In a hilarious roundtable at the Sasquatch Festival in the United States, the legendary trio crack wise on their career, their new album, and, of course, Scientology.

They're legends in the hip-hop game, respected producers, and, with a new instrumental album called The Mix Up on the way, increasingly adept instrumentalists.

But over a career that spans more than two decades, the Beastie Boys have always had something else in their arsenal: a hilarious sense of humor. Whether it's their satirical videos, their zany aliases, or their ability to take themselves less than seriously, the Beastie Boys are some funny dudes.

MCA, Ad Rock, and Mike D sat down with a group of journalists, including Applesource's sister site, MP3.com, during the Sasquatch Festival for a few questions and a host of hilarious answers.

MP3.com: Hey guys.
MCA: How long you guys been sitting in here?

MP3.com: Days. Weeks even.
Mike D: This is big time. Have any of you been tortured in any way or treated wrongly?

Reporters: No, we're all good.
Ad Rock: Well, good morning everybody. How's everyone?

MP3.com: Good. How are you doing?
Mike D: Very well. So, we watched the tapes from yesterday's [set], summary is that we felt good overall with the team's performance but there are some execution issues. Obviously as we came down the stretch we didn't quite execute the offense how we would like. But ultimately, we did our thing and both teams played hard.

Reporters: What are you going to work on in the off season this year that's different than last year?
Ad Rock: Well that's a good question. We're talking to the coaching staff. As you probably know, I was talking to Arcade Fire last night, I might trade with them, and Bjork maybe. So this off season we can't really tell what's going to happen, but I know we need to work on defense.

Reporters: The family situation has got to play a factor in where you go next year.
Ad Rock: Yes it does. I am also leaving my family, which is another thing and so I'm thinking about maybe Dubai or Ibiza or somewhere like that.

MP3.com: So how are each of your hoops games these days?
Ad Rock: Not so good, not so good.

Mike D: Yeah especially for a contract year. It's a bad time to be bad. Other than that though, things are great.

Reporters: Looked like you were having fun last night. It was a great set.
Ad Rock: It's just a show, just a show, just an act. We're entertainers.

Reporters: How do you top that?
Ad Rock: That's a tough question.

MCA: The set list has been carefully drawn up though.

Mike D: It's been well-crafted, and we're going to try some things that are, I'm trying to think of a more nonviolent word, but I can't think of one other than to say that we're going to have more artillery. It's a bigger stage, so we've got to bring bigger weapons.

MCA: I don't want to give anything away here but I think the objective in this set list is to hurt people, win them back, hurt them again, and then ultimately win them back. That's the general flow of the set.

[Laughter]

MCA: Also, we're just trying to see how small we can get. Like we're actually doing a show next week at my grandmother's house, just for her and she'll have her friends with her sitting on the couch.

[The entire room is breaking up at this point]

Mike D: Yeah that'll probably be a little bit of a different energy level. Just because of the amount of people and the age too, it's different.

Reporters: So why have you changed things up with this new instrumental album?
Mike D: Well, again, that gets back to the free agency thing. That was something we talked with our agents about and they said, "Listen, you've been in the league for a while, if you want me to maximise your contract with a new team, I think you need to show people you've got some new facets to your game. To show them you can go, you can share the ball a little bit."

MCA: Work on your pecs and triceps.

MP3.com: Yeah, you have to work on the pecs more.
Ad Rock: I've been working on getting a big barrel chest, which I'm hopefully going to display next summer.

MCA: Do you want to tell them about the stuff you're doing for your ass?

[Laughter]

Ad Rock: That is a condition that my doctor...

Reporter: Do you guys ever wake up in the morning and wonder if you have anything left?
Ad Rock: That never crosses my mind, ever. We've got a lot left. We're just trying to do something different. It's fun. We could just get up on stage and play our hits. We've got a lot of hits, we'd be up there for hours. But there aren't enough hours in the day.

MCA: "The Night Chicago Died."

Ad Rock: Huge record.

Mike D: "Bad Bad Leroy Brown."

Ad Rock: Huge record, big record.

MCA: "Joy to the World."

Ad Rock: Big record.

Reporters: Adam, do you want to talk about Bad Brains a little bit?
MCA: They're going to play in a minute right? If we don't finish this up we're all going to miss them.

Reporters: What was it like producing their record?
It was great. They came and recorded the record, they wrote stuff, came into my studio and tracked and then H.R. did the vocals in LA on the West Coast, went out there and recorded the vocals, came back and remixed it. It's sounds cool, in some ways it's closer to some of their older stuff. There's a lot of dub on it.

Reporters: When does their record come out?
MCA: It comes out the same day that our record comes out, June 26.
Reporters: Could you talk about the Live Earth performance that you're going to be doing?
Ad Rock: You know, Madonna, you know, Phil Collins, just some artists that we collaborate with.

MCA: We just found out that they will only let us do five songs.
Reporters: Only five songs?

Ad Rock: Well they haven't actually sent the check yet, so we're not sure if we're going to play.

Reporters: Are you going to donate all of your proceeds for climate protection?
MCA: Not if I can help it.

Ad Rock: Proceeds? We're for the world, you know, we're like Wu-Tang, we're for the children, we're trying to do positive things out there in the world, we love the world and all that it stands for.

MCA: I was doing a phone interview with a woman from France, and she was like, "So do you guys like to do these complaining concerts? You like to complain?" And I said, "Does that word mean something a little different in France?" Because she meant protest concerts. She said, "Well what does it mean?" And I said, "It sounds like something a little kid would do if they can't have candy." And she said, "Yes, that's what your concert is like. You don't do anything."

[Laughter]

Reporters: Do you think the Live Earth concerts will have an impact?
Mike D: It's hard to know beforehand and I think even in the aftermath of something like that, it's hard to really assess the impact. But I think the one thing is clear, it's absolutely, absolutely necessary to do whatever we all can do to have kind of a collective-consciousness focus on the issue of global warming on the environment and what actions need to be taken immediately.

Reporters: So what actions do you guys take in your own lives?
Ad Rock: I smoke a lot of weed.

Mike D: I like to ride in the carpool lane, with my special sticker.

Reporters: Like what?
MCA: I was just reading an article in the New York Times that talked about how everybody's drinking single-serving bottles of water and now there's like f***ing three hundred billion f***ing bottles everywhere every year.

Mike D: So we all need to stop drinking water.

Reporters: Can you bring politics to an instrumental record?
Ad Rock: Nope. Just the music alone, I don't know. But if the people that are making it, if you know what they do, what they've been about, I guess you can. Like that's the thing, this record has no words on it and in a way, it's a s***ty time to not have words because we're still in the same predicament that we've been in the past few years, in America and just in the world.

So it's an interesting time to not say something also. But we're not telling people to give up or to not say anything. It's just we're just making music also. I don't know if you can put politics into just instrumentation. I guess it depends who makes it.

Reporters: Are there still plans to do like a vocal version of The Mix Up?
Mike D: We're talking to group people about it, about doing some collabos.

MCA: Billy Joel, Boston.

Mike D: Paul Simon.

Ad Rock: Craig David, a lot of people like that.

Mike D: Jim Croce.

Ad Rock: Jim Croce is dead, that's not funny.

Mike D: What?

Ad Rock: Jim Croce died in the '70s, dude, in an airplane crash.

Mike D: Really? "Bad Bad Leroy Brown"?

[Laughter]

MCA: Can you check that? Was he a Scientologist?

Ad Rock: And you know why, because of L. Ron Hubbard for real. Google that s***. L. Ron Hubbard, "Bad Bad Leroy Brown," Clear Channel, do that search and see what happens, for real.

MCA: Forward slash "awkward outburst."

MP3.com: Do you guys think hip hop can age well? Can people keep making good records well into their 40s and 50s?
Ad Rock: Doug E. Fresh came out with a children's book.

Reporters: LL Cool J also came out with a children's book.
Ad Rock: LL Cool J also had a summer camp. He was really for the children.

To download the full audio file of this interview visit MP3.com.