WEBVTT - Jordin Sparks 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:13.160 Money. We are thank take val. We are the authority 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:19.360 on all things and ladies and gentleman. My name is 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:25.800 Tank and this it's the RB Money Podcast, the authority 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:28.840 on all things R and B. Yes it is. Some 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:34.519 people just make it happy. Spirit is good, beautiful inside 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:39.240 and out. When they walk in the room, it's electric. Yeah, 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:45.720 what's another word for it? Spark A spark? Yes, you know, 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.360 the detail is immense in terms of who and what 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.840 this young lady is. I would just say incredible. I 0:00:53.880 --> 0:01:00.000 just want to stop there and introduced spark. Yeah. Yeah, 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.720 but definitely has to be one of the best intros 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:15.960 I've ever had. Intros. I'm good, I'm really good. How 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.440 are you guys, I'm awesome. I want to I want 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:24.000 to start this. I want to start this pod by 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:28.680 by telling a story. Okay, okay, Um, you're a you're 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:37.120 a very popular singer. Extremely thank you, and sometimes that 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:44.640 can be confused with pop as if you aren't urban, right, Okay, yeah, 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:51.000 once you coming to a club in knowledge, you're just 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:56.400 chilling your business. We hosted you know our people down 0:01:56.400 --> 0:02:00.440 to knowls. You know who you are? Ye look at 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:04.840 you and I say, if the largest laces on your 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:09.440 heart to come on up on this stage, you know, 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.880 just hang out with us. You ain't gotta sing, You 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.799 ain't gotta you ain't. There was a lot of festivities. 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.560 There was a lot of festivities going on, and Joan, 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.320 you proceeded to walk on this stage, you know, in 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.880 your in your shy dashful kind of way. You use 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:29.359 your shy dashful really not you're you're you're dope at 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:37.720 it right. No, it's not me, it's you. Oh God. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.679 And you know, a lot of us had grabbed the 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:45.399 microphones and sang, you know, and sang our hearts out, 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:51.400 and we had who we had all night? Who? Yeah? 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:55.600 And you came on that stage and you started singing, 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:04.040 and everybody in that love Casino, whatever that room was 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.799 that we was in, said what they start without fut 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:14.480 They started out on yeah moment she got that, And 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:19.120 I'm like this, good, Oh you ain't you ain't my 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:23.840 dog and everything my dog do. The whole thing you 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:28.320 were just you are just an incredible talent, no matter 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:33.040 the room, no matter the setting, no matter the demographic, 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:36.960 the gift gonna show up, the gift, thank you. It's 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.600 just it's just is what it is. So I just 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.840 wanted to. That's what we wanted to give you, you know, 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:48.360 the respect and the love and the flowers that go 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:53.640 along with it. Any room, don't get it twisted. Get 0:03:53.680 --> 0:04:00.040 a twisted old Martin Luther the Cave or suns that 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:12.560 plus or Rodeo, you gonna go crazy. Thank you. I 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.880 really appreciate that I received that because it's it's definitely 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.640 a gift. It really is a gift. I was born 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.760 with it. There's nobody in my family that really sings 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.800 like me. Yet we might have some you know, my nieces, 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:30.080 my my nieces and djamily. I mean, we have musical 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:32.479 people in my family. So like my uncle was in 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.760 a band and my nana played piano. Everybody played piano. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.719 My grandpa played the organ, like, so we have musical talent. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.960 My dad said he was in choir, but I've never 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:46.640 heard him singing seriously enough to like be able to. Yeah, 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.400 but music is well loved in my family, for sure, 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.120 But nobody somebody was just getting choir because girls a day. Yeah, yeah, 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.760 I'll set them talking to my son. I know why 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:04.200 you got inquired. I'm like you, I got it a 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:12.720 lot for it a choir. We'll talk about it. So 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.359 so let's go back to that. Let's go back to 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:18.080 the to the beginning to where you know you have 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:23.920 this musical family. Um, but then but then there's you 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:28.320 and everyone's looking at you like, well, where did that 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:35.599 come from? Yeah? I mean I knew at seven that 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.120 music and singing was what I wanted to do. I 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.120 knew in seven. Yeah, yeah, I knew at seven. And 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.320 I that was also because I started realizing that when 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.800 I would sing, people would be like, oh my gosh, 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.920 like that's really good. But I realized that it wasn't 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.440 in the way that it was towards little kids when 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.080 you kind of, you know, you you encourage them all 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.080 the time, you know, just because um, but they really 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.279 were meaning what they were saying, like yes, You're voice 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:04.559 is really good. And I was like, oh okay, yeah, 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.279 and I loved doing it. So I just started singing. 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:11.800 And then American Idol came on. I watched Kelly Clarkson win, 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.400 and I got I just was so excited. I watched 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.320 her and I just remember looking at my mom saying, 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.880 I want to do that, not necessarily idle, because I 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:21.359 had no one knew it was going to be around 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.800 for as long as it's been around, but I just 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.080 the emotion she was she was singing, she was she 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.440 was choked up and she was singing and everybody watching 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.679 her was just looking at her with awe and the 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:36.000 Prioro Technicus going and people were clapping, and I just 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.760 loved the emotion and how charged it was being on 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.000 stage and the ability to sing a song and to 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.720 change somebody like that. And I knew that that's what 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.680 I wanted to do, and so at I think I 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:50.720 was eleven or twelve, and I was like, I want 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:52.920 to do that, mom, And she goes, Okay, well, if 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:54.400 that's what you want to do, i'll help you get there. 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.479 But you have to do your side of it. You know, 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.080 it's going to be a lot of work. But it 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:00.800 wasn't like work to me. I couldn't wait to get 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.120 out of school so I could sing, you know what 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.120 I mean? So, UM did all that? I grew up 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:09.120 in church singing in church. Yeah, I sang in church. Um. 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.320 I wasn't able to join the choir um in the 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.280 big church, but I could sing the solo and have 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:20.360 the choir back me. So that was wait what Yeah? 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.800 It was well, because you couldn't there was a certain age, 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:24.520 I couldn't be in it because I was too young. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.400 So I was singing in the big church at like twelve, 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.440 but I couldn't be in the choir. I was in 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.560 high school worship though I was doing like junior high 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.280 in high school worship as well, so it was like 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.760 I couldn't sing the solo, but you were too young. Christmas, 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.400 it was Christmas and Easter. You know, Jesus born on 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.000 this day, so they let you rock. Yeah, So I 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.560 rocked it. I brought the house down. And then guys, 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:49.080 we have a special guest for you guys right here 0:07:49.480 --> 0:08:03.360 high students. Yeah, but it was fun, I know, but no, 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.160 just a little special guest. But it was where are 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.480 you at this time? I was in Arizona, Arizona. Grew 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:13.600 up in Glendale, Arizona, and so I went to that 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.760 church and then I did that for a while, and 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.920 I did local stuff. There was this place called Mister 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:23.680 Lucky's that was a country western bar, and they had 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:28.080 a family fish fry Friday. Sorry it's hard to say, um, 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:31.000 but they had a competition there every Friday for the kids. 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.359 So everybody would calm families and their kids, and um, 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:38.920 I would compete in this competition and I won. I 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:40.880 came back the next week and I won, and I 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.120 came back the next week and I won. And I 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:44.600 came back the next week and they were like, all right, 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.040 so were you one of those people that would acts 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.640 of frised after you in the third? They were really good, Gus, 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:58.480 there were kids. You never knew. It was different. I 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.440 guess I was the only person who kept but there 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:06.200 were different There were different were different people. So well 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.120 they did was They tould me aside and they said, okay, 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:12.360 look it's it's not fair. Um, so what we what 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.200 we're going to do instead is you can sing with 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:18.640 the house band. Yeah. And so you're born and raised 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.360 in Arizona. So was your dad did? He played for 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.200 the Cardinals. He was that why you were there. He 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.240 played for the Giants. So my parents met in Phoenix. Um, 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.360 they both went to Arizona State University. That's when my 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.720 dad went to college. He was drafted out of there 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.200 in nineteen ninety two to the Giants. And so during 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.480 the season we would move to New Jersey and the 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.880 off season we'd come back to Phoenix. And when he retired, 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.400 we came back to Phoenix. So Arizona was really my 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.920 main constant, whereas I love New Jersey and I love 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.000 the Tri State area, but I was always changing schools. 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.200 I was always the new kid. I was, you know, 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.320 I was always trying to do something new. I couldn't 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:55.240 really like plant any roots there, but Arizona, I went 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.600 back to the same school, I saw the same friends, 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.400 my family was there. So um that t work, but 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.079 I definitely think that helped prepare me for what I 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:03.400 do now. That's why I was going to ask you 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.480 just to move around and new friends, new schools. Yeah, 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.520 because we people don't realize in this business, there's so 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.720 many people that are coming and going at all times. 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.960 There's even if you're at a label, still people coming 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.560 and going. It's it's not it's not like that. It's 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.840 very rare that you find someone who's been at the 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.120 same job for thirty years in the music business. They 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:25.839 may be you know, they may be still being a 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:27.720 music business, but there'll be at different companies. It might 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.920 you know, it just moves around, and I think sometimes 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.880 that's that's a little difficult for people to deal with 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.680 who haven't experienced that, especially before they get into the 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.000 music business. You know, so for you as a kid, 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.720 you know you're moving around, you know you're changing schools, 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:50.240 you gotta make new friends. It's kind of preparing you 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.120 for what's coming in a sense. Yeah. No, I definitely 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.840 think that it helped me m just because you walk 0:10:57.840 --> 0:10:59.559 into different rooms all the time and you never knew 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.320 who's gonna be in there, and you never know what's 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.920 going to come out of going into that certain room, 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:06.760 whether it's a meeting or it's a gallo, or it's 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.520 an event or it's a party. You know, every time 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:10.880 you go in there's somebody that you don't know. Um, 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.719 and so you have to have kind of this ability 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.880 to not necessarily kind of be a chameleon but not 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.160 changing who you are, but being able to like, oh okay, 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:22.960 I can I can rock with this room. Oh okay, 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.280 I can rock with this one too. And I think 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.840 that's it's a special gift and talent as in and 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.720 of itself to be able to do that, because it 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.480 can be really hard, like you said, if you're not 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:37.080 used to constantly seeing new faces and new people and 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.840 doing things like that. And also with my dad being 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:41.400 who he was, you know, he was in the spotlight 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.720 and we were kind of on the outside. Yeah, we 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.200 were on the outside. So for me, I got to 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.360 watch him interact with his fans. I saw how he 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.160 did his interviews. I you know, saw how people loved him. 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.760 My dad has this special ability to just make you 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:58.360 feel like you've been best friends, like yeah, yeah, you 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.840 guys would get along really well, you guys would really 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.240 get along, but um yeah. And so I watched him 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.480 do that, and I he made everybody feel so special, 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.600 and that's what I want to do whenever I have 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.320 an interaction with my fans. Sometimes I don't want to 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.079 do it, but I do it anyway because it takes 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.440 much longer to say no and explain why you don't 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.280 want to take the picture and la da da da, 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.320 instead of just being like okay and just just just 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:27.760 to look at it. Yeah, I mean like it. It 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.000 takes two seconds. Most of the time. There are those 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.319 moments where people want to start sharing their stories and stuff, 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.600 which is fine if I have the time. I love 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.080 to listen and you know whatever it is, um, but 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.240 I never want to be that person who they're like, 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.040 don't meet your idol, so your favorite people, you know. 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.000 So I'm I'm always thinking about that I do have 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.080 my moments though. If I'm sitting down and eating, I'm like, 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.360 I will politely be like, well, after I'm done eating, 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.120 I would love to take a picture with you. And 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.400 their response is up to them at that point, so 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.720 I can go either way. Yeah, I had it either way. 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.320 We just kind of thinking into that picture. Well, it 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.240 was two pieces. First, I was gonna say, I knew 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.280 you would. I knew you probably were able to see 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.680 things at a different level because of your father being 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.640 at the pinnacle of a thing, you know what, he's 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.280 in professional sports, know, so those rooms for him, it's 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.719 real rooms. You're in those rooms, so you're able to 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.720 see that move around and understand those movements. But going 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:26.760 back to the sitting down eating food, I'm just I'm 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:32.360 just wondering, Yes, if in twenty twenty three, if people 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:39.079 haven't figured out don't do that. No, I think it's 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:45.720 worse now, to be honest, I'm eating. I think it's 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:51.000 more so instead of respecting your time, they're thinking about 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.400 the time they have, like can I wait for this 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:59.040 person to finish? Which is you know, which is their 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.920 own selfishness? Right? That's you know, because anything when you're 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.960 when you're getting into someone's space. That's your own selfishness. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.560 But I think in the mind, it's like, all right, 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:19.560 this nigga eating slow to desert, you know, and you know, 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.480 and it's one of those things where people feel like, 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.800 I may never run across this person again. This is 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.280 my opportunity. Let's see if it's if it's that right, 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.680 if it's that thing where you may never get this 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:36.960 opportunity again. Don't like that, don't right, right, because I'm 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.720 okay with when you finish eating or get a second. Yeah, yeah, 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.960 my wife, My wife would love to I said, I 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:48.160 got you, I got you. I love to eat. You 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.400 know what I'm saying, like I love food, Yes, yes, 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:56.320 speaks to me. Yeah, Like and I'm having I'm having 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.240 an intimate moment when I have a meal like this 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:03.920 is not it's not regular. Yes, the relationship you are 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:21.360 interrupting snacks is talking snags that I love that. Ye. 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.160 Here we go. Um, So I just had to touch 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.280 on because I just think that you know, it's like 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.280 you said, you may never When you're in a position 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:35.080 where you may never be in that space again, you 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:38.240 want to make the most of that space. You do 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:42.680 want to Yeah, I get it, okay, I had somebody. 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:46.240 I literally was sitting I was sitting down eating by myself, 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.560 and I was like in a little booth situation, and 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.840 somebody just slid in right next to me and started talking, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.960 and I was like, that was your plus one. Literally, 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:59.000 I was just like hi, I didn't know what to say. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:00.960 I was in such shocked like I'm normally though, like 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.000 you know, at the table right there, but no, this 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.280 person just slid right in started talking like we had 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.960 known each other for years. And I was like, I 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.080 literally I did not know what to do in that moment. 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.000 I don't even remember what I did. And then there 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.600 was another time I was with my mom and her 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.520 best friends essentially like my mom number two, and we 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.720 were out sitting. It was just me and the girls, 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:24.840 and this lovely lady pulled up her chair and just 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.880 sat down and started chatting with us and like reaching 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:33.360 over and like she got yeah, and we were like 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:37.680 excuse me, and I exactly, and I couldn't say anything 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:43.920 because I was like exactly, but she had an attitude 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.360 When we asked her to leave, she got an attitude 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.200 because we were like, we don't know you, and you 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.200 don't know us, like you don't just people forget. They 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.520 just forget, you know, with babies and celebrities, people just 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:57.280 they just forget. It's I think it's another layer deeper 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:03.240 than that, because some people feel like they really know 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:08.879 you yeah yeah, and they don't know how to act 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:12.600 outside of that. They see you, they've read about you, 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.520 they've listened to you, like oh shit, what and they 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.760 just and they just jump right in yeah, like because 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:24.600 I'm I've done that before where I think I know people. 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:26.600 Are you done it to people too? I've done it 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.800 to people too, because I'm like a fan of people. 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:35.640 You know, Oh shit, I already known man, you man, 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:37.520 you man, what's up with you? Baby? Like what were 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:43.639 you doing? We kill training that dam And I'll be 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:49.359 thinking I know him and I don't. I've never because 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.399 I've never thought I know because I got like a 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.320 photographic memory like it. So like I'll be scrolling on 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.640 the ground or whatever, like you know what I'm saying. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.199 Like sometimes you go down a rabbit hole and just 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:04.119 dive in. Oh yeah, and I'm really locked in and 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:08.920 I'll see a person I saw this, this, this, this, Hey, 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.440 how's your kids doing? And I compect myself at home. 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:13.439 You know what, say you got your basketball right like you, 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:15.960 I got a guy, you know what, I really show 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.879 what I'm like. So but it's a little bit different 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.240 because you get you get a little grace because you 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:23.520 were also in the same I get a little great 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.720 but I'm still kind of doing it. Get a little 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.119 bit again. I understand the mindset of seeing somebody that 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:33.240 you really think, you know, you know me and him. 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:35.919 It's always funny with us because he's doing that and 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.960 I'm like, you don't know him, You're just in the back. 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:41.679 But the funny thing is, I know they know who 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:43.520 he is that whole day, but we're like being a 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:50.000 basketball game. But oh, you know, that's chief or we'll 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.359 walk away and Jay bad, who's that? I don't know? 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:56.840 Oh I do that a lot. I don't mean to, 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:58.800 but I do that a lot too. He just he 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:06.800 just looked like somebody yeah, and that's just like, yeah, 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:09.800 that happened the other day and we were driving. I 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:11.600 don't know, I was talking to this person and he goes, 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:16.080 who was that? I said, I don't know, I don't remember. 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:19.160 I can't hide it on my face. So they always 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:24.720 you don't remember me? I don't. We meet a lot 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:26.920 of people. It's really hard at this I don't feel 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.080 as embarrassed as I used to when people would say that, 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:30.439 like you don't really remember me, and I'd be like, 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.000 you know what, honest thing, I don't. I'm so sorry. 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:36.560 I gotta get better of that because I just like 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:40.680 saying I remember faces. I might not know exactly where 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:44.200 we met, but I'll be like, you got you got 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:49.120 a mom, right, Mom, don't you can somewhere you get 0:19:50.600 --> 0:20:05.199 you like basketball? Right? Yeah, you got the outfit. I 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.040 did all those kind of competition things leading up to Idol, 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:12.680 and then I auditioned and my auditioned here in Pasadena 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.119 and I was up at two am. I was in 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.440 line with everybody. Everybody's singing for hours before we even 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.520 get let in. And it was at the Rose Bowls. 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:24.119 There's like fifteen thousand people that are there. And I 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:26.679 go in and I auditioned. There were four of us 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:28.720 in a row, and it's like we stepped forward, step back, 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:32.199 step forward, step back, and I sang my song and 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:35.520 she was like, Okay, well it's not gonna this is 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:37.240 the end of the road for you guys, blah blah 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:39.760 and I was like, oh, okay, well, is there any 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:42.159 like advice you can give me? We're not allowed to 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.760 give advice. And I was like, okay, she wasn't. She 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:48.000 was a kind of a judge. She it was. So 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.760 the way they do it, I guess I can say 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:52.639 this now Kispence Long. But the way they do it 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.920 is you auditioned in the stadiums. They have a whole 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:57.959 bunch of tents set up at the bottom on the 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.600 field and it's like four two a table, so you 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:06.639 have okay, if there's I don't know, there's two a table, 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:09.080 so you've got you've got ten of those and then 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:10.960 four people. So you got forty people auditioning and they 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:13.040 all stand up one one at a time, and there's 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.160 like either one or two people sitting at the table 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:18.960 and they're involved with the show in some way, so 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:22.800 they may be an EP, or they may be somebody 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:26.080 around the back or somebody like that, because Simon Randan 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:27.920 and Paula we're not going to sit there fifteen thousand people, 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:31.479 but let's just be um. So that's like the first 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:35.680 round that they kind of go through, and then there's 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:37.720 another one and then another one, and then you get 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:42.160 to the judges. So is pretty much what she told 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:45.000 you exactly. She was like, we're good, thanks, and I 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:49.240 was like okay, um, And I remember people throwing tantrums 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:51.480 on the ground actually, like when I was walking out, 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:54.600 because they would cut off your wristband. And for some people, 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:57.320 twenty eight was the age limit. They that was it, 0:21:57.400 --> 0:22:00.680 like they could never audition again. And so you could 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.720 audition up until twenty eight. Yeah, as many times as 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:07.520 you want. Um, it depends on how far. I think. 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:09.760 If you get to the top ten, you can't audition again. 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:13.720 But top ten and under or before that, I think 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:19.800 you can say no, no, no, no, I'm about to 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:26.480 say it. Somebody's getting bad keep calling you. But yeah, 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:30.399 so I went back home. I did a localized version 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:33.560 of American Idol called Arizona Idol. All the Fox affiliates 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:35.320 at the time, we're doing that because Fox was a 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:39.520 sponsor of the show at the time, And um, I 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:43.360 won that, and the prize for that was being sent 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:46.600 to the next nearest audition city, and so I won 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:49.760 a ticket to Seattle the same season and that's where 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:55.520 I made it. And yeah, there as so you go 0:22:55.920 --> 0:23:01.240 to this one and don't make the cut, go back home, 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:09.600 same program, win it, and then go to Seattle and 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:15.399 get it cracking. Yeah who, I mean, maybe you don't know, 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:18.479 but who is the person I'm trying to see? If 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:23.040 she read, if she ran into the hayter too? Yeah, 0:23:23.600 --> 0:23:26.760 did you have your stare? No? I remember, I remember, 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:30.280 I remember. I know exactly what this person looks like, 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:32.119 I know their name, I know the whole thing. But 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:34.280 when I got back to the show, they were not there. 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:39.959 So that tells you there's that. I don't know if 0:23:39.960 --> 0:23:43.520 that had anything to do with me or not. So 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:47.160 you let her go, but it's okay, we're gonna let 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:49.679 you go. Maybe that could have been how it went. 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:55.760 That's that's the story from R and B Money. Everybody 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:58.119 has to have their villain story, sure, and that was 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:01.919 your villain story. I I definitely think it taught me 0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:06.840 a lot in perseverance though, truly, because like and especially 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:09.239