February 22, 2024 • 36 mins
We get a taste of everything as Flavor Flav unloads to Bethenny on anything and everything we never knew about him. The reason for his sobriety, his name, the clocks, his connection to Eddie Murphy, his secret desire regarding Taylor Swift and why Miley Cyrus once slapped him across the face! It’s time we heard it all!
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
My guest today is the iconic Flavor Flav. He is
the founding member of the rap group Public Enemy and
even had his own reality show on v H one
called Flavor of Love. These days, Flave is still performing
with Public Enemy, staying in the spotlight, and is a
proud Swiftie. This is just be with Flavor Flav.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Let's get into it. Hi are you? Where are you
in Vegas?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yep? I'm right here in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
How was all of the super Bowl craziness?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Oh man? The super Bowl was crazy out here. It was.
I mean it was a madhouse.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
It was really a madhouse, you know, first time because
ever had the Super Bowl, you know what I'm saying,
and everybody, everybody poured into Vegas. Oh man, it was
so crazy, but it was a great time. The festivities
were great. That the Snoop and Dre party was the bomb.
(01:13):
Oh man, I mean it was.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I had, I had.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I had a real good time, real good time, real
good time.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And you know, I mean it feels like you're a
veteran like you do. You know, everyone like you saw
it was like a reunion in your town. They came
to your town, so like you were like not hosting.
But it's like kind of there in your turf.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
It was like it was like that I haven't seen
in so long, you know what I'm saying. And a
lot of people that I didn't know that I've never met,
that I've always wanted to meet, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I got to see them. You know. It was crazy.
See I'm meeting Eli Manning.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Wow Legend.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, you know, Guy Fury is my boy. I did.
I did.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I did his tailgate part dj' for thirty minutes. I
did a thirty minute set that the guy if your
tailgate party.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I crushed it.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Really, it was great.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, I crushed it from eleven thirty in the morning
till twelve in the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I qushed it. So.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I know, being sober, and it's not that long you've
been sober, right, is a big part of your It
is your it has to be your life. Anybody who
has gone sober says it's the most important thing. So
how was it being sober during such an activating spectacle,
like a time when everybody's partying.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Well, honestly, it's something that I never really thought about
because all I do is just live day to day.
You know what I'm saying, And you know, I'm just
proud of the journey that I've been on right now,
it's spent four years. And you know, it's the reason
why I say it's been a long journey is because
you know, my life was bested up for eighteen years.
(03:07):
Not only that, but then also I drank for fifty
three years.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I smoked. I smoked for fifty five.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
So for me to be on.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Four years sober with no alcohol and no cigarettes right now,
I mean I feel so good inside, you know. And
not only that, but a lot of people tell me, damn,
you look so good man for your age. Man, you
don't age flavor Da da da da. That's because of
what I don't do anymore. So that's another thing that
(03:44):
that's another thing that really makes me want to keep
it up. You know what I'm saying. You know, it's
called encouragement, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, it's positive reinforcement. What was what was bottom?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Like?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
What what what made you get sober?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Like?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
What was there one moment or was it just a
culmination or you set a date for yourself? Like how
did you do that? After such a long and you're
in a career that celebrates partying, so it would you
could probably slip through the cracks. It must peopuldn't even
notice that you're an addict. If you feel like you are.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Well, well, let me tell you like this. You know,
at the point when you're ready, you're ready. And I
was ready. I was tired, you know what I'm saying.
You know, smoking and drinking and watching some of my
(04:34):
friends die, you know, from pancreatic cancer and sorosis a
liver and all of these diseases. You know what I'm saying.
I mean, I'm talking about guys my age. So when
my boy Coolio passed the way, that was a wake
(04:58):
up call for me because we were we were.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
About the same age.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
We're about the same age, and and you know, I feel,
I feel that if I would have kept drinking, I
think I was headed somewhere where I did not want
to be. And I feel blessed that God gave me
the power to be able to stop drinking so I
(05:25):
can preserve my life and be here for others. You know,
that's what I was meant to be here for. I
was meant to be here for other people, you know,
I was.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It was I wasn't I wasn't put him to take
myself away.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
And that self less.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I'm glad that I got the power to be able
to take my friends out and I'd be buying them drinks,
getting them drunk while I'd be sipping on my red
bull and pineapple juice.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I've got a mocktail for you. I'm sending you my mingle.
These are amazing. They're they're like ready to drink mocktails,
sixty calories. When I heard you were sober and I
read it, I said to send you a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I'm excited. It's great for you.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah. Well, guess what I got something to tell you.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Okay, I was in Whole Foods and I take them
up first stop.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh my god, that's crazy. Cheers. This is so fun.
I have mine too, Yay. Cheers.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
You like it, yo, I like it. This is the
this is the cucumber one.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, I'm having the blood orange elderflower.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yay.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
This is so exciting. This is so fun.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yay.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I'm sorry we're drinking together.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I like it. I like it. It's good. It's good. It's good.
You got it. Good. You got a good little mocktail here.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Thank you. Yay.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
All the flavors are good. The raspberry, the cosmo is
the favorite of people. The purple one too. Do you
have the green ones?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
So?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Does anyone call you William, the.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Police, the nurses, you know, my teachers in school?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
What about your kids?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Nah?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
My kids call me dad.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Daddy, Dad Daddy.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I get pops. I get pops every now and then.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You have nine children, if I've counted correctly?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
How many do you have?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Eight? Eight?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Do you? Ever?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
How's your relationship with all your kids? And how do
you manage it? How do you give everyone equal attention?
How does that hold dynamic? That's a lot of kids.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Well, my kids, first of all, they range from the
age of thirty seven down to four. Wow, right right,
you know? So my oldest three matter of the fact, whoa, No,
my oldest three ranges from the age of thirty eight,
because my oldest three is thirty eight, thirty seven and
(07:54):
thirty six. Then my middle three is thirty twenty eight,
twenty six. Then I have my seventeen year older. His
name is Carma, He's he's seventeen. And then I have
a four year older his name is Jordan's.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Six or out of the nest.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yes you get well, hey, you're good, check you out.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, because you know, the first three was out the nest.
Six years later I went to another nest and got
another three, and then and then came out here in
two thousand and three, ended up having another one bam.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And then a few years later I had another one.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
So I got eight children e eleven grandchildren wow. Wow,
And and I have and I have four great nieces
and nephews.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
So you were in, uh, you were in like an
iconic group and it was a crazy time in your life.
And how do you reflect upon that time now? Like
what what would you do differently? Are what do you
think about it now? Like what's your relationship to that
experience now?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Well, I just want to say that, you know, my group,
public enemy. You know, we never really ended. And not
only that, but it's never really been bad, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I mean, you know sometimes you know, and.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Every group in every single group in the world, every
single group in the world. I mean, you're going to
have somebody that don't see eye to eye. But at
the end of the day, you bring it back, and
that's what it's all about. Bringing it back. You know
what I'm saying, Mainly if the love is real, you know.
(10:09):
And one thing that I can say about me and Chuck,
because our love has always been real. We've always been
great friends, you know what I'm saying. Always been brothers,
you know what I'm saying, in the whole nine And
there are times when we don't see either eye for
a minute. Hey, come on, everybody's not going to agree
on everything totally.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
It's business that you're saying.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Your business life has had bumps with him, but you've
You've always been family, is what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, always been family.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
And not only that, but we always some way was
able to shape and mold our business life, yes to
where we're both comfortable with it. You feel me. So
A lot of people thought that public enemy ended. You know,
we never ended. We just took a break, a long break,
but we're still we're still again. But we never ended
(11:01):
to reunite.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Right, and you just performed together but a.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Lot Yeah, yeah, we just performed together.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
We did we did the I Heart, We did iHeart,
we did uh serious ex sem we did to performances
for Grammys.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Nice, right, that's a good that's a good clarification.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yeah, And we just did Clive Davis's party last week.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
So I know that the story of the clock was
you just put on a clock and everybody went crazy,
and like it's become an iconic thing that kids do.
Like it was, I don't want to say it was accidental,
but it wasn't something that you kind of decided it
was going to be your persona. It became your persona.
But where did slave a slave come from?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
It comes from this guy that his name is Kevin
Starks and he used to uh he was.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
He used to watch me without little you know.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
I used to always like like I used to I
used to love life savers. I used to love all
the charms, lolly pops, all the different bobs, all of
all the different flavors, sodas, the grapes, ferries, oranges, root
everything right. So he called me a freak for flavors,
(12:24):
calling me the flavor freak. You feel me, he started
calling he started calling me the flavor freak. So when
MC came started really getting popular, everybody had simple names
like MC Bobby Bob, MC Chucky Chuck or something. I
(12:48):
wanted a name that nobody else had, nobody else want
but yet it had to mean something. Yeah, I tried
MC flavor. So next thing, you know, it was Chuck
d that started calling me flavor Flaves.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I love it. It's great.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I mean every time I say it's like makes me
happy every time I say it. And I'm like, let me,
I'm gonna interview flavor flav today. I start laughing, like
the name is just happy. It's just very like. Even
my daughter was like, Who's flavor Flave. Yeah, it was
just like it's fun, You're iconic. And then that show
did that? What kind of impact did that show Flavor
of Love have on your life and in pop culture?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Well, let me say, my show Flavor of Love not
only did it have an impact on my life, but
it had an impact on a whole lot of other
people's lives and also a lot of other people's reality shows.
You know, my show, my show is I say, is
(13:59):
the show that kind of like change the court for
reality TV. You know a lot of people give me
those stripes today. Come on, man, you started this reality
TV shop. You know I get that. I get that
a lot. You know what I'm saying, And I'm honored.
(14:22):
I'm honored to hear it and to get it. You
know what I'm saying. It has put me on put
it this way, that reality t TV show, not me
being this real big star to people. To people, I'm
(14:45):
this big start like I'm bigger. It can come, man,
But I'm not that size to me, Yeah, I'm only
this size. I'm only you know what I'm saying. I mean,
you know, yeah, I feel I'm one of the most humblest.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
High rated.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Celebs, one of the most easiest, most recognizable celebs that
walks around with.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
No bodyguards none. You know why, because.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I was always about peace, always about you know, And
and my goal one day is to take all nationalities
of the world to unite them as one.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
That's my goal one day. That's what I really really want,
you know.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
And usually at the end of our public enemy shows,
that's the thing that I always teach before I leave
that stage, you know, because this world is made up
of a whole bunch of races of people that make
up this world. But at the end of the day,
(16:10):
there's only one race, and that's the human race.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
So we are all really we are really all brothers.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
And sisters, and we and if we can all get
together and build the wall unity. It would be so
strong no others could come and tear it down. So
that's my goal.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
One day. I just wanted to try to reunite as
many as I can.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You know, beautiful, that's a that's an admirable, valiant goal, honestly. Well,
first of all, how did you get to Vegas? Like,
what was the what was the reason to be in
Vegas before.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I left New York? This is kind of interesting.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Before I left New York, right, I said, and I visioned,
I want to live in LA and I live in
Vegas because I always lived in La. I mean, I
always loved La and I always loved Vegas. Because I'm
from New York. I'm from Long Island, you know, Freeport
(17:13):
and Roosevelt, Long Island. And also, oh, you're gonna like
this this part, this is pretty interesting. When I was
in Long Island, right, I was born and raised in Freeport,
and I moved to Roosevelt in nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Wait, how long were you in Freeport? Because I used
to go to Valley Stream and I used to roller
skate at laces. I mean, I mean Limbrook Hot skates.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
The hell out here New York and day. Wow, that's crazy.
I'm from Freeport.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, and we used to drive through Freeport. It's next
to Valley Stream and it's near Limbrook where we used
to go roller skating. I lived at the roller rink.
That's why Freeport and all my friends were from Valley Stream.
Green a green Acre's Mall.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
And I remember Green Acres Mall was my spot right
up And you know what was my spot right outside
of Green Acres Mall, The red Lobster that was there.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Wait a minute, if you know this place, I'm going
to freak out. But I don't think you're going to
know it. But it was in Freeport. It was near
the train station on Hampstead Turnpike. Raynor's cabin.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I remember Reinold's cabin.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Remember they had like chicken and ribs and hush puppies
and like you walked in and it was lodgy and
like it was the sickest. And I don't know anybody
who remembers it, so it's like I imagined it.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I remember Reinold's cabin, I remember you all. This is crazy.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
So when I when I moved to Roosevelt in nineteen
seventy four, Elie Murphy was in my ninth Great English class.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Plus you know Howard Stern is from Roosevelt.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Howard Stern moved into my house an old way. He
literally moved into my house after I moved out.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Wow, Howl is a good friend of mine. Man, that's
my boy. Good people.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You know. Also doctor Julius Irving, he's from Roosevelt.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Also, it was a group called Guy, Teddy, Riley and
Damien Hall Aaron Hall, Aaron and Damien is from Roosevelt.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Funny.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Yeah, matter of the fact, if you don't know what
I'm talking about, I'll sing the record to you.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
You ready, m I bet you know this one. All
I want to do is Romazoo.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah. All I want to do is right Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yes, that's the group called Guy but Teddy, Riley and Damien.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That's awesome. That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
So you know everyone, and you're in like the Taylor
Swift mix too, So a a you're a Swift ye
and be like, what do you think of this craziness?
You've seen it all, but this is like a phenomenon
right now, right like this is insane.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
The only thing I could say.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
I mean, I'm proud to say that I support Dealer Swift,
you know. And the reason why is because I went
home after her concert. I went home and I listened
to her lyrics and I listened to the lyrics on
the record called bad Blood. And the reason why the
(20:32):
favorite one is because that's the first one that I
got to understand number one, but number two, it's I mean,
it's real and a lot of people's lives. I mean,
we used to be friends. You fucked me over. Now
we got bad blood, right, got problem if we can't
solve them.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
I mean that stuff is real. It's really real, you know.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
So that's when I started really supporting her. And by
me supporting her, I mean it's done.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Blue alcohol water man, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
And all the all the all of the kids at
her concert, when they come over to the tenth to
see me, they give me bracelets, all of these bracelets
and stuff. Her mom came over, gave me a hug,
and you know, introduced herself to me. Then her dad
came and gave me a dagg of these guitar picks.
(21:31):
I've been giving away these brad and these guitar picks. Now,
I ended up having a new name. Are you ready
for my new name? King Swifty?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
King Swifty?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
That's nice, but Flavor Flavor King Flavor flaate Ping Swifty.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Hey, I'm an icon. I'm an icon.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You know it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I'm the only iconic Swifty that Taylor has. I don't
think there's any other icons that's the Swifty.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Not to that level.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
No, that's so like identifiable in and of you know,
on their own. It's an interesting time because she's moving markets.
She's moving the NFL like it's you're moving, like you
can move she can move stocks. It's crazy like Oprah
effect times ten.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Wait wait, wait I got something even more powerful than that.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
She's moving the earth.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yo.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
She was in Washington's state and she have a concert
that drew so many people it hit the Rector scale.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Now what other musical artists in life?
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Do you know that Jorge crowds that will hit the
Rector scale?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Crazy?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
So I consider Tailor Swift one of the most important
artists of our time.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Yeah, tell the Swift got to get and everybody be
like your flaving what's up?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Man? I'd be like hey, I'm just kind of this
move like they.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Have the baby, she's got it, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
And then and there I read something that that you
kept mistaking Miley Cyrus, who is also a queen from
when Stefani. But did they even look alike? Like, I
don't even get that. I could get it with other people.
But where did that come from?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Well, it came from the time that they looked alike.
That's where I checked this out. There was a time
a couple a few years back when they both had
the same exact haircuts.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
That's the thing that got me.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Oh yes, yes, the short haircut.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
When I ran across from bley first time ever in
my life and I was like, oh my god, Gwen, Stephanie,
Gwen Stephani.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Miley didn't say anything, She just won along with it,
just looked. I was like, when steph Farnie, I love you,
nice to meet you. She was like, okay, thank you,
I love you too. I gave her a hug and
I walked away. Then one of my boys said, Joe,
(24:36):
that's not when Stephanie. That's my I'm like, oh, oh
my god, that's more.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
That's better than the story that the press wrote the
story that she went along with it is better than
that it happened, like, that's a great story her.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I turned around and I ran back to her and I.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Was like, oh my god, I'm so sorry, yo, Miley
s I know who you are now. Your daddy Billy
Ray Cyris. I was like, oh my god, I'm so stupid.
Smacked me in the face. She smacked me in the face.
Miley Cyrus backed flavor Flavor in the face and I said,
(25:20):
I won't let it happen again, and we laughed it off. Laugh.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
She's great.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I met her once and she's you could tell by
her vibe. She said hello to me and she like
she's real, And Yo.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Can I tell you something.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
When I seen Miley this trip at the Grammys and
she see me, that girl lit up like a Christmas
tree man, word up. Miley loved herself some flave. I Loveley,
you know, but that's our connection. She said, Oh, you're
not mistaken in me for.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
For going step finding now like she's that's a girl.
Was too much. And I love Miley, man, she's the bomb.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, the best. So all right, so do you date now?
And how do you date?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Like are you social, do you go out or you're
you know, what's your story?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I'm just chilling, that's all. Hey, listen, check this out
right now.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
I'm trying to get my license so I can start
performing wedding.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I was literally just gonna say the weirdest thing, you're
a witch, because, as I said it, I was going
to say, how sick would it be for you to
marry people? I literally was going to say it. I
think it's the sickest idea ever. I think you could
make so much money marrying people. I would get married
to have you marry me like and it could be.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
That's what I'm saying, and I'm trying to do it
in time enough, just in cases that one day Hyla
and Travis Kelsey he wants to get married.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I want to be their preacher.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I don't know if that's going to happen, and I
don't mean to be negative only because it can.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
You'll be surprised. What can happen?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
No, I know, but let me ask you this, No,
it's a question. I have.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
My feeling is there can only be one peacock in
a relationship, and I think ironically he's kind of the
peacock in the relationship. He grabs that microphone a chance
he gets, he's allowed to be like maybe she likes
the fact that she gets to be in the background
a little with him, but he is the guy that
likes to be the center of attention. It seems like
(27:44):
in wighs more than her. What do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
He may be the peacock.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
But once he learns that his quarterback Patrick Mahons is
my favorite quarter that in the lead, he's going to
be like, come on, man, I know, I know Travis
Kelsey will take a liking.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
To me for that.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Absolutely, But all right, so you're gonna get your license
so you are ready to marry them. That's your that's
your motivation in this scene.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
No, I would love to. I would love to. I
would love to be the one to do it if
I could.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, Well, I just think Flavor Flavor Weddings is a
brilliant idea. I also think it's a brilliant show, to
be honest with.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
You, Yeah, would you be on it?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I mean I would be on it.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Maybe we'd co host it. I actually think.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
You coming through to get married?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Let me get oh coming through to get married?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, I would be honest, no, because I'm not that
into public marriages because I've tried that and it wasn't
that successful, to say the least.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Just to let you know, whenever you're ready to get married,
you'll marry me.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Okay. By the way, I don't know how I would
turn that down. Yes, of course.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
If I want to get married, why wouldn't I have
Flavor Flavor marry me. There takes understanding and someone to
talk about struggles that couples go through, and I don't know,
I just think you'd be good at it.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
So that's my pitch to you, Flavor Flavor.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Thank you. I appreciate that, you know, saying and being
let you pitch that to me. I'm going to hit
that ball right out of the park.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yeah, please do. I think it's a really good idea.
Who wouldn't watch that show? Flavor Flavor is marrying people
because his entire philosophy and goal in life is that
we are all one, We're all human beings, we're all equal,
So you want everybody to come together.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
I don't know if I like it.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Cut this out.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
If I get my license in time, I'm going to
detail and travelers watch.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Okay, well, hopefully I can be invited since I was
part of this right now, I could be your date.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Okay, well come on, let's go have on the arm
you know, yeah, Searn you know what I'm saying in.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
The hall nine.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, you could be the Matt what is it the
cash I'll be the rubber band now.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
So fun.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Now, in the world of strangest relationships, I would say
you and Bridget Nielsen is one in my mind. And
I want to tell you I was obsessed with Bridget
Nielsen because I remember what was she in Beverly Hills Cop?
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Right? Yeah, she was in I think she was.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
She was in her first movie was it was red Sonya,
she was in a rocky movie. Then she did Beverly
Hills Cop two and three mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
That was just a relation to that wasn't an engagement? Right?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Oh? That ship was real.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
That was like a real love.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
It was real. It was a real love. Yeah, sure
I was. It was a real, real love.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
It was real.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Wow, you sound different. Was that the love of your life?
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Oh? No, that was just the love of my at
that time.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, I got that was the love of that week. Okay,
I got it. Okay, Wow, we.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Because we lasted a good year and a half.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Okay, so you're not getting married this Monday. But my
question about getting married, because we're talking about you marrying
people and relationships. Have you ever been on a dating app?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Would you ever go on a date?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I just want to know what you think of a
dating app in twenty twenty four, Like, does that sound
like foreign to you?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Or does that sound normal?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Nah, it's just not a flave.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
It's not flave.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
No, that's great too. Wait, that's an expression. I'm literally
I'm going to say from now on, it's not flave.
Like it's like, it's not it's like people say, it's
not it. It's not a flave.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
That's not a flave. Man, that's not a flave. That's
not a flave. Nah.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Right, Like now I want to do a cookie show
with you. Now, I want to do a cooking show
with you where stuff that comes out if it's not
good because the flavor's off, it's not flave.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I guess what, what, everything I cook will come out good?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
You cook?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
I sure?
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Do?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
I specialize in fried chicken?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
You specialize? What's your secret? Do you brine the chicken?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
My secret? My secret? Is washing the chicken real good season.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
It, flowering it, frying.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
I seasoned it with my own special seasoning stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
You season the chicken or your season the breadcrumbs I
see hes in.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
The chicken, and the chicken seasons the flour.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Ah. Okay, And you have a fryer or you just
do it in a normal pot.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Yeah, I got a fryer.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
That's your specialty.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I mean, I don't know why you don't have a
place called Flavor Flavors fried chicken. I don't know, because
fried chicken is very in right now with Dave's Hot
Chicken and all these places. It's like a thing right now.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Didn't have four restaurants so far?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
You really?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
And the reason why that the restaurants didn't last is
because management didn't run it right for management of course,
so that's why that's why those restaurants failed.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yeah, but you love you love what you love food?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Yes? I love food.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Vegas has great food. Vegas has great food.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Now, Yeah, Vegas has lovely food, great.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Food, like arguably the best in the world because they
have all the best world chefs represented there.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Yeah, wow, all right, Well, can we be friends.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Now, Hey, yes, we can always be friends now you
know why? But uh bomb dot com baby.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Because it is flave. Yeah, it is flave to be friends,
all right?
Speaker 4 (33:57):
We sure we could be friends now. I don't come on, man,
I love I love making new friends. I love having friends,
as long as they're the right friends for me to have.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, Like, I'm I think i'd like this to be friends.
And I haven't. By the way, my producers, we've done.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
We were just nominated for Best Pop Culture Podcast, and
we've had hundreds of people on here. I don't know
how many people a lot of And I've never asked
anyone to be friends. I've never been like, can we
be Like? I won't say best friends because I don't
want to put the pressure on you. But I think
we should be friends.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
So that's it.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Hey, you know what, I'm not mad at that.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
I'm down. I'm down to make new friends. Like I said,
as long as they're the right friends, I don't mind.
I don't mind being your friends for real. You want
to be my friend for real?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
I want to be your friend for real? Yup?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
You just you just say that because of the show.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
For the show, do I need to say that because
of the show I had Matthew McConaughey on. I didn't
ask him to be friends, and we have the same birthday,
but I'd like to be friends in him, but I
didn't ask him. I just didn't think of it. And
I didn't ask Hillary Clinton to be friends. I don't
know that we'd have the same interest and I don't
think it we'd laugh. I just think that we could
be friends.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
So that's it. No pressure. You could get back to
me at a later date.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
You don't even know how honored crazy on that I am.
Do you think they know man can't be friends. I'd
love to be a friend, and I love amazing you
will be you will become one of my bragger rights.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Likewise, I'm not gonna be saying I'm friends with Flavor.
Flavor of course if yeah, I name drop it.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah he definitely. Let me tell you something. You are
not small to the world. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
You are lodger than light lady log you lodging lodger
than you even know.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Thank you, Flavor. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
You to be asking me to be your friend. You
don't know how honored I what. Please, let's be friends.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
To be friends.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
So I'm gonna send you some mingle, but when I
get to when I come to Vegas, i'll get your information.
I'll let you know when i'm coming to Vegas or
La or somewhere.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
If you don't text me back, I'm calling the cops.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
You should call the cops. You should call the cops.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
One hundred percent. I should be arrested. That's a bullshit
Hollywood bullshit violation. That's a citation for bullshit. Yeah, one
hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Awesome. How fun? All right?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Well, amazing, Have the best day and enjoy Vegas and
I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
I'm gonna text you soon. Have a good day.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Bye.
My guest today is the iconic Flavor Flav. He is
the founding member of the rap group Public Enemy and
even had his own reality show on v H one
called Flavor of Love. These days, Flave is still performing
with Public Enemy, staying in the spotlight, and is a
proud Swiftie. This is just be with Flavor Flav.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Let's get into it. Hi are you? Where are you
in Vegas?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yep? I'm right here in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
How was all of the super Bowl craziness?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Oh man? The super Bowl was crazy out here. It was.
I mean it was a madhouse.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
It was really a madhouse, you know, first time because
ever had the Super Bowl, you know what I'm saying,
and everybody, everybody poured into Vegas. Oh man, it was
so crazy, but it was a great time. The festivities
were great. That the Snoop and Dre party was the bomb.
(01:13):
Oh man, I mean it was.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I had, I had.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I had a real good time, real good time, real
good time.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And you know, I mean it feels like you're a
veteran like you do. You know, everyone like you saw
it was like a reunion in your town. They came
to your town, so like you were like not hosting.
But it's like kind of there in your turf.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
It was like it was like that I haven't seen
in so long, you know what I'm saying. And a
lot of people that I didn't know that I've never met,
that I've always wanted to meet, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I got to see them. You know. It was crazy.
See I'm meeting Eli Manning.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Wow Legend.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, you know, Guy Fury is my boy. I did.
I did.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I did his tailgate part dj' for thirty minutes. I
did a thirty minute set that the guy if your
tailgate party.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I crushed it.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Really, it was great.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, I crushed it from eleven thirty in the morning
till twelve in the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I qushed it. So.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I know, being sober, and it's not that long you've
been sober, right, is a big part of your It
is your it has to be your life. Anybody who
has gone sober says it's the most important thing. So
how was it being sober during such an activating spectacle,
like a time when everybody's partying.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Well, honestly, it's something that I never really thought about
because all I do is just live day to day.
You know what I'm saying, And you know, I'm just
proud of the journey that I've been on right now,
it's spent four years. And you know, it's the reason
why I say it's been a long journey is because
you know, my life was bested up for eighteen years.
(03:07):
Not only that, but then also I drank for fifty
three years.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I smoked. I smoked for fifty five.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
So for me to be on.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Four years sober with no alcohol and no cigarettes right now,
I mean I feel so good inside, you know. And
not only that, but a lot of people tell me, damn,
you look so good man for your age. Man, you
don't age flavor Da da da da. That's because of
what I don't do anymore. So that's another thing that
(03:44):
that's another thing that really makes me want to keep
it up. You know what I'm saying. You know, it's
called encouragement, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, it's positive reinforcement. What was what was bottom?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Like?
Speaker 2 (03:56):
What what what made you get sober?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Like?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
What was there one moment or was it just a
culmination or you set a date for yourself? Like how
did you do that? After such a long and you're
in a career that celebrates partying, so it would you
could probably slip through the cracks. It must peopuldn't even
notice that you're an addict. If you feel like you are.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Well, well, let me tell you like this. You know,
at the point when you're ready, you're ready. And I
was ready. I was tired, you know what I'm saying.
You know, smoking and drinking and watching some of my
(04:34):
friends die, you know, from pancreatic cancer and sorosis a
liver and all of these diseases. You know what I'm saying.
I mean, I'm talking about guys my age. So when
my boy Coolio passed the way, that was a wake
(04:58):
up call for me because we were we were.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
About the same age.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
We're about the same age, and and you know, I feel,
I feel that if I would have kept drinking, I
think I was headed somewhere where I did not want
to be. And I feel blessed that God gave me
the power to be able to stop drinking so I
(05:25):
can preserve my life and be here for others. You know,
that's what I was meant to be here for. I
was meant to be here for other people, you know,
I was.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It was I wasn't I wasn't put him to take
myself away.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
And that self less.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I'm glad that I got the power to be able
to take my friends out and I'd be buying them drinks,
getting them drunk while I'd be sipping on my red
bull and pineapple juice.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I've got a mocktail for you. I'm sending you my mingle.
These are amazing. They're they're like ready to drink mocktails,
sixty calories. When I heard you were sober and I
read it, I said to send you a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I'm excited. It's great for you.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah. Well, guess what I got something to tell you.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Okay, I was in Whole Foods and I take them
up first stop.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh my god, that's crazy. Cheers. This is so fun.
I have mine too, Yay. Cheers.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
You like it, yo, I like it. This is the
this is the cucumber one.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, I'm having the blood orange elderflower.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yay.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
This is so exciting. This is so fun.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yay.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I'm sorry we're drinking together.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I like it. I like it. It's good. It's good. It's good.
You got it. Good. You got a good little mocktail here.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Thank you. Yay.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
All the flavors are good. The raspberry, the cosmo is
the favorite of people. The purple one too. Do you
have the green ones?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
So?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Does anyone call you William, the.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Police, the nurses, you know, my teachers in school?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
What about your kids?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Nah?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
My kids call me dad.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Daddy, Dad Daddy.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I get pops. I get pops every now and then.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You have nine children, if I've counted correctly?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
How many do you have?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Eight? Eight?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Do you? Ever?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
How's your relationship with all your kids? And how do
you manage it? How do you give everyone equal attention?
How does that hold dynamic? That's a lot of kids.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Well, my kids, first of all, they range from the
age of thirty seven down to four. Wow, right right,
you know? So my oldest three matter of the fact, whoa, No,
my oldest three ranges from the age of thirty eight,
because my oldest three is thirty eight, thirty seven and
(07:54):
thirty six. Then my middle three is thirty twenty eight,
twenty six. Then I have my seventeen year older. His
name is Carma, He's he's seventeen. And then I have
a four year older his name is Jordan's.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Six or out of the nest.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yes you get well, hey, you're good, check you out.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Yeah, because you know, the first three was out the nest.
Six years later I went to another nest and got
another three, and then and then came out here in
two thousand and three, ended up having another one bam.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
And then a few years later I had another one.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
So I got eight children e eleven grandchildren wow. Wow,
And and I have and I have four great nieces
and nephews.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
So you were in, uh, you were in like an
iconic group and it was a crazy time in your life.
And how do you reflect upon that time now? Like
what what would you do differently? Are what do you
think about it now? Like what's your relationship to that
experience now?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Well, I just want to say that, you know, my group,
public enemy. You know, we never really ended. And not
only that, but it's never really been bad, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I mean, you know sometimes you know, and.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Every group in every single group in the world, every
single group in the world. I mean, you're going to
have somebody that don't see eye to eye. But at
the end of the day, you bring it back, and
that's what it's all about. Bringing it back. You know
what I'm saying, Mainly if the love is real, you know.
(10:09):
And one thing that I can say about me and Chuck,
because our love has always been real. We've always been
great friends, you know what I'm saying. Always been brothers,
you know what I'm saying, in the whole nine And
there are times when we don't see either eye for
a minute. Hey, come on, everybody's not going to agree
on everything totally.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
It's business that you're saying.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Your business life has had bumps with him, but you've
You've always been family, is what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, always been family.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
And not only that, but we always some way was
able to shape and mold our business life, yes to
where we're both comfortable with it. You feel me. So
A lot of people thought that public enemy ended. You know,
we never ended. We just took a break, a long break,
but we're still we're still again. But we never ended
(11:01):
to reunite.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Right, and you just performed together but a.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Lot Yeah, yeah, we just performed together.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
We did we did the I Heart, We did iHeart,
we did uh serious ex sem we did to performances
for Grammys.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Nice, right, that's a good that's a good clarification.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yeah, And we just did Clive Davis's party last week.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
So I know that the story of the clock was
you just put on a clock and everybody went crazy,
and like it's become an iconic thing that kids do.
Like it was, I don't want to say it was accidental,
but it wasn't something that you kind of decided it
was going to be your persona. It became your persona.
But where did slave a slave come from?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
It comes from this guy that his name is Kevin
Starks and he used to uh he was.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
He used to watch me without little you know.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
I used to always like like I used to I
used to love life savers. I used to love all
the charms, lolly pops, all the different bobs, all of
all the different flavors, sodas, the grapes, ferries, oranges, root
everything right. So he called me a freak for flavors,
(12:24):
calling me the flavor freak. You feel me, he started
calling he started calling me the flavor freak. So when
MC came started really getting popular, everybody had simple names
like MC Bobby Bob, MC Chucky Chuck or something. I
(12:48):
wanted a name that nobody else had, nobody else want
but yet it had to mean something. Yeah, I tried
MC flavor. So next thing, you know, it was Chuck
d that started calling me flavor Flaves.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I love it. It's great.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I mean every time I say it's like makes me
happy every time I say it. And I'm like, let me,
I'm gonna interview flavor flav today. I start laughing, like
the name is just happy. It's just very like. Even
my daughter was like, Who's flavor Flave. Yeah, it was
just like it's fun, You're iconic. And then that show
did that? What kind of impact did that show Flavor
of Love have on your life and in pop culture?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Well, let me say, my show Flavor of Love not
only did it have an impact on my life, but
it had an impact on a whole lot of other
people's lives and also a lot of other people's reality shows.
You know, my show, my show is I say, is
(13:59):
the show that kind of like change the court for
reality TV. You know a lot of people give me
those stripes today. Come on, man, you started this reality
TV shop. You know I get that. I get that
a lot. You know what I'm saying, And I'm honored.
(14:22):
I'm honored to hear it and to get it. You
know what I'm saying. It has put me on put
it this way, that reality t TV show, not me
being this real big star to people. To people, I'm
(14:45):
this big start like I'm bigger. It can come, man,
But I'm not that size to me, Yeah, I'm only
this size. I'm only you know what I'm saying. I mean,
you know, yeah, I feel I'm one of the most humblest.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
High rated.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Celebs, one of the most easiest, most recognizable celebs that
walks around with.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
No bodyguards none. You know why, because.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
I was always about peace, always about you know, And
and my goal one day is to take all nationalities
of the world to unite them as one.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
That's my goal one day. That's what I really really want,
you know.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
And usually at the end of our public enemy shows,
that's the thing that I always teach before I leave
that stage, you know, because this world is made up
of a whole bunch of races of people that make
up this world. But at the end of the day,
(16:10):
there's only one race, and that's the human race.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
So we are all really we are really all brothers.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
And sisters, and we and if we can all get
together and build the wall unity. It would be so
strong no others could come and tear it down. So
that's my goal.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
One day. I just wanted to try to reunite as
many as I can.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You know, beautiful, that's a that's an admirable, valiant goal, honestly. Well,
first of all, how did you get to Vegas? Like,
what was the what was the reason to be in
Vegas before.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I left New York? This is kind of interesting.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Before I left New York, right, I said, and I visioned,
I want to live in LA and I live in
Vegas because I always lived in La. I mean, I
always loved La and I always loved Vegas. Because I'm
from New York. I'm from Long Island, you know, Freeport
(17:13):
and Roosevelt, Long Island. And also, oh, you're gonna like
this this part, this is pretty interesting. When I was
in Long Island, right, I was born and raised in Freeport,
and I moved to Roosevelt in nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Wait, how long were you in Freeport? Because I used
to go to Valley Stream and I used to roller
skate at laces. I mean, I mean Limbrook Hot skates.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
The hell out here New York and day. Wow, that's crazy.
I'm from Freeport.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, and we used to drive through Freeport. It's next
to Valley Stream and it's near Limbrook where we used
to go roller skating. I lived at the roller rink.
That's why Freeport and all my friends were from Valley Stream.
Green a green Acre's Mall.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
That's crazy.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
And I remember Green Acres Mall was my spot right
up And you know what was my spot right outside
of Green Acres Mall, The red Lobster that was there.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Wait a minute, if you know this place, I'm going
to freak out. But I don't think you're going to
know it. But it was in Freeport. It was near
the train station on Hampstead Turnpike. Raynor's cabin.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I remember Reinold's cabin.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Remember they had like chicken and ribs and hush puppies
and like you walked in and it was lodgy and
like it was the sickest. And I don't know anybody
who remembers it, so it's like I imagined it.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I remember Reinold's cabin, I remember you all. This is crazy.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
So when I when I moved to Roosevelt in nineteen
seventy four, Elie Murphy was in my ninth Great English class.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Plus you know Howard Stern is from Roosevelt.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Howard Stern moved into my house an old way. He
literally moved into my house after I moved out.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Wow, Howl is a good friend of mine. Man, that's
my boy. Good people.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You know. Also doctor Julius Irving, he's from Roosevelt.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Also, it was a group called Guy, Teddy, Riley and
Damien Hall Aaron Hall, Aaron and Damien is from Roosevelt.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Funny.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Yeah, matter of the fact, if you don't know what
I'm talking about, I'll sing the record to you.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
You ready, m I bet you know this one. All
I want to do is Romazoo.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah. All I want to do is right Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yes, that's the group called Guy but Teddy, Riley and Damien.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That's awesome. That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
So you know everyone, and you're in like the Taylor
Swift mix too, So a a you're a Swift ye
and be like, what do you think of this craziness?
You've seen it all, but this is like a phenomenon
right now, right like this is insane.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
The only thing I could say.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
I mean, I'm proud to say that I support Dealer Swift,
you know. And the reason why is because I went
home after her concert. I went home and I listened
to her lyrics and I listened to the lyrics on
the record called bad Blood. And the reason why the
(20:32):
favorite one is because that's the first one that I
got to understand number one, but number two, it's I mean,
it's real and a lot of people's lives. I mean,
we used to be friends. You fucked me over. Now
we got bad blood, right, got problem if we can't
solve them.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
I mean that stuff is real. It's really real, you know.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
So that's when I started really supporting her. And by
me supporting her, I mean it's done.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Blue alcohol water man, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
And all the all the all of the kids at
her concert, when they come over to the tenth to
see me, they give me bracelets, all of these bracelets
and stuff. Her mom came over, gave me a hug,
and you know, introduced herself to me. Then her dad
came and gave me a dagg of these guitar picks.
(21:31):
I've been giving away these brad and these guitar picks. Now,
I ended up having a new name. Are you ready
for my new name? King Swifty?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
King Swifty?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
That's nice, but Flavor Flavor King Flavor flaate Ping Swifty.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Hey, I'm an icon. I'm an icon.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You know it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
I'm the only iconic Swifty that Taylor has. I don't
think there's any other icons that's the Swifty.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Not to that level.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
No, that's so like identifiable in and of you know,
on their own. It's an interesting time because she's moving markets.
She's moving the NFL like it's you're moving, like you
can move she can move stocks. It's crazy like Oprah
effect times ten.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Wait wait, wait I got something even more powerful than that.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
She's moving the earth.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yo.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
She was in Washington's state and she have a concert
that drew so many people it hit the Rector scale.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Now what other musical artists in life?
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Do you know that Jorge crowds that will hit the
Rector scale?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Crazy?
Speaker 4 (22:57):
So I consider Tailor Swift one of the most important
artists of our time.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Yeah, tell the Swift got to get and everybody be
like your flaving what's up?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Man? I'd be like hey, I'm just kind of this
move like they.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Have the baby, she's got it, yep, yep.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
And then and there I read something that that you
kept mistaking Miley Cyrus, who is also a queen from
when Stefani. But did they even look alike? Like, I
don't even get that. I could get it with other people.
But where did that come from?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Well, it came from the time that they looked alike.
That's where I checked this out. There was a time
a couple a few years back when they both had
the same exact haircuts.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
That's the thing that got me.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Oh yes, yes, the short haircut.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
When I ran across from bley first time ever in
my life and I was like, oh my god, Gwen, Stephanie,
Gwen Stephani.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Miley didn't say anything, She just won along with it,
just looked. I was like, when steph Farnie, I love you,
nice to meet you. She was like, okay, thank you,
I love you too. I gave her a hug and
I walked away. Then one of my boys said, Joe,
(24:36):
that's not when Stephanie. That's my I'm like, oh, oh
my god, that's more.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
That's better than the story that the press wrote the
story that she went along with it is better than
that it happened, like, that's a great story her.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I turned around and I ran back to her and I.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Was like, oh my god, I'm so sorry, yo, Miley
s I know who you are now. Your daddy Billy
Ray Cyris. I was like, oh my god, I'm so stupid.
Smacked me in the face. She smacked me in the face.
Miley Cyrus backed flavor Flavor in the face and I said,
(25:20):
I won't let it happen again, and we laughed it off. Laugh.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
She's great.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
I met her once and she's you could tell by
her vibe. She said hello to me and she like
she's real, And Yo.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Can I tell you something.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
When I seen Miley this trip at the Grammys and
she see me, that girl lit up like a Christmas
tree man, word up. Miley loved herself some flave. I Loveley,
you know, but that's our connection. She said, Oh, you're
not mistaken in me for.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
For going step finding now like she's that's a girl.
Was too much. And I love Miley, man, she's the bomb.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, the best. So all right, so do you date now?
And how do you date?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Like are you social, do you go out or you're
you know, what's your story?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I'm just chilling, that's all. Hey, listen, check this out
right now.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
I'm trying to get my license so I can start
performing wedding.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I was literally just gonna say the weirdest thing, you're
a witch, because, as I said it, I was going
to say, how sick would it be for you to
marry people? I literally was going to say it. I
think it's the sickest idea ever. I think you could
make so much money marrying people. I would get married
to have you marry me like and it could be.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
That's what I'm saying, and I'm trying to do it
in time enough, just in cases that one day Hyla
and Travis Kelsey he wants to get married.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I want to be their preacher.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I don't know if that's going to happen, and I
don't mean to be negative only because it can.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
You'll be surprised. What can happen?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
No, I know, but let me ask you this, No,
it's a question. I have.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
My feeling is there can only be one peacock in
a relationship, and I think ironically he's kind of the
peacock in the relationship. He grabs that microphone a chance
he gets, he's allowed to be like maybe she likes
the fact that she gets to be in the background
a little with him, but he is the guy that
likes to be the center of attention. It seems like
(27:44):
in wighs more than her. What do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
He may be the peacock.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
But once he learns that his quarterback Patrick Mahons is
my favorite quarter that in the lead, he's going to
be like, come on, man, I know, I know Travis
Kelsey will take a liking.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
To me for that.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Absolutely, But all right, so you're gonna get your license
so you are ready to marry them. That's your that's
your motivation in this scene.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
No, I would love to. I would love to. I
would love to be the one to do it if
I could.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, Well, I just think Flavor Flavor Weddings is a
brilliant idea. I also think it's a brilliant show, to
be honest with.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
You, Yeah, would you be on it?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I mean I would be on it.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Maybe we'd co host it. I actually think.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
You coming through to get married?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Let me get oh coming through to get married?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, I would be honest, no, because I'm not that
into public marriages because I've tried that and it wasn't
that successful, to say the least.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Just to let you know, whenever you're ready to get married,
you'll marry me.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Okay. By the way, I don't know how I would
turn that down. Yes, of course.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
If I want to get married, why wouldn't I have
Flavor Flavor marry me. There takes understanding and someone to
talk about struggles that couples go through, and I don't know,
I just think you'd be good at it.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
So that's my pitch to you, Flavor Flavor.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Thank you. I appreciate that, you know, saying and being
let you pitch that to me. I'm going to hit
that ball right out of the park.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Yeah, please do. I think it's a really good idea.
Who wouldn't watch that show? Flavor Flavor is marrying people
because his entire philosophy and goal in life is that
we are all one, We're all human beings, we're all equal,
So you want everybody to come together.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
I don't know if I like it.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Cut this out.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
If I get my license in time, I'm going to
detail and travelers watch.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Okay, well, hopefully I can be invited since I was
part of this right now, I could be your date.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Okay, well come on, let's go have on the arm
you know, yeah, Searn you know what I'm saying in.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
The hall nine.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, you could be the Matt what is it the
cash I'll be the rubber band now.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
So fun.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Now, in the world of strangest relationships, I would say
you and Bridget Nielsen is one in my mind. And
I want to tell you I was obsessed with Bridget
Nielsen because I remember what was she in Beverly Hills Cop?
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Right? Yeah, she was in I think she was.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
She was in her first movie was it was red Sonya,
she was in a rocky movie. Then she did Beverly
Hills Cop two and three mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
That was just a relation to that wasn't an engagement? Right?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Oh? That ship was real.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
That was like a real love.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
It was real. It was a real love. Yeah, sure
I was. It was a real, real love.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
It was real.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Wow, you sound different. Was that the love of your life?
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Oh? No, that was just the love of my at
that time.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, I got that was the love of that week. Okay,
I got it. Okay, Wow, we.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Because we lasted a good year and a half.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Okay, so you're not getting married this Monday. But my
question about getting married, because we're talking about you marrying
people and relationships. Have you ever been on a dating app?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Would you ever go on a date?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I just want to know what you think of a
dating app in twenty twenty four, Like, does that sound
like foreign to you?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Or does that sound normal?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Nah, it's just not a flave.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
It's not flave.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
No, that's great too. Wait, that's an expression. I'm literally
I'm going to say from now on, it's not flave.
Like it's like, it's not it's like people say, it's
not it. It's not a flave.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
That's not a flave. Man, that's not a flave. That's
not a flave. Nah.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Right, Like now I want to do a cookie show
with you. Now, I want to do a cooking show
with you where stuff that comes out if it's not
good because the flavor's off, it's not flave.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I guess what, what, everything I cook will come out good?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
You cook?
Speaker 3 (32:15):
I sure?
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Do?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
I specialize in fried chicken?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
You specialize? What's your secret? Do you brine the chicken?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
My secret? My secret? Is washing the chicken real good season.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
It, flowering it, frying.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
I seasoned it with my own special seasoning stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
You season the chicken or your season the breadcrumbs I
see hes in.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
The chicken, and the chicken seasons the flour.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Ah. Okay, And you have a fryer or you just
do it in a normal pot.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Yeah, I got a fryer.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
That's your specialty.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I mean, I don't know why you don't have a
place called Flavor Flavors fried chicken. I don't know, because
fried chicken is very in right now with Dave's Hot
Chicken and all these places. It's like a thing right now.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Didn't have four restaurants so far?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
You really?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
And the reason why that the restaurants didn't last is
because management didn't run it right for management of course,
so that's why that's why those restaurants failed.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Yeah, but you love you love what you love food?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Yes? I love food.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Vegas has great food. Vegas has great food.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Now, Yeah, Vegas has lovely food, great.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Food, like arguably the best in the world because they
have all the best world chefs represented there.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Yeah, wow, all right, Well, can we be friends.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Now, Hey, yes, we can always be friends now you
know why? But uh bomb dot com baby.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Because it is flave. Yeah, it is flave to be friends,
all right?
Speaker 4 (33:57):
We sure we could be friends now. I don't come on, man,
I love I love making new friends. I love having friends,
as long as they're the right friends for me to have.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, Like, I'm I think i'd like this to be friends.
And I haven't. By the way, my producers, we've done.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
We were just nominated for Best Pop Culture Podcast, and
we've had hundreds of people on here. I don't know
how many people a lot of And I've never asked
anyone to be friends. I've never been like, can we
be Like? I won't say best friends because I don't
want to put the pressure on you. But I think
we should be friends.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
So that's it.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Hey, you know what, I'm not mad at that.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
I'm down. I'm down to make new friends. Like I said,
as long as they're the right friends, I don't mind.
I don't mind being your friends for real. You want
to be my friend for real?
Speaker 2 (34:42):
I want to be your friend for real? Yup?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
You just you just say that because of the show.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
For the show, do I need to say that because
of the show I had Matthew McConaughey on. I didn't
ask him to be friends, and we have the same birthday,
but I'd like to be friends in him, but I
didn't ask him. I just didn't think of it. And
I didn't ask Hillary Clinton to be friends. I don't
know that we'd have the same interest and I don't
think it we'd laugh. I just think that we could
be friends.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
So that's it. No pressure. You could get back to
me at a later date.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
You don't even know how honored crazy on that I am.
Do you think they know man can't be friends. I'd
love to be a friend, and I love amazing you
will be you will become one of my bragger rights.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Likewise, I'm not gonna be saying I'm friends with Flavor.
Flavor of course if yeah, I name drop it.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah he definitely. Let me tell you something. You are
not small to the world. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
You are lodger than light lady log you lodging lodger
than you even know.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Thank you, Flavor. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
You to be asking me to be your friend. You
don't know how honored I what. Please, let's be friends.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
To be friends.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
So I'm gonna send you some mingle, but when I
get to when I come to Vegas, i'll get your information.
I'll let you know when i'm coming to Vegas or
La or somewhere.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
If you don't text me back, I'm calling the cops.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
You should call the cops. You should call the cops.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
One hundred percent. I should be arrested. That's a bullshit
Hollywood bullshit violation. That's a citation for bullshit. Yeah, one
hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Awesome. How fun? All right?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Well, amazing, Have the best day and enjoy Vegas and
I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
I'm gonna text you soon. Have a good day.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Bye.
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