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Speaker 1: a minute, ladies and gentlemen, this is quest Love Supreme.
Speaker 5: My name is Questlove, the de facto host of the show,
Speaker 5: the namesake of the show. And uh, you know, we
Speaker 5: are here to celebrate. I do not want this to
Speaker 5: be a mournful episode, absolutely not no. But why he's
Speaker 5: like ready to let it.
Speaker 10: Don't blame me.
Speaker 11: I mean it is an ind of era.
Speaker 9: So we are celebrating and it may get emotional because
Speaker 9: it's been a long journey.
Speaker 5: We're allowed to be emotional. Let's let emotionals, all right.
Speaker 5: So last night at dinner, I admit it that I've
Speaker 5: to watch one Q on YouTube. So I don't know
Speaker 5: if the scale has tipped to this being a podcast
Speaker 5: to this being a YouTube show.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we have more listeners or more viewers.
Speaker 11: So, oh that's a good question.
Speaker 1: Listeners. Okay, got it.
Speaker 5: Older audience radio still believe in radio. Yes, so our listenership.
Speaker 5: You know, we've kind of have a quasi even though
Speaker 5: we started twenty sixteen, we've done ten seasons of Quest
Speaker 5: Love Supreme and you know, so in my mind it
Speaker 5: feels like ten years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, mine as well. Tell round off exactly.
Speaker 5: So to be fully transparent with you loyal listeners out there,
Speaker 5: this is sort of officially the last episode of Questlove Supreme.
Speaker 1: Is so hard, right, listen, it's a celebration.
Speaker 9: You know what I mean, we are doing it's like
Speaker 9: a TV show because you know, I was telling somebody earlier,
Speaker 9: I was like, in radio you don't get to say goodbye.
Speaker 11: That's in TV where you do a finale.
Speaker 1: Flatter about that.
Speaker 5: So when a person's doing their last episode of a
Speaker 5: show or whatever, in radio, they don't let you say goodbye,
Speaker 5: give you flowers.
Speaker 9: Or anything unless you're leaving. But it's very rare that
Speaker 9: a person is like leaving and gets to say goodbye.
Speaker 9: It's because you got fired.
Speaker 5: Softer radio leaves on their own, will most don't.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna say most don't.
Speaker 9: Maybe I think shoot, Tom Joyner might be the one
Speaker 9: that walked away when you think about it, you know,
Speaker 9: all right, well I we're starting.
Speaker 5: Still working, we're officially yeah, but I doubt he's Remember
Speaker 5: it used to be controversial, right right, Yeah, it's not,
Speaker 5: and now it's like politically on our side of the fence,
Speaker 5: which is something I never thought.
Speaker 11: Man, what have Wow, Joe Rogan happened to exactly.
Speaker 1: All right, Joe Rogan sort of became a new howardz Wow. Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't up that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So to let our listeners know, I guess maybe
Speaker 5: it's we end the way we started, which is technically
Speaker 5: I guess Episode two with Bill Sherman with guests. Guest
Speaker 5: Bill Sermons, you're right, yeah, oh that's right. It was
Speaker 5: because Maya was too right. We just reversed it and
Speaker 5: gave you your coach. You're like Charlie Brown, thank you,
Speaker 5: not even the star of your own Halloween special.
Speaker 1: Track, look at you?
Speaker 10: Since then, a few more grays.
Speaker 5: Yeah, A lot has happened in these last air quote
Speaker 5: ten years, man, listen, like the amount of children and
Speaker 5: spouses and comings and goings and us as a unit.
Speaker 5: A lot has happened. I guess unpaid Bill, I will
Speaker 5: start with you fuck do it? What was your first
Speaker 5: musical memory?
Speaker 1: I love it?
Speaker 5: Oh, okay, because we never get to answer these questions. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so what's your first musical memory?
Speaker 7: On people being on the show for this long, I
Speaker 7: feel like everybody's like I grew up in the church,
Speaker 7: and I did not grow up in any at all.
Speaker 7: And both my parents are doctors, which I've said before,
Speaker 7: and neither of them listened to much music. But what
Speaker 7: they did listen to. My dad was like a smooth
Speaker 7: jazz guy, and my mom listened to like Yo Yo
Speaker 7: ma and Mandy Patinkin.
Speaker 1: Artists. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Montoya is like a wait time.
Speaker 1: Yeah walked on us. Yeah, he was a recording artist.
Speaker 1: He is a recording arts.
Speaker 7: He's like a big yeah, like he was in all
Speaker 7: of Sondheim's musicals and stuff. He's like a yeah, I
Speaker 7: did not And he's the you know, the famous.
Speaker 1: Wait did you get to say this to him when
Speaker 1: he bursted in?
Speaker 7: Well, I've known him for a while, so yes, I have. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 7: I mean it's not like that anyway. So so my
Speaker 7: dad listened to a lot of smooth jazz and CD
Speaker 7: one On one point, nine, which is no longer that station,
Speaker 7: but it was and so New York. Yeah, and being
Speaker 7: in his car and him it would always the car
Speaker 7: would turn on and it was always be that. And
Speaker 7: then I later went on to like sort of try
Speaker 7: to hip him to some music, but he would always
Speaker 7: sort of put the dial back to sadly ceint Well
Speaker 7: depends on who you ask, but anyway, CD one on
Speaker 7: CD one point was CD. Yeah, in the days of CDs,
Speaker 7: remember that, I thought you meant S E E D
Speaker 7: Y like questionable CD. I mean in retrospect, might have
Speaker 7: been CD no it Yeah, that was the station.
Speaker 1: So it was like the local yacht rock station. Yeah.
Speaker 7: It was mostly just like smooth jazz, like like Samborn
Speaker 7: and Richard Elliott and uh, I don't like George Benson,
Speaker 7: that smooth jazz worthy like the Yellow Jackets that kind
Speaker 7: of ship.
Speaker 9: Yeah, no idea that that was the hot the good
Speaker 9: days of smooth jazz like in present day is like
Speaker 9: born butaxophone.
Speaker 1: Player plays all right, what's the first record you ever
Speaker 1: purchased with your own money?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 7: Fuck? I think it was like Dexter Gordon something something,
Speaker 7: live something, because I was a saxophone player growing up right.
Speaker 7: We We learned this really late in my evolution. I
Speaker 7: played the saxophone growing up, was big jazz head, and
Speaker 7: I think the first thing I actually bought was a
Speaker 7: record because I used to put them on my walls.
Speaker 7: Was Dexter Gordon Live at the whatever the hell it was?
Speaker 1: As I loved him.
Speaker 5: He did a movie with didn't Yes, I think Clint
Speaker 5: East would produced it, not directed it.
Speaker 7: But I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I do know what you're called Around After Midnight or
Speaker 1: everything like that. Okay? Was he acting in it or
Speaker 1: do you?
Speaker 8: I don't know, so I wasn't autobiotical. Well you're the
Speaker 8: jazz about Round Midnight, Round Midnight. It's about Dexter Gordon and.
Speaker 5: He was starting in his own I don't know if
Speaker 5: he was. I think he was in it because that's
Speaker 5: how I first heard of out him.
Speaker 8: The soundtrack is kind of more legendary than the movie.
Speaker 8: Herbie Hancock did that soundtrack.
Speaker 5: Right, Okay, So I remember on the Grammys when I
Speaker 5: first heard of Bobby McFerrin doing that. He's saying, uh, yeah,
Speaker 5: it was Bobby McFerrin and Herbie Hancock doing because I
Speaker 5: was wondering, why is this guy just singing.
Speaker 1: I was like, is he going to sing words? He's
Speaker 1: just gonna Okay, So then what is the first concert
Speaker 1: you attended?
Speaker 7: Oh, James Taylor Tilla Center. I fell asleep. I was
Speaker 7: really young, and my dad took me and he also
Speaker 7: fell asleep, and we both sort of fell I was
Speaker 7: I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But I've been that's a very soothing it was.
Speaker 7: Yes, it felt like a warm bath.
Speaker 8: Another QLs guest, James Tallen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the surprising guest for me.
Speaker 5: Why didn't realize the amount of pain and depression he
Speaker 5: like his music was the polar opposite of what his
Speaker 5: life was into.
Speaker 1: And so that is one episode that.
Speaker 5: Shot me because I thought he was as sunny and
Speaker 5: happy as his music was, and here he is telling
Speaker 5: us about.
Speaker 8: Like, yeah, he should have been a comedian. He's so depressing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 11: Based on Chris rock conversation.
Speaker 7: And my other favorite person growing up was Dave Matthews,
Speaker 7: who we also interviewed on the show and who my
Speaker 7: heroes my whole life. Because there was a saxphone player
Speaker 7: in the band, I thought.
Speaker 1: That was so cool.
Speaker 7: Dave played saxophone in the no But Dave had a
Speaker 7: band with a saxophone player in it.
Speaker 1: Leroy, Oh, okay, that's.
Speaker 9: What you mean.
Speaker 5: Okay, so you were you were in of college age
Speaker 5: when Dave Matthews was and the Roots taking.
Speaker 1: The Roots Dave Matthews and the Roots at college is.
Speaker 7: And I don't know if we've ever talked about this,
Speaker 7: but my senior year of college, the band that played
Speaker 7: my senior year concert was the Roots, and.
Speaker 9: This is at.
Speaker 1: University.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they rolled, they drove above us onto this giant field.
Speaker 7: They all walked out.
Speaker 5: Did they apologize to you guys that you weren't getting
Speaker 5: Ray Kwan and ghost Face but you're getting the Roots instead.
Speaker 7: No, but there is a classic story that most Deaf
Speaker 7: played at like our our cafeteria and like there was
Speaker 7: so many white kids that he like, played for like
Speaker 7: ten minutes and then got mad and left. That's a
Speaker 7: true story.
Speaker 1: Really, Yeah, he was shocked.
Speaker 5: It wasn't most I'm sorry it was That's who was
Speaker 5: That sounds right? That sounds yeah, Sorry, I fucked up.
Speaker 5: No question, Okay, all right, this is on the spot.
Speaker 5: What's the last album that you enjoyed from start to finish?
Speaker 5: I know, do you know of one album that you
Speaker 5: listened to from start to finish.
Speaker 7: Whence the last time anyone made an album that you
Speaker 7: did listen to from start to Dope? I mean, my
Speaker 7: kids are into DOCI. That record is great, and I
Speaker 7: did listen to the whole thing.
Speaker 5: That's true. There you go, Okay, that record's great. We'll
Speaker 5: take DOCI. Who are your top three guests on the show.
Speaker 7: I was just thinking about this. I loved Lenny Kravitz
Speaker 7: because he smelled really gold.
Speaker 5: Yes, and he sat right next to me, and Lenny
Speaker 5: brought a few guests out in his chest, no someone else's,
Speaker 5: but you.
Speaker 1: Know they were I love Yeah.
Speaker 2: The girls came out from Yeah, the girls came out.
Speaker 7: Girls are always kind of out anyway. And I was
Speaker 7: just actually was looking at this this paper. I was,
Speaker 7: I love what we did Scarface in Nashville.
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 7: Brad was super fun and awesome that day. And then
Speaker 7: who what I'm thinking of? I like Jack White. I
Speaker 7: thought he was great. That was super fun. And that
Speaker 7: was three and my fair one, the yet unreleased Dave
Speaker 7: Sappelle episode. Because in that talk about it, which was
Speaker 7: which was a wild night, but the best part about
Speaker 7: that night, D'Angelo came and showed up to the recording
Speaker 7: and he sat down next to me and he introduced
Speaker 7: himself to me, and I thought that was like the
Speaker 7: funniest fucking thing I've ever liked.
Speaker 1: All the people like and I was like, Hi, It's more.
Speaker 7: That he also smelled good. So anyway, there you go.
Speaker 5: What would be an underrated episode in your opinion? I
Speaker 5: think we would collectively agree that Jimmy Jam's episode was
Speaker 5: the quintessential QLs episode. But what's a I almost feel
Speaker 5: that we don't give much respect for the baby face.
Speaker 11: To me, that was that was my That was literally
Speaker 11: what I was thinking, the baby face.
Speaker 1: That was crazy.
Speaker 11: We were tight and it was sweaty.
Speaker 1: It was like exactly.
Speaker 7: I also think like the ones that we did early
Speaker 7: on in the in your in the rehearsal room, the
Speaker 7: Roots rehearsal room was always like an interesting sould my
Speaker 7: Roudeolph because.
Speaker 1: That's what it was like.
Speaker 7: If you think it's tightened here, it was like real
Speaker 7: tight turntable chick fun turntable, chickens mel band.
Speaker 1: It was great. So like, what is your first musical
Speaker 1: memory in life?
Speaker 9: Damn I should have been I know I should have
Speaker 9: been ready for this first music memory in life, just
Speaker 9: dancing in my living room, listening to my parents records
Speaker 9: to Brenda Russell and Angelo Bouphil and Teddy Pendergrass.
Speaker 11: When I was little.
Speaker 1: That was it for me. Okay, do you remember the
Speaker 1: very first record that you purchased with your own money?
Speaker 11: I think so.
Speaker 9: I think that was in Japan on spring break I
Speaker 9: brought ironically, I bought Mony Love, Alyssa Milano and the
Speaker 9: New Jack City soundtrack had an album, Yes, she did.
Speaker 10: I was a very big fan of Alyssa Milano.
Speaker 2: No judgment, Wait, wait time random Eliza had an album.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that she did. She did.
Speaker 11: She was a big star to some of us, especially
Speaker 11: if you, you know.
Speaker 1: Grew up Washington. How okay, how was the album? Though?
Speaker 11: I don't remember so great?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 11: But that New Jack City album though, that bangs okay.
Speaker 1: Wow, I think that's an episode. And you bought it
Speaker 1: in Japan?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Why were you in Japan?
Speaker 9: Because my mother was a flight attendant for forty three
Speaker 9: years and she started the She's one of the people,
Speaker 9: the flight attendants that started the Japan flights, the United
Speaker 9: to Tokyo to Narita flights. So one year she was
Speaker 9: like she met a friend there and she was like,
Speaker 9: you're gonna go stay there for spring break with my
Speaker 9: friend and her son.
Speaker 11: And that's what I did.
Speaker 1: Wow, I was twelve. Okay, do you remember the very
Speaker 1: first concert you attended?
Speaker 9: I think I remember the one that I cared about
Speaker 9: because as a kid, I was always taking the concerts
Speaker 9: because especially because my cousin played drums for Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 11: But the one that I remember was Bad.
Speaker 1: Wow, you got to see the Bad Tour? Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: that didn't even come to Philadelphia.
Speaker 8: I was still angry at that.
Speaker 11: You saw it in New York or in Maryland at
Speaker 11: the Capital Center.
Speaker 1: That's right, you're not a Philadelphia.
Speaker 7: She came to Maryland and not Philadelphia. Feels like a death.
Speaker 10: Well, no, no, I didn't come to Philly. That's weird.
Speaker 5: Oh no, it's weird. It could have been local promotions,
Speaker 5: you know. I meant now, of course, like Live Nation,
Speaker 5: like everything is nationalized. But back in the eighties things
Speaker 5: were regional. But Philly was always getting the shortened the stick.
Speaker 5: I have a sound check. So Prince does the Purple
Speaker 5: Ringe Show Thanksgiving of eighty four in Philly, and there's
Speaker 5: a moment when he's sound checking, we's like I hate Philly.
Speaker 5: So it was like all the other sound checks he's
Speaker 5: like happy to be alive whatever, and here it's just
Speaker 5: like I hate Philly on the PA system. So yeah,
Speaker 5: thanks Prince. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: What is the last album or you already said doughchy,
Speaker 1: But yeah.
Speaker 11: I'm kind of I'm in. I'm all in on her
Speaker 11: her you know what, her multiple listens like you multiple listens.
Speaker 9: But also you know who y'all got me into, and
Speaker 9: I'm glad I did when I did was Salt because now,
Speaker 9: of course everybody is going to see Cleo wherever she
Speaker 9: appears in whatever city. So yeah, I've been listening to
Speaker 9: them a lot too.
Speaker 1: Okay, who are your top three guests on this show?
Speaker 11: I'm gonna say, oh, you mean shows like good Good Conversations.
Speaker 1: Your your three favorite.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna do a random one because she's my favorite
Speaker 9: because I feel like there was more to talk about
Speaker 9: and I always she stays in my head, and that's
Speaker 9: Heather Hunter.
Speaker 11: Heather Hunter was one of my favorites.
Speaker 8: I really so.
Speaker 7: Pissed that I missed that one. So many questions. I
Speaker 7: was about to go all in full eye contact giving
Speaker 7: all the heather, please did it.
Speaker 9: There's a part two to that conversation. I always felt
Speaker 9: like just me and her, we But that's the whole thing. Solange,
Speaker 9: Solange salone, Salon Salange, especially off the hills of that
Speaker 9: Saturday Night Live, that Bill Murray is knit and I don't,
Speaker 9: oh shit, Quincy Jones man sitting on his couch talk
Speaker 9: about talk about I mean, it was uncomfortable at times
Speaker 9: because you know, he did talk about my toes.
Speaker 1: A lot, and he also talked about your astrological sign.
Speaker 7: Yeah, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: And I'm on the corner like I'm an aquarium too.
Speaker 11: Even in the video I got him, he like them
Speaker 11: to to I'm like, Lord, those toes.
Speaker 1: Man, because he always.
Speaker 5: He always sounded to me like someone imitating Sammy Davis Jr.
Speaker 5: Always with the cough drop in his mouth, like always
Speaker 5: sort of a cough dropping thing.
Speaker 1: But yes, legendary man.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think we should.
Speaker 9: It's a hard thing to just narrow it down to
Speaker 9: to three, but I understand that's what we gotta do.
Speaker 9: But I'm looking at all these pictures, all these moments,
Speaker 9: and I'm like.
Speaker 1: Do we physically have that? Quincy Jones episode.
Speaker 11: We Steve.
Speaker 10: Okay, but we do know somebody has it though.
Speaker 1: Right on we all we got episodes being held hostage.
Speaker 10: We got a few episodes hostage.
Speaker 8: That episode went straight to the Tone Museum.
Speaker 10: Why is held hostage?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 10: Rogers, where are you at?
Speaker 9: Hell?
Speaker 11: Hostage?
Speaker 1: We did interview. It was just one so short that
Speaker 1: it stopped that reference.
Speaker 11: To light and it was one more. I can't remember
Speaker 11: the other one that was hell.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because we had uh, Macio wasn't there. It
Speaker 1: was just poss and Dave we did. It was right
Speaker 1: after anonymous. Nobody had dropped right, uh, David pass.
Speaker 9: I was also like to throw in a mention, the
Speaker 9: honorable mention, because nobody has done this and it needs
Speaker 9: to be mentioned, the rever fucking loution.
Speaker 10: What we did with the revolution and for what.
Speaker 1: Watching you d that was magic. That was crazy. But
Speaker 1: when they sang sometimes it's now in April, I had
Speaker 1: to walk outside.
Speaker 11: Yeah that that was Maya Rudolph at that.
Speaker 1: Event was my room, yeah, my yeah, my room office
Speaker 1: there and I remember, yeah, they did sometimes the snows
Speaker 1: in April. Crazy enough. I wasn't really like that wasn't
Speaker 1: the one that got me, like, I was watching that
Speaker 1: cool when you played come Home. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it is about this song that is a sleeper prints song. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no one man, you played that one. And that was
Speaker 1: around the time too. That was literally like days after
Speaker 1: my dad had died. And so that that that night
Speaker 1: of revolution, that was just the I never I never
Speaker 1: forget that because it was right when I needed it,
Speaker 1: because like, my daddy just died, and uh, that's boss
Speaker 1: Bill was still here and he was having.
Speaker 9: Like the time, he was having enjoyment that we had
Speaker 9: never experienced in our lives.
Speaker 1: I've never seen in my life, right, brother Bossville man.
Speaker 1: But uh but yeah, so but nah, revolution that was
Speaker 1: that was epic ship. That was dope conference room actually,
Speaker 1: now you say it.
Speaker 5: We also interviewed probably our most eye opening Prince interview
Speaker 5: we never got the air, which was Robbie his assistant.
Speaker 11: All right, we didn't air it.
Speaker 5: If there was such a thing as t back then,
Speaker 5: that would have been the episode. I mean Robbie basically
Speaker 5: spoke of being Princess Valet his jerome from like eighty
Speaker 5: three to bringing up pianos on cranes into his suite.
Speaker 5: I think he even spoke one time where a kind
Speaker 5: of had a shoving match over something and he was
Speaker 5: real with it. All I know was that the higher
Speaker 5: upset Pandora, whoever was a Scott shout out to Scott Hello,
Speaker 5: But I forgot that Robbie Prince's valet also got interviewed,
Speaker 5: and we never focused on that one. So Sugar, Steve,
Speaker 5: what is your first musical memory?
Speaker 8: First musical memory, I mean there's a lot of AM
Speaker 8: radio things I could say, and early Taper quarders. I
Speaker 8: had things like that with my sister singing. But my
Speaker 8: mom had an acoustic guitar in the house and she
Speaker 8: was playing John Denver songs. That's I think sort of
Speaker 8: my first actual musical memory.
Speaker 1: Your mom plays guitar. No, no, she was just faking it,
Speaker 1: but I.
Speaker 8: Didn't know any better at the time. She's incredible.
Speaker 5: I should know based on Steve in our thread chat
Speaker 5: posted a photo of him.
Speaker 1: How many bass Cities, Yeah, that's a lot.
Speaker 8: How many Princes albums you own?
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I don't own multiple, Like, yes you do,
Speaker 5: We've seen them DJ though I'm allowed to have.
Speaker 8: Oh well, I mean you have like I'm a WONDERAMA
Speaker 8: generation person, you know, as some of us are here.
Speaker 1: So every bas City Roller album you see, you just copy.
Speaker 8: It of that specific one. Yeah, that first American one
Speaker 8: with Saturday on it.
Speaker 1: It's kind of very specific.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's really just that one album that I'm obsessed with.
Speaker 11: You can I ask, what's the bas City song that
Speaker 11: I would really know?
Speaker 8: Saturday Night that's the only one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But they were just they were the one direction
Speaker 1: of the seventh Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and they were. And that's kind that's kind of
Speaker 8: my first concert to not the basically Rollers, but Bob McCallister.
Speaker 8: He would go around and do like these little, you know,
Speaker 8: concerts for kids. So he was the justine of the
Speaker 8: instinct of No. Bob mcalster was the host of Wonderama.
Speaker 8: He was like an old Oh, he was like the
Speaker 8: best soul trained guy.
Speaker 5: So Basity Rollers were the Shalomar of One Durama. Yes,
Speaker 5: Salamar manufactured from Soul trained.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't.
Speaker 8: They weren't manufactured for by One Durama, but yeah, they
Speaker 8: were kind of the okay, yeah, all right, kind of
Speaker 8: the symbol almost at that.
Speaker 5: Time network did One Dama come on, I know the logo,
Speaker 5: but I just think it's slider wheels.
Speaker 8: No, that's the abs. It's not PBS. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You only remember kids are people too, but I don't.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well that's fine. Calis tour the country just singing
Speaker 8: that song over and over again everywhere. But my first
Speaker 8: real concert was Billy Joel the Garden eighty four, you know, tour.
Speaker 1: In his prime jone Okay, uptown. You know I picked.
Speaker 1: I was complaining to you all night.
Speaker 5: I chose the one Billy Joel show in which he
Speaker 5: decided not to do any hits.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. It was his birthday.
Speaker 5: You know, he had the residency at master Square Garden,
Speaker 5: and so he was like for his birthday, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: gift you the fans all the B sides and the
Speaker 5: deep cuts, and literally, I mean everyone's losing their minds
Speaker 5: because he's like, you know.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh my god, open with the erotic city,
Speaker 1: like I mean.
Speaker 5: Like he's doing like the deep stuff, and you know,
Speaker 5: I just sat there like waiting for starting something. Actually
Speaker 5: that it was the one time he did. We didn't
Speaker 5: start the fire. And everyone's laughing.
Speaker 1: Because I guess the worst song ever. Yeah, really they
Speaker 1: don't rock with that song. I had to do a
Speaker 1: report on that song in like fifth grade, So yeah,
Speaker 1: why is it?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all the historical references in it. I's just had
Speaker 1: to Yeah, we had to find out like what it
Speaker 1: was and look it up.
Speaker 5: Like if a song gets too big, where like your
Speaker 5: science teacher knows the song or your pastor your church
Speaker 5: knows it, then that's when the backlins, like everyone had thrillers.
Speaker 8: So then it's not a song, it's a list of
Speaker 8: fucking names. But you don't think that it's rather rather shitty? Yes,
Speaker 8: I do, I really feel get me started.
Speaker 5: No, No, because this is a question that I will
Speaker 5: get to later, which is basically, how have your music
Speaker 5: tastes changed from twenty fifteen to now in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 5: I will say that my instant dismissal of pop music
Speaker 5: has definitely changed in the last ten years, where I
Speaker 5: will be the one that meant that, Yeah, I'm quick
Speaker 5: to dismiss something that I think a common person would
Speaker 5: like because I think that we choose our music based
Speaker 5: on likenobbery. Yeah, like they like that, Well I'm better
Speaker 5: than them, so I'm gonna pick the obscure band. But
Speaker 5: once I realized that it's hard as hell to write
Speaker 5: a good pop song, listen. Then yeah, I respect the game.
Speaker 5: Actually I learned it at and Juliet.
Speaker 1: Good place to learn, Aelia.
Speaker 8: But for you, here's the melody that that that that that's.
Speaker 11: That's easy, it's oh my god, it ain't uptown.
Speaker 5: And then the next song he did was in the
Speaker 5: Middle of the Night, which right, which is fun fact,
Speaker 5: my first month working at Rough Records, Joe Niccolo produced it.
Speaker 5: I think the backstory is and that's I'm sorry, Joe Nicolo.
Speaker 5: I apologize. If there's one besides Arthur Baker, another luminary
Speaker 5: that has been always in my dms, like when am
Speaker 5: I going to get my turn to tell my story?
Speaker 11: Espectly after we had Chris, I know he liked Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he definitely wanted to get on the show.
Speaker 5: Sorry, apologies, but I guess Joe Nicolo would add a
Speaker 5: lot of break beats under his rock stuff, which kind
Speaker 5: of ninety one ninety two really wasn't a thing. So
Speaker 5: him looping the funkadelic good old music drum break in
Speaker 5: that song kind of you know dog was for hip hop? Yeah,
Speaker 5: or you know, I guess for those that are wondering
Speaker 5: in nineteen ninety two, how do I avoid the unsung
Speaker 5: and then hip hop.
Speaker 1: Came alright, syndrome embrace it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like, oh, what can I do? Okay, I'll
Speaker 5: put a break beat in anyway. So I got to
Speaker 5: see at least the first day of him looping met
Speaker 5: in the drum machine for Billy Joel, I didn't get
Speaker 5: to see Billy Joel.
Speaker 1: But so, who are your top three guests on the show.
Speaker 8: Oh, I'd have to look at the list to really
Speaker 8: answer this question.
Speaker 1: I am I'm going to okay.
Speaker 10: One non jazz se do one non jazz person.
Speaker 1: Well, he didn't do any we didn't do it mention
Speaker 1: any jazz artists.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he hasn't yet.
Speaker 8: I mean for obvious reasons. Costello, you know, that's a
Speaker 8: classic episode, the one on one or I'm glad you
Speaker 8: won one with Costello.
Speaker 9: What's so funny because your one on one is one
Speaker 9: of your classes episodes.
Speaker 8: Well, it was epic and it wasn't harder, and it
Speaker 8: was like, you know, once in a lifetime for a
Speaker 8: Costello fan.
Speaker 5: They definitely appreciated you asking the questions that no journalist
Speaker 5: has ever asked.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was it was.
Speaker 1: That was a classic one.
Speaker 8: And my Nick Low one, my one on one with
Speaker 8: Nick Low was pretty special as well. It was and
Speaker 8: the ones we did an electric Lady roy Ers, you know,
Speaker 8: because he had recorded so many records there and I
Speaker 8: thought that was super special and Herbalpert I liked all.
Speaker 1: That was a great electrically. Yes, all right, Tigola, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: Your first musical.
Speaker 8: Memory, her first musical memory and the first record I
Speaker 8: bought with my own money.
Speaker 1: Sorry, first memory, I guess I would say this was
Speaker 1: in my grandmother's house. My mother just always played music,
Speaker 1: and uh, she had a copy of Thankful by Nalie Cole,
Speaker 1: which is like wow, yeah, so it's yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the one look my man. So she had
Speaker 1: that and yeah, that record is just like a direct
Speaker 1: portal to my childhood. Like I just remember like picking
Speaker 1: it up and like the texture of it. It feels
Speaker 1: like a painting. It's not like a regular joint. Even
Speaker 1: the album cover felt yeah exactly. You feel like textures
Speaker 1: kind of ridges in it. Yeah, it was like a
Speaker 1: painting of her. And I just remember that and just
Speaker 1: seeing the red label on Capitol just spin around around.
Speaker 1: So my mother would always just play that record. She
Speaker 1: would also play for some reason, I don't know, why
Speaker 1: she loved this song so much, but Love Jones by
Speaker 1: Johnny Guitar Watson. We had a forty five of that
Speaker 1: real Yeah, okay, so we would be, you know, cleaning
Speaker 1: up on Saturday mornings and just playing music, and that
Speaker 1: was you know, that was the kind of stuff we
Speaker 1: listened to.
Speaker 5: I gotta say I will double down on the Thankful album.
Speaker 5: If there's ever a fuzzy memory I have of my childhood,
Speaker 5: it's I think my dad picked me up on a
Speaker 5: snow day, and back when snow days were special, when
Speaker 5: the teachers are like, okay, kids, you're going home early today,
Speaker 5: and it was like, you know, especially if it's like
Speaker 5: ten thirty, like you get home out a whole day,
Speaker 5: right when price is writ and cartoons come on or whatever.
Speaker 5: And yeah, so driving home in a snowstorm listening La
Speaker 5: Costa is more or less like a tropical sound record, huh.
Speaker 5: But for me, it's a winter like whatever you think of,
Speaker 5: like a good Christmas or like the winter thing. That's
Speaker 5: that's what you associate with it every time I hear
Speaker 5: that song. If I want to think of my dad
Speaker 5: in a nice way, it's just us driving home, sharing
Speaker 5: a stale cheese Danish listening to La Costa on the
Speaker 5: eight track track, Oh man. And the thing is because
Speaker 5: I was born in the early seventies and really familiar
Speaker 5: with eight tracks, occasionally the song would have to feed
Speaker 5: oh yeah, and then come back and and always on
Speaker 5: that bridge it would fade out.
Speaker 1: So even to this day, yeah, yeah, that's my favorite
Speaker 1: Natical album. That's probably my favorite Natal Call song without questioning.
Speaker 5: They gave Natalie Cole a summer special, like a one
Speaker 5: off variety show with Earth Wind and Fire as her guests,
Speaker 5: but she does and her collaborator that wrote that, another
Speaker 5: young lady that wrote that song, like, yeah, if you
Speaker 5: look at them on YouTube, look at Natalie called La
Speaker 5: Costa live on her nineteen seventy seven special.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that shit kicks out. Okay, I didn't know
Speaker 1: she ever did it live. Yeah, that record, I mean,
Speaker 1: it was never like a single and then I think,
Speaker 1: but that was just always just a record that just
Speaker 1: spoke to me and just takes me directly by to childhood. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So those are probably my earliest musical memories, just my
Speaker 1: mother playing records, going to my aunt's house and playing records.
Speaker 1: My aunt she had Mam Belinda. She had a turntable
Speaker 1: and she just had like all her records in her
Speaker 1: like her apartment and stuff. And so whenever, you know,
Speaker 1: you have spade night or whatever, she would let me
Speaker 1: DJ the parties. And so this is how I That
Speaker 1: was how I learned records. Usually, that was how I
Speaker 1: learned music, like just seeing Okay, okay, I see the
Speaker 1: guy's name on the cover, but the guy in the parentheses,
Speaker 1: that's who wrote the song and he gets paid even
Speaker 1: when the guy on the cover. So I want to
Speaker 1: be that guy. Like that was my I want to
Speaker 1: be the guy in the parenthesis, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I was probably like, you know, probably like seven
Speaker 1: you know, seven eight, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: I would just play. I learned like how if you
Speaker 1: don't know a record, like just kind of my rule
Speaker 1: of thumb. If it's a record you don't know, your
Speaker 1: best bet is either the first song on side A
Speaker 1: or the first song on side B, because that's that's
Speaker 1: the strong offering. That's that's the best one. So so
Speaker 1: ill you know Strawberry Letter twenty three right on time,
Speaker 1: right exactly, you know, you know. So yeah, So that
Speaker 1: was kind of how I learned just records and playing
Speaker 1: and learning how to read the crowd. So like I
Speaker 1: knew if I played something and everybody as long as
Speaker 1: they're talking, like as long as everybody is talking and
Speaker 1: having a good time, I'm playing something, then it's cool.
Speaker 1: If you play something and they may look at it, yeah,
Speaker 1: they get quiet, they look or whatever, and it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, you dropped some bullshit. So I like hostile
Speaker 1: environment exactly like seven eighty. You know, it's all around
Speaker 1: that time. But I would always just play kind of
Speaker 1: those records and that was yeah, that was it.
Speaker 5: Now, it's weird that you made that observation at seven
Speaker 5: because mine was the exact opposite, because of my father
Speaker 5: always been shopping records.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the process is always he would go to a
Speaker 1: record store.
Speaker 5: And the guy behind the count's like, all right, you
Speaker 5: need this that he when he saw my dad, he'd
Speaker 5: already knew all right, mister Lee, hear your records. And
Speaker 5: he would just gather all a bunch of forty fives
Speaker 5: or whatever, get a bunch of records and give it
Speaker 5: to my dad. The bill comes to three hundred bucks,
Speaker 5: but you know it's nineteen seventy year three thousand dollars right,
Speaker 5: So literally I'm carrying I'm carrying the box of forty fives.
Speaker 5: He's carrying the LPs. We would go to rehearsal, and
Speaker 5: of course my dad's band would rummage through what they want. Okay,
Speaker 5: we'll take Ohio players, We'll take no, no, no no.
Speaker 5: So I would get to own the records, not show
Speaker 5: left those left behind. And it's usually the flops. Okay,
Speaker 5: but because I'm six and seven, I don't know anything.
Speaker 1: I know it's a flop.
Speaker 5: So I will say the first ten years of my
Speaker 5: life was loving nothing but the flops.
Speaker 1: But I can see but that I can see as
Speaker 1: a DJ, that becomes kind of a superpower because you
Speaker 1: know you're looking where no one else is. Like, you
Speaker 1: can still find stuff on them records that like someone
Speaker 1: else would overlook.
Speaker 5: But to this day it makes me not like I
Speaker 5: never liked the hit single, which I mean again, I
Speaker 5: feel like Stevie Wonder is more defined by pastimes. I mean,
Speaker 5: that doesn't count because Coolio sampled it. But that wasn't
Speaker 5: a single, right, fun fact, I think I mentioned this before.
Speaker 5: Do you know that isn't she Lovely was not a
Speaker 5: single because Radio just I mean DJs thoughts, DJ's were
Speaker 5: allowed to play whatever they wanted to and you know
Speaker 5: that sort of thing. So yeah, like for me, it
Speaker 5: was always the filler and the flop song that tracked
Speaker 5: me and whatever I had Steve send Joeman as a kid,
Speaker 5: like if it was love roller Coaster, I didn't like that.
Speaker 5: But you know, if it was fop fop, that was
Speaker 5: my ship, right exactly, that was my ship. When was
Speaker 5: the first concert you ever went to?
Speaker 1: First concert I ever went to? It was the fresh Fest.
Speaker 1: This would have been nineteen eighty five six something like that.
Speaker 1: This is Greensboro Coliseum, shit, And this was my uncle Brod.
Speaker 1: He took me. It was Fat Boys, Run DMC Houdini,
Speaker 1: and yeah, that was the first time I really saw.
Speaker 1: I just remember seeing Run DMC and I remember seeing
Speaker 1: you know one that night. I feel like the Fat
Speaker 1: Boys might have won. The Fat Boys they went off.
Speaker 1: I remember that. I actually my uncle actually brought me
Speaker 1: a fat Boy's sweatshirt that night. Yeah, I mean he
Speaker 1: did it on the low. I still have it. I
Speaker 1: don't have it. I wish I would have kept it, man,
Speaker 1: but nah, I don't have it. He took me out
Speaker 1: one night. It was him and me, and he had
Speaker 1: this girl he was seeing and her kids, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And so we all went and so afterwards,
Speaker 1: like he dropped him off and then we went in
Speaker 1: the car and he was like, look, I got you this,
Speaker 1: and he got me a sweatshirt.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 1: He couldn't afford to buy everyone. He couldn't flex. He
Speaker 1: couldn't flex. So I was like, I appreciate it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that was my first show and I just remember seeing
Speaker 1: that and that was definitely the line in the sand
Speaker 1: of like, Okay, Luther and Patty is my mama's music,
Speaker 1: but this is my music, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I guess I maybe this was like I was in
Speaker 1: first grade, so I might have been yeah, around the
Speaker 1: same time, like seven six seven something like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, like I I know, I want to know
Speaker 5: what that feels like, the witness hip hop at a
Speaker 5: young age.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know it was nine.
Speaker 5: I still feel like I'm the elder Statesman when Rappers
Speaker 5: Light came out.
Speaker 1: But for you, you're like, nah, I was I warn't
Speaker 1: in it? Yeah yeah, yeah, it was yeah, one seventy eight,
Speaker 1: but you're one one right exactly. Yeah, bro so nah, man,
Speaker 1: that was my first concert, and that was the first
Speaker 1: time I saw like I was like, yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to I didn't know even like wanting to do this,
Speaker 1: like what that meant. But it was just something in
Speaker 1: the music that spoke to me, and I was just like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is me, this is this is my side of
Speaker 1: the street. Gotcha all right? So what's the last album
Speaker 1: you enjoyed from start to finish? Man?
Speaker 8: Last?
Speaker 1: I mind joy from start to finish. Actually just been
Speaker 1: I just been back on my vinyl shit. Man, I
Speaker 1: think the last record I bought, I just think of
Speaker 1: off the top swing out Sister is Better to Travel.
Speaker 1: That's why you're doing that on your ig. I just
Speaker 1: in the crib. I just been in the crib playing records.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, all right, this is what I'm listening
Speaker 1: to now, and I just throw it up and it's.
Speaker 5: Harder to skip or whatever. If it's on vinyl, you
Speaker 5: gotta let it go to it.
Speaker 9: You also got like a whole thing Fante. You was like,
Speaker 9: because if it's new to me, it's new. That's what
Speaker 9: he said to me last week.
Speaker 1: Yeah new to me new, Yeah it's not you know. Now.
Speaker 1: The one thing I will say was good about just
Speaker 1: the Internet and kind of everything streaming. All that is
Speaker 1: that it really erased. There's no such thing anymore as
Speaker 1: new music or old music. It's just stuff you know
Speaker 1: and stuff you don't. So if it's a that came
Speaker 1: out in seventy two, or it's a song that came
Speaker 1: out yesterday, if I'm hearing it for the first time,
Speaker 1: that's a new song to me, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So that was one of the ones that Swing Got
Speaker 1: Sister record. I knew breakout right and I knew like Surrender,
Speaker 1: but I'd never heard the whole album. Can we now
Speaker 1: say that Twilight World is the best song that shot
Speaker 1: they never got to re Let's talk about it, yo, man.
Speaker 1: Yeah that yeah, that record. Yeah, if you see it
Speaker 1: out anywhere, Like, if you like Twilight World, Swing got.
Speaker 1: So this is the first album day first up. It's
Speaker 1: better than Travels. Yeah, their first album. That joint is
Speaker 1: fire in the end.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I will say, Yeah, if you had a shot
Speaker 5: a Junes and couldn't wait for an entire four years
Speaker 5: for her to get the next record rerenning, that's how
Speaker 5: I let Swing out Sister in my life. Actually, Twilight
Speaker 5: World's another one, like when I want to think of
Speaker 5: like high school, tenth grade or whatever, like you know,
Speaker 5: you calling a joint up or whatever, like this is
Speaker 5: like your audition in Twilight World.
Speaker 1: Do you not know this song?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, okay, that whole.
Speaker 1: Record is yes. See, I think that's the last. I
Speaker 1: think that's one of the ones I caught, just in
Speaker 1: terms of fulling, because mostly I mostly caught twelve inches
Speaker 1: for the most part, but I do have like Ye
Speaker 1: had swing Out Sister. That album is crazy. Trying to
Speaker 1: think of some other ones. God, I just just think
Speaker 1: of like full length records that I was up on. Yo.
Speaker 1: There's a record Manolo but Drinking. You probably know this
Speaker 1: with Steve. I'm sure Manolao but Drina. He's like a
Speaker 1: percussions guy. Used to be a weather report. He had
Speaker 1: a record that came out on A and M in
Speaker 1: eighty I want to say eighty one. It's just called Manolo.
Speaker 1: That shit is crazy, like the first it's produced by
Speaker 1: herb album produced it and Noah, yeah, it's just called Manola.
Speaker 1: It's not on streaming, it's just yeah.
Speaker 11: I was just saying, okay, so it's not Spanish in
Speaker 11: any type of way.
Speaker 1: No, it's not. I mean it's you know, Latin jazz,
Speaker 1: you know what. But the first the first side is
Speaker 1: like crazy, and then the second side he kind of
Speaker 1: you know what, the Saturday is fucking fire. But uh,
Speaker 1: that was just another musical discovery I found. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this shit is crazy. All right, who are your top
Speaker 1: three guests?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 1: Top three guests? Man, I gotta say, oh man, this
Speaker 1: is god.
Speaker 8: This is tough.
Speaker 1: No matter how I think about, it's tough. Man. I
Speaker 1: want to say I really enjoyed the Dungeon Family episode,
Speaker 1: Like you know, we got Rico, you know, God rest
Speaker 1: his soul.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 1: Man, that was just because I mean that music was
Speaker 1: just you know, their music, and I think I got
Speaker 1: to give them flowers. I'm like, by y'all, music really
Speaker 1: got me through some shit, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And just you know, coming from the South and seeing
Speaker 1: Dungeon Family just that collective what they were doing, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And you know that just opened
Speaker 1: up a whole new world for us. So definitely Dungeon fam.
Speaker 1: I will say, oh my god, man, yo, llll COOLJ
Speaker 1: like LLL I was in he was in rare form.
Speaker 1: I'm done playing Detective Peak.
Speaker 9: That was.
Speaker 1: That was and uh, man, let me see for my
Speaker 1: last one. Three I will probably go yeah, man, I'll
Speaker 1: go with uh, I go with the Porner sisters. I
Speaker 1: go with the sisters. I never that was my first
Speaker 1: time seeing them, and crazy enough, like I had actually
Speaker 1: heard for the like for the first time. I bought
Speaker 1: that record, the one the Porters of the Self type
Speaker 1: their debut, because I never heard the whole I mean,
Speaker 1: I knew can Can, but I never heard the whole album.
Speaker 1: And stylistically the album is kind of all over the place,
Speaker 1: but vocally they are singing the fun oh my God.
Speaker 5: Their versual album, their version of River Yeah verse Man
Speaker 5: covered Lambert Hendrickson.
Speaker 4: Yah.
Speaker 1: That ship is a vocal master class. So I was
Speaker 1: really thankful that we got a chance to meet them
Speaker 1: a Bondie porn and roof corner and uh and just
Speaker 1: give them their flowers. That was an amazing episode. Yep,
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 5: What is like our underrated episodes Faith, I will say
Speaker 5: that's a disappointing episode if we will collectively say that
Speaker 5: maybe Faith's episode lacked, and I'm almost certain it's because
Speaker 5: she knew too much.
Speaker 8: We also five hour episodes back then.
Speaker 1: That was too right. That was a lot to ask.
Speaker 1: So what did you order for lunch at?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 11: But her and the old girl that directed Detroit.
Speaker 1: I was like, that was kind of Catherine. Yeah, underrated man,
Speaker 1: I thought uh Leroy Burgess episode. I was really glad
Speaker 1: we got him. That was kind of underrated for me.
Speaker 1: He was like just really just an unsung architect of
Speaker 1: you know, black music in you know, in the late
Speaker 1: seventies post disco period. And yeah, that was Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was That was one of my top I thought we
Speaker 1: were underrated on.
Speaker 9: I'm a shout out George Faison just because it might
Speaker 9: not be appreciated in this moment, but that's going to
Speaker 9: be a part of a historical story. There's not a
Speaker 9: lot of black dance oral history.
Speaker 5: I gotta say his part of what is now will
Speaker 5: eventually be the Earth Wind and Fire documentary. He was
Speaker 5: very clear and concise and and he's a major part
Speaker 5: of that story. Like and seeing Jesus Christ, like his
Speaker 5: all the footage on him and his prime Yeah, him
Speaker 5: given instructions and all that stuff. Like there's a lot
Speaker 5: of dance rehearsals and the way that instructs.
Speaker 1: So that's awesome. Yeah, I have all like an absolute
Speaker 1: respect for for for for his work.
Speaker 8: I love q Tip.
Speaker 7: He was so into me music as much as we were.
Speaker 1: I thought that was so he got us hyped.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and he was like it was like we were
Speaker 7: at his bar mitzvah.
Speaker 5: And finally and finally the internet got to see what
Speaker 5: the what the crook Clinton sample was so and it
Speaker 5: was on It wasn't.
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, yes it was on the can't just say
Speaker 9: those recordings that we did at what was we were
Speaker 9: we at Central?
Speaker 1: No anything?
Speaker 10: I'm about to say, l A, we were at.
Speaker 1: Those Garrett say Garrett Shaka, Yeah we weren't. She wasn't
Speaker 1: at that studio, but Russian that was a different.
Speaker 11: That was different I was talking about, is right, Dion.
Speaker 7: Colet U, Danton.
Speaker 1: Shout out to uh old boy just saved it down.
Speaker 1: They purchased. I will also say that for me, we.
Speaker 11: Got to ask all those questions but to well, I'm
Speaker 11: not gonna.
Speaker 5: Saying every Okay, so you know my first musical memory
Speaker 5: is well, we all found out that I had a
Speaker 5: fear of music modulations because I've gotten a second degree
Speaker 5: burn on my leg running in the house and slipped
Speaker 5: on the radiator. Wow, right when Curtis Mayfield changes the
Speaker 5: key and Freddy's dead to the higher key, right souls,
Speaker 5: which probably also a subconscious Sorry.
Speaker 1: It's all right. I didn't know you had a fear
Speaker 1: about yo.
Speaker 5: If you have a modulations, yeah, I have just a
Speaker 5: song for you, with the exception of Golden Lady, Are
Speaker 5: you up human Nature?
Speaker 9: You up?
Speaker 1: On ish? Don't stop? It's don't stop. It's a t K.
Speaker 1: It's on TK disco. It's a disco record. No, don't stop.
Speaker 1: That song modulates like eighty times at the end. It's
Speaker 1: like a long disco joint and it just keeps going up.
Speaker 1: It's is hilarious, it's not. It's not so people modulate
Speaker 1: for like of uh, like sweeping.
Speaker 7: What's the Michael Jackson man, I mean like that one
Speaker 7: on every four every eight minutes.
Speaker 9: What's on.
Speaker 7: Marry Me?
Speaker 1: Like will be there?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, but that song is so lyon King Doubt it
Speaker 1: doesn't feel scary to me.
Speaker 5: So here's the like sensory overload modulations. The thing is
Speaker 5: is that now this came out when I was well one.
Speaker 5: This burning accident happened when I was three, So this
Speaker 5: sort of ties into him being on soul train. And
Speaker 5: this probably also explains my soul training obsession because all
Speaker 5: I remember was seeing him perform. Like again, I'm on
Speaker 5: my back. They're trying to whatever butter my leg or something.
Speaker 1: How did you burn yourself? Like what was believe? Did
Speaker 1: I know? And you shouldn't be that. Yeah, we used
Speaker 1: to do that to help you. So I guess it
Speaker 1: was a black No, that was yeah, we you but
Speaker 1: if I burned the hand he put butter on you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, according to my sister, Uh, I just got off
Speaker 5: the bathtub drying me off, and I was running and
Speaker 5: we were staying in Compton because my parents were recording.
Speaker 5: We leave the congress ally record. So my grandmother lived
Speaker 5: in Compton, and I ran past the front door of
Speaker 5: my grandmother's house and I guess there's a slippery kind
Speaker 5: of rug. She didn't have a vest of you, so
Speaker 5: kind of like a slippery rug thing. I slipped on
Speaker 5: the rug and I guess I.
Speaker 1: Landed and my tire right leg.
Speaker 5: Just hit the radiator and the radiator was on at
Speaker 5: least a trillion light and blood was out and everything.
Speaker 1: And I'm screaming.
Speaker 5: They're putting oil all over my leg and all I
Speaker 5: can hear just like CTSD shit totals.
Speaker 1: But literally when this part happens, Okay, can it creepy
Speaker 1: out like that?
Speaker 4: Is like the.
Speaker 6: Sound like the subway scene in the ring is like, yeah,
Speaker 6: don't don't do that.
Speaker 1: See see when you hear that is a yeah memory,
Speaker 1: it's a trigger, right, it's a trigger memory. So yeah,
Speaker 1: literally that's kind of why. Another another one is.
Speaker 11: We can't be asking a mirror all these questions. You
Speaker 11: know that right wing finish well.
Speaker 1: You already know it's the two episodes.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, at least wait, uh, that's a different one.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 5: This is where I finally worked with Bill Summons, and
Speaker 5: he basically got small bottles and just basically wow.
Speaker 1: So that's how he would He would do that, all right,
Speaker 1: in this particular case, probably.
Speaker 7: When we filmed a commercial.
Speaker 5: Michelle, Okay, So first of all, Aretha Franklin's I'm in low,
Speaker 5: we're still on.
Speaker 11: His first question.
Speaker 5: Starts very spooky to me, So we're gonna go right
Speaker 5: into the middle. So even though this is modulated to
Speaker 5: another key, the way that rf Marden would.
Speaker 1: Add extra reverb on her voice, this too would scare
Speaker 1: the ship of me.
Speaker 7: Right here.
Speaker 1: So I feel like she's been pushed off a mountains where.
Speaker 9: Spare Remember when we could use music back in the
Speaker 9: Pandora days, like we could actually do it.
Speaker 5: I don't understand how I heard is the most powerful
Speaker 5: radio conglomerate in the world use music?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 8: It's about your whole that's the most famous.
Speaker 1: Oh dude. Yeah, also a great episode.
Speaker 7: You ever want to scare this guy? Remember when hold
Speaker 7: we just had like one lamp in the background.
Speaker 8: No, no, I'm talking about I'm not talking about interviewing,
Speaker 8: talking about the song that we broke the we did.
Speaker 1: We break up?
Speaker 5: Probably the song that scared the Jesus album the most.
Speaker 5: This is the number one modulation.
Speaker 7: What was the question?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 8: The number one modulation scarce the number number one question.
Speaker 1: There's one the monsters. There is when the monsters on
Speaker 1: the bed and then alight on then war and then
Speaker 1: moment like literally and then and he two is also
Speaker 1: falling off the mountain side. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, if you take anything from this ten year experience,
Speaker 7: your brain works differently. There you go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I will say that my first musical memory is,
Speaker 5: without a doubt, songs that scared me.
Speaker 1: Tied with record covers that scared me so or why
Speaker 1: can't we be friends?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh same on the world by the main ingredient.
Speaker 5: And yes, even I still maintain that Stevie Wonder is
Speaker 5: drowning in donuts and your songs in.
Speaker 1: The Key of Life. It looks like the thing of
Speaker 1: them cookies. Wait, okay, now I'm seeing the key thing
Speaker 1: of those like Danish cookies, the ones that used to
Speaker 1: be in the Blue Teams, thing of the cover of
Speaker 1: what's a short brand.
Speaker 5: You're Stevie Wonder in nineteen seventy six, and I'm the
Speaker 5: art director of Motown. No, I'm the art director of Motown.
Speaker 7: You're Stevie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now I'm Stevie Wonder. You're the art director of Motown. Okay,
Speaker 1: I can described to me the cover of songs in
Speaker 1: kid Life. All right, Stevie, we're gonna have you in
Speaker 1: the in the center, but it's gonna be like a
Speaker 1: brown cover. Well use that brown. It's so it's like
Speaker 1: an earth tonge color. Uh uh nah, No, songs here
Speaker 1: Life was like a brownish kind of thing. The all
Speaker 1: of them was well that was okay, yeah, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: so Stevie, all right, So you're gonna be in the
Speaker 1: middle and it's gonna have like these ridges around you
Speaker 1: that Okay, I'm gonna feel this cookie. You feel the
Speaker 1: ridges on the you know what I mean, Like it's
Speaker 1: gonna be that I cat Stevie touched the cookie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's about the best I could do for Stevie.
Speaker 9: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: It's man dark like nah?
Speaker 7: What was his response?
Speaker 5: I literally, yeah, I would routinely take the records I
Speaker 5: didn't like and hide them in the basement and subsequently
Speaker 5: get in trouble when my dad can't find where's my
Speaker 5: war record? And then I gotta go in the basement
Speaker 5: and like I would bury that ship under like so
Speaker 5: we're big faces.
Speaker 1: Was that a scary thing like Lewis Solongo? Yes, that
Speaker 1: was meaning on that but yes, that that would have
Speaker 1: been Herbie Handcock.
Speaker 11: Davis had ones too.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 5: Marty Clairwick who did the Bitches Brew cover in the
Speaker 5: Herbie Handcoff His scariest one is Buddy Miles's record where
Speaker 5: Buddy Miles is turned into a mountain, like he looks
Speaker 5: like jab of the Hut the Job of the Hut,
Speaker 5: and it's that too, also was in the Scary pile.
Speaker 5: So yeah, that's that's my childhood. And what was the
Speaker 5: first record you bought?
Speaker 1: With you on bridge? All right? So the on just
Speaker 1: like a one more answer, all right?
Speaker 7: Right, No, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: There's the thing. Here's someone purchased a record for me.
Speaker 5: Now, when I do interviews, of course I will just
Speaker 5: do the safe answer, which is, yeah, you know I
Speaker 5: got a Jackson five record, right.
Speaker 1: But the truth is that my first forty five ever.
Speaker 5: Was Neil Sidaka's Bad Blood because I judge Records. My
Speaker 5: favorite logo was Elton John's label, the Rocket MCA Rocket Company.
Speaker 5: It's like green and it's like a happy train on
Speaker 5: it or whatever. Maybe I like trained soul train. I
Speaker 5: don't know, but I like the way the logo looked.
Speaker 5: So I purchased Neil Sidaka and Elton John Bad Blood
Speaker 5: also Rufus's Dance with Me on forty five because ABC
Speaker 5: Records had a dope logo. I did not like Capitol
Speaker 5: Records logo, which is why I never gave it an
Speaker 5: adult had to put it on if it was on
Speaker 5: Capital Tavars.
Speaker 1: I have the whole the Beach Boys, the Beatles, whatever
Speaker 1: I did, I didn't like it.
Speaker 5: That's why I didn't That's why I recognized half the
Speaker 5: samples on Tribe Records because I didn't listen to canniball
Speaker 5: Adelie because he had a boring logo.
Speaker 1: I didn't like any Capitol Records.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm looking at some old footage. Can I change
Speaker 9: my answers to our favorite show? Because like, dang, we
Speaker 9: had Bizz.
Speaker 10: Sleeper Summer and Stephen Hill.
Speaker 5: The Stephen Hill episode That's that night, Oh God that
Speaker 5: which also that this episode is also being done man
Speaker 5: and the worst timeline.
Speaker 7: Wait final question once the last album you listened all
Speaker 7: the way through?
Speaker 1: So I mean the thing is is that No, I
Speaker 1: will say that Salt is a group that I won't
Speaker 1: turn off.
Speaker 5: Is always on constant rotation because it's a very comforting sounding.
Speaker 5: But really like actively listening, I would probably say, like
Speaker 5: maybe Doughnuts, you know what, I take that back. I
Speaker 5: actually liked the album after Seated at the Table when
Speaker 5: I Get Home when I think it was when I
Speaker 5: Get Home Solange's album After. Yeah, like I would actively
Speaker 5: listen to that and like it. I will say for
Speaker 5: our episodes though, probably the two episodes that made me
Speaker 5: cry is speaking of Knowles Matthew Knowles's episode that was
Speaker 5: a tear jerker for me, and the Ben Veren episode,
Speaker 5: Come on you the Ben the Ben Veren episode that
Speaker 5: to me, I didn't know that he had that much history.
Speaker 9: And shout out to one of our listeners who wrote
Speaker 9: in a review that I didn't know if there was
Speaker 9: an issue with Roots and Alex Haley and plagiarism.
Speaker 11: I was like, oh yeah, okay, I forgot I forgot
Speaker 11: about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah that was the thing. Oh yeah, like coming to
Speaker 1: America asque sort of like he paid the money. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah he had to. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, did not
Speaker 1: know that.
Speaker 5: For those that don't know the history of the show,
Speaker 5: A big part of the inspiration of the show was
Speaker 5: my fandom of the Gordon Gartreil podcast or Gordon Gartrail Radio,
Speaker 5: which I guess at the time was the word podcast
Speaker 5: even a thing it was.
Speaker 1: But I didn't really know what it was. I mean,
Speaker 1: we you know, it wasn't what it is now. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this was back in man, this had to be two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight nine something like that, so about a
Speaker 1: year after the iPhone is invented. Yeah yeah, in terms
Speaker 1: of so yeah, brainchild man out DJ Branchild that was like,
Speaker 1: you know, me and him go back to the boards.
Speaker 1: He was one of the first people to bootleg Little Brother,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and kind of spread it around,
Speaker 1: and so he dj the release party for my for
Speaker 1: We when me and Nick put out Authenticity, like like
Speaker 1: me and Bill like we you know, we've been in
Speaker 1: each other's cribs, like that's my dude, And so I
Speaker 1: just hit him one day and he's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite DJs. Me and him would just be on the
Speaker 1: internet like all night on AIM, like sending each other shit.
Speaker 1: And so one day I hit him, I say, yo, man,
Speaker 1: you want to do a podcast? And he was just
Speaker 1: like yeah, okay. And we didn't know what we were doing.
Speaker 1: I just knew, you know, how'd y'all record it? And
Speaker 1: you're in sheeparate states. So the way we did it
Speaker 1: was back then. Bill would put the records together like
Speaker 1: I'm like, look, man, you select the music. I'll just
Speaker 1: do my segments just talking shit for you know, fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes whatever, and then we'll just go back and forth
Speaker 1: and then at the end, I'll pick a song, you know,
Speaker 1: and he's like, all right, cool. So he would do
Speaker 1: his mixes at the crib and then I would do
Speaker 1: my recording my vocal parts at my crib and I
Speaker 1: just email it to him and so then he would
Speaker 1: put the show together and then we just put it
Speaker 1: up and uh. It was the thing that we just
Speaker 1: started doing because this is never at the same time. Nah.
Speaker 1: It was a straightforward the same.
Speaker 7: Wow, Okay, if I can instant message to you, why
Speaker 7: would I would I show up and.
Speaker 1: Know each other? You know, who are you?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Man?
Speaker 1: So that was how we started. And it was just
Speaker 1: something that I would just do, you know, we just
Speaker 1: do for fun. It was just a way to share
Speaker 1: music that we listened to and you know kind of
Speaker 1: give you know, talk pop culture, talk, you know, politics
Speaker 1: or whatever, just you know, kind of talk ship. But
Speaker 1: that was how we started. And you know, we didn't know.
Speaker 1: It wasn't until like I started going out and doing
Speaker 1: shows and stuff and people would be like, yo, so
Speaker 1: when is going and Gaunt Trail coming back. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: y'all listening to that ship. They're like, yeah, that ship
Speaker 1: helps me get through my workday. So we did that
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of years, maybe like you know, two
Speaker 1: three years something like that. If I'm mistaken.
Speaker 5: If I'm not mistaken, the episode is like on the
Speaker 5: archives or at least on YouTube or.
Speaker 1: Nah, it's pre all of that them episodes is ship man.
Speaker 1: I think I think Bill may got him still, but yeah.
Speaker 11: The holder of episode is he got him.
Speaker 1: But I mean, but yeah, but like yeah, so we
Speaker 1: we did that. But that was kind of how it started.
Speaker 1: And so after a couple of years, I think, you know, Bill,
Speaker 1: I think he just, you know, he just didn't want
Speaker 1: to do that. He was kind of his relationship with
Speaker 1: DJing was changing at that time. And so a couple
Speaker 1: of years later, you know what I mean. So goes
Speaker 1: the story. I get a call from shan Ji. He
Speaker 1: was like, he's like, yo, man, so Emir is doing
Speaker 1: this radio show, and he said, you know, I want
Speaker 1: you to be the Robin to his Batman, he said,
Speaker 1: but on the low, I kind of want you to
Speaker 1: be the Batman.
Speaker 7: Let's just.
Speaker 2: I said.
Speaker 1: I said, okay, man, whatever, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: and had no idea what it was going to be.
Speaker 1: I was on a plane within a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and the week that I got this show, this was
Speaker 1: the same week that I was working on the Breaks
Speaker 1: with Dan Charnas and DJ Premiere. I was doing music
Speaker 1: for that. Shout out to the breaks, yeah, man, shouts
Speaker 1: the Dan and Premiere that whole family there was also
Speaker 1: with me and my wife. We were in the process
Speaker 1: of getting ready to buy our house, so we were
Speaker 1: in the middle of that. And that was also, like
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, my dad and my granddad died in
Speaker 1: the same week. So it was like all of this
Speaker 1: was happening. And then Shanji calls and so I'm like, okay, yeah, cool.
Speaker 1: So I had no idea what it was going to be,
Speaker 1: you know, getting on planes, flying back and forth from
Speaker 1: here to North Carolina every you know other you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks or whatever, and that was the
Speaker 1: start of it. Man, and Bill was as it was.
Speaker 1: Shanji told me, he said, y'all were trying to find
Speaker 1: a host of cause for the show. And Bill was like, well,
Speaker 1: what about Fante and shan Gee? What for me is
Speaker 1: that you? Was like, oh, Man, me and Fan a
Speaker 1: gonna be arguing all the time, and sean Ge was like,
Speaker 1: that's exactly why we like, that's why we need to
Speaker 1: get it, you know. And so that was how I
Speaker 1: ended up here. So I just kind of jumped head
Speaker 1: first inn and was like, all right, fuck it, I
Speaker 1: don't know what this is gonna be, but let's just
Speaker 1: make it dope. And so I just always tried to
Speaker 1: make you know, the theme songs or whatever. I was
Speaker 1: always wanted to make sure that you know, our ship
Speaker 1: was always fresh and that we always you know, it
Speaker 1: was kind of at the forefront and just you know,
Speaker 1: it was a fun show to listen to. So that
Speaker 1: was my start.
Speaker 5: So I don't think that our listeners know the the
Speaker 5: double role that you play on the show. Uh, in
Speaker 5: addition to being co host of it, but you're also
Speaker 5: part of the organizing team and you specifically have to
Speaker 5: like reach out to the wishless artists and whatnot.
Speaker 11: They call those producers.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're you're a producer of the Showya.
Speaker 11: Thank you? Oh my god. I never say that sentence
Speaker 11: before any who.
Speaker 5: Tell me what's under the hood, like how the sausages
Speaker 5: made experiences? Like what were our close Pano cigar guests?
Speaker 5: Are you allowed to say which artist was the hardest
Speaker 5: to organize to hardest?
Speaker 9: I mean, it's funny, I would ask, I wondered, Britney,
Speaker 9: do you think Mariah is that Mariah hardest.
Speaker 11: Would you say that Britney?
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, So Mariah had tech issues on camera, but.
Speaker 10: I will say the artist that we got so close
Speaker 10: to was on camera. No, she was in the dark.
Speaker 11: She was on camera, remember she was on zoom.
Speaker 1: But were in her bedroom or something?
Speaker 11: Yes, and I spend yes.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 9: But the one that we got so close to that
Speaker 9: me and Fante definitely flew to New York to record
Speaker 9: that never happened was Mary J.
Speaker 11: Blige.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 10: We did have marriage, had Mary J.
Speaker 11: Blige.
Speaker 9: And then on the couple of hours before we were
Speaker 9: to arrive at the studio, they changed their mind or
Speaker 9: something happened. What had happened was the greatest chase that
Speaker 9: we have still been doing is probably Queen Latifah, although
Speaker 9: I booked her because I don't remember, but I booked
Speaker 9: on your your series on A and E got her
Speaker 9: booked for that, but couldn't get her to come around
Speaker 9: the Quest Love Supreme.
Speaker 1: That's all right.
Speaker 9: Oh, and then the biggest blunder, and I'm going to
Speaker 9: say my biggest blunder ever on this show. Oh my god, y'all,
Speaker 9: I apologize.
Speaker 1: What episode?
Speaker 11: There was an episode and it was a Patti LaBelle episode.
Speaker 9: Oh we have all that there was a zoom issue
Speaker 9: and I thought we was morning and show and we
Speaker 9: only got like fifteen minutes.
Speaker 11: When I tell y'all, it was so good, it was
Speaker 11: such a good episode.
Speaker 8: It was so good. Damn it was so good.
Speaker 1: Who was there? A nightmare organizing person? An assistant h
Speaker 1: what had happened?
Speaker 9: Was? Well, I mean, well we had I mean, I
Speaker 9: don't want to say nightmare on their side, but you know,
Speaker 9: I think that I can't remember the Will Smith debacle.
Speaker 11: That wasn't his fault, right, that was and that was.
Speaker 1: Before y'all woke me up in the morning.
Speaker 11: You got a new person you off of.
Speaker 1: That facetimed right?
Speaker 9: That was.
Speaker 1: How a lot of life has happened on this show.
Speaker 7: Y oh, let's talk about man.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all I remember was I was asleep in my
Speaker 5: slumber and then Will Smith facetimed me. I was like,
Speaker 5: why is he facetiming me? Then I rushed to put
Speaker 5: my you know, my clothes on or whatever, and like
Speaker 5: it was, and then I saw that I missed.
Speaker 9: The Also one of our best, one of our best conversations,
Speaker 9: because that was postbook before everything else.
Speaker 11: Happened, Yes, and we really like got into it.
Speaker 1: That was good. That was a great episode.
Speaker 11: But I can't remember somebody who was like really hard, difficult,
Speaker 11: you know.
Speaker 1: Just us, just you and your schedule. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: I will say Steve.
Speaker 5: So for me, I think and you mentioned it, you
Speaker 5: know the fact that your early childhood was full of
Speaker 5: memories doing like you know, fake radio shows or whatever
Speaker 5: when you're a kid, and I've heard some of these things,
Speaker 5: which was really like, yo, man, when we do do
Speaker 5: like a fake radio show, That to me was like
Speaker 5: the beginning impetus of you said like why don't you
Speaker 5: do a podcast or something like that?
Speaker 1: So for you, who's the most overwhelming guest?
Speaker 5: Like your love for Elvis Costello is well known these circles,
Speaker 5: but I almost feel now that you're genuinely friends with him,
Speaker 5: so you know, it's I don't think it's a thing
Speaker 5: where it's like before you see him, you're like, holy shit,
Speaker 5: I'm talking to Elvis Costella Like you guys are actually
Speaker 5: legit friends now, correct, I mean after producing this record
Speaker 5: and all that stuff.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'd say so okay.
Speaker 5: But for you, like, is there a bucketless guess that
Speaker 5: you wish we could have gotten yeah, Billy Joel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and.
Speaker 11: Lewis Lewis.
Speaker 1: We got Hue Lewis.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 5: So but as far as like your bucket list interviews, like,
Speaker 5: have you fulfilled the majority of them at least?
Speaker 8: Oh, certainly a lot more than I ever thought I
Speaker 8: would be a part of.
Speaker 1: Also, you have an offspring of the show, like you
Speaker 1: started the Sugar Network.
Speaker 8: Sugar Network shout out to the Sugar Network. Yeah, well
Speaker 8: it was sort of just.
Speaker 5: You know, you explain how this started, because well I
Speaker 5: got the you were like pre d nice with using
Speaker 5: Instagram live stories as a radio show.
Speaker 1: You would play complete records and not get caught off
Speaker 1: or any of those things.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, so it was it was really a whole
Speaker 8: bunch of QLs fans that were watching our lives. At
Speaker 8: first we were doing them from thirty Rock while we
Speaker 8: were mixing whatever, we'd start doing live stories. And then
Speaker 8: once the once the live stories start to include the
Speaker 8: ability to bring a guest on, it was kind of
Speaker 8: the rest of it kind of wrote itself. It was like,
Speaker 8: we all have our own fucking TV shows now if
Speaker 8: we want, you know, our own talk shows. So I
Speaker 8: just turned mine into you know, a semi real one
Speaker 8: and it went on for kind of marriage the timeline
Speaker 8: of this podcast. But it's sort of fizzled out after
Speaker 8: season six or seven.
Speaker 1: So what constitutes a season? How many episodes in the season.
Speaker 8: It wasn't like that, but thousands and thousands.
Speaker 5: No, the Sugar Network was always on. I always see
Speaker 5: you keep did you keep the archives? Like after you record,
Speaker 5: would you save them all?
Speaker 8: Well, they get saved anyway, I think in your in
Speaker 8: your archive, whether you whether you delete them or not.
Speaker 8: But it was kind of the you know, just on
Speaker 8: a side project to this where it was where we
Speaker 8: would interview the not famous people, the people of the fans,
Speaker 8: you know, the people that were just watching this show
Speaker 8: or whatever I was.
Speaker 5: Doing on the Sugar Network that you know in addition
Speaker 5: to that site. Fans are collective, Yeah, fan bases and whatnot.
Speaker 10: We all got to appear on the Sugar.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: It was It was fun. But you know, it seems
Speaker 8: like Instagram Live Stories seems like it's kind of fizzled out,
Speaker 8: Like not a lot of people doing lives anymore.
Speaker 1: It seems like, well it's hard to also play music.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: I didn't even realize that now there's technology on Zoo
Speaker 5: that doesn't even allow me to like play a song
Speaker 5: for someone when I'm on a zoom.
Speaker 11: Say what now, Like the.
Speaker 5: Song goes like this, and you play it and when
Speaker 5: you share a screen, well no, if you want to
Speaker 5: play music on your zoom just from the background, yeah
Speaker 5: wow music, yeah, is forbidden. They even want to stop
Speaker 5: it that way, Like in terms of broadcasting. We'll close
Speaker 5: this episode was just asking you. What I was trying
Speaker 5: to lead to was I would like to believe that
Speaker 5: the Sugar Network also led to another dream of yours,
Speaker 5: which is starting a label. And it started out as
Speaker 5: a vanity label, but now you have a legit jazz label.
Speaker 8: Like Yeah, the timeline of the label JMI very much
Speaker 8: mirrors the same timeline as this basically started around the
Speaker 8: same time and the Sugar Networks started slightly after that,
Speaker 8: I think. But well, yeah, it's been eight or nine years.
Speaker 8: We've got twenty five records released, a good amount when
Speaker 8: you're all analog and things take a while and cost
Speaker 8: a lot. So very proud of that and definitely inspired
Speaker 8: by it all, y'all.
Speaker 1: And the records sound awesome. They sound awesome. That's the goal.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 5: All right, so y'all, yes, we're going to do a
Speaker 5: part two her haye to you know, ended so abruptly.
Speaker 11: We got to do a tease. All right, coming up,
Speaker 11: we're doing it too, all.
Speaker 8: Right, do they come up bathroom break.
Speaker 1: We're gonna answer fan questions in part two?
Speaker 11: Yes, okay, looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: Yes, wait, that was the big lead up. I'm sure.
Speaker 5: All right anyway, or and be half of fun Tickelo
Speaker 5: and on paid Bill and Laya and Sugar Steve. This
Speaker 5: is Questo and uh we will see you for the
Speaker 5: official part two of the final quest Love Supreme episode.
Speaker 10: Well, we'll all get naked. Yes, yeah, I mean give
Speaker 10: something to look forward to.
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