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Speaker 1: Questlove Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: What's Up, Everybody? This is Sugar Steve from Quest Love Supreme.

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Speaker 2: We are beginning a new batch of classic episodes to

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Speaker 2: give you, and this one is special to me. It's

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Speaker 2: a conversation between my only two friends, and I guess

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Speaker 2: you could say my two bosses, Questlove and Jimmy Fallon.

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Speaker 2: They talk about the art of making mixtapes, their mutual

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Speaker 2: love of duop, and their mutual love of me, Sugar Steve.

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Speaker 2: This episode first aired what seems like a lifetime ago,

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Speaker 2: back on December fourth, twenty nineteen, and I know you're

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Speaker 2: gonna enjoy it. Take it away, Questlove and Jimmy Fallon.

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 3: We promised you all freaking summer that we'd be back,

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Speaker 3: and I told you I was told to never ever

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Speaker 3: make a promise I can't keep.

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Speaker 1: Yet.

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Speaker 3: Still we're back and we're better than ever. The family's

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Speaker 3: still here, but we're gonna do a little bit different

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Speaker 3: right now. This is officially the return of Quest Left Supreme.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to our new family on iHeartRadio. I will

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Speaker 3: say that right now we are worldwide for the first time.

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Speaker 3: A lot of you we've heard your cries. Yes, we

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Speaker 3: are officially worldwide. We're not just US and Canada anymore.

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Speaker 3: Another cross for celebration is our guest today, five time

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Speaker 3: Emmy Winner, People's Choice, Webby Writers Guild, Critics Choice and

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Speaker 3: Grammy Award winning, which I try to make a word

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Speaker 3: out of it, but it was.

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Speaker 1: Just may you comedy continents exactly. We're valid.

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Speaker 3: Most importantly, our guest today is a comic student. He

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Speaker 3: is a Saturday Night Live legend, still the coolest late

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Speaker 3: night talk show host, and a New York Times bestselling author.

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Speaker 3: My bud please welcome back to the return of post

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Speaker 3: Loft Supreme James T.

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Speaker 1: Call me, Jimmy, come me, just call me Jimmy.

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Speaker 3: Wait, time out. What the hell's T stand for? T?

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Speaker 3: Here's your middle name, right, Tiberius?

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Speaker 1: No? I was like, what Captain Perk T is? Thomas

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Speaker 1: James Thomas found.

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Speaker 3: I never knew that we shared a route Thompson Thomas.

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Speaker 3: I did not know you were Thomas. Okay, do you

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Speaker 3: have a middle name?

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Speaker 1: You ready? Yeah? All right?

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Speaker 3: So it's the pronounced the way that you say it is?

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Speaker 3: Khalib khalib k h a l i b Amir Khalib.

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Speaker 1: Khalib Colleb Alib Wow. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: My parents were on some next next when when I

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Speaker 3: was born Khalib Khaleb Thompson, Yes.

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Speaker 1: Wow, wild, which made me.

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Speaker 3: All the more just wanting to have a question mark

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Speaker 3: for my name all my life.

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Speaker 1: That's the exactly.

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Speaker 4: But we went through your names once before, like you've

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Speaker 4: had was it always brother brother quest?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 3: So when we first when the group first started, I was,

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Speaker 3: oh God.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's we all came from somewhere.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to meet all right, Okay, so.

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Speaker 4: Oh man, just say it, dude, Man.

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Speaker 1: It kills me.

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Speaker 4: This is like therapy when you.

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Speaker 3: First first my first name was deaf dough money. I

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Speaker 3: want to do something that I normally don't. I never

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Speaker 3: I never do like rapid fire questions on this show.

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Speaker 3: Like it's always like, you know, the conversation, yeah, like

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Speaker 3: so you were born in Yes, I know you're born.

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that everyone pretty much knows your backstory.

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Speaker 3: So this is a question. I always wanted to start with.

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Speaker 3: What did you have for breakfast this morning?

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Speaker 1: I had pancakes.

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Speaker 4: You have in syrup you cook them more, you know.

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Speaker 4: I I had a meeting this morning.

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Speaker 1: What time do you wake up? Man?

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Speaker 4: I don't want to wake up, but the kids wake

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Speaker 4: and they get in bed around probably four in the morning.

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Speaker 4: Usually wait what I know, And I'm just like, dude,

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Speaker 1: But my weef on me show biz kids.

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Speaker 4: My wife is like, no, no, They go to sleep

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Speaker 4: So anyways, so they come in around four, I try

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Speaker 3: When he's not out of school age now she in

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Speaker 3: to get up at six in the morning. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: they got up at six in the morning. They play

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Speaker 4: They play for an hour like all their toys, and

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Speaker 4: then we brush our teeth and that we have breakfast.

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Speaker 4: We usually make them breakfast, but I didn't eat with

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Speaker 4: gross apple cider, vinegar, lemon hot water.

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Speaker 1: I love that now you do, and I'm used to it.

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Speaker 1: I'm still not used to it. It's the guys.

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Speaker 4: It's like honestly painful for me. Really, the drink vinegar

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Speaker 4: every morning. It sounds like torture. Why didn't we do

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Speaker 1: Or do you put a little bit of honey in it? Yes?

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Speaker 4: It's getting better a little bit for me, but I

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, I was just drinking like hot vinegar. Its

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Speaker 3: pretty gross. But you do it every day.

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Speaker 1: I look forward to it. You do. Yeah, And I

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Speaker 4: But I anyways, so that's Normally I would not have breakfast.

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Speaker 4: I would just have that, but I had a meeting

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Speaker 1: So your morning routine usually starts at seven?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then because the thing is is that sometimes

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Speaker 3: what we're gonna do later, I never see you. So

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Speaker 3: I never know what your morning routine is from nine,

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Speaker 1: Till three or two, I go to bed as soon

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Speaker 4: I'm one of those people now I go out to dinner.

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Speaker 1: So you like, I can't wait to go to sleep?

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Speaker 3: I started I hate. I mean, I'm afraid that sleep is.

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Speaker 1: Is life of time?

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Speaker 3: Well, no, I just feel like it's me admitting that

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Speaker 4: No, dude, we had remember Grace Jones just came on

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm going home. I'm probably just gonna eat

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Speaker 4: You're not doing that. She's like, no, I gotta I

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Speaker 4: What time do you get home. It's like, I don't know,

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Speaker 4: Grace Jones still just stays out the five in the morning.

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Speaker 1: I would have no clue. Well, yeah, I'm just I

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Speaker 4: That's the one thing you can get me for my birthday,

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Speaker 4: for Christmas or anything I can can get sleep. Oh,

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Speaker 4: I would love sleep, man, that would be.

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Speaker 1: You gotta you know, there's coupon.

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Speaker 3: One time, I thought Tarik was joking, but he had

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Speaker 3: these coupons made for like and then interrupted, no tek

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Speaker 4: I made them coupons. Yeah, I'm like, oh, so they

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Speaker 4: or help them out, like you use this coupon whenever

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Speaker 1: I'll do instead of just regularly regularly regula chores. Yeah, exactly,

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Speaker 3: All right. So you of course mentioned your your dad's

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I grew up with it, loved it.

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Speaker 1: What's the first single do you remember purchasing? Oh Man

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Speaker 1: non do or just in general? Verse forty five. So

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Speaker 4: Of your dad trying to learn harmony to the song

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Speaker 4: So he would try to teach me and my sister

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Speaker 4: or Donnie Man. No, I was Marie, but I was.

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Speaker 4: It's like, so my sister immediately was like, I'm out.

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Speaker 4: I don't even I don't get harmony. I don't like this,

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Speaker 4: I'm out of the out of the group. But me

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Speaker 4: and my dad were even rebel. Yeah, Gloria was the rep.

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Speaker 4: So me and my dad could sing zoom pretty well.

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Speaker 4: And so that was just I would just start learning

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Speaker 1: Mean, I just loved it.

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Speaker 3: I just so would he would he go to all

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Speaker 3: those like Dick Fox productions of like at Westbury Music

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Speaker 3: Fear Do Wop, yeah kind of.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I grew up Sagerty Is, New York, which is upstate

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Speaker 4: go to see My first concert concert was Weird Al Yankovic,

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Speaker 3: We got trick because in my first grade class, my

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Speaker 4: I think it's changed my life a little bit. I've

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Speaker 4: what yo? No, I think your kids.

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Speaker 3: Your kids are going to be the total opposite of

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Speaker 1: Music of all time.

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Speaker 1: You'd be like, nah, that's too commercial for me. I'm

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Speaker 3: He if it's if it's it's two mainstream, he won't

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Speaker 1: I got a teach her. How your kids discover YouTube? Yet? No? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean YouTube's a slippery slope because you don't want

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Speaker 4: I was watching one thing and I just said, hey,

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Speaker 4: like that's it, dude. And they were obsessed with this

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Speaker 4: And they play with dolls and the kids just watch

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Speaker 4: I don't know how they found it, but they loved it.

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Speaker 4: And I was like, oh, dude, we gotta take it.

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Speaker 4: We gotta watch something with the beginning, middle, end, a plot.

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Speaker 1: Anything. You can watch anything, but not this. What's it called?

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Speaker 4: I have no idea what it's called. But I almost

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Speaker 1: It's like I don't like it. I don't want it

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Speaker 4: You really know how to play music for them, because

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Speaker 4: it's just like Alexa or you know, or you know,

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Speaker 4: show them soul training.

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Speaker 3: Trust me a good soul tiraying clip. They will emulate it.

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Speaker 3: That's how everyone in America learns how to dance.

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's how they learned. Hey, do you remember the

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Speaker 4: I mean plussing play record and pause and having the

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Speaker 4: you could ask my sister. I wouldn't let anyone copy

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Speaker 1: Wait what?

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Speaker 4: Because I must have seen someone talk about it on

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Speaker 4: the worst, You're the weirdest kid. And so I would

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Speaker 4: just I would own my mixtapes.

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Speaker 3: You wouldn't give it to no one, No, I would,

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Speaker 3: I feel I am Spotify. Like the the the amount

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Speaker 1: To listen to the whole song.

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Speaker 3: I was the guy you had to come to to

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean I might have done like earlier, because

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Speaker 4: I mean I remember it in my brain looking at it.

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Speaker 4: Listen to this radio station, have play record and pause

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Speaker 4: Ghostbusters was my jam. I was like Ray Parker Junior, Ghostbusters.

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Speaker 4: If I hear that, I would run over and like

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Speaker 1: And I was like oh, And then like I remember.

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Speaker 3: That's how weird Out got to start, right, Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 4: He played novelty songs and novelty records, so any comedy

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Speaker 4: Do you remember the coasters they had that song well,

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Speaker 4: now I'm going to one hundred and so it was

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Speaker 4: was Yeah, so all these songs, so he would play

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00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,080
Speaker 4: all these kind of weird songs like that and very

442
00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:28,760
Speaker 4: it was very more seventies than anything else. But I

443
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,399
Speaker 4: would listen to that Sunday nights and and and just

444
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,720
Speaker 4: try to record all these funny songs and then see

445
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:36,400
Speaker 4: if I can start writing them myself.

446
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:38,399
Speaker 1: See you write them down and perform The.

447
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,879
Speaker 4: First song, my first parody song I ever wrote, was awful.

448
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,639
Speaker 1: But it was what's your what's your deft? Do money?

449
00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,920
Speaker 1: This is bad? Do you remember King Kong Bundy was

450
00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,720
Speaker 1: a rapper. I was a wrestler, so I did.

451
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:56,120
Speaker 4: I wish it was King Kong Bundy instead of Manic Monday,

452
00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:02,239
Speaker 4: Like I wish it was King Kong Bun. Oh, that

453
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 4: would be a fun or whatever.

454
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,440
Speaker 1: And it was like it was awful.

455
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,639
Speaker 3: And I remember writing it like and I had my eraser,

456
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 3: my papermate eraser mate, uh, and like rewriting the lyrics,

457
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my gosh, I'm writing like I'm

458
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,919
Speaker 3: gonna be weird al and that's what I and I

459
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:17,760
Speaker 3: remember writing it.

460
00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:19,880
Speaker 4: It was just I thought it was so clever and fun.

461
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 4: Then I was too embarrassed. Couldn't play for anybody?

462
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,879
Speaker 1: What year weird out? Did you see? What period is

463
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 1: there to be stupid? Did dare to be stupid? Tour?

464
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,200
Speaker 4: I had a teal concert tee, no sleeve concert tea.

465
00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:32,920
Speaker 4: That's what I That's what I bought.

466
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,879
Speaker 1: What was I doing? I just I wanted to be

467
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,479
Speaker 1: you know, this is pre Zach Morris. But I was

468
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:40,240
Speaker 1: like I would have.

469
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,159
Speaker 4: That or gosh my wardrobe. I was trying to be

470
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 4: as fashionable as I could as a kid. And you know,

471
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 4: growing up in Sorrtyes, New York, was this you and

472
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:52,400
Speaker 4: going to this concert? Order was there?

473
00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:55,040
Speaker 1: He was? But he was not, No, he wasn't. He

474
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,200
Speaker 1: wasn't my best friend yet. Okay, but now.

475
00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:59,360
Speaker 4: Geri's talking about Gerard Bradford who woods on our show

476
00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,680
Speaker 4: as a producer, and uh, but I we started hanging

477
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 4: out more. I'd say probably the end of high school

478
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:07,959
Speaker 4: when we're getting into the Beastie Boys and started like

479
00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 4: we had a bad We had a fake rap.

480
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 1: Group that was terrible. What was the name of the group.

481
00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 4: We were called the minute Man and I don't know why,

482
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 4: and we not even knowing there already was a punk

483
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,400
Speaker 4: band called the minute Man. We were we just thought

484
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,919
Speaker 4: and I can't even tell you it's honestly, this is worse.

485
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 1: Than uh deft deaf money. Dude.

486
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:34,200
Speaker 4: My name was Jim Hat and.

487
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 1: The room is explosive there.

488
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 3: I was like Jim Hat with that B Boys style

489
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 3: was going wild.

490
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 1: Dude, it was awful.

491
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 3: I thought, Jim Hat, know, like that makes logical sense.

492
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have wanted to be Colgate. I thought that

493
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 3: would be a cool rap name.

494
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:53,200
Speaker 1: Colgate.

495
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I thought people could have the logo on

496
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 4: the shirt, like the toothpaste.

497
00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 1: And they still make Colgate. Yeah half Coldgate. Still. I

498
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 1: don't you know.

499
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,479
Speaker 3: One day, like whenever I land in l a X,

500
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,199
Speaker 3: the first time I make is that I go to

501
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 3: pharmacy to do the trial size stuff like the things

502
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 3: I need tooth plus tooth pigs.

503
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 1: And I was just noticing like brands that only exist there.

504
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 3: Well no, well brands that I thought were out of

505
00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:19,680
Speaker 3: you know, like Safeguard or.

506
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 4: Like they trail like seventies brands. Yeah, Cam, they still

507
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 4: they exist in trial size.

508
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 1: So what other what.

509
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,679
Speaker 3: Other concerts did you go to when you were uh

510
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 3: uh weird? I saw oh gosh, it was that Upax.

511
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 3: So there was that group that's saying expose, come go

512
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:50,120
Speaker 3: with me. Woa you saw XO.

513
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 4: They had a song that was really I loved it.

514
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,120
Speaker 4: It wasn't come go with me, but it.

515
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:56,440
Speaker 1: Was a point and overturn.

516
00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 3: Yes the planet. Uh you're taking me right, yeah? And

517
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 3: they had seasons change, seasons change.

518
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:08,120
Speaker 1: I love that song.

519
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 3: I was a member of Columbia House to me too,

520
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,919
Speaker 3: but I was the I would never return the all right.

521
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 3: So for those that don't know what Columbia House and

522
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 3: all your kids you missed out. If you, yeah, this

523
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 3: this was our Spotify you you were. Basically they will

524
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 3: offer you twelve cassettes or CDs.

525
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: For a penny.

526
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,119
Speaker 3: You would tape Scott's tape of Penny, Scotch tape of

527
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 3: Penny to the to the order form, pick your pick

528
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,120
Speaker 3: your twelve CDs or cassettes you want it, and then

529
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:51,199
Speaker 3: for an extra three, for an additional three records, you

530
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,479
Speaker 3: had to I forgot what the check was like for

531
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 3: you know, for a dollar ninety eight more, you can

532
00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 3: get three more, see so you can get fifteen altogether,

533
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 3: or under the lolow price of three bucks.

534
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: And then you were part of.

535
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:09,119
Speaker 3: This club in which every month they would send you

536
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,159
Speaker 3: product and you had, yeah, like two weeks to mail it.

537
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 4: Not even yeah something like that. Yeah, either liked it

538
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 4: or mail it back. If you kept it, it was like

539
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 4: twenty bucks a record.

540
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you kept it, it was definitely like seventeen

541
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:22,640
Speaker 3: ninety nine or something like that.

542
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 1: But if you mailed it back.

543
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 3: And I think between that and the first two years

544
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 3: of trying to catch Michael Jackson videos on MTV was

545
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 3: how I developed my vocabulary for pop music because I

546
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 3: would never mail back Debbie Gibson's out of the Blue or.

547
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,360
Speaker 1: Or Tiffany's first record. I think I got tricked into

548
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 1: that one too. Yeah, I know, you know what, I

549
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: think she thinks.

550
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 3: I'm being sarcastic, like I'm cool with her now, but

551
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,880
Speaker 3: in the beginning, I think in her mind it was like.

552
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 1: What you're trying to told me what you're saying that. Yeah.

553
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 3: My first I was like, yeah, I had a blue

554
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 3: eyed electric youth. Electric Youth I was the name of

555
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 3: her first boar, right. I was like, no, I really was.

556
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 3: I was a fan of yours and she was just

557
00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 3: looking like, Okaye's where's the where's as?

558
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly right. She's cool though she didn't believe.

559
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 3: She didn't believe it for the longest, but then I

560
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 3: think she realized, like, oh you are.

561
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 4: But every album back then I loved it, even if

562
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,719
Speaker 4: he had like one hit song on there. I remember

563
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 4: I was trying to I didn't know what music I

564
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 4: was going to be into, right, so I tried every

565
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 4: type of genre and like, oh.

566
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,640
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm in the metal Is it really? Yeah?

567
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 4: I was like, dude, maybe I should like Worse with

568
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 4: the Devil, and like, what am I talking about?

569
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: I'm an altar boy.

570
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 3: I think it's I think the weird thing is that

571
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 3: I think between twelve and seventeen, you're open to anything,

572
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 3: which you know I can't like now, I really have

573
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 3: the patience to like sift through records and see what

574
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 3: I'm into, and the way that I used to do

575
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 3: back in the day, like I would listen to an

576
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,120
Speaker 3: entire Miami Salm Machine record, whether I like the song

577
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 3: or not too because you didn't want to go up

578
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 3: to the cassette and fast forward. Okay, I don't like

579
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 3: this song, What's what else is it?

580
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:18,199
Speaker 2: Like?

581
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: You would just play the whole thing?

582
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, Like, yeah, I don't want to. It's easier

583
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 4: to lift the needle to move that back. But no,

584
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,439
Speaker 4: I would listen to the whole album. Then I'd like

585
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 4: the B sides. I would know what song follows what

586
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 4: song too, in order.

587
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: See.

588
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,959
Speaker 3: That explains why sometimes when an artist comes on and

589
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 3: then you ask for the deep cut and I'm like,

590
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 3: wait a minute, what what about the hit.

591
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: The hit joint?

592
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 3: And you like, nope, I want the Yeah, that's the

593
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 3: secret one that you go like, oh like like if

594
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 3: you buy Cyndi Lauper, you just sing she Bop, you know,

595
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 3: it's like, that's the that's the secret song off of

596
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 3: Right the Girl?

597
00:28:54,960 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: Right Right? Do you have top five like performances on

598
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: the show for us?

599
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 3: God, there's so much now we've been done, We've done

600
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 3: so many shows now, it's crazy.

601
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 1: I mean you I have a top five.

602
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 3: I have a top five of me performing and a

603
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 3: top five of me watching was.

604
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:19,240
Speaker 4: One of your top five recently, dog Dude, Steve Miller.

605
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 3: I almost sometimes It's it's hard not to because I'm

606
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 3: so connected to music and the memories that it brings on.

607
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 3: Because whenever I hear fly like an Eagle, I instantly

608
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 3: think about the first month of school, and I'm thinking

609
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 3: of like my parents not conning me, like Okay, we're

610
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 3: gonna take you to this brown building and you're gonna

611
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 3: stay in here for the next seven hours and then

612
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 3: we're gonna come and get you at three o'clock. And

613
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 3: you know, like I was just never explaining the concept

614
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 3: at school. It's just like, huh wait, I'm playing with them,

615
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 3: and so I think during like one of those explanations,

616
00:29:55,720 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 3: it was the radio was just playing like Billy Davis

617
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 3: and Marilyn mccoo's you Don't Have to Be a Star,

618
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 3: and then like.

619
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 4: You am radio at this point, FM, uh you know what?

620
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:13,959
Speaker 3: So Philly, Philly was really good with FM radio on

621
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 3: the weekends, though FM radio turned religious and then you'd

622
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 3: have to live and listen to AM radio, so we'd

623
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 3: have to switch a Wizard one hundred and the thing

624
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 3: is is that I lived in a don't touch my

625
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 3: stereo household. So again, a big part of my palette

626
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 3: is the fact that I had to listen to what

627
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 3: my sister wanted to listen to and what my dad.

628
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 3: I didn't control the car radio nor in my bet

629
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 3: you know the room that my sister and I shared,

630
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 3: so like, I just remember.

631
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 4: Like I remember pressing, like being able to press the

632
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 4: button to my dad's car that would it would be

633
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 4: a plastic, hard plastic button that you would actually switch

634
00:30:55,640 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 4: the station. You would see the zip to the one

635
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 4: side right and I actually tune. I mean this is

636
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 4: pre digital scan and seek for something. It was actually

637
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 4: press the button and you feel like gears moving right

638
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 4: to the radio station that you want to. Yeah, and

639
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, just to hope to hear like

640
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 4: the Rolling Stones or something like that.

641
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 3: And yeah, so fly like an Eagle was definitely dide

642
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 3: you crust that one.

643
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 4: And I was like, dude, I actually had to look

644
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 4: over to see what your face was doing, because usually

645
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 4: I can't see the drummer I was doing.

646
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 3: Every I had two moments in which I kind of

647
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 3: had a I might cry moment. It was awesome, dude,

648
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 3: it was honestly, it just clicked, like because you did

649
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 3: the first like.

650
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the space.

651
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 3: I had to beg for those extra because at first

652
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 3: they were like three minutes and thirty seconds, you know, and.

653
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a minute, guys, not for this one.

654
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 3: You don't understand, like the most important part of the

655
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 3: song is like the beginning.

656
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: We got to do that.

657
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 3: So I did didn't did out. So it was so

658
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 3: oh yeah, I didn't want to end. And he was

659
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 3: having fun. Yeah, and he was having and he was

660
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 3: so looking at it because you know, we have these

661
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 3: guys on that like they don't play with anyone else

662
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 3: but their band, and they're jaded and they're like, oh

663
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 3: well look, it's almost feel like they're cheating on their band.

664
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 3: But then when they see how much love and how

665
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 3: much work you guys put into that song.

666
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: Like Eddie Grant, oh, I forgot. He was so nervous.

667
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 4: I know, he was so nervous, like Jimmy I, I

668
00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 4: I don't I only play with my band. I I'm

669
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 4: these guys are great, but I don't know them, and

670
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 4: you know, to play with my song, you know, Electric Avenue,

671
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 4: And so he goes, do you remember you brought a harmonica.

672
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 3: Yes, oh did you wait? When we're sound checking? Are

673
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 3: you watching?

674
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 4: On closer times? I'm watching, damn it.

675
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: Sometimes I am, but sometimes I'd like to be surprised.

676
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 3: But during sound check it was like a ten minute

677
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 3: version and we're like looking at each other while.

678
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 4: I was like paying the harmonica do electric avenue?

679
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: Like who is to blaming? I like, dude, stop.

680
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 4: But so I saw him and he goes, yeah, I'm

681
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 4: just gonna bring this just in case. I go, Eddie,

682
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 4: you don't need a harmonica. The roots will got you covered.

683
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 4: Trust me, man, it's gonna me fun. And he did

684
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 4: the song, didn't do harmonica, and the crush was great.

685
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 4: And I went over to say thank you for being

686
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 4: on the show and went to shake his hand, and

687
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 4: what was in his hand?

688
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: Yeah that's the case. You know what. It's also like

689
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: a big part.

690
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 3: I'm always nervous about the legend because one you don't

691
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 3: want to ruin, like the thought in your head of like, uh,

692
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 3: what's it gonna be or what's it not gonna be?

693
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:32,959
Speaker 3: It it's just that sometimes all right, I'll met We

694
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 3: had one guess that walked away, do you remember, Yeah,

695
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 3: Cindy yeah, just because I think, Okay, in our minds,

696
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 3: in their minds, it's like, Okay, I'm gonna play with

697
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 3: the roots. So they think like I'll take my song

698
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 3: and filter it through and I'll rootify it. Like that's

699
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 3: the one word we hear the most inside the rehearsal room,

700
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 3: like you know, don't don't do the normal version like

701
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 3: rootsify it. And I'm like, dude, what you don't get

702
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 3: is that us routsifying it is doing it just like

703
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 3: your album version. That is roots fact, because we we

704
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 3: want the yeah, I mean, we want the exact sound.

705
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: We want Eddie Grant to.

706
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 4: Go out in the streets if he if he yeah,

707
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 4: he doesn't want to do that anymore. He goes, I

708
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 4: don't do that. I haven't done that for twenty five

709
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 4: years ago. Bring it back.

710
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,839
Speaker 3: That's the part of the song that we love, those

711
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 3: little nuggets, those little there just awesome little eggs, those

712
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 3: easter eggs where you're like, oh no, that's the one

713
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 3: part you gotta do like right, like on the Dark

714
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,800
Speaker 3: Side of Town, yeah or something, you didn't do that

715
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 3: And he was like, uh, like when we have it,

716
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 3: was it crowded house or something came on I'm like,

717
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 3: all I want to hear is that base like go boo.

718
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 3: That's freedom a little bit if you don't hit that baseline,

719
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,840
Speaker 3: and that's just I need that. It's part of my

720
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 3: whole thing of loving that song.

721
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 4: It's like, but we usually hit it like ninety nine

722
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,800
Speaker 4: percent of the time, right, We convinced the people to like,

723
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:56,879
Speaker 4: come on, you gotta do that part, and like, oh,

724
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 4: I don't hit that note anymore.

725
00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, but.

726
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 4: Try it, just go because trust me, we'll get your back.

727
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 4: And then they do it in its course.

728
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,320
Speaker 3: Well, probably the one humorous moment for us was definitely

729
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 3: in the air tonight, where that was the only time

730
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,720
Speaker 3: I saw you being nervous, dude twice in my life.

731
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: But I've talked myself into major sabotage. I was.

732
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 3: I wasn't helping them like I well see, I didn't

733
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 3: know about meditation back then. What I should have been

734
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 3: doing was basically deep breathing, get out of your head,

735
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,359
Speaker 3: just hit these three times the way you've always done

736
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 3: it all your life in the basement, And for some reason,

737
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 3: right when Phil Collins is like and I remember, and

738
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 3: I was like, don't mess up, don't mess it. I remember,

739
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 3: don't worry, all right, don't fuck up, don't fuckus. How

740
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 3: good I ever. I'm looking at Jimmy. Jimmy's looking left.

741
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 4: I went from behind my desk to the front to

742
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 4: look at your face.

743
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: I know, love it, and I'm looking at the band

744
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: standard for the roots members and.

745
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 3: I always says silence up, oh boy, no using fool me.

746
00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 3: Oh dann cameras to me. He's looking at me the herd.

747
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 3: So the pain still growing sustained. And I hit that

748
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 3: symbol and was just drop a stick or something. No,

749
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 3: my my my ride symbol.

750
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I fell fell down, dude. It was the

751
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: fell I broke in pieces.

752
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 3: I was going to let it slide and just be

753
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 3: like I'm going home. I failed and then shout out

754
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 3: to Sugar Steve. Steve's like, no, man, I can't let

755
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 3: this happen. We're going to fix this. And I was like, well,

756
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 3: we can't go back and tape it like it's over,

757
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,919
Speaker 3: and he says, I bet you. They have sound check

758
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 3: on tape. So we basically spent at least an hours editing.

759
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 3: Oh god, you remember that he was here. He was

760
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 3: there to five of the board. We're the only show

761
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 3: that gives that autonomy, like gives that power to guess

762
00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 3: to come and edit their own thing and mix their

763
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 3: own thing. Yeah, any other show like I've done Letterman

764
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 3: when I'm like, okay, so we want reverbal and you know,

765
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:06,760
Speaker 3: verse two.

766
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: And then already and they're like it's already in burbank,

767
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: can't touch it, right, They're like, nope, it's gone, that's done.

768
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: It is what it is. And we let everyone like

769
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: go in listen to it and mix it.

770
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 4: But we usually we have the right sound between you know,

771
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 4: we we have the best sound.

772
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 3: I feel like we have the best sound mixing and engineering.

773
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 3: Yeah that Al Simon stayed up until right before his segment,

774
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 3: which is unheard of.

775
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: Right.

776
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,479
Speaker 4: We were nervous because we got to deliver the show.

777
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 4: And this is when we were doing twelve thirty five, right,

778
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 4: so we had an extra hour. But it was like

779
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,720
Speaker 4: I think it was up to like it was actually

780
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 4: up to midnight.

781
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 3: Right, it was ripe two commercials before you were actually

782
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 3: covering song. We spent we take that five or six, right,

783
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 3: and he engineered it like it was a real song

784
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 3: for five hours. It must be the best engineered song

785
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 3: of all time.

786
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 4: I don't even I kind of remember what it was

787
00:37:58,920 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 4: that wasn't the one would stop?

788
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: Was it? We don't even remember. That's the thing. It's

789
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: just now I got to go back in the archives and.

790
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 4: He really spent the time in that one. But but

791
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 4: then back to the Phil Collins thing because you ended

792
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,399
Speaker 4: up nailing it on when you see it on TV,

793
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 4: because oh man, a pack a lot.

794
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that to me, that that was a moment.

795
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 4: I mean, I love that. I love Jim James. I

796
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:25,720
Speaker 4: was from Late Night. I love that.

797
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 3: That's right, he did another life all his presentations whenever

798
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 3: Jim James comes on.

799
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 4: I also liked when you guys come when the roots

800
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 4: come on and we spend extra time like making a

801
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 4: production and it's actually it's.

802
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: Almost like a music video or musical musical. Yeah, my

803
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: three moments from that. I don't know why.

804
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 3: Once I realized that we had a lot of I

805
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 3: didn't realize the power of how Dave is as a director,

806
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 3: Dave Demti and and and directing and doing tricks and

807
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 3: all those things. So I thought, like, I wonder how

808
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 3: we could pull off a song that makes us look

809
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 3: like we're playing in slow motion, like the Beastie Boys

810
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,479
Speaker 3: always do, like if it's so what you want. Video

811
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 3: was like the impetus of it, like of them performing

812
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,439
Speaker 3: and you hearing the song in real time, but it's

813
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 3: like them doing it slow motion.

814
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: So when Usher was.

815
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 3: On the show, yep, you know, I knew it was

816
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 3: going to confuse the audience, like we had to do

817
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 3: that Usher song like Chipmunks.

818
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 4: Dude, it was like, and he's dancing really super fast and.

819
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 3: He caught and he caught like he was dancing and

820
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 3: really that's the thing I thought, like, do you need

821
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 3: to practice this? Like do you need to figure out

822
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 3: your splits and everything? It looks so weird and so

823
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 3: you're almost laughing at.

824
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 1: Him, right, But then when you watch it, it.

825
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 3: Was, oh, it's magical, dude. He's like slow motion doing

826
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 3: the perfect dance moves and.

827
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 4: Singing on the you know, on the ring exactly right. Yeah,

828
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 4: it was insane. That was That was a cool moment.

829
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 1: Yeah.

830
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 3: The second time, Tyler, Tyler, they created to See You

831
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 3: Again with Caliuchis and he created this it was almost

832
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 3: like a it's surreal musical, but it's it's to me.

833
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:10,839
Speaker 1: That was like a moment, dude, get we have to

834
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 1: talk about Prince. There's there's too so many, there's so many. Yeah.

835
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:23,359
Speaker 3: For me, the best part of the Craziest Memory is

836
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 3: definitely the Ping Pong with.

837
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 4: The Pong story, but it even goes on before that.

838
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 4: Do you remember bring me on stage at the garden.

839
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: Oh, Madison Square Garden.

840
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 4: So Chris Rock comes on and he goes, he goes

841
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 4: bah blah blah blah. He goes, well, of course, Prince

842
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,919
Speaker 4: is my favorite concert. I've never seen him. Go you've

843
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 4: never seen Prince like you, you love music and you've

844
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:44,320
Speaker 4: never seen Prince in concert?

845
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:45,439
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?

846
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 4: How could you even say that you're a fan of?

847
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: What do you? I can't talk to you until you

848
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: see Prince? All right?

849
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 4: And so I go, all right, I gotta go see

850
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 4: Prince and you're like, dude, I can't believe you.

851
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 1: I haven't seen him.

852
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 4: So anyways, I go to the Garden to see Prince

853
00:40:57,640 --> 00:40:59,280
Speaker 4: and he is unbelievable.

854
00:40:59,320 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: He really is.

855
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,720
Speaker 4: I remember Madonna was at the concert in the audience

856
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 4: watching Prince stoneface, just going like, wow, I got up

857
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 4: my game. He's just so magical. And she's great too, Yeah,

858
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,400
Speaker 4: he was, so he's crushing it. And Prince's manager or

859
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 4: whoever this was, came up to me. Yeah, hi, I'm

860
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 4: a Prince's manager. I don't even think it was. Caro

861
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 4: was someone to say, like, Prince would really love you

862
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 4: to get on stage at the end of the concert

863
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 4: and dance with him, like he gets a bunch of

864
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 4: celebrity friends and to go on stage and dancing at

865
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 4: the end.

866
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 1: I go, that's not really my thing. I'm not really

867
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: a big dancer. But thank you.

868
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 4: So I'll just watch the concert. Next song, someone else

869
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 4: comes out like, hy, how you doing. I'm working for

870
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 4: a princess A different person.

871
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, different person. I go, Prince would really love for you.

872
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:39,840
Speaker 1: I go, yeah, I don't think so.

873
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 4: I mean I was not really my thing, and I

874
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 4: don't even think he really wants me to dance with

875
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 4: him anyways, So that happens to me maybe two more

876
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 4: times during the whole concert. End of the concert. I'm like,

877
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 4: I see you, because I didn't see it. If the

878
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 4: whole concert, I go, what's up, dude, And you go,

879
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:53,800
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get on stage at the end of the concert.

880
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 1: I go, oh, if you're getting up there, I'll go

881
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 1: up with you.

882
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 4: Then, so they all right, So you get up, I

883
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,439
Speaker 4: get up, you go behind a dry set.

884
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 1: Yeah.

885
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 4: And as I get up and you get behind drus set,

886
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 4: Prince leaves. He's keep his he's on a keyboard, and

887
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 4: he goes and sinks.

888
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 3: Into the state side of the st and I could

889
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 3: see him down there, almost getting in his limousine right there,

890
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 3: and I'm like, and I'm looking around. There's no one

891
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 3: else on stage dancing but me right, it's just me

892
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 3: dancing and you're playing. I go, oh, Mike, that's exactly

893
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 3: why I don't say yes to this stuff.

894
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 4: So I think it kind of started there, and then

895
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 4: when Prince came on the show, it was always fun.

896
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 4: So Prince came on the show and is, uh, probably

897
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,439
Speaker 4: is Kiran his manager, Yeah, says hey, Prince would really

898
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 4: like to play ping pong on the show. So we go, okay,

899
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,399
Speaker 4: we don't really play ping pong. We played beer pong,

900
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 4: but if he wants to play ping pong, it's fine.

901
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 4: Then he calls back and he goes, you know what,

902
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 4: Prince does not want to play beer pong on the show.

903
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 4: He doesn't want to play ping pong. We go, okay, whatever,

904
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 4: he just come on play music as long as he

905
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,240
Speaker 4: has fun, we're good. He calls back. He goes, Prince

906
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 4: does want to play ping pong. We rethought about it. Okay,

907
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,879
Speaker 4: we'll have it ready to go just in case. Calls back.

908
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:00,959
Speaker 4: He goes, he doesn't. He wants to play ping pong,

909
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 4: but he doesn't want to play it on camera. He

910
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 4: wants to do it, and I go, what's your obsession?

911
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 4: He goes, he just thinks, Jimmy, be fun to play

912
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:11,439
Speaker 4: ping pong with. I go, whatever, we'll have it ready

913
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,280
Speaker 4: to go if he wants to play backstage whatever.

914
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 1: Man.

915
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 4: So he comes on the show, never brings up ping pong,

916
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 4: doesn't even mention it all right, just comes on and plays.

917
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 4: He's great and he and he leaves and it was

918
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 4: a great show and it was awesome.

919
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: I go, that was interesting. So I tell the story

920
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 1: on the show about the.

921
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 4: Whole ping pong thing, and I go, by the way,

922
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 4: the Prince, if you're watching, I would probably kick your

923
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 4: ass in ping.

924
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: Pong or something like that, all right, just joking around.

925
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 1: So then I think that week I'm at the dinner.

926
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 3: Right, and so this is the rare night no this

927
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 3: when Whinnie oh, whenn he was being born, so I

928
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 3: get a call. It was around that time. I just

929
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 3: remember like it was any moment, you know what I mean.

930
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 3: And I get a call at ten pm. Now I

931
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:56,600
Speaker 3: think I was sick this night, because this is one

932
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 3: of the rare times I was in bed at like

933
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 3: ten third on a school night or whatever. And they're like,

934
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 3: Prince wants to play Jimmy now at Susan Sarandon's ping

935
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 3: pong spot. Yes, Spin Spin, And I was just like, oh, man,

936
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:15,839
Speaker 3: you know he's about to have a kid.

937
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 1: Da da da dah, So yeah, I'll let him know.

938
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 3: And then like a minute later they're like, well he's uh,

939
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,919
Speaker 3: you know, he's down to do it right now if

940
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 3: you know available, And I was like, oh, maybe I

941
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 3: didn't get the message. I was like, no, no, no,

942
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 3: Jimmy's about to have a kid, so yeah, it might

943
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 3: you know, it might be busy or whatever. And then

944
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 3: a minute later he says, Okay, well just name the

945
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 3: time and place and you know he'll be there. And

946
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,959
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, they're just not listening or not taking

947
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 3: a note for an answer. Yeah, So I was like

948
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,399
Speaker 3: I'm not going to answer this. I went to bed

949
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 3: for like twenty minutes and over my eyes, and I

950
00:44:56,080 --> 00:45:00,040
Speaker 3: was like, don't let me at least tell Jimmy. So

951
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 3: then I texted you. I said, hey, uh, Prince wants

952
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 3: to play you in ping pong. So I had no

953
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 3: idea this whole exchange that you just went through. I said,

954
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 3: for some strange reason, he wants to play in ping

955
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 3: pong at Susan Sarandom spot. And I told him that

956
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 3: you're tied up with baby stuff. So anyway, just passing

957
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 3: the message along cool. I had no idea that you

958
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 3: were going to answer that message.

959
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:24,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I was out. I was out to dinner

960
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 4: that night. Okay, I wasn't because it wasn't yet that

961
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 4: it was close to it.

962
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 1: It was close to it.

963
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 4: I knew any moment that it was, any moment I

964
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:32,399
Speaker 4: had to be on the ready for Winny to be born.

965
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 4: But I was out to dinner that night. I'm like, what,

966
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 4: And then I got a text from his manager or something,

967
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 4: So you gave him.

968
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 1: Did it happen that night or the next night? It

969
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 1: happened soon.

970
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 4: I think it happened that night, right because I got

971
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 4: a text from their manager right and saying like, hey,

972
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 4: this princess manager, Princess at spin He wants to play

973
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:52,439
Speaker 4: you in ping pong right now.

974
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: So I go, it's the weirdest thing. I go.

975
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 4: So I told the first time having dinner with him, Like,

976
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 4: all right, I gotta go. Man, Prince wants to play

977
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 4: me in ping pong and I'm gonna meet him at

978
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 4: the Spin at Susan Random's Club. So I leave, I I,

979
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 4: you know, get in a cab and I go down

980
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:07,839
Speaker 4: the Spin and I go out.

981
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 3: I go into the door and go down the steps

982
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 3: and there's a girl working there and I go, hi,

983
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 3: I'm I'm here to see uh, and she goes friends.

984
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:22,720
Speaker 1: I goes, yeah, she goes, he's right behind the curtain.

985
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 1: He's in the private room over there.

986
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 4: I go, all right, So I go and there's a

987
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,280
Speaker 4: good We have a velvet room. There's a velvet rope

988
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 4: and a curtain, and I go past the rope and

989
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 4: I open the curtain and he's Prince is standing there

990
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:39,720
Speaker 4: and a crushed blue velvet suit, wearing the high heeled

991
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:43,720
Speaker 4: right shoes and he's holding a ping pong old paddle and.

992
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 1: He looked at me. He goes, you ready to do?

993
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,719
Speaker 1: And I go, oh my gosh, I go, I guess

994
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: so sure? He goes, wanna warm up.

995
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 4: I go, uh, yeah, I warm up a little bit,

996
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 4: like in my head, I don't even play ping pong, right,

997
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 4: you know what he's talking about.

998
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: So we start warming up a little bit.

999
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 4: If he had two ends in the room, he goes,

1000
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 4: everybody leave, everyone go go, so it's just me and Prince.

1001
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 1: Right, so everyone had to leave the room.

1002
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 4: It was just me and Prince and nobody else. And

1003
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:10,959
Speaker 4: he goes, all right, you ready, I go, let's start.

1004
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 4: So he hits the first he's like, hits it over

1005
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 4: and it goes and it just it was a good

1006
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,760
Speaker 4: shot and I didn't hit it back. He goes, one's

1007
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 4: it and I go, oh, you're can talk smack or right,

1008
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 4: and this is gonna happen twenty one points, says dude,

1009
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 4: this man, let's go, Prince.

1010
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: So I go.

1011
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 4: So we start playing, you know, hitting back and forth.

1012
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,919
Speaker 4: It was he's crushing me. So I think now it's

1013
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 4: like twenty to ten or something like that. He's killing me.

1014
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:34,240
Speaker 4: And he goes, uh, game point.

1015
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 3: I go, let's let's go, man, and he hits the

1016
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 3: shot and it's like and it's like beautiful, perfect shot,

1017
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 3: and the PAINSTI on spin and spit flames coming off

1018
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 3: it and it hits the hits that corner of the

1019
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 3: table that's just impossible to hit the you know what

1020
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 3: I'm talking like a perfect shot, and went flying behind

1021
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 3: me and I go, ah, you won, you one. And

1022
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 3: I go and I'm looking in the background to find

1023
00:47:57,680 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 3: the ball.

1024
00:47:58,120 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: I take up the blall.

1025
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 4: I turn around and he's gone, and he's not there.

1026
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 4: And I don't know him that well.

1027
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: So I thought maybe he was hiding or something.

1028
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 4: No, so I'm like, Prince Prime, Prince prince some like

1029
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 4: looking under the pink punk table like there's security footage.

1030
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 3: I look like crazy. I was like, is he hiding

1031
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:20,359
Speaker 3: behind a curtain? I don't know him, but I don't

1032
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 3: know the type of sense of humor.

1033
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 4: He's funny, but I was like, but then I look

1034
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,359
Speaker 4: and kind of rope is kind of moving almost.

1035
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 1: Like Batman in the door swiveling yeah yeah, yeah, the

1036
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 1: window side. I go to the girl, I go, did

1037
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 1: he shees? Yeah? He left.

1038
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 4: I go, okay, So then I went up and up

1039
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:39,720
Speaker 4: the stairs on the street.

1040
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 3: So me, being notoriost lye late for everything, I got

1041
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 3: back from a DJ gig and got your text that

1042
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 3: about to play prints right now. I was like, I'm

1043
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 3: on my way over. So I drive to Manhattan to

1044
00:48:55,040 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 3: spin get out the car, and I forget who from

1045
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 3: the show was outside smoking a cigarette. But I run

1046
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 3: and I was like, am I too late? Am I

1047
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 3: too late? And she's like, wait, you just miss him?

1048
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 3: That that was him? And I looked, uh in the

1049
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 3: street and in the STUV he was there and pulling

1050
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 3: off to a red light. I was like, hey on

1051
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 3: wait and I run and straight up great Poupon style,

1052
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 3: I'm like knocking on the door and the window rose

1053
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 3: down slowly and I was like, wait, it's over, It's over.

1054
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:40,959
Speaker 1: What happened? And seriously he's a ask you boy?

1055
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 3: And then this thing, the window goes slowly up, just

1056
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 3: like the Great Poupon conversial just takes off and takes off.

1057
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,280
Speaker 3: The only thing I noticed that he had the paddle

1058
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:54,839
Speaker 3: with him. Yeah, and it was a gold paddle. And

1059
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 3: later did I learned that he is that obsessed with it.

1060
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:04,960
Speaker 3: We did a show with him in Carousel. Uh we will,

1061
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 3: I'll rephrase that. We were supposed to do a show

1062
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:07,839
Speaker 3: with him.

1063
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 1: We did it. We showed up with him.

1064
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:16,479
Speaker 3: There's the weirdest lineup ever Dinah Ross, Toto, Los Lobos, Dude,

1065
00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 3: Dinah Ross who booked this God Dinah Ross, Los Lobos,

1066
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 3: Toto Journey, Prince the Roots Carousel and he was supposed

1067
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 3: to do a three hour set then the Roots, right, yeah, nah,

1068
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 3: friends don't play that. Princes wound up doing a five

1069
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 3: hour set and we like definantly like we still don't,

1070
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 3: you know, trying to like, yeah, we still want to perform,

1071
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 3: and we did like one and a half. We just

1072
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 3: stopped this only all right, y'all want to see Okay,

1073
00:50:58,800 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 3: We'll just.

1074
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: Do this until just to the hit go.

1075
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like at this point in the middle, No,

1076
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 3: the place holds like eight thousand people.

1077
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 1: I swear to god, it was like thirty five people. Yeah,

1078
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: they all split one's Princes left like we just got

1079
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 1: like yeah to see Okay.

1080
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 4: But what's the one that the DJ night with Prince?

1081
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 1: Remember that one? That one? Yeah it was he he h.

1082
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 1: That's the best story ever heard. I love that.

1083
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 3: I was okay, So I was on I was on

1084
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 3: a blind date and I wanted to appear cool, to

1085
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 3: be cool, and so I asked this, you know, like, uh,

1086
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 3: I got tickets to Prince, you want to see it,

1087
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:47,320
Speaker 3: and I had ten tickets, and me, not thinking I invited,

1088
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 3: I said, oh, I got ten tickets, so I invited

1089
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 3: ten of my friends. I never counted myself as one

1090
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,319
Speaker 3: of the ten. So when we get there, it was like,

1091
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 3: here's your ticket, here's your ticket, here's your ticket, here's

1092
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 3: your ticket. And I was like nine, oh fuck so

1093
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:07,840
Speaker 3: and this is beyond sold out. So they're in. And

1094
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 3: I had the number of his assistant and so I'm like, hey,

1095
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:17,320
Speaker 3: I'm on a date and I forgot to buy myself

1096
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:21,439
Speaker 3: a ticket. Decided to explain the whole thing, and she's like, yo, man,

1097
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 3: like no one can get in, like you know everyone else.

1098
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 3: Sharpton was trying to come down. Spike Lee was trying

1099
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 3: to say please, anything ready or trouble. So he just

1100
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:34,319
Speaker 3: happened to be in his own custom golf cart in

1101
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 3: Philly doing like forty miles an hour in a golf cart,

1102
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 3: like not doing donuts, but like like that sort of thing.

1103
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:44,239
Speaker 3: And I was just like, oh, just tell him straight up.

1104
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 3: I said, look, I made a mistake that d DA,

1105
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:49,799
Speaker 3: I had ten friends. I forgot to include myself in

1106
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 3: the ten. Can I sit somewhere please? And he was

1107
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 3: just like, all right, cool, you can sit on the

1108
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 3: stage under the stage. So the way that that stage

1109
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 3: is designed like his name, Like it's a thirteen foot

1110
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 3: tall stage, and so I'm literally sitting under the arrow

1111
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,360
Speaker 3: that is his name. Meanwhile, my dates like sitting with

1112
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 3: my friends in the audience, but I'm sitting like under

1113
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 3: the stage. And mid show, his assistant comes by and says,

1114
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 3: Prince wants you to throw him a party, and I

1115
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 3: was like, I have no resource, like right now. He

1116
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 3: said yeah tonight, and I was like, well, well I

1117
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 3: would have to. Yeah, you can use our phones. But

1118
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm going to miss the concert. And now

1119
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 3: it's like, oh, I'm working for Prince now, so I'm

1120
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 3: like leaving my concert.

1121
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: Going into you gotta throw them a party.

1122
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 3: Right, So I called my friends who I normally do

1123
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:46,879
Speaker 3: parties with in Philly. I was like, look, Prince, hang

1124
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 3: on a second, he wants what pool table. Okay, hey,

1125
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:56,680
Speaker 3: Prince wants to do a party tonight. So in like

1126
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:59,719
Speaker 3: four hours, can you find me a spot? They said,

1127
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 3: we on the spot. I said, okay, now he wants

1128
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:03,760
Speaker 3: a pool table. They're like, well, this is a five

1129
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 3: story walk up.

1130
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 4: Can't please?

1131
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 3: Can we please just make this happen, please, please, So

1132
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 3: they had to find a detachable pool table to carry

1133
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 3: up five flights of stairs. So then I rush home,

1134
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 3: get my records ready, get there. You know, Prince is

1135
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:25,279
Speaker 3: like elate party. So this party's not starting to like

1136
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 3: one pint thirty and it's ten of us and we're inside,

1137
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 3: and basically he wants to control the door. And you know,

1138
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 3: there's a whole group of people waiting outside, but they're inside.

1139
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:42,240
Speaker 3: There's only like seventy people club shit hold about three hundred. Anyway,

1140
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 3: So I'm playing like a bunch of like Faylile, you know,

1141
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 3: West African funk music, and I'm thinking, like, okay, I'm

1142
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:49,240
Speaker 3: gonna educate Prince on falaile.

1143
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 1: He likes James Brown, he likes George.

1144
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 3: Clinton, and play the original you know, West African guy

1145
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 3: to funk and he'll be into it. And Prince wasn't

1146
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 3: into it. He was just like what else he got?

1147
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,359
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, I played another failure song?

1148
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:03,359
Speaker 1: What else you got?

1149
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 3: I was like, damn, He's like, play some of your

1150
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:08,040
Speaker 3: music and I was like, I never played the roots

1151
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 3: in the club, Like I'm just scared to do that.

1152
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:11,280
Speaker 1: Because it's instant club.

1153
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 3: So I'm failing and I'm twenty five minutes in and

1154
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:21,839
Speaker 3: his assistant walks up and says, here, play this, and

1155
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 3: she gives me a DVD and it's Finding Nemo.

1156
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, the movie, not the soundtrack,

1157
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 1: the actual movie.

1158
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 3: And I was like, wait, what do I don't there's

1159
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:38,799
Speaker 3: not a DVD player here.

1160
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:39,359
Speaker 1: She's oh.

1161
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 3: She comes back, gives me a portable DVD player. I

1162
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 3: was like, well, I say, it's a nightclub, they don't

1163
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:48,719
Speaker 3: have it. His engineer gives me, like the chords. I said, yeah,

1164
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 3: but there's no projection. There's a projection screen.

1165
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 1: So suddenly.

1166
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:56,560
Speaker 3: I put this thing on, but I'm still DJing, so

1167
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 3: I figured like he just wants the visual of like

1168
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 3: the just.

1169
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 1: Playing in the background.

1170
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then they come over and they're like no, no, no,

1171
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 3: can you turn the volume up.

1172
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, we're in a nightclub in Philadelphia.

1173
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 1: He wants to watch Finding Nemo.

1174
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:12,320
Speaker 3: And he said yeah, just you know, just kill the

1175
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 3: music and put the thing up. And I was like, oh, no,

1176
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 3: you ain't set me up. So I got the opening

1177
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 3: DJ guy I said, look, in about five seconds, do

1178
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:23,880
Speaker 3: the transfer and put up the So suddenly we go

1179
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 3: from like this this funk music talking about protesting the

1180
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:31,799
Speaker 3: government in Nigeria to suddenly, like Ellen Degenero's voice.

1181
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:34,320
Speaker 1: He just wants to watch Finding Nemo.

1182
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:38,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it was like it didn't affect nobody and

1183
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,479
Speaker 3: his crew like this happens all the time every day,

1184
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:45,360
Speaker 3: and I'm just sitting there dejected, like.

1185
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:47,880
Speaker 1: No one has this story. No one has this story.

1186
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:48,760
Speaker 1: That is the greatest.

1187
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:52,880
Speaker 3: I just sat there like, yo, dude, like you're playing

1188
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:56,480
Speaker 3: Finding Nemo in the club like popping bottles in a

1189
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:58,759
Speaker 3: and you remember the club back in like in two

1190
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 3: thousand and four, like it was sex back then. Nah,

1191
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:06,800
Speaker 3: he wanted. We were watching Pixar in the Duck Club?

1192
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 1: Are you Duck Club? Are you? Did you read The

1193
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:11,439
Speaker 1: Beautiful Ones yet? Yes?

1194
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 3: I read it and it's ah, man, it makes me

1195
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:18,919
Speaker 3: so sad, like he he wrote that. Normally, when people

1196
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 3: write books, you do it with a collaborator. Like with me,

1197
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 3: it was like going back to school, like chapter for chapter.

1198
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 3: Like my guy was say like, okay, write about the

1199
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:30,200
Speaker 3: first time he brought a record, and then I write

1200
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 3: something and he goes and okay, it's run on sentence

1201
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 3: whatever or traditionally you just do a twenty hour interview

1202
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 3: with someone and then they write.

1203
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 1: The words in your voice.

1204
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 3: But he wrote that book and he only wrote thirty pages,

1205
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 3: but it revealed so much about at least up until

1206
00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 3: the age of four, which you know could have been

1207
00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:58,560
Speaker 3: but he took a lot of photos, like so there's

1208
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 3: a lot of unanswered questions about his childhood. Maya Rudolph

1209
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 3: is really going to love this book because there's I

1210
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:12,080
Speaker 3: guess if Instagram were out back then Prince would have

1211
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:14,840
Speaker 3: been on Instagram instead. Like he just kept photo books

1212
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 3: of all the albums he made, like the process of

1213
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 3: making it, like My Breakfast, My Engineer, Sleep on the

1214
00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 3: couch again. So there's a there's a picture where he

1215
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 3: Prince is driving down Sunset and there's a big giant

1216
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 3: ad of Minnie Riperton's new album Stay in Love, like

1217
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 3: on Sunset Boulevard and Prince is waiting at a red

1218
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:39,440
Speaker 3: light and Flash takes the photo. It's a perfect shot,

1219
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:41,920
Speaker 3: like this would have been his iPhone back in nineteen

1220
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 3: seventy seven.

1221
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 1: And the caption was like this woman.

1222
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:48,920
Speaker 3: Could cause a car crash, and I was like, oh man,

1223
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:51,120
Speaker 3: my Rudolph is really really going to love that?

1224
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 1: Yeah? Does he ever know that she loves him that much? Oh? Definitely?

1225
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 3: I think yeah, yeah, Because he he talks about uh

1226
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 3: even though he only covers the first four year of

1227
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 3: his life, he often jumps to modern references, So there's

1228
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 3: a there is a mention of him watching uh the

1229
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 3: Darling Nikki performance. Really that is also in my top

1230
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 3: that and Stevie Wonder. I'm trying to figure out what else,

1231
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 3: Jorn Darling.

1232
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:26,600
Speaker 4: You remember that my Stevie Wonder story with you guys?

1233
00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 4: Remember I opened for you guys in Atlantic City.

1234
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 1: I hate you for this, man, I open for the.

1235
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 4: Roots in Atlantic City. And we get there and someone

1236
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 4: forgot James's keyboard.

1237
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:39,120
Speaker 1: James, Yes, we forgot James Boyce's keyboard, So how do

1238
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: you forget an instrument too? We were new.

1239
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:46,200
Speaker 4: He forgot his kid. So we get there and James like,

1240
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 4: I do my set. I came back and I go, James,

1241
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 4: what are you doing? He's like, they forgot my keyboard.

1242
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna watch.

1243
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 1: I go.

1244
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 4: Oh, He's like, you want to get a tequila? I

1245
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 4: go sure, So we get a drink and then somebody

1246
00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:57,600
Speaker 4: comes back and go, hey, do.

1247
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 1: You guys want to meet Stevie Wonder. I go, he's here.

1248
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:04,680
Speaker 4: He's also playing a different room venue. I go, oh,

1249
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:07,360
Speaker 4: let's go. So we run over to see Stevie. You

1250
01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 4: leave the Roots and then run see Sevie. Go and

1251
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:13,080
Speaker 4: see Stevie Wonder and I go, uh, what do you uh?

1252
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 4: It was only like maybe it was a meet and

1253
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 4: greet with like ten people. He does this every time,

1254
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 4: and it's ten people, and I go.

1255
01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:22,240
Speaker 3: Uh, he's Stevie's Jimmy Fallon and James like, I'm from

1256
01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 3: the Roots, blah blah blah and I'm the biggest, biggest fan.

1257
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:27,560
Speaker 1: I start going through all his bits and I start going.

1258
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 4: Like ebony and hie, and.

1259
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 1: Then he starts harmonizing with me. Yeah and you dude.

1260
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 4: So then James starts going playing the song on on

1261
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 4: Stevie's other piano. Right, So then Stevie James playing piano

1262
01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 4: and I'm harmonizing with Stevie Wonder. We sing perfect harmony.

1263
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 4: Ebany and Ivory did jumping up and down like what

1264
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 4: is just happening?

1265
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 1: Like all right, love you buddy, I tact you. Later

1266
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:56,520
Speaker 1: we split, we were backstage.

1267
01:00:56,640 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 4: We throw down a couple more drinks we watch you

1268
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 4: guys your last you finished the set, You're like, uh,

1269
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 4: it was pretty good.

1270
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:07,080
Speaker 1: What'd you guys do? Stee, I can't wait to tell

1271
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 1: you what we did. Man, you bastards. Dude.

1272
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:13,919
Speaker 3: We can go on forever with these stories, but both

1273
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:16,320
Speaker 3: of us have day jobs. We got to report to WET.

1274
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 3: I know we're just going to finish this conversation on

1275
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:22,439
Speaker 3: way backward. I really want to thank you for helping us,

1276
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 3: and well, first of all, for everything you've done for

1277
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 3: me personally. No, seriously, dog like that was I always

1278
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:35,439
Speaker 3: joke that, not even joke because everyone asked like, well,

1279
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:39,920
Speaker 3: how did you guys manage to do the show? And

1280
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:42,960
Speaker 3: I always tell them that we were prepared in the

1281
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:45,880
Speaker 3: nicest way possible to say no, because we didn't want

1282
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:47,400
Speaker 3: to burn a bridge and be like, Okay, when we

1283
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:49,640
Speaker 3: have a new album ount we can come on said show,

1284
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 3: I said, But then you disarmed us in literally ten minutes,

1285
01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 3: which no human being has ever done. I mean, we've

1286
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 3: had the finest of women, the finest of models, the

1287
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 3: biggest of act I think there was a point where

1288
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:10,920
Speaker 3: we were supposed to go fishing with George Clooney at

1289
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:15,000
Speaker 3: one point, like that's a typical backstage thing, like George

1290
01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 3: Cluon's like, all right, we're going fishing tomorrow whatever, and

1291
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:21,040
Speaker 3: like we're so standd off ash as a group. And

1292
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 3: literally in ten minutes you had us doing a human

1293
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 3: pyramid that it is enough human pyramid at UCLA, and

1294
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 3: only because Tarik was on the bottom row. Who you know,

1295
01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:37,880
Speaker 3: his clothes are so expensive. It's like Treek is actually

1296
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 3: getting his Japanese denim dirty. And I looked at Rich like,

1297
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:43,720
Speaker 3: we're not getting rid of this guy anytime soon. Al

1298
01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:47,200
Speaker 3: He's like, nope, you do it right there. I couldn't

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Speaker 3: figure out what you did to disarm the roots in

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Speaker 3: ten minutes flat. And I was like, oh, this this

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Speaker 3: is the next stage of my life right here, I'm

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Speaker 3: watching it. But yes, I want to thank you for that,

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Speaker 3: and also thank you we're helping us with our new

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Speaker 3: uh are about to say jump off like it's it's

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Speaker 3: two thousand and eight our new jump off on iHeart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 4: Thank you by the way for changing the whole game.

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Speaker 4: And honestly, it wasn't for you, we wouldn't be that

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Speaker 4: wouldn't be where I am.

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Speaker 3: So here's do another twenty five years of magic. Let's

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Speaker 3: do it, Yes, yo On behalf of the Team Supreme.

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Speaker 3: Who's tied up in the room next door? Boss Bill

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Speaker 3: Unpaid Bill font Tigelo Layah, I love you.

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Speaker 1: Laiyah anyway.

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Speaker 3: I heart, yes, we I heart and Sugar Steve, Yes,

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Speaker 3: I forgot about No, you can't forget about it him though, No,

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Speaker 3: I did that purpose Steves anyway, This is gest Love.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you on the next go round. Quest Loft Supreme,

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Speaker 1: Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. For more

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Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeart Radio, visit the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.