WEBVTT - QLS Classic: Jimmy Fallon 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.040 Questlove Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:07.800 What's Up, Everybody? This is Sugar Steve from Quest Love Supreme. 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:10.840 We are beginning a new batch of classic episodes to 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:13.680 give you, and this one is special to me. It's 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:16.520 a conversation between my only two friends, and I guess 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.320 you could say my two bosses, Questlove and Jimmy Fallon. 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:22.560 They talk about the art of making mixtapes, their mutual 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.680 love of duop, and their mutual love of me, Sugar Steve. 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.479 This episode first aired what seems like a lifetime ago, 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:31.560 back on December fourth, twenty nineteen, and I know you're 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.560 gonna enjoy it. Take it away, Questlove and Jimmy Fallon. 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:42.879 Ladies and gentlemen. 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.960 We promised you all freaking summer that we'd be back, 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.760 and I told you I was told to never ever 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:52.000 make a promise I can't keep. 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:52.600 Yet. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:57.240 Still we're back and we're better than ever. The family's 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.520 still here, but we're gonna do a little bit different 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.760 right now. This is officially the return of Quest Left Supreme. 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:07.399 Shout out to our new family on iHeartRadio. I will 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.399 say that right now we are worldwide for the first time. 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:12.320 A lot of you we've heard your cries. Yes, we 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.600 are officially worldwide. We're not just US and Canada anymore. 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:20.240 Another cross for celebration is our guest today, five time 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:25.440 Emmy Winner, People's Choice, Webby Writers Guild, Critics Choice and 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.839 Grammy Award winning, which I try to make a word 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:29.640 out of it, but it was. 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:35.840 Just may you comedy continents exactly. We're valid. 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:41.040 Most importantly, our guest today is a comic student. He 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:45.240 is a Saturday Night Live legend, still the coolest late 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.680 night talk show host, and a New York Times bestselling author. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.400 My bud please welcome back to the return of post 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.120 Loft Supreme James T. 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.320 Call me, Jimmy, come me, just call me Jimmy. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.240 Wait, time out. What the hell's T stand for? T? 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.360 Here's your middle name, right, Tiberius? 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:11.760 No? I was like, what Captain Perk T is? Thomas 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:13.360 James Thomas found. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.560 I never knew that we shared a route Thompson Thomas. 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.080 I did not know you were Thomas. Okay, do you 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:19.840 have a middle name? 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:22.440 You ready? Yeah? All right? 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:27.680 So it's the pronounced the way that you say it is? 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:34.320 Khalib khalib k h a l i b Amir Khalib. 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.400 Khalib Colleb Alib Wow. Yeah. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.520 My parents were on some next next when when I 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.920 was born Khalib Khaleb Thompson, Yes. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.919 Wow, wild, which made me. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.640 All the more just wanting to have a question mark 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:51.640 for my name all my life. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.120 That's the exactly. 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.200 But we went through your names once before, like you've 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.200 had was it always brother brother quest? 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:00.560 All right? 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:07.120 So when we first when the group first started, I was, 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:08.840 oh God. 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.840 Yeah, that's we all came from somewhere. 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.760 I don't want to meet all right, Okay, so. 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.760 Oh man, just say it, dude, Man. 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:25.280 It kills me. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:31.240 This is like therapy when you. 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:41.760 First first my first name was deaf dough money. I 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.200 want to do something that I normally don't. I never 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.440 I never do like rapid fire questions on this show. 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:50.800 Like it's always like, you know, the conversation, yeah, like 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.160 so you were born in Yes, I know you're born. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.440 I'm pretty sure that everyone pretty much knows your backstory. 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.640 So this is a question. I always wanted to start with. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.320 What did you have for breakfast this morning? 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.040 I had pancakes. 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.360 You have in syrup you cook them more, you know. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:10.760 I I had a meeting this morning. 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.560 What time do you wake up? Man? 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:15.880 I don't want to wake up, but the kids wake 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.719 me up. They It's insane. Right now, I have a 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:20.280 six year old and the four and a half year old, 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.800 and they get in bed around probably four in the morning. 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.760 Usually wait what I know, And I'm just like, dude, 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:27.440 I got to sleep. 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:29.320 But my weef on me show biz kids. 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.800 My wife is like, no, no, They go to sleep 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.039 at like seven or a night, but in their room. 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:35.640 But then at four in the morning they walk into 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.479 our bedroom and come into bed with me and my 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.960 wife and just want to sleep in the bed with us. 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.440 And I was like, we got to just tell them no, 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:43.720 and they got to go back to the room. My 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:48.080 wife's like, they won't do it forever. There's no you know, 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.760 thirty year old kids sleeping with their parents. It's like 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.240 eventually they figure it. She goes, one day we'll be 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.599 wanting our kids to come in and send it laying. 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.000 So anyways, so they come in around four, I try 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:02.000 to I toss and turn till about probably seven, and 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:03.640 then we wake up around six thirty seven. 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:05.680 When he's not out of school age now she in 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.000 first grade. She's in first grade and she still wants 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:09.560 to get up at six in the morning. Oh yeah, 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:11.240 they got up at six in the morning. They play 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:12.680 like they're excited and they love it. 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.000 They play for an hour like all their toys, and 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.200 then we brush our teeth and that we have breakfast. 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.520 We usually make them breakfast, but I didn't eat with 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.640 them because I had to. But normally what I would 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.599 do is, you know what I've been doing is the 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.600 gross apple cider, vinegar, lemon hot water. 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.040 I love that now you do, and I'm used to it. 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:32.640 I'm still not used to it. It's the guys. 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.280 It's like honestly painful for me. Really, the drink vinegar 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.840 every morning. It sounds like torture. Why didn't we do 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:38.480 that to each other? 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:40.680 Or do you put a little bit of honey in it? Yes? 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:42.559 And it's still hard. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.320 It's getting better a little bit for me, but I 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:46.560 think I was maybe I was putting too much vinegar 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:46.960 in mine. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.480 Oh okay, I was just drinking like hot vinegar. Its 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.000 pretty gross. But you do it every day. 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.640 I look forward to it. You do. Yeah, And I 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.920 put kai on pepper. Yeah, I do that never now 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:58.200 and then I throw that in there. 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.320 But I anyways, so that's Normally I would not have breakfast. 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.680 I would just have that, but I had a meeting 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.839 about the show today, so I had to go order 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:07.000 something to just be rude. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.520 So your morning routine usually starts at seven? 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.120 Yeah, and then because the thing is is that sometimes 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:18.360 I'll say, most of the time, unless we're talking about 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.440 a sketch or some sort of whatever, the format of 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.159 what we're gonna do later, I never see you. So 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.560 I never know what your morning routine is from nine, 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:30.360 from eight in the morning. 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.720 Till three or two, I go to bed as soon 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:34.400 as I can. I go. 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:36.239 I'm one of those people now I go out to dinner. 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:37.800 If I go out to dinner with Nancy, we got 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:39.599 at like, I'm there at five o'clock. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.240 So you like, I can't wait to go to sleep? 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:42.960 I love sleep? 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:48.800 I started I hate. I mean, I'm afraid that sleep is. 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.240 I feel like me is saying like, oh man, I 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:52.159 can't wait to go to bed? 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:53.360 Is life of time? 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.320 Well, no, I just feel like it's me admitting that 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.839 I'm getting up there like I used to be proud to, like, ah, 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:01.280 five days in a row, I've been out. 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.760 No, dude, we had remember Grace Jones just came on 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.599 the show and she goes, I go, uhh. 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.520 She goes, what are you doing tonight? I go, this 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:09.800 is it? 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.000 I mean, I'm going home. I'm probably just gonna eat 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.000 something to go to bed. She's like, oh man, I go, 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.080 You're not doing that. She's like, no, I gotta I 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:17.760 got a show tonight. And then after the show, we're 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.400 going to uh something, some club. I go, you still 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.800 got the clubs? She's like, yeah, oh yeah, I go. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.520 What time do you get home. It's like, I don't know, 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.240 four or five. She's like, I don't know what's wrong 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.840 with this generation. I'll go to bed too early. I'm like, 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.960 Grace Jones still just stays out the five in the morning. 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.200 I go, oh my god, I wouldn't even know what 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:35.480 to do. 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.880 I would have no clue. Well, yeah, I'm just I 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:41.640 love sleep now, and I hate to admit that. I 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:42.760 love It's the greatest thing. 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.000 That's the one thing you can get me for my birthday, 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.240 for Christmas or anything I can can get sleep. Oh, 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.440 I would love sleep, man, that would be. 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.239 You gotta you know, there's coupon. 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.600 One time, I thought Tarik was joking, but he had 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:01.600 these coupons made for like and then interrupted, no tek 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.080 fix this or Dad, I need help with that, Like 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:06.280 that was his birthday gift, Like. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.120 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did that with my parents when 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:08.600 I was a kid. 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.080 I made them coupons. Yeah, I'm like, oh, so they 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.120 can leave you alone, or so I could leave themone 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.080 or help them out, like you use this coupon whenever 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.120 you want me to go, Like, I'll you know, wash 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:19.800 the car, I'll do whatever. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.960 I'll do instead of just regularly regularly regula chores. Yeah, exactly, 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:23.160 like that. 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:27.080 All right. So you of course mentioned your your dad's 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.640 affinity and love for do wop music. 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.440 Oh yeah, yeah, I grew up with it, loved it. 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:38.080 What's the first single do you remember purchasing? Oh Man 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:42.240 non do or just in general? Verse forty five. So 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.679 like his record collection was your record collection? 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:46.600 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah I remember that. 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:48.559 Yeah all right, So what was your favorite of his 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:50.000 of his record collection? 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.480 Of your dad trying to learn harmony to the song 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:57.439 called Zoom because like zoom. 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:04.200 Zoom zoom zoom zoom to zoom zoom zoom, zoom, zoomzoom, 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:12.120 zoom zoom zoom zoom, the same format I've never heard 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:13.400 this all my life, but I knew. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:14.920 So I was trying to. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:16.559 So he would try to teach me and my sister 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.640 to sing zoom so we could like harmonize and be like, 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:24.199 you know, I don't know the Osmonds or whatever sometimes 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:28.800 or Donnie Man. No, I was Marie, but I was. 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.680 It's like, so my sister immediately was like, I'm out. 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.680 I don't even I don't get harmony. I don't like this, 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.040 I'm out of the out of the group. But me 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.080 and my dad were even rebel. Yeah, Gloria was the rep. 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.120 So me and my dad could sing zoom pretty well. 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:42.920 Uh. 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.280 And so that was just I would just start learning 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.360 all these harmonies and then getting in the trick your 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.000 harmonies and trying to like, I. 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:50.840 Mean, I just loved it. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.040 I just so would he would he go to all 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.800 those like Dick Fox productions of like at Westbury Music 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.520 Fear Do Wop, yeah kind of. 0:09:58.600 --> 0:09:58.800 Yeah. 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.600 I grew up Sagerty Is, New York, which is upstate 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:05.200 by Kingston, Pokeepsie, Woodstock that area. So there was a 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:09.880 place called uh Ulster Performing Arts Center, you pack, and 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.680 they would have oldie shows there and so I would 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.640 go to see My first concert concert was Weird Al Yankovic, 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.160 but my first kind of venture into concert was with 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.600 the whole family. We went to a Doop show and 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.920 I saw, like, oh gosh, you know. 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:31.079 Chances are it was a Dick Fox production. Yeah, Larry 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:32.280 Chance and the Earls were there. 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:52.240 Yeah, I saw Joey D and the Starlight star Lighters 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.559 all right. So now many people know that Hendrick used 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.640 to play in Joey Dean and the star Lighters. 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.599 What Yeah, Hendricks. 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.720 Joey always tells that story, like when when I see him. 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.439 Joey D had a son that was in the Starlight. 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:08.720 It was just my age. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.360 And so at one point in nineteen eighty five, my 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:16.679 dad had this idea like, Okay, we're gonna get Joey 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:25.680 D's son, gary Us Bond's daughter. Uh but my middle 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:30.200 name is middle sister, right right, his. 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.640 Two nieces, my sister and I. 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:36.920 It was like a eight It was like an eight 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:42.640 eight kid group of all Duop legends, and they wanted 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:48.840 to call it UBI the next generation, like. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:49.480 Re Redo do call it UBI. 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.320 I don't know if we were redoing Duop, but it 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.440 was just a thing like let's put a supergroup together. 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.839 Of all, like the Legends. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:02.800 We did one session at the studio that's now that 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:07.200 used to be Sony on fifty fourth and eleventh Avenue, 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.720 So somewhere in their files in nineteen eighty six there's 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:17.079 like a four song oldies doop demo from the Legends 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.920 of Duop. I think that was like my first studio 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.760 session ever. No way, yeah, And was it a cappella? 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:23.760 Was a duop or is it? No? 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.719 We played like I drummed and see I could see 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:27.160 that working. 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.319 But that's because I think I grew up brainwashed that 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:30.559 duop was the only music. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.520 I thought, right right. My parents tricked me as well, because. 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.360 Well, my dad was in Vietnam, so he was like 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.320 he had these real, real tapes of him and his 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.040 group on the ship singing duop. So I always thought 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.040 that Vietnam everyone sang duop songs. And then I'm watching 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.280 these movies I watch Apocalypse Now or whatever, and no 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:48.680 one's singing any duop, And I'm like, I'm here like 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.320 the doors, and right, I go, what is this music? 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.880 I know for a fact people sang duop until she 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:57.880 turns out my dad was just like a nerd to me. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:12:59.080 No, we got tricked. Man. 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:03.559 We got trick because in my first grade class, my 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:08.040 first homework assignment was bringing in your favorite forty five. 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:15.360 The next day, everyone came in with contemporary stuff and 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:33.760 he gibbs, I just want to be everything disco duck yeah, 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:38.679 rick d's all that stuff. And I came in with why. 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:44.760 Do Fools fall in love? Why fools? 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.520 And my teachers were like, oh, this is from my era, 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:55.920 and none of the kids knew my record, and right 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.760 my teacher explained like, well, a mere like when I 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:00.640 was your age, this is what I listened to. 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.120 And I'm looking like, how come what this doesn't residentate you? 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.120 If you guys this happened to me, but such later 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.520 in life, I was like, I was actually in high 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:10.360 school or college. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:11.320 People do that now. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:18.800 I remember at one point U Kamal decided that he 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.600 was going to make his kids think that Michael Jackson's 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:27.760 Off the Wall was a brand new album. So I 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.920 know kids that do that now, like just put their 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.440 kids in the time warp and don't listen. 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.760 You know, there's nothing for doing it. Yeah, did it 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.000 work for a little bit. 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.200 Well, it's weird now because I'll say that of all 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.960 the roots kids Kamal's kids are the weirdest. 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:48.080 Yeah, his daughter now, as. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.160 This taping, your your Grateful Dead experience will be over. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:58.160 But Kamal's oldest daughter is and she I think she 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:02.920 just turned twenty. She's like a total deadhead, like she 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.560 knows American beauty. She went to college one year and 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:10.680 then they just put her onto like the first four 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.040 Grateful Dead records because she have all these quotes on 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:13.680 her social media. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.160 I'm like, wait a minute, what do you know about 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:16.600 Cherry Carcia. Dude. 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.840 I think it's changed my life a little bit. I've 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:21.960 never listened to him at all, and I'm really into it. 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:23.800 I dig it, I get it all right, I totally 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:28.480 get it. And then Kamal's son is straight up country 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:34.040 what yo? No, I think your kids. 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.200 Your kids are going to be the total opposite of 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:41.160 what you are, which explains it because even Kirk's son 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.680 is into like the hardest trap. 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:45.560 Music of all time. 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.520 Really, Like, when when certain acts come on the show 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.040 and kirk Son doesn't show up, I'm like, Yo, you 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:53.480 didn't want to see da da Da da da. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.480 You'd be like, nah, that's too commercial for me. I'm 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.440 like what, like, like the underground. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.600 He if it's if it's it's two mainstream, he won't 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:02.560 he won't mess with it. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.200 I just realized I got to teach when he had 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.480 to dance because we went to this Halloween party and 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:08.360 they're like. 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.560 First grader dance competition. Who wants to dance? 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.440 And she goes, well, I have to go, dad, it's 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:13.960 first dance competition. 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.040 I'm like, do you really know how to dance? 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:19.120 And dude, they played like everybody dance now, and she 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:20.400 just stood there and kind of. 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:21.600 Like walked back and forth. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.920 It's really stiff, and the dude next to her was 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.440 like doing backspins and flips and like moonwalking. And I 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.920 was like, oh my gosh, my kid does not know 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:32.360 how to dance. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:36.000 I got a teach her. How your kids discover YouTube? Yet? No? Yeah, 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:37.680 it's like they got it. 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.960 I mean YouTube's a slippery slope because you don't want 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:41.440 them controlling, like what the search. 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:43.560 I was watching one thing and I just said, hey, 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.000 maybe no more YouTube because it was no it was 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.640 like adults moving toys around and doing voices for dolls 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.800 like that's it, dude. And they were obsessed with this 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.200 show and it's like it's the any parent out there 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.000 knows what I'm talking about. It is the creepiest thing ever. 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.360 There's like a hand will hold like a pop patrol 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.160 doll and be like, hey, what are you doing? 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:02.360 Oh? 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.640 And they play with dolls and the kids just watch 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.400 it like like it's them playing with dolls and it's 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.480 the It goes on for hours on a loop on. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:12.679 YouTube, and kids like it. 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.480 I don't know how they found it, but they loved it. 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:15.920 And I was like, oh, dude, we gotta take it. 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:19.000 We gotta watch something with the beginning, middle, end, a plot. 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.960 Anything. You can watch anything, but not this. What's it called? 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.320 I have no idea what it's called. But I almost 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:27.280 want to sue these people. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:30.359 It's like I don't like it. I don't want it 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.720 in my house. Now, you just gotta show a bunch 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:34.320 of dance clips on you know. 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.560 You really know how to play music for them, because 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.240 it's just like Alexa or you know, or you know, 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:40.120 show them soul training. 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.160 I should. I gotta get put on. 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:47.320 Trust me a good soul tiraying clip. They will emulate it. 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.560 That's how everyone in America learns how to dance. 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:50.120 That's it. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:56.880 Yes, that's how they learned. Hey, do you remember the 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.000 first mixtape you ever made for someone? 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.800 Yeah? Yeah, it's a big deal. How long did it 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:04.280 take you to craft it? Oh? 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:08.000 I mean plussing play record and pause and having the 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.040 record startup. And it wasn't even a great mixtape. It 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.600 was just my stuff, which is all weird stuff. And 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:14.240 I would take it because I had this thing when 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.159 I was a kid that I didn't and this is 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.639 you could ask my sister. I wouldn't let anyone copy 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.840 my music. Why Because I thought it would affect a 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:22.720 record industry. 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:24.040 Wait what? 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.479 Because I must have seen someone talk about it on 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:30.120 TV or so. I said, you're gonna ruin the record industry. 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:33.320 If you record a song, if you take my song, 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.440 you have to buy the record. You can't just take 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.359 the song off of by record that eyebought. That he's 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.920 gonna ruin the industry. And my sister was like, you're 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.240 the worst, You're the weirdest kid. And so I would 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.680 have to take my music to the party. I play 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.440 my mixtape, then I take the tape home. I would 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.200 just I would own my mixtapes. 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.960 You wouldn't give it to no one, No, I would, 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:56.520 I would I wouldn't give it to anyone, not even 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.280 my sister. I'm like, man, yeah, I was the opposite. 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:04.360 I feel I am Spotify. Like the the the amount 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.199 of work I don't have to do now in the 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:11.080 age of streaming is mind boggling, because back when you 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.240 had to make mixtapes and mix you have. 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:14.200 To listen to the whole song. 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.320 I was the guy you had to come to to 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:21.240 make whatever, Like I was the king of mixtape making. 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:23.879 But you never made a mixtape for anyone. 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:26.200 Well, I mean I might have done like earlier, because 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:28.840 I remember I used to listen to the radio all 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:30.359 the time that was like I loved it. I had 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:34.479 a boombox and I'm trying to think of the brand 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:36.520 the brand name of my boom box. 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:36.880 I forget. 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.240 I mean I remember it in my brain looking at it. 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.159 Listen to this radio station, have play record and pause 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:43.879 just there, just in case. 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:44.920 A song came on the radio. 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.600 Ghostbusters was my jam. I was like Ray Parker Junior, Ghostbusters. 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:53.159 If I hear that, I would run over and like 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:54.239 try to record it. 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.200 And I was like oh, And then like I remember. 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:59.560 Listening to another like my dad would play radio and 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.200 I would bring the boom box over to his speaker 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:04.960 so I could record the song from his speaker onto 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:07.720 my cassette player so I can tape it that way, 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:09.320 like if there was like a special Beatles thing. I 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:11.240 was really into the Beatles at one point, right, So 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:15.320 I had those type of mixtapes. And then I remember 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:18.000 listening to Doctor Demento. Do you know him at all? 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.639 That's how weird Out got to start, right, Yeah, okay, 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.080 he's just you was the legend of Doctor Demento. 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:26.440 He played novelty songs and novelty records, so any comedy 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:29.040 song there was a whole mess, a whole different. They 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.600 don't do it anymore as much, but in the seventies, 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:36.080 especially in the eighties, it was all comedy joke songs 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.040 like that was the birth of weird al But it 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:40.760 was like Steve Martin, you know, doing King Tut that 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:45.200 was like it charted, that's all duck. Yeah, that disco 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:47.200 Duck was a hit. So I mean, that's a novelty record, 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:48.000 all these like but. 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.000 Do you remember he was just played novelty records. 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:53.720 Do you remember the coasters they had that song well, 0:20:54.119 --> 0:21:03.520 jobing cad like what dun It was called beat beep, 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:07.720 and then by the end of the song it gets faster. 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:09.520 So it's like they that that don that then that 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:13.399 bet beep, bet beep, the hormone beat beep beep, and 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:15.159 now I'm going to one hundred and so it was 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:17.480 like a song about a race, but the song it 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:18.879 was not a real it was it was like a 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:21.240 novelty song. But it was a hit really and it 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:23.520 was Yeah, so all these songs, so he would play 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:26.080 all these kind of weird songs like that and very 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:28.760 it was very more seventies than anything else. But I 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:31.399 would listen to that Sunday nights and and and just 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:34.720 try to record all these funny songs and then see 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:36.400 if I can start writing them myself. 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:38.399 See you write them down and perform The. 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:41.879 First song, my first parody song I ever wrote, was awful. 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:44.639 But it was what's your what's your deft? Do money? 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:48.920 This is bad? Do you remember King Kong Bundy was 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:52.720 a rapper. I was a wrestler, so I did. 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:56.120 I wish it was King Kong Bundy instead of Manic Monday, 0:21:56.760 --> 0:22:02.239 Like I wish it was King Kong Bun. Oh, that 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:03.960 would be a fun or whatever. 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:05.440 And it was like it was awful. 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:08.639 And I remember writing it like and I had my eraser, 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:12.720 my papermate eraser mate, uh, and like rewriting the lyrics, 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:14.320 I was like, oh my gosh, I'm writing like I'm 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:16.919 gonna be weird al and that's what I and I 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:17.760 remember writing it. 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:19.880 It was just I thought it was so clever and fun. 0:22:20.200 --> 0:22:22.040 Then I was too embarrassed. Couldn't play for anybody? 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:24.879 What year weird out? Did you see? What period is 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:27.800 there to be stupid? Did dare to be stupid? Tour? 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:31.200 I had a teal concert tee, no sleeve concert tea. 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:32.920 That's what I That's what I bought. 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:35.879 What was I doing? I just I wanted to be 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:38.479 you know, this is pre Zach Morris. But I was 0:22:38.520 --> 0:22:40.240 like I would have. 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:43.159 That or gosh my wardrobe. I was trying to be 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:46.080 as fashionable as I could as a kid. And you know, 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:48.000 growing up in Sorrtyes, New York, was this you and 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:52.400 going to this concert? Order was there? 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:55.040 He was? But he was not, No, he wasn't. He 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:57.200 wasn't my best friend yet. Okay, but now. 0:22:57.080 --> 0:22:59.360 Geri's talking about Gerard Bradford who woods on our show 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:02.680 as a producer, and uh, but I we started hanging 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:05.720 out more. I'd say probably the end of high school 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:07.959 when we're getting into the Beastie Boys and started like 0:23:08.240 --> 0:23:10.320 we had a bad We had a fake rap. 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:12.040 Group that was terrible. What was the name of the group. 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:16.720 We were called the minute Man and I don't know why, 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:18.560 and we not even knowing there already was a punk 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:21.400 band called the minute Man. We were we just thought 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:24.919 and I can't even tell you it's honestly, this is worse. 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:27.520 Than uh deft deaf money. Dude. 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:34.200 My name was Jim Hat and. 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:34.520 The room is explosive there. 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:40.560 I was like Jim Hat with that B Boys style 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:41.840 was going wild. 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:44.000 Dude, it was awful. 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:49.000 I thought, Jim Hat, know, like that makes logical sense. 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:51.359 I wouldn't have wanted to be Colgate. I thought that 0:23:51.359 --> 0:23:52.440 would be a cool rap name. 0:23:52.720 --> 0:23:53.200 Colgate. 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:55.879 Yeah, Like I thought people could have the logo on 0:23:55.920 --> 0:23:57.200 the shirt, like the toothpaste. 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:01.600 And they still make Colgate. Yeah half Coldgate. Still. I 0:24:01.600 --> 0:24:02.240 don't you know. 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:04.479 One day, like whenever I land in l a X, 0:24:04.520 --> 0:24:06.199 the first time I make is that I go to 0:24:06.240 --> 0:24:08.760 pharmacy to do the trial size stuff like the things 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:10.000 I need tooth plus tooth pigs. 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:14.600 And I was just noticing like brands that only exist there. 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:17.280 Well no, well brands that I thought were out of 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:19.680 you know, like Safeguard or. 0:24:21.640 --> 0:24:29.280 Like they trail like seventies brands. Yeah, Cam, they still 0:24:29.359 --> 0:24:31.040 they exist in trial size. 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:32.320 So what other what. 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:34.679 Other concerts did you go to when you were uh 0:24:35.760 --> 0:24:40.359 uh weird? I saw oh gosh, it was that Upax. 0:24:40.440 --> 0:24:46.720 So there was that group that's saying expose, come go 0:24:46.880 --> 0:24:50.120 with me. Woa you saw XO. 0:24:50.760 --> 0:24:53.520 They had a song that was really I loved it. 0:24:53.520 --> 0:24:55.120 It wasn't come go with me, but it. 0:24:55.080 --> 0:24:56.440 Was a point and overturn. 0:24:56.720 --> 0:25:05.000 Yes the planet. Uh you're taking me right, yeah? And 0:25:05.040 --> 0:25:07.359 they had seasons change, seasons change. 0:25:07.359 --> 0:25:08.120 I love that song. 0:25:14.480 --> 0:25:18.240 I was a member of Columbia House to me too, 0:25:18.720 --> 0:25:22.919 but I was the I would never return the all right. 0:25:22.960 --> 0:25:24.840 So for those that don't know what Columbia House and 0:25:24.960 --> 0:25:27.480 all your kids you missed out. If you, yeah, this 0:25:27.480 --> 0:25:31.600 this was our Spotify you you were. Basically they will 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:37.480 offer you twelve cassettes or CDs. 0:25:37.119 --> 0:25:37.760 For a penny. 0:25:37.840 --> 0:25:40.119 You would tape Scott's tape of Penny, Scotch tape of 0:25:40.200 --> 0:25:43.840 Penny to the to the order form, pick your pick 0:25:43.880 --> 0:25:47.120 your twelve CDs or cassettes you want it, and then 0:25:47.520 --> 0:25:51.199 for an extra three, for an additional three records, you 0:25:51.240 --> 0:25:54.479 had to I forgot what the check was like for 0:25:54.640 --> 0:25:57.240 you know, for a dollar ninety eight more, you can 0:25:57.280 --> 0:25:59.720 get three more, see so you can get fifteen altogether, 0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:02.080 or under the lolow price of three bucks. 0:26:03.359 --> 0:26:04.960 And then you were part of. 0:26:04.880 --> 0:26:09.119 This club in which every month they would send you 0:26:09.880 --> 0:26:13.159 product and you had, yeah, like two weeks to mail it. 0:26:13.480 --> 0:26:16.000 Not even yeah something like that. Yeah, either liked it 0:26:16.080 --> 0:26:17.480 or mail it back. If you kept it, it was like 0:26:17.520 --> 0:26:18.720 twenty bucks a record. 0:26:18.760 --> 0:26:21.200 Yeah, if you kept it, it was definitely like seventeen 0:26:21.280 --> 0:26:22.640 ninety nine or something like that. 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:24.160 But if you mailed it back. 0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:32.280 And I think between that and the first two years 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:36.720 of trying to catch Michael Jackson videos on MTV was 0:26:36.840 --> 0:26:41.480 how I developed my vocabulary for pop music because I 0:26:41.480 --> 0:26:46.080 would never mail back Debbie Gibson's out of the Blue or. 0:26:48.600 --> 0:26:51.360 Or Tiffany's first record. I think I got tricked into 0:26:51.400 --> 0:26:54.159 that one too. Yeah, I know, you know what, I 0:26:54.160 --> 0:26:54.840 think she thinks. 0:26:54.920 --> 0:26:58.480 I'm being sarcastic, like I'm cool with her now, but 0:26:58.600 --> 0:27:01.880 in the beginning, I think in her mind it was like. 0:27:02.680 --> 0:27:05.200 What you're trying to told me what you're saying that. Yeah. 0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:07.320 My first I was like, yeah, I had a blue 0:27:07.359 --> 0:27:11.240 eyed electric youth. Electric Youth I was the name of 0:27:11.280 --> 0:27:14.359 her first boar, right. I was like, no, I really was. 0:27:14.440 --> 0:27:15.840 I was a fan of yours and she was just 0:27:15.880 --> 0:27:18.919 looking like, Okaye's where's the where's as? 0:27:19.280 --> 0:27:21.600 Yeah, exactly right. She's cool though she didn't believe. 0:27:22.000 --> 0:27:23.800 She didn't believe it for the longest, but then I 0:27:23.840 --> 0:27:25.359 think she realized, like, oh you are. 0:27:25.560 --> 0:27:28.080 But every album back then I loved it, even if 0:27:28.440 --> 0:27:30.719 he had like one hit song on there. I remember 0:27:30.720 --> 0:27:32.760 I was trying to I didn't know what music I 0:27:32.840 --> 0:27:35.600 was going to be into, right, so I tried every 0:27:35.920 --> 0:27:37.880 type of genre and like, oh. 0:27:37.840 --> 0:27:40.640 Maybe I'm in the metal Is it really? Yeah? 0:27:41.240 --> 0:27:43.280 I was like, dude, maybe I should like Worse with 0:27:43.320 --> 0:27:46.440 the Devil, and like, what am I talking about? 0:27:47.000 --> 0:27:47.800 I'm an altar boy. 0:27:48.000 --> 0:27:50.240 I think it's I think the weird thing is that 0:27:50.560 --> 0:27:58.000 I think between twelve and seventeen, you're open to anything, 0:27:58.680 --> 0:28:02.040 which you know I can't like now, I really have 0:28:02.160 --> 0:28:06.040 the patience to like sift through records and see what 0:28:06.080 --> 0:28:07.800 I'm into, and the way that I used to do 0:28:07.840 --> 0:28:10.160 back in the day, like I would listen to an 0:28:10.359 --> 0:28:13.120 entire Miami Salm Machine record, whether I like the song 0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:15.159 or not too because you didn't want to go up 0:28:15.160 --> 0:28:16.760 to the cassette and fast forward. Okay, I don't like 0:28:16.800 --> 0:28:18.080 this song, What's what else is it? 0:28:18.119 --> 0:28:18.199 Like? 0:28:18.240 --> 0:28:19.800 You would just play the whole thing? 0:28:19.880 --> 0:28:23.040 Yeah, exactly, Like, yeah, I don't want to. It's easier 0:28:23.040 --> 0:28:24.560 to lift the needle to move that back. But no, 0:28:24.640 --> 0:28:26.439 I would listen to the whole album. Then I'd like 0:28:26.640 --> 0:28:29.480 the B sides. I would know what song follows what 0:28:29.640 --> 0:28:30.720 song too, in order. 0:28:31.040 --> 0:28:31.240 See. 0:28:31.280 --> 0:28:34.959 That explains why sometimes when an artist comes on and 0:28:35.000 --> 0:28:37.560 then you ask for the deep cut and I'm like, 0:28:37.600 --> 0:28:39.640 wait a minute, what what about the hit. 0:28:39.640 --> 0:28:40.560 The hit joint? 0:28:40.600 --> 0:28:43.360 And you like, nope, I want the Yeah, that's the 0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:45.480 secret one that you go like, oh like like if 0:28:45.480 --> 0:28:48.040 you buy Cyndi Lauper, you just sing she Bop, you know, 0:28:48.080 --> 0:28:50.680 it's like, that's the that's the secret song off of 0:28:51.480 --> 0:28:52.520 Right the Girl? 0:28:54.960 --> 0:29:01.800 Right Right? Do you have top five like performances on 0:29:01.840 --> 0:29:03.360 the show for us? 0:29:03.440 --> 0:29:05.640 God, there's so much now we've been done, We've done 0:29:05.640 --> 0:29:06.920 so many shows now, it's crazy. 0:29:06.960 --> 0:29:08.880 I mean you I have a top five. 0:29:09.000 --> 0:29:11.720 I have a top five of me performing and a 0:29:11.800 --> 0:29:14.480 top five of me watching was. 0:29:14.440 --> 0:29:19.240 One of your top five recently, dog Dude, Steve Miller. 0:29:19.360 --> 0:29:23.720 I almost sometimes It's it's hard not to because I'm 0:29:23.720 --> 0:29:27.680 so connected to music and the memories that it brings on. 0:29:27.960 --> 0:29:31.040 Because whenever I hear fly like an Eagle, I instantly 0:29:31.080 --> 0:29:35.160 think about the first month of school, and I'm thinking 0:29:35.200 --> 0:29:39.360 of like my parents not conning me, like Okay, we're 0:29:39.360 --> 0:29:41.880 gonna take you to this brown building and you're gonna 0:29:41.920 --> 0:29:44.120 stay in here for the next seven hours and then 0:29:44.120 --> 0:29:45.920 we're gonna come and get you at three o'clock. And 0:29:46.640 --> 0:29:48.640 you know, like I was just never explaining the concept 0:29:48.640 --> 0:29:50.960 at school. It's just like, huh wait, I'm playing with them, 0:29:51.000 --> 0:29:55.000 and so I think during like one of those explanations, 0:29:55.720 --> 0:30:00.320 it was the radio was just playing like Billy Davis 0:30:00.320 --> 0:30:02.200 and Marilyn mccoo's you Don't Have to Be a Star, 0:30:04.680 --> 0:30:05.280 and then like. 0:30:05.360 --> 0:30:08.920 You am radio at this point, FM, uh you know what? 0:30:09.160 --> 0:30:13.959 So Philly, Philly was really good with FM radio on 0:30:14.000 --> 0:30:20.680 the weekends, though FM radio turned religious and then you'd 0:30:20.680 --> 0:30:23.040 have to live and listen to AM radio, so we'd 0:30:23.080 --> 0:30:25.560 have to switch a Wizard one hundred and the thing 0:30:25.640 --> 0:30:27.640 is is that I lived in a don't touch my 0:30:27.760 --> 0:30:33.160 stereo household. So again, a big part of my palette 0:30:33.320 --> 0:30:35.600 is the fact that I had to listen to what 0:30:35.640 --> 0:30:37.520 my sister wanted to listen to and what my dad. 0:30:37.760 --> 0:30:41.480 I didn't control the car radio nor in my bet 0:30:41.680 --> 0:30:43.480 you know the room that my sister and I shared, 0:30:43.960 --> 0:30:46.400 so like, I just remember. 0:30:46.080 --> 0:30:49.600 Like I remember pressing, like being able to press the 0:30:49.640 --> 0:30:52.160 button to my dad's car that would it would be 0:30:52.200 --> 0:30:55.520 a plastic, hard plastic button that you would actually switch 0:30:55.640 --> 0:31:00.320 the station. You would see the zip to the one 0:31:00.320 --> 0:31:03.280 side right and I actually tune. I mean this is 0:31:03.320 --> 0:31:06.320 pre digital scan and seek for something. It was actually 0:31:06.680 --> 0:31:10.040 press the button and you feel like gears moving right 0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:12.040 to the radio station that you want to. Yeah, and 0:31:12.320 --> 0:31:14.280 I was like, oh, just to hope to hear like 0:31:14.280 --> 0:31:15.680 the Rolling Stones or something like that. 0:31:15.760 --> 0:31:19.960 And yeah, so fly like an Eagle was definitely dide 0:31:19.960 --> 0:31:21.000 you crust that one. 0:31:21.000 --> 0:31:23.040 And I was like, dude, I actually had to look 0:31:23.080 --> 0:31:25.240 over to see what your face was doing, because usually 0:31:25.240 --> 0:31:26.680 I can't see the drummer I was doing. 0:31:26.880 --> 0:31:30.480 Every I had two moments in which I kind of 0:31:30.520 --> 0:31:33.560 had a I might cry moment. It was awesome, dude, 0:31:33.600 --> 0:31:35.880 it was honestly, it just clicked, like because you did 0:31:35.880 --> 0:31:36.600 the first like. 0:31:36.840 --> 0:31:37.480 Yeah, in the space. 0:31:38.680 --> 0:31:41.160 I had to beg for those extra because at first 0:31:41.240 --> 0:31:44.080 they were like three minutes and thirty seconds, you know, and. 0:31:44.040 --> 0:31:45.880 I'm like, wait a minute, guys, not for this one. 0:31:45.880 --> 0:31:47.760 You don't understand, like the most important part of the 0:31:47.840 --> 0:31:49.960 song is like the beginning. 0:31:50.160 --> 0:31:51.040 We got to do that. 0:31:51.120 --> 0:31:54.160 So I did didn't did out. So it was so 0:31:55.400 --> 0:31:58.360 oh yeah, I didn't want to end. And he was 0:31:58.400 --> 0:32:00.360 having fun. Yeah, and he was having and he was 0:32:00.400 --> 0:32:02.800 so looking at it because you know, we have these 0:32:02.800 --> 0:32:04.920 guys on that like they don't play with anyone else 0:32:04.920 --> 0:32:07.280 but their band, and they're jaded and they're like, oh 0:32:07.400 --> 0:32:09.600 well look, it's almost feel like they're cheating on their band. 0:32:09.600 --> 0:32:11.680 But then when they see how much love and how 0:32:11.720 --> 0:32:13.160 much work you guys put into that song. 0:32:13.240 --> 0:32:17.600 Like Eddie Grant, oh, I forgot. He was so nervous. 0:32:18.280 --> 0:32:21.080 I know, he was so nervous, like Jimmy I, I 0:32:21.080 --> 0:32:23.200 I don't I only play with my band. I I'm 0:32:24.000 --> 0:32:25.600 these guys are great, but I don't know them, and 0:32:25.640 --> 0:32:28.640 you know, to play with my song, you know, Electric Avenue, 0:32:28.680 --> 0:32:31.680 And so he goes, do you remember you brought a harmonica. 0:32:32.000 --> 0:32:36.920 Yes, oh did you wait? When we're sound checking? Are 0:32:36.920 --> 0:32:37.520 you watching? 0:32:37.560 --> 0:32:39.880 On closer times? I'm watching, damn it. 0:32:40.000 --> 0:32:42.400 Sometimes I am, but sometimes I'd like to be surprised. 0:32:42.840 --> 0:32:45.080 But during sound check it was like a ten minute 0:32:45.160 --> 0:32:46.840 version and we're like looking at each other while. 0:32:46.640 --> 0:32:48.480 I was like paying the harmonica do electric avenue? 0:32:48.640 --> 0:32:53.600 Like who is to blaming? I like, dude, stop. 0:32:53.720 --> 0:32:56.720 But so I saw him and he goes, yeah, I'm 0:32:56.760 --> 0:32:58.840 just gonna bring this just in case. I go, Eddie, 0:32:58.840 --> 0:33:01.280 you don't need a harmonica. The roots will got you covered. 0:33:01.280 --> 0:33:04.520 Trust me, man, it's gonna me fun. And he did 0:33:04.520 --> 0:33:07.200 the song, didn't do harmonica, and the crush was great. 0:33:07.240 --> 0:33:09.560 And I went over to say thank you for being 0:33:09.560 --> 0:33:11.080 on the show and went to shake his hand, and 0:33:11.120 --> 0:33:13.080 what was in his hand? 0:33:14.440 --> 0:33:18.440 Yeah that's the case. You know what. It's also like 0:33:18.640 --> 0:33:19.880 a big part. 0:33:20.240 --> 0:33:23.120 I'm always nervous about the legend because one you don't 0:33:23.120 --> 0:33:25.400 want to ruin, like the thought in your head of like, uh, 0:33:25.840 --> 0:33:27.600 what's it gonna be or what's it not gonna be? 0:33:27.960 --> 0:33:32.959 It it's just that sometimes all right, I'll met We 0:33:33.040 --> 0:33:38.360 had one guess that walked away, do you remember, Yeah, 0:33:38.640 --> 0:33:44.840 Cindy yeah, just because I think, Okay, in our minds, 0:33:45.800 --> 0:33:48.440 in their minds, it's like, Okay, I'm gonna play with 0:33:48.480 --> 0:33:51.280 the roots. So they think like I'll take my song 0:33:51.360 --> 0:33:55.080 and filter it through and I'll rootify it. Like that's 0:33:55.120 --> 0:33:57.960 the one word we hear the most inside the rehearsal room, 0:33:58.480 --> 0:34:00.880 like you know, don't don't do the normal version like 0:34:01.080 --> 0:34:03.920 rootsify it. And I'm like, dude, what you don't get 0:34:04.080 --> 0:34:07.080 is that us routsifying it is doing it just like 0:34:07.160 --> 0:34:09.520 your album version. That is roots fact, because we we 0:34:09.560 --> 0:34:12.080 want the yeah, I mean, we want the exact sound. 0:34:12.120 --> 0:34:13.160 We want Eddie Grant to. 0:34:13.160 --> 0:34:17.080 Go out in the streets if he if he yeah, 0:34:17.120 --> 0:34:18.360 he doesn't want to do that anymore. He goes, I 0:34:18.360 --> 0:34:19.719 don't do that. I haven't done that for twenty five 0:34:19.800 --> 0:34:21.160 years ago. Bring it back. 0:34:22.080 --> 0:34:23.839 That's the part of the song that we love, those 0:34:23.840 --> 0:34:27.040 little nuggets, those little there just awesome little eggs, those 0:34:27.040 --> 0:34:29.040 easter eggs where you're like, oh no, that's the one 0:34:29.080 --> 0:34:31.520 part you gotta do like right, like on the Dark 0:34:31.640 --> 0:34:33.800 Side of Town, yeah or something, you didn't do that 0:34:33.920 --> 0:34:36.200 And he was like, uh, like when we have it, 0:34:36.239 --> 0:34:38.080 was it crowded house or something came on I'm like, 0:34:38.120 --> 0:34:40.000 all I want to hear is that base like go boo. 0:34:42.200 --> 0:34:44.759 That's freedom a little bit if you don't hit that baseline, 0:34:45.080 --> 0:34:47.840 and that's just I need that. It's part of my 0:34:48.040 --> 0:34:50.000 whole thing of loving that song. 0:34:50.040 --> 0:34:52.480 It's like, but we usually hit it like ninety nine 0:34:52.480 --> 0:34:54.800 percent of the time, right, We convinced the people to like, 0:34:54.880 --> 0:34:56.879 come on, you gotta do that part, and like, oh, 0:34:56.880 --> 0:34:57.840 I don't hit that note anymore. 0:34:57.880 --> 0:34:58.719 It's like, yeah, but. 0:34:58.760 --> 0:35:01.520 Try it, just go because trust me, we'll get your back. 0:35:01.560 --> 0:35:03.000 And then they do it in its course. 0:35:03.600 --> 0:35:07.320 Well, probably the one humorous moment for us was definitely 0:35:08.080 --> 0:35:12.120 in the air tonight, where that was the only time 0:35:12.160 --> 0:35:15.720 I saw you being nervous, dude twice in my life. 0:35:15.840 --> 0:35:19.640 But I've talked myself into major sabotage. I was. 0:35:19.719 --> 0:35:21.839 I wasn't helping them like I well see, I didn't 0:35:21.880 --> 0:35:23.799 know about meditation back then. What I should have been 0:35:23.800 --> 0:35:26.719 doing was basically deep breathing, get out of your head, 0:35:27.200 --> 0:35:29.359 just hit these three times the way you've always done 0:35:29.400 --> 0:35:33.400 it all your life in the basement, And for some reason, 0:35:34.200 --> 0:35:38.000 right when Phil Collins is like and I remember, and 0:35:38.040 --> 0:35:40.120 I was like, don't mess up, don't mess it. I remember, 0:35:40.200 --> 0:35:42.560 don't worry, all right, don't fuck up, don't fuckus. How 0:35:42.600 --> 0:35:46.000 good I ever. I'm looking at Jimmy. Jimmy's looking left. 0:35:46.239 --> 0:35:47.799 I went from behind my desk to the front to 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:48.600 look at your face. 0:35:48.680 --> 0:35:52.560 I know, love it, and I'm looking at the band 0:35:52.640 --> 0:35:53.880 standard for the roots members and. 0:35:53.840 --> 0:35:57.920 I always says silence up, oh boy, no using fool me. 0:35:58.000 --> 0:35:59.919 Oh dann cameras to me. He's looking at me the herd. 0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:08.160 So the pain still growing sustained. And I hit that 0:36:08.280 --> 0:36:11.719 symbol and was just drop a stick or something. No, 0:36:12.320 --> 0:36:15.680 my my my ride symbol. 0:36:16.080 --> 0:36:20.920 Oh yeah, I fell fell down, dude. It was the 0:36:22.600 --> 0:36:25.560 fell I broke in pieces. 0:36:25.600 --> 0:36:27.480 I was going to let it slide and just be 0:36:27.600 --> 0:36:30.759 like I'm going home. I failed and then shout out 0:36:30.800 --> 0:36:34.120 to Sugar Steve. Steve's like, no, man, I can't let 0:36:34.160 --> 0:36:36.759 this happen. We're going to fix this. And I was like, well, 0:36:36.760 --> 0:36:38.520 we can't go back and tape it like it's over, 0:36:38.760 --> 0:36:40.919 and he says, I bet you. They have sound check 0:36:41.000 --> 0:36:47.520 on tape. So we basically spent at least an hours editing. 0:36:48.840 --> 0:36:51.640 Oh god, you remember that he was here. He was 0:36:51.680 --> 0:36:54.120 there to five of the board. We're the only show 0:36:54.120 --> 0:36:58.000 that gives that autonomy, like gives that power to guess 0:36:58.000 --> 0:36:59.840 to come and edit their own thing and mix their 0:36:59.880 --> 0:37:03.320 own thing. Yeah, any other show like I've done Letterman 0:37:03.400 --> 0:37:06.000 when I'm like, okay, so we want reverbal and you know, 0:37:06.080 --> 0:37:06.760 verse two. 0:37:06.920 --> 0:37:09.680 And then already and they're like it's already in burbank, 0:37:09.920 --> 0:37:13.480 can't touch it, right, They're like, nope, it's gone, that's done. 0:37:13.520 --> 0:37:15.719 It is what it is. And we let everyone like 0:37:15.840 --> 0:37:17.200 go in listen to it and mix it. 0:37:17.280 --> 0:37:20.440 But we usually we have the right sound between you know, 0:37:20.640 --> 0:37:21.960 we we have the best sound. 0:37:22.000 --> 0:37:24.880 I feel like we have the best sound mixing and engineering. 0:37:25.440 --> 0:37:29.520 Yeah that Al Simon stayed up until right before his segment, 0:37:29.560 --> 0:37:30.759 which is unheard of. 0:37:30.840 --> 0:37:31.000 Right. 0:37:31.280 --> 0:37:33.479 We were nervous because we got to deliver the show. 0:37:33.520 --> 0:37:35.719 And this is when we were doing twelve thirty five, right, 0:37:35.800 --> 0:37:37.359 so we had an extra hour. But it was like 0:37:37.800 --> 0:37:40.720 I think it was up to like it was actually 0:37:40.800 --> 0:37:41.880 up to midnight. 0:37:42.280 --> 0:37:45.600 Right, it was ripe two commercials before you were actually 0:37:45.640 --> 0:37:50.680 covering song. We spent we take that five or six, right, 0:37:50.719 --> 0:37:52.719 and he engineered it like it was a real song 0:37:52.920 --> 0:37:56.040 for five hours. It must be the best engineered song 0:37:56.080 --> 0:37:56.600 of all time. 0:37:56.960 --> 0:37:58.840 I don't even I kind of remember what it was 0:37:58.920 --> 0:37:59.960 that wasn't the one would stop? 0:38:00.120 --> 0:38:03.000 Was it? We don't even remember. That's the thing. It's 0:38:03.040 --> 0:38:06.040 just now I got to go back in the archives and. 0:38:06.120 --> 0:38:08.200 He really spent the time in that one. But but 0:38:08.239 --> 0:38:10.319 then back to the Phil Collins thing because you ended 0:38:10.400 --> 0:38:12.399 up nailing it on when you see it on TV, 0:38:12.480 --> 0:38:18.040 because oh man, a pack a lot. 0:38:18.320 --> 0:38:21.600 Yeah, that that to me, that that was a moment. 0:38:22.239 --> 0:38:24.319 I mean, I love that. I love Jim James. I 0:38:24.360 --> 0:38:25.720 was from Late Night. I love that. 0:38:25.719 --> 0:38:29.160 That's right, he did another life all his presentations whenever 0:38:29.200 --> 0:38:30.160 Jim James comes on. 0:38:30.719 --> 0:38:33.279 I also liked when you guys come when the roots 0:38:33.320 --> 0:38:36.600 come on and we spend extra time like making a 0:38:36.640 --> 0:38:38.399 production and it's actually it's. 0:38:38.320 --> 0:38:42.480 Almost like a music video or musical musical. Yeah, my 0:38:42.520 --> 0:38:44.680 three moments from that. I don't know why. 0:38:44.800 --> 0:38:48.799 Once I realized that we had a lot of I 0:38:48.800 --> 0:38:52.480 didn't realize the power of how Dave is as a director, 0:38:52.600 --> 0:38:57.680 Dave Demti and and and directing and doing tricks and 0:38:57.719 --> 0:39:01.040 all those things. So I thought, like, I wonder how 0:39:01.080 --> 0:39:03.680 we could pull off a song that makes us look 0:39:03.719 --> 0:39:06.200 like we're playing in slow motion, like the Beastie Boys 0:39:06.239 --> 0:39:08.479 always do, like if it's so what you want. Video 0:39:08.600 --> 0:39:13.000 was like the impetus of it, like of them performing 0:39:13.040 --> 0:39:15.439 and you hearing the song in real time, but it's 0:39:15.480 --> 0:39:16.759 like them doing it slow motion. 0:39:17.000 --> 0:39:18.440 So when Usher was. 0:39:18.400 --> 0:39:20.880 On the show, yep, you know, I knew it was 0:39:20.920 --> 0:39:23.040 going to confuse the audience, like we had to do 0:39:23.080 --> 0:39:25.120 that Usher song like Chipmunks. 0:39:25.239 --> 0:39:28.920 Dude, it was like, and he's dancing really super fast and. 0:39:29.280 --> 0:39:31.600 He caught and he caught like he was dancing and 0:39:31.640 --> 0:39:33.640 really that's the thing I thought, like, do you need 0:39:33.680 --> 0:39:36.440 to practice this? Like do you need to figure out 0:39:36.440 --> 0:39:38.560 your splits and everything? It looks so weird and so 0:39:38.719 --> 0:39:39.759 you're almost laughing at. 0:39:39.680 --> 0:39:42.720 Him, right, But then when you watch it, it. 0:39:42.680 --> 0:39:44.920 Was, oh, it's magical, dude. He's like slow motion doing 0:39:44.920 --> 0:39:46.400 the perfect dance moves and. 0:39:46.280 --> 0:39:49.279 Singing on the you know, on the ring exactly right. Yeah, 0:39:49.440 --> 0:39:51.800 it was insane. That was That was a cool moment. 0:39:51.880 --> 0:39:52.080 Yeah. 0:39:52.160 --> 0:39:55.200 The second time, Tyler, Tyler, they created to See You 0:39:55.239 --> 0:39:59.480 Again with Caliuchis and he created this it was almost 0:39:59.560 --> 0:40:03.239 like a it's surreal musical, but it's it's to me. 0:40:03.640 --> 0:40:10.839 That was like a moment, dude, get we have to 0:40:10.920 --> 0:40:17.759 talk about Prince. There's there's too so many, there's so many. Yeah. 0:40:18.080 --> 0:40:23.359 For me, the best part of the Craziest Memory is 0:40:23.400 --> 0:40:26.160 definitely the Ping Pong with. 0:40:26.239 --> 0:40:28.840 The Pong story, but it even goes on before that. 0:40:28.920 --> 0:40:33.040 Do you remember bring me on stage at the garden. 0:40:32.880 --> 0:40:34.000 Oh, Madison Square Garden. 0:40:34.040 --> 0:40:36.319 So Chris Rock comes on and he goes, he goes 0:40:36.360 --> 0:40:38.000 bah blah blah blah. He goes, well, of course, Prince 0:40:38.000 --> 0:40:39.919 is my favorite concert. I've never seen him. Go you've 0:40:39.960 --> 0:40:43.200 never seen Prince like you, you love music and you've 0:40:43.239 --> 0:40:44.320 never seen Prince in concert? 0:40:44.400 --> 0:40:45.439 What are you talking about? 0:40:45.680 --> 0:40:47.920 How could you even say that you're a fan of? 0:40:48.160 --> 0:40:49.719 What do you? I can't talk to you until you 0:40:49.800 --> 0:40:50.960 see Prince? All right? 0:40:51.040 --> 0:40:52.839 And so I go, all right, I gotta go see 0:40:52.840 --> 0:40:54.600 Prince and you're like, dude, I can't believe you. 0:40:54.600 --> 0:40:55.360 I haven't seen him. 0:40:55.440 --> 0:40:57.600 So anyways, I go to the Garden to see Prince 0:40:57.640 --> 0:40:59.280 and he is unbelievable. 0:40:59.320 --> 0:40:59.920 He really is. 0:41:00.320 --> 0:41:02.720 I remember Madonna was at the concert in the audience 0:41:02.719 --> 0:41:06.000 watching Prince stoneface, just going like, wow, I got up 0:41:06.040 --> 0:41:09.359 my game. He's just so magical. And she's great too, Yeah, 0:41:09.400 --> 0:41:13.400 he was, so he's crushing it. And Prince's manager or 0:41:13.640 --> 0:41:16.120 whoever this was, came up to me. Yeah, hi, I'm 0:41:16.200 --> 0:41:18.279 a Prince's manager. I don't even think it was. Caro 0:41:18.400 --> 0:41:20.400 was someone to say, like, Prince would really love you 0:41:20.480 --> 0:41:21.960 to get on stage at the end of the concert 0:41:22.000 --> 0:41:24.160 and dance with him, like he gets a bunch of 0:41:24.320 --> 0:41:26.799 celebrity friends and to go on stage and dancing at 0:41:26.800 --> 0:41:27.040 the end. 0:41:27.040 --> 0:41:28.839 I go, that's not really my thing. I'm not really 0:41:28.880 --> 0:41:29.920 a big dancer. But thank you. 0:41:30.400 --> 0:41:32.799 So I'll just watch the concert. Next song, someone else 0:41:32.840 --> 0:41:35.120 comes out like, hy, how you doing. I'm working for 0:41:35.120 --> 0:41:36.239 a princess A different person. 0:41:36.280 --> 0:41:38.520 Yeah, different person. I go, Prince would really love for you. 0:41:38.600 --> 0:41:39.840 I go, yeah, I don't think so. 0:41:39.920 --> 0:41:41.480 I mean I was not really my thing, and I 0:41:41.480 --> 0:41:43.239 don't even think he really wants me to dance with 0:41:43.320 --> 0:41:45.520 him anyways, So that happens to me maybe two more 0:41:45.520 --> 0:41:48.600 times during the whole concert. End of the concert. I'm like, 0:41:48.719 --> 0:41:50.520 I see you, because I didn't see it. If the 0:41:50.520 --> 0:41:52.080 whole concert, I go, what's up, dude, And you go, 0:41:52.200 --> 0:41:53.800 I'm gonna get on stage at the end of the concert. 0:41:53.800 --> 0:41:55.800 I go, oh, if you're getting up there, I'll go 0:41:55.880 --> 0:41:56.239 up with you. 0:41:56.280 --> 0:41:58.520 Then, so they all right, So you get up, I 0:41:58.560 --> 0:42:00.439 get up, you go behind a dry set. 0:42:00.960 --> 0:42:01.320 Yeah. 0:42:01.360 --> 0:42:03.399 And as I get up and you get behind drus set, 0:42:03.400 --> 0:42:07.120 Prince leaves. He's keep his he's on a keyboard, and 0:42:07.120 --> 0:42:08.200 he goes and sinks. 0:42:07.960 --> 0:42:09.560 Into the state side of the st and I could 0:42:09.560 --> 0:42:12.080 see him down there, almost getting in his limousine right there, 0:42:12.120 --> 0:42:14.120 and I'm like, and I'm looking around. There's no one 0:42:14.120 --> 0:42:16.880 else on stage dancing but me right, it's just me 0:42:17.120 --> 0:42:20.000 dancing and you're playing. I go, oh, Mike, that's exactly 0:42:20.080 --> 0:42:21.520 why I don't say yes to this stuff. 0:42:22.040 --> 0:42:23.799 So I think it kind of started there, and then 0:42:24.239 --> 0:42:26.120 when Prince came on the show, it was always fun. 0:42:26.800 --> 0:42:29.920 So Prince came on the show and is, uh, probably 0:42:29.960 --> 0:42:33.439 is Kiran his manager, Yeah, says hey, Prince would really 0:42:33.440 --> 0:42:37.040 like to play ping pong on the show. So we go, okay, 0:42:37.400 --> 0:42:39.399 we don't really play ping pong. We played beer pong, 0:42:39.440 --> 0:42:41.080 but if he wants to play ping pong, it's fine. 0:42:41.280 --> 0:42:42.600 Then he calls back and he goes, you know what, 0:42:42.800 --> 0:42:44.520 Prince does not want to play beer pong on the show. 0:42:44.560 --> 0:42:47.360 He doesn't want to play ping pong. We go, okay, whatever, 0:42:47.440 --> 0:42:49.200 he just come on play music as long as he 0:42:49.239 --> 0:42:52.240 has fun, we're good. He calls back. He goes, Prince 0:42:52.280 --> 0:42:55.840 does want to play ping pong. We rethought about it. Okay, 0:42:55.880 --> 0:42:58.879 we'll have it ready to go just in case. Calls back. 0:42:58.920 --> 0:43:00.959 He goes, he doesn't. He wants to play ping pong, 0:43:01.480 --> 0:43:04.480 but he doesn't want to play it on camera. He 0:43:04.520 --> 0:43:07.040 wants to do it, and I go, what's your obsession? 0:43:07.200 --> 0:43:09.120 He goes, he just thinks, Jimmy, be fun to play 0:43:09.120 --> 0:43:11.439 ping pong with. I go, whatever, we'll have it ready 0:43:11.480 --> 0:43:13.280 to go if he wants to play backstage whatever. 0:43:13.360 --> 0:43:13.480 Man. 0:43:13.920 --> 0:43:15.799 So he comes on the show, never brings up ping pong, 0:43:15.880 --> 0:43:18.320 doesn't even mention it all right, just comes on and plays. 0:43:18.360 --> 0:43:20.840 He's great and he and he leaves and it was 0:43:20.840 --> 0:43:22.200 a great show and it was awesome. 0:43:22.360 --> 0:43:24.200 I go, that was interesting. So I tell the story 0:43:24.239 --> 0:43:25.480 on the show about the. 0:43:25.400 --> 0:43:27.080 Whole ping pong thing, and I go, by the way, 0:43:27.320 --> 0:43:29.000 the Prince, if you're watching, I would probably kick your 0:43:29.040 --> 0:43:29.880 ass in ping. 0:43:29.719 --> 0:43:32.160 Pong or something like that, all right, just joking around. 0:43:32.520 --> 0:43:35.279 So then I think that week I'm at the dinner. 0:43:35.360 --> 0:43:39.400 Right, and so this is the rare night no this 0:43:39.520 --> 0:43:43.560 when Whinnie oh, whenn he was being born, so I 0:43:43.560 --> 0:43:47.200 get a call. It was around that time. I just 0:43:47.200 --> 0:43:49.160 remember like it was any moment, you know what I mean. 0:43:49.960 --> 0:43:54.840 And I get a call at ten pm. Now I 0:43:54.840 --> 0:43:56.600 think I was sick this night, because this is one 0:43:56.600 --> 0:43:59.480 of the rare times I was in bed at like 0:43:59.520 --> 0:44:04.360 ten third on a school night or whatever. And they're like, 0:44:05.880 --> 0:44:09.040 Prince wants to play Jimmy now at Susan Sarandon's ping 0:44:09.120 --> 0:44:14.160 pong spot. Yes, Spin Spin, And I was just like, oh, man, 0:44:14.280 --> 0:44:15.839 you know he's about to have a kid. 0:44:15.920 --> 0:44:18.680 Da da da dah, So yeah, I'll let him know. 0:44:19.600 --> 0:44:23.799 And then like a minute later they're like, well he's uh, 0:44:24.400 --> 0:44:26.919 you know, he's down to do it right now if 0:44:27.040 --> 0:44:29.920 you know available, And I was like, oh, maybe I 0:44:29.920 --> 0:44:31.560 didn't get the message. I was like, no, no, no, 0:44:33.200 --> 0:44:37.520 Jimmy's about to have a kid, so yeah, it might 0:44:37.840 --> 0:44:40.319 you know, it might be busy or whatever. And then 0:44:40.560 --> 0:44:44.080 a minute later he says, Okay, well just name the 0:44:44.080 --> 0:44:46.080 time and place and you know he'll be there. And 0:44:46.080 --> 0:44:48.959 I'm like, oh, they're just not listening or not taking 0:44:48.960 --> 0:44:51.400 a note for an answer. Yeah, So I was like 0:44:51.640 --> 0:44:53.399 I'm not going to answer this. I went to bed 0:44:53.440 --> 0:44:55.960 for like twenty minutes and over my eyes, and I 0:44:56.080 --> 0:45:00.040 was like, don't let me at least tell Jimmy. So 0:45:00.160 --> 0:45:03.279 then I texted you. I said, hey, uh, Prince wants 0:45:03.320 --> 0:45:04.640 to play you in ping pong. So I had no 0:45:04.760 --> 0:45:08.520 idea this whole exchange that you just went through. I said, 0:45:08.520 --> 0:45:10.279 for some strange reason, he wants to play in ping 0:45:10.320 --> 0:45:13.480 pong at Susan Sarandom spot. And I told him that 0:45:13.520 --> 0:45:17.400 you're tied up with baby stuff. So anyway, just passing 0:45:17.440 --> 0:45:20.480 the message along cool. I had no idea that you 0:45:20.560 --> 0:45:21.960 were going to answer that message. 0:45:22.680 --> 0:45:24.760 Yeah, because I was out. I was out to dinner 0:45:24.800 --> 0:45:27.200 that night. Okay, I wasn't because it wasn't yet that 0:45:27.320 --> 0:45:28.160 it was close to it. 0:45:28.239 --> 0:45:28.840 It was close to it. 0:45:28.880 --> 0:45:30.840 I knew any moment that it was, any moment I 0:45:30.840 --> 0:45:32.399 had to be on the ready for Winny to be born. 0:45:32.440 --> 0:45:34.680 But I was out to dinner that night. I'm like, what, 0:45:34.719 --> 0:45:37.400 And then I got a text from his manager or something, 0:45:37.800 --> 0:45:39.000 So you gave him. 0:45:38.920 --> 0:45:42.640 Did it happen that night or the next night? It 0:45:42.719 --> 0:45:43.279 happened soon. 0:45:43.400 --> 0:45:45.480 I think it happened that night, right because I got 0:45:45.480 --> 0:45:48.000 a text from their manager right and saying like, hey, 0:45:48.040 --> 0:45:51.080 this princess manager, Princess at spin He wants to play 0:45:51.080 --> 0:45:52.439 you in ping pong right now. 0:45:52.640 --> 0:45:54.520 So I go, it's the weirdest thing. I go. 0:45:55.680 --> 0:45:57.520 So I told the first time having dinner with him, Like, 0:45:57.680 --> 0:45:59.359 all right, I gotta go. Man, Prince wants to play 0:45:59.360 --> 0:46:01.279 me in ping pong and I'm gonna meet him at 0:46:01.280 --> 0:46:05.000 the Spin at Susan Random's Club. So I leave, I I, 0:46:05.080 --> 0:46:06.719 you know, get in a cab and I go down 0:46:06.760 --> 0:46:07.839 the Spin and I go out. 0:46:08.640 --> 0:46:11.000 I go into the door and go down the steps 0:46:11.320 --> 0:46:13.080 and there's a girl working there and I go, hi, 0:46:14.080 --> 0:46:19.160 I'm I'm here to see uh, and she goes friends. 0:46:19.360 --> 0:46:22.720 I goes, yeah, she goes, he's right behind the curtain. 0:46:22.880 --> 0:46:24.319 He's in the private room over there. 0:46:24.320 --> 0:46:26.759 I go, all right, So I go and there's a 0:46:26.800 --> 0:46:29.280 good We have a velvet room. There's a velvet rope 0:46:29.560 --> 0:46:32.440 and a curtain, and I go past the rope and 0:46:32.440 --> 0:46:35.279 I open the curtain and he's Prince is standing there 0:46:35.480 --> 0:46:39.720 and a crushed blue velvet suit, wearing the high heeled 0:46:39.920 --> 0:46:43.720 right shoes and he's holding a ping pong old paddle and. 0:46:43.600 --> 0:46:45.279 He looked at me. He goes, you ready to do? 0:46:47.000 --> 0:46:49.719 And I go, oh my gosh, I go, I guess 0:46:49.760 --> 0:46:51.080 so sure? He goes, wanna warm up. 0:46:51.440 --> 0:46:53.640 I go, uh, yeah, I warm up a little bit, 0:46:53.719 --> 0:46:55.520 like in my head, I don't even play ping pong, right, 0:46:55.560 --> 0:46:56.600 you know what he's talking about. 0:46:57.320 --> 0:46:59.120 So we start warming up a little bit. 0:46:59.239 --> 0:47:00.920 If he had two ends in the room, he goes, 0:47:01.040 --> 0:47:04.200 everybody leave, everyone go go, so it's just me and Prince. 0:47:04.400 --> 0:47:05.839 Right, so everyone had to leave the room. 0:47:06.120 --> 0:47:08.560 It was just me and Prince and nobody else. And 0:47:08.640 --> 0:47:10.959 he goes, all right, you ready, I go, let's start. 0:47:11.000 --> 0:47:13.200 So he hits the first he's like, hits it over 0:47:13.280 --> 0:47:15.160 and it goes and it just it was a good 0:47:15.160 --> 0:47:17.760 shot and I didn't hit it back. He goes, one's 0:47:17.800 --> 0:47:20.040 it and I go, oh, you're can talk smack or right, 0:47:20.080 --> 0:47:21.920 and this is gonna happen twenty one points, says dude, 0:47:21.920 --> 0:47:23.040 this man, let's go, Prince. 0:47:23.400 --> 0:47:23.880 So I go. 0:47:24.080 --> 0:47:26.319 So we start playing, you know, hitting back and forth. 0:47:26.360 --> 0:47:28.919 It was he's crushing me. So I think now it's 0:47:29.000 --> 0:47:32.239 like twenty to ten or something like that. He's killing me. 0:47:32.560 --> 0:47:34.240 And he goes, uh, game point. 0:47:35.080 --> 0:47:37.440 I go, let's let's go, man, and he hits the 0:47:37.520 --> 0:47:41.000 shot and it's like and it's like beautiful, perfect shot, 0:47:41.160 --> 0:47:44.000 and the PAINSTI on spin and spit flames coming off 0:47:44.040 --> 0:47:46.799 it and it hits the hits that corner of the 0:47:46.840 --> 0:47:49.279 table that's just impossible to hit the you know what 0:47:49.320 --> 0:47:52.120 I'm talking like a perfect shot, and went flying behind 0:47:52.120 --> 0:47:55.160 me and I go, ah, you won, you one. And 0:47:55.239 --> 0:47:57.680 I go and I'm looking in the background to find 0:47:57.680 --> 0:47:58.000 the ball. 0:47:58.120 --> 0:47:59.040 I take up the blall. 0:48:00.040 --> 0:48:05.319 I turn around and he's gone, and he's not there. 0:48:05.360 --> 0:48:07.840 And I don't know him that well. 0:48:07.680 --> 0:48:09.520 So I thought maybe he was hiding or something. 0:48:09.680 --> 0:48:12.960 No, so I'm like, Prince Prime, Prince prince some like 0:48:12.960 --> 0:48:15.600 looking under the pink punk table like there's security footage. 0:48:15.640 --> 0:48:18.560 I look like crazy. I was like, is he hiding 0:48:18.600 --> 0:48:20.359 behind a curtain? I don't know him, but I don't 0:48:20.400 --> 0:48:21.680 know the type of sense of humor. 0:48:21.880 --> 0:48:24.680 He's funny, but I was like, but then I look 0:48:24.760 --> 0:48:27.359 and kind of rope is kind of moving almost. 0:48:27.080 --> 0:48:30.400 Like Batman in the door swiveling yeah yeah, yeah, the 0:48:30.440 --> 0:48:32.759 window side. I go to the girl, I go, did 0:48:32.840 --> 0:48:34.880 he shees? Yeah? He left. 0:48:35.080 --> 0:48:38.640 I go, okay, So then I went up and up 0:48:38.640 --> 0:48:39.720 the stairs on the street. 0:48:40.040 --> 0:48:45.120 So me, being notoriost lye late for everything, I got 0:48:45.160 --> 0:48:48.200 back from a DJ gig and got your text that 0:48:48.520 --> 0:48:50.480 about to play prints right now. I was like, I'm 0:48:50.480 --> 0:48:55.040 on my way over. So I drive to Manhattan to 0:48:55.040 --> 0:49:00.000 spin get out the car, and I forget who from 0:49:00.160 --> 0:49:04.160 the show was outside smoking a cigarette. But I run 0:49:04.920 --> 0:49:06.840 and I was like, am I too late? Am I 0:49:06.880 --> 0:49:09.440 too late? And she's like, wait, you just miss him? 0:49:09.600 --> 0:49:13.040 That that was him? And I looked, uh in the 0:49:13.080 --> 0:49:18.400 street and in the STUV he was there and pulling 0:49:18.400 --> 0:49:20.360 off to a red light. I was like, hey on 0:49:20.480 --> 0:49:25.560 wait and I run and straight up great Poupon style, 0:49:25.600 --> 0:49:29.600 I'm like knocking on the door and the window rose 0:49:29.640 --> 0:49:35.600 down slowly and I was like, wait, it's over, It's over. 0:49:36.200 --> 0:49:40.959 What happened? And seriously he's a ask you boy? 0:49:41.440 --> 0:49:43.840 And then this thing, the window goes slowly up, just 0:49:43.880 --> 0:49:48.239 like the Great Poupon conversial just takes off and takes off. 0:49:48.760 --> 0:49:51.280 The only thing I noticed that he had the paddle 0:49:51.320 --> 0:49:54.839 with him. Yeah, and it was a gold paddle. And 0:49:54.960 --> 0:49:59.840 later did I learned that he is that obsessed with it. 0:50:00.080 --> 0:50:04.960 We did a show with him in Carousel. Uh we will, 0:50:05.120 --> 0:50:07.560 I'll rephrase that. We were supposed to do a show 0:50:07.560 --> 0:50:07.839 with him. 0:50:08.320 --> 0:50:09.839 We did it. We showed up with him. 0:50:09.920 --> 0:50:16.479 There's the weirdest lineup ever Dinah Ross, Toto, Los Lobos, Dude, 0:50:17.040 --> 0:50:22.840 Dinah Ross who booked this God Dinah Ross, Los Lobos, 0:50:23.719 --> 0:50:37.440 Toto Journey, Prince the Roots Carousel and he was supposed 0:50:37.480 --> 0:50:42.239 to do a three hour set then the Roots, right, yeah, nah, 0:50:42.520 --> 0:50:46.080 friends don't play that. Princes wound up doing a five 0:50:46.120 --> 0:50:52.000 hour set and we like definantly like we still don't, 0:50:52.080 --> 0:50:54.480 you know, trying to like, yeah, we still want to perform, 0:50:54.520 --> 0:50:56.080 and we did like one and a half. We just 0:50:56.080 --> 0:50:58.520 stopped this only all right, y'all want to see Okay, 0:50:58.800 --> 0:50:59.200 We'll just. 0:50:59.160 --> 0:51:01.200 Do this until just to the hit go. 0:51:01.360 --> 0:51:03.799 Yeah, it's like at this point in the middle, No, 0:51:04.440 --> 0:51:06.320 the place holds like eight thousand people. 0:51:06.640 --> 0:51:08.520 I swear to god, it was like thirty five people. Yeah, 0:51:08.520 --> 0:51:10.200 they all split one's Princes left like we just got 0:51:10.239 --> 0:51:13.040 like yeah to see Okay. 0:51:14.520 --> 0:51:16.799 But what's the one that the DJ night with Prince? 0:51:16.840 --> 0:51:21.080 Remember that one? That one? Yeah it was he he h. 0:51:21.480 --> 0:51:23.160 That's the best story ever heard. I love that. 0:51:23.480 --> 0:51:26.480 I was okay, So I was on I was on 0:51:26.560 --> 0:51:33.480 a blind date and I wanted to appear cool, to 0:51:33.600 --> 0:51:37.400 be cool, and so I asked this, you know, like, uh, 0:51:38.760 --> 0:51:40.359 I got tickets to Prince, you want to see it, 0:51:40.880 --> 0:51:47.320 and I had ten tickets, and me, not thinking I invited, 0:51:48.000 --> 0:51:50.160 I said, oh, I got ten tickets, so I invited 0:51:50.280 --> 0:51:54.480 ten of my friends. I never counted myself as one 0:51:54.520 --> 0:51:57.319 of the ten. So when we get there, it was like, 0:51:57.400 --> 0:51:59.319 here's your ticket, here's your ticket, here's your ticket, here's 0:51:59.320 --> 0:52:03.920 your ticket. And I was like nine, oh fuck so 0:52:04.760 --> 0:52:07.840 and this is beyond sold out. So they're in. And 0:52:08.360 --> 0:52:12.799 I had the number of his assistant and so I'm like, hey, 0:52:13.560 --> 0:52:17.320 I'm on a date and I forgot to buy myself 0:52:17.360 --> 0:52:21.439 a ticket. Decided to explain the whole thing, and she's like, yo, man, 0:52:21.560 --> 0:52:23.799 like no one can get in, like you know everyone else. 0:52:23.800 --> 0:52:25.640 Sharpton was trying to come down. Spike Lee was trying 0:52:25.640 --> 0:52:28.719 to say please, anything ready or trouble. So he just 0:52:28.880 --> 0:52:34.319 happened to be in his own custom golf cart in 0:52:34.320 --> 0:52:37.600 Philly doing like forty miles an hour in a golf cart, 0:52:37.640 --> 0:52:40.960 like not doing donuts, but like like that sort of thing. 0:52:41.880 --> 0:52:44.239 And I was just like, oh, just tell him straight up. 0:52:44.239 --> 0:52:47.160 I said, look, I made a mistake that d DA, 0:52:47.640 --> 0:52:49.799 I had ten friends. I forgot to include myself in 0:52:49.800 --> 0:52:53.680 the ten. Can I sit somewhere please? And he was 0:52:53.719 --> 0:52:55.680 just like, all right, cool, you can sit on the 0:52:55.719 --> 0:52:58.600 stage under the stage. So the way that that stage 0:52:58.640 --> 0:53:01.880 is designed like his name, Like it's a thirteen foot 0:53:01.920 --> 0:53:05.120 tall stage, and so I'm literally sitting under the arrow 0:53:05.239 --> 0:53:08.360 that is his name. Meanwhile, my dates like sitting with 0:53:08.400 --> 0:53:11.600 my friends in the audience, but I'm sitting like under 0:53:11.640 --> 0:53:17.040 the stage. And mid show, his assistant comes by and says, 0:53:17.400 --> 0:53:20.080 Prince wants you to throw him a party, and I 0:53:20.120 --> 0:53:23.160 was like, I have no resource, like right now. He 0:53:23.200 --> 0:53:27.880 said yeah tonight, and I was like, well, well I 0:53:27.880 --> 0:53:30.600 would have to. Yeah, you can use our phones. But 0:53:30.640 --> 0:53:33.719 I'm like, I'm going to miss the concert. And now 0:53:33.719 --> 0:53:35.799 it's like, oh, I'm working for Prince now, so I'm 0:53:35.840 --> 0:53:37.680 like leaving my concert. 0:53:37.440 --> 0:53:40.480 Going into you gotta throw them a party. 0:53:40.320 --> 0:53:42.759 Right, So I called my friends who I normally do 0:53:42.840 --> 0:53:46.879 parties with in Philly. I was like, look, Prince, hang 0:53:46.880 --> 0:53:52.600 on a second, he wants what pool table. Okay, hey, 0:53:53.120 --> 0:53:56.680 Prince wants to do a party tonight. So in like 0:53:56.800 --> 0:53:59.719 four hours, can you find me a spot? They said, 0:53:59.719 --> 0:54:01.759 we on the spot. I said, okay, now he wants 0:54:01.800 --> 0:54:03.760 a pool table. They're like, well, this is a five 0:54:03.800 --> 0:54:04.640 story walk up. 0:54:06.000 --> 0:54:07.520 Can't please? 0:54:07.600 --> 0:54:10.040 Can we please just make this happen, please, please, So 0:54:10.120 --> 0:54:13.600 they had to find a detachable pool table to carry 0:54:13.680 --> 0:54:20.239 up five flights of stairs. So then I rush home, 0:54:20.360 --> 0:54:23.279 get my records ready, get there. You know, Prince is 0:54:23.320 --> 0:54:25.279 like elate party. So this party's not starting to like 0:54:25.280 --> 0:54:29.120 one pint thirty and it's ten of us and we're inside, 0:54:29.200 --> 0:54:32.920 and basically he wants to control the door. And you know, 0:54:32.960 --> 0:54:36.520 there's a whole group of people waiting outside, but they're inside. 0:54:36.520 --> 0:54:42.240 There's only like seventy people club shit hold about three hundred. Anyway, 0:54:42.280 --> 0:54:44.839 So I'm playing like a bunch of like Faylile, you know, 0:54:45.200 --> 0:54:47.920 West African funk music, and I'm thinking, like, okay, I'm 0:54:47.920 --> 0:54:49.240 gonna educate Prince on falaile. 0:54:49.320 --> 0:54:51.040 He likes James Brown, he likes George. 0:54:50.800 --> 0:54:54.279 Clinton, and play the original you know, West African guy 0:54:54.360 --> 0:54:56.759 to funk and he'll be into it. And Prince wasn't 0:54:56.760 --> 0:54:58.560 into it. He was just like what else he got? 0:54:59.000 --> 0:55:01.359 I was like, okay, I played another failure song? 0:55:02.640 --> 0:55:03.359 What else you got? 0:55:03.400 --> 0:55:06.080 I was like, damn, He's like, play some of your 0:55:06.160 --> 0:55:08.040 music and I was like, I never played the roots 0:55:08.040 --> 0:55:09.799 in the club, Like I'm just scared to do that. 0:55:09.840 --> 0:55:11.280 Because it's instant club. 0:55:12.600 --> 0:55:17.200 So I'm failing and I'm twenty five minutes in and 0:55:17.280 --> 0:55:21.839 his assistant walks up and says, here, play this, and 0:55:21.920 --> 0:55:24.560 she gives me a DVD and it's Finding Nemo. 0:55:25.960 --> 0:55:30.680 And I was like, yeah, the movie, not the soundtrack, 0:55:31.120 --> 0:55:32.200 the actual movie. 0:55:32.640 --> 0:55:37.719 And I was like, wait, what do I don't there's 0:55:37.760 --> 0:55:38.799 not a DVD player here. 0:55:38.880 --> 0:55:39.359 She's oh. 0:55:39.560 --> 0:55:43.120 She comes back, gives me a portable DVD player. I 0:55:43.160 --> 0:55:45.040 was like, well, I say, it's a nightclub, they don't 0:55:45.040 --> 0:55:48.719 have it. His engineer gives me, like the chords. I said, yeah, 0:55:48.719 --> 0:55:51.360 but there's no projection. There's a projection screen. 0:55:51.800 --> 0:55:53.000 So suddenly. 0:55:54.200 --> 0:55:56.560 I put this thing on, but I'm still DJing, so 0:55:56.640 --> 0:55:59.040 I figured like he just wants the visual of like 0:55:59.680 --> 0:56:00.160 the just. 0:56:00.160 --> 0:56:01.120 Playing in the background. 0:56:01.200 --> 0:56:04.000 Yeah, And then they come over and they're like no, no, no, 0:56:04.440 --> 0:56:05.520 can you turn the volume up. 0:56:06.120 --> 0:56:08.680 I was like, wait, we're in a nightclub in Philadelphia. 0:56:08.760 --> 0:56:10.040 He wants to watch Finding Nemo. 0:56:10.600 --> 0:56:12.320 And he said yeah, just you know, just kill the 0:56:12.400 --> 0:56:15.200 music and put the thing up. And I was like, oh, no, 0:56:15.280 --> 0:56:17.040 you ain't set me up. So I got the opening 0:56:17.080 --> 0:56:21.560 DJ guy I said, look, in about five seconds, do 0:56:21.640 --> 0:56:23.880 the transfer and put up the So suddenly we go 0:56:24.000 --> 0:56:27.239 from like this this funk music talking about protesting the 0:56:27.280 --> 0:56:31.799 government in Nigeria to suddenly, like Ellen Degenero's voice. 0:56:32.800 --> 0:56:34.320 He just wants to watch Finding Nemo. 0:56:34.520 --> 0:56:38.320 Yeah, And it was like it didn't affect nobody and 0:56:38.400 --> 0:56:41.479 his crew like this happens all the time every day, 0:56:41.600 --> 0:56:45.360 and I'm just sitting there dejected, like. 0:56:45.400 --> 0:56:47.880 No one has this story. No one has this story. 0:56:47.880 --> 0:56:48.760 That is the greatest. 0:56:48.840 --> 0:56:52.880 I just sat there like, yo, dude, like you're playing 0:56:52.960 --> 0:56:56.480 Finding Nemo in the club like popping bottles in a 0:56:56.719 --> 0:56:58.759 and you remember the club back in like in two 0:56:58.760 --> 0:57:02.200 thousand and four, like it was sex back then. Nah, 0:57:02.280 --> 0:57:06.800 he wanted. We were watching Pixar in the Duck Club? 0:57:07.200 --> 0:57:09.719 Are you Duck Club? Are you? Did you read The 0:57:09.800 --> 0:57:11.439 Beautiful Ones yet? Yes? 0:57:11.760 --> 0:57:15.200 I read it and it's ah, man, it makes me 0:57:15.239 --> 0:57:18.919 so sad, like he he wrote that. Normally, when people 0:57:19.000 --> 0:57:23.160 write books, you do it with a collaborator. Like with me, 0:57:23.600 --> 0:57:25.720 it was like going back to school, like chapter for chapter. 0:57:25.880 --> 0:57:28.360 Like my guy was say like, okay, write about the 0:57:28.360 --> 0:57:30.200 first time he brought a record, and then I write 0:57:30.200 --> 0:57:32.360 something and he goes and okay, it's run on sentence 0:57:33.240 --> 0:57:38.280 whatever or traditionally you just do a twenty hour interview 0:57:38.880 --> 0:57:40.400 with someone and then they write. 0:57:40.120 --> 0:57:41.760 The words in your voice. 0:57:42.880 --> 0:57:48.040 But he wrote that book and he only wrote thirty pages, 0:57:48.080 --> 0:57:52.240 but it revealed so much about at least up until 0:57:52.240 --> 0:57:55.960 the age of four, which you know could have been 0:57:56.120 --> 0:57:58.560 but he took a lot of photos, like so there's 0:57:58.600 --> 0:58:05.240 a lot of unanswered questions about his childhood. Maya Rudolph 0:58:05.280 --> 0:58:08.680 is really going to love this book because there's I 0:58:08.720 --> 0:58:12.080 guess if Instagram were out back then Prince would have 0:58:12.080 --> 0:58:14.840 been on Instagram instead. Like he just kept photo books 0:58:14.880 --> 0:58:17.320 of all the albums he made, like the process of 0:58:17.320 --> 0:58:21.360 making it, like My Breakfast, My Engineer, Sleep on the 0:58:21.400 --> 0:58:25.080 couch again. So there's a there's a picture where he 0:58:25.280 --> 0:58:28.680 Prince is driving down Sunset and there's a big giant 0:58:28.720 --> 0:58:32.480 ad of Minnie Riperton's new album Stay in Love, like 0:58:32.720 --> 0:58:36.880 on Sunset Boulevard and Prince is waiting at a red 0:58:36.960 --> 0:58:39.440 light and Flash takes the photo. It's a perfect shot, 0:58:39.560 --> 0:58:41.920 like this would have been his iPhone back in nineteen 0:58:41.920 --> 0:58:42.560 seventy seven. 0:58:43.360 --> 0:58:46.080 And the caption was like this woman. 0:58:45.840 --> 0:58:48.920 Could cause a car crash, and I was like, oh man, 0:58:48.960 --> 0:58:51.120 my Rudolph is really really going to love that? 0:58:51.320 --> 0:58:56.720 Yeah? Does he ever know that she loves him that much? Oh? Definitely? 0:58:57.000 --> 0:59:03.960 I think yeah, yeah, Because he he talks about uh 0:59:04.280 --> 0:59:06.480 even though he only covers the first four year of 0:59:07.040 --> 0:59:11.320 his life, he often jumps to modern references, So there's 0:59:11.360 --> 0:59:15.560 a there is a mention of him watching uh the 0:59:16.000 --> 0:59:20.000 Darling Nikki performance. Really that is also in my top 0:59:20.240 --> 0:59:22.200 that and Stevie Wonder. I'm trying to figure out what else, 0:59:22.960 --> 0:59:23.840 Jorn Darling. 0:59:23.600 --> 0:59:26.600 You remember that my Stevie Wonder story with you guys? 0:59:26.720 --> 0:59:28.640 Remember I opened for you guys in Atlantic City. 0:59:29.440 --> 0:59:31.360 I hate you for this, man, I open for the. 0:59:31.320 --> 0:59:33.520 Roots in Atlantic City. And we get there and someone 0:59:33.560 --> 0:59:35.880 forgot James's keyboard. 0:59:36.120 --> 0:59:39.120 James, Yes, we forgot James Boyce's keyboard, So how do 0:59:39.200 --> 0:59:42.080 you forget an instrument too? We were new. 0:59:43.800 --> 0:59:46.200 He forgot his kid. So we get there and James like, 0:59:46.520 --> 0:59:49.120 I do my set. I came back and I go, James, 0:59:49.120 --> 0:59:50.920 what are you doing? He's like, they forgot my keyboard. 0:59:50.920 --> 0:59:51.600 I'm just gonna watch. 0:59:51.680 --> 0:59:51.880 I go. 0:59:52.280 --> 0:59:53.840 Oh, He's like, you want to get a tequila? I 0:59:53.880 --> 0:59:56.480 go sure, So we get a drink and then somebody 0:59:56.480 --> 0:59:57.600 comes back and go, hey, do. 0:59:57.560 --> 1:00:00.960 You guys want to meet Stevie Wonder. I go, he's here. 1:00:00.960 --> 1:00:04.680 He's also playing a different room venue. I go, oh, 1:00:04.840 --> 1:00:07.360 let's go. So we run over to see Stevie. You 1:00:07.440 --> 1:00:09.600 leave the Roots and then run see Sevie. Go and 1:00:09.640 --> 1:00:13.080 see Stevie Wonder and I go, uh, what do you uh? 1:00:13.320 --> 1:00:15.240 It was only like maybe it was a meet and 1:00:15.240 --> 1:00:17.600 greet with like ten people. He does this every time, 1:00:17.720 --> 1:00:19.200 and it's ten people, and I go. 1:00:19.600 --> 1:00:22.240 Uh, he's Stevie's Jimmy Fallon and James like, I'm from 1:00:22.240 --> 1:00:24.720 the Roots, blah blah blah and I'm the biggest, biggest fan. 1:00:24.800 --> 1:00:27.560 I start going through all his bits and I start going. 1:00:27.360 --> 1:00:30.760 Like ebony and hie, and. 1:00:30.640 --> 1:00:37.080 Then he starts harmonizing with me. Yeah and you dude. 1:00:37.360 --> 1:00:40.280 So then James starts going playing the song on on 1:00:40.600 --> 1:00:44.680 Stevie's other piano. Right, So then Stevie James playing piano 1:00:44.720 --> 1:00:48.160 and I'm harmonizing with Stevie Wonder. We sing perfect harmony. 1:00:48.200 --> 1:00:52.160 Ebany and Ivory did jumping up and down like what 1:00:52.280 --> 1:00:53.120 is just happening? 1:00:53.160 --> 1:00:54.560 Like all right, love you buddy, I tact you. Later 1:00:54.880 --> 1:00:56.520 we split, we were backstage. 1:00:56.640 --> 1:00:58.760 We throw down a couple more drinks we watch you 1:00:58.800 --> 1:01:01.960 guys your last you finished the set, You're like, uh, 1:01:02.640 --> 1:01:03.320 it was pretty good. 1:01:03.360 --> 1:01:07.080 What'd you guys do? Stee, I can't wait to tell 1:01:07.080 --> 1:01:11.320 you what we did. Man, you bastards. Dude. 1:01:11.480 --> 1:01:13.919 We can go on forever with these stories, but both 1:01:14.000 --> 1:01:16.320 of us have day jobs. We got to report to WET. 1:01:16.600 --> 1:01:18.240 I know we're just going to finish this conversation on 1:01:18.320 --> 1:01:22.439 way backward. I really want to thank you for helping us, 1:01:22.480 --> 1:01:25.480 and well, first of all, for everything you've done for 1:01:25.600 --> 1:01:31.400 me personally. No, seriously, dog like that was I always 1:01:31.520 --> 1:01:35.439 joke that, not even joke because everyone asked like, well, 1:01:35.480 --> 1:01:39.920 how did you guys manage to do the show? And 1:01:40.640 --> 1:01:42.960 I always tell them that we were prepared in the 1:01:43.080 --> 1:01:45.880 nicest way possible to say no, because we didn't want 1:01:45.880 --> 1:01:47.400 to burn a bridge and be like, Okay, when we 1:01:47.400 --> 1:01:49.640 have a new album ount we can come on said show, 1:01:50.680 --> 1:01:56.040 I said, But then you disarmed us in literally ten minutes, 1:01:56.080 --> 1:01:59.760 which no human being has ever done. I mean, we've 1:01:59.760 --> 1:02:03.400 had the finest of women, the finest of models, the 1:02:03.440 --> 1:02:05.960 biggest of act I think there was a point where 1:02:05.960 --> 1:02:10.920 we were supposed to go fishing with George Clooney at 1:02:10.920 --> 1:02:15.000 one point, like that's a typical backstage thing, like George 1:02:15.040 --> 1:02:16.960 Cluon's like, all right, we're going fishing tomorrow whatever, and 1:02:17.000 --> 1:02:21.040 like we're so standd off ash as a group. And 1:02:22.720 --> 1:02:25.080 literally in ten minutes you had us doing a human 1:02:25.160 --> 1:02:29.520 pyramid that it is enough human pyramid at UCLA, and 1:02:29.560 --> 1:02:33.280 only because Tarik was on the bottom row. Who you know, 1:02:33.480 --> 1:02:37.880 his clothes are so expensive. It's like Treek is actually 1:02:37.920 --> 1:02:41.760 getting his Japanese denim dirty. And I looked at Rich like, 1:02:41.920 --> 1:02:43.720 we're not getting rid of this guy anytime soon. Al 1:02:43.880 --> 1:02:47.200 He's like, nope, you do it right there. I couldn't 1:02:47.240 --> 1:02:50.160 figure out what you did to disarm the roots in 1:02:50.240 --> 1:02:53.040 ten minutes flat. And I was like, oh, this this 1:02:53.120 --> 1:02:54.840 is the next stage of my life right here, I'm 1:02:54.880 --> 1:02:58.960 watching it. But yes, I want to thank you for that, 1:02:59.040 --> 1:03:02.360 and also thank you we're helping us with our new 1:03:02.480 --> 1:03:05.640 uh are about to say jump off like it's it's 1:03:05.680 --> 1:03:09.240 two thousand and eight our new jump off on iHeart Radio. 1:03:09.360 --> 1:03:10.120 Thank you very much. 1:03:10.200 --> 1:03:12.320 Thank you by the way for changing the whole game. 1:03:12.360 --> 1:03:15.600 And honestly, it wasn't for you, we wouldn't be that 1:03:15.600 --> 1:03:16.520 wouldn't be where I am. 1:03:16.880 --> 1:03:20.160 So here's do another twenty five years of magic. Let's 1:03:20.200 --> 1:03:23.000 do it, Yes, yo On behalf of the Team Supreme. 1:03:23.160 --> 1:03:26.400 Who's tied up in the room next door? 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