Last night, Tom Scharpling sat down with MGMT for an interview on “The Best Show.” At one point during their lengthy chat, the conversation turned to their 2010 album Congratulations. While talking about working on the album, they revealed that they approached Lou Reed to contribute vocals to their track “Lady Dada’s Nightmare.” “He pretty much said it didn’t need it,” they reveal. “And then he talked about how we also didn’t need managers, and our managers were there.” Soon after, they ran into Reed at a dog show (where they were dressed as dandies). Listen to the full episode (The band appear around 24:30, and their comments about Reed start at 53:40). MGMT just released their new album Little Dark Age.

Elsewhere during the interview, MGMT talked about their experience meeting John Cale after they performed at the Velvet Underground & Nico 50th anniversary show. They also fielded questions from callers about rarities from across their catalog. At the end of the episode, Scharpling hung up on a caller who asked the band for free tickets to one of their shows after he boasted that he could have, but didn’t, leak their album. They also talked to Kurt Vile’s brother Paul (aka Jelloman).