Speaker 1: Couest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. This classic
Speaker 1: episode was produced by the team at Pandora.
Speaker 2: What Up This is on pay Bill.
Speaker 3: This classic QLs episode takes us back to December twenty first,
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen. We'll share some holiday memories. We'll get the
Speaker 3: twelve Days of Fontigelo. We'll do the damn thing.
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Speaker 2: Roll Call Suprema. My name is Questlove. Yeah, and I
Speaker 2: own this to my entire crew. Yeah, I'm giving Christmas bonuses.
Speaker 4: Supremo sun Supremo. Roll call, Supremo sun.
Speaker 2: So, Suprema roll Call. My name is Fante. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I'm here. Yeah, quest Love Supreme. Yeah, breading
Speaker 5: Christmas Chill.
Speaker 4: Roll call, Suprema son Son, Suprema roll Call, Suprema Suprema
Speaker 4: roll Call.
Speaker 2: I'm on pe Bill.
Speaker 3: Put on my Yama CA Damn Chris Love Supreme, Yeah,
Speaker 3: fucking Honker.
Speaker 4: Suprema Supremo, roll call, breama something, Supremo roll Call.
Speaker 2: My name is Sugar. Yeah, it's Christmas time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's also honkah, Yeah, no hamn.
Speaker 4: Some Suprema roll card Supreama Supremo roll call.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I really wanna Yeah, what's your merry Christmas?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 7: And a happy quanza.
Speaker 4: About your time roll call Suprema Son Sun Supremo roll.
Speaker 1: Call, Happy Holiday. Yeah, come boss bill to you. Yeah
Speaker 1: there twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, screw you.
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Speaker 1: Roll Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the special Christmas Edition
Speaker 1: Holiday we PC. Yoh wait, before we start this off,
Speaker 1: I think we should play the official theme song of
Speaker 1: this episode.
Speaker 2: I'm going right off the top. This is my man,
Speaker 2: Jimmy Liggins and.
Speaker 9: Drunk, drunk, drunk, drunk.
Speaker 10: Insa meine old bottle day calm moonshine, red red wine,
Speaker 10: so mellow and fine, all mad night with a woman
Speaker 10: in the head, reached for the pillow, missed the whole
Speaker 10: durn bed.
Speaker 1: Drunk.
Speaker 2: That's why we all do show up on Christmas Day
Speaker 2: weekend drunk. Yeah yeah, wait it's a fourth verse. No
Speaker 2: wonder this ship wasn't it.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, the only reason.
Speaker 2: Yep, that was Jimmy Liggings and drunk. Ah.
Speaker 1: Yes, ladies and gentlemen, there's no pressure, there's no research
Speaker 1: to do on an artist.
Speaker 2: There's no guests. We're just wrong.
Speaker 1: We're sitting with each other and in electric ladies studios,
Speaker 1: in the holiday spirit, drinking smalliday spirits. Yeah, living living.
Speaker 1: Are you living in the new era of our president elect?
Speaker 2: About to get.
Speaker 7: Trump?
Speaker 2: Oh my god? That's the walk on music.
Speaker 7: Ye do not do that when he show.
Speaker 11: That's easy because I know you when he finally makes
Speaker 11: it as the president, I know what you're gonna do.
Speaker 7: What you're gonna do.
Speaker 2: I don't you gonna call what song you're gonna play.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna play sick that day.
Speaker 5: That's not so yeah, played in PiZZ for president. That
Speaker 5: would be pretty I would love to do that, And
Speaker 5: then what what?
Speaker 2: Or play something that just samples a break so you
Speaker 2: don't have to like Actually.
Speaker 1: I tried that once and it really didn't come off.
Speaker 1: When when uh, when Kate Katie Holmes came on the show. Uh,
Speaker 1: we did cruise, we did time, we did a dropping sign.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, by uh all right, so we're sitting
Speaker 1: here swimming, swimming in our happiness, in our misery.
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not for this. Does he own yeah?
Speaker 7: I do say so, don't he?
Speaker 2: If I so much?
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll owntive And he has to simply because
Speaker 1: why would he go so hard with endorsing it.
Speaker 7: Does Did he own the rock?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: But he did the most gangster thing of all time,
Speaker 1: Like what he did was better than own it. He
Speaker 1: just went to them and said, like, give me a
Speaker 1: piece of the company, and they did it and they're
Speaker 1: better for it.
Speaker 11: So well, do say it's better because they finally made
Speaker 11: a punch, so because drinking.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I didn't make you thought I made that homemade.
Speaker 1: No one thought that, especially when the when the two
Speaker 1: women came in and it's at a bottle with a marketing.
Speaker 5: Pitch and everything totally totally shout my man life wonderful
Speaker 5: for hooking, Thank you, thank you knife, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying.
Speaker 7: And you forgetting drizzy early man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm on about number four. I'm killing them. This
Speaker 2: is strong. Like I'm only on sip number three.
Speaker 7: I'm so excited right now about you drinking.
Speaker 2: I just you know, I'm like I've been like what
Speaker 2: I mean, I've drink before. I drunk before. If you
Speaker 2: don't know the word Jesse Johnson.
Speaker 1: Now this this isn't my first video, but I'll try
Speaker 1: and continue myself because I still have to go to
Speaker 1: work after.
Speaker 2: Uh I do this. I have like twelve of these jobs.
Speaker 7: Do you drink do on the holidays?
Speaker 2: I drink period? I mean on man?
Speaker 7: Friend? What's it called friend? Why does not mean like
Speaker 7: seriously like drink like no SNL.
Speaker 1: I did a shot. I did a celebration shot because
Speaker 1: it was like vodka or whatever Brooklyn Bowl or whatever
Speaker 1: I've done I've done. I mean, it's not my preference.
Speaker 1: Like I'm still a timekeeper, and that's you know, I just.
Speaker 2: Prefer to He prefers his drunken meter to be sober,
Speaker 2: to be calculated. Even my drunken meters calculated.
Speaker 11: That's why I if quest Love did not have a driver,
Speaker 11: everybody out there, he would be your designated driver because
Speaker 11: you are very dependent.
Speaker 2: That's what I because I don't drink regularly.
Speaker 1: Were you here with that for the for the wild
Speaker 1: story for the Yeah, yeah I got high.
Speaker 5: I ain't doing that ship no more. But yeah, no,
Speaker 5: I have a limit with my uh inebriation. I'll get
Speaker 5: to the line, and once I get my line, I'm good.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. It's just certain highs I
Speaker 5: don't need to achieve, like the new weed they got
Speaker 5: the K two that ain't like well yeah K two, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's that past G thirteen.
Speaker 2: Bruh.
Speaker 7: It's some money sell two thousand and one right now.
Speaker 5: I should have people like eating motherfucker's faces and ship.
Speaker 5: It's like some walking dead ship.
Speaker 2: It was really bad.
Speaker 1: It's synthetic. Yeah, it's really bad around where I live
Speaker 1: out in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: Really, and it's weed. It's not weed.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know what it is, but it's
Speaker 1: I guess it's some plan or whatever, and they just
Speaker 1: pray all these chemicals on it and people smoking and
Speaker 1: just fun.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Drugs. Yeah, that's real drugs. That's real
Speaker 2: drug that's drugs. So now I'm not into real drugs. Drugs.
Speaker 5: I don't want to do no ship that I gotta
Speaker 5: go to meetings for and show up for me and
Speaker 5: say affirmations and ship. I don't want to do that.
Speaker 5: I just like nobody a little buzz every now. Ye
Speaker 5: ain't nobody got time for that, but love, I can't wait.
Speaker 7: For her holidays song.
Speaker 11: Oh, Jennifer Lewis, ain't nobody got time for that? You
Speaker 11: know she's been doing so depending on the things.
Speaker 1: Don't get Jennifer Lewis on the show, please anybody got
Speaker 1: I like her?
Speaker 2: Get your ass out in boat song?
Speaker 7: That was the get your hout and vote in the
Speaker 7: Joy how vote, get your ass and vote streets ain't
Speaker 7: even listen. I'm sorry, So.
Speaker 2: All right, So here it is. It's the holidays.
Speaker 1: Is everyone celebrating or like, do we have any atheists
Speaker 1: in the house or.
Speaker 2: Just poor people? Poor people, poor people? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: atheists still celebrate the holidays. They don't you. No, I'm Jewish,
Speaker 2: but I mean I'm not, Like, have you not been
Speaker 2: here for the past? No, No, I know you're Jewish.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying, I know, you know if.
Speaker 6: He was practicing, Yeah, nobody practices anymore, you know. Okay,
Speaker 6: but we still celebrate the holidays.
Speaker 2: Pork to right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't call them sugar, Steve for nothing.
Speaker 11: That is your Jewish breathren judging you, Steve, He is
Speaker 11: judging you.
Speaker 2: Do you pork joke? I'm the least jewy Jude and Juve.
Speaker 3: My family are what I like to call sudden Jews,
Speaker 3: which is like they're going along in their normal life
Speaker 3: and then there's some holidays or some ship and they're
Speaker 3: suddenly Jewish.
Speaker 6: Like my mom is like, this is what that's why,
Speaker 6: that's what's my intention. The first thing I was saying, Jesus,
Speaker 6: I can't.
Speaker 1: Talk always.
Speaker 5: Question, Yes, what is the difference between you and like
Speaker 5: the Hasidic like the brothers with the hats and the
Speaker 5: black like they like the hardcore juice.
Speaker 2: Those are those are the real Jews, the very orthodox
Speaker 2: practicing types. Uh yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 6: Many religious people are are there in this room right now,
Speaker 6: but I'm sure we're all celebrating the holidays Jesus besides
Speaker 6: being bathed in the blood.
Speaker 7: So it's kind of like, no, I celebrate.
Speaker 2: I celebrate.
Speaker 5: I mean it's really for my kids, you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, Because for me, like Christmas ended around like
Speaker 5: they're like twelve thirteen.
Speaker 2: Because at that point it was just I was totally cool.
Speaker 5: I was totally cool because I had younger brothers, so
Speaker 5: I mean we didn't we were poor, so I was like, listen,
Speaker 5: take care of my brothers.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And I still my mom still was able to do
Speaker 5: little stuff for me. I still got stuff, but my
Speaker 5: whole things are like make sure my brothers are good.
Speaker 2: I ain't. Yeah, all right, tell us a poor Christmas?
Speaker 2: What is a poor Christmas? Yes? With the music? Okay,
Speaker 2: just poor Christmas. Picture it. Small town, North Carolina, nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty four. I'm sleeping in my bed and I hear
Speaker 2: some rustling, and I'm thinking it's that raindeer on my roof.
Speaker 2: No it's not. It was my father, who I hadn't
Speaker 2: seen in several years.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh God, So.
Speaker 5: Now a poor Christmas is like, listen mane eighty four
Speaker 5: hours five.
Speaker 2: You haven't seen your father in seven years? Yeah? I
Speaker 2: had seen my father sits inception, but but noah man,
Speaker 2: a poor, a poor Christmas or a late Christmas. Listen.
Speaker 2: Let me be clear about something.
Speaker 5: My mother and my grandparents, they always worked to make
Speaker 5: sure that I.
Speaker 2: Had a decent Christmas, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: And so one of my most my most memorable Christmas
Speaker 5: is was when I got the Nintendo. This is when
Speaker 5: the Nintendo too Nintendo, and so it was a step
Speaker 5: up for me because at that point in time, we
Speaker 5: had been renting the Nintendo.
Speaker 2: Sounds very familiar. Why do I feel like there was
Speaker 2: a Nintendo rental in my town.
Speaker 5: Too, Dude, there was no bullshit. There was a there
Speaker 5: was a no because I mean it was all poe.
Speaker 5: There was a there was a in a small time.
Speaker 5: I lived in Resturan, North Carolina. Swear to god, there
Speaker 5: was a video store. It's called Doug's Rented Video. And
Speaker 5: it was just like you know, like any other video
Speaker 5: rental store, Doug's Renting Video.
Speaker 2: And they started the very.
Speaker 5: Forward thinking and I'm sure probably illegal practice of renting
Speaker 5: game systems. And so you could rent a Nintendo. You
Speaker 5: could rent It was like Renaissance exactly. You could rent
Speaker 5: a Nintendo.
Speaker 2: And so I.
Speaker 5: Remember, I think my grandmother rented me a Nintendo for
Speaker 5: like a little bit and I played it and I
Speaker 5: had Mike Tyson's punch Out, and my whole thing was
Speaker 5: you would try to beat the game before you had
Speaker 5: to take.
Speaker 2: The ship back. So I was unsuccessful. But I'm about
Speaker 2: to say my comminations. Well, I remember, but.
Speaker 5: I learned to Oh man, I think without it. I
Speaker 5: got up to Tyson. I got up to Tyson and
Speaker 5: I got beat but then I got the cold, and
Speaker 5: the cold to get directly to tyson.
Speaker 2: Oh seven three seven three five.
Speaker 7: Nine six mother, fuck smoking mother.
Speaker 5: That was the colde oh seven three seven three five
Speaker 5: nine sixty three. So uh so, yeah, So I had
Speaker 5: been renting it. And after just times of just renting
Speaker 5: the Nintendo, finally I woke up to Christmas morning. I
Speaker 5: was asleep in my bed and uh this was at
Speaker 5: the time when my I was living with my wheeling
Speaker 5: my grandparents, and my grandmother and my grandfather they slept
Speaker 5: in separate rooms. And being a you know, eight nine
Speaker 5: ten year old kid, I never yeah, I never saw
Speaker 5: the dysfunction in that, but I you know, I never
Speaker 5: thought but I was like many but they never step together.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I never I didn't get it.
Speaker 5: But for whatever reason, they didn't sleep in the same
Speaker 5: room together. So me and my grandfather slept in the
Speaker 5: same room in beds. And so my grandfather, you know,
Speaker 5: he'd be sleeping and.
Speaker 2: He'd have his music on.
Speaker 5: So I get up, and I walked down the hallway
Speaker 5: and walked through the kitchen and I turned the corner.
Speaker 5: And to turn the corner like that was the surprise moment, nigga,
Speaker 5: Like that was when.
Speaker 2: Like, oh shit, what did I get?
Speaker 5: And I came in and I saw the Nintendo and
Speaker 5: I had a TV and they brought me a little TV.
Speaker 5: And the fun fact about the TV, it later got
Speaker 5: pawned because my mom's boyfriend at the time was hooked
Speaker 5: on crack, so he later pawned in television a couple
Speaker 5: of times.
Speaker 2: But I got it back, and uh.
Speaker 6: Yo, wait rewind that's the story within the story. I
Speaker 6: want to hear you got the TV back?
Speaker 5: Okay, how I got the TV back? Well, I don't
Speaker 5: know the exact particular. Uh this was it was the eighties.
Speaker 11: Man, it was a rough time, remember the Nintendo cold
Speaker 11: But you don't remember the particulars on getting TV.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I mean I didn't go into the pawn
Speaker 2: shop and say.
Speaker 1: Hey, okay, when you came home from school and saw
Speaker 1: there was no TV, what was your response?
Speaker 2: Crap?
Speaker 5: Like I knew that something that I was like, this
Speaker 5: has to be crap. So yeah, so that was my thing.
Speaker 5: I knew that was what it was. But you know,
Speaker 5: we lost the TV a couple of times. We got
Speaker 5: it back and I hadn't it well or sold it,
Speaker 5: you know whatever. But yeah, man, but I had a
Speaker 5: Nintendo in my room. My mother let me have it
Speaker 5: in my room in fourth grade, and that was the
Speaker 5: year I got it.
Speaker 2: I got the Nintendo with the power pad.
Speaker 5: Oh you remember the power The power pad was this
Speaker 5: piece of elect it was this it was this piece
Speaker 5: of equipment was plastic and it didn't work well for
Speaker 5: damn no. But it was just loud and like, you know,
Speaker 5: you could run track and field on the power pad
Speaker 5: and like jump hurdles and shit. And at the time,
Speaker 5: we lived in like a two story house. So every
Speaker 5: time I played the power pad, immediately my mother would
Speaker 5: tell me, like, cut that shit off, make it too
Speaker 5: much fucking noise. So so we never I never really
Speaker 5: played it much. But but yeah, I had the power pad.
Speaker 5: I had a Nintendo in my room, and as long
Speaker 5: as I kept my grades up, she would let me
Speaker 5: keep it.
Speaker 2: But my mother, when my grades.
Speaker 5: Were slipped, she would be extra evil, and so what
Speaker 5: she would do she wouldn't take the Nintendo.
Speaker 2: She would just take the controllers.
Speaker 5: Just look just look at it, look back at it.
Speaker 5: So she would just take the controllers. So I would
Speaker 5: come home and like be in my room looking at
Speaker 5: this thing that I can't play.
Speaker 1: That is cruel and gus can I say that things
Speaker 1: like that are one reason why I want.
Speaker 2: To be a parent. So you be cool to your children,
Speaker 2: just so I can do little things like that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to put com out there like this,
Speaker 1: but come once told me a story of how he
Speaker 1: literally just took Christmas away from his kids, like they
Speaker 1: woke up the next day to no gifts under the
Speaker 1: Christmas Street Like.
Speaker 2: It was like they were there and it was full on.
Speaker 1: Yes it was long twenty third but then gone on
Speaker 1: the to the grits Christmas.
Speaker 2: The humbling kid needs it.
Speaker 6: So that reminds me of a couple of Christmases ago
Speaker 6: where I got Kamala as my secret sat Oh yeah,
Speaker 6: I was.
Speaker 2: Keyboard. Yeah come on, so this is playing piano right
Speaker 2: now in the back.
Speaker 6: It's a good So I was his secret Santa, and
Speaker 6: so I got him.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 6: I just filled up a box, a cardboard box filled
Speaker 6: with sodas from our refrigerator from inside the lane.
Speaker 2: Wait, tell them how you wrapped it us? What? I
Speaker 2: just wrapped it up like a real president. I mean,
Speaker 2: I thought I.
Speaker 1: Told you to get a refrigerator blox and put that
Speaker 1: in another box, and then another box and then another box.
Speaker 6: Sorry, now I just put a bunch of sodas in
Speaker 6: a box. Talk about one, but I didn't say who.
Speaker 6: You know, you're not supposed to reveal yourself as secret Santas,
Speaker 6: so I didn't. I didn't reveal myself for like a
Speaker 6: week and a half.
Speaker 2: Was mad.
Speaker 6: He was mad, But it was funny. You know, he's
Speaker 6: telling everybody on the staff, you know.
Speaker 2: So yo, who got me sodas? Yeah, he is trying
Speaker 2: to figure it out.
Speaker 6: And so then eventually I told him who it was,
Speaker 6: and I gave him like a one of those GNC
Speaker 6: cards for like twenty five bucks.
Speaker 2: That was actually the year, the year you did that,
Speaker 2: that was the inspiration.
Speaker 1: See, I'm a guy. See people I feel like they
Speaker 1: have to try hard, like for me. But some of
Speaker 1: the best gifts I've ever gotten were like the smallest,
Speaker 1: most minutes your gifts. Like people think like, oh mere
Speaker 1: love soul Train, let me get him salt, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I got every episode of Soultree. You don't have to
Speaker 1: give me no more soul Train. So when you gave
Speaker 1: him that gift, do you remember what I asked for
Speaker 1: my birthday, which is like a month later.
Speaker 2: I mean it was like soda, Yeah, everyone one got me.
Speaker 1: My favorite soda was the Pellegrino Lemon, so it is
Speaker 1: oh my.
Speaker 7: God, man, that's the best one for you.
Speaker 2: The ones in the cans. Yeah, I like the blood
Speaker 2: orange blood. Yeah. Yeah. So every I got fifty cases.
Speaker 1: Wow, and surprisingly not diabetes. I got fifty cases of
Speaker 1: Pelgrena from my birthday.
Speaker 7: Because everybody was just happy to last for a gift
Speaker 7: under twenty bucks. It's like, yes, but not, but.
Speaker 2: He fifty So it's like, what do you get? You
Speaker 2: give the man everything?
Speaker 7: You've got me one year?
Speaker 2: Well, who got you? What?
Speaker 7: Quest love got me one years?
Speaker 2: Not my baby? He bought you again, my baby.
Speaker 11: It has been twice gift injected into your wound. Can't
Speaker 11: you No, you don't.
Speaker 7: You don't remember you gave me a doll.
Speaker 2: I gave you what you gave.
Speaker 7: Me a doll. You gave me a mister nice guy doll.
Speaker 1: You remember this mister nice guy doll. It was that
Speaker 1: sounds like something to give you in counseling. It was
Speaker 1: show me on the doll he touched you.
Speaker 7: It was a little white man who when you pulled
Speaker 7: his hand.
Speaker 11: He would say anything that a woman wanted to hear,
Speaker 11: and he would say like, no, you're not that, and dude,
Speaker 11: all the things you know, just like I promise you
Speaker 11: I still have it. Yes, yes, you do not remember?
Speaker 7: Did I not? Was that not? For mean? Somebody want
Speaker 7: somebody else?
Speaker 2: If you don't remember, I think I think someone else
Speaker 2: give you know.
Speaker 7: We were at the bollet. It was before it was
Speaker 7: before Zeron. Yeah, I don't even remember, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I give my gifts out that I don't know.
Speaker 2: That was a joke.
Speaker 1: I don't do the Hey, get her, get her what
Speaker 1: you want? Well, okay, are you complaining?
Speaker 2: It was It's hard to tell something, you know. The
Speaker 2: doll has been her best friend for the last nine years.
Speaker 7: He definitely tells you what I need to hear. I
Speaker 7: need to hear it like I got a man.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I ain't like I got that? Was that her?
Speaker 2: That was sad? Finished the story? Yeah, I mean it.
Speaker 5: Started with a crack. Everything it all comes back the
Speaker 5: crack with Yeah. In the eighties, it was it was rough.
Speaker 1: And it was a poor Christmas, but it was good.
Speaker 5: I mean, listen, I always appreciate it more than anything else,
Speaker 5: like we would struggle like during the year, like it
Speaker 5: would be times I might come home to no lights.
Speaker 5: I might come home to a big yellow sign on
Speaker 5: the door that says condemned because our watered and got
Speaker 5: cut off. But Christmas was always cool, So I would
Speaker 5: say that above anything else, my family always made sure
Speaker 5: no matter how poor we were, Christmas was always we
Speaker 5: always had a decent Christmas.
Speaker 2: We always had you know, we always had it good.
Speaker 5: So shout out big up to my moms and my
Speaker 5: uncles and my grandparents for always pitching in and uh
Speaker 5: and making sure that the grandkids had what they did.
Speaker 2: That's dope, man, we survived. Am I gonna take a nap?
Speaker 1: It was like, yeah, no, I was reflective because this
Speaker 1: dude say got me, thank you. Yeah, it's my life.
Speaker 2: Give us, give us a.
Speaker 1: Broke, broke story, give us a boot Christmas. Like when
Speaker 1: you're in a relationship during Christmas, like what did What's
Speaker 1: something sweet that a guy.
Speaker 2: Did for you?
Speaker 7: I'm so sorry. That's like the wrong.
Speaker 2: Question, which means it's the right question.
Speaker 7: I say, that's the wrong way.
Speaker 11: She doesn't answer, because right because my last relationship we
Speaker 11: were only children and you know, when you're an only
Speaker 11: child and you have two parents that are still living,
Speaker 11: you have to like decide so like my parents are real,
Speaker 11: like overly lovingly real, lovely like So now no, it's
Speaker 11: hard to leave my house on Christmas.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, so I never. Really it's supposed to get sad.
Speaker 2: I don't think that I've had it's a sad question.
Speaker 7: I don't think I've had.
Speaker 2: A couple of Christis Christmas.
Speaker 11: Once I left my mother, she got real piss and
Speaker 11: like she cussed me out for a man and then
Speaker 11: never I never did it again. Really, it's only child ship.
Speaker 11: Don't nobody know about this life, this only child life.
Speaker 2: So was mad because you went with your boo at the.
Speaker 7: Time because I'm her only child.
Speaker 2: And your mother is single as well. Well, yes that's
Speaker 2: what it is.
Speaker 11: Do you know somebody because she is a very sexy
Speaker 11: sixty six and sexy Hello.
Speaker 7: Her name is Kareema Payla. You know she wears push your.
Speaker 2: Bras you have me at sixty six. I like the.
Speaker 7: I mean that, don't mean that, don't mean nothing.
Speaker 11: A lot of people made woo do have done down
Speaker 11: with the brown, but good to know I we introduced
Speaker 11: I will.
Speaker 2: Everyone's down, Daddy, Please, Daddy.
Speaker 11: I'm already calling Steve daddy sugar daddy.
Speaker 7: A couple.
Speaker 11: I was gonna say, Fonte, kind of your broke story
Speaker 11: trump my broke story, because I was gonna say, my
Speaker 11: dad is an artist. He's like an artist, a drummer,
Speaker 11: a photographer. And he didn't always have it like that.
Speaker 11: But he was always a very loving daddy, a very
Speaker 11: present daddy.
Speaker 7: So he didn't have it like that.
Speaker 11: And one Christmas, while my mother was giving me new stuff,
Speaker 11: he came in like Santa Claus with a garbage bag
Speaker 11: full of clothes on my through storm and I was like, oh, thanks, daddy.
Speaker 2: But it was the thought, But it was the thought.
Speaker 2: He was present.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I've seen girls I ain't got no daddy love.
Speaker 11: So I'm thankful, you know what I'm saying. Because girls
Speaker 11: without no daddy love ship.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, girls without fathers they make for interesting relationship.
Speaker 2: Oh love. By interesting, I mean again, never ever again.
Speaker 2: To woman. The first question he answer is do you
Speaker 2: know your father? Straight up that it.
Speaker 7: Should be a first question though, because that was I had.
Speaker 2: This old gee wisdom. Listen O G told me He's like, listen,
Speaker 2: if she don't love her daddy.
Speaker 5: She can't love you. And if she don't love her mama,
Speaker 5: she ain't gonna love herself.
Speaker 7: That it is real.
Speaker 2: Look bro deep bro man, listen. Yeah, the wisdom you
Speaker 2: find in barber shops on the Saturday.
Speaker 7: I do say so myself.
Speaker 2: Waiting on your temple table.
Speaker 1: I got okay, I'm trying to think of a poort.
Speaker 1: I have a really good same year. You have a
Speaker 1: you have a poor Christmas? Oh yeah, hell yeah, I
Speaker 1: have a poor Christmas. Uh, eighty four I didn't even
Speaker 1: have Christmas? Man, you looking at me, mother, I didn't
Speaker 1: eighty four. So you were how old eighty four? I
Speaker 1: was fine to you, like thanks, thanks, fronte. No, I
Speaker 1: mean I'm saying I wasn't born yet you Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was twenty. I was twenty bro, No, okay, I knew
Speaker 1: we were going to have a Christmas. And this is
Speaker 1: back when you only had two pairs of sneakers per year.
Speaker 2: You had your school sneakers, and you had to play
Speaker 2: place sneak talk about it. And so eighty four was
Speaker 2: really when sneaker called, why are you laughing? Bill?
Speaker 1: Because makes me laugh man talking about it's been a minute. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we we were killing.
Speaker 2: Let's let's culturally you were already talking about it. He's like,
Speaker 2: talk about it, but that's.
Speaker 1: Like, that's that, that is a that is ahold. Did
Speaker 1: you have school shoes and in place shoes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get onto the non poor Christmases later.
Speaker 1: Yeah, more than one pair of sneakers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know how more than one pair of an adult. No,
Speaker 2: I'm with you, I'm with you. Yeah, I'm making up
Speaker 2: for it now. You know.
Speaker 5: Well, to be fair, three pairs you had play school
Speaker 5: and church. You had to pay dress, dress shoes. I
Speaker 5: had dress shoes to church, always had dress dress.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had church shoes, and I had sneakers.
Speaker 1: I didn't have like plate place sneakers, and yeah, in
Speaker 1: school sneakers.
Speaker 2: And your dress sneakers.
Speaker 5: That was also they also alternated your church sneakers also
Speaker 5: alternated as your picture.
Speaker 2: They sneakers the picture.
Speaker 1: They uhur, I mean I mean not speaking picture.
Speaker 5: They classes picture. They you had to take the picture,
Speaker 5: you know, when you sat.
Speaker 2: On the Yeah, but they don't show your feet in this.
Speaker 1: He's right, but it doesn't want to look we dressed.
Speaker 1: It does not when you dressed clean in school.
Speaker 6: That's like, you know, so anyway, you were thirteen, you
Speaker 6: were just part misspap What happened?
Speaker 2: Yeah, sneakers. We knew you had the sneakers. What then?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: We we knew it was going to be a bad Uh.
Speaker 1: I knew it was going to be a bad Christmas.
Speaker 1: And so I decided to take matage of my own
Speaker 1: hands because the thing was like sneaker culture was really
Speaker 1: really I mean, we didn't call it sneaker culture back then,
Speaker 1: but I didn't have that name, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: but Jordan's was just like you know, this was the
Speaker 1: year that was.
Speaker 2: The Ones, right with that yeah? Ones?
Speaker 1: Yeah, But in nineteen eighty four, like this is when
Speaker 1: the fuckery of paying more than forty five dollars.
Speaker 2: For a pair of sneakers was starting to creep in.
Speaker 5: So it was all about the patent leather top ten Adidas.
Speaker 5: The that wasn't thews was it wasn't nah, but like
Speaker 5: you know what top ten the pat leather like this
Speaker 5: shoe was like one hundred and five dollars, which.
Speaker 2: Back then was light. Yeah. Nah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: So I decided what I was going to do was
Speaker 1: every day after school, I was going to go to
Speaker 1: Pathmark and for three hours help women carry their bags
Speaker 1: to the car for tips.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for tips, Okay.
Speaker 1: So then went to my grandmam's house took the Helman's
Speaker 1: supersized manna's jar that she normally he keeps for the
Speaker 1: bacon grease, because that.
Speaker 2: Is what we do. We reuse grease. Yeah, hell yeah,
Speaker 2: and so don't rate no grease. Right. So I took
Speaker 2: uh that and basically saved up one hundred and.
Speaker 1: Fifteen dollars worth of change and took that entire thing
Speaker 1: to Samson Sneakers on fifty second Street, Wow, two days
Speaker 1: before Christmas. And I just gave him. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is one hundred and you just looked at me.
Speaker 2: It's like, boy, if you don't But he.
Speaker 1: Dude gave me that looked like you don't get out
Speaker 1: here and go to that bank across the street and
Speaker 1: come back with some real money. So I literally, yeah,
Speaker 1: I had to take all my pennies and all my
Speaker 1: nickels and all my dimes and all my quarters.
Speaker 5: But the crazy thing about that man I did that
Speaker 5: is recently as two thousand and one.
Speaker 1: Let's listen, dude, I paid that you did coinstar a.
Speaker 7: Bridge people question, do you know what Coinstar is a marriage.
Speaker 2: No, I don't. Okay, Coinstar college. This is how you
Speaker 2: fucking get through college. Go through the Seaton, put a Cornstart.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, now there's Coinstar depositive. They're still there, I think,
Speaker 1: was he like in Kroger here, see whatever?
Speaker 11: Or if you have a TD bank account, you can
Speaker 11: make your whole change and yeah, or you.
Speaker 2: Can give them a percentage. If you don't have an account.
Speaker 7: Oh no, I don't. I have an account that I
Speaker 7: don't play that game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I did that. I paid my cardinal with Cornstar
Speaker 5: one time. I used to have a jug in my
Speaker 5: room and like every time, like I broke a dollar
Speaker 5: or whatever, just had change a little water jup and
Speaker 5: I'll just throw it in there and I put that ship.
Speaker 5: I just saved it over time and took it to
Speaker 5: Coinstar and the Kroger up the street from when I
Speaker 5: lived that that she was like one hundred and seventy dollars.
Speaker 2: I paid my food Carver, you was killing.
Speaker 7: The game one hundred and seventy dollars.
Speaker 2: One hundred and seventy dollars in old I was living.
Speaker 11: I felt good, Like if you would get forty dollars
Speaker 11: out of your change.
Speaker 2: You was yeah, no, you was good. You was good.
Speaker 5: That was around the time, like for that was the
Speaker 5: time I was given like I used to give and
Speaker 5: men nine, if he comes back, we'll talk about I
Speaker 5: used to give plasma for breatain no way.
Speaker 2: God sweat to God.
Speaker 1: What no, dude, I bullshit you not bro.
Speaker 5: I used to give plasma. So this was the thing, right,
Speaker 5: So around the around the time when this is like,
Speaker 5: oh god, man, this is like oh one two thousand,
Speaker 5: two thousand and one oh two maybe so yeah, so
Speaker 5: do plasma. Okay, so you learn a lot of things
Speaker 5: about the human body when you're desolate. So what so listen,
Speaker 5: So there was a place up the street from where
Speaker 5: from my school, North Carolina is like most black colleges,
Speaker 5: the shit is in the fucking hood. So right up
Speaker 5: the street, like round the way, there was a plasma
Speaker 5: donation center. And so essentially what it was is if
Speaker 5: you gave plasma, they would give you money for it.
Speaker 5: And so, but they had limits. You could only donate
Speaker 5: within a certain amount of time. So say if you
Speaker 5: came in like on a Monday, and you give your
Speaker 5: first donation and they give you like twenty bucks and
Speaker 5: then you came back like a couple of days later
Speaker 5: and you gave a second donation, they would give you
Speaker 5: like forty bucks.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 5: So then if you came back a third time a
Speaker 5: couple days later, I think it dropped to maybe like thirty.
Speaker 5: And then after three times you couldn't give no more.
Speaker 2: But like a way, were you dead by yo? Dude?
Speaker 2: The thing was, it was a time thing. So what
Speaker 2: it was, they will hook you up to these machines.
Speaker 5: And this is at a point in my life where
Speaker 5: I really realized, like I gotta do something else. I
Speaker 5: gotta make a change, you know what I mean, because
Speaker 5: I'm in there literally with dope fiends. I mean like seriously,
Speaker 5: it's like, here's the thing they screened you for, all
Speaker 5: kinds of they screen you for whatever. So it also
Speaker 5: worked if you didn't have health insurance and everything all that.
Speaker 5: So if you could give plasma, you knew you were cool.
Speaker 5: And one time, no it's plasma. Okay, here's the thing. Okay,
Speaker 5: there's blood and then there's the plasma that's inside the blood.
Speaker 5: So like what it is they give you the you
Speaker 5: give the blood.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no no no no. I want to
Speaker 2: know too. Google the look on Bill's face right now.
Speaker 1: I wish, I wish our listeners if we still have
Speaker 1: the three of your all, five of y'all, my mom.
Speaker 2: But you feel like the fact that this was.
Speaker 3: The thing that made you want to make a change,
Speaker 3: the giving plasma with a crackhead thing.
Speaker 2: But that's what that's like.
Speaker 1: Oh ship, Now, yeah, and what I said changed, I
Speaker 1: mean clearly like I was like I was just like
Speaker 1: man I got I mean because I wasn't like fucking up.
Speaker 2: I graduated college and I was working.
Speaker 5: I had a job, but it still just wasn't working.
Speaker 2: I was a college graduate. What was your job to
Speaker 2: My job at the time was working calling. It was
Speaker 2: blue Cross.
Speaker 5: I was working in the call blue Cross, blue Shield,
Speaker 5: working at the call center. And so at the time,
Speaker 5: so you would go in and you they would give
Speaker 5: you they wook up to the machine and it would
Speaker 5: take your blood and then it off the medical industry, yo, listen,
Speaker 5: I lived off the medical industry. I lived off of
Speaker 5: because where I lived at Research Triangle Park, they would
Speaker 5: have studies so like you could like for like experimental
Speaker 5: drugs and shit.
Speaker 2: This explains a fun I was.
Speaker 5: They had like smoking studies, so like I lied and
Speaker 5: told them I smoked cigarettes and like made like seventy
Speaker 5: five bucks.
Speaker 7: Oh they still do those things.
Speaker 11: You know. I have a girlfriend. She always does those. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 11: you get a hundred.
Speaker 2: Due hustle. I don't know your question. I think people
Speaker 2: I think you'll.
Speaker 6: Covered with you should pay you more about sperm banks,
Speaker 6: do the spank.
Speaker 1: I didn't know the sperm banks. I ain't want to
Speaker 1: pay child support. I want to with that, but I
Speaker 1: wouldn't do the spur bank.
Speaker 5: But yeah, man, I would get plasma and the and
Speaker 5: the sad thing about it, like it was crazy. A
Speaker 5: guy I worked with it, I knew. Did you get caught? Well, yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean not caught, but yeah. It was a guy
Speaker 5: I worked with at Blue Cross, and I think by
Speaker 5: this time he had kind of I didn't seen in
Speaker 5: a minute, but anyway, I saw him in.
Speaker 2: There and I was like, what's up? What you doing?
Speaker 2: He was like, man, you get this bread. The guy
Speaker 2: ended up dying.
Speaker 5: He ended up getting killed, I want to say a
Speaker 5: year later, because he tried to rob a store.
Speaker 1: And got killed. He was a buddy of mine. And
Speaker 1: so basically what you're saying is don't work for Blue Cross.
Speaker 1: Blue shoe because they don't pay ship man, listen, don't yeah, Blue.
Speaker 11: Stay away from Radio one two.
Speaker 2: Pandora, Yo, talk your ship son.
Speaker 1: Today's episode of course those supremes brought you by the
Speaker 1: Blue Cross.
Speaker 7: And Pandora.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but no, man, I just look at all the
Speaker 5: times of my life and I'm glad I come tom
Speaker 5: it ang way from giving plasma and watching movies with crackheads,
Speaker 5: and like.
Speaker 2: They would give you, you would take it.
Speaker 5: They take your blood and it's a long process because
Speaker 5: they have to put it through the machine to separate
Speaker 5: the plasma from your blood. So they so then so
Speaker 5: like they take it out and then they put your
Speaker 5: blood back in you and it is a lot.
Speaker 7: They give it back to you. How you know it's yours?
Speaker 5: It's sure it was you're at the machine. And one
Speaker 5: time they called me back and was like, we can't
Speaker 5: use your blood. Was like, oh, Ship, I'm about to die.
Speaker 5: I was like, what the fuck? We can't use your plasta.
Speaker 5: I was like, oh, Ship. But I went in and
Speaker 5: she was like, did you do something before you got here?
Speaker 2: Did you eat something? And I was thinking, I was
Speaker 2: like you know what?
Speaker 5: And it was the day I had a quarter pounder
Speaker 5: before I went in and that.
Speaker 2: Went to House something.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, I didn't know House. Then white House
Speaker 5: was fine down and that was like if you take
Speaker 5: a bit plasma, so you get something. Yeah, that was it,
Speaker 5: you get the quarter pound.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: White House was the fucking side of the men.
Speaker 7: At least she wasn't resorting to crystals.
Speaker 2: So you are crystals. What was that? Crystals?
Speaker 7: White Castle. It's like crystal.
Speaker 2: White sometime. Man, it was it, it was. It was
Speaker 2: a crazy time my life.
Speaker 5: But that's why I'm thankful for what I have now,
Speaker 5: because I remember I used to have to give my
Speaker 5: blood to make gas money.
Speaker 2: There you own this show, bro, This officially.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's go on to the happy side
Speaker 1: of town.
Speaker 2: Rich. Here's the thing. Here's the thing.
Speaker 6: Why so as Jewish guys, as kids were, Christmas was
Speaker 6: you know, the very most people celebrate Christmas, but the
Speaker 6: Jewish kids, we had the seven nights, so we get
Speaker 6: the one present each night for seven nights. Plus we
Speaker 6: have the big weekend bonanza Christmas Christmas Morning type joint.
Speaker 2: Damn, don't say we was that because I didn't have
Speaker 2: that ship. Don't sell them out.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's that's that's what we I mean, you
Speaker 6: get one present each night and that's like, you know, socks.
Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you, it's not.
Speaker 6: But like then you get like the Christmas morning type
Speaker 6: honka thing where you know this shit ten doesn't and
Speaker 6: that's when you get all the video games and all
Speaker 6: that what you.
Speaker 3: Were But no, I was poor, no, no, but it
Speaker 3: was it was like seven.
Speaker 2: It was like you could pick in my house.
Speaker 3: You could pick the day when you got the cool thing,
Speaker 3: when it was the first day or last day, and
Speaker 3: then the rest of it was shit. So like it sucked.
Speaker 3: I thought it sucked in comparison to now having celebrated Christmas.
Speaker 3: It just felt like there's no like pomp and circumstances
Speaker 3: of Christmas and Santa and Fonte's dad on the roof.
Speaker 3: There's none of that ship. There's just fucking candles and bullshit.
Speaker 3: So it did like by day seven, you're like, I
Speaker 3: need another pair of socks.
Speaker 5: As so as Bill Sherman as a Jew, do you
Speaker 5: feel like you got short change?
Speaker 3: Yes, only because when I got married, I got to
Speaker 3: celebrate Christmas and I was like, this shit's way better
Speaker 3: than hon kah. Really, Yeah, So you're saying that you
Speaker 3: didn't have the same experience that Steve had.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had the best of both worlds. I think, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're just winning. Everybody was Jewish, but we treated it
Speaker 2: like Christmas. Okay, do you look forward to coming home
Speaker 2: for Christmas?
Speaker 1: Me? All right, I'm sorry, Honakah coming home the holidays?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, because nobody.
Speaker 6: Yes, that's what alcohol it, Shaka Khan technically, yeah, well
Speaker 6: you know what happens.
Speaker 2: You know what happens to my Honkah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I'd be praying for you every what happened.
Speaker 1: That's that's where they cut the come up. That's what
Speaker 1: come up every year. I've been knowing Steve for twenty years,
Speaker 1: and it's always say it's the come up.
Speaker 6: Like last two people on this planet pay me. One
Speaker 6: of them is in this room, and the other guy
Speaker 6: visited honakahe.
Speaker 2: No, but it should be real.
Speaker 1: Has celebrated Kwanza is the Joe and the scammer of holidays.
Speaker 2: That ship.
Speaker 7: I cannot. I cannot.
Speaker 2: I've never celebrated in my life. I love everything.
Speaker 11: About just like you respect Chris miss respected.
Speaker 2: Because in the sense that I celebrate. Wait, wait, I'm impressed.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pressed frustrated. I was so you want to
Speaker 1: go back to the replay. Can you be that quote
Speaker 1: one more time?
Speaker 2: Please? Kanza is the Joe and the scammer of holidays?
Speaker 11: How is it a scam when you ain't even got
Speaker 11: a by ship?
Speaker 2: No, it's a scam.
Speaker 7: You ain't got a buy yo.
Speaker 1: It's like listen, man, it's okay, properly explained to me,
Speaker 1: Like what is what is uh? The the the process,
Speaker 1: the founder of Kwansa everything.
Speaker 7: Give us to get into the history of that name.
Speaker 1: Is it like doctor you know I'm allowed to say
Speaker 1: that you're you're on the right.
Speaker 2: He was.
Speaker 5: He's not quite Doctor York, but he was a guy
Speaker 5: that was. And can we talk about doctor York for
Speaker 5: those that don't know, that's just.
Speaker 7: Such a holidays and doctor.
Speaker 1: I've seen doctor York beat downs. Well he beat down
Speaker 1: people or he got me people?
Speaker 2: Like, what is it over now?
Speaker 11: Like is he he's yes, because you know who.
Speaker 2: We're talking about.
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, let's break this down. Dr York. Okay, let's
Speaker 5: be okay, let's let's let's back up.
Speaker 2: Christmas.
Speaker 5: Dr York, Dr York, Okay, Dodor York, the first to
Speaker 5: doctor Malachi York and.
Speaker 2: He was the leader Halloween effect this.
Speaker 1: So he was the leader of what was known as
Speaker 1: the New Wabbian was that it was, and they were
Speaker 1: like a group of black They were like a super
Speaker 1: kind of smart, dumb niggas.
Speaker 2: Man. Listen, they were like.
Speaker 5: A super like a sect of like super black nationalists,
Speaker 5: kind of offense radical group of people. But also they
Speaker 5: had a lot of ties to hip hop because they
Speaker 5: had a lot of so many a lot of great rappers.
Speaker 5: Five per centers. They were all into it.
Speaker 7: So I mean, we're into it. But I'm just saying
Speaker 7: them too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they were. It was kind of sort of the
Speaker 5: same thing. Were talking about Doctor York's music career. Yes,
Speaker 5: I'm not that well versed in that's how I knew
Speaker 5: about it. Wait, that's where Isaac Hayes produced his record.
Speaker 5: And he's just scientologists.
Speaker 2: Damn what was searching for?
Speaker 5: Isaac Hayes became a scientologist later in life, he really
Speaker 5: got his bread. But it was just out of the
Speaker 5: fryme pin into the fight, I mean, into the damn
Speaker 5: gas pit. So anyway, that was so listen, bro okay.
Speaker 5: So Matt York, so he was a guy, he had
Speaker 5: a lot of ties to a lot of people follow him.
Speaker 5: M yeah, doom yeah, doom was one doom I want
Speaker 5: jay Z was loose, I mean a couple's degrees separated.
Speaker 1: Of course, I was deep into it back in ninety
Speaker 1: six because he tried to pull new Rod into it.
Speaker 5: Ah yeah yeah, yeah, okay, so anyway, but anyway, so
Speaker 5: he was like a guy that was more or less
Speaker 5: like a cult leader.
Speaker 2: He ended up going to jail for like was it
Speaker 2: some child or something like that? But wasn't space on
Speaker 2: this shit too?
Speaker 5: Absolutely absolutely, That's why I had nigga thought he ain't
Speaker 5: have penal taxes. They showed it that like, all right, blade,
Speaker 5: we about to kill your ass to jail.
Speaker 11: I don't like that we are talking to about this
Speaker 11: in parallel to Kwansa.
Speaker 7: But continue, but no.
Speaker 5: But we're we're we're getting We're we're we're getting there.
Speaker 5: We're discussing black cult leaders.
Speaker 2: Listen, we gotta get We got to bring this ship
Speaker 2: on home.
Speaker 5: The guy who saw that Kwansa was Ron Karinga, and
Speaker 5: he was like pro black, like super black militant nationalist guy.
Speaker 2: He was also a government informant stool pigeon. How the
Speaker 2: fuck do you know this everyday survival.
Speaker 11: You don'body kind of knows, but some people like choose
Speaker 11: to ignore or we don't.
Speaker 1: Have the comfort of putting, you know, our husband to
Speaker 1: the turtle shells, like you gotta.
Speaker 2: You're out here and you know you can easily get got.
Speaker 5: And I will say this about you, A mirror, I
Speaker 5: would say, doing this pock, doing this radio show with you?
Speaker 2: You know that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, dude, Okay, I will say, Man, when you said
Speaker 5: that a couple of shows ago, when you were like yo,
Speaker 5: where you were like, listen, you know all the music.
Speaker 5: I know, people think it's because I love music, and
Speaker 5: it's like, yeah, I love music, but it's for my survival,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean? That ship is real. And
Speaker 5: when you did the first quest Love Supreme mix and
Speaker 5: I listened to the songs you picked, I was like, Yo,
Speaker 5: a mirror is black as fuck, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Not that I ever question your blackness before, like because
Speaker 5: I'm not that guy, but I was like, Yo, he's
Speaker 5: like like like one of my cousins black, Like he black.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But it's like I understand you know the song well
Speaker 1: he was, dude, I was like, Yo, you know about
Speaker 1: so yeah, so with him so yeah, so we have
Speaker 1: to know these things like for survival. So Ronka Ringa
Speaker 1: he was black nationalist, super pro black pro black guy,
Speaker 1: but he was apparently also a government and formant, and
Speaker 1: so he created this thing called Kwansa, and Kwansa was
Speaker 1: supposed to be.
Speaker 2: I guess the Black answer to Christmas.
Speaker 11: I guess not really, not really no neither, not really
Speaker 11: an answer, but to give African Americans some sense of
Speaker 11: cultural tradition that has a link.
Speaker 7: To like West Africa or Africa. So and yes, to.
Speaker 1: Give blacks and alternative to the existing holiday an opportunity
Speaker 1: to celebrate themselves in their history rather than simply imitate
Speaker 1: the practice of the dominant society.
Speaker 2: On the top of the dome bill technical, I couldn't
Speaker 2: see it. I thought he was on the top of.
Speaker 11: Sesthetically, people forget that Christianity was forced on black people
Speaker 11: as slaves and it became a way to keep them
Speaker 11: subdued to whatever we went to change that in a
Speaker 11: whole situation or whatever. But it was not our original religion. Okay,
Speaker 11: but this is not a religion either. This is just
Speaker 11: a cultural tradition.
Speaker 2: But it's it's it's just some shit.
Speaker 11: No, he may be phony, but the actual tradition of
Speaker 11: Kwanza and what has become, much like your use of
Speaker 11: nigga is not phony the way that people choose to
Speaker 11: practice it, meaning that the word nigga has changed to
Speaker 11: you you know what I'm saying, but the one hundred
Speaker 11: years ago with something different. So Mile Karinga is a
Speaker 11: person who has certain you know, falsities and ship with
Speaker 11: him and got nothing to do with what he has created.
Speaker 7: And I've been to so.
Speaker 11: Many amazing, amazing Kwanza celebrations where we talk about the
Speaker 11: principles that have nothing to do with anything monetary or Okay,
Speaker 11: so let's.
Speaker 2: Break down the court Kwansa.
Speaker 5: There's Ugima, you, Jama ship and you. Okay, that's another one.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 11: In an attempt not to really sound like an East
Speaker 11: Coast liberal black motherfuckers are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sage is one.
Speaker 7: Whatever, the one.
Speaker 2: I gotta bring it back, got bring it back. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: here we go drunk.
Speaker 7: It's not right.
Speaker 1: Drunk bring it back drunk too, because that's very appropriate,
Speaker 1: not right, man.
Speaker 7: Everybody to celebrates.
Speaker 2: Break down the principal the seven days of quantsa and wait.
Speaker 1: Moja is means unity, which is just to strive for
Speaker 1: and maintain unity in this family community. Let our boss, okay,
Speaker 1: run it back from the top. Readough Wikipedia so we
Speaker 1: know we're getting fact.
Speaker 2: Just say.
Speaker 5: Saying like you actually the seven seven prisionals, run it down,
Speaker 5: Boss Bill Moja, I'm gonna do the English.
Speaker 7: Motherfucker it is y'all got to really piss me off.
Speaker 7: It's moja. Let me do it. Moja. It means unity.
Speaker 2: Koji chung of Lee is not English.
Speaker 7: Motherfucker is right, it's not.
Speaker 2: Mister.
Speaker 11: All of the woke and conscious black people out there,
Speaker 11: I want you to know that you're here for you.
Speaker 11: If nobody is here for you, I am here nobody else.
Speaker 11: Motherfucker write piece to you.
Speaker 1: Okay Moja, Unity, self determination, collective work and responsibility, Jama
Speaker 1: cooperative economics.
Speaker 7: NIA purpose, Kumba, creativity, and the Moni faith. Now you
Speaker 7: know what that name means because a lot of people
Speaker 7: naming Mini.
Speaker 2: Beautiful, Bob doubling beautiful.
Speaker 11: You have to know each night something, so each night
Speaker 11: you celebrate that. So like you know, if you happen
Speaker 11: to be in a quanta celebration and it's the day
Speaker 11: I've been on to an emosia day? Where's the day
Speaker 11: of unity? And you just sit and discuss with the
Speaker 11: room of people. You talk about how you are celebrating
Speaker 11: unity today. What did you do and how can you
Speaker 11: continue to do that?
Speaker 7: You know what I mean? Same thing with all of
Speaker 7: those there are all principles that we can continue to follow.
Speaker 7: It's for all cultures.
Speaker 2: What was the second or third? One? Kind of lingers?
Speaker 2: I want to go on that night?
Speaker 1: Each each of those words represent a new night. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of Remember you could just google it
Speaker 1: because I know those words.
Speaker 5: Because what if it's GMA night and you show up
Speaker 5: and want to be U jama Like what happens?
Speaker 11: You went from work together to jama which means supporting
Speaker 11: each other?
Speaker 1: Come on, man, okay, well, like you know you already know,
Speaker 1: I love you like a play clubin I love you too,
Speaker 1: so you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: But I don't supports. I've always thought this was a
Speaker 2: quack holiday.
Speaker 5: But listen, whatever you if it brings you together, if
Speaker 5: it's quons or whatever.
Speaker 7: American holidays, it's just this in Juneteenth.
Speaker 5: Just you know June and Juneteenth is like I don't
Speaker 5: celebarate that because that ship is like June teenth is
Speaker 5: like basically found.
Speaker 7: Juneteenth is the last day that there was slavery.
Speaker 11: Okay, official last day, but even though it ended two
Speaker 11: years before that and Texas it only ended.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it was decisially for the niggas that found
Speaker 5: out late. So it's just this not I don't feel
Speaker 5: like we should celebrate the slowest of our culture, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean. I don't feel like we should
Speaker 5: celebrate the niggas that found out.
Speaker 2: You know, you know why.
Speaker 11: That's funny, that's not true, but you know that's it's funny,
Speaker 11: but it's not true. But it's not that they found
Speaker 11: out too late that the white people was like, fuck you,
Speaker 11: I'm gonna do it when I feel like But that
Speaker 11: was cute the way you remixed it, and everybody should
Speaker 11: watch Donald Glover's episode of June and then you understand
Speaker 11: a little bit.
Speaker 2: But I've never I've never separated Juneteenth.
Speaker 1: So now I think the closest we have to a
Speaker 1: Black holiday would be God, what is the black holiday
Speaker 1: we have?
Speaker 2: No? Is it King Day?
Speaker 10: Is?
Speaker 7: No, that's an American holiday.
Speaker 11: We fought for that to be an American holiday, So
Speaker 11: we don't call that a black holiday?
Speaker 2: Okay, So what's like a black holiday?
Speaker 7: Is it? Like I told you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I'm saying you've got to have something else,
Speaker 1: Like is it like I celebrate twenty fifth Michael Jackson Day?
Speaker 2: But right right, something like? I mean something like that.
Speaker 5: All let's talk about let's talk about the elephant room
Speaker 5: James Brown dying on Christmas? Okay, dude, I mean we
Speaker 5: have to do something that has to be I mean, not.
Speaker 2: Dying on Christmas? Is the elephant in the room. Are
Speaker 2: you discussed that we have because.
Speaker 5: We're talking about bad Christmas is? Like, dude, I remember
Speaker 5: being sad on that Christmas like Jane.
Speaker 7: For like a good five minutes.
Speaker 3: But I'm back with you your work wife, and you
Speaker 3: were not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me and my work wife, we're back. We're back
Speaker 2: together again.
Speaker 7: Make up the breakups. That's all we do.
Speaker 2: But your hold up spots for the cause real quick.
Speaker 1: And when we come back, we'll move into hour two
Speaker 1: of the show and continue our discussion about our Christmas memories,
Speaker 1: our favorite holiday songs, and James Brown's untimely Christmas demise. Uh,
Speaker 1: you're listening to a special Christmas two thousand and six
Speaker 1: edition of Quest Love Supreme.
Speaker 6: All Right, I have a question for the for the group,
Speaker 6: Oh here we go, what's your favorite fucking Christmas song?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 1: I literally was trying to look up my notes on
Speaker 1: how to turn this conversation around, and you beat me
Speaker 1: to it.
Speaker 11: I have one that I think you might not have
Speaker 11: a fe Okay, well.
Speaker 2: I like, hey, you're gonna last, god.
Speaker 7: Dog, and I raised my hand first, but it doesn't work.
Speaker 11: I'm just kidding ahead, Okay, So I have a list,
Speaker 11: but one of my favorites for for the region would
Speaker 11: be Chuck Brown Merry Christmas Baby. Really, I don't know
Speaker 11: if any I know that everybody's not familiar with the
Speaker 11: Go Go.
Speaker 7: I know Chuck had a Christmas song, get Mad Christmas Baby?
Speaker 7: Who did treat?
Speaker 2: You're right?
Speaker 7: Hey? Rest in peace to Chuck Brown if you don't know.
Speaker 11: He was the godfather of Go Go And it is
Speaker 11: straight DC, Maryland and Virginia music.
Speaker 7: But it fucking kills.
Speaker 2: It does if you if you know, like a, this
Speaker 2: is Chuck Brown.
Speaker 12: Christmas Baby, that was Chuck Brown, the soul Siers Merry
Speaker 12: Christmas Baby?
Speaker 1: Hey can I can? I? Since you're the resident DC
Speaker 1: person here. Like my my thing with Go Go is
Speaker 1: how come none of the studio.
Speaker 7: Versions sound like the lie version.
Speaker 1: Come off good, like I get it, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: compare to the livery.
Speaker 7: I know they don't know, I don't know what.
Speaker 11: But when they take they do make albums to tape
Speaker 11: live and then you know, you just sell it like that.
Speaker 7: That's the way you gotta do it. Just buy a
Speaker 7: live joint.
Speaker 2: All right. So is there a place in d C
Speaker 2: that has can we do a Go Go episode? I
Speaker 2: would yeah, I really would like to do a Go
Speaker 2: Go episode.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, Bill, that's that's so awesome.
Speaker 11: And then we could play like the people who like
Speaker 11: made Go Go songs like Salt and Pepper and.
Speaker 1: Like I want to play like no, no, no, that's
Speaker 1: real though, like you because like how we not how.
Speaker 2: We tea but her love her go go real straight go.
Speaker 2: The room doesn't know what go Go is.
Speaker 1: Go Go is a very very regional again very actually
Speaker 1: shouldn't say it because I'm not from d C d.
Speaker 7: Because it's really it's my.
Speaker 2: Thing is that very percussion based.
Speaker 1: The the rhythm of Go Go is actually based from
Speaker 1: a Philly song, which kind of what we.
Speaker 7: Which now you start in trouble what you're talking about?
Speaker 1: No, because I mean, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: Go Go's rhythm bass is based on this.
Speaker 2: Oh mister Magic, Yeah is that what?
Speaker 7: What's what's the year.
Speaker 2: Mister Magic seventy three?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, mister Magic by Glover Washington.
Speaker 1: Yes, from the album this is mister Magic Glover Washington,
Speaker 1: Josh Hill not.
Speaker 11: This is like a DC favorite song. Like I was
Speaker 11: raised on this song. That's so funny, right, so.
Speaker 13: Hey, shut up, were talking about their credit card scam
Speaker 13: one day?
Speaker 2: Yo? Wait, oh wait, or way that grabbit. Let's stay,
Speaker 2: let's stay, let's stay. I think I know what you're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 1: You know, still don't know what Okay, go go, Yeah,
Speaker 1: go go. Basically like it's I mean, the rhythm of
Speaker 1: Go Go, I feel has been derivative of a Philly song,
Speaker 1: which is mister Magic.
Speaker 7: That ain't the way to describe that's that's that it's cute.
Speaker 2: It's not. That's a really wrong way to describe it.
Speaker 7: It's a percussion it's a very percussion sound.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just get in. I'll play pump me Up, which
Speaker 2: is the quintessential trouble funk.
Speaker 1: Trouble but really, Go Go is bitches ain't shipped by
Speaker 1: Doctor dre Is.
Speaker 2: What is Yeah.
Speaker 11: In trouble, Go Go can only be performed with a
Speaker 11: live like a band, a full band, counga's drums, everything.
Speaker 11: It is DC, Virginia, Maryland and really is kind of
Speaker 11: interesting because it kind of stuck there.
Speaker 1: But one of your favorite singers, Art Garfuncle, appeared in
Speaker 1: the movie.
Speaker 2: He's pointing at me.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that actually my explanation did it? Was me
Speaker 1: that Sugar Sugar Steve Art Garfuncle thought that the future
Speaker 1: Go Go was going to really come well. Him and
Speaker 1: Chris the owner of Island Records, Chris black Chris Blackwell
Speaker 1: like they really thought, like nineteen eighty six is going
Speaker 1: to be the year like Go Go is going to
Speaker 1: exclude And so they did this movie called Good to Go,
Speaker 1: where Yo I vaguely remember that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't do shit, It didn't do it.
Speaker 1: And Chris, like Chris Blackwell thought that Go Go in
Speaker 1: the eighties was going to do for him what Reggae
Speaker 1: and Bob Marley did in the seventies, and it was
Speaker 1: unfortunate that it didn't. But I mean, Rick Rubin signed
Speaker 1: the junk Yard band to def jam, So I didn't
Speaker 1: remember sardines in the word are on deaf jam.
Speaker 2: Talk about matter of fact?
Speaker 1: Junk Junk Yard Band is the first deaf jam group
Speaker 1: to get the new or the classic deaf jam logo,
Speaker 1: not the maroon old school deaf jam logo of the
Speaker 1: Beastie Boys.
Speaker 7: Is a legendary go go bands.
Speaker 1: But pumped me up as like one of the famous.
Speaker 1: This is one of the probably the best studio example
Speaker 1: of go go.
Speaker 2: Really percussive, really percussive.
Speaker 7: Y'all ain't got no go Go bans or station Oh
Speaker 7: sh around here.
Speaker 2: Is there one? This is also the song that Q
Speaker 2: scratched in Juice. That's right, that's right, that's right, right.
Speaker 1: And I believe last night Pete Robill that he was
Speaker 1: doing that.
Speaker 2: He did the.
Speaker 1: Cuts were out last night, notlast night ago. Now I'm
Speaker 1: so drunk I thought it was last night.
Speaker 2: It was a few weeks ago with mirror Yeah, lay
Speaker 2: off the duce. Wow, I'm surprised that music didn't catch.
Speaker 7: On, you know what, I hear your shade anyway.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, but go go music.
Speaker 7: Is the butt do y'all know the butt doing the
Speaker 7: But that.
Speaker 2: Was like the biggest, probably the closest mainstream.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a really great oral history on uh from
Speaker 1: Marcus Miller. Uh noted Jazz Bassis uh producing that record
Speaker 1: with with EU or the the Trouble.
Speaker 2: But yeah, because he.
Speaker 7: Sounds like a crazy sentence.
Speaker 1: Well no, I mean Marcus Miller. You know he produced
Speaker 1: Luther Vandros like he was doing some damn.
Speaker 7: I didn't know he was that, Like, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: I never Yeah, absolutely so, Marcus Miller produced it and
Speaker 1: half of the School Days soundtrack.
Speaker 7: That's an awesome soundtrack.
Speaker 2: We got it.
Speaker 1: We have to get my shout out. Shout out to
Speaker 1: the raise be alone tonight the best song.
Speaker 11: O my god, Ta Campbell's whenever she sings at her
Speaker 11: club in l A. Like, it's still the last time
Speaker 11: I saw her singing. A J came on and it
Speaker 11: together and I lost my mind. I still got it
Speaker 11: in my phone.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 11: I'm sorry, that's house party. But you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: She did do I want to I don't want to
Speaker 11: be alone at night.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 7: I mean, but a J did come on stage.
Speaker 2: Wow, this this is okay. What's your favorite Christmas song?
Speaker 2: Look to the left right that the whole world.
Speaker 1: We won't even have to describe what's going on right now.
Speaker 2: To go over Washington be quiet.
Speaker 1: Yes, anyway, So that's your favorite song?
Speaker 2: Like this one?
Speaker 7: I think it's only right.
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 7: Keep it?
Speaker 2: That was a long tangent. Oh you know how it was?
Speaker 7: Don't mean people don't know.
Speaker 2: I apologize for you. The rabbit hole. That is the show.
Speaker 2: That's my fault.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my favorite Christmas song, I would probably say Clarence
Speaker 5: called a backdoor.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, of course. Stroking.
Speaker 14: That's what I be doing, stroking, stroking, stroke, stroke it
Speaker 14: to the woman I love that stroked this question? What
Speaker 14: time of the day do you like to make?
Speaker 2: Look? Have you ever made it up in a car?
Speaker 2: Have you ever made look? Aperp You're welcome world. That's
Speaker 2: what happens after only stroking based on the commercials. How
Speaker 2: did you know it?
Speaker 5: Because that was the Southern song like that. Stroker used
Speaker 5: to get played on the radio. We played on the radio, actually.
Speaker 1: Anywhere back door Santa Clarence Carter. Some of you hip
Speaker 1: hop PAGs will say it sounds mighty familiar.
Speaker 7: Oh wow, I got that one. Can I guess this
Speaker 7: is this? But you guess it.
Speaker 2: It's Clarence Carter back Door Sannah. Yeah, sorry, Santa, I
Speaker 2: make my ROMs about the breaking the.
Speaker 6: STA makes some serious stereo separation.
Speaker 2: I got alright, Yeah, Clarence Carter, he had U. That
Speaker 2: was another one.
Speaker 5: It was that one, yeah, with back Doors back Door
Speaker 5: sataquest Love Spring on infen Door Live from Electrilated Studios,
Speaker 5: and ye had that one. He had a stroke on
Speaker 5: and he also had Patches. That was another I've never heard.
Speaker 5: Was so depressing as fuck, Patches depending on Wait, here's
Speaker 5: the anything about Patches?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: That saying it? Well? Patches was.
Speaker 1: When when we worked when the Roots worked on our
Speaker 1: sixteenth record, we worked on uh uh and then you
Speaker 1: shoot your cousin.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 1: Richard Nichols are our dearly departed producer and manager, said
Speaker 1: that he wanted the album version of Patches like just
Speaker 1: a very depressing, gut wrenching uh song that did that accomplished?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Man, yeah man. Anyway, I got a song. I want
Speaker 2: to choose what you got.
Speaker 7: You're gonna tell us before you.
Speaker 2: Just drop it? Yeah, I gotta find it first.
Speaker 7: What's your favorite Christmas holiday song?
Speaker 4: Boss?
Speaker 2: I got a whole Christmas mixtape we do and I
Speaker 2: rean it last Christmas? You read did it? IRR? Just
Speaker 2: get on because ran Nintendo and mix tape. Yeah you
Speaker 2: had to, Dany you put the Dana dangel on on
Speaker 2: that joint. Dan is coming to town, man, I forgot
Speaker 2: about that one. That was the first time I heard
Speaker 2: the long red breakbeat alone. Yeah. I actually purchased that profile.
Speaker 2: It's still up on the ternet. Yeah, I gotta find it.
Speaker 2: The artist is uh actually you know what.
Speaker 1: Uh. Wendy Williams played this on her show the very
Speaker 1: first time I spoke to uh uh back when he
Speaker 1: was her psidechic Uh. Yeah, first time I ever spoke
Speaker 1: to Charlotte Mane. I called, I called the station and
Speaker 1: asked him to send me the song. I never heard
Speaker 1: it before, but it's one of my favorite Christmas songs.
Speaker 2: Uh. This is the other one where it's not Christmas
Speaker 2: until I hear this song. Yes, this is Santa Claus
Speaker 2: Is a Black Man by Kim Teddy Van.
Speaker 8: Hey you at night?
Speaker 7: You know last night my mama turned out to like.
Speaker 5: That is a very important song that Santa Claus is
Speaker 5: a Black Man because they and the reason why it
Speaker 5: is important is because listen I think that did you
Speaker 5: just black people?
Speaker 2: I did, because the last is the black father. You
Speaker 2: don't want your your you listen, I know what you're
Speaker 2: doing this. Come on.
Speaker 5: My brother said, I tell my kids that Santa Claus
Speaker 5: is me, motherfucker, because all the ship that I do
Speaker 5: to provide, I'm not gonna give the credit.
Speaker 2: To a fucking white man and you running down the chimney. No, nigga,
Speaker 2: it wasn't him.
Speaker 1: It was me.
Speaker 2: Nigga got them hosted question of Supreme and when they.
Speaker 5: Ship, I'm like, bro, it was me because I think
Speaker 5: that like listen, no, and this is real. I think
Speaker 5: black people from if you look at like Jesus and
Speaker 5: then like Santa Claus and ship where those are like
Speaker 5: in mainstream you know portrayals, those are white men that
Speaker 5: are always saving niggas.
Speaker 2: So like they from when you're sleeping, they know you away.
Speaker 2: I'm like the all knowing white man. I'm like, Nigga,
Speaker 2: this nigga know when I'm sleeping them awake, so I gotta.
Speaker 7: Be good for his sake. Funk out of here.
Speaker 2: So no, it's me.
Speaker 5: Santa Claus is here because of me, because of questlot Supreme,
Speaker 5: Me flying back and forth we got the New York
Speaker 5: God Damn Tickelero for in exchange nigga, I had to
Speaker 5: go to the Grammys though for this house me.
Speaker 2: It ain't no nigga coming down to fucking Chimney who plasma.
Speaker 2: My life is for this ship. So it's important for
Speaker 2: black people.
Speaker 5: I think over the years of seeing those figures of
Speaker 5: like white men saving niggas, I think that affects your
Speaker 5: psyche f a while.
Speaker 2: So that is why I think it's important. No, I'm
Speaker 2: totally I'm totally cool.
Speaker 6: Bill Sherman favorite holiday song, Slowly.
Speaker 2: I'm actually curious. This is the one thing I actually
Speaker 2: give a ship about it. I want to know.
Speaker 6: Well, I just this is what I came into the interview.
Speaker 6: You wanted to find out three So tell me your song.
Speaker 7: We're only doing one.
Speaker 2: Now, we only do one.
Speaker 3: I want to everybody's least Johnny Hathaway. This Christmas okay,
Speaker 3: and this is so long long.
Speaker 2: Gap tune whatever.
Speaker 9: This Christmas.
Speaker 1: And as we trained the treaty ladies and gentlemen, that
Speaker 1: was of course the Donnie Halfway classic This Christmas Uh chosen.
Speaker 3: By of all people, unpaid Bill I got so just
Speaker 3: glad you all motherfuckers didn't think I was gonna say that,
Speaker 3: Emma right, because I got.
Speaker 2: My really did give me your real jew? One by
Speaker 2: the famous Blue Christmas Pop Row and Miles David Sexta.
Speaker 2: Do you know that one? That's a good one. Wait,
Speaker 2: you're talking fast and.
Speaker 3: Talking about and dominates the Italian Christmas Donkey, which is
Speaker 3: a amazing song.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 3: Dominic the Italian Christmas Donkey? I'm just glad you didn't
Speaker 3: say Grandma got right over by. I used to listen
Speaker 3: to that song and eat chicken lital soup and my
Speaker 3: friend Kevin Porter's house every Saturday seventh.
Speaker 2: That's true, boss Bill.
Speaker 7: You better run this ship.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite Christmas song? My favorite Christmas song is
Speaker 2: Vince Garraldi's Christmas Time. Yeah, that's good. So that's my
Speaker 2: favorite Christmas great song. I'm with you, I'm with your brother,
Speaker 2: m h all right, So, Steve, what what is your
Speaker 2: favorite Shaka con jam?
Speaker 6: My favorite Christmas song is do they Know It's Christmas?
Speaker 6: By band Aid, which is I'm sure you remember when
Speaker 6: the forty five came out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember when it when it premiered on Friday
Speaker 2: Night Videos.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was I remember buying the forty five like
Speaker 6: at sam Goodie or something. It was at the counter
Speaker 6: and a special thing because the money went to charity, so.
Speaker 2: You felt like you were doing your part to feed
Speaker 2: the world. No, I just liked the song, like Phil
Speaker 2: Collins was on it. It was like a whole It
Speaker 2: was like a whole bunch of British people.
Speaker 11: And again it was the white We Are the World, right,
Speaker 11: and they both they both got Africa.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was before We Are the World. It was
Speaker 2: it was like a year or so.
Speaker 1: Oh really, oh wow, so they were okay, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought that was started live aid.
Speaker 2: Hands Across America was biting off of the We Are
Speaker 2: the World all right, Shore advanced. Anybody participate in Hands
Speaker 2: Across America.
Speaker 7: Did you really have to go outside and the hold Hands?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I ran, I ran, I just button line, like I
Speaker 1: was supposed to. You registered somewhere and then they give
Speaker 1: you a number and then you're supposed to go there.
Speaker 1: But the location they gave me the Hold Hands was
Speaker 1: like somewhere deep in North Philly.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: And even if I'm not from North Philly, the way
Speaker 1: that I said North Philly, let you know that, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what it is.
Speaker 2: It was near MLK Boulevard in.
Speaker 7: Holding hands up there, So.
Speaker 1: I missed this hands across across. This was niggas was
Speaker 1: going outside holding hand rogers like who started hands across?
Speaker 1: Because I remember the song?
Speaker 2: So was this like and you just hail hands? So
Speaker 2: this was basically the eighties Mannequin challenge without Yeah it was.
Speaker 1: I remember I was I cut. I tried to cut
Speaker 1: Church late or not. I cut it early because I
Speaker 1: wanted to buy run dem Sea's Raising Hell.
Speaker 2: Cut Church to go by Raising Hell and hold just
Speaker 2: the position.
Speaker 1: So I caught Raising Hell. I picked the red cover
Speaker 1: because they had multiple covers. And then I got off
Speaker 1: the trolley and saw everybody holding hands and was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this this is my cue to not go to North Philly.
Speaker 1: Like you weren't supposed to just button line and hold
Speaker 1: someone's hands, but I did.
Speaker 7: You have to make a reservation.
Speaker 2: Okay, but what was this? So what was it supposed
Speaker 2: to show? Like solidarity or you know?
Speaker 1: The whole point was that we America was supposed to
Speaker 1: hold hands with each other from California all the way
Speaker 1: to New York, Like I got some on hands.
Speaker 2: What's what's the long sixty six. Yeah you just yeah,
Speaker 2: you old.
Speaker 1: Hand's supposed five minutes, fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, So what did that have to do with
Speaker 7: the world?
Speaker 1: Is that?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 1: They know it's christ Well, we were just talking about eighties.
Speaker 1: You know, the eighties were really big on charity, yeah
Speaker 1: and stuff. Well, since we're talking about it, do we
Speaker 1: have the Y Club's version of the Other World?
Speaker 2: No, the DJ College version.
Speaker 1: I don't care how drunk you are right now, never, ever, ever, ever,
Speaker 1: everything's on your list, like that song.
Speaker 2: Who else was on that?
Speaker 6: Steve Well, Bono and Sting and Bob yelled Off and
Speaker 6: boy George and the old British, a.
Speaker 2: Lot of not well.
Speaker 1: I noticed that everyone blew up after the fact, like
Speaker 1: when was having some heat by then eighty four and
Speaker 1: wasn't on it?
Speaker 2: But Michael, George Michael was on it. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: George Michael was on Yes he was, Yes, he was head,
Speaker 2: Yes your one, yes, George Michael. Okay, yeah, I remember
Speaker 2: now and then Simon Lebon comes in having fun? Should
Speaker 2: we should we? Let's play this song. It's all about
Speaker 2: Phil Collins, but anyway, it is all about Phil Collins.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they oh, all right, trying to hit the post.
Speaker 2: That's the post. I forgot the post and.
Speaker 7: This is Bono right.
Speaker 2: It's a fun game. You're trying to identify every singer
Speaker 2: as you go through the song. Donald got first DIBs
Speaker 2: on this train, the boy George. I'm just waiting for
Speaker 2: the hook because this don't is not ringing. Still don't
Speaker 2: know the song. I'm waiting for the hook groove like
Speaker 2: what did you have cable in the house?
Speaker 7: There were.
Speaker 2: George, Michael, Michael and then Durandman. Well right here. The
Speaker 2: song was a big guilt trip is what it is
Speaker 2: to get you to donate to charity. Yeah, it was
Speaker 2: like a white guilt soundtrack. It takes like forty minutes
Speaker 2: to get to the hook.
Speaker 7: Apparently hurry up and buy.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's where it grows in the video, Jody Wattley's sort
Speaker 1: of resembling Solange.
Speaker 7: Now thentmas at all.
Speaker 2: I remember this bush.
Speaker 7: Okay Yo, where's the beat the world part?
Speaker 2: Though it comes later Temptation. There is Margaret You Better
Speaker 2: Shimmer Down? That was Paul Young Chris. This was remade
Speaker 2: by someone, right was this? It was remade about three
Speaker 2: or four years ago. Okay, modern artists like cold Boy.
Speaker 1: They did a version in two thousand and four. Yeah,
Speaker 1: cold plays and cold plays on it. They did win
Speaker 1: in eighty nine too, maybe, I think I think the
Speaker 1: eighty nine was the one. I know who was eighty nine?
Speaker 1: You remember Kathy Dallas?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Wait, just that's the version I know, Kylie.
Speaker 5: They used to play that version when I wore Stansfield. Yep,
Speaker 5: they have the white, the white, the blue white sold. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Like what did it sound like? I remember the Pasadena?
Speaker 2: I remember this in the barn. Yes, remember the Pasadena.
Speaker 2: That was London beat. That's this is kind of what
Speaker 2: that what British music sound like at the time. Like
Speaker 2: this was the production You do know.
Speaker 10: That, right?
Speaker 2: Unpaid Bill? What that this is prototypical of British Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, no, I mean clearly this is the
Speaker 2: d X seven being used to the hill. I so
Speaker 2: what year was that though? Nineteen eighty four? Okay, so
Speaker 2: I remember this song they used to play that.
Speaker 5: I think the eighty nine version they used to play
Speaker 5: when I worked at KB Toys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can you working at k about working a KB toy?
Speaker 2: My favorite person to was. It was a budget of
Speaker 2: tours and Russ kb KB Toys. He used to work
Speaker 2: at the one in the mall, and yeah, man, that
Speaker 2: ship was it was pretty bad. It was pretty bad.
Speaker 2: What did you do there? I was a I did
Speaker 2: some everything. I was. I worked the register.
Speaker 5: I was like the stock guy. I was customer service.
Speaker 5: So like when people would come in and be like, yo,
Speaker 5: I need to fucking tickle me um or whatever, where
Speaker 5: is it?
Speaker 2: I would pull them to it.
Speaker 1: Did you like stashed toys in the back just so
Speaker 1: that you can get first dips on buying them?
Speaker 11: Nah?
Speaker 2: I didn't really. I didn't really do that.
Speaker 5: I was I was kind of looking for at the time.
Speaker 5: I was video games, That's what I was, you know,
Speaker 5: trying to see if they were at them. But it
Speaker 5: was a pretty pretty bad job. But my my manager
Speaker 5: was this black lady named Helen. She was cool as
Speaker 5: shit and she was cool.
Speaker 2: She she put me on.
Speaker 5: I think I was making maybe like seven dollars an hour,
Speaker 5: which was good. It was pretty good for like you
Speaker 5: know what you're like, this was ninety eight hell it,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean? It was like it wasn't
Speaker 5: wasn't bad. Wasn't a bad job? Yeah, KB Toys, And
Speaker 5: then they later went Billy up and so that was
Speaker 5: the end of an era. But they used to play
Speaker 5: that jam and they used to play.
Speaker 2: Uh God damn like Christmas. Let us they played that
Speaker 2: jam and they used to play that and uh Wonderful
Speaker 2: Christmas Time by yep, Paul McCartney my favorite. That was
Speaker 2: the jam. That's still the jam. That's not my favorite.
Speaker 2: You told us your favorite was something else already.
Speaker 1: Well no, no, no, well I have a lot of favorites,
Speaker 1: you know, but no, Wonderful Christmas Time was you know
Speaker 1: that that was a happy moment for for my childhood.
Speaker 2: No, that was the story, because there's a story.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think I have good stories about Christmas.
Speaker 1: I mean, my best Christmas I think was I thought
Speaker 1: I was only getting socks. It was like our poorest Christmas.
Speaker 1: So you know, like when you only get socks and sweaters,
Speaker 1: like stuff that you really don't need from that that
Speaker 1: has that that warn't accessory gift in the corner.
Speaker 2: I was. I was.
Speaker 1: I was resigned to just having that. But I forgot
Speaker 1: that My dad had a drummer that went a wall
Speaker 1: on him. So one day I just came downstairs and
Speaker 1: got that drum set for Christmas, just like.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Yes, that was their best investment ever. But
Speaker 2: I mean much of the career started with one guy saying,
Speaker 2: going of going, shout out to Frog. His name was Frog.
Speaker 1: Frog jumped the fun out the way, shout out to
Speaker 1: Frog for uh for looking out and uh abandoning his
Speaker 1: uh career. And my dad in in somewhere in Ohio,
Speaker 1: I think in Stupenville, I think.
Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, somehow that reminded me. I don't know
Speaker 2: how that happened.
Speaker 5: Me working at KB Tours and you asked me unpaid
Speaker 5: bill working at KB And so the Mexicans used.
Speaker 2: To come in there.
Speaker 7: Correct this besides me.
Speaker 5: Now because they would come in and I learned that
Speaker 5: I kind of became the mark. So basically, when you
Speaker 5: come in, they ask you. They would always ask, you know, uh,
Speaker 5: calle fat fetch I feat you like the price, like
Speaker 5: what is what is the price? And so I guess
Speaker 5: if you if they asked you what it was and
Speaker 5: you took it up to the counter, they would have
Speaker 5: to do a price check. And so after a while
Speaker 5: I started putting together I'm like, okay, are they trying
Speaker 5: to like negotiate with me? Or they trying to kind
Speaker 5: of bough or whatever. So finally this, uh, this is
Speaker 5: my coworker. It was I can't remember this. I think
Speaker 5: that was Susan something. This white lady had long blight hair.
Speaker 5: She's like, fante, everything is price is marked. Tell them
Speaker 5: everything is fucking price is marked. I was like okay,
Speaker 5: and so.
Speaker 2: I just told them prices. This is the price, that's
Speaker 2: what it is. And then they left me alone. But
Speaker 2: they used to come in. They came me along, but
Speaker 2: they used to come in. That motherfucker they pay with cash.
Speaker 2: They pull out.
Speaker 5: God damn, you know what I'm saying. And I'm sure
Speaker 5: you know there was a story behind that. They probably
Speaker 5: you just never calllimination. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: But I learned a lot work. The K said, I
Speaker 2: don't know where that. But you have a Christmas job, Steve, Uh, no.
Speaker 4: Job?
Speaker 2: Now Christmas job? What do you need? I mean, I
Speaker 2: shovel driveways from you know what Christmas job is? I
Speaker 2: put this holiday holiday? What do you mean? You mean
Speaker 2: like specific job during Christmas time just for the holiday.
Speaker 7: See, sometimes people get extra jobs during.
Speaker 1: The holidays, shovel driveways on on my street man cash Okay,
Speaker 1: well yeah everyone does that.
Speaker 2: I mean that I never got paid for it. My
Speaker 2: boys don't do paid for You volunteered to do it
Speaker 2: in your neighbor. Well, no, I didn't do it like that,
Speaker 2: but I wasn't sho anybody else this driveway. I shovel.
Speaker 1: That's where my prince stass came from already from driver. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because like dad Rythm shits out and then I just shovel.
Speaker 1: You didn't deal with Indiana winners. So that's very true.
Speaker 1: That's very true.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I go out shovel, make about forty bucks, and then
Speaker 1: by the Prince disciography all over again for.
Speaker 11: The third you ever you ever try to shovel at
Speaker 11: this age, it's like a whole different like feeling in
Speaker 11: this day.
Speaker 7: I just wanted to just anybody ever, you know, because
Speaker 7: the pain be for real.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's what nieces and nephews are for.
Speaker 7: That's real exercise. I don't know if we ain't know
Speaker 7: it then, but it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I shoveled out my my neighbor that looks that lives
Speaker 5: like two hours down from me. Uh, miss Darlene, I
Speaker 5: shovel her, uh show her driveway for you know, she's
Speaker 5: all the older black lady, and I try to be
Speaker 5: as calls me a friend to the black woman.
Speaker 1: I was in my head, I was praying this was
Speaker 1: gonna be like one of those Playboy Electric Blue.
Speaker 2: Perfect name. Yeah, like some eighty porn old lady. But Na,
Speaker 2: she was cool.
Speaker 5: Amn's five mins and but you're right though, shoveling snow
Speaker 5: now that ship is man, Yeah, my kids do that ship.
Speaker 2: I ain't about to die in the driveways shoving.
Speaker 1: I moved the shovel driver. Well, my dad was a
Speaker 1: shoveling dropp. I don't know where the my nephew was,
Speaker 1: but he had like some heart issues while he was Okay,
Speaker 1: somebody put some pineapple in front of me.
Speaker 5: Right bro, Sorry so yeah, yeah, man, I should have
Speaker 5: put that in this damn liquor soaked the pineapple and
Speaker 5: the liquor.
Speaker 2: That would have been a huge city say and pineapple.
Speaker 1: Brown ship, you know, brown drinking ship, drinking prison brown ship.
Speaker 5: Yeah, since we're talking about this, he's explained to me
Speaker 5: the origin of hooch. I have no idea, like, do
Speaker 5: you mean the terminology or.
Speaker 2: Just this is ran about fruit ferment inside? Who is just?
Speaker 5: Who is just it's illegally made liquor. So I actually
Speaker 5: have members of my family that that do it. I
Speaker 5: can't walk you through the process, but I don't want
Speaker 5: to know how to make it. Okay, yeah, but I
Speaker 5: don't know where is it? Yeah, speak easy liquor houses.
Speaker 5: It kind of comes from that. In the black community,
Speaker 5: we always had, like you know, the underground economy.
Speaker 2: So that's exactly what are you serious?
Speaker 7: Now you can get strawberry moons.
Speaker 2: But is it?
Speaker 5: But if they if you can buy moonshine in the
Speaker 5: liquor store, is it still moonshine? Once the slave masters
Speaker 5: show up? Is it still a slave.
Speaker 12: Like?
Speaker 2: Really, the the lure is gone? Like, man, when we
Speaker 2: really gets legal like whatever.
Speaker 7: No, I don't worry. But it's about.
Speaker 2: You think, my boy, the power to legislation, know to
Speaker 2: be fine?
Speaker 7: People ever about to be great?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, we'll be great. You sound like down?
Speaker 5: Uh well, no, man, I'm yeah, mom shine. I had
Speaker 5: my first taste of it when I was a kid. Now,
Speaker 5: I think, but I think a lot of drugs as
Speaker 5: a kid that I probably shouldn't.
Speaker 1: Backs or like with their blessings, like did you have
Speaker 1: one of my uncles and aunts like here boy, my okay,
Speaker 1: my my uncles and my grandmother.
Speaker 5: They were like, I know, you'll get Bruce's millions. He
Speaker 5: was like, listen, I'm gonna make you hate cigarette.
Speaker 2: He called. His dad called and smoking a cigarette.
Speaker 5: He was like, look, I'm gonna make you hate cigarette
Speaker 5: making by making you smoke like a pack of day.
Speaker 2: So for me, I went through that.
Speaker 5: Where I got it was I got it two ways.
Speaker 5: My grandmother, my this was my dad's mom. She was
Speaker 5: God rest his So she used to dip snuff. Right,
Speaker 5: what is snuff?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 5: So snuff is tobacco is chewing tobacco. She used to
Speaker 5: dip snuff and so she had a a blue can
Speaker 5: a snuff it and it was like so and so
Speaker 5: peach snuff. So I'm like four five and I just
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm like, now, no, let me teach, let me,
Speaker 5: let's taste it. She was like, nah, don't don't you
Speaker 5: want this that? I said, well, nah, I say peaches
Speaker 5: on it. This, I mean it, it's gotta be good.
Speaker 2: It's peaches. Okay, baby, don't do it. I said, nah, now,
Speaker 2: let me take it.
Speaker 5: So finally she was like, okay, go ahead, brother, I
Speaker 5: took one. It hit my tongue and I accidentally swallowed something.
Speaker 5: To this day, I've never I've just many drugs, a
Speaker 5: vice creamen, not no hard ship, not not real drugs.
Speaker 5: But like just like we I've never in my dad.
Speaker 5: Was not real drugs. I've never smoked a cigarette in
Speaker 5: my life.
Speaker 2: But she let you just do it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't any punishment, right, No, no, no, she just
Speaker 1: let me do it because she wanted me. I think
Speaker 1: she wanted me to see how bad it really was.
Speaker 5: And so then I had another instance saying, Grandma, they
Speaker 5: had some corn liquor or moonshine, that's what you know.
Speaker 5: We called it corn liquor down the country, but you
Speaker 5: know your corn liquor. And I took one hit of that.
Speaker 5: Bro Oh no, oh no, you're you're I think we
Speaker 5: might have somebody die. Shine, Did you just called up
Speaker 5: a laptop? I just came out with you gentlemen.
Speaker 2: I know you can't see this, but Steve has been
Speaker 2: coughing for the last like five minutes.
Speaker 7: In his mouth.
Speaker 1: It's as if he coughed up a laptop. Sugar computer
Speaker 1: court like sugar.
Speaker 7: Coming back to his original corn liquor, say something so
Speaker 7: people know you alive.
Speaker 2: I mean, David Blaine of coughing cough this ship. Right wait,
Speaker 2: it was either that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm gonna turn this into a
Speaker 1: really dark Christmas story or no, in go in, But
Speaker 1: all right now this see culturally, it's different with the households.
Speaker 1: And you know, our particular households were big on corporal punishment.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, which which modern that's the worst. You know, modern
Speaker 5: day that's known as abuse.
Speaker 2: But you know it was around.
Speaker 1: I definitely remember the Christmas treet being up. But I
Speaker 1: I too, like like the way you were attracted to
Speaker 1: peach or whatever the font was. There's a cigarette company
Speaker 1: called bel Air Cigarettes. Do you remember bell Air cigarettes?
Speaker 2: Ah? Man? What they were like? They were like in
Speaker 2: the Virginia Slims family pall, mall, did we just go
Speaker 2: down the whole no, being like.
Speaker 11: Telling me about the Blayers. Were those the candy kinds
Speaker 11: you could eat or no, those real signats.
Speaker 2: It was real motherfucking cigarettes. I like the candy cigarette
Speaker 2: candy cigarettes for my shit. Yeah yeah, eighties, even those
Speaker 2: bubble gum candy.
Speaker 1: It was bored because I mean I said, I want
Speaker 1: to smoke that because I like the logo and everything
Speaker 1: the clouds and everything bel air and you know, I
Speaker 1: see I hate putting this out.
Speaker 2: My dad's not.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, in one of his many Joe Jackson
Speaker 1: glory moments, that was that was probably the second worst
Speaker 1: punishment I've ever gotten.
Speaker 7: Was he a switchman, a belt man, a handman.
Speaker 2: We had a slave whip. I didn't know about.
Speaker 11: No.
Speaker 1: One day when we talk about the worst punishment, Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll go into that, we'll go into that, but no, actually,
Speaker 1: to this day, uh in the Isley Brothers discography, like,
Speaker 1: first of all, if you do punish your kids and
Speaker 1: and reprimand them to turn the music off because.
Speaker 2: It's gonna ruin that song, it's gonna ruin everything.
Speaker 1: To this day time you feel paid it, brother, to
Speaker 1: this day, Harvest for the World got the album cover.
Speaker 1: Everything associated with that record traumatizes the ship out and
Speaker 1: there is no album in nineteen seventy six. It goes
Speaker 1: heat is on straight to go for you like there's
Speaker 1: nothing in between anything Blue them standing on water. Wow,
Speaker 1: that damn and it's lowing down the world. It'sn't even
Speaker 1: like Eliah's cover of that best like that, So he
Speaker 1: beat I asked for the whole album. Damn, did he
Speaker 1: take a break to flips for a minute?
Speaker 2: We feel Robert Harris, but when I want to know
Speaker 2: the records. But that is a fra yo whipping music.
Speaker 2: I had to smoke eight cigarettes.
Speaker 7: You smoked eight the whipping.
Speaker 1: I'll take the whipping, and then I got with but yeah,
Speaker 1: let me down. Do you imagine get your ass beat
Speaker 1: to let me down? All aside to harvest for the world.
Speaker 1: I got my ass beat.
Speaker 2: Yo.
Speaker 5: Hey, I think said the president of me not drinking,
Speaker 5: me not smoking. You know, I'm with you, Yeah, I think, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 5: I don't think you have to go that hardcore. But yeah,
Speaker 5: that was shout out to Christmas seventy six. So anyway,
Speaker 5: tell me more about you know, it's Christmas.
Speaker 2: They were the first to do it.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: I mean I'm a big fan of We Are the
Speaker 2: World as well. All right, So what wins? It's a
Speaker 2: really hard question, A really hard question.
Speaker 7: Really, Yeah, what's a really hard question.
Speaker 2: The world?
Speaker 1: Because for me, yeah, no, no, no, no, no no no,
Speaker 1: I actually liked the documentary to We Are the World
Speaker 1: was incredible.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You see Michael Jackson dancing like James Brown with
Speaker 2: the man that was.
Speaker 7: And I'm trying to teach Bob Dyla how to really
Speaker 7: get up in there because.
Speaker 2: That was man.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean Elewis Bridge man to me, like do
Speaker 6: they I feel like, do they know it's Christmas has more?
Speaker 6: I don't know, it's it's I think it's probably a
Speaker 6: better song and like a better performance and a better recording.
Speaker 6: And but We're the World, you know, had Quincy Jones,
Speaker 6: Michael Jackson line of Richie and you know, I feel
Speaker 6: like Ray Charles.
Speaker 2: I may like that song better. It's just so you
Speaker 2: know the fact they knocked that out in eight hours,
Speaker 2: I have respect for them to you know, to execute
Speaker 2: with precision.
Speaker 1: Because leave your eagles at the door. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: my favorite. Yeah when he said leave you check your
Speaker 1: eagles at the door. And there's one point went where
Speaker 1: he did raise his voice and you remember when Stevie
Speaker 1: and James were kind of making fun of Quincy, he
Speaker 1: said something I haven't seen.
Speaker 2: Like there's talking to background.
Speaker 1: I need, I mean it and then everyone got silent
Speaker 1: and then like you just see like James Ingram, Stevie
Speaker 1: Wonder like.
Speaker 2: Business like they were like mocking them making fun of him.
Speaker 11: Is that like your favorite, like because you know, it's
Speaker 11: been a couple of records where it's like twenty artists
Speaker 11: for random like things like there's the m lkge on
Speaker 11: going to play Martin Luther. What's the Martin Luther King
Speaker 11: song with Whitney Houston. And then there was a golf
Speaker 11: War song which was more inclusive racial.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there was a.
Speaker 2: Yell yes, no, they did give me the chance. That's right.
Speaker 11: What's the songwriter dude who married uh the generous ex
Speaker 11: wife who has Brodie Jenner And I know this is
Speaker 11: a bad for y'all.
Speaker 7: Should have a bunch of songs on.
Speaker 1: How many ex wife Brewster and like three yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did everything.
Speaker 2: I ran through so many bitches stop right there and
Speaker 2: okay now because we miss it. It was the what
Speaker 2: was it?
Speaker 11: It was?
Speaker 2: That's what friendic for. That was the aid song, right,
Speaker 2: that was just a few people.
Speaker 11: Then it was lift every voice and sing with Jazmine
Speaker 11: Guy doing the in the video, doing the dance the solo.
Speaker 2: I remember that. I remember that. That's really Melbourne more
Speaker 2: behind she was in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all the it's the whole genre, all the people
Speaker 1: that Melbourne and her husband were shut to Melbourne more
Speaker 1: by the way she she reaches out to you too. No, No,
Speaker 1: she didn't reach out to me. I know she reached
Speaker 1: out to you. She didn't reach out to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she got out to me, actually.
Speaker 6: To Melbourne Moore, who frequently listens to the show and
Speaker 6: she frequently reaches out to at Stephen Mandel.
Speaker 2: She does, but she will. I mean, who wouldn't. My
Speaker 2: aunt gave me one of her old albums. I remember
Speaker 2: the name of it. She's like laying down. No, not
Speaker 2: that that's one of the I believe on me, Not
Speaker 2: that lean on me. She's like laying down on the
Speaker 2: album cover. It's like a long title.
Speaker 11: Hm.
Speaker 7: You know I can't sing a song. I can't sing
Speaker 7: a Melbourne.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: You know me if you were born five years earlier.
Speaker 1: Back when she like she came to our attention, I get.
Speaker 1: I guess the the Hamilton of hits day was No.
Speaker 2: I thought I thought it was pearly pearly okay, oh,
Speaker 2: but she was in here too, though she did hair
Speaker 2: as well. I didn't know that she was a brock,
Speaker 2: but I think pearly is what got her.
Speaker 1: Uh. I believe she got a tone with with par
Speaker 1: to I got a record deal, and then you know,
Speaker 1: just became al but more. But she she did a
Speaker 1: song called Lean on Me, which he infamously would hold the.
Speaker 2: Last note for like and it sounded just like that forty.
Speaker 1: For like credit forty seven seconds like she would hold
Speaker 1: it long and then yell out.
Speaker 2: I think she's speaking tongues. Now, I gotta find it.
Speaker 2: Can you believe that?
Speaker 11: I just knew it from being married to the reverend
Speaker 11: from Amen. And then something happened to the man she
Speaker 11: was married to. Yeah, it was it was like some drugs.
Speaker 7: No, I promise you, I promise.
Speaker 2: You no, because I know that her husband managed Freddy Jack. Yeah.
Speaker 2: He was a bull Huggins, right, yes, right, Bull Higgins,
Speaker 2: Yeah Huggins. It was hust production orfeousoush up again but
Speaker 2: death by Tips, right they produced that. Yeah, she said
Speaker 2: that by Temptation with Harrison with Bill the Third, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's right right. You know that was my hero when
Speaker 2: he was in the Fishes Pittsburgh.
Speaker 11: He was a boyfriend. I'm sorry, he was her boyfriend.
Speaker 11: He at the actor reveals the abusing women drugs. Yes,
Speaker 11: this is Melbourne and Clifton Davis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Melbourne. She was in death by temptation. She was
Speaker 1: Wasn't she like a psychic or character? She was a
Speaker 1: psychic or something that's a spiritual medium or something like that.
Speaker 2: But that's sounds about right. But yeah, she was in here.
Speaker 2: That's a lot from here anyways, to be I thought
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 7: This.
Speaker 2: Wait, what song is this? This is lean on Me
Speaker 2: from Melbourne Moore. All right, this is a classic in
Speaker 2: the seventh movie Break it Down.
Speaker 1: She could sing, so would you gotta understand everybody's singing
Speaker 1: these ad libs for batim In seventy four seventy.
Speaker 7: Five, she got more base to her voice, and but
Speaker 7: she was impersonate.
Speaker 2: Sorry, so she will hold this note, make it?
Speaker 1: And then she holds this ship for like forty seven seconds,
Speaker 1: like she even did this shit on the Tonight Show.
Speaker 2: All right, this is the editor person but it goes
Speaker 2: for another apart.
Speaker 7: Wow, yells, shit, she said shit.
Speaker 1: I remember it was on the Tonight Show she did
Speaker 1: that ship. It was like she's speaking in tongues.
Speaker 2: Wait what was that mean? Two year old? Yeah, like
Speaker 2: she was being in tongues. You know that? Make that
Speaker 2: my ringtone? Yeah, I don't think you want to hear
Speaker 2: that voice. Af three in the morning as your ringtone. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: so anyway, Yeah, I got my ass beat to uh
Speaker 2: Isley Brothers the album Both Wait, hold on, keep talking.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna find out how long this album. You're gonna
Speaker 2: call child Services now I want to file a retroactive
Speaker 2: child damn.
Speaker 11: For your information, you should also know Clifton Davis and
Speaker 11: Melbourn had a TV show together like Share and Sunny
Speaker 11: when circa.
Speaker 7: Nineteen seventy two. According to IMDb, oh.
Speaker 1: Variety shows were like like, that's the thing being the
Speaker 1: age I am. I'm proud to have seen many a
Speaker 1: one off variety show.
Speaker 2: They were like the reality shows of today, you could so,
Speaker 2: you could say. And the Pips had their own variety
Speaker 2: show for like eight episodes.
Speaker 1: I mean the Jackson's had their own I mean Flip
Speaker 1: Wilson Wilson he had, but there was Tony Orlando and
Speaker 1: Dawn Sonny and chaer Ben.
Speaker 2: Share had her own show.
Speaker 1: Well everyone knows Donny m Well everyone my age should
Speaker 1: know Donnie Marie.
Speaker 7: Donny Mary Osmen And now all we got is Martin
Speaker 7: and mine.
Speaker 2: That's yes, and Marty if you want to be okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: Maya and Marty.
Speaker 6: The Melbourne More album. I was referring to that. My
Speaker 6: anti gamy is from nineteen seventy one. It's called look
Speaker 6: what You're doing to the Man.
Speaker 2: Who's the man? I'm the man.
Speaker 1: Apparently Christmas nineteen seventy six of Mire got his Ass
Speaker 1: feet for thirty seven minutes and fifty.
Speaker 2: Four solid half hour. Man.
Speaker 1: No, I remember let Me Down Easy. I don't remember
Speaker 1: too much going on on at your best. I think
Speaker 1: it was on my eighth cigarette by the time.
Speaker 2: You get comes on the album before let Me Down Easy? Now, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: That's what I mean. Like, I think by that point
Speaker 2: I was throwing up. We need to get back to
Speaker 2: that as parents. Let's talk about it for the length
Speaker 2: of sitcoms.
Speaker 3: Theme song credit, right, you know what I'm saying. Condition Yeah,
Speaker 3: you do not condone? So are you are you a
Speaker 3: time out parent?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 2: No, you know what? Man for me?
Speaker 5: I thank god, I've only I've only had to probably
Speaker 5: just really like put hands on my kids, both boys,
Speaker 5: maybe like once or twice, like when they were.
Speaker 2: Like they're good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you just put the fear of God in it.
Speaker 5: Oh well, it's a little of both, because I mean
Speaker 5: I do have good boys. I mean they you know,
Speaker 5: they test a little somebody once a while, but I
Speaker 5: generally do have really great kids. But I had to
Speaker 5: put the fear in early. And you know, I for
Speaker 5: me can just be just a look, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean, or just to like look, come on, brou
Speaker 5: But so I never really had to get into that.
Speaker 5: I went through it, you know what I'm saying. I
Speaker 5: went through it like for real, for real. But I
Speaker 5: never really had to beat my boys like that. At
Speaker 5: least you got to look.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my ship was without warning. Oh it's just.
Speaker 7: So you ain't nobody send you into the woods to
Speaker 7: go get the switch, Go get me a switch.
Speaker 8: My dad.
Speaker 1: See, you gotta understand, from the period that my dad retired,
Speaker 1: initially from show business, him and my mother had a
Speaker 1: boutique or a shot or that sort of thing. And
Speaker 1: then for like half a second, I don't know like
Speaker 1: what else they were sold there. But yeah, for one
Speaker 1: unfortunate March of nineteen eighty one, there was the slave
Speaker 1: actually boutique.
Speaker 7: The whip came from this storm.
Speaker 2: I would assume it would sell it to them or
Speaker 2: was this a slave whip passed?
Speaker 1: Said?
Speaker 2: They just my last whipped me and now you can
Speaker 2: make weirdird artifacts. Man, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 2: I had the I didn't have you ever like hide
Speaker 2: the belt like you did. I try.
Speaker 1: The belt fucked up. No, not in times where you
Speaker 1: were in trouble, just like in passing, like, oh there's
Speaker 1: that the belt.
Speaker 2: Let me hide this.
Speaker 5: I tried hiding the belt. But then when when hinding
Speaker 5: the belt it failed, objects just got more like obtuse.
Speaker 5: So so it went from a belt too because it
Speaker 5: then uh like like we were get the go pick
Speaker 5: you on switch.
Speaker 7: Joint and that's like, don't make it weak.
Speaker 1: That's some slave ship, like for real, like that's you.
Speaker 1: I've heard that in common, but I don't live near
Speaker 1: the place that had.
Speaker 2: Dude, we had we had a tree.
Speaker 5: We had a tree in my grandmother's backyard. And I
Speaker 5: want to say maybe it was a crape murder. I'm
Speaker 5: not sure, but it was.
Speaker 2: That was specific, bro.
Speaker 5: I think it was a murder, I think, But anyway,
Speaker 5: and you have to go out and you picked the
Speaker 5: little branch off and take the leaves off, and she
Speaker 5: liked that ass up.
Speaker 2: So then as I got a little bigger, she didn't
Speaker 2: do the switches. No, more so.
Speaker 5: Then I graduated to she had a flaswater. I think
Speaker 5: she had a floswatch, a flyswater. And then like my
Speaker 5: time was like eight nine. I got a hot wheels racetrack.
Speaker 5: I heard about orange joint yet bro no, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: I had I had that one, but I had another one.
Speaker 2: It was like a black and oh, the hard black ones.
Speaker 7: That's the way it was.
Speaker 5: It was the middle, it was like the curves and
Speaker 5: it was the straight pieces she used to the straight pieces.
Speaker 2: You figure that out. You grabbing an object like that, though,
Speaker 2: Like did you get the talk first and then I
Speaker 2: was ritual or was it just like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, most of the time I would say I would
Speaker 5: get the talk, or there would be some morning you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, Like if I was cutting up
Speaker 5: in church, the Sunday whooping is terrible because then you're
Speaker 5: whooping and you're just demoralized and you can't go nowhere,
Speaker 5: you can't go outside. You're just getting your ass beat
Speaker 5: and you're just in the house. That's fucking sad on
Speaker 5: a Sunday.
Speaker 2: Cartoons in the mall.
Speaker 1: You got women in public? Yeah, you never got popped
Speaker 1: in the public, But I got popped in front of
Speaker 1: my had the mama come to class.
Speaker 2: Women's terrible. I had that.
Speaker 1: You ever, it's like the words everybody hates Chris scenario
Speaker 1: where you're cutting up and you turn around, but it's
Speaker 1: one of the moments where your friends are like in
Speaker 1: your friends appointing, turn around, turn around, and then you
Speaker 1: turn around and you see your parents, Like I immediately
Speaker 1: regurgitated on them before like turned around and all over
Speaker 1: the floor because they had to drive. They were on
Speaker 1: the road like I was at my grandmother's house, so
Speaker 1: they had to drive like two hours from their gig
Speaker 1: to come to the ball.
Speaker 5: My god, that's that. Yeah, I didn't have to take
Speaker 5: off work, ass whooping, Yes, no, No, it's levels to
Speaker 5: it up here. I'm telling my brother, look that I
Speaker 5: didn't have to take work from my job. Yes, I
Speaker 5: ain't have no And this is before like this is
Speaker 5: the A. Wasn't no fucking PTO and none of that ship,
Speaker 5: no flex, It wasn't none of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't no, No, it wasn't no hr.
Speaker 5: It was like if you miss work, your ass ain't
Speaker 5: getting the chick And like, yeah, my mother had to
Speaker 5: come to the school for me one time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, work whipping Oh man, I feel for you, man.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but it made me a stronger person. Somehow
Speaker 2: abuse made it better. I'm not saying it, but that
Speaker 2: ship was real though. Sorry, that just happened.
Speaker 7: Okay, when you ain't need no dairy though? That being beautiful?
Speaker 2: Man, that's too much information? All right? Are we totally
Speaker 2: depressed on Christmas?
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 2: I'm happy because, in the words of a great songwriter,
Speaker 2: be glad as them, and I think every example we're
Speaker 2: given it was it was we made it. Look up,
Speaker 2: we came.
Speaker 3: Brothers.
Speaker 2: What we're never playing?
Speaker 10: I know?
Speaker 2: I did a few of my favorite Christmas songs? Can
Speaker 2: I have one more?
Speaker 9: Sure?
Speaker 2: Go ahead? Thanks, thanks, thanks, he said happily. Jesus, hey man,
Speaker 2: he's boss Bill, he lays backdown always from Indiana. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's cold, it's cold.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cold, but well I want to go to The
Speaker 1: Fishbone had a sort of Christmas album.
Speaker 2: Uh cool, We're going to have a good life. You know.
Speaker 1: They have a really great song about heartbreak called slick
Speaker 1: nick You Devil You. So I want to play that
Speaker 1: on course Love Supreme only on Pandora Snigny style from Zoo.
Speaker 9: So Chimney with a Kettle boom.
Speaker 8: Putting my dog got in the cold, ripped off the
Speaker 8: candy from my socks.
Speaker 2: Smoking colds and.
Speaker 8: Drinking Scotch. Mh slignly you devil, slick Nick.
Speaker 2: That was slick Nick. You dob.
Speaker 1: By fish Bone Special Holiday edition of Quest Love Supreme.
Speaker 2: Uh, I go wow, Yeah, I think I got a
Speaker 2: hangover already. Yeah, this is uh Merry Christmas A bad idea?
Speaker 2: Do you imagine all the family? I think it's amazing idea.
Speaker 2: Do you guys do uh? Are you guys big on
Speaker 2: family during the holidays? No?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's the only thing you can do for free.
Speaker 2: Really yeah?
Speaker 7: Really? You can eat their food, you can cook with
Speaker 7: your family like that is what the holidays.
Speaker 2: Are you in good with are you allowed to talk about?
Speaker 2: Are you in good with your family? Boss Bill?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean, like I just Christmas is just a hassle.
Speaker 2: I hate the travel during Christmas time. The last time,
Speaker 2: the last time I went home for Christmas was three
Speaker 2: years ago. Wait, so Christmas just another day to you? Yeah?
Speaker 2: You spending like in Brooklyn chilling? Yeah? Oh man, that's
Speaker 2: not the meaning of Christmas.
Speaker 3: That's the meaning of christ Over to the damn house
Speaker 3: for Christmas Chris, come over my house for like Christmas.
Speaker 7: Steve, you come to Saint Louis with me, But it
Speaker 7: ain't funny.
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to go. Why are you going to
Speaker 2: Saint Louis.
Speaker 7: Because my mama from Saint Louis am I.
Speaker 11: Her mother's ninety one, so we've got to let her
Speaker 11: get her last She's always no, she just was born
Speaker 11: and she left when she was sixteen, like all the
Speaker 11: other smart people like Jennifer Lewis from Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: Of course St Louis and I like Saint Louis too.
Speaker 2: There's a stop, no for real, but you like the art.
Speaker 2: I like the barbecue, yeah, Jerry curls.
Speaker 1: No, I mean someone like the block where the pageant is.
Speaker 1: It's a good record store there. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: vintage movie theaters. I fucks with Saint Louis.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's cool, but you know I
Speaker 7: would want it's nice to visit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, family on recent events in Saint Louis.
Speaker 7: Just period. It's a little slow there. Shout out to
Speaker 7: Saint Louis. I'm not it is big up to Saint Louis.
Speaker 7: I love y'all, but but from it's a little slower there,
Speaker 7: so really like ten years ago.
Speaker 2: Just sorry, I don't agree with you at all. You
Speaker 2: know when I some the best times in my life
Speaker 2: were in St.
Speaker 5: Louis, the real last town. It is home louse, real
Speaker 5: last town man, shout Nelly St.
Speaker 2: Louis man. Yeah, what do you do like now that
Speaker 2: your father? Okay, all right? Have you ever had to
Speaker 2: grinch your kids? Have you ever had to steal Christmas?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 2: Halfway? Santa Claus? Halfway? Did I am?
Speaker 5: Sadly nobody else? I'm not giving my credit? No fat
Speaker 5: white man fuck that? So okay, I feel, I really
Speaker 5: feel was.
Speaker 2: That from the beginning front there.
Speaker 5: They always, oh absolutely, once they were cognizant and were
Speaker 5: able to let them know, like, no, this Santa Claus
Speaker 5: ship that they selling, y'all, that's bullshit.
Speaker 1: When did you reveal to them that Santa Claus was
Speaker 1: no longer man? When we'ren like like four or five
Speaker 1: years old, like real, how they take the news? They
Speaker 1: were just like, okay, dad, you know, as long as
Speaker 1: we're getting some ship.
Speaker 14: Cool.
Speaker 5: They seriously, yeah, they don't care where the gifts come from.
Speaker 5: And but the thing was, now, what I did have
Speaker 5: to do with my youngest because he just would talk
Speaker 5: and just run in their mouth. So what I did
Speaker 5: have to tell him because he then took the ministry
Speaker 5: to school and was telling the kids, you know, Santa
Speaker 5: Claus isn't real, that's bullshit, And I'm like, nigga, you.
Speaker 2: In third you can't say so for him, I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: I got a chill.
Speaker 5: So what I had to tell him was like, listen, man,
Speaker 5: even though this is what we do in our household,
Speaker 5: you can't spoil it in other people's household. So if
Speaker 5: other people want to believe in Santa Claus, Santa Claus,
Speaker 5: you have to give them the flexibility to believe in
Speaker 5: that and not ship on their dreams even though I
Speaker 5: is your father shitted on yours.
Speaker 2: So Santa Claus, it's Santa Claus supposed to be a
Speaker 2: whole like training thing for children in religion, not my house,
Speaker 2: not long control them to be nice. And you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Like you know, you know what what
Speaker 2: Fante was just saying about.
Speaker 1: You know, Okay, what we do in this house is
Speaker 1: what we believe here, and what people do over there
Speaker 1: is what they believe there.
Speaker 2: So is it.
Speaker 5: But you know what though, like, let's think, let know
Speaker 5: for real, man, let's talk about how disturbing the concept
Speaker 5: of Santa Claus.
Speaker 1: Very I don't think we've ever broken that ship down, Like, dude,
Speaker 1: and what you do let your kids go to a
Speaker 1: stranger and.
Speaker 2: Sit on.
Speaker 11: On that note, Ask me, are you saying that nobody
Speaker 11: who in his room has sat on his lap because.
Speaker 2: You ain't got no picture, You're not I've never seen.
Speaker 14: I was afraid, you're afraid, You're afraid.
Speaker 2: I had my first few nightmares of life. I think
Speaker 2: at the age of three.
Speaker 1: I dreamt that like Santa Claus is trying to kill
Speaker 1: me or something like whenever, Like it's weird, Like a
Speaker 1: lot most of the roots are afraid of clowns.
Speaker 2: I was afraid of Santa Claus. Well there I forgot
Speaker 2: who said it, either tarik Ing No, no, not afraid.
Speaker 1: Someone said that they couldn't trust someone that couldn't stop smiling.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, there's there's I mean, people generally have
Speaker 1: fear of clowns and stuff. But I'm sorry, I was
Speaker 1: distracted by it.
Speaker 2: That the new movie from.
Speaker 7: I was just like to remind everybody we started out
Speaker 7: this show with they don't really drink.
Speaker 2: So I don't, but when I do, I do it to.
Speaker 1: Do it today one hundred okay, good, Yeah, But I
Speaker 1: was afraid of Santa Claus like by the age of three,
Speaker 1: so and then by then.
Speaker 2: I mean I kind of knew that my parents were
Speaker 2: controlling Christmas. I don't know.
Speaker 1: My my Christmases were kind of dope because I would
Speaker 1: just get a lot of music stay there, like and
Speaker 1: actually I would buy like my dad's records knowing that
Speaker 1: I was just going to take them like two days.
Speaker 7: Later for Christmas, and so he wouldn't really have a
Speaker 7: Christmas Christmas.
Speaker 1: So Christmas of like eighty one of that Gordon Gartrail
Speaker 1: episode of Not Gordon gra the Stevie Wonder episode eighty five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the geminal Man, I'm gonna tell you. So, I
Speaker 1: mean between getting sorry anyway, I'm sorry, getting getting that.
Speaker 2: Cassio s K one Christmas, I got one of those
Speaker 2: as well. One and you're not a beat maker, no
Speaker 2: curse words, you know. Just I was trying to figure
Speaker 2: ship ship pussy Pussy.
Speaker 7: I would just hit the demo joined and what I
Speaker 7: could do.
Speaker 2: I had a beat had, I had a keyboard.
Speaker 1: My mom got me like ninety one and if you
Speaker 1: put it in demo mode, it played, it played a
Speaker 1: Rick Astley song, But.
Speaker 2: Are you serious going to give you?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 2: It wasn't. It wasn't. It wasn't never going to give
Speaker 2: you up. It was together forever, which was never gonna
Speaker 2: give you up? Pretty much? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if
Speaker 2: you say demo, that's the first thing that comes to
Speaker 2: my mind.
Speaker 7: Is dope, Like damn, it might be refurbished.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, wait for that. For the Rick Astley one,
Speaker 1: was that the Yamaha version of that keyboard? I think
Speaker 1: I'm pretty I'm pretty sure it was a Castio keyboard but.
Speaker 2: On it no no yellow. Well okay, because uh uh true,
Speaker 2: not true? Great Macio revealed to me, Yes, that particular,
Speaker 2: what what machine is that one?
Speaker 11: This guy is showing a picture of a Castio and
Speaker 11: for real, I think I just got choked.
Speaker 2: Up because it reminds you of like everything that was
Speaker 2: like was innocent in your life.
Speaker 1: My point was that Live Rabbit co of Daylight so
Speaker 1: revealed to me that like a lot of their three
Speaker 1: feet high and rising samples were used with that, but
Speaker 1: they would just do it manually.
Speaker 2: Wow. I was amazed that.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I had to cast your escape one and
Speaker 5: then I upgraded to the Yamaha got It wasn't five,
Speaker 5: it was one of the It was one of them,
Speaker 5: but it was a Yamaha joint. They had the same thing,
Speaker 5: but just longer beat five five seconds of sampling?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 7: Is that why Sean Wayne's name himself sk.
Speaker 2: One on one after public getting keep talking?
Speaker 5: You were a couple of you were you were like
Speaker 5: just a couple more letters down to alphabet and you
Speaker 5: are almost there.
Speaker 2: But his name is Sean Sean Wayne. That's kind of
Speaker 2: where the came from. So close, Margaret, so fucking close. Yes,
Speaker 2: so far.
Speaker 7: So we're learning here.
Speaker 1: At the risk of asking this question, fran tikeolo here,
Speaker 1: what was your favorite Christmas of all time?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 5: Man, I guess probably my favorite Christmas of all time
Speaker 5: was probably when I was Oh my god, man, this
Speaker 5: was going into I was in college. Actually this was
Speaker 5: my freshman year of college and I was home and
Speaker 5: after my first semester, you know, you know, fall semester,
Speaker 5: you come home for the for the winter, and so
Speaker 5: that semester that was when I got PlayStation one.
Speaker 2: I got PlayStation What.
Speaker 5: Was your favorite video My favorite video game was Teken,
Speaker 5: which wasn't as racial charge as that, but but no,
Speaker 5: but that was probably my favorite one because that was
Speaker 5: the time where you know, I honestly, man, I thought
Speaker 5: my mom had just forgot about me. I thought I
Speaker 5: was just kind of written off, like he's in college,
Speaker 5: he's good, he's whatever.
Speaker 2: But my mother bought me.
Speaker 5: My mother and the guys you were the time they
Speaker 5: brought me her, which lay became her husband, bought me
Speaker 5: a PlayStation one, and so I ended up I would
Speaker 5: play PlayStation one with my brothers, my younger brothers, we
Speaker 5: would play Teching at that time. And so then I
Speaker 5: later took it to Central with me, took it back
Speaker 5: to college with me, and that was when me and
Speaker 5: my roommate we got into Resident Evil and I didn't
Speaker 5: go to class for like a month.
Speaker 2: Now I was going to say, you must have got
Speaker 2: some Oh my god, Resident Evil. Come on man, like
Speaker 2: that ship was a movie.
Speaker 5: Ah god, that shit? Oh man, listen, I always recovered.
Speaker 5: I never I was always a good student. I just
Speaker 5: you know, I would like say fuck class. But then
Speaker 5: when it came time to like really be there for
Speaker 5: like tests and like real shit, I would be there
Speaker 5: and I would I would ace the test. But uh
Speaker 5: but yeah, me and my homework, my shot, my man Milk.
Speaker 5: We would just play Resident Evil all day and have
Speaker 5: all the nets and our joint in my lt Milt, Milt, Milt.
Speaker 5: But yeah, my favorite one, man, that was my favorite
Speaker 5: one at that time.
Speaker 2: Day Bill Milt? What was your I had a grandma
Speaker 2: named Milt.
Speaker 3: I think what's your favorite holiday moment? My favorite holiday movement.
Speaker 3: I've been to Alabama every holiday for the past ten years.
Speaker 3: I got the chills and you said that really, whatever
Speaker 3: that means, that's where your people's come from. No, that's
Speaker 3: where my ex wife's people. Because so, Steve, what's your favorite.
Speaker 7: Ye tell us more what you used to do on
Speaker 7: the how to days?
Speaker 2: Doing well.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to drag a city under the bus
Speaker 1: like someone in here drags another city under the bus.
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying that Alabama like the trees at
Speaker 2: the nighttime, like yeah, just oh.
Speaker 1: Man, it's strange, truth strange. Here's the thing though, here's
Speaker 1: in Alabama. Don't don't don't get it twisted. I mean
Speaker 1: some of the most friendliest in mind you this is
Speaker 1: like twenty fifteen, they were some of the friendliest people ever.
Speaker 1: Or maybe because I was quest love walking down the
Speaker 1: block like you doing. Yeah, but I'm just saying that
Speaker 1: walking at nighttime in like Montgomery, Alabama.
Speaker 2: Like they have statues of like.
Speaker 1: The dogs biting like protesters legs, like there's there's the statues.
Speaker 2: No, wait, what city of Montgomery, Lion it's I would say,
Speaker 2: it's a. It's a.
Speaker 3: It's a different place that I never thought I would
Speaker 3: spend so much time in, but I did. And now
Speaker 3: I don't what city, what city outs? God damn, that's
Speaker 3: racism central.
Speaker 2: St to perfection.
Speaker 5: God hold like your ex laws like that four little
Speaker 5: girls thing like that happened there. They burned them girls.
Speaker 2: I love how you're blaming me for all the blame
Speaker 2: that you're my brother, man.
Speaker 5: I love thank you. I'm wrong with you, brother, thank you.
Speaker 5: Ain't just the dude they talking. I love you because
Speaker 5: you're my man. I'll fuck with you so the long way,
Speaker 5: the long way, the.
Speaker 2: Erotic way.
Speaker 1: I funk with him the long way, like he's my
Speaker 1: man and I'm chilling. All right, So Steve, what's your
Speaker 1: favorite Christmas song?
Speaker 2: That's it, that's all. Wait a minute, I'll pay bill speak,
Speaker 2: not my man's sult.
Speaker 4: What was?
Speaker 2: What was? She said? Spending when your in laws in
Speaker 2: Alabama was some of the best times of your life.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It was a time, I think the first time that
Speaker 3: I had kids, and and because I didn't celebrate Christmas
Speaker 3: my whole life, and so when I finally got to
Speaker 3: do it with my kids, they were so fucking into it.
Speaker 2: And I love that fact. There you go. That was fun.
Speaker 3: And now it's the first Christmas I've had not in
Speaker 3: Alabama ever this year. So you get to see them
Speaker 3: move kids. Yeah, okay, and I'll get a Christmas tree.
Speaker 2: I don't know the situation that is such a divorce question. No, don't.
Speaker 2: Are they still excited about Christmas? Yes? And what do
Speaker 2: they want? Well, I know you're getting them instruments. Do
Speaker 2: they want that?
Speaker 3: You have two girls that might have a little bit
Speaker 3: to do with me. They my kids like a very
Speaker 3: certain thing of cartoons and things that they're very excited about.
Speaker 3: Dresses and yeah, it comes on.
Speaker 2: Now do they are wet?
Speaker 3: Thing?
Speaker 10: Man?
Speaker 2: That ship is over. It's over. Your kids want that's over?
Speaker 5: That That was that The race car tracks was hot
Speaker 5: for my boys when they was like six or seven.
Speaker 5: After that, everything is all elect trying to say your Xbox.
Speaker 7: Game sneaks to your boy's oldest Oh my god.
Speaker 2: They want sneaks.
Speaker 5: My oldest son is like like obsessed about sneakers, and
Speaker 5: I'm just like, dude, you don't understand.
Speaker 2: You ain't got no job like that.
Speaker 5: Such a poor people obsession, you know what I mean,
Speaker 5: And like, yeah, it's it's bad. I had to break
Speaker 5: him up in seventh grade because he was running a
Speaker 5: scam at school with the sneakers.
Speaker 2: Did that a little bit?
Speaker 5: Oh man, Okay, yeah, I'll break it down. Okay, So listen,
Speaker 5: this is what this is what had. This is what
Speaker 5: went down because for my man's on paid bill because
Speaker 5: I love him. All right, listen closed fully, I'm fully alert. Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm alert, nigga, I'm read alert. A mirror is just
Speaker 5: like just let Jesus take the wheel. This is the
Speaker 5: lesson I had to teach my kid, my old my
Speaker 5: oldest son, my oldest son, okay, about sneakers.
Speaker 2: Okay, so my son was sneakers, I said, listen.
Speaker 5: So one day my son, I was like, listen, I
Speaker 5: know you're in the sneakers and like if you get
Speaker 5: a good report card, will lace you up. So he
Speaker 5: came home with like a good report card, like one semester.
Speaker 5: This is seventh grade. And so I laced him with
Speaker 5: a pair. My mom laced him with a pair. His
Speaker 5: grandma laced in the pair. Mom lace with a pair
Speaker 5: Christmas for Christmas. Yes, brother, that's happen. It's like four
Speaker 5: pairs of shoes. That's like four pairs of shoes. But again,
Speaker 5: you know when your parents are together, that kind of
Speaker 5: splits everything in half.
Speaker 2: So it works to your advantage, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Like, when it's not just one that's got Christmas, No, No,
Speaker 5: he got I got what I got him something else.
Speaker 5: I think I got him a couple of Xbox games
Speaker 5: at Christmas too. But anyway, but anyway, so anyways, he
Speaker 5: gets all these sneakers. So one day we're driving in
Speaker 5: the car and I'm like, and he's like, count money.
Speaker 5: I was going to buy my winter coat. I was
Speaker 5: going to buy him a winter coat. And I said, okay,
Speaker 5: I said, well he's counting money. I said, where you
Speaker 5: getting money from? Oh, Dad, Well, I just I just
Speaker 5: found five dollars while I was walking for school. I'm like, nigga,
Speaker 5: you're lying. That's a fucking lie. Where'd you get the
Speaker 5: money from? I mean, it's not like I'm selling anything.
Speaker 5: What he said, I didn't say what you're selling nothing.
Speaker 5: So finally he confessed to me. He says, Dad, I've
Speaker 5: been renting my shoes.
Speaker 2: Wow, so here's a renting episode everything. So here's yo,
Speaker 2: I bullshit him and not I bullshit you. Not you
Speaker 2: can do this. So this is what he thinks, he says.
Speaker 2: He says, Okay, he says, well, Daddy says, listen, he said,
Speaker 2: a lot of kids at school, they like my shoes.
Speaker 2: So what I do is I rent them to him
Speaker 2: for five dollars a day. And you know that's how
Speaker 2: I make my money.
Speaker 7: It's brilliant.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 1: He's a fucking idiot. But let's dude, but no, no, no,
Speaker 1: let me break it down. Let me let me, let
Speaker 1: me get the fish story.
Speaker 2: Okay. So I said, okay, you've been renting your shoes.
Speaker 2: He said yeah. I said, okay, Well thanks for having
Speaker 2: the truth.
Speaker 5: By this time, man, I'm in the car, my face
Speaker 5: like you could fry fucking the egg on the side
Speaker 5: of my face. Dog, I'm a hot nigga. I'm hot,
Speaker 5: so hot, so hot. I'm hot like another nigga. So dude,
Speaker 5: so I get into the fucking crib and I said listen.
Speaker 5: I said, okay, here's what I want you to do. Man,
Speaker 5: I said, listen, I want you to go upstairs and
Speaker 5: get me all your shoes. Take this plastic bag and
Speaker 5: get me.
Speaker 2: All your shoes. And he's just looking shook.
Speaker 5: So he goes upstairs and gets all the shoes and
Speaker 5: he brings them downstairs. And I said, listen, what's your
Speaker 5: favorite pair of shoes?
Speaker 2: And he just is quiet. He said, well, I like
Speaker 2: these Jordan Foards.
Speaker 5: I said, okay. I said, well, you ain't keeping these fours.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give you these Adidas.
Speaker 2: You keep these. You got one pair of shoes. I said,
Speaker 2: all right, son, I said, well listen, let me break
Speaker 2: it down like this. This is what's happening. I said.
Speaker 5: You have been running a business without proper business licensing.
Speaker 5: I said, whenever you want to run a business in
Speaker 5: wherever you are, you have to get proper licensing from
Speaker 5: the state. Nigga, and I am the state, and you
Speaker 5: do not get proper license from me. So I'm shutting
Speaker 5: your business down, I said. Now also, I said, I also, no,
Speaker 5: as I said, I said, it's brilliant. No, I said, listen,
Speaker 5: I said I also, I said, you have been running
Speaker 5: a business and you have not been reporting your income
Speaker 5: from this business. I said, so when that happens, what
Speaker 5: the federal government does. They do what is known as
Speaker 5: seizing your asset. I said, so all of your shoes
Speaker 5: I'm about to take and keep until we figure out
Speaker 5: exactly how much money you owe me.
Speaker 2: I said, so we're keeping all that. That's me, Brad.
Speaker 2: Why are you hating an enterprising young man?
Speaker 11: Yo?
Speaker 1: No, no, it's no yo. Let me finish. Y'all don't understand.
Speaker 1: So listen, I said, listen. I said, so give me.
Speaker 1: I said, so you give me that. I said, how
Speaker 1: much money you got? He said, I got like twenty
Speaker 1: seven dollars. I said, run that, nigga.
Speaker 2: So he gave me. So I took. I took, you
Speaker 2: swing seven dollars. So I said, you swing seven dollars
Speaker 2: and I was like, okay, run that ship. So he
Speaker 2: gave me swing seven dollars. I said, so listen, what
Speaker 2: we're gonna do?
Speaker 5: I said, So, now from move forward, you got one
Speaker 5: pair of shoes that you're gonna use for the rest
Speaker 5: of school until we figure out this arrangement of how
Speaker 5: much you owe, how much you made, and how much
Speaker 5: you haven't paid on.
Speaker 2: So he's just looking confused and mad, and I am too,
Speaker 2: So okay.
Speaker 5: So a couple of weeks later he comes back to
Speaker 5: me and we're talking about a different subject. He wanted
Speaker 5: to play. He wanted to play gt A on ps
Speaker 5: on on on Xbox. You want to play Grand Theft Auto,
Speaker 5: which is like a game in which you can pick
Speaker 5: up hookers and fuck him and do all kinds of.
Speaker 2: At this time, he's like twelve, ok so you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. So he was like, well, Dad, I
Speaker 2: want to play.
Speaker 1: This game, and I don't understand why you want to
Speaker 1: let me play it, and I don't understand why you
Speaker 1: took my shoes whatever.
Speaker 2: I said, Okay, Well let's talk about it. I said. Okay.
Speaker 5: I said, well, someone, let me break it down like this.
Speaker 5: I said, listen, I said, so what happens. Let me
Speaker 5: ask you a question. I said, what happens when someone
Speaker 5: takes your shoes. Let's say someone takes your shoes and
Speaker 5: they gonna stump in a mud puddle and then they
Speaker 5: bring them back to you.
Speaker 2: What do you do? He says, Oh, well, I mean
Speaker 2: I just clean them off.
Speaker 5: I said, okay, so another niggas gonna ruin your shoes,
Speaker 5: fuck them up, and you gonna clean them off. I said,
Speaker 5: how do you think that's gonna make you look? To
Speaker 5: everybody else out in the world? How does that how
Speaker 5: do you think that's gonna look? What does that say
Speaker 5: about you as a person. Someone can just take your
Speaker 5: shit to file it and then you gonna clean it up.
Speaker 2: And he was quiet.
Speaker 5: I said, okay, you know what. I said, Well, let
Speaker 5: me ask you another question. I said, I ask you
Speaker 5: no question. I said, so oh, I forgot to leave
Speaker 5: this out. So he came home with a new pair
Speaker 5: of shoes. One day he had a came home with
Speaker 5: a new pair of Jordan threes and he was like, yeah, Dad,
Speaker 5: I bought these from my friend for like fifteen dollars.
Speaker 1: I said, nigga, you bought these shoes for fifteen dollars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, And I didn't say nothing.
Speaker 5: I said, okay, so lady on, I said, okay, so Peena,
Speaker 5: I said, was man, what if you out at the
Speaker 5: school bus and like a dude, run up on you, like, hey, man,
Speaker 5: then my brother's shoes, then my brother shoes take them shit.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna beat your ass? What do you do?
Speaker 2: He said, Well, I would probably run.
Speaker 5: I said, okay, I'm gonna pretend you didn't say that,
Speaker 5: because like running like you sign a real bitch right now, don't.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna just act like you didn't say that. I said,
Speaker 5: let's okay, I'm you didn't say that. I said, well,
Speaker 5: what would you do? He said, Well, I would go
Speaker 5: and probably tell a teacher. I said, oh, so you're
Speaker 5: gonna snitch now.
Speaker 2: You snitching. That's what's hot in the streets. We snitching.
Speaker 2: That's what you're doing, you snitching? He said. Okay.
Speaker 5: He said, okay, well, okay, Well I will probably come
Speaker 5: and tell you. I said, oh, is you gonna come
Speaker 5: and tell me? Because I'm the muscle of your operation.
Speaker 1: I'm the goon and I'm just gonna beat motherfuckers down,
Speaker 1: and that's just what the fuck I do, right, you
Speaker 1: gonna call me?
Speaker 2: So he was quiet.
Speaker 5: I said, listen, man, here's what lesson I want you
Speaker 5: to understand. I said, brother shoes, them shoes sell retail
Speaker 5: at bet and I'm being nice them shit sell at
Speaker 5: retail for one hundred and forty dollars, that's being nice,
Speaker 5: I said, And he sold them to you for fifteen.
Speaker 5: What nigga, you know, is gonna take one hundred and
Speaker 5: twenty five dollars loss on shoes just to sell them
Speaker 5: to you?
Speaker 2: Why? Because they your friend? Fuck?
Speaker 5: No, I said, listen, man, if somebody's selling something to
Speaker 5: you at that much of a loss, it ain't theirs
Speaker 5: to fucking sell. I said, So more than likely it's
Speaker 5: either they fucking stole them from somebody else or they,
Speaker 5: you know, took him.
Speaker 2: I said.
Speaker 5: Nigga wants to stop a nigga from wrinting your shoes
Speaker 5: for five and then sell them to another nigga for fifteen?
Speaker 7: Wow?
Speaker 2: What's to stop them from doing that? And he was
Speaker 2: just quiet? I said, listen man, I said, listen, I
Speaker 2: want you to understand something. This is what I want
Speaker 2: you to understand.
Speaker 5: It's great that you are an enterprising young businessman. You
Speaker 5: got it, honest. You know what I'm saying because I'm
Speaker 5: the same way.
Speaker 1: I said, But listen, school is not the place to
Speaker 1: run a business because eventually you're gonna run into a
Speaker 1: conflict that you're gonna have to handle that.
Speaker 2: It's gonna fuck up you being in school.
Speaker 5: I said, so, then when all the ship shakes out
Speaker 5: and a nigga either bring your ship back fucked up
Speaker 5: or what just short you some money whatever, you're gonna
Speaker 5: get into a fight or whatever. Now you're in the
Speaker 5: prinsonal's office. And now you're in the prinsional's office and
Speaker 5: they're like, okay, well what happened? And they find out
Speaker 5: you running this shoe. I said, so, nigga, So you're
Speaker 5: running what is known that's rico nigga. That is a
Speaker 5: continuing criminal enterprise. That is that you are running a
Speaker 5: sneaker racket illegally. I said, so, now your ass is
Speaker 5: get spelled from god damn school.
Speaker 7: You are scaring the ship out of there quite room.
Speaker 5: No, he's fucking I said, listen, you're running a continuing
Speaker 5: criminal enterprise.
Speaker 2: I said, so, now your ass is kicked out of
Speaker 2: school over five dollars.
Speaker 1: Dang yoan a white holiday song.
Speaker 2: This is John Cooper mellen Camps. I saw Mommy kissing
Speaker 2: Santa Claus.
Speaker 8: You try that.
Speaker 2: That was your best segue ever ever. You know what
Speaker 2: I mean? White Christmas soung mom need to last time.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen in an effort to ensure that I
Speaker 1: have a job with this company. In twenty seventeen, that
Speaker 1: was Indiana Zone John Cougar Mellencamp saying, I saw Mommy
Speaker 1: kissing Santa Claus.
Speaker 2: I just I had to. I mean, your storytelling skills,
Speaker 2: Fante is just off the chain. At first. At first,
Speaker 2: I was like, I was like, why are you hating
Speaker 2: on your son? I was proud of him for doing that.
Speaker 1: But then once you showed us the errors in our
Speaker 1: way in the perils of street hustling.
Speaker 7: Yo, you're a real daddy.
Speaker 2: He didn't see it, but these are the kind of
Speaker 2: conversations I have to have.
Speaker 7: You like a real dad. I just don't know what
Speaker 7: the average daddy.
Speaker 1: Cause in your head you're like, you do this with
Speaker 1: sneakers now, then to be we later, nigga, come on,
Speaker 1: oh day, I didn't even see that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be cracked, you know, in three years.
Speaker 11: But can we still kind of nurture his business acumen
Speaker 11: because it is there, absolutely so.
Speaker 2: So so the counter that what you're saying, like what
Speaker 2: I told him, I said, listen, I.
Speaker 7: Was great because I did I did, like radio for
Speaker 7: a long time.
Speaker 2: We were having a problem.
Speaker 5: We were having a problem and we were talking, and
Speaker 5: you know, he was having a problem with his grades
Speaker 5: around this time, and so I told him, I was
Speaker 5: just like, listen, man, he had problem with his grades,
Speaker 5: and then he had problem with with the girls because
Speaker 5: he's like, you know, he's at today when he was
Speaker 5: kind of getting in the girls at the time.
Speaker 2: And so I said, listen, man, you imagine Grandpa ticke
Speaker 2: a little. I don't know, we can't do that trying
Speaker 2: to give him the knowledge. Man. So I just told
Speaker 2: him straight up, this was like eighth grade.
Speaker 1: And I was just like, listen, man, I said, listen,
Speaker 1: the reason why you're great your your bitches is what
Speaker 1: you watch it because your grades is what you watch it.
Speaker 7: Is that really?
Speaker 2: I was like, listen, I break it up, I said, listens.
Speaker 2: I'm sure. I said no, I said, listen. This is why.
Speaker 5: This is how I broke it down to him. I said, look, man,
Speaker 5: I said, listen. I said, look man, I said, you
Speaker 5: remember we went to see Planet of the Apes. You
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. And he was like, so we
Speaker 5: didn't see don Planet of the Apes. He said, yeah,
Speaker 5: that shit was lit, he said, I remember.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, man, you remember, I said, listen,
Speaker 1: I said, you remember what happened when Caesar, You know,
Speaker 1: when Caesar got sucked up.
Speaker 5: And then his son came and was like, Dad, we
Speaker 5: need you to come back. Come back, Dad, we need you.
Speaker 5: And he was like, no, son, I can't come back.
Speaker 5: Week I can't. I can't and he was like, no, Dad,
Speaker 5: we need you to come back. Really, Cob was coming.
Speaker 5: He's here and he fucking up for everybody.
Speaker 2: We need you.
Speaker 5: And I said, remember what did Caesar? What did Caesar
Speaker 5: tell his son? I said, nig If you don't remember,
Speaker 5: he said, he said, no, I can't come back, son.
Speaker 5: Ape seek strongest branch. APE seeks strongest branch.
Speaker 1: I said, so listen, I said, you remember nothing else
Speaker 1: I told you tonight about women, about relationships, about game.
Speaker 1: I said, Nigga, you remember this, ape seak strongest branch.
Speaker 1: A woman is always going to want to seek the
Speaker 1: strongest branch that she can reach of. Once she feels
Speaker 1: that your branch is given, if it's weak, if it's bending,
Speaker 1: she's off to the next fucking branch. So what does
Speaker 1: that mean for you? That means you gotta be the
Speaker 1: strongest branch that you can be, not for her.
Speaker 8: Fuck her.
Speaker 2: You gotta be the strongest branch for you. I was there.
Speaker 2: You got to be the strongest branch for you. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: For you. I said, So, all these problems you haven't
Speaker 1: in school and all that, I said, listen with the
Speaker 1: girls whatever I said. Listen, if you focus on your
Speaker 1: schoolwork and be the best branch you can be doing
Speaker 1: what you gotta beat, the best branch, the best rural jury,
Speaker 1: best branch, unique New York, all that shit new York.
Speaker 5: So if you be all of that, the woman is
Speaker 5: gonna take care of herself. The man that is always
Speaker 5: on his mission doing what he got to do. Nigga,
Speaker 5: you ain't ever gonna have no woman problems you you
Speaker 5: You ain't you gonna be cool. But you gotta be
Speaker 5: on your mission. That's the number one thing in your
Speaker 5: life is your mission. It ain't her, It's the mission.
Speaker 2: A woman wants. A man just want a mission. I said,
Speaker 2: So you showing up half assed.
Speaker 1: The classes, sucking up, felling grades and ship, I said, nigga,
Speaker 1: that's why you you wish you washy, That's why your
Speaker 1: bitches is wishy washing A.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's yeah, I'm sorry you're like the profit. Yeah, okay, good.
Speaker 1: I feel as though this has been an amazing lesson,
Speaker 1: life lesson. It's life lessons with Tila.
Speaker 5: Now this is but these are kind of conversations I
Speaker 5: had to he with my kids, man, like I have
Speaker 5: to have them kind of conversation to wait to.
Speaker 7: See them as men. They should be really dope men.
Speaker 2: I hope.
Speaker 5: So, I mean, I hope. So you know it's fifty
Speaker 5: to fifty. You know, they could be great men. They
Speaker 5: could be scammers, nigga, I don't know, but now, I mean,
Speaker 5: you just never know. It's that part of your kids
Speaker 5: that you can't control.
Speaker 7: I don't know about that life.
Speaker 2: It's yo, It's it's crazy.
Speaker 5: So now, but those comps that have my kids and
Speaker 5: so after I explained it to him like that, then
Speaker 5: he kind of got it. And you know, he's been
Speaker 5: doing good shots all of a sudden, he got a
Speaker 5: three point zero's first semester. It's freshman year in high school, right,
Speaker 5: so you know, big umps to him. I love him,
Speaker 5: I'm proud of him, and uh yeah, man, we just
Speaker 5: want to keep them them in some going. But you know,
Speaker 5: I just have to keep explaining to them the things
Speaker 5: in your life right now that are important. These people
Speaker 5: that you put so much stock in three years, you're
Speaker 5: not gonna care about none of these motherfuckers. Like high
Speaker 5: school is the most fleeting shit ever, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean. So, but it's hard, it doesn't it feels
Speaker 5: so important. So back to Christmas. So, yeah, my count's
Speaker 5: son is a sneaker head, and that was what I saw,
Speaker 5: what we was talking, that's what that's.
Speaker 2: How we get ouround. My son was nigger head.
Speaker 5: So I'm trying to explain to him that like all
Speaker 5: the kids in life right now that like had the hottest,
Speaker 5: like seventh or eighth grade that had the hottest the
Speaker 5: new jay's and the new disk and the hot new disk.
Speaker 2: I said, son, I didn't you understand something. This is
Speaker 2: the peak of their lives.
Speaker 5: All the niggas I went to school with that had
Speaker 5: the hot, new, new new shit nigga, their lives never
Speaker 5: advanced past that.
Speaker 2: That was it. Twenty years later, the nigga the cool kid.
Speaker 1: Twenty years later, niggas is still fucking talking about yo.
Speaker 2: Nigga. You remember first day of seventh grade nigga. I
Speaker 2: had that Jodan's nigga.
Speaker 7: Yo sho, No, I don't remember.
Speaker 2: That because I lived the life that was fulfilling.
Speaker 11: Yo. Shout out to my flight to the mommy that
Speaker 11: used to go to Korea and get me to fake
Speaker 11: shit all my church Jo Decini and my mcm bags.
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. And I was proud. I
Speaker 7: was proud that it was fake. I was like, y'all
Speaker 7: really spending all that money.
Speaker 2: On that ship.
Speaker 7: That's crazy?
Speaker 2: One am I great? I wish I could tell this story.
Speaker 2: I tell it you. I think I could tell this story.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: We uh, we were doing a song with Scott Storch
Speaker 1: once is during the Tipping Point season that Bill so
Speaker 1: Lovingly is Fine.
Speaker 2: Was my favorite song off Tipping Point. I didn't guns
Speaker 2: are drawn banging John alight anyway?
Speaker 7: All right, sorry.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Right, but so you know, two thousand and four,
Speaker 1: Kanye had a lot of us messed up and kind
Speaker 1: of like, you know, doing high end fashion shopping or whatever.
Speaker 1: And so there's a point where our beloved uh shout
Speaker 1: out to Bert Carl Jenkins aka Dice, were all Dice
Speaker 1: Rid Dice, Dice very well like he is. I'm certain
Speaker 1: that even DICE's shoes right now costs more than like
Speaker 1: what my apartment did. Yeah, like Dice, yeah, Dice or Ostrich,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, like he's rocking some next shit. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Scott Storch, who you know at the time, was really
Speaker 1: swimming and a lot of money happen to have, like
Speaker 1: a Louis bag. Uh, sitting in the studio room and
Speaker 1: Scott said something that Dice like running my Louis bag
Speaker 1: real quick and give me da da da da da.
Speaker 1: So Dice went over and he kind of noticed that, oh,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, this is a knockoff Louie bag.
Speaker 2: Now DICE's head it was like, you know, Dice, I
Speaker 2: mean Scott was making.
Speaker 1: Big giant nine figures that year, and he's like, yo,
Speaker 1: like you know, why are you walking around this fake Louis.
Speaker 2: Back Like you just got storage you have all the
Speaker 2: money in the world. And Scott laughed so hard.
Speaker 1: He's like, wait, that's a real Louis back you're holding Dice,
Speaker 1: Like DICE's back was really good, and he was like,
Speaker 1: that's a real Louis bag you have.
Speaker 2: Dice, I's like, yeah, my bag is real and every
Speaker 2: like Scott laughs so hard, like dog, why would you
Speaker 2: pay that much money? Like I have the same Kid Rock,
Speaker 2: yes exactly.
Speaker 11: So you know I met the kid Rock because you
Speaker 11: know how kid rocks that he purposely rocks like fake
Speaker 11: stuff because what's why would you be wearing all that?
Speaker 5: But that's rich nigga shit though, you can do that
Speaker 5: as a rich nigga because people assume if you're rich
Speaker 5: and you rocking knock off shit, they as soon it's real,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. But like you know, if
Speaker 5: you're broke nigga, you rock knockoff ship, then you look
Speaker 5: even more broke, you know what I.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fucked up. Actually, yep, that's funny you said that.
Speaker 2: I mean the few times that I've chilled with.
Speaker 1: Kid Rock, Bob Bob, he used to really listly. I
Speaker 1: mean his first named basis with kid Rock. It was
Speaker 1: like twenty years I've noticed dude with the Bob the bang,
Speaker 1: the bang, Like it's kind of funny to be like,
Speaker 1: you do know, No, it's just kind of funny that
Speaker 1: kid Rock has an actual name and it's Bob Bob.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I mean his first album was a rap album.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, Bob well, I mean rap in
Speaker 5: quotation marks.
Speaker 1: But anyway, yeah, like he he just never got the
Speaker 1: whole like why are you guys wearing Louis Vatan and
Speaker 1: Gucci stuff?
Speaker 2: He used to always tease us and point at our
Speaker 2: shoes and stuff.
Speaker 5: But that's the thing though, man, Like I remember I
Speaker 5: read a quote from from Mark Zuckerberg and he was
Speaker 5: like talking about how he wears the same thing every day. Yep,
Speaker 5: because gives him one less thing to think about. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm working towards that. I'm the same way. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm sure. I mean we've been doing Court Supreme for
Speaker 5: a while now. All y'all have been seeing me, were like,
Speaker 5: it's like four things, four outfits that I have in
Speaker 5: my whole arsenal shirt.
Speaker 7: We know, Gamble still drive a Honda Cord so gambled
Speaker 7: like Honda.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but he still he does not drive a fancy
Speaker 11: car school I know, but he drives a Honda.
Speaker 2: He owned schools because he drives a Honda. Court Well, he.
Speaker 7: Owned schools because you know, I ain't nobody looking at
Speaker 7: their contract.
Speaker 2: The blame it on the Can we play that some
Speaker 2: background Christmas music? I gotta say, michelbyas you're leaving us.
Speaker 7: Where are you going?
Speaker 2: Going to Andy Bravo's show, whatever, You're going.
Speaker 7: To watch What Happens Live? What are you going to
Speaker 7: do there?
Speaker 2: Yo? He is such a uh watch what Happens Live expert.
Speaker 7: I love that you want to sit in the audience.
Speaker 6: I'm not an expert. It's my girl's birthday tonight. She's
Speaker 6: an expert.
Speaker 2: I didn't know because just put on the Christmas.
Speaker 7: Please put on let me get us right, girl a
Speaker 7: Birthdays and then.
Speaker 2: With Dreda I will play.
Speaker 7: It's interesting.
Speaker 2: Anyway, this is so interesting.
Speaker 7: So how long have you been not single?
Speaker 2: So? I want to wish him merry Christmas and a
Speaker 2: happy New Year brought up? Let him, let him do
Speaker 2: this thing.
Speaker 6: So I want to wish her happy, happy Christmas and
Speaker 6: happy Honkah, Happy Kwanza, Happy New Year to everybody. I
Speaker 6: like to thank Electric Lady for letting us be here
Speaker 6: this year and hopefully next year. Phil Jolly, Phil Jolly's
Speaker 6: the engineer in there.
Speaker 2: I feel.
Speaker 6: Phil, feel that Seth Paris is assisting in there.
Speaker 2: Hey Seth, Hey, it's Seth. I think we're coming to
Speaker 2: get evicted. Here's Ashley. Everybody, Happy birthday? Look a birthday
Speaker 2: as that poor girl birthday.
Speaker 1: When you leave, because happy birthday. We wish your happy
Speaker 1: birthday and we hope you leave it in tonight.
Speaker 2: You can't. Oh my God, forgive us. We're quite drunk,
Speaker 2: as would you like some duce?
Speaker 7: Do you know what you know?
Speaker 2: Do you know.
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: We don't know.
Speaker 1: Don't want draggon off? Oh goddamn, focused really on what
Speaker 1: any of these episode done until we can leave.
Speaker 2: Okay, So.
Speaker 1: Give us what you're grateful for for Christmas? Yo, Man,
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for life. I'm greful, I said grateful, grateful,
Speaker 1: but what you're grateful for? Man, Listen, we could be
Speaker 1: humble with thanksgiving, thanksgiving that Christmas.
Speaker 2: This is Christmas.
Speaker 5: Okay, listen, listen, Okay, real real ship. Okay, listen. I'm
Speaker 5: thankful for my life. I'm thankful for being in the
Speaker 5: presence of greatness. You know what I'm saying, For being
Speaker 5: a part of Team Supreme and being able to help
Speaker 5: people's lives.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying as they get through their
Speaker 2: day at work. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I've had so many people hit me on Twitter and Instagram,
Speaker 5: everything saying listen to the show. And that like, yo, man,
Speaker 5: your show helps me get through my day work. You
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying, thank you for doing what you do.
Speaker 5: And so man, listen, I'm thankful for life and thankful
Speaker 5: for my family. I'm thankful for my lady. I'm thankful
Speaker 5: for my kids for keeping me grounded. And uh, you know,
Speaker 5: unlike most people or a lot of people that I'm seeing,
Speaker 5: you know, they're just all dooming gloom under this Trump
Speaker 5: presidency that were they were about to be in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2: Man, I think that if nothing else, this.
Speaker 5: Would be the year that black people will realize all
Speaker 5: we got is us, know what I'm saying, right, all
Speaker 5: we got is us, you know what I mean? And
Speaker 5: so for me, I'm just like, listen, man, no matter
Speaker 5: who they was gonna put in all this wether it's
Speaker 5: gonna be Clinton, Hillary, fucking Ron, Paul Nigga, julianni Got,
Speaker 5: Damn rand Paul whoever, damn Jamaine Greasy, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean, who at DoD New York and they put
Speaker 5: in office, I was gonna still have to get up
Speaker 5: every morning and figure out How'm gonna make it happen
Speaker 5: for me and mine? You know what, I mean and
Speaker 5: so so man. So you know whatever, I know this
Speaker 5: this election has a lot of people on their edge
Speaker 5: and and nervous. But you know, at the end of
Speaker 5: the day, all I would just say is, look, listen, man,
Speaker 5: all we ever had was each other.
Speaker 2: All we have had was us. And you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 5: The people that ride with you, the people that fuck
Speaker 5: with you, white, Black, Jewish, Buddhist, whoever, the fuck, the
Speaker 5: people that in your life that are legitimately riding for you.
Speaker 2: All y'all can do is support each other, ride for
Speaker 2: each other, and just get through this ship.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be all right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It ain't all.
Speaker 5: Doomsday and gloom and we all done and oh my god,
Speaker 5: fuck that we still got life.
Speaker 2: We're still here. We can still fucking make it, dude.
Speaker 2: So that's one man.
Speaker 5: I'm thankful for life, and I'm thinking for every day
Speaker 5: another chance to be a better man than I was
Speaker 5: today before.
Speaker 2: Okay, Uh, I'm paid, bill, I mean.
Speaker 3: I payful for friends, man, my kids and friends. I
Speaker 3: never thought that i'd be in this position, and a
Speaker 3: fucking it's fantastic. M You got to know, I love
Speaker 3: everybody in this room.
Speaker 2: Man, I really do.
Speaker 7: I'm thankful.
Speaker 11: I'm thankful that you know, last year I was unemployed
Speaker 11: and my unemployment had just ran out, and today I
Speaker 11: am here with you talented fellows, and really you are
Speaker 11: a group of talented fellows. I don't say it a lot.
Speaker 11: I don't like to toot your horn, but since the holidays,
Speaker 11: I will say this. I tell my friends all the
Speaker 11: time it is nice to be in a room full
Speaker 11: of greatness. And I mean you too, Bill, Yes, and
Speaker 11: let me say this too for you.
Speaker 5: Like I always thought when we first started doing this
Speaker 5: that we needed a woman and I could not, I
Speaker 5: coulnot ask for a better woman.
Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: We've known each other a long time, we go way back,
Speaker 5: and you know, man, seriously, you know I love you
Speaker 5: as a sister, as a friend, and you know you
Speaker 5: always got me for whatever you need.
Speaker 2: For life, you know what I mean? My work wife.
Speaker 2: All that not not sperm, because I'm snipped and it
Speaker 2: is over so you know.
Speaker 7: But it's swimmers.
Speaker 2: But if you need plasma, he's got plenty. I got
Speaker 2: plenty of plasma for you. No sperm, but I got plasma. Bill,
Speaker 2: What give us thoughts? Give us some final thoughts on Christmas.
Speaker 2: I know you're a grinch, bro, but you know I'm
Speaker 2: not a grin. Stop trying to know this Oscar, Oscar,
Speaker 2: this ship. You're so boss Bil, you ain't no Oscar.
Speaker 6: His final last words the Beach Boys Christmas album. That
Speaker 6: whole album is awesome.
Speaker 5: But no, I understand you more than now than I
Speaker 5: ever had. Boss Bill, I don't dead ass.
Speaker 2: Bill, Yo. Me and Boss Bill are so much alike
Speaker 2: it's scary.
Speaker 5: I'm just like this ship he be saying, it's it's
Speaker 5: scary because it's so much alike. And that was, like,
Speaker 5: I think, a big reason why we did go and
Speaker 5: your radio like we just got each other on an
Speaker 5: intrinsic level.
Speaker 2: So no, he's not the grinch. He's just a staunch realist. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have high expectations of everyone. That's lower than expectations. No, No,
Speaker 1: that's okay, what you I was never told what to
Speaker 1: talk about. I was just asked for some final thoughts,
Speaker 1: so I just started talking. So what what do you
Speaker 1: want me to talk about? Never mind final final thoughts?
Speaker 1: Thankful ship?
Speaker 2: Okay? What am I thankful for? I'm thankful that this
Speaker 2: radio show something nice Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm thankful that this radio show exists, because if this
Speaker 1: radio show didn't exist, I'd probably be living in Indiana
Speaker 1: and in a city that is actually on the list
Speaker 1: that I saw on the internet for having high Ku
Speaker 1: Klux plan activity. It's also the same Cocomo, Indiana where
Speaker 1: I grew up. Cocame talk about the plan about to
Speaker 1: have a rally in, and I'm just like, dude, you
Speaker 1: live there. Sometimes I lived there.
Speaker 2: But I love it.
Speaker 5: I love it, Christmas, I love it. But plaim let's
Speaker 5: talk like the fucking BlackBerry of racist. You niggas still
Speaker 5: like you niggas are still marching and putting on It's like, no, Like,
Speaker 5: don't you know racism has evolved past that, real races,
Speaker 5: red lightning school districts, you know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 5: y'all niggas still marching and like, what the fuck are
Speaker 5: you doing? Y'all niggas still using the track ball?
Speaker 2: Joy to the world, George to the world. All right, listen,
Speaker 2: what's the best thing you've ever said? The world? All Right?
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for the fact that I'm still here on
Speaker 1: this earth right now. I'm thankful to the fact that
Speaker 1: I was able to be on the earth at the
Speaker 1: same time as all of you people.
Speaker 5: You boss bill Yo, I mean we've been along, We've
Speaker 5: been we have a long I love you. Okay, can
Speaker 5: wrap it up. Finally, Yeah, I talk to us, boss.
Speaker 5: I'm thankful that I'm also waiting. I'm also thankful that
Speaker 5: Panda is not going to cancel us because of this episode.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Scott ya yo. I want to Scott
Speaker 2: ya Yo. Shout Scott my brother, my.
Speaker 1: Man, Man's were going to We're going to the to
Speaker 1: the Brazilian spot right after this. I'll get some lomoentitled
Speaker 1: We're gonna get some fucking We're gonna get all that ship.
Speaker 2: Son.
Speaker 1: Listen, I gotta listen. All I can say August say
Speaker 1: is is on behalf of the Team Supreme. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: everything that they said. And in addition, Scott, yeah, yo,
Speaker 1: boss Billings on the this show.
Speaker 8: What's up?
Speaker 1: Ya yo?
Speaker 7: Are you gonna Are you gonna tell us you love us?
Speaker 7: Are you gonna say I love you?
Speaker 2: I gave you all a lot of money for Christmas?
Speaker 2: I love you. No, I'm mere No.
Speaker 5: I mean this brother, I mean it's for real man,
Speaker 5: and I'm Trump, So you know I mean, it's for
Speaker 5: real dressing, so you know it's real.
Speaker 1: No, I'm drunk, you know it's really what's talking to
Speaker 1: the angels like, Oh no, no, I'm mere.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: You were from the front, from the jump. You have
Speaker 5: been the biggest, one of the biggest supporters of my group,
Speaker 5: of my career. You have always like stood by me,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, and supported me and all
Speaker 5: that ship. And I mean this, man, you do a
Speaker 5: lot for a lot of people who may not always
Speaker 5: say this. And I really want to say this, brother,
Speaker 5: I love you, man, like seriously. I know you don't
Speaker 5: that whole emotions thing.
Speaker 2: You don't do real re but.
Speaker 5: But like listen, but no, dog, I still have as
Speaker 5: a man of you can put the drum sticks down
Speaker 5: tonight and I would still love you.
Speaker 2: You good for a plate in my house anytime, My nig.
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