WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: 2022 Year End Review with Lil Rel 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:12.119 Quest Love Supreme is a production of Iheartradiote's Room So Blue. 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:14.040 I try to give you all some ambiance. Man, it's 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:16.599 the end of the Year special. I like it, you know, 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:18.120 sex it up a little bit. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.520 I feel like you're doing some like DNA fingerprinting off 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:22.640 to the side or something. 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.760 Nah, I'm actually just opening logic. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:31.280 Or some handwriting analysis. Either way, the right lighting for it. Well, 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.560 I'm really happy to see you guys. Just been a while. 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:36.760 All right, what's working on? 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:37.120 Man? 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.000 I had I made a Broadway show and I was 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:44.320 in the Pitts Broadway showed him. Now, just recording right. 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.120 Now, I'll start recording now. 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:48.479 All right, pladies and gentlemen. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:50.680 You know, if you're a fan of the show, then 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.640 the year in Special shouldn't be a shock to you. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:59.640 Where we just uh we keep it casual. Now grandiose introduction. 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:05.080 You know, we're just talking. So it's like you guys 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:09.839 are just eves dropping into our conversation when we kind 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.840 of just open the door of what Unpaid Bill has 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.520 been doing lately. You know you've been the one going 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.840 out and getting cigarettes. Unpaid Bill, did I bought a 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:24.440 whole carton? Yeah, it's been a minute, so talk about 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.319 what you're doing. I saw a little preview of it 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.280 when you guys came to visit the Tonight Show. Can 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.840 I assume that when and Juliette, which is the name 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:37.160 of your Broadway play? Am I assuming that it's the 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:42.559 Romeo and juliet told through the music of Max Martin. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.320 Yeah, it's like a retelling of Romeo and juliet So 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:47.680 Romeo doesn't die and Julia. I'm not gonna spoil or 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.600 alert it. Juliete doesn't die. Nobody dies and they come 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.040 back and Romeo comes back to life, and uh yeah, 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:55.720 and it's all the music of Max Martin. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:56.360 So it's like The. 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.800 Weekend and Backstreet Boys and and sank. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.320 And everybody dies, they get married and they live happily 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:01.760 ever after. 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:02.840 That's what all. 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:04.040 I don't want to ruin at all. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.200 You got to say, Okay, still drama. 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:08.359 Okay, still drama, which reminds me we should have a 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.240 quest of Supreme visits the Broadway because that's never happened 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:14.880 and would be hilarious at some point. Whenever Fonte decides 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:15.480 to leave the house. 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.519 You know what, Bill, you know what it is. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:19.800 I left the house. I left I came for, I 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:21.840 came for. I'm down to do always. 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:23.880 I saw it well. 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.640 Yes, New York Trip twenty twenty two was a better 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.880 year because Fante came out the house. I had a 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.400 whole conversation with somebody this weekend about Fonte coming out 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:35.080 the house man the things that changed. I gotta tell you. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:41.079 I see so, Sugar, Steve, how was your twenty twenty two? 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.480 It was just it was pretty good, you know, getting 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.360 back to normal. Did a lot of records for JM. 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:48.880 I uh. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:52.960 We just dropped Sasha Berliner. She's a vibrantphone player. And 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:58.160 we got David Murray album coming out, and Laggie lund 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.240 is coming out. He's a Norwegian guitar player. We got 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:06.400 a replier solo piano Ray Angry Box Sat coming out soon. Wow, 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:11.359 We've got a Mike Mitchell album coming out, solo drums, 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.359 Mike Mitchell, you. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:17.360 Know what I want from Ray Angry? Can you challenge 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.919 Very Angry to do one album with just his right hand, 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.800 like Ravel, but with the right hand not the left. Yeah, 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.760 basically I want to see if Ray can actually I 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.320 want to see how creative Ray gets. 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:34.960 When you put a. 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:36.080 Handicap boarder. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.680 You know, yeah, we'll call it righty. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.240 What about the what's the project called three Guys Walk 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:46.600 into a Yeah, and. 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.480 We recorded an album with Quest and Ray and David Murray. 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:51.480 Yeah, and. 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.280 We're actually calling that plumb p l U m B, 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.040 which means to dig deep. And it's going to be 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:05.040 another four platter box set. Actually the box is going 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.440 to be plum colored velvet. 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.040 Is it just like free and groovy or is there charts? 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:12.520 Like? What is it? 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.160 What are way to find out? What my projects called? 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.400 Well, one of the what we called one of the songs, uh, 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.120 pleading pleadings? 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.680 Is that what Pleaadians? Yeah? That was I Yeah, I 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:24.880 suggested we call. 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.200 It Three Pleaadians Walk into a Bar. But then yeah, 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.800 this this makes sense. Yeah, but I wanted I wanted 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.560 a Padian angle only because I feel like David Murray 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:34.600 and Ray angry. 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.520 Are you out of space? Probably? 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:46.080 Yeah? Really the only two figures. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:49.080 Well, I don't know, Uh, Pleaadians is a it's a galaxy, right, yeah, 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.279 you take the highest level of the galaxy. 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:56.240 It's it's said that they're watching us, like when you 0:04:56.279 --> 0:05:00.680 get inspiration or ideas like oh I should do that, 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:05.359 like that's. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:04.440 That's your antennae. 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:08.560 They're they're suggesting it to you, so and answering Bill's question, 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.000 I think it was Bill. It was mostly improvised. It's 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.520 one or two songs that came in with charts, but 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.719 the rest of it was was wholly improvised. 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:17.440 That's cool. 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.239 The last four songs we did were kind of amazing. 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:20.600 I like this. 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:26.400 I kind of hope that you sequence it backwards, like 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.280 the last song we did was awesome, and you know, 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.200 work your way backwards. That's my suggestion. 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.840 But yah, yeah, what's up? 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.400 I was your twenty twenty two? You look glowey right now. 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.000 This is because we know that we're I mean, there's 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.280 there's no len lenkra. 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.720 But I know, we know at twenty twenty two brought 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.880 us to the screen, you know, so people to watch 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.760 it and yours. Your shit always looks so, you know, 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:53.120 moist and glowy. 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.159 Some people, Well I just got off stage, so whenever. 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.400 You know, I literally just got done the tonight show. 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.800 But oh okay, oh that oh that's makeup. Okay, Well, no, 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:05.279 twenty twenty two was good for me. 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:07.840 Actually it's not makeup. I mean I washed my face. 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.200 That's what I'm saying that you eat the good vegetables, 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:11.520 you do the right things, you drink the. 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.800 Water, well that too, But I mean, like, you know, 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.640 we we have the our barber and our you know, 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:18.960 you get cuts every day. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.360 Like there's there's the fun. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.960 Part of doing late night television where you get fresh 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:28.120 cuts and you know, yeah yeah, yeah, get shaped up 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:32.040 and all that stuff. So anyway, how is you? How 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.960 is your year? Like, you've not talked about comedy? Are 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.000 you still having a dream of comedy? 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:38.280 Oh? 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:39.960 Don't do that. Somebody just did that to me the 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:41.880 other day because they were listening to like a classic 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.880 QLs episode and they were like, why, how's your comedy doing. 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.880 I was like, oh, I started work. I was going 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:50.960 to talk about how happy I was about twenty twenty two. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.400 So you brought that up. But I'm sorry, that's all right, No, no, no, 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:55.760 I do need to work on that. And that's what 0:06:55.839 --> 0:07:00.480 it is. I just have three amazing podcasts and time 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.720 and they've been great this year. This year bro and 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:05.440 also to this year was the first time I did 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:10.040 my own voicing an animated series thanks to Bill Sherman 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:14.000 over there. That was pretty cool. The Lookout, Yes, and 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.000 this was the year that I had my first surgery 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.520 and my whole damn life and got twenty eight damn 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.480 objects taking out my body and now my stomach is flattering. 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:22.840 I am healthier because of it. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:32.160 Gratulations, Wow, gratulations bro y'all y'all have been killing, aren't 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.960 they busy? I don't think we've done a proper episode 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.080 since the return of Sherman Showcase. 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:38.679 That's true. 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.160 Yeah, yeah, well, y'all really on the airplane? 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.520 Oh my god, I was watch on airplane. 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.000 Yes, I was watching on an airplane. 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:54.360 Yes, yeah, man like this, this is one of the gems. Well, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.480 first of all, ye know now that we have a visual, 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:02.080 as you guys can see, I think almost every episode, 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:06.120 of course Love Supreme always has an episode of Soul 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:07.560 Train playing around in the background. 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.400 Wow, that's cool. I wish this is the first time 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:11.120 you showed that. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.880 Well, yeah, you know, I think I was playing ignorant, 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.920 not knowing that we these episodes were actually going on 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.880 the air. How are our numbers looking? Are we like 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:26.080 in competition with the uh you know, the game now? 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.880 We're still at our soft launch stage. First of all, 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:32.800 so those who know, no, I mean I would I 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.120 feel like cousin Jakes to say the official words of that. 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:36.880 But yeah, we're still like, but we've been doing really 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.240 good for our soft launching. Shout out to DJ Drama 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:44.600 because he's been posting a lot from that episode. Yeah, okay, cool, cool, 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.199 cool cool those Atlanta episodes. 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:47.320 But that's it. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:52.800 Yeah, if you don't know Sherman Showcase show created by 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:56.640 a former Tonight Show writers uh By Shir Sally O 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.520 Dean and uh Diallo. 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.000 Riddle guest the Quest Love Supreme. 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.319 Absolute former guests of Quest Love Supreme, but really utilizing 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:11.520 the versatile talents of our own fonts Tigolo and also 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.400 give it a shout out to Zoe oth y'all did 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:16.880 most of the music or all the music? 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:18.120 Like, what's the process for this? 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.480 We did pretty much most of them for this. I 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:26.040 mean we've done most for the last like two seasons. 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.800 But generally how it goes, they'll send us. Diallo will 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.360 send me like a sheet of just kind of ideas 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.720 or like prompts that they might have or whatever, and 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.120 you know it might be you know, thirty joints and 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.679 of that thirty, you know, me and Zoe sit down 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:43.360 and we will just kind of figure out the ones 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.720 that are most interesting to us, and Okay, I like 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.720 this one, or Okay, we've never done this kind of 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:50.720 song before, let's try this, or like we've never done 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.920 an affrobeat song, let's try that, and you know what 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:55.440 I'm saying. And then we just kind of just sit 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:59.400 down and just go from there, and we just map 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.640 it out and just do them. And I try to 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.520 do when I do them, I do the vocal. I'll 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.319 do like the demo vocal, but it's really just to 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.800 give the actors an idea of what to do. But 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.760 nine times out of ten they end up keeping my 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.480 demo vocal on the joint. 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.800 So the one that I just put up, YO, keep flowing. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:24.600 That was a punk dog dog that I put on 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.640 Zoe's Joy Like I noticed it ninety six, but y'all 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.080 went straight ninety one with that joint, like that is 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.600 my favorite. That's my favorite joy Man. 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:33.439 Thank you man, thank you. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:33.720 Yeah. 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:35.080 That one was super. 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.280 That one was fun. That was we started. We did 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:39.559 that one during COVID. 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.400 Well shit, not that COVID over, but we did it 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.440 early in the pandemic when COVID first hit, and so 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.000 normally when I'm doing the stuff. For Shermans, I have 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.680 the homies come over and just do it. You know, 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.120 if I need female vocals, whatever, I just. 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.440 Have like, you know, the homies pull up. If I 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.440 need crowd, we'll all shot or whatever. But for COVID, 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.160 we you know, everyone. 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:04.199 Was I thought all those voices, all those voices rhymen, weren't. 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.439 You Yeah they were me? 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.440 Yeah, okay, okay, And that's why because I couldn't call nobody. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.440 But they distorted or were you just doing voices? 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:13.720 It was it was me just doing different voices. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.440 So I was just and I would put the mic 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.120 like in the middle of the room and just kind 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.600 of I put Q cards down because I'm imagining, like, 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.079 all right, if it's four dudes in the group, of 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.600 five dudes in the group, they're probably standing around the mic. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.120 So I just did put Q cards in like a 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.880 semicircle around the joint, and every Q card I just 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.520 did a different voice and then like panned it and 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.160 you know, did all that to make it sound like joint. 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:41.000 Yeah, I legit thought that, you know, y'all were It 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.240 was so good. I actually started listening to Trends of 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:45.320 Culture album again. 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.400 Yeah, I walk through the Valley of the Skins. 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:52.400 Wait, they're from North Carolina, right? 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:52.880 No? 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:57.680 No, no, that was jack food yao. But was the culture 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.520 they were? I don't remember. They were fun but yeah. 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.480 So well they better be from New York right right? 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:05.439 But nah, but that was it, man. So that's normally 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:05.960 how it goes. 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.280 It just starts with the idea, will sit down and 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.840 me and zoeld bang it out and I do the 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.040 references and you know kind of you know, write, rearrange 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.200 the songs if I need to whatever, and that's it. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.040 Shout out to you and Zoe because both of y'all 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.440 two is shit, Like the LB's this year crazy, right, 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.680 That's what I heard that Zoe came down crazy. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:24.720 Came crazy. 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.800 Yeah, he came down crazy. He's been doing really good. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.679 Shouts Zoe and and shout out to Sheer and Diello 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:31.880 man just for letting us. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:33.040 Do us, you know what I mean? 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.760 They really they really are just guys that you know, 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.160 they cut the check and get out the way, and 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.000 that's like my favorite way to create. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.800 They really just yes, sir, cut the check, cut the check, 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.800 get out of the way. Ah. 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.960 So boss, how about your twenty twenty two. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.600 It's too surreal to talk about, man, because. 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:56.640 It started crazy. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:02.160 It really feels like all that happened like three years ago, 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:06.240 four years ago. It's not even eight months ago. So 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.680 and that you know the fact that something weird happens 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:16.160 like every five days that I'm just on a Steph 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:22.400 Curry half court shot streak right now. So I will 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:27.800 say though that probably of everything that you could imagine 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:31.000 that happened to me or that could happen to a person, 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:35.560 has happened to me. But I will probably say that, 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:40.160 you know, and I'm really guarded and careful on how 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.160 I don't want to be typecast as this guy or whatever. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.320 But you know, I'll say before that my thing was like, 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.920 you know, I'm the guy that's waiting for the light 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.319 at the end of the tunnel. The most important thing 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:57.000 that happened twenty twenty two is like I found myself, 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.360 you know, and that whole like, yeah, man, you know, 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.200 I'm trying to trying to learn to love myself better 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:06.120 than whatever it's happening now, like if it really happened 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:10.640 in September and where like I'm owning the shit. I 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:15.520 feel like a new person and like I'm generally happy 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.560 and not like I feel guilty about being happy, like 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.120 enthusiastically happy. 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:22.960 So and I know it's. 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.120 Weird to sort of declare that in some of the 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:31.880 worst times in recent memory, but I really can't help like, 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:34.120 I feel optimistic and happy. 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.320 So what brought that about? How did you arrive at 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:37.720 that place? 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.920 You know, I'll say like a month it was the 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:48.200 polar opposite of it, maybe three weeks after the oscars, 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.640 and then I got COVID, So there was like a 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:55.040 five week period where the exact opposite happened. And you know, 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.280 and it's not even it has nothing to do with 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:01.280 the slap, I think just in general, like this is 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.960 how it was with my prim night. Like like any 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:09.600 big event that you just you just like have high 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:14.800 expectations for, it happens, and then when it's over, there's 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:18.600 going to be a drop, you know, and you know, 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:22.560 actually shout out to uh, I hope I can share this. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:30.920 Ezra Elderman, who is currently right now directing the Mammoth 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:36.600 Prince documentary, he's the he's the gentleman that did the 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.440 OJ documentary, The Firepark. 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.920 Yeah, the five points, Oh wow, right, he. 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:46.200 Won an Oscar for OJ in twenty fifteen, and right now, 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.800 I think when he started. When he started, it was 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:54.720 supposed to be like maybe a six to seven hour 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.280 Prince documentary. He's definitely in the double digits of the 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:03.160 hours right now. Like the Dance Dog. He might have 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.000 Obama gray hair right now. That's how stressful it is, 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.920 like getting the princess world. But he was really really 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:13.080 there for me to like put it in context, because 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:14.800 you know, the thing is. 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.200 Is like once you win in context, you mean Gosa 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:18.440 winning context. 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.840 Well, because the thing was like the drop was so 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:24.320 low like ten days later. 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.520 That you know, it's it's real depression. 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:32.800 And I don't want to especially now, especially when we're 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:37.040 watching the antics of he who gets on my nerves 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.560 right now, I don't like, I don't want to loosely 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.880 like throw around like words like depression or you know 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.360 that sort of thing. But yeah, there were moments where, 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.960 like you know, I was balled up in a corner 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:55.000 and fetal position, and my loved ones had to like, 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:57.880 all right, you okay, man, like should I send you somewhere? 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:01.760 You know, they sent me on my first vacation ever, 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.600 like you know, I had to go to Mexico and 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:09.159 just do nothing for a couple of weeks. But I 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.159 talked to Ezra, and Ezra's like, you know, you're not 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.840 the only person to go through this, Like literally, he 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.119 just named me a list of other people that went 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:21.440 through similar experiences. The amount of preparation and the amount 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.720 that you put your body through and this this could 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:29.040 also maybe explain the Monique situation as well, like anyone 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.920 that dares enter the arena of trying to win an 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.400 oscar and you have to give ten months of your life. 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:40.240 And this could also explain the wheal thing, like when 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.520 you get to the finish line, there's a level of 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.200 anxiety that I can't I can't really explain. 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.280 Because for the last ten months of your life, that's 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:48.960 been your life and that was over. 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:53.239 So yeah, and it's over. So it's and it's like 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:53.919 what do you do? 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.040 And you're managing expectations, who's happy for you? 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:58.520 Is not happy and all that stuff. 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:03.439 So I will say that for three weeks it was bad, 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.160 and then I got it together. Well, once I got COVID, 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.520 then I had other problems to deal with, because it's 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:14.200 no joke living with like half an air pipe. There 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.760 was one probably the most dangerous part about COVID. I 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.520 know this is weird to say, but I was talking 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:24.480 to a comedian friend of mine and I started laughing, 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.800 but I was I was like gut laughing hard, and 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:33.240 then I realized that I couldn't inhale, and that shit 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.919 scared the shit out of me now only because I 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.080 do like deep level. You know, I've been on my 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:44.040 meditation and breathing exercise join. So there's a there's the 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:48.760 kind of a breathing exercise called DMT exercise where it's 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:53.480 like heavy, it's heavy breathing, but it's what Navy seals 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.399 do to learn how to hold their breath for like 0:18:55.440 --> 0:19:00.359 three minutes. Yeah, dog Like I I was hold my 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:05.720 breath for like fifty seconds before I could slowly in 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:11.000 hell again. So, you know, once the COVID thing sort 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:15.320 of replaced whatever anxiety because it's not like you're fighting 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.840 for your life, but you're you're you're treating it seriously. 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.080 And then that was sort of like my reset thing 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:21.879 where I just stayed in bed for two weeks and 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:28.040 you know, then it was July and then you know, 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:34.320 I don't know it, it got way better. So that's 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:38.240 my long drown drawn out thing. Was it the What was. 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:41.520 It like going from cause you mentioned about it before, 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.199 going from you know, the level of famous that you 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:48.879 are to now another level of fame where you got 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:49.560 people texting. 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.920 It still feels the same, just a lot away. 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.399 A lot of people that were alive during that era 0:19:57.320 --> 0:19:58.639 are just more vocal about it. 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:00.760 I mean, at its weirdest, it'll be like, you know, 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:01.760 Elton John. 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:05.280 Will cold call you or Spielberg will cold call you. 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:09.960 So I mean I definitely nuanced a lot more friendships 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:12.080 than I ever have. 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:15.080 But you know, and when you get those calls from 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.760 those people, what do they say? Is it congratulations? Is 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:19.800 it you know, more work they're offering? 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:23.600 Like I meant, some of it is work. Some people 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.280 like want to know, with a lot of pitch meetings. 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:32.160 So right now, you know, I guess the general rule 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:34.560 is if there's a press clipping about it, then I 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:36.480 can talk about it. So right now I can only 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:40.560 talk about sliding the family stone gotch. I don't necessarily 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:42.920 talk about the producing things, so like the James Brown 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:47.800 thing and the Descendant thing and all that stuff. I mean, 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:52.040 producing isn't rubber stamping, Like I'm still like actively pounding 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:54.199