09And I've always loved, y'all know, we like the little, let's go back fishing, get a little
21:13sardines out the can.
21:14Let's be in the, you know, RV.
21:16So I wanted this to go, like, on a big trip with my family, like, just, you know, traveling
21:20through America.
21:21Yeah.
21:22And I haven't been able to do it yet because I don't know how to hook it up to a
21:25car.
21:27But you bought it.
21:28And now, you're not allowed to put, like, the family in the trailer while you're driving,
21:33right?
21:33I know.
21:33Which defeats the whole purpose of the trailer for me.
21:37I know.
21:37Because it's like, I should have actually gotten an RV.
21:39Because these, you can't even ride in them when you're on the road.
21:42So it's like, we're going to be cramped up in the car while the RV, while the thing on
21:44the back, like.
21:45And yet, can I tell you something?
21:46Because I also have my whole life dreamed of having an Airstream trailer, which I do
21:51not have.
21:51But I did buy an RV.
21:52Oh!
21:53And it, and I couldn't possibly recommend it less.
21:57Oh!
21:59What's so bad about it?
22:00Everything is bad.
22:01I think we all felt like we were going to be National Lampoon.
22:03You know, we thought we were going to be like, yay!
22:05Well, in some ways, it's good for everyone other than the person driving it and repairing
22:10it every five minutes.
22:12Ugh.
22:12But if you're the one driving it, which I'm guessing you might be.
22:17Uh-uh.
22:17No.
22:18Oh.
22:18No, that's the problem.
22:19I got to find somebody with the car and the driver.
22:22Oh, yeah.
22:22Well, then you're going to be fine.
22:23Yeah.
22:23Yeah.
22:24If you don't have to drive it, it's fine.
22:26No, but stick with the Airstream.
22:27I think it's probably better.
22:29Yeah, I like it.
22:29And my mom uses it at her office.
22:31It's right in front of me, y'all.
22:32Oh, she does?
22:32Oh, yeah.
22:33I come out there and see her.
22:34She's like, I'm just in a trailer.
22:37Just in her trailer.
22:39Just in her trailer.
22:39That's right.
22:40Are there pictures of you in the trailer, too?
22:42Tons.
22:43And my son.
22:44Gigi Bomber's here.
22:45Her movie is called I Love Boosters.
22:47It comes out on May 22nd.
22:57What's your color?
22:58You're not here for me.
23:01Yo, yo.
23:03Get the f*** back.
23:05Oh, Christy.
23:06Christy.
23:06What are your thoughts on the velvet game?
23:08Christy Smith knows we exist.
23:10Low class urban bitches.
23:14With all due respect to urban bitches.
23:24Did she just call us urban bitches?
23:27It's so early, 2000s.
23:28That is Kiki Palmer and Demi Moore in I Love Boosters,
23:34which is not about COVID shots.
23:37It is, well, explain.
23:38This is, this movie's a crazy movie.
23:41It is.
23:41Please explain what's happening.
23:42It is.
23:43So a booster is someone who steals clothes
23:45and sells them at a discount price.
23:47So, you know, it's kind of community service.
23:49And it's Poppy Liu, Naomi Ackie, Taylor Page, and myself,
23:53and then great people in the cast,
23:55Lakeith Sandsfield, Don Cheadle, so many.
23:57Demi Moore.
23:58Don Cheadle is, like, you wouldn't even know
24:00it's Don Cheadle in the movie.
24:02Even when we got on set, we were like,
24:04I can't wait to meet Don.
24:05I can't wait to meet Don.
24:06And they were like, that's Don.
24:08Really?
24:08It was crazy, because he really went into
24:11just an extreme character look for the role,
24:13which was, it's fabulous.
24:15Seeing him in that, you know, you'd be like, dang, Don.
24:17I can't think of a better compliment
24:19than your co-stars not realizing it's you
24:22when you're playing a character.
24:23He must have been thrilled.
24:25Yes, he's really cool, too, and I've always loved him.
24:27He is a lot of fun.
24:28That was the Bel-Air days.
24:29That was your first time working with Don?
24:30Yes.
24:31Or whoever that was in that, yeah.
24:34Yes, first time working with Don,
24:35first time working with Boots, and what an experience.
24:38You had, it was fun making the movie?
24:40It looked like it was fun making the movie.
24:42Very fun making the movie, the visuals,
24:44and then also just being with the girls all day,
24:46you know what I mean?
24:47So we were just all gagging, talking, laughing,
24:49and it was a short shoot, so a lot of long time,
24:52you know, we was there for hours and hours.
24:53It was, because it looks really good.
24:54It looks like you guys spent a lot of time on this movie.
24:57How short was it?
24:58I mean, what, maybe like just a month?
25:00Oh, wow.
25:01I think.
25:02I could be wrong, but it was quick.
25:03Now I see how you're doing all these jobs.
25:04You did the whole movie in a month.
25:06Yeah, that is true.
25:08They got us on a strict program.
25:09You have another job.
25:11Is this tomorrow night?
25:12You're hosting the-
25:13Billboard Women in Music.
25:14The Billboard Women in Music.
25:16Yes, I'm looking forward to that.
25:19Not only are you hosting the show,
25:21you're performing at the show.
25:23Yes, I'm so excited because, so Boots, Boots Riley,
25:26even before he was directing and writing,
25:27he was a great musician.
25:29So he had this idea of us doing this EP
25:31that his daughter Alina also wrote on.
25:33So I get to perform one of the songs,
25:35Text Message Unsent,
25:36which is on the soundtrack of the EP for the movie.
25:39What does that mean, Text Message Unsent?
25:41You know, so it's like when you want to say the things
25:44that you, you know, to this person that you love,
25:46but you just know it's never going to go anywhere,
25:48so it just stays in a Text Message Unsent.
25:51Now, are you nervous about, you know,
25:53about doing this, about performing?
25:55Because it's quite a lineup you've got there.
25:57You've got, I mean, really, Mariah the Scientist,
26:00LeVay, Tate McRae, Tiana Taylor,
26:02a whole bunch of different stars.
26:04The K-pop Demon Hunters.
26:06Oh, my gosh.
26:07That took my house by storm.
26:09Oh, did it?
26:11Did it really?
26:11Those Demon Hunters were with us.
26:14Really?
26:14That song?
26:15Leo likes the Demon Hunters?
26:16Yes, that one tune, it's in my head.
26:19They're performing, too.
26:21Oh, they, yeah, right.
26:21Yeah, that's, congratulations.
26:23They got the Academy Award, too.
26:24Will you bring Leo along with you to the show
26:27to see Huntrix, the Demon Hunters?
26:29He doesn't want to be there.
26:30He doesn't want to be there.
26:30He tells me all the time,
26:32Mama, you bother me.
26:33Oh, really?
26:35I think he gets tired of my life a little bit.
26:37It's a little too much for him.
26:38Does he, is he independent?
26:40Very independent.
26:41Oh, really?
26:41Oh, yeah.
26:42We've just spent a lot of,
26:43so he goes to school,
26:44but just recently we were in Toronto,
26:45so we were spending like, you know,
26:47more time than usual
26:48because he didn't get to be with his friends.
26:49When we get back home to LA,
26:51he's like, Mommy,
26:52I need to go to school by myself.
26:55Yeah.
26:55So apparently TikTok says
26:56he has a secure attachment.
26:58Oh, really?
26:58You know, so I feel that, you know,
26:59we're doing the right thing.
27:01I see.
27:02You psychoanalyzed him on TikTok.
27:04And I don't know if that's the right thing,
27:05but you know what?
27:06No, it is.
27:06They say that's the best way to handle kids.
27:08They do.
27:10Well, it's great to see you.
27:11Congratulations on all this stuff.
27:13And the movie,
27:14it's called I Love Boosters.
27:15It's in theaters May 22nd.
27:16Kiki Palmer, everybody.
27:17We'll be back with Kareem Rahma.
27:25Welcome back.
27:25Kareem Rahma and Kevin Morby are on the way,
27:28but first we take a moment
27:29to answer the questions
27:30no one would ever ask it.
27:32It's time for three ridiculous questions
27:33with Elizabeth Banks.
27:48Would you rather have one very long arm
27:52or one very short leg?
27:55I have a question.
27:57Follow-up question.
27:59Okay.
27:59Can I wrap the arm around myself?
28:02I'll say yes, you can.
28:03Then I think a million percent the arm.
28:07Like the leg,
28:08I can't get around like that.
28:10Go half cocked.
28:11Yeah, yeah, no, yeah.
28:12You need two short legs.
28:13But the arm,
28:14I could save kids up in buildings,
28:16on bridges,
28:17so I would use it for good.
28:20Okay.
28:20And not to steal things.
28:22Do you think that deep down,
28:25airbags want to be deployed?
28:27Yes.
28:28Don't we all want to have purpose
28:30and be useful?
28:31But they're kind of dead
28:32once they do get deployed.
28:34Well, they can get stuffed back
28:36and do a thing,
28:37can't they?
28:38They're just done.
28:39They're one and done.
28:40Yeah.
28:41I still think they want it.
28:42I think they want it bad.
28:44What are your thoughts on the high five?
28:47I'm generally pro the high five.
28:49You are?
28:50Yeah.
28:50You're making me feel like
28:52it's been appropriated incorrectly
28:55from something.
28:56No, it just makes me very uncomfortable
28:58for some reason.
28:59I don't know.
29:00I don't know why it is.
29:01I love to high five a child.
29:03You high five other adults?
29:05Not in earnest.
29:06In jest.
29:08All right.
29:08So the high five.
29:10Oh, come on.
29:12You can do it.
29:15I didn't feel great about it.
29:16It was in jest.
29:18It's okay.
29:18Oh, it was in jest?
29:19Yeah, it's in jest.
29:20Excellent.
29:21Casamigos Tequila.
29:23The answer to all of life's
29:24ridiculous questions.
29:30Hi, everybody.
29:32Even from Kevin Morby is on the way
29:34on his show, Subway Takes.
29:36Our next guest built a career
29:38doing the thing that most New Yorkers
29:39hate to do,
29:40which is talking to strangers
29:41on the train.
29:42Now he is talking to cabbies
29:44on Keep the Meter Running.
29:45It premieres May 13th on YouTube.
29:47Please welcome Kareem Rama.
30:05So for those who don't know
30:08what you do,
30:09which has become very, very popular,
30:10so I think most people probably do,
30:12you are on the subway,
30:14takes are people's opinions
30:16on various subjects,
30:17and you debate it.
30:19You argue with them.
30:19Yeah, for a living,
30:20I get to sit in the subway
30:21and talk to strangers.
30:23It's quite a nice experience.
30:25And it's a really good idea, I think.
30:27And I find myself,
30:28when I watch it,
30:29wanting to join in the argument
30:31or the agreement
30:32or whatever it is.
30:33Well, you have an open invite.
30:34Okay, thank you.
30:35Anytime you want to come on the show.
30:36Well, we're right here right now,
30:37so we might as well.
30:38So, for instance,
30:39some of the takes
30:40that you will debate with people,
30:42more men should wear lip gloss.
30:44So where do you stand on that?
30:46100% agree.
30:47100% agree.
30:48There are only two options,
30:49100% agree or 100% disagree.
30:51There's no middle ground,
30:52especially in America.
30:54It's just...
30:54That's right.
30:55100% agree,
30:56100% disagree,
30:57move on.
30:57This one I love.
30:58If aliens landed on Earth,
31:00people would stop caring
31:01after two weeks.
31:02100% agree.
31:03But it's because we would want
31:06to f*** them.
31:10Yeah, I...
31:10That's what we would...
31:11We would go,
31:12oh, that's cool,
31:13and then immediately
31:14the next day
31:15it would be on Pornhub.
31:16Yeah, I'm sure
31:17it would make its way there,
31:18but for me,
31:19I don't feel like
31:20it would be my first inclination.
31:21No?
31:22No, I'd probably, like,
31:23just feel them out
31:24and see if they're...
31:25Feel?
31:25Yeah, well, yeah,
31:26you're right.
31:26You want to...
31:27Exactly.
31:27Everyone wants to feel an alien.
31:30Bath mats are disgusting.
31:32See, this one, I'm...
31:33It's tough
31:34because...
31:34Because they're there...
31:35There's no tough.
31:37There's only agree
31:38or disagree, I think.
31:41Can't have a tough.
31:43100% disagree.
31:45Disagree.
31:45Yes.
31:45Okay, all right.
31:46How about you?
31:47I'm with you on disagree.
31:49I mean, listen,
31:49it's better to have a bath mat
31:51than to not have a bath mat, right?
31:52I agree.
31:53Okay.
31:53What's the dumbest opinion
31:55you've heard in these arguments?
31:56One that comes to mind
31:57is that only gay people
32:00should be allowed
32:00to own dogs in New York City.
32:05100% agree.
32:06Oh, absolutely.
32:09It kind of makes sense.
32:11There are too many dogs
32:12in New York.
32:13And you know what?
32:13If you love dogs that much,
32:15be gay.
32:18Right?
32:20Totally, yeah.
32:21Do you have people now
32:22coming up to you
32:23and hitting you
32:24with their thoughts and takes?
32:26Yeah, and it happens
32:27in the most unexpected place.
32:29Like where?
32:30Recently, I was peeing,
32:33as we all do,
32:34at the airport at JFK,
32:36and I'm standing at the urinal
32:39enjoying myself.
32:40Right.
32:41And then I feel
32:42someone looking at me.
32:44They're right next to me.
32:45Uh-huh.
32:45And they keep going like that.
32:48And I'm like,
32:49okay, this guy's either
32:50a real creep
32:50or he's going to tell me
32:52his take.
32:53Yeah.
32:53For sure.
32:54Did he have a dog?
32:58We didn't get that far
32:59into the conversation.
33:00All right.
33:00But he did have a take.
33:02Okay.
33:02And it was as perverted
33:03as he was.
33:04Oh, what was it?
33:05It's that because
33:06there's already
33:07a seven-year itch,
33:08we may as well
33:09make it a rule
33:10that every seven years,
33:11everyone gets to cheat
33:13on their partner.
33:14And it's like
33:15the purge for sex.
33:16Oh, interesting.
33:17What's the period of time?
33:19Just a day.
33:20Just a day.
33:20Yeah, it's like the purge.
33:22I mean, and I...
33:23Let me tell you
33:23what would happen to me.
33:25And it goes seven years
33:26and then nothing
33:27would happen all day long
33:29and I'd be right back in
33:30for another seven years.
33:31You just watch...
33:33You just watch a movie?
33:34You watch Titanic?
33:36I can't do that.
33:37And he...
33:38And I was like,
33:39oh, that's a good one, man.
33:40Like, give him one of these.
33:41And he goes, wait,
33:42are you going to disagree
33:42or agree?
33:43Oh.
33:44I go, oh, my God.
33:45I go, 100% disagreed.
33:46And then I just
33:47walked out of there.
33:47Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
33:48You can't get in
33:49a whole thing with a guy.
33:50People seem to think
33:51that they can just
33:51throw all sorts of...
33:52So you're saying
33:52you prefer people
33:53keep their penis in
33:54when they ask you
33:55these questions.
33:57I think that's reasonable.
33:58Look, I don't mind
33:59if the penis is out.
34:00I am doing this
34:01on the train.
34:02Oh, right, right.
34:02There are penises all over.
34:04Like, like...
34:05You know, there's penises.
34:06There's people playing bongos.
34:07There's guys jumping around
34:08doing dances.
34:09There's, like, you know,
34:10we're giving money away.
34:11It's a whole...
34:12It's a live audience.
34:13Yeah.
34:14It's very much like this.
34:16So you now
34:17will bring celebrities.
34:19It started with
34:19you were just interviewing
34:20people who happen
34:21to be riding the train.
34:22Now you're bringing
34:23various celebrities in
34:24to get their opinions
34:26on this show.
34:27And you've had, like,
34:28who has been on the show?
34:29Bateman was on the show.
34:30I know that.
34:31Bateman, your good friend Bateman.
34:32Yeah.
34:32Cate Blanchett.
34:33Okay.
34:34Spike Lee.
34:35Great.
34:35Wow, great.
34:36Woody Harrelson.
34:37Do you ever run into them
34:39coincidentally on the train?
34:40Or is it always pre-planned?
34:42You know, Ethan Hawke,
34:43he was just sitting there.
34:44He was, yeah.
34:44He was just sitting there
34:45being a cool guy.
34:46I said, hey, man,
34:47you look really familiar.
34:49And he was like,
34:49you look familiar.
34:50Are you the guy?
34:51I'm, of course I'm the guy.
34:52That's fun.
34:53And then we got into it
34:54right away.
34:54That's fun.
34:55And now you've got a show
34:57where you get in cabs
34:58and you talk to cab drivers.
35:00Why did you decide
35:01to switch to cab drivers?
35:03Well, my father,
35:05this is a relaunch of the show
35:06and my father was a cab driver
35:07when he moved to America in 1969
35:09and passed away when I was young.
35:11And I always had this kind of like,
35:13you know, weird attraction
35:15to older gentlemen
35:16that aren't peeing next to me.
35:19And every time I get in the cab,
35:20I just have the most amazing
35:22conversation with the cabbies.
35:23So I decided to get in the car
35:25and say, take me to your favorite place
35:26and keep the meter running.
35:28And we go on the wildest adventures.
35:30Where have you gone?
35:31I've been to the Russian bathhouse
35:34with Eugene and Igor
35:35and there the depression
35:37was beaten out of me.
35:39You know, they beat the depression out of me.
35:41Yeah, they beat the depression out of me.
35:42They hit me with branches, right?
35:42They hit me with branches.
35:43I went fishing with a Korean guy
35:44named Young at Bear Mountain,
35:46which is an hour away from New York.
35:47And I did the night shift
35:51with a guy named Mark.
35:536 p.m. to 6 a.m.
35:55Just the whole time?
35:56Yeah.
35:56Wow.
35:57It was the first time I got to sit
35:58in the front seat of the cab.
36:00What was that like?
36:00We just picked people up.
36:02I mean, it was hedonistic.
36:04When your dad was a cab driver,
36:06did you ever ride with him in the cab?
36:08I don't remember, but I did.
36:09I rode with him in the car
36:11and we sat in silence.
36:12Well, that's good.
36:12We sat in silence as he smoked cigarettes
36:14and thought longingly out the window
36:16about all of the mistakes he'd made.
36:18Really?
36:19Interesting.
36:20That's what it felt like.
36:20I don't know.
36:21He wasn't there.
36:21Yeah.
36:22Well, yeah.
36:23Yeah, dads don't really talk.
36:27They really don't.
36:28It's kind of a dad thing.
36:30And as I've become a dad,
36:31I've also become quite silent.
36:34Have you?
36:34Yeah.
36:35Yeah.
36:35My wife's always like,
36:36what are you thinking about?
36:37And I'm like,
36:38I wonder if that bolt is loose.
36:41What bolt?
36:42The one on the upstairs bathroom.
36:45Is it loose?
36:46And does she 100% agree or disagree?
36:50Most of the time, she agrees.
36:51Will you, is the next step for this
36:53you riding around in a Waymo alone
36:58talking to yourself?
36:59That would be a very special episode.
37:01Maybe thinking about the bolt.
37:03Yeah.
37:03Are you worried about Waymo's
37:05wiping out this show?
37:08No.
37:09No.
37:09No, I think we're going to be okay.
37:11I mean, you can't talk to a Waymo.
37:12And I don't want to,
37:13I spend enough time alone.
37:14You can talk to a Waymo,
37:16but they'll put you in a home
37:17if you do.
37:19And I just escaped from one.
37:20I don't want to go back.
37:21You're never bringing me back.
37:22You're never going to get me back in there.
37:23Well, it's a very fun idea,
37:25and it's called Keep the Meter Running.
37:27It premieres May 13th on YouTube.
37:31Kareem Rama, everybody.
37:33Thanks for being here.
37:34We'll be back with Kevin Morby.
37:42And thanks to Kiki Palmer and Kareem Rama.
37:45Apologies to Matt Damon.
37:46And Nightline is that's her first.
37:48This is his album,
37:49Little Wide Open.
37:50It comes out May 15th.
37:52Here with the song Javelin,
37:54Kevin Morby.
38:16Back in town,
38:18All by myself.
38:20I should go dancing.
38:22Take my boots off the shelf.
38:26Don't be concerned, babe.
38:29At least not yet.
38:30I am still happy to be breathing in.
38:35You know I have been.
38:38You know I have been.
38:40Tread the land.
38:45Through the air and down the highway
38:49Like a javelin
38:54Portis or cow town
38:57In the Bible Belt
38:59Remember when they asked this baby
39:02How it felt
39:04How it felt
39:04To be alone
39:06In the middle of
39:08Middle America
39:14When the sun goes
39:16Behind the moon
39:18And the earth goes black
39:23Mama, it's like that
39:24Mama, it's like that
39:34I long forever, babe
39:36Is it just one day
39:38The day we go in
39:39Then we escape
39:44My husband
39:46Or my husband
39:48Could this be our life, babe
39:50Could you be my wife, babe
39:53Everything in you now
39:55Into a beginning now
39:58And when you fall
39:59You get back up in
40:01And time will eclipse you now
40:05And time paints a picture house
40:08And when you fall
40:09You get back up in
40:11And when you fall
40:12And when you fall
40:12It was this old cow town
40:15In the Bible Belt
40:18Remember when they asked this baby
40:20How it felt
40:21To be alone, yeah
40:24The two of us
40:26In middle America
40:32When the sun goes
40:34Behind the moon
40:36And the earth lights up
40:39Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama
40:41Mama, Mama, Mama, that was us
40:42And time to picture now
40:44Time paints a picture house
40:46When you fall
40:48You get back up in
40:50Mama, that was us
40:52And time to picture now
41:06When you fall, you get that good, good, good
41:11Some of the picture now
41:13One's gonna spin you around
41:16When you fall, you get that good, good, good
41:47One's gonna spin you around
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