Speaker 1: Of Course Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. This
Speaker 1: classic episode was produced by the team at Pandora.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, You're in for a treat.
Speaker 1: This is QLs classic, the very first ever Questlove Supreme
Speaker 1: episode with Maya Rudolph.
Speaker 2: So awkward.
Speaker 1: Actually, small tidbit, this is technically our second episode.
Speaker 2: We had a pilot.
Speaker 1: Episode that never made it to a hair back when
Speaker 1: paid Bill was a guest on the show because he
Speaker 1: was a producer of an unknown play called Hamilton in
Speaker 1: Sesame Street. He was our first guest, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: The vibe was so good we actually kept unpaid Bill
Speaker 1: got rid of his episode. So yes, Maya Rudolph is
Speaker 1: our first episode and it's really crazy and awkward. We
Speaker 1: learned a lot, a hell of a lot. Hope you
Speaker 1: enjoyed my Rudolf QLs classic. Here we go two on dus.
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Speaker 3: Supremo roll call.
Speaker 1: Her name is Questlove. Yeah, my name's not Rob Yeah.
Speaker 1: And with this radio show, Yeah, it's nineteen.
Speaker 3: Suprema son son Suprema. Role called Suprema son Son Supremo.
Speaker 2: Role called my name is Fante.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I drink breast monkey. Yeah, it wasn't never I play. Yeah,
Speaker 4: got's the beef.
Speaker 3: Roll call Suprema son son Supremo. Role called Suprema so so.
Speaker 3: Suprema roll called her name is Sugar, Yeah, Sugar Steve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't eat candy. Yeah, so I eat weed.
Speaker 3: O call Supreme Sun, Suprema ro was good, Suprema something something.
Speaker 2: Suprema role called My name is Bill, Yeah.
Speaker 5: I got first dibbs. Yeah, I'm fucking tired, damn cause
Speaker 5: I got kids.
Speaker 3: Call Suprema Son Suprema roll call Suprema sock son Suprema
Speaker 3: rod called.
Speaker 6: High Handboss Bill. Yeah, I listened to Prince. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: got so many hoes. Yeah, don't make no sense.
Speaker 3: Suprema roll call, Suprema Suthing Suprema role call.
Speaker 7: My name is Maya. Yeah I am not mean, Yeah,
Speaker 7: I am not a nightmare. Yeah, I am a queen.
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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, people of all ages, creeds, colors,
Speaker 1: whatever you claim in life. This is questlove supreme. As
Speaker 1: if I needed another thing to do in life. So
Speaker 1: on today's show, we're joined by the incomparable Maya Rudolph.
Speaker 1: You probably know her from her time on Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: She was in the movies Bridesmaids. She has her own
Speaker 1: NBC variety show called The Maya and Marty Show. A
Speaker 1: lot of the other projects she's been involved with, and
Speaker 1: of course, you know, she's the offspring of a mighty
Speaker 1: musical pairing of Minnie Riperton and Dick Rudolph. And she's
Speaker 1: connected to a lot more people in the music community.
Speaker 1: So we'll be getting into that. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: like what we talk about. Did we talk about music?
Speaker 1: Did we talk about life?
Speaker 4: Let's talk about life music for a little bit, because
Speaker 4: they expected to talk about music, you know what I'm.
Speaker 2: Saying, Like, let's talk about I was life. I was
Speaker 2: life going.
Speaker 4: Life is going right in North Carolina where I reside.
Speaker 4: It's going cool.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm about to take a new step forward
Speaker 4: in my life. I'm about to start.
Speaker 2: Get merrick na. Oh no, I ain't getting married. Oh
Speaker 2: all right, but look at your faces, like no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I ain't doing that.
Speaker 4: I mean I got I got a lady and like
Speaker 4: we talking about get married. But I you know, I
Speaker 4: ain't doing the ship tomorrow, you know, But I'll let
Speaker 4: y'all know when I do it. We might do a
Speaker 4: quest a lot of supreme on site.
Speaker 2: Those with you won't be.
Speaker 4: Broadcast from there, Yeah, broadcast from the wedding. That's I
Speaker 4: tell you. So, I ain't getting married. Just thinking about
Speaker 4: my health, man, Like I'm seeing a lot of my
Speaker 4: homies man, like they are dying from like you know,
Speaker 4: old man diseases, like the young cats that's dying from
Speaker 4: ship like gout And it's like, nigga, how the fuck
Speaker 4: you get the gout at thirty five?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like the gout? Do you
Speaker 2: know the gall you're feel with the gout?
Speaker 1: The gout, the gout, Yeah, the gout is Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: good wait, why are you looking up the gout notary?
Speaker 2: Right now? I don't have to look that up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like it's something in you.
Speaker 8: You have gout.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Probably you ain't got the gout. You
Speaker 2: ain't got you you can fit in shoes. You ain't
Speaker 2: got gout. The guy hits in your feet or you
Speaker 2: are like size what fifteen? Size thirteen? Yeah, thirteen? Wow,
Speaker 2: he got the gut.
Speaker 5: Let's just say what it is.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: So now I've been taking something about to start a
Speaker 4: new health regimen, man, and uh, when are.
Speaker 2: You gonna start?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 4: I was gonna start earlier, but I got called due
Speaker 4: to this fucking radio show.
Speaker 2: Chicken and Ship who turned that down? N Man, I'm good.
Speaker 4: So now I'm gonna start doing like more juicing, uh,
Speaker 4: doing like smoothies, Uh more raw vegetables. You know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying. I got like one of my ig holes
Speaker 4: on scamming. The scammer holes is selling waist trainers. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna get them probably, and she's selling detox T and ship.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. I might give me some
Speaker 2: of that, you know, just verifying? Yes, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I g Yeah.
Speaker 1: The scau abbreviation, and then I realized that one of
Speaker 1: your joints.
Speaker 2: Instagram.
Speaker 4: Yeah you yeah, I see now. No, man, I'm just
Speaker 4: making some changes. Man, I want to stick around. I've
Speaker 4: always like been that. I've never had no health issues,
Speaker 4: andything like that, so I want to keep it that way.
Speaker 1: What's important because you know, back when we were twenty,
Speaker 1: our main concern was was bullets in the club, right
Speaker 1: and in the parking lot. And now like that, we're
Speaker 1: in our forties. The new concern is bullets and the
Speaker 1: driver's seat.
Speaker 5: Right, man, listen, come on, not real that too.
Speaker 2: And strokes.
Speaker 4: So you know that's not stroke jail. I lost the buddy,
Speaker 4: uh that to a stroke. He was I'm thirty seven.
Speaker 4: He was thirty eight years ahead of me. He had
Speaker 4: multiple myeloma, beat multiple myeloma and died of an aneurism.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I'm going to say next week we're only
Speaker 1: doing salads.
Speaker 2: Like wheat, grass and ship. How's it going, Steve? I
Speaker 2: mean it's like he's talking. I mean, we're talking about strokes, ship, right,
Speaker 2: We're really starting thisself on a very unhappy note.
Speaker 4: No, I'm laughing, laughing, I laugh I'm like, look, I'm
Speaker 4: happy just to be you know, alive right now, what
Speaker 4: very moment, What a time to be alive, in the
Speaker 4: words of our great negro poet future.
Speaker 2: Wait what about the other one?
Speaker 4: Oh and Drake, your inspiration got yeah yeah Drake, yeah,
Speaker 4: Drake as well.
Speaker 1: Not many people know, all right, For our listeners out there,
Speaker 1: if no, I mean if, if, if, if investigated, you
Speaker 1: will see that fron Tigelow is kind of Drake's spirit animal.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's going on record to say that, uh,
Speaker 1: Fonte is one of his favorite cats ever and that
Speaker 1: he kind of secretly wishes that he was in Little Brother.
Speaker 2: So I mean, you guys can do your research.
Speaker 4: I know you don't if he say that to you,
Speaker 4: look at his publics and check and be like, nah,
Speaker 4: I don't want to be a little brother.
Speaker 2: You know you guys are you guys are an inspiration?
Speaker 2: Believe it or not?
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, yeah, I'm aware. And the guess they
Speaker 4: tell us, they tell you know, it's all good, It's
Speaker 4: all good.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I know you feel like our influence wasn't there, But
Speaker 1: I swear to you I've only listened. I mean, I
Speaker 1: get a lot of yo pep pep peepe my doing
Speaker 1: real quick. Let me know, you know what you think
Speaker 1: of it, whatever, whatever, But you know, I mean, just
Speaker 1: on general, I don't do that because I don't want
Speaker 1: to be there for the law.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be susceptible to like a lawsuit.
Speaker 2: I mean that's big.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'll say maybe four or five times
Speaker 1: I've had a situation where it was like, okay, there's
Speaker 1: something special about this. Let me peep this blow was
Speaker 1: one of them. Slum Village was one of them. Jill
Speaker 1: Scott was one of them. Little Brother was one of them.
Speaker 1: Cody Chestnut, those five are. It was like, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to use this as a drink coaster. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna actually some told me to listen to this and
Speaker 1: it was on.
Speaker 2: Right right?
Speaker 4: Wait was it you? Yeah, he gave it to it.
Speaker 4: But then I actually in the rain, in the rain
Speaker 4: at Duke. But but yeah, well you it was a coaster.
Speaker 1: I remember a little brother because no, no, no, I felt bad.
Speaker 2: All right, it started raining. This is a duke. This
Speaker 2: is a duke. This is like two thousand.
Speaker 1: My phrenology came out two thousand and two. We did
Speaker 1: our annual like we were doing Duke on the regular.
Speaker 1: There was like the fifth year in a row we
Speaker 1: did Duke and uh it started raining, and one of
Speaker 1: our members of the group, who will remain nameless, kind
Speaker 1: of you know, through a fit about getting electrocuted. And
Speaker 1: I'm walking on stage, and so I felt like we
Speaker 1: should stop because you know, maybe we won't get electrocuted.
Speaker 1: But I'm the type of person that I actually want
Speaker 1: to play on but I felt bad, so.
Speaker 2: I figured, let me just go in the audience and
Speaker 2: shake some hands, something I never do. Like I'm not
Speaker 2: saying like I'm the avoid my crowd, as you know.
Speaker 2: I was like, y'a ab my job, Y'll get hel long.
Speaker 1: I wanted to shake ass and then you said, yo,
Speaker 1: and yes you told me about little Brother.
Speaker 2: Yes I didn't. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: His versus, he cused, I custom the hell out wow,
Speaker 2: so wrong. Well, it was.
Speaker 4: It's just one of those things where you just don't
Speaker 4: know the future, so you kind of you know, so
Speaker 4: at the time, y'all were gonna give up.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, I want to give up.
Speaker 4: We were just doing records and you know, putting stuff
Speaker 4: on the Internet was still kind of new at that time.
Speaker 4: So he quote unquote boot legged our ship and by
Speaker 4: putting us stuff on the net, by leaking it early.
Speaker 4: And so I sent him a a a highly emotional
Speaker 4: inbox Okay player. It was the emotions was high.
Speaker 2: What the fuck you? I'm gonna see you, nigga.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take a plane in Atlanta. It was, it
Speaker 4: was real, It was it was contest. It was just
Speaker 4: the heat was coming off the keyboard.
Speaker 2: Side note. I once had a message on my machine, Yo,
Speaker 2: who bring child.
Speaker 6: Next? Yeah, one of these things we got to talk
Speaker 6: about the time he called me at work.
Speaker 2: What did you say to make it? Want to ring you?
Speaker 2: We'll talk about this on another episode. Bring it here.
Speaker 6: Peace, because actually we made peace at Brooklyn Ball like
Speaker 6: one night we were both he remembered, Yeah, he remembered,
Speaker 6: who is Wow?
Speaker 2: Like you are?
Speaker 4: His shrug almost, I don't know, Yeah, Yo is Gladd
Speaker 4: school man. Like all the cats you see popping down,
Speaker 4: tell you it all started with okay player, like all
Speaker 4: the hot podcasters, the like the movie, it all started
Speaker 4: okay player. If you could survive the lessons or general discussion,
Speaker 4: you can make it anywhere like.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, this is this is a result. This is
Speaker 2: the result. This is a result.
Speaker 4: So yeah, So our first account was me cussing them
Speaker 4: the funk out because.
Speaker 9: It gave out.
Speaker 4: So yeah, but I didn't know at the time that
Speaker 4: that was how music was gonna be.
Speaker 2: Like you just give the shit out, and you know, I.
Speaker 1: Mean you're pioneer because I mean with fruity loops and
Speaker 1: you starting foreign exchange.
Speaker 2: You know another you didn't even meet nikolay Nick like
Speaker 2: when you started.
Speaker 4: Now, we met in a lesson, you know, Me and
Speaker 4: Nick met in the lesson. He posted a beat and
Speaker 4: was like, Yo, this is a new beat by me.
Speaker 4: What y'all think. I was like, Yo, this is dope.
Speaker 4: You mind if I do something to it? He was
Speaker 4: like cool. So we just started trading files back and
Speaker 4: forth and so we were and this was before this
Speaker 4: was even before like Gmail, so you couldn't send big files,
Speaker 4: so we would be sending ship through instant Messenger.
Speaker 2: And he was in the Netherlands.
Speaker 4: I was in Durham at the time, and we did
Speaker 4: the whole record just through email and send it.
Speaker 2: Y'all are just the group without even having met each other. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we hadn't met.
Speaker 4: We didn't meet until the record was done and BB
Speaker 4: had put it out and they brought us together like
Speaker 4: to do some promo shit, and that was when we
Speaker 4: first met face to face.
Speaker 2: Pioneer, y'all, pioneer.
Speaker 1: Let's here for getting cussed out for Bill and and
Speaker 1: for for making commitments on the internet going down to
Speaker 1: the story. So you original going down in the dem
Speaker 1: it was, man, it went.
Speaker 4: All the way to fuck down in DMS. It DMS
Speaker 4: got me a record deal, DM got me a radio show. Wow,
Speaker 4: I'm on my way.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 4: So to all the people listening, your dream could be
Speaker 4: in your DMS. That girl that you scared the holler at,
Speaker 4: send her a picture, but not a dick pic because
Speaker 4: that's disturb me. But just you know, say hey, to
Speaker 4: send us something nice. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean. And just hey, shoot your shot,
Speaker 4: shoot a shoot.
Speaker 2: Not literally, Bill Sherman, how are them up? It's doing.
Speaker 5: Fucking fantastic. So I was life on Sesame Street, Bill,
Speaker 5: Life on Sesty Street's great man, really, big Bird, Elmo,
Speaker 5: Everybody's live.
Speaker 2: Get read the first season two?
Speaker 5: Yeah, season two, Season forty eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well I mean now that you have a new home, like,
Speaker 1: do you consider No, No, it's.
Speaker 2: Still season forty three, seven, forty seven.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: I've been there since season forty so yeah, wow, wow, wow.
Speaker 2: That's incredible.
Speaker 1: Congrats on all your Hamilton success you do man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I just feel like I just told you guys
Speaker 1: to turn up and eq certain things and pans stuff.
Speaker 5: But I believe you said that. Then we high fives
Speaker 5: and that was all my job. So it's all good.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean, but you were really like barking
Speaker 1: orders and you know, I was like, I didn't like
Speaker 1: that vocal take, sir, And that's.
Speaker 2: Sort of like you were. I was. I was studying,
Speaker 2: you know, I was observing closely. Here we are, Yeah,
Speaker 2: here we are. So what are your future plans after?
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, I don't think Hamilton Mania will
Speaker 1: ever die down, you don't. Well, you know, a movie's
Speaker 1: gonna have to come eventually. Yeah, we're going to say
Speaker 1: that's how you're going to get your oscar. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: it's good, you'll get your oscar that way.
Speaker 5: If yeah, if I worked on it, I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 5: every one the thing about the oscars, everyone's convinced that
Speaker 5: it's just like this inevitability in my life, Like they
Speaker 5: just throw that shit out the window and I'm just
Speaker 5: catching it. I mean, you're motivating me, Like, what are
Speaker 5: you doing a movie? We're gonna do the Hamilton documentary.
Speaker 2: There you go. Let's start your motivating me.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: I gotta get, I gotta get. Where are you your Oscar? No,
Speaker 4: you're not Oscar, You're.
Speaker 2: Grammy and me. I'm close called an Emmy Emmy right yeah, No,
Speaker 2: it's it's like I hear.
Speaker 1: That I have a daytime Emmy for this project I
Speaker 1: did six years ago, but I haven't collected it. Matter
Speaker 1: of fact, I'm the only Hamilton I that hasn't got
Speaker 1: my Grammy yet.
Speaker 2: Oh real.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if anyone knows where my Black Messiah Grammy is
Speaker 1: and my Hamilton Grammy, I'd be very appreciative. Like right now,
Speaker 1: there are two Grammys out there with my name on.
Speaker 5: It that just just for those listening. If you go
Speaker 5: to to Quest Love's house and you have to go
Speaker 5: to the bathroom, you will find all the other Grammys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my Grammys are. I keep them in the bathroom.
Speaker 1: I keep them on display in the hallway out there,
Speaker 1: and and it's a paper weight.
Speaker 2: In here in this room.
Speaker 4: I want to be like quest Love when I grow up,
Speaker 4: I can use Grammys. It's goddamn paperweight.
Speaker 2: Dude, everyone does that.
Speaker 1: John Legend like broke four of his Grammys, Kanye the
Speaker 1: nineteen Jay, like no one displays the Grammys, Like even
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson's American Music Awards and Grammys are still in
Speaker 1: that Michael Jackson suite at Disney World.
Speaker 2: Wow, ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for miss
Speaker 2: Maya Rudolph. Yeah, Maya, thank you, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 7: It's a pleasure, thank you.
Speaker 8: I see.
Speaker 2: You know everyone here. You've worked with Fante Actually yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: we both got fired from the same show. You guys
Speaker 2: got fired? Or why was it we need to get fired?
Speaker 7: They were never aired.
Speaker 4: It was Brothers in Atlanta. We shot in Atlanta, written
Speaker 4: by Diallo Riddle, Yeah, formerly of The Tonight Show and
Speaker 4: uh yeah man. She played a character and she absolutely
Speaker 4: killed it. She played a character named Charley, who was
Speaker 4: a nineties R and B singer, but she was like
Speaker 4: the washed up nineties army. She was like Mary j
Speaker 4: never had a hit after my life. Like she was
Speaker 4: like a Diana Howard.
Speaker 2: Actually, wait, I take that back, because Dina.
Speaker 1: Howard was recently as of this recording still trending on Twitter,
Speaker 1: and she came back with T shirt and my panty's own,
Speaker 1: So maybe she was more like a she was like
Speaker 1: Geena Thompson, Like okay, Geena Thompson, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: But uh, and so I had to write songs.
Speaker 7: Uh, you wrote fantastic songs, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: And she said you were her songwriter. Yeah, I was
Speaker 2: the you were puffy. I was the puff. I was
Speaker 2: the puffer. Were you clean or like, where's your character?
Speaker 4: The character was, well, I was well outside the show,
Speaker 4: like in the real world. I wrote the songs for
Speaker 4: and like me and Sunday Cruise. Sunday Cruise, you had
Speaker 4: two big hits. Her big hits was Sunday Cruise, which
Speaker 4: was like the knockoff Saturday Love, and then Psych which
Speaker 4: was like her big nineties bank head bounce in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: And so then like that was pretty much what it was.
Speaker 2: And so that was in like the real world.
Speaker 4: But then in the show, I played Andre and I
Speaker 4: was one of her background dancers that toured with her,
Speaker 4: and I had we had to learn choreo. We had
Speaker 4: to learn like choreo to dance. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 4: can dance, but it was you know, we still had
Speaker 4: to learn some ship.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So that was my first time working with her and
Speaker 4: I knew her work, but I had never met her before.
Speaker 4: And what we met, she exceeded my expectations total sweetheart,
Speaker 4: had a lot of fun on set. We met Keep Sweat.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that was your first time we
Speaker 4: met Keep Sweat. I got financial yesterday.
Speaker 2: I was kidding.
Speaker 1: I was was fixing my prescription in my glasses and
Speaker 1: he came in like and he he has ad like
Speaker 1: the way that he dances like an arch.
Speaker 2: I know we're in radio, so I can't exactly described,
Speaker 2: but he.
Speaker 1: Even walks like he's doing the wop like a half
Speaker 1: while shame man like.
Speaker 2: He talked just like he's saying yeah. He talked just
Speaker 2: like he said, yeah, man, Keith, what yesterday? Yeah, so
Speaker 2: that was it. That was Atlanta. That was the last
Speaker 2: time we did that.
Speaker 1: And yeah, man, she just to So the company didn't
Speaker 1: love a show that's associated with it was a pilot.
Speaker 2: We shot a pilot.
Speaker 1: See, but doesn't every pilot kind of sort of suck,
Speaker 1: with the exception of the Sopranos, Like what what pilot?
Speaker 7: It didn't suck.
Speaker 4: No, the pilot was hilarious. That was even more surprising
Speaker 4: to me, Like, you know, wow, but I don't know why.
Speaker 7: I think it doesn't always have to do with whether
Speaker 7: it's good or not. Honestly, I think it's whatever's on
Speaker 7: their slate or who knows to pay attention. If I did,
Speaker 7: I'd be too depressed to ever work again.
Speaker 2: So you're saying you get your heart broken often.
Speaker 1: Really, I'd figure like, right now, you're just well, I
Speaker 1: guess perception depending on who's watching it.
Speaker 2: Well I do.
Speaker 7: I have changed my attitude about it so that I
Speaker 7: don't get my heart broken.
Speaker 2: But you've got an occasional no, and we're going to
Speaker 2: give this role to someone else.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I think that happens all the time. It's
Speaker 7: part of the you know, it's part of the dystopian
Speaker 7: world of being a performer. I think.
Speaker 2: So even now as a well established well, I mean.
Speaker 7: There's always something I don't think about it. I remember,
Speaker 7: I remember the very first time I got cut I
Speaker 7: got cut out of the first anchor man, and I
Speaker 7: was devastated. It was so fun and I basically played
Speaker 7: like an Angela Davis Bank robber.
Speaker 2: Hilarious. Yeah, you and Chuck D.
Speaker 7: And Chuck D we were bank robbery.
Speaker 2: Wait, how did you see it? It got really well.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I to put it out as like its own
Speaker 7: movie because it was like fifty minutes of footage.
Speaker 2: Oh that was like, yeah, it's hilarious.
Speaker 7: And that was the first time, like I was ever
Speaker 7: in something that I could not wait to be, like
Speaker 7: to show off about and be proud of being a
Speaker 7: part of. And all these guys that were my heroes
Speaker 7: and my I was new on us and now new ish, but.
Speaker 1: It was a big deal and so you just had
Speaker 1: to take Will and uh Adam Adam's worried that or
Speaker 1: you trusted not trusted.
Speaker 2: Sometimes that happens with the directors, like the time, you know.
Speaker 7: And then I and then I remember at the time
Speaker 7: I was heartbroken and I talked to Paul about it,
Speaker 7: who's all you know already was already like hardened and
Speaker 7: gristled by the.
Speaker 2: Wait. We're trying to we're trying to maintain what.
Speaker 10: Listen, I don't even want to add this because I
Speaker 10: wanted you to know that, you know, we're trying to
Speaker 10: maintain like a profession with the core me.
Speaker 2: But like as Maya speaks, like all this constructions to
Speaker 2: make chicken because I've had complaints.
Speaker 1: I've had complaints that I've not fed my family here
Speaker 1: at Courts Love Supremes. So now I go way out
Speaker 1: and I've ordered the mother load of Korean fried chicken.
Speaker 2: That we cannot eat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, well you know what it's it's kind of
Speaker 1: weird because first it was mad for Chicken, then it
Speaker 1: was Mama Fuku, and now it's turntable chicken. Like it's
Speaker 1: the same. It's a speakeasy. Have you heard of the
Speaker 1: spot I've heard of. Yeah, yeah, it's a speakeasy spot
Speaker 1: where it's a Korean restaurant, but you go in, it's
Speaker 1: it's like it's hidden on top of a pizza spot.
Speaker 1: And then what's really weird about it is that the
Speaker 1: music they play him there is a very specific type
Speaker 1: of soul music.
Speaker 2: It's like right up your alley. It's like Marvin Ces. Oh,
Speaker 2: they playing liquor house shit, yes, c Richard Dimple Fields.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a very specific like Frankie Beverly Maze is
Speaker 1: too No, that's too popular, it's just too Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: too like down home.
Speaker 2: Blues, yeah yeah, Bible Blue playing. Yeah, it's easy here
Speaker 2: Liquor music store house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at first when I went there. When I went there,
Speaker 1: I didn't know how to feel, because first of all,
Speaker 1: it was like you go there and you know, like
Speaker 1: in the movie when you go in the alleyway and
Speaker 1: the little slide door things, you only see.
Speaker 2: The eyes, Like what's the password? Like back then, you
Speaker 2: have to have a password.
Speaker 1: And this place is open till seven in the morning,
Speaker 1: and this is the spot you go to after you
Speaker 1: party all night in New York from four a m.
Speaker 1: Till about eight a m. It's on like it's overcrowded.
Speaker 1: So even my quest lovedness couldn't just get me in.
Speaker 1: I had to know the password.
Speaker 7: What was the password?
Speaker 2: I forget?
Speaker 1: I mean, this is like back when it was math
Speaker 1: for chicken, it was like five years agoword, Yeah.
Speaker 2: What's the password? Purple number one.
Speaker 1: So the point was that when I walked in, I
Speaker 1: first of all to be told that their brand of
Speaker 1: fried chicken was better. The way the person described it
Speaker 1: was like better than your mama's or your grandma's. So
Speaker 1: I already felt some sort of way. And then to
Speaker 1: see the the the cosmetic view of what I was watching,
Speaker 1: I was the only black person in there, but they
Speaker 1: were playing Richard Dimple's fields and explain.
Speaker 2: Like that to the people. To the listener, we have
Speaker 2: to be specific.
Speaker 1: There's a specific type of soul music that like you
Speaker 1: only hear south of the Mission Dixon line.
Speaker 4: It is like Melico Records has it. It's like the
Speaker 4: Melico Record's Greatest Hits, like the box set.
Speaker 1: Like, so you growing up in North Carolina, like you've
Speaker 1: heard Marvin Cees all the time.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, man, Marvin Cees was legend.
Speaker 4: Marvin Ces's son follows me on Instagram, like Marvin C
Speaker 4: Life Goals Nigga. So me and Marven Zeze's son we
Speaker 4: kick it. So Marvin C's for the listeners, let's to
Speaker 4: kind of just giving. Okay, there's a song called Candy
Speaker 4: Liquor Okay, and this was a song that Okay, the
Speaker 4: genre of liquor house music, it generally falls under what
Speaker 4: we formally called it gues.
Speaker 2: Southern soul and blues.
Speaker 4: So you have these guys that are like, you know,
Speaker 4: Marvin C's you know, Riggie Dimmisfield's Roy cu Zz Hill,
Speaker 4: like Brain said, you know, these are just guys that
Speaker 4: were kind of like the underground rappers. They were like
Speaker 4: the two Shorts and then oh man, the precursors of that.
Speaker 4: So they were like kind of like the underground rappers
Speaker 4: of the soul scene. You didn't real learn stuff on
Speaker 4: the radio like that, but when you went to the
Speaker 4: little clubs, the little like speakeasys, the you know, the
Speaker 4: little hole in the wall joints, that's where you hear
Speaker 4: their records. And so Marvin Season particularly had a record
Speaker 4: that is being called Candy Liquor and Candy Liquor got
Speaker 4: It was about.
Speaker 7: It's not liquor like you drink.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, you ain't up on this one. It's not
Speaker 2: We gotta play it right now, man, I think we
Speaker 2: should can we? Okay? I'm not a shame no more.
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard this? I want to do? This
Speaker 2: was actually me and my mom danced to this my brother.
Speaker 7: Candy just makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not ashamed. I want to be your candy.
Speaker 7: Let me wait wait wait that blowfly, very blow fly,
Speaker 7: very heavy breathing.
Speaker 2: Why not? I think he might be doing that for
Speaker 2: real in the studio.
Speaker 3: I won you.
Speaker 7: I don't feel like that wheezing is It's okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had his inhaling. Next little that's matter, I'm
Speaker 2: not lying.
Speaker 7: Well, that's clear.
Speaker 2: And this song is like ten minutes long.
Speaker 7: It goes heavy breathing and zerus Chris.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's nine minutes and fifty nine seconds. Yes, because
Speaker 2: he wanted to remind you that his pull out game
Speaker 2: is strong. I can take it outside. This is the
Speaker 2: type of soul music they would play.
Speaker 1: And I didn't know how to feel being the only
Speaker 1: black man in uh a Korean establishment.
Speaker 2: Uh And they were serving fried chicken only and playing
Speaker 2: this music.
Speaker 5: Sounds like a lot, but I ordered a lot and.
Speaker 2: Was there every other night, okay every night. I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: So this is the this is the place.
Speaker 1: This is the speakeasy, yes, now known as Turntable Chicken,
Speaker 1: but formally Man for Chickens.
Speaker 2: I like these plugs.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Well no, I'm just saying, we're tying in all my lines,
Speaker 1: like you know, the foodie now, I'm bringing in the
Speaker 1: foody world in the music world.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 1: See that's how we do it anyway, maya, Yes, sir, Uh,
Speaker 1: I kind of want to start in chronological order.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 1: We know the powerful lineage that you come from, uh,
Speaker 1: being as though your father is H. Richard Rudolph or
Speaker 1: Dick Rudolf, Like professionally, was he Richard Rudolph.
Speaker 7: Or my whole childhood he was Dick Rudolph. But I
Speaker 7: think every record said Richard. But everyone's like your days
Speaker 7: Dick Rudolf.
Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't know like he became Richard like once
Speaker 2: he became like no.
Speaker 7: When he was like fifty, he started telling everybody his
Speaker 7: names Ricardo. We don't know why. So he was raised
Speaker 7: in Miami, so he thinks he's part Cuban, but he's
Speaker 7: he's Jewish.
Speaker 2: Okay, So where where were you born?
Speaker 7: Gainesville, Florida? Because my parents were my parents were in Chicago.
Speaker 7: My mom was sick of Chicago, and my parents met
Speaker 7: in Chicago because my dad was managing what was it
Speaker 7: called the Electric Electric Playground I think was it was?
Speaker 8: It was a club.
Speaker 7: It was one of those clubs that was like I
Speaker 7: forgot what my dad called it. But they were on
Speaker 7: those circuits like if you go to little like different
Speaker 7: boutiques they have, you know, they sell the tickets for
Speaker 7: these like bands that would go in like packs of
Speaker 7: two and three, like led Zeppelin would go play at
Speaker 7: this place in Chicago and this place in San Francisco
Speaker 7: and this other place, and my dad was managing the
Speaker 7: one in Chicago kind of.
Speaker 2: Like the house of Blues of the sixties.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like the sixties, Yeah, like smash you know, the
Speaker 7: it was very sixties, like what are those things called,
Speaker 7: the like the trippy like smash color thing where people like, yeah,
Speaker 7: you know, they like the visual stuff of like groovy
Speaker 7: liquids and shit in different colors. Yeah, And and I
Speaker 7: think the I think it was very corrupt, like the
Speaker 7: bodyguards were like black belts at like some karate places.
Speaker 7: It was it was something about it was very corrupt
Speaker 7: and bad.
Speaker 2: And I know that.
Speaker 7: He said he like went to deposit the money one
Speaker 7: night and like when he drove back, it was it
Speaker 7: was burning down. He thought it was like an inside
Speaker 7: job or something. But he met my mom there when
Speaker 7: she was in the roadary connection, and he said, and
Speaker 7: I quote him, they met on the steps and she
Speaker 7: was at the top of the steps and he was
Speaker 7: at the bottom. And then he got it was he like,
Speaker 7: he got way too into it. And I was like,
Speaker 7: I don't care about the story. You're still my parents,
Speaker 7: Like yeah, but they like saw each other. So they
Speaker 7: were living in Chicago. They had my brother there, who's
Speaker 7: four years older than me, and it was still Chicago then,
Speaker 7: like this is late sixties. My dad had like a
Speaker 7: long ponytail and like had to tucket in his jacket
Speaker 7: to hide from the landlady. And they had to like
Speaker 7: hide my mom and my brother because they were black,
Speaker 7: and so they just got tired of it, I think,
Speaker 7: and then they were like looking for places to go
Speaker 7: because my mom had just had it with Chicago. And
Speaker 7: but you were born in the seventies though, right seventy two,
Speaker 7: so that's even then the.
Speaker 2: Block was hot.
Speaker 1: Yes, so it's always been Chicago. Has always been in Chicago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like it's never not been Chicago.
Speaker 7: I see, I don't know where they lived exactly. I
Speaker 7: know my mom grew up in the South Side, but
Speaker 7: I don't know where my parents lived at the time
Speaker 7: with my brother, and then they had friends that lived
Speaker 7: in this little Gainsville. Gainswell was a college town, so
Speaker 7: it was like quiet and a bunch of beause we
Speaker 7: only lived there for about a year.
Speaker 2: Also, hear that it's the music capital of Florida.
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, Tom Petty is from there, and who else.
Speaker 1: My first show there was half the Roots only half
Speaker 1: of us made it, and because we needed the money,
Speaker 1: we still did it. Like I drummed, Rozelle did all
Speaker 1: the music with his mouth, and Tarik rhymed for an
Speaker 1: hour and a half and they're like, dude, this is
Speaker 1: the music Capital Florida and we never seen anything, you know.
Speaker 1: So that's where I learned the history of Kainesville was that.
Speaker 2: The lesbian sex Act show. No, no, no, that was yeah, sorry,
Speaker 2: everyone gets no.
Speaker 1: There's a four famous lesbian sex Act show that we
Speaker 1: did under an allise at New Eurekan Cafe in New York.
Speaker 2: It was common to Reik myself.
Speaker 1: We just needed a name to make up because we
Speaker 1: couldn't be the roots playing a free gig at.
Speaker 2: The New Eyreakan Cafe. So we made up Lesbian sex Act.
Speaker 7: And that got butts in seats.
Speaker 1: Yes, we debuted some things fall apart songs then, but
Speaker 1: this is before then. But uh yeah, so you only
Speaker 1: did a year in Kainesville, just.
Speaker 7: A year, and then they drove out to la because well,
Speaker 7: there's an actual story that I should know, like all
Speaker 7: the names of but a guy came from Capital and
Speaker 7: fat like my mom thanked him. I remember, I can't
Speaker 7: remember guys name. She was like, thank you to so
Speaker 7: and so for coming, like coming and rescue me from
Speaker 7: the gators. So he she had she had been on chess,
Speaker 7: you know, since she was a teenager. She worked at
Speaker 7: Chess Records when she was in high school, and she
Speaker 7: sang in the Gems, which was the girl group. She
Speaker 7: did another name though, well, Andrea Davis was My cousin's
Speaker 7: name is Andrew. That's why she was Andrew Davis. But
Speaker 7: I don't know. But Andrew Davis had her own like
Speaker 7: solo single right, Lonely Girl is the one I know.
Speaker 7: And then but she also did backup for stuff and
Speaker 7: the only thing I know about that she's not credited for.
Speaker 7: But weirdly, like when I was in college, my dad
Speaker 7: was like, we just got a royalty check for Rescue
Speaker 7: Me the Fontella bass song, So my mom's singing on that.
Speaker 7: Like she would basically, you know, be the receptionist and
Speaker 7: then if they needed backup, she'd run upstairs and do
Speaker 7: back up and then still like man the Desk.
Speaker 1: Couest Love Supreme Trivia Moment. Bill, when we first met,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Boss Bill, not unpaid Bill.
Speaker 2: Boss Bill. When we first met, I think you caught
Speaker 2: the copy of Thrust by Herbie Hancock. Yeah, how do
Speaker 2: you remember that? Who's the lady on taxi on taxi stupid? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I kind of have a Mary Lou Henter musical memory.
Speaker 1: I mean I could tell you, like, you know, the
Speaker 1: amount of times that people misspelled the word on Soul
Speaker 1: Train scramble board.
Speaker 2: But I can't remember to show up on time to
Speaker 2: like my own radio show. So it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: it's a thing. No, I'm very imperfect.
Speaker 7: Did you hear when I got here?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, because they they they deangelouded me. However.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but my point was that that I copped H
Speaker 1: three Andrea day forty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in Chicago the first day I met Bill.
Speaker 7: Wow, so we're connected.
Speaker 1: We're connected already, we're connected. So you guys, uh went
Speaker 1: to lay. This is weird because now if I want
Speaker 1: to find somebody, I could stalk them on the Internet
Speaker 1: or social media.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know how he found how he found her?
Speaker 7: Then and then that then the other part of the
Speaker 7: so we went, we moved to Laurel Canyon, and then
Speaker 7: my mom's like she was set on Stevie Wonder. She
Speaker 7: wanted to find Stevie. Wonder.
Speaker 2: Wait, we there's one crucial thing. We never said your
Speaker 2: mom's name yet, maybe we might want to do that.
Speaker 2: Who is your mother? So her mother of course? Uh?
Speaker 1: For those listening to Questlove Supreme only on Pandora, is
Speaker 1: is Minnie Riperton?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Considered to be one of the finest vocalists of all time?
Speaker 9: What was there?
Speaker 2: What was her octave range?
Speaker 7: I've heard five? You know this is she died in
Speaker 7: the seventies, so we have no way of proving any
Speaker 7: of it. There's no There's a lot of folklore behind it,
Speaker 7: for sure. But I've heard five, which is a lot
Speaker 7: more than I've I'll just say seven, say.
Speaker 1: Eight perceptions reality, I mean, people will say it and
Speaker 1: then people will believe it true.
Speaker 7: We can set it. We can set the record.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 4: Seven octave range great, I've actually read seven octaves before
Speaker 4: I've read I've read that she has.
Speaker 7: I'll be honest, I don't you know, I don't. I
Speaker 7: hear so many things I can't. You probably know more
Speaker 7: than I do.
Speaker 1: I know she can go high. But how what was
Speaker 1: her low register like? Because in order to really be
Speaker 1: five octave range that I don't know. You know your
Speaker 1: base game has to be on point.
Speaker 7: Well I'm low. I'm nothing but low, And nobody really
Speaker 7: has her voice in our family except her speaking voice.
Speaker 7: My Auntie Sandres got her speaking boys her her older sister.
Speaker 7: She was really close to who who's still one of
Speaker 7: her only siblings that's still around. And she sounds a
Speaker 7: lot like my mom when I talked to her on
Speaker 7: the phone. But she doesn't sing. I mean, I think
Speaker 7: when she does, she probably has some of that in there,
Speaker 7: but I don't know anybody else in the family who
Speaker 7: has it. My mom's brother was a horn player, but siblings.
Speaker 7: She was the youngest of eight whoa south side of Chicago,
Speaker 7: youngest of eight, so she needed to leave.
Speaker 2: Oh he's waiting for an inappropriate comment from vart No
Speaker 2: it was not, Well it wasn't, but no, that's the time.
Speaker 2: I mean, that makes sense because that was back in
Speaker 2: the day.
Speaker 7: Like, well, no, this is true. My grandfather was a
Speaker 7: pullman porter, and you know they always said that pullman
Speaker 7: porter's always had like you know, he worked for the railroad,
Speaker 7: so oways say he had he might have had more kids.
Speaker 7: Importers go from one place to another.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I know that back then I mean at
Speaker 1: least with farm house mentality. The thing is that you
Speaker 1: have a lot of kids so that you can have hands, yeah,
Speaker 1: to work on your farm or Jackson's or you know,
Speaker 1: however you.
Speaker 2: However you want to put it. So, what was your
Speaker 2: first cognizant memory of.
Speaker 8: Music?
Speaker 2: Yeah, just of the environment you grew up in.
Speaker 1: Like you don't remember that Soul Training episode in which
Speaker 1: you were crying through your mom's interview segment.
Speaker 7: M I don't remember it, but I remember that all
Speaker 7: that that era for me was. I mean we were
Speaker 7: on the road with my parents most of the time
Speaker 7: until I started school. So I mean when we were little,
Speaker 7: little sometimes they'd go out on the road and they
Speaker 7: take us with them, but pretty much, especially when I
Speaker 7: was a baby, I think my mom went out on
Speaker 7: the road for a minute and then she called my dad.
Speaker 7: She was like, you have to come with me.
Speaker 8: I can't.
Speaker 7: I can't be without the baby and without you guys.
Speaker 7: And so we were on the road a lot. And
Speaker 7: I remember being on the road with my parents, like
Speaker 7: I remember somebody lost a tooth in like some town
Speaker 7: with a casino and we got like a chip or something,
Speaker 7: you know, Like I remember like sound check to me
Speaker 7: is like I think it was it was me or
Speaker 7: my I.
Speaker 2: Think it was me, me or my brother, like a
Speaker 2: bar fight or something.
Speaker 7: No, like like the normal things that happened to a kid.
Speaker 7: But the tooth Fairy brought me like a casino chip
Speaker 7: because we were in like Lake Tahoe or something. But
Speaker 7: like like being on the road was very normal. And
Speaker 7: then like see my mom. Yeah, like being being in studios,
Speaker 7: being backstage, and like see my mom before the show,
Speaker 7: like before the audience was there. All that is like
Speaker 7: tied together as one kind of large memory.
Speaker 8: Really, Yeah, what would the world.
Speaker 7: Be like if everyone saw with their hearts instead of
Speaker 7: their eyes?
Speaker 2: I guess it would be like your smile, Mile innocent.
Speaker 8: Pure.
Speaker 4: Love.
Speaker 7: I wish every year with the year and the child
Speaker 7: so much.
Speaker 2: So the things you learn on Quest Love Supreme, only
Speaker 2: your own father. This just got real. This is why
Speaker 2: we don't need to pay unpaid.
Speaker 9: You.
Speaker 2: Well let's explain. Uh wait for those just tuning in,
Speaker 2: it's my Rudolph.
Speaker 1: Uh So we just played too many colors on Tina
Speaker 1: Marie's second album, Lady t and.
Speaker 2: Always knew of that song, never knew.
Speaker 7: That that was you do you have to listen to
Speaker 7: the event the very end.
Speaker 2: No, I know that song, but I never knew that
Speaker 2: was you.
Speaker 1: And what's like there was this a string of seventy
Speaker 1: soul songs where like somebody went in part like this
Speaker 1: wisdom on a kid like you and on cooler gangs,
Speaker 1: wold I'm peaceful together at once, you know cool well,
Speaker 1: young timmy.
Speaker 8: Like you.
Speaker 2: The thing was, now that I know that's you, I
Speaker 2: feel like you draw from.
Speaker 1: Her, like I I now see you channeling that seventies
Speaker 1: soul energy in your acting when you do any singer
Speaker 1: that you do, the way that you talk, like, I
Speaker 1: see you channeling that.
Speaker 2: Really, do you channel that moment or.
Speaker 7: I'm not not consciously? I mean my dad, I wasn't
Speaker 7: around the studio lot. My dad did that record because
Speaker 7: you know, we didn't have like babysitters and stuff then,
Speaker 7: so I would just like spend a lot of time.
Speaker 7: I remember when he was writing behind the He helped
Speaker 7: write behind the Groove, and he tell the story like
Speaker 7: I would sit in the passenger seat and like he
Speaker 7: would with a legal pat and you would say, like
Speaker 7: write this down, and I would like write down the
Speaker 7: lyrics for him.
Speaker 2: Another Xanna dude, did you know that spell xana do with.
Speaker 7: The X of course because of the movie.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think i've ever in the years I've known you,
Speaker 1: I've really never like thoroughly discussed your mom's exit from
Speaker 1: this this particular plant.
Speaker 2: But I definitely know that, Uh, that was the that
Speaker 2: was the first time that I had to deal with, Uh,
Speaker 2: I guess loss.
Speaker 1: Like my parents used your mom's passing as a way
Speaker 1: to explain to me what death was really yeah, because
Speaker 1: I mean at that time, I was eight years old.
Speaker 1: So even though my grandmom passed when I was five,
Speaker 1: like I you know, I they never told me or
Speaker 1: sat me down explaining to being like, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: what death is, and da da da da dah.
Speaker 7: So gonna make sense too, because it's also like easier
Speaker 7: to like explain it about someone that's like, you know, like,
Speaker 7: oh shit, what are we going to tell him grandma died?
Speaker 7: Then we're like, you're like, oh, make good stuff up.
Speaker 7: But then if it's like, Okay, we're sad because this
Speaker 7: thing happened and we have to explain, like I do,
Speaker 7: explain why the Freedom Tower was there yesterday, my five
Speaker 7: year old son and explain why the buildings were gone,
Speaker 7: and I just said it very like, you know, as
Speaker 7: simply and as matter of fact.
Speaker 2: And he could handle it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was like, why did they do that?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 7: But yeah, maybe because it wasn't someone personal, but it
Speaker 7: but personal in a different way. You know, your relationships
Speaker 7: with the music is personal.
Speaker 1: So that's that period in the summer of the seventy nine.
Speaker 1: I mean, was your father working on this album as
Speaker 1: that was happening, or my dad wasn't.
Speaker 7: Working on the record. Then he met Tina later. She
Speaker 7: was a big fan of my mom's. I don't know
Speaker 7: how they can.
Speaker 2: Your mom passing what July seventy nine, Yeah.
Speaker 7: July twelfth, seventy nine, but she had recorded her last
Speaker 7: record and didn't finish it when she died, so posthumously.
Speaker 7: Then my dad then he went in the studio and
Speaker 7: had That's when I got to meet the Jackson's because
Speaker 7: like people would come and like play stuff on each song.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael was on a I'm in Love Again.
Speaker 7: I remember my dad, I remember one of the I
Speaker 7: don't remember who's one of the Jackson's selfinge with my
Speaker 7: math homework and I was like, Jackson helped me with
Speaker 7: my fourth grade math homework.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't Michael.
Speaker 7: No, Michael was too shy. Michael Michael. They were in
Speaker 7: the studio and they were friendly. Michael was really shy,
Speaker 7: and my dad gave him, like I remember, he gave
Speaker 7: him like a Pittsburgh Pirates hat, because my dad's from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 8: Ah.
Speaker 2: Originally I didn't know that, but I but that's.
Speaker 7: Why I can remember, like people were coming in, you know,
Speaker 7: he was putting stuff on songs with different people. It's
Speaker 7: such a blurry time to me. It's you know, now
Speaker 7: that I have a daughter who's about she was, she's
Speaker 7: the age my daughter, Lucy's the age that I was
Speaker 7: when my mom died. Right now, she's six and a half,
Speaker 7: she's almost seven. It's so fascinating as an adult to
Speaker 7: see that person's she's so into me, she's so into
Speaker 7: her mommy. But she's a kind of a baby still,
Speaker 7: like in a lot of ways. And so my memory
Speaker 7: it's like, you know, because my mom was my mom,
Speaker 7: people ask me about her a lot, but my memories
Speaker 7: are are from a child's brain, so it's really warped.
Speaker 7: And I always talk about magical thinking. There's like a
Speaker 7: lot of my memory. That's like a little bit make
Speaker 7: believe because that's how kids cope.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: You know what I remember about that record, that last
Speaker 1: album Stevie wanted his autograph was his thumb prints. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would the first time I ever got in trouble
Speaker 1: playing with matches, like I get it. I get a
Speaker 1: big pin, then light the ink so it could spill
Speaker 1: on the table so I could put my thumbprint and
Speaker 1: just thumbprint everything.
Speaker 2: Because yeah, Stevie did it. Yeah, I was impressible that way.
Speaker 2: And also that Michael had an immaculate penmanship on his autograph.
Speaker 7: On that album because his dad probably yay.
Speaker 4: Go in.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So just that that transition period to.
Speaker 7: It was also transitioning from seventy nine leaving the eighties,
Speaker 7: leaving the eighties. I mean, sorry, it's such a trippy.
Speaker 7: It's such a trippy era to have such an imprint
Speaker 7: on my life. The seventies is is everything.
Speaker 1: I mean, how did you cope? Like did you have
Speaker 1: big sister figures? And like, well, who was there to
Speaker 1: sort of feel that void or just to who's there
Speaker 1: for you to leave?
Speaker 7: Really just my dad and my brother honestly, and I
Speaker 7: mean we were the only ones that lived in La
Speaker 7: because everybody we came to La. My dad's family was
Speaker 7: in Miami, my mom's was in Chicago. We were the
Speaker 7: only ones like out there. We were kind of on
Speaker 7: our own. So you know, when I come from like,
Speaker 7: you know, pretty big sized families, but everybody was somewhere else.
Speaker 7: I'm kind of a disconnection in a lot of ways,
Speaker 7: especially because she she was the only one that was
Speaker 7: like in the entertainment business in her family, which always
Speaker 7: as you know, wow, with death and fame and all that,
Speaker 7: that all just becomes so strange when people people die,
Speaker 7: it's it makes it makes family even you know, you
Speaker 7: know how it is.
Speaker 2: I know, so I mean your dad obviously.
Speaker 8: No my dad, my dad raised us.
Speaker 7: It was so my dad, I cannot believe, like he
Speaker 7: was in the studio all night, will like our housekeeper
Speaker 7: was like sleeping at the house so that there was
Speaker 7: someone in the house with us. And then he'd get
Speaker 7: up in the morning, make my lunch, pack my bag,
Speaker 7: send me off to school if he wasn't the one
Speaker 7: that was driving me as I got older, because that's
Speaker 7: what I remember, and then like go back to bed.
Speaker 2: Where'd you go to school?
Speaker 7: I went to high school in Santa Monica's school called Crossroads.
Speaker 7: That was like an already already school.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, was it a perfect So
Speaker 1: when did you realize that you did you always have
Speaker 1: a talent?
Speaker 2: Were you always singing around the house?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 7: I was I was singing. I was just like a
Speaker 7: ham bone, like always doing shows like my kids do now,
Speaker 7: like always doing a show. My brother was always playing sports.
Speaker 7: I was always doing a show.
Speaker 2: So for you, was it like I'm going to be
Speaker 2: a singer or yeah, I think I was an actress.
Speaker 7: I think it was a combo in my head of
Speaker 7: But I don't know where the comedy came from, because
Speaker 7: my dad says that if my mom wasn't a singer,
Speaker 7: she would have been a comedian. But I don't know
Speaker 7: anything funny, that's what he says.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I don't remember any of that. Wow.
Speaker 7: But but the music seemed normal, So they're all it's
Speaker 7: kind of a hybrid in my mind, you know. But
Speaker 7: I would go to shows, like I would watch people
Speaker 7: on stage and think that's what I'm gonna do. And
Speaker 7: then I'd watch a movie and say, like that's what
Speaker 7: I'm gonna do. But it was mostly like in my house,
Speaker 7: we watched a lot of comedies that it was like
Speaker 7: a lot of Melbrooks movies and stuff.
Speaker 2: Wow, do you remember your first concert not your mom's.
Speaker 7: I remember going to see Funkadelic and the mother Ship Landing.
Speaker 7: I was sitting on somebody's shoulders. I think we were
Speaker 7: in Chicago. I don't know what the first I mean
Speaker 7: if it wasn't my mom's. I mean, my mom played
Speaker 7: with George Benson, and I remember being at like it
Speaker 7: like the Greek Theater or something, just that perfect magical
Speaker 7: outdoor summer night, like don't dunk.
Speaker 2: Right, I went Broadway?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So all your conscious were related to your
Speaker 1: mom in some sort of way.
Speaker 8: I guess.
Speaker 7: So. I mean the Parliament when when my brother was huge.
Speaker 7: My brother was crazy huge into Parliament Funkadelic when I
Speaker 7: was a kid, and so I think we I think
Speaker 7: we went to go see them because he wanted to.
Speaker 7: He was like infatuated with George Clinton when we were
Speaker 7: just the two of you together and some family members
Speaker 7: I don't even remember who, and then we were into
Speaker 7: the Silvers. We were really Me and my brother were
Speaker 7: really into the silvers try to remember, Like it's actually
Speaker 7: because I've been asked that question. It's so hard to remember,
Speaker 7: like the first first I mean, when I was like
Speaker 7: a kid kid, it was like Duran Duran, But that
Speaker 7: doesn't that doesn't count well because that was like my
Speaker 7: choice when I was like fifth grade, But when I
Speaker 7: was little, I don't remember.
Speaker 2: So Duran Duran was your first love? Like Roads on
Speaker 2: the Walls and all that stuff.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't say, was it first I really liked? I
Speaker 7: I was really in love with Stuart Copeland from the Police,
Speaker 7: thank you, and of course Sting but you know, and
Speaker 7: then uh and then and then I remember being like
Speaker 7: band wise, but my prince love was early. It just
Speaker 7: wasn't as much of a connection. Like like Dirty Mind
Speaker 7: was the first record that I really truly listened to
Speaker 7: and understood and you were I was little. Yeah, Because
Speaker 7: my cousin Ingrid came out from Chicago, she was much
Speaker 7: older than us. She bought that record. She was staying
Speaker 7: with us, and she shouldn't have played it for me
Speaker 7: and my brother, but she did, and we all like
Speaker 7: and the record players in my dad's bedroom and we
Speaker 7: all just like danced to it in our socks. But
Speaker 7: but then like I didn't have a poster of prints
Speaker 7: or anything like that, and I didn't, but it was
Speaker 7: like it was in there.
Speaker 2: Did you really what you were listening to? No, that's crazy.
Speaker 7: But I remember staring at the record and staring at
Speaker 7: him laying on the bed with his trench coat open,
Speaker 7: and I was like, wow, he's got a lot of
Speaker 7: hair under his thighs, Like that's man thigh. But it
Speaker 7: wasn't until when Purple Rain happened. Then I made like
Speaker 7: a conscious shift in a conscious stress. And I was eleven,
Speaker 7: I think, right, were you twelve?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: I was thirteen? Yes, I was twelve, Yeah, you were twelve.
Speaker 1: You were allowed to see purple range?
Speaker 7: Well, my dad took me to see purple ring because
Speaker 7: he didn't he didn't know what it was.
Speaker 2: My mom took me to ring. I was my Rabbi
Speaker 2: took me to see.
Speaker 7: None of us knew that we were going to see
Speaker 7: Apollonia's boobies.
Speaker 5: So I didn't see purple until way later, Regular Bill.
Speaker 2: I didn't see until it was on HBO. Oh wow.
Speaker 2: So I'm the only one to which purple was like
Speaker 2: contraband in the household. Oh no, it was contraband.
Speaker 7: Oh you weren't allowed to go see it.
Speaker 2: Hell no, Prince was the Prince was the I got on.
Speaker 2: Like all my punishments was prince related.
Speaker 1: Really, I would have otherwise been the perfect child, except
Speaker 1: the day that, you know, I discovered Prince's music and then.
Speaker 2: You know, But it's weird because during those punishments, my punishments,
Speaker 2: I mean some of them.
Speaker 1: Were corporal and car and carporal, carporal, corporal, some of
Speaker 1: them were corporal because I mean, a black household, black father,
Speaker 1: you know, the belt is always used.
Speaker 7: My dad wasn't black, and he always talked about the belt.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm gonna go get the belt. In Austrata, it's.
Speaker 7: Just more of a threat. The belt was. The belt
Speaker 7: was the impending terror and doom.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get that belt and get the belt.
Speaker 7: Oh, I don't remember. I don't remember having the belt.
Speaker 2: I got the belt several times. I got the belt.
Speaker 4: I got the switch, I got the hot wheels race
Speaker 4: car track, I got I got a couple of things.
Speaker 4: It was pretty sure that comes to this child abuse
Speaker 4: flip flops, not like the like the like the cute
Speaker 4: see like the just the throng.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. Oh yeah, brother, it got
Speaker 2: it went down in the d M. Look at him.
Speaker 2: Paid Bill all traumatized right now.
Speaker 7: I don't know anybody.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 5: I got hit once for drawing the family on the
Speaker 5: freshly painted walls and crowns.
Speaker 2: My mom was that's a paddling.
Speaker 5: I mean yeah, was it like was it a.
Speaker 2: Tito Jackson moment?
Speaker 1: Like Joe Jackson beat Tito for breaking a guitar string,
Speaker 1: and it was like, oh wait, my son has talent.
Speaker 1: And then that's how the Jackson's became to be. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: he didn't realize that his son's had talent until he
Speaker 1: had to beat Tito.
Speaker 7: Jesus, you can talk about it. What oh what the
Speaker 7: switch did Jackson switch?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Nah, man, my dad has a doctorate degree in jacksonology.
Speaker 1: I mean that's why I had to be so you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I was always like the not
Speaker 1: the goodie kid, but I always did what my parents said.
Speaker 1: I was home before the light went out, and you know,
Speaker 1: I always joke to people that if I ever came
Speaker 1: home one minute after that Oprah theme, oh.
Speaker 2: Wow, that was my ass.
Speaker 1: And I mean even into high school, like I mean,
Speaker 1: it was just their fear of me being out on
Speaker 1: the streets in the eighties was it was too risky.
Speaker 1: So it's just like you come straight home, don't go
Speaker 1: record shopping, don't go to uh you know, you don't
Speaker 1: go to the arcade, hanging with your friends at the mall.
Speaker 2: You run home.
Speaker 1: So it was like, that's why I know Flight of
Speaker 1: the bumble Bee so well, because soon as school let out,
Speaker 1: it was like, like, that's that's that's pretty much what
Speaker 1: life was.
Speaker 7: What was the what was the Prince record that you
Speaker 7: got into. I'm just curious what the relationship was for
Speaker 7: your parents that said, like, all.
Speaker 2: Right, so Prince got introduced, all right.
Speaker 1: It's it's weird that my Michael Jackson obsession led to
Speaker 1: all of my musical knowledge because even those groups you mentioned, Duran,
Speaker 1: Duran and the police.
Speaker 2: And all that stuff.
Speaker 1: The only reason why I know all of those MTV
Speaker 1: ready acts is because you'd sit in front of m
Speaker 1: t V for hours waiting for beat It to come out, right,
Speaker 1: that one to watch all night long to do that
Speaker 1: forward moonwalking all night long or beat It or or
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, So wait for that one black video
Speaker 1: to come on. You'd have to sit through Thomas Dolby
Speaker 1: and all these others. So after you know, five weeks
Speaker 1: of doing this, suddenly you know I'm singing like Hyperactive
Speaker 1: by Thomas Dolby and I remember.
Speaker 2: Yes, had like twelve it was Robert Palmer.
Speaker 1: No, no, Hyperactive, I'm definitely wrong.
Speaker 4: Wrong, thank you mind because Steve would have you see
Speaker 4: the smug look on base right now?
Speaker 2: No, how about I can't when I'm wrong. No, there's
Speaker 2: are right, there's.
Speaker 7: A Thomas Dolby. I love you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like waiting for Michael Jackson videos led me to just
Speaker 1: studying everything else because you didn't want to take your
Speaker 1: eyes off the television. And so back when I wanted
Speaker 1: to see the Rock with You video, knowing that it
Speaker 1: was coming on Midnight Special, Prince was the second song
Speaker 1: as a guest, I Want to be Your Lover, and.
Speaker 2: My dad just felt the need to add on.
Speaker 1: It was like twenty four hours later, and his whole
Speaker 1: thing was like, why is this boy wearing a diaper?
Speaker 1: Why is he wearing a diaper? So just the next
Speaker 1: day he says, don't you listen to that boy that
Speaker 1: was wearing the diaper, which wasn't like, you know, like
Speaker 1: when your parents tell you no, then it's like, oh, automatic, yes,
Speaker 1: I really didn't care, like I now know that with parenthood.
Speaker 2: And of course I'm not a parent saying this.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that, if you are adamant about a no,
Speaker 1: you might as well tell your kid just do that.
Speaker 1: Do it, because I'm certain that Prince would have been
Speaker 1: just a footnote in memory had they not made a
Speaker 1: big deal of that boy.
Speaker 2: And his diaper.
Speaker 7: I remember Soft and Wet being I remember being exactly
Speaker 7: where I was standing. Our garage door was open, and
Speaker 7: we were in the driveway doing messing around, doing something.
Speaker 7: I had one of those you know, those green like
Speaker 7: inchworm things and you would like bounce on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that, yeah, yeah, And I was like.
Speaker 7: Playing with that or something. And then Soft and Wet
Speaker 7: came on, and I remember we were all listening.
Speaker 2: To it on the radio, like it's a very inappropriate visual.
Speaker 7: But I didn't feel that wrist slap of like, oh boy,
Speaker 7: we'd better turn this off, you know. It was sort
Speaker 7: of like, oh, this is a Prince song, and the
Speaker 7: song is kind of good, so I didn't. I don't,
Speaker 7: But then again, my dad. There was no concept of
Speaker 7: PC and my dad was so young, Like I mean,
Speaker 7: my mom and dad were like twenty five when I
Speaker 7: was born, you know, and so my mom was thirty
Speaker 7: one when she died, like they were kids, and I
Speaker 7: don't and that politically correct thing was not an ordinance yet,
Speaker 7: so you know, I was. We were watching movies with
Speaker 7: our parents because they were young and they wanted to
Speaker 7: watch them too, and we saw boobies.
Speaker 1: And but it's weird because I don't know, necessarily consider
Speaker 1: soft and wet that memorable to be that.
Speaker 2: Where was I when I first heard Prince?
Speaker 1: Everyone has a soft and wet story, like the first
Speaker 1: time they heard prints, which only because the circumstance that
Speaker 1: I was in I remember more. And he just happened
Speaker 1: to be playing at the time. My grandfather had just died,
Speaker 1: and my dad came to my mom said babe, come here.
Speaker 2: One second.
Speaker 1: They went out the room, and I never heard my
Speaker 1: mom freak out crying, so she screamed and everything, and
Speaker 1: I was like, well, Immie, you know seventy eight, I
Speaker 1: was seven, so I guess in order to just she
Speaker 1: old me and protect me from it, my sister just
Speaker 1: took me from the kitchen, took me up to the bedroom,
Speaker 1: got these big ass headphones and just put the radio
Speaker 1: on and Street Wave by Brothers Johnson was playing on
Speaker 1: wdas it faded out, Soft and Wet came on. And
Speaker 1: the only thing that I remember my seven year old
Speaker 1: self saying was that this is the same instrumentation that
Speaker 1: Graham Central Station.
Speaker 2: Would have used.
Speaker 1: Later I found out that yes, he also recorded at
Speaker 1: salis What's in Salcilda, the same recording studio, the same art,
Speaker 1: the same mood, the same patches, which probably explains is
Speaker 1: Larry Graham upsession and even that that's straight Graham Central Station.
Speaker 1: So that's the only thing I remember. I remember this song,
Speaker 1: I don't know remember here in this really worthy synth
Speaker 1: part that reminded me.
Speaker 2: Of yeah, like it was Graham Central Station.
Speaker 1: And that's all I remember about Prince uh And again
Speaker 1: leading back to they never told me my grandfather died.
Speaker 1: I just knew that mom was freaking out, and then
Speaker 1: she went away for a week and I stayed at
Speaker 1: my grandmom's house.
Speaker 2: But that's what I remember.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like really, it wasn't until I got into
Speaker 1: the time and then someone told me the connection between
Speaker 1: the two and then and then that's how I got
Speaker 1: to I finally caught up to Prince. But it really
Speaker 1: wasn't until the Time's first record.
Speaker 7: My brother got us into the Time, and then it
Speaker 7: started becoming I was like, what is this seven seven,
Speaker 7: seven ninety three eleven, like songs with phone numbers were
Speaker 7: so exciting.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, but then by that point I just it was
Speaker 1: punishment every you know, like the church I went to
Speaker 1: had a sermon on why thriller was demonic?
Speaker 2: Party?
Speaker 1: Children and if any of your parents own this record,
Speaker 1: and they had a nineteen ninety nine record, and he
Speaker 1: turned it upside down, said, this.
Speaker 2: Is a penis, and this is a six sixty six.
Speaker 2: Your kids are being led and you know the six
Speaker 2: six six on there. Look nineteen ninety nine, right.
Speaker 7: I just saw the penis.
Speaker 2: I thought I was one with a football in it,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Again, unless you pointed out like, I don't know these things.
Speaker 1: And so it was just like then we went home.
Speaker 1: Don't you have this record of mirror?
Speaker 2: And they went to my room and took everything through
Speaker 2: it away.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 1: Then it snowed, and then I did some shoveling and
Speaker 1: got it back from the money that I earned shoveling,
Speaker 1: and then it was missing again, and then after that
Speaker 1: it was just like contraband, it was just punishment.
Speaker 2: So h and I'll stay between eighty two and eighty.
Speaker 1: Seven, life was hell in West Philadelphia based on all
Speaker 1: it was just hell, like you know, yeah, it was
Speaker 1: the best and worst times of life.
Speaker 7: Hi, that's a classic. Like you clearly like driven towards
Speaker 7: something in your parents. You know, you needed to find out.
Speaker 7: You needed to turn everything over and find it out
Speaker 7: for yourself.
Speaker 1: Like and I don't even know if I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it affected me in a way that
Speaker 1: they thought it was going to affect me or not.
Speaker 1: I mean, he made me aware of shit that I
Speaker 1: didn't know about, Like you know, it's like what's a
Speaker 1: cherry and all this stuff? Like I would ask my
Speaker 1: friends in school like what does this stuff mean?
Speaker 2: Or whatever they explained to me.
Speaker 1: But really I was just about I'd never heard music
Speaker 1: sound like that, Like it sounded futuristic, and you know,
Speaker 1: I was obsessed with the patches and all those things.
Speaker 7: But I think it made me realize later because I
Speaker 7: put all the pieces together when I got older, that
Speaker 7: I wasn't really truly like identifying and obsessed with Prince
Speaker 7: until the revolution actually had Wendy and least in it
Speaker 7: because I could identify with girls in the band, and
Speaker 7: then I wanted to be in the band. I wanted
Speaker 7: to I wanted to be Wendy.
Speaker 1: So were you besides knowing Jill, Well, you knew Jill
Speaker 1: Jones during the Tina Marie period.
Speaker 7: I remember meeting her. I think, I think, if my
Speaker 7: memory surge incorrectly, her mom was Tina's manager.
Speaker 2: Who's her mom?
Speaker 7: I don't remember her name, okay, but I think Joe's mom.
Speaker 2: I think she.
Speaker 7: I think she worked with Tina. I remember going to
Speaker 7: their house or something, or maybe better at Tina's house
Speaker 7: or something like that.
Speaker 2: So you didn't put two to do together when you
Speaker 2: see the nineteen ninety nine video and.
Speaker 7: Be like, oh my god, that's late James way.
Speaker 2: Later grinding on Lisa for some strange reason.
Speaker 7: Best friends. Yeah, there's a lot of that's funny and
Speaker 7: Lisa best friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's yeah, yeah, anyway, Yeah, I didn't really know.
Speaker 7: I didn't know people's names yet then, Like I didn't.
Speaker 7: I just it was all about Prince to me. And
Speaker 7: even though there was a revolution like it was just Prince.
Speaker 7: But then because of the movie, I think it gave
Speaker 7: me like a little bit of a story. Whether I
Speaker 7: knew it was real or not, I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Do you know that was Jill when you saw pe
Speaker 2: Arin or.
Speaker 7: I think so? Actually maybe not?
Speaker 8: Maybe not.
Speaker 7: I think I put it together later.
Speaker 1: Okay, so uh yeah, Princess, I'm skipping over, of course,
Speaker 1: the the part of your life of which a lot
Speaker 1: of our listeners know, which is your acting career.
Speaker 7: But I have to you don't need to tell them
Speaker 7: that shit.
Speaker 2: I have to.
Speaker 7: An actor, yes, Steve, I'm an actor.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So, like, what kind of stuff do you do?
Speaker 2: What? No? What what made you want to do Princess? Well?
Speaker 2: I feel like what is Princess?
Speaker 7: Princess is me and my friend Gretchen's cover band, Prince
Speaker 7: cover band.
Speaker 2: Cool. That sounds like something that people always say they're
Speaker 2: going to do but they never do.
Speaker 7: Also, we've been doing it for like five years and
Speaker 7: I'm forty three years old. Like, yeah, in a cover band,
Speaker 7: it's always funny in a cover band, but it's so
Speaker 7: fucking legit, Like it's just from such a hardcore, deep
Speaker 7: place of love and like like a burning desire to
Speaker 7: play these songs. She and I were in a band
Speaker 7: together in college and when we met what it was
Speaker 7: called Super Sauce. It was a nine piece funk band
Speaker 7: headed by me and Gretchen. You can find I think
Speaker 7: you can find our one video on YouTube.
Speaker 2: Get paid.
Speaker 9: We did well.
Speaker 7: We only played like locals. We went to school in
Speaker 7: Santa Cruz and we only played you.
Speaker 2: Went to school in Santa Cruz.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you see Santa Cruz. Isn't that one like northern
Speaker 7: California hippies. Gretchen's from the Bay Area, She's from Berkeley.
Speaker 2: Bay.
Speaker 7: Ari's got its own, its own thing, and up there
Speaker 7: there were you know, it's a small town and a
Speaker 7: lot like there's a there's a theater called the Catalyst,
Speaker 7: which is kind of the only like it was the
Speaker 7: only theater in town for a long time, and we
Speaker 7: would play there. But it was like when Nirvana came
Speaker 7: to town, they'd play there, or when Gwen when Gwen
Speaker 7: Gwen out, when No Doubt played, we opened for them
Speaker 7: because we were like the local band opener. It was
Speaker 7: a tiny, tiny town and then they had another place
Speaker 7: forgot what was called.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I don't think you'll find much Super sauce. But there
Speaker 7: we had one song that we wrote called Milkshake, and
Speaker 7: I think I think it was on YouTube. Well, I
Speaker 7: don't know if it still is.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll say it. Did it bring all the.
Speaker 9: It was pre pre.
Speaker 2: Fur oh? Uh def joke, it's all it's all so
Speaker 2: you stole it?
Speaker 7: Oh he owed us money? No we didn't. I don't
Speaker 7: even it wasn't enough.
Speaker 1: Well what I what I'll say is, uh, we did
Speaker 1: a cover that was just very recently allowed to sort
Speaker 1: of uh return to the internet, our cover Darling Nikky
Speaker 1: that happened on.
Speaker 2: Back then. It was Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
Speaker 1: And I have to say that he watched it and
Speaker 1: enjoyed it and loved the fact that you guys got
Speaker 1: the backwards part.
Speaker 7: That was when we went to go see him play.
Speaker 7: The last time I saw him play like a proper
Speaker 7: show was like that toy he was doing with Third
Speaker 7: Eyed Girl and we had to go down. He wouldn't
Speaker 7: play in l A and you got us in because
Speaker 7: of Ramadan, and we went down to Anaheim. He was
Speaker 7: playing in Anaheim. Okay, yeah, And I was so pregnant,
Speaker 7: but we were back that we were Uh. We went
Speaker 7: backstage afterwards, and uh he and he came out and
Speaker 7: he saw us, and the first thing he said to
Speaker 7: me was, Hi, y'all going to do the backwards part.
Speaker 7: I was fucking cool.
Speaker 2: That was a cool moment.
Speaker 7: Well, you had prepped me because you told me he
Speaker 7: he it was when it was it was guitar gate
Speaker 7: when when he came and through Kirk's guitar and he
Speaker 7: had been here and he played and you told me
Speaker 7: that he had mentioned that he he had it like
Speaker 7: recorded on his DVR.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Every time to the story, I was like, I was
Speaker 7: trying to picture, like where's his dvr? Like where is he?
Speaker 2: Is he on a bus?
Speaker 8: Is he in his house?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 7: Where is he watching this over and showing it to
Speaker 7: his friends? You said he was showing it to his friend.
Speaker 7: He told us that friends he watched it.
Speaker 2: I mean he does that often. I know that.
Speaker 1: When I worked on the Chappelle Show, Marris and him
Speaker 1: had spoken on the phone for like the first time
Speaker 1: in a second about that yes, Mars.
Speaker 2: Day, the Morris Day that yes, yes, right, I mean.
Speaker 1: My visit at Paisley Park. I was very shocked. You've
Speaker 1: actually been You've been to places, but I've been there
Speaker 1: a few times. I went for the first time. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's after he passed.
Speaker 2: You went as a pilgrimage. Yeah, as a pilgrimage.
Speaker 4: We had a show, we had a gig in Minneapolis,
Speaker 4: and Jellybean actually came out to the gig.
Speaker 2: And the next day we were we had a day off.
Speaker 4: We were traveling somewhere next I can't remember this, and
Speaker 4: we went there and I went out and the first
Speaker 4: thing came up.
Speaker 2: I was like, damn, this shit like a call cimer
Speaker 2: and like it just you know, I mean, it just
Speaker 2: looked real. You know, where the guy's watching you. I
Speaker 2: don't think no eyes watching me. It was, oh god,
Speaker 2: the controversy eyes. Like yeah. When I was there, there
Speaker 2: was a painting.
Speaker 1: He'd have these, uh I meant life sized paintings of
Speaker 1: his face from like various album covers, adorning the walls.
Speaker 1: And when you get to the controversy pic, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, like those.
Speaker 2: Three Stooges, things were like moving, Yeah, the moving eyeballs
Speaker 2: are watching you through the picture. We swore that he
Speaker 2: was watching somewhere on like hidden camera. Erica.
Speaker 1: Erica told me when she first visited Paisley Park. I said,
Speaker 1: did you see the eyeballs moving? It's like yeah, I said,
Speaker 1: oh where you freaked out? She's nah, I took my
Speaker 1: titties off.
Speaker 2: Oh hey, Erica, that's one way. Then that's one approach,
Speaker 2: she said.
Speaker 1: She trying to figure out where all the hidden cameras were.
Speaker 1: Paisley Park.
Speaker 2: She just took her t shirt off and she's like,
Speaker 2: I just show them these titties. Apollo legends. Yeah I didn't.
Speaker 2: I didn't make it. And we went this after you passed.
Speaker 4: This is recently, so we were just there and actually
Speaker 4: we were there and you know, it was people out,
Speaker 4: you know, like a.
Speaker 2: Police line or like a police tape. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: we went I mean this is like not like a
Speaker 2: little elevator. Nah. I didn't see the elevator. I didn't
Speaker 2: go in.
Speaker 4: We were just outside walking around. And so then the
Speaker 4: news truck pulled up. We'll be like, what the hell's
Speaker 4: the news doing here? And it was the day that
Speaker 4: they announced the autopsies. Oh so that was why I
Speaker 4: was like, oh, that's why they were here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, well it's it's it's super normal inside.
Speaker 1: And the one thing I noticed was there were a
Speaker 1: lot of you remember there was a point where they
Speaker 1: had combo television and VHS for quarters.
Speaker 2: Wow, Like I feel like he really spruced that place up.
Speaker 1: I mean it came up, and it came up in
Speaker 1: eighty seven, but I felt like he had a redo
Speaker 1: in like ninety three.
Speaker 2: He redid the place in ninety six for the when
Speaker 2: the baby was supposed to come. Oh the entire place. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they like it was all white inside and then they
Speaker 2: did all the paintings and stuff.
Speaker 1: And then that explains it because well there were a
Speaker 1: lot of VHS TV combos everywhere. There was like a
Speaker 1: Sega Genesis. Uh, he obviously was or whoever was inside
Speaker 1: Paisley Park. They were really a fan of what's what's
Speaker 1: the Sega game with the cat that Sonic There's a
Speaker 1: lot of Sonic the Hedgehog games, and apparently a Tripod
Speaker 1: Quest fan because I found three copies of Midnight Marauders.
Speaker 1: I would say from the inside, his life was seemed
Speaker 1: pretty much normal. I mean, there was nothing that unusual.
Speaker 5: Except for the giant eyes and cameras.
Speaker 2: Yeah, except for the eyes and camera.
Speaker 1: Well, I know that I know that it's wired for
Speaker 1: there to be microphones anywhere, So if he has a
Speaker 1: song idea including in the Oh God, including in the
Speaker 1: bathroom for real wow, which kind of freaked me out
Speaker 1: because the invasion of had to be right, that's like
Speaker 1: a ship. On my second day there, I remember really
Speaker 1: having to go and so my solution was to just
Speaker 1: constantly flush the toilet.
Speaker 8: So you didn't hear nothing.
Speaker 2: End up on emancipation too. I think I drained like.
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, I think I just drained out late Minnetonka.
Speaker 1: That's how many times that was Miss Maya Rudolph singing
Speaker 1: with the rentals. How old were you when you did
Speaker 1: that stuff with the rentals?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I was just out of college. I
Speaker 7: did the five year Plan, so I was probably like
Speaker 7: twenty two. I got involved with the rentals because my friends,
Speaker 7: my childhood friends Rachel Hayden and Patrick Hayden warn a
Speaker 7: band called That Dog with my friend Anna Waronker and Warrenker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were just talking about well, daughter of Lenny
Speaker 2: Lenny Warner and Joey.
Speaker 7: Joey's her brother, so saying with his daughter, you I
Speaker 7: grew up with those girls and.
Speaker 2: Uh, she grew up with the girls of the Man
Speaker 2: at Sign Prince.
Speaker 7: Well, yes, Anna, I knew growing up and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: that's true.
Speaker 2: Yes, and then Joey is the brother.
Speaker 7: Joey is her brother. Yeah, he's an amazing drummer.
Speaker 4: How do you know about the war on? Joey plays
Speaker 4: on like all the Beck stuff. He plays with Beca.
Speaker 4: He plays a couple of the cats too, but he's
Speaker 4: all over Beck stuff.
Speaker 7: Yeah what is this man? I mean, very impressed.
Speaker 9: Fun.
Speaker 5: We are now re christened in the show as Liquor
Speaker 5: House or like Fonte Supreme.
Speaker 2: Right, it's now your show.
Speaker 7: Bro, My my, uh, my friend Rachel Hayden, who's a triplet. Rachel,
Speaker 7: Tanya and Petra are are triplets, the Hayden triplets. There
Speaker 7: there musicians as well. Their father was Charlie Hayden, amazing
Speaker 7: jazz bassist, and we all grew up singing together. We
Speaker 7: all grew up harmonizing together. And I was like an
Speaker 7: honorary member of their band for two seconds, but then
Speaker 7: I went away to college. So when I came back
Speaker 7: from college, they had recorded that first record with Matt
Speaker 7: Sharp from originally from Weezer. They were all l A
Speaker 7: local bands together, and so he put them on their card.
Speaker 7: Then he wanted them to tour and they were going
Speaker 7: on their own tour. So Rachel said, you should call
Speaker 7: my friend Mike because she she can harmonize and she
Speaker 7: can play keyboards, and that whole record it is just
Speaker 7: all the harmonies that those girls always did. Ah, okay,
Speaker 7: So that was why I ended up touring with them.
Speaker 7: So I wasn't on that first record. It was actually
Speaker 7: Rachel and Petra's voices.
Speaker 2: You played piano, yes, I played.
Speaker 7: I played the mogue.
Speaker 2: I did not know that.
Speaker 7: Okay, well, just on that tour I did. I just
Speaker 7: played piano right now.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So we are at the point of our show. If
Speaker 1: you're still here, we're at the point of okay.
Speaker 2: So we're at the point of our show where we
Speaker 2: kind of do this thing blind test, which you know,
Speaker 2: we'll play you some music.
Speaker 7: Am I gonna have to drink something?
Speaker 1: No, you just will play it for you and you
Speaker 1: give some sort of commentary live on what you think
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, am I supposed to know this song?
Speaker 2: Now? You got to know it. You're not supposed to
Speaker 2: know it.
Speaker 9: Wall It sounds like I need to test drive and
Speaker 9: last night.
Speaker 7: Thinks I hear a little bit of Love as a
Speaker 7: Battlefield's not like little drum breakdown, he said, sounds like
Speaker 7: a lot of the demos. People would said my dad
Speaker 7: when I was a kid, and we listened to him
Speaker 7: in the car on the way to school and laugh.
Speaker 7: But is this somebody like Tom or or somebody who
Speaker 7: went on to do stuff.
Speaker 2: This person's sort of connected, was it, jo Joe? No,
Speaker 2: I like you close your eyes listen to this voice.
Speaker 9: Just wait? You nice and.
Speaker 8: Wow?
Speaker 2: Yes you never paid attention to work. So I'm not
Speaker 2: a lyrics guy. I'm a music guy. I mean just
Speaker 2: from the what did you think?
Speaker 8: Wow?
Speaker 2: See the proper now threw me off. I need to
Speaker 2: see the two or before. Okay, so you're listening.
Speaker 7: It's related, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's Vanity's strap on Robbie Baby, which I
Speaker 1: guess now that a thing of its very apropos being
Speaker 1: as though the very last song she did with Vanity
Speaker 1: six was Vibrator.
Speaker 7: But I actually am shocked that I didn't recognize her
Speaker 7: vocal quality.
Speaker 2: It's very distinct. All right. This leads to our second song.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 7: Ready for the Whirl sounds like.
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 2: Is it? R F T W?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 2: There it is.
Speaker 7: There's that voice months but making time. I mean I
Speaker 7: didn't listen to this song. I listened to O'sheila and
Speaker 7: not like an auxiliary Prince, you know, like satisfaction.
Speaker 2: It was like close enough, which one is it this
Speaker 2: digital slate? Which one dig this second? But this is
Speaker 2: this is actually one of my favorite filler ready for
Speaker 2: the world, like they did a lot of fast friends.
Speaker 7: So why did it sound like there was no ancient Sheila?
Speaker 7: And he said it.
Speaker 2: Big a little song about pop rad So did he just.
Speaker 7: Did he just use all the same machines? Is that
Speaker 7: how you got the sound?
Speaker 8: It's kind of.
Speaker 1: Weird because this this is actually I believe this is
Speaker 1: a d m X drum machine. So this is not
Speaker 1: even a line drum.
Speaker 2: But they often use the overheim and then drum.
Speaker 1: This is one of the rare times in which they're
Speaker 1: not using that. Here is your next song?
Speaker 7: Sounds very familiar.
Speaker 2: This is probably in the second place.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, by far of my Brenda.
Speaker 10: Breast song best songs that Prince never wrote. I'm sorry
Speaker 10: it is the chickens.
Speaker 5: Go bad to breath songs.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well I know this artist.
Speaker 2: You probably won't. I mean, you should know.
Speaker 7: It's not Brenda Wait's a low voice.
Speaker 8: Isn't that Annie?
Speaker 7: Isn't that Annie?
Speaker 9: Lady?
Speaker 2: That was like, is this cam in the scene? All right,
Speaker 2: this is tomorrow and the scene. I I don't know
Speaker 2: how I remember she's got she zams on his phone.
Speaker 11: She did a minor stant with Prince in the nineties. Well,
Speaker 11: she's on that one eight hundred New Punk manopilation. Well,
Speaker 11: she was actually going to be a group, the Mambo Combo. No, well,
Speaker 11: Prince had a she had a project.
Speaker 2: Called Ucfly that Prince wouldn't old up a song. Wait
Speaker 2: what yeah, in like eighty nine or something. But really
Speaker 2: I didn't know that was her.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that was her.
Speaker 2: Margie Cooks. I consider this like a lead Prince associated.
Speaker 6: Prince to be the way I heard the song once
Speaker 6: with the strangest applications. It was a stickball a competition
Speaker 6: that Nike was doing like the somewhere like right off.
Speaker 2: The Kanowski, you know, and key Tip was USA. For
Speaker 2: some reason, we started playing this song like in the
Speaker 2: middle of the message.
Speaker 10: Wow, when you're starting to if you're playing this and
Speaker 10: you're you're trying to send a message to somebody like
Speaker 10: this is one of those cuts that you see where
Speaker 10: you want to let somebody know weaken.
Speaker 2: So this is the cut that you play. We're here
Speaker 2: all right, here's the next song, public Joy, Public Joy.
Speaker 7: I've heard this before. I'm telling you I've heard this before.
Speaker 2: Don't have to.
Speaker 1: Like Fante is looking off in the corner light, he
Speaker 1: can he can't put his he can't put his hand
Speaker 1: on it, but he knows that whoever say this often
Speaker 1: has to wipe back the activated curve or or do
Speaker 1: it backwards from or stroke his ear with the opposite end.
Speaker 2: It's kind of your rocket.
Speaker 9: To Killy's I Kelly's.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, you told me about this song.
Speaker 2: This is Andre Simone, Yeah, oh wow yeah. And Andre
Speaker 2: Simone left the.
Speaker 1: Controversy tour in eighty one, so Lark and Arnold left
Speaker 1: Capitol Records. I took a gig at CBS and signed
Speaker 1: Andre Simon. All right, so Maya, here is your final song.
Speaker 2: Yes, wow, Dan, so much.
Speaker 9: For real Shake dun.
Speaker 7: Shake, then Shakedown, Shakedown, Shakedown, Shaken.
Speaker 9: Kill Me Shakedown.
Speaker 2: It's like the oh like Wild Girls, that's live like this,
Speaker 2: it's that same who can show me now? Okay? That was.
Speaker 10: Evelyn Champagne Shakedown, one of the main reasons why Jimmy
Speaker 10: Jam and Terry.
Speaker 2: Lewis were released from the Time for Moonlighting.
Speaker 1: Writing their first number one single for the SOS band
Speaker 1: Just Be Good to Me, was that he thought that
Speaker 1: they were also giving secrets away to other acts, Leon
Speaker 1: Silvers and producing just Keep On Loving Me by the Whispers.
Speaker 1: Prince never believed that Leon Silvers wrote or produced that song.
Speaker 1: He thought that it was Jam and Lewis using him
Speaker 1: as a mask. And Okay, so we got to rewind back.
Speaker 1: So how did you come across the attention of our
Speaker 1: beloved Steve Higgins, announcer of The Tonight Show and head
Speaker 1: producer of Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 7: I was I was performing at the Growlings in Growlings
Speaker 7: Theater in Los Angeles, California.
Speaker 2: How did you get in?
Speaker 7: I started from the I started from the bottom and
Speaker 7: now I'm here.
Speaker 2: You were getting You were getting coffee first, and then
Speaker 2: you worked your way up for no.
Speaker 7: I used used to take classes there. You start, It's
Speaker 7: like a straight up theater program. You like, start there,
Speaker 7: you take classes and you have to pass on to
Speaker 7: the next class. Then you start writing, and then you
Speaker 7: start performing. Then I started performing in the Sunday Company,
Speaker 7: which is kind of like it's kind of like JUV
Speaker 7: like Juvy, it's kind of like JV SNL like on
Speaker 7: a little stage. It's like UCB style, but UCB didn't
Speaker 7: exist then it's ucb's more more like indie and hip
Speaker 7: and this is just like been around since the seventies.
Speaker 2: Well, who puts you up to it? Like you said,
Speaker 2: you know what, you should go to the grounds.
Speaker 7: I did because I'd always I'd always wanted to be
Speaker 7: on Saturday Night Live. I fell in love with the
Speaker 7: original cast because my parents were watching it and so
Speaker 7: I saw it like I got I got an idea
Speaker 7: of it. And then when the reruns were on, then
Speaker 7: I fell in love with Gilda and.
Speaker 9: And the whole.
Speaker 7: The cast as a whole is like this New York idea,
Speaker 7: like I've got to get to New York. I want
Speaker 7: to go where those people are. And that was like
Speaker 7: later when they were sting reruns and then I could
Speaker 7: start taping them and stuff like I would, you know,
Speaker 7: I would tape everything off of TV that I liked.
Speaker 2: And then uh, he came in two thousand and one, right,
Speaker 2: I think so well.
Speaker 7: I came to the end of the of the twenty
Speaker 7: fifth season for three shows, so I.
Speaker 2: Don't amember a member of Fairmore.
Speaker 1: Nine to eleven episode was your first real episode, or
Speaker 1: Reese Witherspoon, Reese Witherspoon, that was your first episode.
Speaker 7: That was my first episode of the of the first
Speaker 7: official year. But I came for basically instead of instead
Speaker 7: of auditioning, they brought me in for the last I
Speaker 7: did an audition, which is so so stupid and weird,
Speaker 7: and it's a miracle that I ended up on the show.
Speaker 7: But instead I came and I had a meeting with
Speaker 7: Laurene because I met Higgins and t Shuan Shan, who
Speaker 7: was a writer, and they came to the show and
Speaker 7: they're like, you should come audition, and I had a
Speaker 7: janky ass man was like, don't do it. The contract's
Speaker 7: really bad. And I listened to her because I was
Speaker 7: an idiot. I was like twenty five maybe twenty six
Speaker 7: and old enough to know better. But I listened because
Speaker 7: she knew about it. And so I didn't come, and
Speaker 7: I don't know how, but I saw Steve again and
Speaker 7: he's like, you really should come back, and and then
Speaker 7: I got the call like come meet with Louren. I
Speaker 7: met with Louren. They had my tape, like I sent
Speaker 7: a tape of like my sketches, and then and then
Speaker 7: I came and I just did three weeks here and
Speaker 7: I didn't really know what the hell I was doing.
Speaker 7: Like they brought me in, they took my picture. That's
Speaker 7: that like on my first day. That ends up on
Speaker 7: seventeen and you're just like, what's this for? And then
Speaker 7: we didn't have a pitch meeting that day because John
Speaker 7: Gubman was the host and he didn't want to come in.
Speaker 7: I don't know something. We didn't have a pitch meeting
Speaker 7: on Monday, so we just started. I just started on
Speaker 7: a Tuesday. And I remember I knew Chris Parnell because
Speaker 7: he was from the Groundings. And I said what do
Speaker 7: we do? And he was like, we write? And I
Speaker 7: said till when? And he said all night? And then
Speaker 7: everyone's doors just started closing, and I was like, why
Speaker 7: the fuck am I suposed to do it?
Speaker 2: And you have a play mate? Who were you paired with?
Speaker 7: Well, me and Zach Galifanakis were weirdly put in an
Speaker 7: office together. But he didn't know he had auditioned, but
Speaker 7: he didn't know if he was there to be in
Speaker 7: the cast. Or as a writer, and he found out
Speaker 7: the hard way that he was brought in as like
Speaker 7: a guest writer. And we were just walking back to
Speaker 7: our hotel at the time like so bombed, like just
Speaker 7: disillusion and like we just did not know what was
Speaker 7: going on. It was so bizarre, and it was like
Speaker 7: it was like starting school at the end of the
Speaker 7: school year, when like everybody has a place to sit
Speaker 7: in the cafeteria, you know.
Speaker 2: So who warmed up to you first Molly and Will, and.
Speaker 7: I knew Parnell because they had Molly and Will had
Speaker 7: nothing to lose. They were like the prom king and Queen.
Speaker 7: So they were like, hey, how you doing. And then
Speaker 7: I had a mutual friend because Anna. At the time
Speaker 7: there were a lot That's the thing about the ground
Speaker 7: Links is that I knew that people from there went
Speaker 7: onto the show, and I was like, okay, so I
Speaker 7: got to go there first because at the time, when
Speaker 7: I got out of college, I was like, all right,
Speaker 7: I'm going to go to the Groundlings. That's gonna be
Speaker 7: my graduate school. And at that time it was the
Speaker 7: people that were there from the Growlings were Will Ferrell
Speaker 7: on a Gas Star, Chris Catan, Chris Parnell and who
Speaker 7: am I forgetting somebody else?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 7: In Cherio Terry, they were like five current cast members
Speaker 7: that were all out of the ground Links. I was like,
Speaker 7: all right, so what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go
Speaker 7: here because I had gone to the Growndings. I weirdly,
Speaker 7: I was weirdly introduced to the Growndings theater when I
Speaker 7: was fourteen because I went to school with Jack Black,
Speaker 7: who was like a couple of years older than me,
Speaker 7: and this like theater kid that I just connected with
Speaker 7: right away, and he became kind of like my mentors.
Speaker 7: He was just like a little bit older and got
Speaker 7: me into improv and everything, and he took me to
Speaker 7: see the Groundlings when I was like fourteen, so I
Speaker 7: knew about the theater and then I knew it was
Speaker 7: in La Like it was a way to get into
Speaker 7: it because people out here go to Chicago, they go
Speaker 7: to Second City, and so I just went, you know,
Speaker 7: in my own backyard.
Speaker 2: Was it hard to adjust there at the Groundings? Yeah?
Speaker 7: No, it was exactly where I should have been, because
Speaker 7: it was like it's like when you find your people,
Speaker 7: it's like, oh, this is where I should have been.
Speaker 7: I shouldn't. Why did I go to college in the
Speaker 7: woods in like northern California and study women's studies with
Speaker 7: like Angela Davis, Like I should be here with all
Speaker 7: these you know, horny nerds. This is this is where
Speaker 7: I belong.
Speaker 2: Oh, God, see, I don't know if I want to
Speaker 2: share this story.
Speaker 7: And you're about to, you do I?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: So I once dated a comedian and a damn okay
Speaker 1: so go in son yeah and Jewish no no, no
Speaker 1: no no. The thing the thing was was that we
Speaker 1: saw like like we were Me and my friends would
Speaker 1: watch her act, uh, and she wasn't fully developed yet
Speaker 1: as a comedian. And the thing was is that my
Speaker 1: friends started laughing at me because they were like face
Speaker 1: and mirrors.
Speaker 2: She's not funny.
Speaker 1: So every time we come to the club, they were
Speaker 1: laughing at me and at her.
Speaker 2: But in her head, she's like your son, I'm killing it.
Speaker 7: Like a stand up. She's a stand just stand up.
Speaker 7: I've never ever done stand that's a whole other animal.
Speaker 7: And that's even worse. Like that's why I won't do it,
Speaker 7: because like you fail at that, you're that's it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you have to drown first before you
Speaker 1: suscitate yourself and it's just like you gotta be horrible
Speaker 1: and then you learn the tricks of the trade.
Speaker 7: I thought that if you were if you want to
Speaker 7: be a community, you had to do stand up. So
Speaker 7: when I was in college, I wrote some stand up
Speaker 7: and I was like, I'm never doing this terrifying because
Speaker 7: I don't like to be exposed. I don't I really,
Speaker 7: I don't like to be vulnerable, and stand up is vulnerable.
Speaker 7: Sand up sam is so much more difficult, in my opinion,
Speaker 7: and I just like to be other people. I mean,
Speaker 7: it's that's what that's what I'm programmed to do.
Speaker 2: So well.
Speaker 7: I mean, I know, it's just it's just so much
Speaker 7: easier to be to not be vulnerable. And I'm sure
Speaker 7: when I was a kid, that's like how I hit it.
Speaker 7: And then I was like, oh, my friends liked this,
Speaker 7: should I should keep doing it. But I also think
Speaker 7: that being around music, I just developed. I think having
Speaker 7: a musical ear made me like a little like a
Speaker 7: like a parrot, like a little bit of a mimic.
Speaker 7: So I didn't realize I was doing voices and stuff
Speaker 7: when I was doing them, But I think I was
Speaker 7: just always doing them. Like if you tell a story
Speaker 7: about somebody and you're like, and then she was like
Speaker 7: why did you.
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 7: Why did you get the spicy check in? And then
Speaker 7: you talk like the person and then you realize like, oh,
Speaker 7: I'm I'm just copying sounds.
Speaker 12: I have a question, Yes, sir, do you think like
Speaker 12: growing up around music helped you with your comedy, like
Speaker 12: with timing and all that with rhythm and.
Speaker 7: I kind of think they're intertwined. I do I feel
Speaker 7: like they're.
Speaker 4: I do I feel like they're saying they want be
Speaker 4: saying and vice versas.
Speaker 8: Yes, they do.
Speaker 7: And I've never I've never I've talked to many musicians
Speaker 7: about this, and I've never gotten an answer why. But
Speaker 7: musicians and comedians are are each other's their counterpart, that
Speaker 7: we're totally connected, Absolutely, But I think I think that's
Speaker 7: because there are also skills that other people you can't
Speaker 7: just you can't just acquire them, You have to naturally
Speaker 7: possess them both.
Speaker 2: Do you think that the way you, in a sort
Speaker 2: of therapeutic way, dealt with Absolutely.
Speaker 7: I know exactly what you're asking.
Speaker 2: Because I know no comedian or funny person.
Speaker 1: Uh, especially with all the time that I spent at
Speaker 1: the comedy seller and really getting to know all those people,
Speaker 1: Like behind every person that's ever made me laugh, there's
Speaker 1: like a big giant bowl of pain somewhere in their backyard,
Speaker 1: buried somewhere.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 7: I would also I would also go out on a
Speaker 7: limb and say, I mean, I'm no therapist, but I
Speaker 7: would guess that it was also an active rebellion from
Speaker 7: my from my family. You know, my parents are musicians.
Speaker 7: So I was like, I'm not gonna sing because that's like,
Speaker 7: that's like my that's too painful, that's too hard, Like
Speaker 7: I don't want to expose that pardon me, because that
Speaker 7: like I don't even think I truly sang in my
Speaker 7: own voice, truly truly sang songs in my own voice,
Speaker 7: and publicly until fairly recently, I've only ever.
Speaker 2: Sung at like channeling other people.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because it was too painful because it was just
Speaker 7: like so connected to my mother. So I can sing
Speaker 7: a funny ass song like for the rest of my life,
Speaker 7: Like I can sing anything funny, and that's probably why
Speaker 7: covers are easy. But when it comes to like my
Speaker 7: actual my real voice, singing is very very intense for me,
Speaker 7: and I think the probably the natural, Like just the
Speaker 7: light from comic you just was so much more. You
Speaker 7: can hide, you can hide in comedy, and I can.
Speaker 7: You can hide and be a million things. And then
Speaker 7: I'd also just think it's so fascinating to like be
Speaker 7: mixed and then just like pretend to be other people,
Speaker 7: you know, because you're like it has so much to
Speaker 7: do with the time I was growing up, Like being
Speaker 7: mixed wasn't as cool as it is now, you know,
Speaker 7: like the cause we show everyone on the show was
Speaker 7: considered black, but like Lisa Bonet was mixed, right, you know,
Speaker 7: like people didn't even say what mixed was. And so
Speaker 7: I think it was just easier to like just pretend
Speaker 7: to like be other people. And it's just all undertwined.
Speaker 7: But yes, I think it's absolutely that. And it's also
Speaker 7: like that rebellion from what your parents do, you have
Speaker 7: to do something else, But it was also cool. Comedy
Speaker 7: was cool to them, Like my mom was, like I
Speaker 7: think I remember my parents going to see like Richard
Speaker 7: Pryor concerts and there's some famous I got mister Mister
Speaker 7: Rudolph and the Monkey.
Speaker 2: Yes, is that what it's called?
Speaker 8: I knew it fucking with my dad. Yeah, I knew it.
Speaker 2: I knew it.
Speaker 1: He had a character called Miss Rudolph that his mud
Speaker 1: boone character would have to give like a chicken's leg
Speaker 1: to like like an old toothsayer lady like Miss Rudolph
Speaker 1: was always a name that I always heard, and it.
Speaker 7: Was about my mom and she and he would fuck
Speaker 7: with my dad, like when they would be sitting there,
Speaker 7: but it was I think.
Speaker 1: I even have some outtakes of Richard Pryor concerts where
Speaker 1: like your mom was always in the audience.
Speaker 7: I don't three concerts in which I know that's what
Speaker 7: I heard too, And I actually don't know them as
Speaker 7: well as you do, because as a kid, I don't
Speaker 7: think they were exposing me to the recordings. But I
Speaker 7: knew about it, like enough, I need to revisit Miss
Speaker 7: Rudolph and the Monkey.
Speaker 1: Well, see the tables have turned now, because now I
Speaker 1: think it's like you're Maya Rudolph and that's Maya Rudolph's mother,
Speaker 1: Like it's not even.
Speaker 7: Well, that's again back to you.
Speaker 1: Was like, you know, the the escaping the shadow of
Speaker 1: being many Riperton's daughter as opposed to well, you know what.
Speaker 7: Though, that doesn't exist for me because I will say
Speaker 7: growing up, I didn't feel like my mother was a
Speaker 7: household name. I feel like people who knew my mother
Speaker 7: knew my mother, or they'd go or they'd know that song.
Speaker 7: But I didn't feel I wasn't Diana Ross's daughter, Like
Speaker 7: it was a different thing, and so people didn't know.
Speaker 2: How was that like for you? Like did you know
Speaker 2: that your mother was.
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like was that ever or did you or even
Speaker 4: like I think, did you know even like what your
Speaker 4: dad was doing, Like did you know that you were
Speaker 4: maybe a little more privileged or had you know then
Speaker 4: maybe other kids or whatever.
Speaker 1: Not even with like even our era like Tribe samples,
Speaker 1: where like many ripton was like such a yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 7: I mean that was really fascinating to me. Like starting
Speaker 7: college was when that Tribe album came out that was
Speaker 7: literally like half of it was like my mother, you know,
Speaker 7: or songs that songs that I'd grown up listening to
Speaker 7: and had stopped listening to because it was too hard
Speaker 7: to put those records on. But it was just becoming
Speaker 7: cool that like my friend who was like the DJ
Speaker 7: in college would play like, you know those songs where
Speaker 7: I was like, are you playing my mom?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 7: You're playing my mother's music. And then I was like,
Speaker 7: wait a minute, that's why that's familiar to me. It's
Speaker 7: that's my that's my mother, you know where that's like
Speaker 7: the beginning, Yes, exactly, And that was the stuff my
Speaker 7: dad and I would talk about, like because sampling was
Speaker 7: so fascinating to him at the time, and talking about
Speaker 7: that and what that had become in the industry because
Speaker 7: my dad's such an artist, and was like, but you
Speaker 7: know what that that to me was that was such
Speaker 7: a prideful moment of like those cool people know, like
Speaker 7: my people that it took.
Speaker 2: Me a long time to revisit music well.
Speaker 7: Yes, and also to realize that people were out there. Plus,
Speaker 7: my last name is Rudolph, so until I really started acting,
Speaker 7: people didn't know that was my mom. And then and
Speaker 7: then and then the other part about my mom that's
Speaker 7: just so fascinating is like people are so I don't
Speaker 7: know what it is. I don't know if it's because
Speaker 7: she was so young when she died, and it was like,
Speaker 7: you know, pre YouTube, we didn't have like you were
Speaker 7: the first person I ever met. It was like, I
Speaker 7: have footage of like your mom on talk shows and
Speaker 7: I was like what I didn't know that stuff. I
Speaker 7: thought all that stuff was gone. And people have always
Speaker 7: like used me to vent like their their feelings about her.
Speaker 7: I'm like this weird funnel for like mini, like your
Speaker 7: mother was so like and it's so I get stopped
Speaker 7: on this. Yes, it's so deep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it told me like seven years to even
Speaker 2: start to bring it up.
Speaker 7: Like I was just like, I'm a big fan, but
Speaker 7: that's different and that's not I mean I truly like
Speaker 7: I'll get the occasional just random adult you know who
Speaker 7: will just be like it's like they're like, you know,
Speaker 7: and they just find me. And this was way before
Speaker 7: I was ever on the show or anything like that.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 7: But there's always been some layer of her that is otherworldly.
Speaker 7: I think because of that, that element of her voice
Speaker 7: being something else, something that feels sort of like non
Speaker 7: human to a lot of people, people just associate her
Speaker 7: with like something else. There's like I've just always gotten
Speaker 7: people stopping me about her in that way.
Speaker 2: I think it's because she's she's spiritual. She's in that
Speaker 2: Stevie Wonder category.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like because your mom didn't really come from the
Speaker 1: gospel background of black music, so I would say, she's
Speaker 1: almost the shade of her of that period, because shade,
Speaker 1: you know, meant a lot to black people and white
Speaker 1: people like but you know, she didn't come from a gospel,
Speaker 1: you know, down home background, at least the way that
Speaker 1: she project to herself there was like a class thing.
Speaker 4: I say, it was very classic my mother, I mean,
Speaker 4: my grant, I'm sorry. My aunt was a big Many
Speaker 4: Ribson fan and that was the first time I got
Speaker 4: I was introduced to her music. And this is like,
Speaker 4: you know, you talk about how your parents, that was
Speaker 4: the first time they usually talk about death, like her
Speaker 4: death talk about it. I remember my mom because my
Speaker 4: mom would play Loving You like just she would just
Speaker 4: play Loving You. And I remember here, I was like, Mama,
Speaker 4: who is that? And she was like, there's many Ribs.
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, who is that? And she would tell me, oh,
Speaker 4: this lady, you know, she died and you know, and
Speaker 4: so then you know, I looked at the album cover
Speaker 4: and it was like, I think it Avengeans in Paradise.
Speaker 4: So she's with the Lion. I think that's the lion.
Speaker 4: YEP cover is that one? And so my aunt would
Speaker 4: have all our records and this is in the eighties,
Speaker 4: and so my aunt was like she was very this
Speaker 4: is kind of like she was like a black yuppie
Speaker 4: kind of you know what I mean. She was teaching
Speaker 4: school chat on apartment. She had the first like answer machine,
Speaker 4: like that was the first time I ever saw an
Speaker 4: answer machine ever. And so she would play your mom's
Speaker 4: music all the time, and it was just like what
Speaker 4: a Mi said, it was really like classy. I just
Speaker 4: remember seeing her and it wasn't like the disco stuff,
Speaker 4: like she didn't like you. I mean, y'all shot for records,
Speaker 4: so you know if you see an album cover and
Speaker 4: you know, and it's like nine niggas in.
Speaker 2: Silver suits and shit.
Speaker 4: I mean, your mother was always just really she just
Speaker 4: had her own things, just really classy. And I just
Speaker 4: always remember that do you ever see the lion attacking
Speaker 4: her video?
Speaker 7: Yes, you can see my dad coming in to make
Speaker 7: sure she's okay. It was like a promo commercial. Show
Speaker 7: was actually a recreation of the because I think we
Speaker 7: me and my brother were there for the photosoo, because
Speaker 7: I remember having ice cream and seeing them, like my
Speaker 7: mother is sitting next to a lion and we were
Speaker 7: like looking but we were like far away and everything.
Speaker 7: Like in the lion see my ice cream, it was
Speaker 7: a different lion the second time they shot it. Oh,
Speaker 7: and this lion wasn't this he's just kind of like panic.
Speaker 7: I guess he had been declawed, so she wasn't hurt
Speaker 7: or anything.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you see, and there's no sound so you can't.
Speaker 7: Tell if anyone's screaming or not. It was like somebody's
Speaker 7: super ereat care Chills.
Speaker 1: So I hear that you are going to be spending
Speaker 1: a lot of time in New York City, hopefully doing
Speaker 1: the Mayam Marty.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, what made you want to bring back the
Speaker 2: variety show format?
Speaker 7: This is what I do, and this is what Marty does.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 7: I like, what's that Martin Martin short?
Speaker 2: Yes, it's Martin Short.
Speaker 7: That would be a very different show, although I.
Speaker 2: Would love to do that, Martin.
Speaker 7: So yeah, the show is it's all the stuff that
Speaker 7: we love. It's it's music and comedy and performance based
Speaker 7: and really just all the elements of started love that
Speaker 7: I love that are, you know, getting people together and
Speaker 7: being goofy and all that stuff. But but I think
Speaker 7: like just just the stuff that I think probably is
Speaker 7: the imprint for all of us, which is people coming
Speaker 7: on and doing things that you didn't normally get to see.
Speaker 3: Them.
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 7: I just did a thing with Emma Stone and it
Speaker 7: was like a perfect example of like, that's why I
Speaker 7: wanted to show she and I sang a song together,
Speaker 7: and it's not something you would normally see her do,
Speaker 7: but those were like, those are the things that when
Speaker 7: you saw a variety show that you're like, wow, I
Speaker 7: didn't know that guy sang, or I didn't know that
Speaker 7: person was that funny or just like these just like
Speaker 7: extra delicious tidbits.
Speaker 1: Well, based on the super viralness of that particular clip
Speaker 1: that you did with Emma, First of all, how many times,
Speaker 1: like how many takes did you guys complete that?
Speaker 7: We only did it and we only did it twice?
Speaker 8: Wow?
Speaker 2: But wow, I can't imagine something over and over and over.
Speaker 2: Can you explain to our listeners who may not have
Speaker 2: seen that like what you guys did in that video?
Speaker 7: I saw these Swedish girls, this band called Errato, these
Speaker 7: girls from Sweden sitting in their kitchen playing butter tubs
Speaker 7: to do you know the cup song, which which I
Speaker 7: guess became famous. Kendrick did, Oh yeah, yeah, yes, So
Speaker 7: it's the same rhythm, but they did it to the
Speaker 7: Robinson Call Your Girlfriend, and they did these really beautiful harmonies.
Speaker 7: And I don't know why, but I was like, I
Speaker 7: feel like I heard Emma can sing. I wonder if
Speaker 7: she'd be into doing this, and so I sent it
Speaker 7: to her and she immediately she was like, wow, that
Speaker 7: sounds great. And then she immediately sent back a video
Speaker 7: of her practicing it and she had like picked it
Speaker 7: up right away. And my daughter, my ten year old daughter, Pearl,
Speaker 7: was actually helping me out with it, like the day before.
Speaker 7: My ten year daughter and my twenty three year old
Speaker 7: cousin were like showing me how to do the cups
Speaker 7: because I loved the song and I in my head
Speaker 7: I was like, yeah, let's do it. And then when
Speaker 7: it came time to do it, I realized, like, I
Speaker 7: don't know how to do it. Wow, But I didn't.
Speaker 7: We rehearse a little bit and it was one of
Speaker 7: those things like you can just tell when someone can harmonize,
Speaker 7: and she just she was amazing.
Speaker 8: She just did it.
Speaker 2: You guys nailed that. That was great.
Speaker 7: Thank you. Well.
Speaker 1: I hope, even for selfish main reasons, I hope you
Speaker 1: guys get picked up and you become a fixture at
Speaker 1: the thirty Rock Build until we can do projects together.
Speaker 7: Yes, please, that'd be awesome. Yeah, awesome, that would make
Speaker 7: me happy to well.
Speaker 2: We thank you very much for joining us.
Speaker 7: It's a pleasure, gentlemen, ladies that are listening.
Speaker 2: Lady two women.
Speaker 8: Dogs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we thank you very much.
Speaker 7: It's my pleasure.
Speaker 8: You made me.
Speaker 7: You made me feel knowledgeable about many things.
Speaker 2: We learned a lot.
Speaker 7: Actually did we learned a lot?
Speaker 2: Tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Uh wow, this concludes the Quest Love Supreme Experience. Uh
Speaker 1: any last words, boss Bill?
Speaker 2: Uh none?
Speaker 6: Just to come back and check us out next week.
Speaker 6: Uh we start at Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, one pm Eastern
Speaker 6: Standard time today Pacific standard time. I'll be listening and
Speaker 6: uh we replay until Friday, and then after that you
Speaker 6: can check out our mixtape feature and more songs. And
Speaker 6: this is the only time you hear. It's not like
Speaker 6: you can go back here. Oh no, no, you can't
Speaker 6: come back to hear. So you gotta you gotta listen,
Speaker 6: you know, between now and Friday afternoon or you are wow,
Speaker 6: you know you might well actually you know what they
Speaker 6: can listen to the you know, highlights from the show
Speaker 6: on the mixtape, but it's nothing beats hearing the.
Speaker 2: Full in the flesh, the full show. Hey, I pay
Speaker 2: bill man. What do we learn today?
Speaker 5: I don't even know where to begin.
Speaker 2: Are you just waking up? Yeah? Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 5: I'm waking up to the dawning of Prince Knowledge, of
Speaker 5: which there was a lot today.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I kind of overdid it on the Prince Knowledge.
Speaker 2: I apologize, but you know it's only going to get worse.
Speaker 1: Well, no, I think is probably the biggest Prince nerd
Speaker 1: until we get uh probably Fred in here. Uh as
Speaker 1: far as celebrities are concerned, who Fred Savage?
Speaker 2: No, Fred Armison? Okay, I mean yeah, Fred Savage, Kevin
Speaker 2: that wow? Yes?
Speaker 1: But all right, so you learn about liquor, uh liquor
Speaker 1: houses today on pay pill.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So maybe we show I'll make a pilgrimage
Speaker 2: to Memphis.
Speaker 5: Street and go to going forward, we should make pilgrimages
Speaker 5: to a lot of different places we speak of, like
Speaker 5: south of the Mason Dixon line. As we say, all right.
Speaker 2: We'll do that, We'll do the corn the corn liquor experience.
Speaker 2: So Sugar Steve, uh, what'd you learn to day, man?
Speaker 12: I learned that Gainesville is the music capital of Florida. Somehow,
Speaker 12: that's all you learn. I love Maya, I really love Maya.
Speaker 2: I love her. She's great. Yeah.
Speaker 12: I think we're just funny and interesting and talented.
Speaker 2: Yeah she is. She's amazing.
Speaker 12: I wish we could ask her her performance with di'angelo
Speaker 12: on the tonight show of Ah.
Speaker 2: Damn. I thought that was great. That was that was awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well ask him about it.
Speaker 5: We'll just ask the Angelo about it when he gets here, yes.
Speaker 2: When he yes. But that just means we have to,
Speaker 2: you know, be on the air for another ten years.
Speaker 5: Right because if you schedule d Angelo now, he'll show up.
Speaker 2: I guarantee we're want to have DiAngelo on before the
Speaker 2: year's out.
Speaker 5: Damn.
Speaker 2: Okay, can we put money on that. I'm down to
Speaker 2: put money on that.
Speaker 5: I don't have any money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're listening to and you wittiness.
Speaker 1: If I cannot get Di'angelo on this show by December
Speaker 1: thirty first, twenty sixteen, okay, I will give my four
Speaker 1: constituents here two thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: That's five hundred each each person. Okay. I thought it
Speaker 2: was gonna two thousand. Yeah, really ten thousand dollars. Well
Speaker 2: it ain't nothing to a boss face. But okay, I
Speaker 2: found that's the motivation I need to make myself. Yeah,
Speaker 2: come down with all right? So are you singing Miss You?
Speaker 2: Right now? Now? He's doing the trading places this guy?
Speaker 12: Now I can go to the movies by myself.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm sorry, I thought you were singing Miss You
Speaker 1: by Written by the Glimmerton Twins. Very expensive to clear Foo.
Speaker 2: Yes a dog man man.
Speaker 4: I learned U today about Mighty Rudolph that singing her
Speaker 4: is hard for her, to singing her own voice, which
Speaker 4: I found very interesting because I really love her voice.
Speaker 4: So she you know, she says it was hard for her,
Speaker 4: like she can do funny stuff and kind of hide,
Speaker 4: but you know, singing in her own voices is, uh,
Speaker 4: it's kind of intense and painful.
Speaker 2: That's and that was interesting to me, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 4: But I've never ever heard of I never heard anyone
Speaker 4: talk about the process in that way.
Speaker 2: Well, when you sing, I mean, don't you sometimes channel man?
Speaker 4: Honestly, with my singing, it kind of just happened, So
Speaker 4: I would say, I mean, for the years that I've
Speaker 4: been singing, Like seriously, I probably really just found my
Speaker 4: voice my voice probably like two three years ago, if
Speaker 4: that just because for me it was just you know
Speaker 4: a lot and I And that's why I could relate
Speaker 4: to a lot of what she was saying, because on
Speaker 4: the Little Brother records, I was just singing hooks really
Speaker 4: just as placeholders, just to kind of okays along somebody
Speaker 4: else come along, but nobody else came along, so it
Speaker 4: just keep it. But you're the Lauren Hill with that crew,
Speaker 4: like man, it was. I was just doing it just
Speaker 4: to get it down. So then once it happened, you
Speaker 4: put that evil on him. Ricky Bobs, Oh no, I show.
Speaker 2: Up the ship on time.
Speaker 4: It ain't gonna work on me. I ain't el bug
Speaker 4: al stand for late. I come on time to ship.
Speaker 4: I got cheering the feed and I got shit to do.
Speaker 4: So nah, man, I'm no, but yeah, it never I
Speaker 4: never saw it that way, so uh A lot of
Speaker 4: times I was just doing it just to kind of
Speaker 4: just hold that place. And then after the album came out,
Speaker 4: I was getting called. He was like, Yo, give me
Speaker 4: a verse, but we want to hook too. I was like,
Speaker 4: y'all really like, seriously, you really want to hook? He
Speaker 4: was like, yeah, we want, man, I didn't know that
Speaker 4: you were already home. I did not know I was
Speaker 4: already home. Is what happened with the Player Circle joint.
Speaker 4: That's exactly what happened. They denon at the time he
Speaker 4: wanted to produced that track. Donn porter who was Porter
Speaker 4: Isaac Sun?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, he's uh he did p IM
Speaker 2: for fifty cent.
Speaker 4: He's done like a couple of M records, like he's
Speaker 4: like Aftermath Crew, uh and D twelve all that, and
Speaker 4: so he hit me.
Speaker 2: He was just like, look, man, I'm burned out, just
Speaker 2: give me some hook ideas.
Speaker 4: I said, all right, cool, And so I did it
Speaker 4: and it was a song for Player Circle back in
Speaker 4: oh eight, I want to say eight or nine and before.
Speaker 2: He became two Chains he was titty boy and uh.
Speaker 4: Right right yeah, but yeah, but we did the record
Speaker 4: and so I just did a like as a reference
Speaker 4: and el Or you heard it and was like, yo,
Speaker 4: I like this kid, keep him on it.
Speaker 2: And that was at work. So yeah for singing for me.
Speaker 2: It never I never only until a few years ago,
Speaker 2: maybe like two years ago.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I was like, you know, what I really can
Speaker 4: do this and let me sing in my own voice,
Speaker 4: rather than trying to be D'Angelo or trying to be
Speaker 4: this person or this person or Mimicky, Oh, being Steve,
Speaker 4: Steve Arrington, the Great Steve Arrington with.
Speaker 2: The most epic ad libs all time. It's like it's
Speaker 2: like Mel Blink. I believe Mel blinks in the spirit
Speaker 2: Steve Arrington. I learned a lot today. I learned that
Speaker 2: I'll be really surprised if we're here next week. I'm playing.
Speaker 1: I hope you all join us, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we're only going to get better with time. We're going
Speaker 1: to be professionals by our hundred thousandth episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got put in We're gonna die together. Guy,
Speaker 2: how's that feel? I feel it? Man?
Speaker 4: This is pretty now, It's cool. I always wanted to
Speaker 4: die in a closet with fried Chicken and five other men.
Speaker 4: That would be just a great story tell at my funeral.
Speaker 2: On that note, ladies and.
Speaker 1: Gentlemen, until the next Quest, Love Supreme. This is Quest
Speaker 1: Love farn Ticcolo Jones, Steve Jenkins, Bill Thompson.
Speaker 2: Wait, why did I give you my last name? Because
Speaker 2: we're related?
Speaker 1: Because it was my last name Bill Jackson exactly. Uh,
Speaker 1: and we'll call her uh Maya Clayton.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: This is quest Love. I hope to see you next week.
Speaker 2: All right, goodbye.
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