Speaker 1: Quest Love Show is a production of iHeart Radio. What's
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 2: This is cousin Jake, one of the producers of The
Speaker 2: Questlove Show, and this season we kicked things off back
Speaker 2: in November with Open Mike Eagle, an artist that Quest
Speaker 2: You've been super supportive of. You guys did a whole
Speaker 2: season of a podcast together, and you guys spoke for
Speaker 2: like two hours, but I think I spoke for.
Speaker 1: Two hours full disclosure.
Speaker 2: I mean the comments on that, and I'm the guy
Speaker 2: that has to read the hate mail, the love mail,
Speaker 2: the suggestion.
Speaker 3: That was the ishtar of no way, yeah Way.
Speaker 4: It was the they went in on me, no you know,
Speaker 4: And I explained to people that y'all just caught me
Speaker 4: in a very dark week. I was kind of dealing
Speaker 4: with the D'Angelo situation the time that I couldn't share
Speaker 4: and so.
Speaker 2: Is I remember it that taped, not it didn't run
Speaker 2: terribly long after we taped, but I was getting ready
Speaker 2: for it. And that was the day you released your
Speaker 2: Instagram like public statement and you had a series of
Speaker 2: videos and then I always imagine like you turn your
Speaker 2: phone off, so you sat down and you were a
Speaker 2: phenomenal listener about that and you spoke about how life
Speaker 2: almost sent you down a psychology path or yeah, And
Speaker 2: I mean what's interesting is the comments. Yes, some people
Speaker 2: said more than another episode's Yo questlove man, let the
Speaker 2: guy talk. I know, but you know that was thirty
Speaker 2: five percent sixty five percent where people like this is
Speaker 2: an evolved, high frequency conversation between two men, two artists. Nevertheless,
Speaker 2: we wanted to continue that here with kind of a
Speaker 2: special announcement we can make in a few minutes. But
Speaker 2: you know, Mike, how are you?
Speaker 3: I'm chilling? You know, I'm good. I'm happy to be here,
Speaker 3: you know, happy to be here working, always making stuff
Speaker 3: all the time.
Speaker 1: But what are you working on now?
Speaker 3: Oh? I did just I just finished another album, like
Speaker 3: I just finished the Master. I got the Master's approved
Speaker 3: this week, So I'm excited about that.
Speaker 1: I envy that.
Speaker 3: Well, well, I mean, you know, it's just me really,
Speaker 3: so I don't have as many things to oversee and
Speaker 3: monitor and tweak as you. You know, y'all got a
Speaker 3: lot of things going on over there, so who could
Speaker 3: blame me? Before it taking a little longer.
Speaker 1: Than I'm overthinker.
Speaker 4: You already established I'm the overthinker and you're the hard guy,
Speaker 4: and I'm trying to get to that place over think too.
Speaker 3: But it's just it's a lot easier when I'm overthinking
Speaker 3: by myself. It's a lot easier, Honestly, I don't have
Speaker 3: to have as many conversations.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm very excited because I've definitely decided that you
Speaker 4: are probably the voice in my head. You're the voice
Speaker 4: in my hip hop head. Like every line you say,
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel. That's how I feel too.
Speaker 4: It's like the last time I did that was probably
Speaker 4: watching Love on the Spectrum.
Speaker 3: Hey I do that that show.
Speaker 1: Damn that's me too, you know.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I want to even ask you about that.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, our purpose here was to continue
Speaker 2: some of that discussion. And I'm sitting in because you're
Speaker 2: a voice that folks might hear and maybe see in
Speaker 2: this case on some of these mini episodes. But I
Speaker 2: just want to know what your daily listening diet is like.
Speaker 3: So on this album, that's interesting.
Speaker 2: You got Michigan Jay Wonder, that's the song I keep
Speaker 2: coming back, and you've got the you know, the homage
Speaker 2: to boot Camp click in there right, And I'm like, man,
Speaker 2: this guy listens like, I just imagine you really latching
Speaker 2: on to I'm not going to say deep cuts, but
Speaker 2: I'm just curious what your music diet is.
Speaker 3: Like, that's really interesting. Like right now I'm in a
Speaker 3: phase of listening to this band called XTC. You familiar with.
Speaker 4: Oranges and Lemons helped me, see they were in my
Speaker 4: label mates at Geffen. So again, we would raid the
Speaker 4: closets at Geffen.
Speaker 1: Hey what's that over there?
Speaker 4: Have canvas bags and then run the bleaker Bob's hopefully
Speaker 4: get forty fifty.
Speaker 1: Dollars records you can go to.
Speaker 2: You feel the stickers off at least the promo at all.
Speaker 4: Well, their version of it was put the little whole
Speaker 4: punch or the whole punch. Yeah, but oftentimes but even then, like, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, Sonic you've admitted and uh, weez Are admitted
Speaker 4: they did the same thing. So you're getting which your
Speaker 4: album in particular.
Speaker 3: So Mummer is the one I've been listening to over
Speaker 3: and over again, Okay, And I don't know if there's
Speaker 3: a connection to the Mumbers Parade or anything like that,
Speaker 3: but I hope not. I mean it might, I don't
Speaker 3: know who knows, But that's the one I've been running
Speaker 3: over and over again. I always listen to this stuff
Speaker 3: when I'm writing, like not writing rap, but like writing
Speaker 3: TV film stuff. I listened to them a lot, Like
Speaker 3: they put me in the right zone. So I've been
Speaker 3: bumping Mummer over and over again. Orangeans and Lemons, Gosh,
Speaker 3: just a few records by them that I can't remember
Speaker 3: the name too right, but.
Speaker 2: You still create that like see the experience of like
Speaker 2: I got one in the car, Like I'm gonna keep
Speaker 2: this album heavy rotation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and I listened to a lot. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm listening to streaming, but I'm typically listening by an album,
Speaker 3: like I'll put on XGC album, put on a stereo
Speaker 3: lab album like you know, Like that's typically my consumption
Speaker 3: is is album based. When I'm in the mood to
Speaker 3: listen to an album. Most of the time, I'm listening
Speaker 3: to people talk on YouTube. That's what I'm listening to
Speaker 3: the majority of the time.
Speaker 1: What do you listen to?
Speaker 3: Oh? I listen to people talk about anything that I'm
Speaker 3: interested in, whether it's music, professional wrestling, comic books, TV, film,
Speaker 3: conspiracy theories. You know, things are getting real real these
Speaker 3: days out here and with the government. So like I'm
Speaker 3: doing a lot of deep dives along with people who
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if they're experts or not, but they.
Speaker 2: Can you listen to somebody that you dislike or disagree
Speaker 2: with for a long period.
Speaker 3: Of time, not disagree with.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I can listen to somebody I dislike, but I can't
Speaker 3: necessarily spend a long time, like the type of attention
Speaker 3: I give a YouTube video. If they keep saying stuff
Speaker 3: I disagree with, I start talking back out loud, like
Speaker 3: in my in my home, your inner Eric Manee is
Speaker 3: about they start, and I can't.
Speaker 4: I want to get Eric Mana on QLs man because
Speaker 4: this guy, I love him, Man, I love this Eric.
Speaker 2: Brittany's on the phone right now.
Speaker 4: Trying to I know that I'm probably still dipping my
Speaker 4: toe into the world of YouTube, you know, because like
Speaker 4: all the kids, of all the roots kids, the way
Speaker 4: that YouTube consumes their lives, and you know these are
Speaker 4: like some of them are watching actual like well whatever
Speaker 4: the black nerd version of Jonathan Lipinski from Jerry Maguire,
Speaker 4: you know, like Berson beefs and smell Fire, Like all
Speaker 4: these nerdy Roots kids are like showing me some sort
Speaker 4: of scientific thing that they saw on YouTube. I'm purposely
Speaker 4: not jumping into the whole of YouTube the way that
Speaker 4: I should because I'm I'm afraid you guys will never
Speaker 4: see me again.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, what do you listen to me? You're
Speaker 3: listening to music primarily. Do you listen to talk? Do
Speaker 3: you listen to people? You listen to podcasts?
Speaker 1: Like you want to know? Okay, let me you did this?
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you no.
Speaker 1: And we can only play ten seconds of it if
Speaker 1: it's I'm being mindful. Right.
Speaker 4: Well, here's the thing, though, I'm being highly mindful of
Speaker 4: what I do listen to.
Speaker 2: You've been playing some amazing music while we've been on
Speaker 2: this trip, Like you were playing Art Farmer yesterday. I
Speaker 2: was like, damn yeah, I called it Freddy Hubbard. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I tend to gravitate towards the opposite of what I'm
Speaker 4: going through right now creatively. All right, So to give
Speaker 4: you a good example, like I will listen to this
Speaker 4: for like like the second I get home. This is
Speaker 4: the noise that is in my house for like the
Speaker 4: next six seven hours.
Speaker 3: Are you meditating?
Speaker 4: I just have to be in a meditative state because
Speaker 4: the level of what I'm juggling right now, Like as
Speaker 4: I'm speaking, I'm juggling at least six projects. So I
Speaker 4: just pretty much listen to tones. I don't listen to music
Speaker 4: much anymore because of what I do for a living, right,
Speaker 4: I have to get that out my system.
Speaker 3: So that's precisely the reason why I'm typically not listening
Speaker 3: to a lot of rap music these days, because that's
Speaker 3: primarily what I'm making, primarily what I'm discussing when I'm
Speaker 3: making my own YouTube videos and so like, there's so
Speaker 3: much that happens in my mind when I hear a
Speaker 3: rap song or rap album, it's got it's almost got
Speaker 3: nothing to do with the music. I'm thinking about who
Speaker 3: this is, where they're from, what label they're on, how
Speaker 3: this music got to me. There's so much going on
Speaker 3: in my mind because I'm so embedded in the industry,
Speaker 3: even though you know, obviously not at the major label level,
Speaker 3: but it's just such a part of my life that
Speaker 3: it gets in the way of my enjoyment of it.
Speaker 3: So typically I have to put on genres far away
Speaker 3: from what I do.
Speaker 2: So you you just said you completed it. Now I'm
Speaker 2: very curious, and I know you're very soon you go
Speaker 2: overseas for a tour run. I'm always fascinated with this
Speaker 2: with comedians of like putting new songs in their set.
Speaker 2: Will you perform songs that aren't out yet for your audience?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm going to start that process this
Speaker 3: time because I want to get used to playing them,
Speaker 3: because I find a different relationship to songs when I
Speaker 3: start playing them, So I don't want the first time
Speaker 3: that I play these songs to be when it's the
Speaker 3: release party, you know, So I want to get used
Speaker 3: to seeing how some of them feel.
Speaker 2: And will you how much does the crowd dictate what
Speaker 2: you think of that song? Are you able to.
Speaker 3: Just probably more than they should, Probably probably more than
Speaker 3: they said. If they have a bad reaction to something,
Speaker 3: I'm going to think about that for a good long time,
Speaker 3: even though.
Speaker 4: Wait, how do you know they have a bad reaction
Speaker 4: If they don't, if they're in different, if they're indifferent,
Speaker 4: if they don't release energy at the time when I
Speaker 4: feel like that should happened in the song, somebody say, oh, well,
Speaker 4: I don't get I mean, you know my version of that,
Speaker 4: which is probably saying something a little bit a little
Speaker 4: less traditional.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I feel like, okay, whenever I'm on a zoom.
Speaker 1: Do you know about the Macbeth curse?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: If you are in a theater, you are to never
Speaker 4: ever say the word Macbeth.
Speaker 1: It's a centuries long kind of owning. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Matter of fact, if you go to a Broadway play
Speaker 4: in New York when the theater's empty, they purposely leave
Speaker 4: a single lamp with no shade and a single light
Speaker 4: in the middle of the theater to sort of throw
Speaker 4: it off the spirits of the curse or whatever.
Speaker 1: Matter of fact.
Speaker 4: The night of the Slap, the first thing that Chris
Speaker 4: Rock says when he walks on stage is, Hey, Denzel Washington,
Speaker 4: I just want to congratulate you on your Oscar nominating turn.
Speaker 1: And Makebeth and we all laugh like and then you
Speaker 1: saw it hap them five minutes later.
Speaker 3: So what happens if you're doing a production of Macbeth
Speaker 3: in the theater, Like what happens to question?
Speaker 4: I think there is some sort of exemption there, but
Speaker 4: you're to never ever say the words Macbeth inside of
Speaker 4: the theater or else it'll be a curse.
Speaker 1: And so okay, now I just did it. I fell
Speaker 1: down a rabbit hole and forgot why I brought.
Speaker 3: This up about a zoom call. You were saying, oh, okay.
Speaker 4: So my version of that on a zoom call is
Speaker 4: people will tend to say, and you know I do
Speaker 4: a lot of pitches on zoom. They will say, well,
Speaker 4: everybody's excited, so yeah, we'll reconvene next week, and everybody's excited.
Speaker 4: A project will fall apart or never fall through. Literally
Speaker 4: everybody's excited. Is the version of So how about those mets?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, I feel like somebody say, ho, and whose side
Speaker 4: is live? Or I still see older?
Speaker 3: I don't want to see it.
Speaker 1: I'm serious.
Speaker 4: I've seen many of my nineties contemporaries still do the whole.
Speaker 1: Yo say fuck, this side say fuck that's like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all the side things people in the crowd like
Speaker 3: why are we fighting?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: So, like, what is your version of engagement where you
Speaker 4: know they're rocking with you? Because even like the eight
Speaker 4: mile thing, I think is kind of or you know,
Speaker 4: like the whole.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I mean, I have one song where
Speaker 3: I do a hands up thing, but it comes at
Speaker 3: the very end of my set and the song is
Speaker 3: sort of built around it. In a way where it
Speaker 3: makes a logical sense to do. It's not just like
Speaker 3: a ram.
Speaker 1: You're an asshole if you don't do it.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's yeah, it's like I'm taking a survey,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. And by that point people
Speaker 3: are either with it what I'm doing or they're not.
Speaker 3: So typically you know it, get a good amount of hand.
Speaker 3: It's at that point. But I don't want to be
Speaker 3: asking for hands the whole time. I don't want to
Speaker 3: be asking for noise. To me, the thing is to
Speaker 3: like ask for those things without asking for because to me,
Speaker 3: the death knell is to be looking like I'm seeking
Speaker 3: their approval. That to me is like if I give
Speaker 3: them this sense that I need them to do anything,
Speaker 3: then I've already lost.
Speaker 4: This is why to this day, The Roots have been
Speaker 4: doing shows for thirty one years and we've never once
Speaker 4: ended a song right right. Our show is like a say,
Speaker 4: from beginning to end. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: It's just the idea of like.
Speaker 3: Uh, you the same way, you know what. I think.
Speaker 3: Ideally there's a version of my show that's like that,
Speaker 3: But I've never actually taken the time to put all
Speaker 3: the interestitial pieces together. So I have like chunks of
Speaker 3: show where like two or three songs kind of run
Speaker 3: into each other and then I sort of stopped down. Dude,
Speaker 3: maybe a little band and then start the.
Speaker 2: Next is your set? You know, I know every every
Speaker 2: leg is different, but does your set change much nights tonight?
Speaker 3: Not a whole lot. I mean it changes a lot
Speaker 3: toward to tour, but night to night it doesn't change
Speaker 3: that much.
Speaker 2: Interesting, and then what becomes of like Neighborhood Gods Unlimited
Speaker 2: now that it's no longer the youngest born I mean
Speaker 2: about it still is what what's your relationship? Because I
Speaker 2: think you made this point when you were on you know,
Speaker 2: this season earlier last year of like every album is
Speaker 2: a different conversation piece for you, and it's a different
Speaker 2: theme and you figure out what the theme is as
Speaker 2: you work on the album. How does the relationship change
Speaker 2: when the next album's out to the past?
Speaker 3: I think, you know, what is an interesting question. I'm
Speaker 3: not you know, able to say much about what this
Speaker 3: next album is, but I'm.
Speaker 2: Not asking that.
Speaker 3: But it's okay. I think it's an interesting thing you
Speaker 3: bring up because you completed it's over. Yeah, but it's
Speaker 3: you know, I'm not the only stakeholder in this situation.
Speaker 3: So I like to coordinate with folks. So when we
Speaker 3: you know, when we when we make announcements to things.
Speaker 3: But this album is like a it's basically like a
Speaker 3: breakup album. So it's a conversation.
Speaker 1: Past the divorce album or past the divorce album. There's
Speaker 1: a new one.
Speaker 3: There's a new one, damn it. But that was five
Speaker 3: years ago. And that was six years ago. Damn So
Speaker 3: a whole other thing stopped and started in between.
Speaker 1: Uh, some more Black Marry episodes.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's more life Ruin and that's not necessarily
Speaker 3: Black Marry episodes. But but yeah, to.
Speaker 1: Here my DearS in in a cannon. There it is.
Speaker 4: And and the thing about it, you do a third one,
Speaker 4: You're the problem.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think the thesis of both of these projects.
Speaker 2: Am I the problem?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: There's no question.
Speaker 3: But the thing about the Anime Truma Divorce album and
Speaker 3: when I released in twenty twenty after my divorce, is
Speaker 3: that because it was a pandemic, I didn't tour that album.
Speaker 3: So I have worked those songs into live performances after
Speaker 3: the world reopened. But this will be the first time
Speaker 3: where I'm like Okay, this project centered around a very
Speaker 3: specific thing. How do I strike the balance of having
Speaker 3: this conversation and also working in my old stuff?
Speaker 1: All right? So there's a question I'm donna know. All right.
Speaker 4: So when Will Smith wrote his book, I asked him
Speaker 4: the process of like, yo, you're really putting a lot
Speaker 4: out there, and a lot of your stories have to
Speaker 4: do with people in your life.
Speaker 1: Did you have to go? He says, yes.
Speaker 3: I had a whole weekend where he invited.
Speaker 1: Everybody over.
Speaker 4: And he read them the entire book over that three
Speaker 4: day period, and if there was an objection or whatever,
Speaker 4: people took a note, and then he did a one
Speaker 4: on one to say, okay, like you know, chapter seven
Speaker 4: you mentioned da da da da, and so he had
Speaker 4: to get their blessings.
Speaker 1: Is that the same for you or no?
Speaker 3: Because you know, in a book you kind of got
Speaker 3: to say what happened, Right, I'm making songs. I'm not
Speaker 3: saying what happened. I'm saying how I feel about what happened.
Speaker 3: And I don't necessarily have to clear that with anybody.
Speaker 1: Do you play it for them first?
Speaker 3: Just hell no?
Speaker 1: So do you know what your ex wife's reaction was
Speaker 1: to the album?
Speaker 3: I told her that I made a divorce album, and
Speaker 3: I told her what it was titled. And I told
Speaker 3: her that I didn't put any details of anything in it.
Speaker 3: And she says she was okay with that, and that's
Speaker 3: all the permission I needed.
Speaker 1: Does she listen to your music?
Speaker 3: She used to. I couldn't blame her for not paying
Speaker 3: at couldn't blame her at all. Boy, couldn't blame her.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: That's super exciting, you know, on the subject music I
Speaker 2: always have. I mean, it's really cool to be sitting
Speaker 2: here with you because over the years, in my previous lifetime,
Speaker 2: I always just wanted to talk to you. I music.
Speaker 5: But there's one song yeah no right, yeah, Croiz, one
Speaker 5: of my favorite songs, the last I guess it's ten years.
Speaker 2: I was just looking to check the date, but it
Speaker 2: is admitting the endorphined addition that was that was my
Speaker 2: jump off on open Mike Eagle, Like it's funny enough,
Speaker 2: like I knew people that knew you and had worked
Speaker 2: with you and always said amazing things about your humanity
Speaker 2: and your artistry. But when I heard that song, that
Speaker 2: was the one that like, oh and that whole album,
Speaker 2: Just curious if you could just like unpack that because
Speaker 2: I think for a lot of listeners of this platform,
Speaker 2: that is a great entry point.
Speaker 3: Huh okay, you know, like that was a song where
Speaker 3: I'm an album a moment in my life, but a
Speaker 3: song in particular where I'm sort of realizing, as many
Speaker 3: of us were, what role the phone was playing in
Speaker 3: my life. So there's Check to Check, which is another
Speaker 3: song on that album about how I'm checking my phone
Speaker 3: all the time and like, and I sort of got
Speaker 3: at this underlying thing of like, oh, I'm getting these
Speaker 3: little endorphin packets from all of these apps, from waiting
Speaker 3: on these emails that are supposed to do yeah, like that,
Speaker 3: And it was sort of just wrestling with that, like
Speaker 3: what hole am I trying to fill with these little
Speaker 3: energy injections that come from these interactions with people in
Speaker 3: the internet, you know, And and the whole song kind
Speaker 3: of comes from that point.
Speaker 2: Interesting. I got asked, like, what's your relationship with your phone? Now?
Speaker 3: You know, I'm still psychologically part cyborg, like I am,
Speaker 3: you know, a part of my mind is always thinking
Speaker 3: about what's going on on the Internet and what is
Speaker 3: being directed towards me at all times. What I'm noticing
Speaker 3: more these days, and it's kind of getting at what
Speaker 3: I was talking about with YouTube. How I'm like watching
Speaker 3: the world sort of move to tiktokification in a short
Speaker 3: video and I just like, I can't do it. I can't,
Speaker 3: Like I can't do the video casino where you don't
Speaker 3: know what's coming next, like and I see a lot
Speaker 3: of people getting their dopamine hits that way, but that
Speaker 3: don't work for me, Like I need to choose. I
Speaker 3: need to be sitting in a conversation for eight, ten,
Speaker 3: twenty minutes like that's that's my relationship to this content
Speaker 3: that we're all consuming. And I'm watching the world go
Speaker 3: this other way and I'm like, okay, this.
Speaker 2: Is are you still a call me type versus a
Speaker 2: text me? Now?
Speaker 3: Never call me? Call never. I'm just making sure no
Speaker 3: never call me? Are you camera?
Speaker 2: Like when people cold call you my first, it's violence.
Speaker 1: It's a violent act. I literally say, are you fifty
Speaker 1: years old? Like why are you calling me?
Speaker 4: But unfortunately their answer is amir, you know I'm fifty three.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, dog like, stop calling me first?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Man, oh god yeah no.
Speaker 2: Never.
Speaker 3: I hate it. I hate it so much.
Speaker 2: Well, I know, I'm so thrilled that your voice is
Speaker 2: going to be joining us. I mean, I know we
Speaker 2: spoke about it at the end of the episode that
Speaker 2: ran last year, but are you in a position to
Speaker 2: talk a little more about that you have brewing and
Speaker 2: why this ecosystem really aligns itself.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, so we're starting a podcast.
Speaker 2: You don't need to whisper me and.
Speaker 3: A producer, but it's important, you know, I'm just bringing it,
Speaker 3: bringing it, making people lean into this part. You know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. Starting a podcast with you all's network?
Speaker 3: Is there a name to this network? Is a question?
Speaker 1: Whoever network?
Speaker 3: Network? Is it a network?
Speaker 2: We don't have a name. Yeah, we'll think of a name.
Speaker 3: Okay, Questlove Umbrella that's a merchant, yeah, no more self emosily,
Speaker 3: I'll think of something. Whatever this this unnamed enterprise that
Speaker 3: y'all have heres.
Speaker 1: Just think of it now. That's on you back me
Speaker 1: we go.
Speaker 3: But I'm starting a podcast. There's a working title for
Speaker 3: which is the album that changed my life? That might
Speaker 3: change But we're going to be talking to h luminaries
Speaker 3: in the in the culture and all walks of life
Speaker 3: about the album that did that for them and we're
Speaker 3: going to be bringing in people who worked on those
Speaker 3: projects to have a to have a real in depth conversation.
Speaker 3: It's sort of a I think interest wise and unpacking music.
Speaker 3: It aligns perfectly with this platform, and it's sort of
Speaker 3: an extension of my podcast. What it happened was where
Speaker 3: I talked to a person about their project. Now we're
Speaker 3: getting to unpack other people's favorites and hopefully getting some
Speaker 3: insight into how those projects were made.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to ask you what, but while we've
Speaker 2: been with a lot of people the last few days,
Speaker 2: just coming in and out. While we've been recording here
Speaker 2: in La, more than one person said they hope for
Speaker 2: more of what had happened. Was will that can and continue?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm taping the next season now. Wonderful your
Speaker 3: phone by the way, you know, I'll tell you all off, Mike,
Speaker 3: When does it come? That's I mean, I'm talking to
Speaker 3: a very busy person. As I obviously am inclined to do,
Speaker 3: was talk to very busy people. So it's it's taken
Speaker 3: some time, so I can't necessarily project when it will happen.
Speaker 3: When it'll be in the can hopefully this summer. Nice
Speaker 3: hopefully the summer best.
Speaker 1: News I've ever gotten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, because truly that was you always joke about
Speaker 2: people making bread during the pandemic, learning how to That
Speaker 2: was my favorite thing during the pand I know it
Speaker 2: started right before, but like.
Speaker 3: I think we taped it most of it the year before,
Speaker 3: but it started airing right in the pandemic.
Speaker 2: Okay, it was that. It was the Jordan Bulls thing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and last Dance Joe Exotic. You know, those
Speaker 2: were my three entire and then lastly, I just wanted
Speaker 2: to say to you too, and I encourage everyone that
Speaker 2: loves our podcast since we're talking about watching things on
Speaker 2: YouTube past due, that is what I listened to when
Speaker 2: I prepared dinner. Awesome.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's that's that could be rough dinner
Speaker 3: making listening. I hope, I hope you're not crying and
Speaker 3: you're post is just the last meal, you know, And
Speaker 3: and you know that podcast is a is a laborer
Speaker 3: love for sure, But for people who don't know, that's
Speaker 3: a podcast where we talk to creatives about how they're
Speaker 3: navigating this economy. And for most of us, it is
Speaker 3: more difficult, you know, when you get into real conversations
Speaker 3: with folks. They're having a lot harder time than they
Speaker 3: put out there publicly, and we really get knee deep
Speaker 3: into those conversations.
Speaker 2: On past two, I really admired when you put it
Speaker 2: on the camera on yourselves or put the mic on
Speaker 2: yourselves and just like open the books of the show
Speaker 2: and talked about things I like, you know, from being
Speaker 2: somebody who's you know, four or five years in the
Speaker 2: podcast space. That was a lot and it's so cool.
Speaker 2: In your first question, I just encourage everyone, since the
Speaker 2: first question is often what is your first musical memory?
Speaker 2: On Questlove Supreme, and in the Quest of show, your
Speaker 2: first question your guests is outstanding. I encourage people to listen.
Speaker 3: Did you want me to tell them?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: The first p.
Speaker 3: The first question And we're gonna ask you, Jake.
Speaker 2: You don't have to tomorrow.
Speaker 3: But the first question is, and I'm not seriously asking
Speaker 3: you to answer, is when's the last time you were
Speaker 3: worried about covering your monthly expenses? And that opens up
Speaker 3: every conversation we have on that show, damn, So I
Speaker 3: won't be asking you anytime. So, dude, even.
Speaker 4: Here's the thing, like I always felt, you know, once
Speaker 4: you jump in the pool of a dream that becomes
Speaker 4: like I'll put it this way, there's a well established
Speaker 4: artist that we've all known and loved, and somehow I
Speaker 4: feel I was privy to how the sausage is mean
Speaker 4: as far as expenses and whatnot. And what I learned was, now,
Speaker 4: this person, to me was like, you know, he's a
Speaker 4: figure that we all know to be immersed of money.
Speaker 4: But the whole andree three thousand check the check thing
Speaker 4: comes up, and even for that person, someone told me
Speaker 4: that the true sign of success, at least in that
Speaker 4: sort of money grabbing way that hip hop has always been,
Speaker 4: is if you stop what you're doing right now, how
Speaker 4: long could you sustain your life? And for most people
Speaker 4: that are in that place, like living the way they
Speaker 4: live without adjusting, you know, five to ten years if
Speaker 4: you're lucky. But for a lot of us, like you know,
Speaker 4: I'm this is the reason why I work.
Speaker 1: Someone is I'm.
Speaker 4: Seven weeks Like, if everything we're to stop right now,
Speaker 4: I could still live this way just for seven weeks
Speaker 4: and then that's when the.
Speaker 1: The knock starts.
Speaker 4: So you know, I'm not at a place where you know,
Speaker 4: back in the day, it was Robin Peter Pain Paul, Hey,
Speaker 4: I need more J gigs any more DJ gigs any more?
Speaker 4: But no, it's it's still a monthly not nightmare, but
Speaker 4: a monthly thought of you know what, can I still
Speaker 4: keep this going?
Speaker 3: That that you just expressed, that gets at the reason
Speaker 3: why we do that show, because we've had all sorts
Speaker 3: of people who are actors, comedians, musicians, writers, people that
Speaker 3: people know, and we're often surprised how much economic insecurity
Speaker 3: is at the top of people's minds.
Speaker 2: You leave every episode, I feel like feeling a lot
Speaker 2: closer in a different way than just like seeing an
Speaker 2: interview show too. You get that person absolutely, So check
Speaker 2: out that podcast. Please come back for this podcast, our
Speaker 2: quest Love Show. Many episodes have just got a significant upgrade.
Speaker 2: I'm thrilled that Mike is here, so look out for
Speaker 2: a lot more of this.
Speaker 3: Happy to be here, Thank you.
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