December 31, 2025 • 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 VH 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. Let's get into it.
(00:37):
Hi are you? Where are you in Vegas?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yep? I'm right here in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
How was all of the super Bowl craziness?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh man? The super Bowl was crazy out here. It was.
I mean it was a madhouse.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It was really a madhouse, you know, first time because
I 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. I had a I
had 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 3 (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 2 (01:47):
I got to see them. You know. It was crazy.
See I'm meeting Eli Manning.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Wow legend.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, you know, Guy Fury is my boy. I did.
I did.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I did his tailgate party dj' for thirty minutes. I
did a thirty minute set, not the guy for your
tailgate party.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I crushed it.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Really, it was great.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, I crushed.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It from eleven thirty in a morning till twelve in
the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (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 3 (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.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And you know it's the.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Reason why I say it's been a long journey is
because you know, my life was best up for eighteen years.
Not only that, but then also I drank for fifty
three years. I smoked. I smoked for fifty five.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
So for me to be on 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 d da da da da. That's because of what
(03:38):
I don't do anymore. So that's another thing that 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 2 (03:56):
Like?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
What what made you get sober?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Like?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
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 lung and you're in
a career that celebrates partying. So when you can probably
slip through the cracks, it must be wouldn't even notice
that you're an addict. If you feel like you.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Are 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.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You know, smoking and drinking and watching some of my
friends die, you know, from pancreatic cancer and torosis a
liver and all of these diseases. You know what I'm saying.
I mean, I'm talking about guys my age. So when
(04:52):
my boy Coolio passed the way, that was a wake
up call for me because we were we were about
the same age.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
We're about the same age.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
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 can preserve my life
(05:26):
and be here for others, you know, because that's what
I was meant to be here for. I was meant
to be here for other people, you know, I was,
It was I wasn't I wasn't put here to take.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Myself away and that self less.
Speaker 3 (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.
I'm excited. It's great for you.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah. Well, guess what I got something to tell you.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Okay, I was in Whole Foods and I take them
up first stop.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Oh my god, that's crazy. Cheers. This is so fun.
I have mine too, Yay, cheers.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You like it, yo, I like it. This is the
this is the cucumber one.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, I'm having the blood orange elderflower.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
This is so exciting. This is so fun. Yay. I'm sorry,
we're drinking together.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I like it. I like it. It's good. It's good.
It's good. You got good. You got a good little
mocktail here.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Thank you? Yay. Yeah, 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 2 (06:54):
So?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Does anyone call you William?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
The police, the dog, the nurses, you know, my teachers
in school?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
What about your kids?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
My kids call me dad, Daddy.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Dad Daddy.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I get pops.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I get pops every now and then you have nine children,
if I've counted correctly, Is that true?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
How many do you have?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Eight? Eight?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Do you have a 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 3 (07:31):
Well, my kids, first of all, they range from the
age of thirty seven down to four.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Wow, right right? You know?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
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
thirty six. Then my middle three is thirty twenty eight,
twenty six. Then I have my seventeen year older. His
(08:03):
name is Karma, He's uh, he's seventeen. And then I
have a four year older his name is.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Jordan's six or out of the nest.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yes you cant we Hey, you're good, check you out. Yeah,
you know.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
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, and then.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
A few years later had another one.
Speaker 3 (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 3 (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. I mean, you know sometimes you know,
in every group, in every single group in the world,
(09:51):
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, and one thing that I can say about
me and Chuck, because our love has always been real.
(10:14):
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 1 (10:30):
It's business that you're saying. Your business life has had
bumps with him, but you've You've always been family, is
what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah, always been family.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And not only that, but people 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.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
But we never ended to reunite.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Right, And you just performed together by a lot.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, Yeah, we just performed together.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
We did We did the I heeart, we did iHeart,
we did uh serious ex Sam, we did to performances
for Grammys.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Nice. Right, that's a good that's a good clarification.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, and we just declared Davis's party last week, so.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
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 3 (11:51):
It comes from this guy that his name is Kevin
Starks and he used to uh he was.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
He used to watch me without little you know. I
used to always.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
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 all the different flavors, sodas, the grapes, ferries, oranges,
root everything right.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So he called me a freak for.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Flavors, calling me the flavor freak.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
You feel me?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
He started going, 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 wanted a name that nobody else had, nobody else
(12:52):
want but yet it had to mean something.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, I tried MC flavor.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So next thing, you know, it was Chuck d that
started calling me flavor flaves.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I love it. It's great. 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 Flavor today.
I start laughing, like the name is just happy. It's
just very like. Even my daughter was like, whose 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
(13:31):
show Flavor of Love have on your life and in
pop culture?
Speaker 3 (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, play 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, And 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,
(14:45):
I'm this big start like I'm bigger it can come, man,
But I'm not that size to me.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, I'm only this size. I'm only you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I mean, you know, yeah, I feel I'm one of
the most humblest.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
High rated.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Celebs, one of the most easiest, most recognizable celebs that
walks around with.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
No bodyguards none.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
You know why, because 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. That's my goal one day. That's what I
really really want, you know. And usually at the end
(15:47):
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.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
But at the end of the day, there's only one race,
and that's the human race.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
So we are all really we are really all brothers
and sisters, and we and if we can all get
together and build the water unity.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
It would be so strong no others could come and
tear it down. So that's my goal. One day.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
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.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Before I left New York? This is kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I'm from New York.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I'm from Long Island, you know, Freeport 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
(17:30):
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 Skins.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
The hell out here, New York and day, Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
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.
Greene green Acre's Mall.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (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 Hempstead Turnpike. Raynor's cabin.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I remember Reinold's cabin.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I remember, and 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 2 (18:37):
I remember Reinold's cabin, I remember you all.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
This is crazy. So when I when I moved to
Roosevelt in nineteen seventy four. Eddie Murphy was in my
ninth grade English class. 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 3 (19:04):
Wow, Howl is a good friend of mine. Man, that's
my boy. Good people.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
You know. Also doctor Julius Irving, he's from Roosevelt. Mm hmmm.
Also it was a group.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Called Guy Teddy, Riley and Damien Hall Aaron Hall Aaron
and Damien.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Is from Roosevelt.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Funny.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, matter of fact, if you don't know who I'm
talking about, I'll sing the record to you.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
You ready, m I bet you know this one. All
I want to do is Romazo.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah. All I want to do is right yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yes, that's the group called Guy Teddy, Riley and Damien.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
That's awesome. That's awesome. 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 2 (20:09):
The only thing I could say.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I mean, I'm proud to say that I support Taylor Swift,
you know. And the reason why it 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
(20:32):
the favorite one is because that's the first one that
I got to understand number one, but.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Number two, it's I mean, it's.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Real and a lot of people's lives. I mean, we
used to be friends. You fucked me over. Now we
got bad blood, got problems if we can't solve them.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I mean that stuff is real. It's really real, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
So that's when I started really supporting her. And by
me supporting her, I mean it's done.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Blue alcohol water man, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Dagg and these guitar picks.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I've been giving away these breaks and these guitar picks.
Now I ended up having a new name. Are you
ready for my new name? King Swifty?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
King Swifty?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
That's nice, but flavor Flavor King Flavor flaate Ping Swifty.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Hey, I'm an icon. I'm an icon.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
You know it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I'm the only iconic Swifty that Taylor has. I don't
think there's any other icons that's the Swifty, not.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
To that level. 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 3 (22:24):
Wait, wait, wait, I got something even more powerful than that.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
She's moving the earth.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yo.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
She was in Washington State and she had a concert
that drew so many people it hit the Rector scale.
Now what other musical artists in life? Do you know
that Deorge crowds that will hit the Rector scale?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Crazy?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
So I consider Tailor Swift one of the most important
artists of our time.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Yeah, tell the Swift got to get and everybody'd be like,
your playing what's up? Man?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I'd be like, hey, I'm just kind of this move
like tailor baby.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
She's got it, yup, yup. 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 3 (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 2 (23:57):
That's the thing that got me.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Oh yes, yes, the short haircut.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
When I ran across from Biley first time ever in
my life, and I was like, oh my god, Gwen, Stephanie,
Gwen Stephanie.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You know what. Miley didn't say anything, She just won
along with it, just looked. I was like, when.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Stephnie, 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, Yo,
that's not when Stephanie.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
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.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Tell her.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I turned around and I ran back to her and
I was like, oh my god, I'm so sorry, yo, Miley, Sorry,
I know who you are now, Daddy Billy Ray Cyrus.
I was like, oh my god, I'm so stupid. Smacked
me in the face. She smacked me in the face.
(25:16):
Miley Cyrus backed flavor Flavor in the face and I said,
I won't let it happen again, and we laughed it off.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Laugh.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
She's great. I met her once and she's you could
tell by her vibe. She said hello to me and
she like she's real.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
And Yo, can I tell you something.
Speaker 3 (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 usself some flave. I
love you know, but that's our connection. She said, Oh,
you're not mistaken in me for for going to step
(25:56):
finding now like she's that's a girl was too much
And I love Miley man, she's the bomb.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
That's great. Yeah, the best. So all right, so do
you date now? And how do you date?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Like?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Are you social, do you go out or you're you know,
what's your story?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I'm just chilling, that's all. Hey, listen, check this out
right now.
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Me like and it could be.
Speaker 3 (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 2 (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 2 (27:15):
You'll be surprised. What can happen?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
No, I know, but let me ask you this, No,
it's a question.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
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 any 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, But once he learns that
his quarterback Patrick Mahons is my favorite quarter that in
the league, he's going to be like, come on, man,
(28:06):
I know Travis Kelsey will take a liking 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 2 (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.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
To be honest with you, Yeah, would you be on it?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I mean I would be on it. Maybe we'd co
host it.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I actually think you coming through to get married, let
me get oh.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Coming through to get married? 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 2 (28:51):
Just to let you know, whenever you're ready to get married.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You'll marry me. Okay, By the way, I don't know
how I would turn that down. So yes, of course,
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. So that's
my pitch to you, Flavor Flav.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I appreciate that, you know, saying to 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 Flav 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. I don't know
if I like it.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Cut this out.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
If I get my license in time, I'm going to
detail and Travis 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 3 (29:56):
Okay, well come on, let's go have on the arm
you know, yeah, Searn you know what I'm saying in
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 so fun. 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 2 (30:28):
Right? Yeah, she was in I think she was. She
was in her movie? Was it was red Son? Yah?
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 2 (30:47):
Oh? That ship was real.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
That was like a real love.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
It was real. It was a real love. Yeah, sure
I was. It was a real, real love. It was real.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Wow, you sound different. Was that the love of your life?
Speaker 2 (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.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Okay, Wow, we 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 2 (31:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Would you ever go on a date? I just want
to know what you think of a dating app in
twenty twenty four, Like, does that sound like foreign to you?
Or does that sound normal?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Nah, it's just not a flave sound.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
It's not flave.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
No, that's great too. Wait, that's an expression I literally
am 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 flave.
Speaker 2 (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 2 (32:09):
I guess what what? Everything I cook will come out good?
You cook? I sure do? I specialize in fried chicken?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
You specialize? What's your secret? Do you brine the chickenh
My secret?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
My secret is washing the chicken real good. Season it,
flowering it frying. I seasoned it with my own special
seasoning stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You season the chicken or you season the breadcrumbs.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I seis in the chicken, and the chicken seasons the flour.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Ah okay, And you have a fryer or you just
do it in a normal pot.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah, got a fryer.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
That's your specialty. I mean, I don't know why you
don't have a place called flavor flavors for a 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 2 (32:59):
I had four restaurants so far.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
You really, yes, 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 2 (33:16):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yeah, but you love you love what you love food?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yes? I love food.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Vegas has great food. Vegas has great food.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Now, Yeah, Vegas has lovely food, great food.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Like arguably the best in the world because they have
all the best world chefs represented there.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah, wow, all right, Well can we be friends now?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Hey? Yes? We can always be friends now? Why but
h bomb dot com baby?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Because it is flave. Yeah, it is flave to be friends?
All right?
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Friends for me to have.
Speaker 1 (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.
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
(34:28):
we should be friends. So that's it.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Hey, you know what, I'm not mad at that. 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 1 (34:42):
I want to be your friend for real? Yup?
Speaker 2 (34:44):
You just you just say that because of the show.
For the show, do I need to say that.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
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 with 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. So that's it. No pressure. You could
get back to me at a later date.
Speaker 2 (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 become you will become one of my bragget rights.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Likewise, I'm not gonna be saying I'm friends with Flavor
Flave of course, yeah, I name drop it.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Yeah, Hey, definitely. Let me tell you something. You are
not small to the world, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
You are larger than life, Lady log you lodge larger
than you even know.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Thank you, Flavor. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
You to be asking me to be your friend. You
don't know how honored I what. Please, let's be friends
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 2 (36:09):
If you don't text me back, I'm calling the cops.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
You should call the cops. You should call the cops.
One hundred percent. I should be arrested. That's a that's
a bullshit Hollywood bullshit violation. That's a citation for bullshit. Yeah,
one hundred percent awesome, How fun? All right? Well amazing,
Have the best day and enjoy Vegas and I'll talk
to you soon. I'm gonna text you soon. Have a
(36:34):
good day.
Speaker 2 (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 VH 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. Let's get into it.
(00:37):
Hi are you? Where are you in Vegas?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yep? I'm right here in Vegas.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
How was all of the super Bowl craziness?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh man? The super Bowl was crazy out here. It was.
I mean it was a madhouse.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It was really a madhouse, you know, first time because
I 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. I had a I
had 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 3 (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 2 (01:47):
I got to see them. You know. It was crazy.
See I'm meeting Eli Manning.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Wow legend.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, you know, Guy Fury is my boy. I did.
I did.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I did his tailgate party dj' for thirty minutes. I
did a thirty minute set, not the guy for your
tailgate party.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I crushed it.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Really, it was great.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, I crushed.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It from eleven thirty in a morning till twelve in
the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (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 3 (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.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And you know it's the.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Reason why I say it's been a long journey is
because you know, my life was best up for eighteen years.
Not only that, but then also I drank for fifty
three years. I smoked. I smoked for fifty five.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
So for me to be on 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 d da da da da. That's because of what
(03:38):
I don't do anymore. So that's another thing that 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 2 (03:56):
Like?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
What what made you get sober?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Like?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
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 lung and you're in
a career that celebrates partying. So when you can probably
slip through the cracks, it must be wouldn't even notice
that you're an addict. If you feel like you.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Are 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.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You know, smoking and drinking and watching some of my
friends die, you know, from pancreatic cancer and torosis a
liver and all of these diseases. You know what I'm saying.
I mean, I'm talking about guys my age. So when
(04:52):
my boy Coolio passed the way, that was a wake
up call for me because we were we were about
the same age.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
We're about the same age.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
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 can preserve my life
(05:26):
and be here for others, you know, because that's what
I was meant to be here for. I was meant
to be here for other people, you know, I was,
It was I wasn't I wasn't put here to take.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Myself away and that self less.
Speaker 3 (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.
I'm excited. It's great for you.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah. Well, guess what I got something to tell you.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Okay, I was in Whole Foods and I take them
up first stop.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Oh my god, that's crazy. Cheers. This is so fun.
I have mine too, Yay, cheers.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You like it, yo, I like it. This is the
this is the cucumber one.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, I'm having the blood orange elderflower.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yay.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
This is so exciting. This is so fun. Yay. I'm sorry,
we're drinking together.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I like it. I like it. It's good. It's good.
It's good. You got good. You got a good little
mocktail here.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Thank you? Yay. Yeah, 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 2 (06:54):
So?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Does anyone call you William?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
The police, the dog, the nurses, you know, my teachers
in school?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
What about your kids?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Nah?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
My kids call me dad, Daddy.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Dad Daddy.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I get pops.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I get pops every now and then you have nine children,
if I've counted correctly, Is that true?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
How many do you have?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Eight? Eight?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Do you have a 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 3 (07:31):
Well, my kids, first of all, they range from the
age of thirty seven down to four.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Wow, right right? You know?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
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
thirty six. Then my middle three is thirty twenty eight,
twenty six. Then I have my seventeen year older. His
(08:03):
name is Karma, He's uh, he's seventeen. And then I
have a four year older his name is.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Jordan's six or out of the nest.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yes you cant we Hey, you're good, check you out. Yeah,
you know.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
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, and then.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
A few years later had another one.
Speaker 3 (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 3 (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. I mean, you know sometimes you know,
in every group, in every single group in the world,
(09:51):
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, and one thing that I can say about
me and Chuck, because our love has always been real.
(10:14):
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 1 (10:30):
It's business that you're saying. Your business life has had
bumps with him, but you've You've always been family, is
what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah, always been family.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And not only that, but people 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.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
But we never ended to reunite.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Right, And you just performed together by a lot.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, Yeah, we just performed together.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
We did We did the I heeart, we did iHeart,
we did uh serious ex Sam, we did to performances
for Grammys.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Nice. Right, that's a good that's a good clarification.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, and we just declared Davis's party last week, so.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
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 3 (11:51):
It comes from this guy that his name is Kevin
Starks and he used to uh he was.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
He used to watch me without little you know. I
used to always.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
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 all the different flavors, sodas, the grapes, ferries, oranges,
root everything right.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So he called me a freak for.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Flavors, calling me the flavor freak.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
You feel me?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
He started going, 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 wanted a name that nobody else had, nobody else
(12:52):
want but yet it had to mean something.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, I tried MC flavor.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So next thing, you know, it was Chuck d that
started calling me flavor flaves.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I love it. It's great. 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 Flavor today.
I start laughing, like the name is just happy. It's
just very like. Even my daughter was like, whose 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
(13:31):
show Flavor of Love have on your life and in
pop culture?
Speaker 3 (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, play 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, And 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,
(14:45):
I'm this big start like I'm bigger it can come, man,
But I'm not that size to me.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, I'm only this size. I'm only you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I mean, you know, yeah, I feel I'm one of
the most humblest.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
High rated.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Celebs, one of the most easiest, most recognizable celebs that
walks around with.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
No bodyguards none.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
You know why, because 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. That's my goal one day. That's what I
really really want, you know. And usually at the end
(15:47):
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.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
But at the end of the day, there's only one race,
and that's the human race.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
So we are all really we are really all brothers
and sisters, and we and if we can all get
together and build the water unity.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
It would be so strong no others could come and
tear it down. So that's my goal. One day.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
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.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Before I left New York? This is kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I'm from New York.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I'm from Long Island, you know, Freeport 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
(17:30):
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 Skins.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
The hell out here, New York and day, Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
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.
Greene green Acre's Mall.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (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 Hempstead Turnpike. Raynor's cabin.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I remember Reinold's cabin.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I remember, and 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 2 (18:37):
I remember Reinold's cabin, I remember you all.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
This is crazy. So when I when I moved to
Roosevelt in nineteen seventy four. Eddie Murphy was in my
ninth grade English class. 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 3 (19:04):
Wow, Howl is a good friend of mine. Man, that's
my boy. Good people.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
You know. Also doctor Julius Irving, he's from Roosevelt. Mm hmmm.
Also it was a group.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Called Guy Teddy, Riley and Damien Hall Aaron Hall Aaron
and Damien.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Is from Roosevelt.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Funny.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, matter of fact, if you don't know who I'm
talking about, I'll sing the record to you.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
You ready, m I bet you know this one. All
I want to do is Romazo.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah. All I want to do is right yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yes, that's the group called Guy Teddy, Riley and Damien.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
That's awesome. That's awesome. 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 2 (20:09):
The only thing I could say.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
I mean, I'm proud to say that I support Taylor Swift,
you know. And the reason why it 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
(20:32):
the favorite one is because that's the first one that
I got to understand number one, but.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Number two, it's I mean, it's.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Real and a lot of people's lives. I mean, we
used to be friends. You fucked me over. Now we
got bad blood, got problems if we can't solve them.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I mean that stuff is real. It's really real, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
So that's when I started really supporting her. And by
me supporting her, I mean it's done.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Blue alcohol water man, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Dagg and these guitar picks.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I've been giving away these breaks and these guitar picks.
Now I ended up having a new name. Are you
ready for my new name? King Swifty?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
King Swifty?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
That's nice, but flavor Flavor King Flavor flaate Ping Swifty.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Hey, I'm an icon. I'm an icon.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
You know it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I'm the only iconic Swifty that Taylor has. I don't
think there's any other icons that's the Swifty, not.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
To that level. 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 3 (22:24):
Wait, wait, wait, I got something even more powerful than that.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
She's moving the earth.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yo.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
She was in Washington State and she had a concert
that drew so many people it hit the Rector scale.
Now what other musical artists in life? Do you know
that Deorge crowds that will hit the Rector scale?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Crazy?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
So I consider Tailor Swift one of the most important
artists of our time.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Yeah, tell the Swift got to get and everybody'd be like,
your playing what's up? Man?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I'd be like, hey, I'm just kind of this move
like tailor baby.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
She's got it, yup, yup. 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 3 (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 2 (23:57):
That's the thing that got me.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Oh yes, yes, the short haircut.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
When I ran across from Biley first time ever in
my life, and I was like, oh my god, Gwen, Stephanie,
Gwen Stephanie.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
You know what. Miley didn't say anything, She just won
along with it, just looked. I was like, when.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Stephnie, 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, Yo,
that's not when Stephanie.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
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.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Tell her.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I turned around and I ran back to her and
I was like, oh my god, I'm so sorry, yo, Miley, Sorry,
I know who you are now, Daddy Billy Ray Cyrus.
I was like, oh my god, I'm so stupid. Smacked
me in the face. She smacked me in the face.
(25:16):
Miley Cyrus backed flavor Flavor in the face and I said,
I won't let it happen again, and we laughed it off.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Laugh.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
She's great. I met her once and she's you could
tell by her vibe. She said hello to me and
she like she's real.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
And Yo, can I tell you something.
Speaker 3 (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 usself some flave. I
love you know, but that's our connection. She said, Oh,
you're not mistaken in me for for going to step
(25:56):
finding now like she's that's a girl was too much
And I love Miley man, she's the bomb.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
That's great. Yeah, the best. So all right, so do
you date now? And how do you date?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Like?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Are you social, do you go out or you're you know,
what's your story?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I'm just chilling, that's all. Hey, listen, check this out
right now.
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Me like and it could be.
Speaker 3 (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 2 (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 2 (27:15):
You'll be surprised. What can happen?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
No, I know, but let me ask you this, No,
it's a question.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
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 any 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, But once he learns that
his quarterback Patrick Mahons is my favorite quarter that in
the league, he's going to be like, come on, man,
(28:06):
I know Travis Kelsey will take a liking 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 2 (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.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
To be honest with you, Yeah, would you be on it?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I mean I would be on it. Maybe we'd co
host it.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I actually think you coming through to get married, let
me get oh.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Coming through to get married? 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 2 (28:51):
Just to let you know, whenever you're ready to get married.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You'll marry me. Okay, By the way, I don't know
how I would turn that down. So yes, of course,
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. So that's
my pitch to you, Flavor Flav.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I appreciate that, you know, saying to 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 Flav 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. I don't know
if I like it.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Cut this out.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
If I get my license in time, I'm going to
detail and Travis 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 3 (29:56):
Okay, well come on, let's go have on the arm
you know, yeah, Searn you know what I'm saying in
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 so fun. 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 2 (30:28):
Right? Yeah, she was in I think she was. She
was in her movie? Was it was red Son? Yah?
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 2 (30:47):
Oh? That ship was real.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
That was like a real love.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
It was real. It was a real love. Yeah, sure
I was. It was a real, real love. It was real.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Wow, you sound different. Was that the love of your life?
Speaker 2 (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.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Okay, Wow, we 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 2 (31:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Would you ever go on a date? I just want
to know what you think of a dating app in
twenty twenty four, Like, does that sound like foreign to you?
Or does that sound normal?
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Nah, it's just not a flave sound.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
It's not flave.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
No, that's great too. Wait, that's an expression I literally
am 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 flave.
Speaker 2 (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 2 (32:09):
I guess what what? Everything I cook will come out good?
You cook? I sure do? I specialize in fried chicken?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
You specialize? What's your secret? Do you brine the chickenh
My secret?
Speaker 3 (32:23):
My secret is washing the chicken real good. Season it,
flowering it frying. I seasoned it with my own special
seasoning stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You season the chicken or you season the breadcrumbs.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I seis in the chicken, and the chicken seasons the flour.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Ah okay, And you have a fryer or you just
do it in a normal pot.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah, got a fryer.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
That's your specialty. I mean, I don't know why you
don't have a place called flavor flavors for a 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 2 (32:59):
I had four restaurants so far.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
You really, yes, 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 2 (33:16):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yeah, but you love you love what you love food?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yes? I love food.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Vegas has great food. Vegas has great food.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Now, Yeah, Vegas has lovely food, great food.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Like arguably the best in the world because they have
all the best world chefs represented there.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Yeah, wow, all right, Well can we be friends now?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Hey? Yes? We can always be friends now? Why but
h bomb dot com baby?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Because it is flave. Yeah, it is flave to be friends?
All right?
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Friends for me to have.
Speaker 1 (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.
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
(34:28):
we should be friends. So that's it.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Hey, you know what, I'm not mad at that. 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 1 (34:42):
I want to be your friend for real? Yup?
Speaker 2 (34:44):
You just you just say that because of the show.
For the show, do I need to say that.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
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 with 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. So that's it. No pressure. You could
get back to me at a later date.
Speaker 2 (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 become you will become one of my bragget rights.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Likewise, I'm not gonna be saying I'm friends with Flavor
Flave of course, yeah, I name drop it.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Yeah, Hey, definitely. Let me tell you something. You are
not small to the world, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
You are larger than life, Lady log you lodge larger
than you even know.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Thank you, Flavor. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
You to be asking me to be your friend. You
don't know how honored I what. Please, let's be friends
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 2 (36:09):
If you don't text me back, I'm calling the cops.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
You should call the cops. You should call the cops.
One hundred percent. I should be arrested. That's a that's
a bullshit Hollywood bullshit violation. That's a citation for bullshit. Yeah,
one hundred percent awesome, How fun? All right? Well amazing,
Have the best day and enjoy Vegas and I'll talk
to you soon. I'm gonna text you soon. Have a
(36:34):
good day.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Bye.
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