00:00Hi, we are Green Day, and this is the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
00:07I do not Google myself ever in front of people.
00:14All right, let's do this Wired Autocomplete.
00:17Does Green Day do weddings?
00:21Yes, we will do weddings.
00:23I've done a few weddings.
00:26Oh, you mean other people's weddings?
00:29Did Green Day ever break up?
00:32No, not in the cards.
00:34No.
00:34We have always been together.
00:36No, we've been playing our own wedding for 30-something years.
00:40We've forced other bands to break up.
00:44Yeah.
00:45Does Green Day have any love songs?
00:48Yeah, embarrassing ones, too, that I don't even want to think about.
00:53Yeah, it goes back, that's the first thing we ever did was write love songs.
00:56It was all, like, teenage feelings and stuff like that.
00:59I still write love songs.
01:00Of course, yeah.
01:01Love, love, love.
01:03Let the boy watch.
01:05Okay.
01:05Does Green Day support AI?
01:08I love American Idiot.
01:09I think it's a great record.
01:12Absolutely.
01:12In fact, not only support it, but we wrote it.
01:14Yeah.
01:15AI can't throw a television out a hotel room window.
01:17But an American Idiot can.
01:19Yeah.
01:20This one is spent.
01:22Oh, wow.
01:23Here we go.
01:24What was Green Day's original name?
01:26Our original name was Sweet Children.
01:29But there was another band in our local scene called Sweet Baby Jesus.
01:32And also, we knew that name was going to time out pretty quick.
01:37So, like, the night before we recorded our first 7-inch, this gal came out in front of
01:43Gilman Street, and she said, you know, I work at UCSF radio station, and I think you
01:49guys have that song, Green Day.
01:50I think you should name your band Green Day.
01:51And we were like, well, it's better than the one we got.
01:54And that's how we landed on Green Day.
01:56What does Green Day mean?
02:01You're going to have to Google it.
02:05We were stoned listening to Susie and the Banshees' version of Dear Prudence.
02:11And that was kind of the influence behind the song.
02:14And we decided to name our band after it.
02:16So, here we go.
02:17What Green Day song has the most swears?
02:22Probably a song called Platypus.
02:24Oh, yeah.
02:30I think you covered all of them.
02:33What is Green Day when I come around about?
02:38Oh, God.
02:40It's, uh, who cares?
02:44It's about being over it.
02:47Yeah.
02:48I first wrote that song off of, like, these little piano chords that I was messing with.
02:53Kind of wrote it about, like, a girlfriend that I had been seeing at the time.
02:57So, yeah.
02:59Ooh, we got more.
03:00Where is Green Day most popular?
03:02Come to Brazil.
03:04I mean, it's a tough one, you know.
03:06We just played Mumbai for 70,000 people.
03:08That was amazing.
03:09We got Italy.
03:10I think it's most popular in the hearts and the minds of people who are alive today.
03:15Yeah.
03:15Throw a dart.
03:16We love you.
03:18Why Green Day is the best.
03:21Must be true.
03:22It's on the internet.
03:23Why Green Day rushed off stage.
03:26Oh, God.
03:28Someone had, like, a drone and it just got too close and then security was like, get off
03:34stage right now, immediately.
03:35It could have been that or one of us really had to go to the bathroom.
03:40Either way, it's a major safety concern.
03:42Will Green Day ever release cigarettes and...
03:45And Valentine's.
03:46Valentine's.
03:47No, never will.
03:48It will be hidden in our catalog.
03:51We smoked all the cigarettes and we burned all the Valentine's.
03:54When does Green Day movie come out?
03:57Nimrods comes out August 14th.
04:00Very soon.
04:01AMC Theatres.
04:02AMC Theatres.
04:03All that.
04:04You can pre-buy your tickets right now and go with a bunch of friends and get there before
04:08everyone else.
04:08Make it a Rocky Horror event.
04:09Have fun.
04:10Oh, here we go.
04:11What's Green Day's most popular song?
04:14The Basket Case.
04:16The Basket Case?
04:17Yeah.
04:17American Idiot.
04:17American Idiot.
04:18Or Boulevard.
04:19Or Holiday.
04:20Gosh.
04:21Good riddance.
04:22Platypus.
04:22I think everybody has a different most favorite Green Day song, you know, to them.
04:29I love playing the song Jesus of Suburbia.
04:31It's epic and it's a long song and I think it feels like victory.
04:39What is Green Day time of your life about?
04:43This was actually on Jeopardy a couple weeks ago.
04:47Yeah?
04:47It's about a girl that moved to, that I was dating and she moved to Ecuador and so I wrote
04:52the song for her.
04:53Trying to be level-headed but my heart was broken so that's what that song's about.
04:58Damn college.
05:00College kids.
05:01What is Green Day heaviest song?
05:04Zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing, zing.
05:07Marcia the Dogs is pretty fucking heavy.
05:09I hear people like just boom and brain stew down the road.
05:14I'll pull up next to him and I'll just hear him just rocking out and blaring it and I'm
05:20just gonna lean back a little bit and enjoy it from afar.
05:23Every once in a while I'll look over and go like, hey man, turn it up.
05:26What is Green Day up to?
05:29Promoting our new movie Nimrods out August 14th.
05:33What did Green Day just say?
05:38Sirius XM, Idiot Nation, Channel 314.
05:42Here we go.
05:43Who is Green Day's American Idiot about?
05:47It was written about George W. Bush and the Bush administration when we went to war in
05:52Iraq.
05:54We don't need to keep talking about that.
05:56Have Green Day changed music?
05:58Absolutely.
06:00How?
06:02How was Green Day at Super Bowl?
06:06Cool.
06:06I thought we were fantastic.
06:07Yeah.
06:07We were really good.
06:09From where I was hittin'.
06:10Is Green Day a punk band?
06:13Where should we put that?
06:14Yes, Paul, maybe so.
06:15Yeah.
06:16It's so loaded.
06:17I like to think of myself still as a punk, that's for sure.
06:19Can kids go to Green Day concert?
06:24Absolutely.
06:25We have all ages venues, so anyone from 15 to 55, come on out.
06:32And older and younger than that if you want to.
06:33That's true.
06:34You can't drink and you can listen to all the cuss words you can muster.
06:36I'm not saying mom and dad won't rip you out of there.
06:38It does happen.
06:39It's more should kids go to Green Day concerts and the answer is hell yes.
06:44What is Green Day about?
06:47Some people think I'm about 5'7", but I think I'm about 5'8".
06:52When I'm sad I'm 5'7", when I'm happy I'm 5'8".
06:56I'm about it.
06:57I'm just about it.
06:58You know what I'm saying?
06:59He's all about it.
07:00I'm out and about.
07:01All right.
07:01Let's see.
07:02What's Green Day's best album?
07:04Best album?
07:04Throw a dart.
07:05I think our best album is the one that you're playing at the moment.
07:10What did Green Day change the lyrics to?
07:14Oh, I changed the lyrics to Basket Case.
07:18I had a long night writing that song in the first draft of it and I hated it by the
07:25end
07:26because of certain substances that were involved and then changed the lyrics later on when different
07:33substances weren't involved so it wasn't, yeah, so, and then it became Basket Case.
07:37It's very substantial.
07:38Mm-hmm.
07:39You know.
07:40What are Green Day fans called?
07:43Idiot Nation.
07:45Idiot Nation.
07:46That's true.
07:46Idiot Nation.
07:47Do it.
07:47Yeah.
07:48Nobody ever asks what your favorite food is anymore or like what's your favorite color?
07:52Lucky number.
07:53Things like that.
07:53Yeah.
07:54What is your favorite food?
07:55Lasagna.
07:56Pizza.
07:57Sushi.
07:58All right.
07:59That's the end of the questions.
08:00Thanks, everybody.
08:01That's a wrap.
08:02Thank you, Wired.
08:03Yep.
08:04Awesome.
08:06Bye.
08:07Bye.
08:07Bye.
08:07Bye.
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