Tarriona "Tank" Ball

Tarriona “Tank” Ball is the front woman of Tank and the Bangas who got her start in the slam poetry scene of New Orleans. Norah and Tank are by all means ‘friend goals’ so they cover everything from the news, to cooking, writing, attending the GRAMMYs and of course love. The music in this episode takes some surprising turns while they play new versions of songs by Tank like ‘Rollercoasters’ & ‘Friend Goals,’ a collaboration with Norah titled ‘Playing Along’ and in a twist, a new take on ‘Don’t Know Why.’ Recorded on 9/16/2021

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Norah Jones and today I'm playing along with Triana
tank Ball.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Just play in alone, I think just playing alone with.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hey, I'm Norah Jones and with me always is Sarah Oda. Hello.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Hi, Hi.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Our guest today is Triana tank Ball from the band
Tank in the Bengas. She's one of our favorite people.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
She is a very very unique, charismatic performer and person.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yes, Tank in the Bengas is a New Orleans based band,
and if you have the chance to see them live,
I'm telling you right now please do so.

Speaker 5 (00:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Her band is also just an incredible group of people
who bring so much energy to the stage. They kind
of just elevate everything she's doing. It's like, it's such
a fun show to see.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
It's an incredible show and I recommend it. Tank in
the Benga is one MPR's Tiny Desk contest in twenty seventeen.
If you haven't checked her out at all yet, you
should definitely check that out. It's got a lot of use.
It's a pretty great YouTube wander. They were also nominated
for Best New Artists at the Grammy Awards in twenty twenty.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
That's right, Tank comes from a slam poetry background, but
she's just evolved into this artist who can just really
do everything.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
She put out a poetry book last year called Vulnerable AF.
I think we know what that stands for.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Not to mention that she's got some crazy style and
she always looks good.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Oh, she has amazing style. Her outfits are always the best. Yes,
we're going to talk about recording and playing live and
her amazing band, and we're gonna sort of get inside
her brain a little on this episode. It was really fun,
but mostly I love her very very much, and I

(02:05):
think you're gonna love this episode. Enjoy. Here's Terryana Tankball.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
You know, all along we were playing, I gave you
a mouse to to play house, ship.

Speaker 7 (02:31):
Back and wash this ship play out.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
One shirt turns into too a too brush, a shoe
or two. I got to see You'll fly with you.

Speaker 6 (02:45):
Running from whatever, running towards the shell.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
Excuse me, bake my pope, And I know I don't
say this, Alcaball. I'll find you to be awesome. Awesome
Manila Stocking. If available for colling, we'll talk about some
and fesome in but sweet this crazy dream I give
you he Procutionally, I know the b Basically it's sung
with your love. It'd be greedy and he been hogging

(03:12):
all your love. If your pinches is incent my incential,
we could color co it's crazy more. Your pictures be
my engines. Baby, miss you don't know I kiss you.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Baby.

Speaker 8 (03:28):
Some ways in the street ties Taxis and Ulfhast, I
need to see you.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Don't you go to.

Speaker 6 (03:35):
God crazy crazy you looy you can save me baby.

Speaker 8 (03:42):
Someways in street ties Taxis and Ulfhast, I need to
see you.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
Don't you go too?

Speaker 6 (03:56):
And all alone way you were playing a long I
came mountains to play in the house. I said it back,
She play out too.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
Out loud, you running from one.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Running to shut.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Well, that was fun and hilarious because we've never played
that together since we recorded it.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
I never even thought that you were going to put
that out. I thought that we were just playing around
and we were and I was horse and I was like, yeah, no,
I'm not gonna she's gonna wait for me to get right.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Did you not like it?

Speaker 5 (04:46):
I have no problem with it. I thought it was
funny though, And you said I like I like when
I like when voices are horse and you said.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Oh, I said that is how I said that.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah, maybe I'm a sexual tone that you don't realize.
It was fun like, it was very explorative, and I
thought it was very interesting to see what type of
writer you were.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, I mean I'm still figuring it out, but I'm
pretty open, which is nice.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
You're open and you're and you and any of your writing,
I found you to be dark. I know, oh you
know it cool because I I want.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
To you, But do you find me dark as a person?
Not at all yet. I haven't like bottled up deep inside.
I eventually opened it.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
It was so passionate about making so that you spoke
about that really one I was really talked about the
world issues.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Well I wasn't trying to force it as just where
that came from.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
You was into that one? Which one was that one?

Speaker 1 (05:44):
That it was?

Speaker 5 (05:46):
It was cool?

Speaker 1 (05:46):
But this one's cooler?

Speaker 5 (05:47):
Which one is about the world? Though?

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Man? What was this? Take it away?

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (05:53):
Yes, like, damn, what's going on with this girl?

Speaker 7 (05:57):
I was?

Speaker 1 (05:57):
I think I was watching the news a little too much.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
I was like, dang, you brought it up like two
three times. We'll be playing something that you'll be like, yeah,
take it away. I'm like day normal rune about the
doors into this. Uh yeah, like cares about the world
a lot.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
I care about the world. But yeah, I care about.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
The world, he said, somebody's listening, but like, yeah, she's
supposed to do you.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, I can, but I don't. I don't watch the
news anymore.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
You can't, not too much. And I was going on.
I think to me, I guess my music be like
a little escape from the world.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Well, I like that too. That's why I made a
Christmas album, so that I could kind of escape from
deep dark songs from coming from.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
Deeply from the children.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Oh jeez, I know what are they thinking? Oh my god?
It was fun. And you work too, though, because like
your brain, you have an interesting brain.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
I've been told.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, I'm sure, Like if I can spend one day
inside your head.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
Oh you don't want to be there. It's a lot
of it's a lot of like sex.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well I know that from knowing you. Actually I would
like this very much, just like.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
Sex, makeup, hair, Instagram.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
That's amazing.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
And how does my account look?

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Oh my god, I know you got more in there
than that you got you got all kinds of lyrics
coming rhymes.

Speaker 5 (07:34):
Oh god, No, only when it's time for real, Like
I'll get this burst, like it's time to write and
I have to bring out the little notepad and I
have to write down what's going on.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
But going do you choose when that time is or
it just happens?

Speaker 5 (07:45):
Right? Inspiration is like a lady, She's a beautiful lady.
Come do with you when she feels like isla if
she don't want to fuck with you, not she's not
fucking with you.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, I think I think we can.

Speaker 7 (08:00):
She don't, won't fuck it.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
I mean, don't overdo it, don't ever do.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Don't give me no rules and give me a room,
take a dt great a room. No for real, No,
she deal with you when she wants to. So I've
learned to, like, you know, I'm gonna take advantage of
you and when you come to visit me and we're
gonna play them a good time.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
But also I also think it's a muscle that you
need to work even when she's not working.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
You need to see. That's where I feel I don't.
I don't usually try to write when I can't when
I don't have anything, But I think that's okay because
you're working so much because you work so much that
you're always working it in other ways.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
At least when it's time for me to make an album,
I'm on and I'm in it. I don't even after
you ever feel like after the album is done, you're
dam I don't eve much remember writing on these songs.
I gotta I got a full body of work, Like
when did this happen? Yeah, I got pictures.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
Well it comes out and you don't know what happened.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
Yeah, you're be in this little zone. I suppose, but
I'm so happy that we're about done. I don't like
the process. After the el's done, it's time to mix
it master.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
It's not as fun, but you have to get it
right and you have to pay attention because otherwise it's
not what you wanted.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
And then you don't want to listen to your own song. Yeah,
like I should have.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Said something yeah, and then yeah, you got to make
sure it's how you want it.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
Just hanging there, and I know you're really good at
that nord because you are singer and the musicians. I
know your ear is like so nice.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
I'm pretty focused when it's time to do that stuff.
But I also, you know, I get a little nitpicky sometimes.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
Imagine being a group of a bunch of nippickies.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, it's it's such a different thing.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
You gotta go through a lot of ears before we
even sit it on through. So I just feel like
our process is just that much longer than a lot of.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Like you don't ever pull that like tank card, Like
the band is actually tank and the band. You don't
pull that card, or you're not allowed to pull that.

Speaker 5 (09:47):
I don't. If I have to pull it, I'll pull
it like in a different type of way, but not
like in that way, because you really want to keep.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
The moral.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Family. I love your band.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
I love them too, so you don't want to do that.
Probably like my m D sometimes and be like, hey,
I've done it. I did this before I've met you
been I've been interested in this. He was like taking
the beggers, that's right.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
I remember the first time I saw you play when
I jacks they just sold one I they did. I
saw that, and I saw it's so interesting. I saw
the news.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
I saw that you wasn't watching the news.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
I don't watch the news, but somehow it popped into
my feet that I don't watch and I saw it, and.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
You want those people on the Internet. But I don't know.
You're not a troll.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Now I'm a lurker.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
Yes, you're a lurker because the troll will be talking
about people and leaving.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Really, how do you know I'm not a troll?

Speaker 5 (10:41):
I won't thank you. I think you're a I don't
think you have the time to be no troll number one.
Number two, I don't think you care that much. And
number three, I don't think that you want to be
mean publicly, even if I don't know it's you. I
think you'd rather be like me and discuss things with
your friends.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
I'm joking. I'm not a troll. You would never but
I I know I'm not even like a daily lurker.
I just every once in a while I'll look, I'll
open the curtain. It's like some yes, horrible, Oh my god,
but I saw one of Jack's clothes. That's that's too bad.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
Yes, but it's going to be opened. Is purchased by
somebody else in the community, and they're going to like
revert it back to like kind of like its original spacing.
So I hit it. They're going to make it something
even more special.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
That was a pretty cool spot. I think with the
bar in the middle and the I think it's very
cool the stage.

Speaker 5 (11:29):
It's not one of my favorites to perform in New Orleans,
but I do like it.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, well that's where I saw you, and you were
off stage. I was pregnant and we were on like
a vacation in New Orleans.

Speaker 5 (11:39):
And what drew you in the club?

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Well, I mean, we're on this vacation. We went to
New Orleans for ten days with another couple and with
my two year old, and I was pregnant, and I'm like,
I'm in New Orleans. Why I can't drink because I'm pregnant,
But why did you go to New Orleans? The guys
wanted to record some stuff. That's where they met Jelly,
and Jelly told us to come to the show that

(12:03):
she didn't You didn't know, that's why. No, because the
guys Aloish's three band that she sang with.

Speaker 5 (12:11):
Now I have to now I have to hear her
next time I see it.

Speaker 7 (12:14):
Yeah, So.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
I found a babysitter and I made it out and
I'm like, what, I don't even know what I'm here
to see? Like, I didn't know anything about you, and
you're off stage doing like the thing you did off
stage where you would talk, you would like it was
like a w w F like wrestling match.

Speaker 5 (12:35):
The way your.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Voice was, that's what it was. It was incredible. And
I was like, who is coming on the stage right now?
And Jelly was singing and I think it was just her.
I don't think you had two other.

Speaker 5 (12:47):
Singers, Okay, it depends on a show for show.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, And then and I was like, man, they sound
good and who It was like the anticipation was killing me.
And then you made it on the stage and it
was just it was incredible. I've never seeing anything like it.
I mean, you guys, the way you perform, it's a
whole thing.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
It's a lot of energy.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
It's a lot of energy, but it's like a well
oiled machine. But it's spontaneous as well, and it's like
your ball of ball of fun.

Speaker 5 (13:16):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
The whole band is just like.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
Yeah, it's own. It's like even if you tie it,
it's like somebody plunge you into a wall. Yeah, and
we're all alive at one time, and we all know
what we're supposed to be doing on that stage together.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
You got you're like road dogs and you've been on
the road forever, so so what was it like being
off the road for that long.

Speaker 5 (13:36):
I think, first of all, I think we all liked it.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
You needed it, we needed it.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
We need it.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
I heard that from so many people, and.

Speaker 5 (13:41):
I've heard I'm missing I want to go back, really,
but I heard that from a lot of people. But
during my quarantine, I was like, man, it's time to chill, walk,
eat some homemade food, ride our bikes all over New Orleans.
I felt like iron the bike at night, listening to
Anita Big Aloud as hell.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
And thereats that sounds really.

Speaker 5 (14:01):
When Tavia cooked every day healthy food. Wow, we found
ways to buy our own houses, live right around the
corner from each other.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
That's like, pretty great.

Speaker 5 (14:11):
I enjoyed my quarantine.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
But you can enjoy the break and also miss the road.
Both things can be true.

Speaker 5 (14:17):
No, I didn't miss the road.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
You didn't. But do you know, are you like feeling.

Speaker 5 (14:21):
Like I'm happy that I'm here? Yeah, I'm happy that
I'm here. I'm the type of person that's I'm like, uh,
I don't miss this crazy horrible ass food and wake
up and can't see right from your face. Subway gas stations,
the weird crank in your neck, you know, not the
walking around too much. So I never miss the road.

(14:43):
I just I love performing the performance.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
The people.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
That's that's that's amazing. That's when I'm white where I'm
supposed to be at. When I'm on stage, I'm I'm
walking in my give though. I never knew I was
supposed to be doing this.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
But you could do that in New Orleans and still
be home a few times a week.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
If you can't be home too long and perform, they
don't get too used to you, Bill, they won't realize
how special it is.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, maybe, well now you don't.

Speaker 5 (15:09):
Why would you know? Huh, how would you know?

Speaker 1 (15:12):
What do you mean?

Speaker 5 (15:13):
They always gonna appreciate you?

Speaker 1 (15:15):
No, I mean I did a weekly gig for a
while a few years back, and it was a secret
gig though, But like the people who knew about it
was it people dot com?

Speaker 3 (15:25):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Like they kind of stopped coming if it wasn't a secret.
But I don't know, you know how this is. I
don't think people would stop coming in New Orleans either.
Plus people come there.

Speaker 5 (15:38):
You never know. We're so inside ourselves that we can't
never see people the way they see us. Like for
you to say a weekly gig. First of all, I'm like,
what the hell are you even doing a weekly gig? Ever,
I'm surprised. And number two, I'm like, you're Nora Jones
probably say I'm telling me you blew up? What are
you talking about? I blew up? What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (15:57):
I remember when I saw you on the Grammys. I
was like friends with her.

Speaker 5 (16:01):
I'm so you are crazy as you sit home and
dust off your minigrams whatever, you're crazy. And guess what,
nobody knows this. But I didn't want to win.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
You didn't.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
I was too scared to why. I never felt so
much anxiety in my life. I'm not even somebody that
deals with anxiety. But that night, as they called out
those names, my neck was burning, my head was pounding
and getting bigger and bigger. I had no breath, and
I had no legs. And I couldn't imagine somebody calling
our names. Because they did, I would have fell down
as I tried to reach the stage. I didn't want

(16:33):
nobody calling it. When everybody saw me, clamming went oh tanks,
so happy for Billy, I'm happy for me I'm happy.
I don't have to get up and I don't have
to say anything. I'm happy for me, Billy, I love you,
but I'm happy for me. I don't have to get up.
I'm not ready.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Did you meet Billy?

Speaker 5 (16:50):
Not because she was, because even though I met almost
everybody that was backstage that was nominated in my carrigo
with Yola is just absolutely amazing. That girl is amazing.
Even lil Na's ex is real freaking cool. He didn't
say anything, but he hung around a lot. And who
else was really freaking nice? Uh dang, I can't even
much remember, but but Bingle was one of those people

(17:10):
that like did a special performance that like left because
you know, she was just at a different calib at
the time, so they want to rush all yeah, but
she came across. I think, I think. I think she's sweet.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, I like her saying it's beautiful deep and also
it's it's deep and dark.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
That's a good voice too, Like it got a beautiful
we know a good voice.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
She she's like an old soul voice.

Speaker 5 (17:29):
That's a good voice.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
She's an incredible voice.

Speaker 5 (17:32):
Yeah, I love her. I'll give that you got that girl.
And the album was good.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
It was really great.

Speaker 5 (17:36):
The album was good.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yes, I remember the Grammys from two thousand and three,
and I remember did.

Speaker 5 (17:44):
You wear dress?

Speaker 1 (17:45):
I wore dress and well color black sow me.

Speaker 5 (17:52):
Even well pink dress.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
I mean, I think I would get more adventurous if
I felt more confident, you know. But I just I
think black works on me. I've been in New York
too long.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
Yeah, but I don't don't see you wear no rainbows
and stuff. But I could definitely see you being more
explorative and letting their hair down.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
So it's hard for me.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
I think you should just do my hair and makeup
and dress me.

Speaker 5 (18:18):
Were gonna let me put some long extensions in your hair?

Speaker 4 (18:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Sure that sounds fun. All right, Yeah, I'll let you.
But did you so? I remember the Grammy two thousand
and three. I remember not eating for like eight hours,
like because you get there so early and then it
lasts so long, and they.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Didn't serve any food.

Speaker 5 (18:37):
Yeah, why wouldn't you write no food in Yeah? So
they got people on the red carpet to us that
was giving.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Us snacks because nobody gave mes and little kick cat
balls a little hungry.

Speaker 5 (18:50):
Yeah, yeah, I can imagine.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
So you got snacks they gave us they worked.

Speaker 5 (18:55):
But not but I'm talking about like little commentators and
sweet and.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Stuff, so so not an official like a sweet guy.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
That really sweet boy that does those the sing thing. Yeah,
I don't want get his name messed up at all,
but he does that thing that with all the singers.
They come up there and he just mentioned a word
and he got to sing a song. Oh I don't understand, okay,
Like I say, Nora sang a song using the word
street cars.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Street cars, Oh, subways and street cars, taxis and ubars.
Don't you go too far?

Speaker 7 (19:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (19:28):
My favorite thing about that is how you did your
own delay too far?

Speaker 5 (19:32):
I do it even now and I have a delay man.
I love that crazy Yeah, I do it now.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Can we do a song from your album?

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (19:43):
I want to do friend goals? This is from your
New Thing from the EP. So this came out during quarantine, yes,
and you guys recorded it at all during all that.
I love this one.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
It's so sweet. It is very sweet, so sweet, and
I feel so cool about this song because like I
really feel like I have friend goals, like you my
friend and Jill Scott's my friend, and Leyla had the
Ways my friend, and Robert's a friend, and I just
feel like like I have friend goals. Like when I
go through my phone, I look at all these people

(20:14):
numbers and I smile to myself.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Friend goals.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
Yeah, we're friend goals.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Friend goals. I remember when I called you for the
first time. I was like, maybe she'll be my friend
if I asked her to sing a song about poop.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
Yeah, I didn't. I was very surprised that's what you
wanted me to sing about. But I would have sung
about anything with you, obviously, Jesus Christ. I remember, like
it was no other day. Nor called me when I
was in I want to work with you.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Can we sing a song about that?

Speaker 5 (20:40):
Yeah? He was like it's a little weird, and I
was like, why do you keep saying it? Just send
me a song. And then I was like, oh, that's
why should keep saying. I looked for that video a
long time.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
It's amazing.

Speaker 5 (20:52):
Yeah, it's so fun today.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Oh my god, yes.

Speaker 6 (20:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (21:05):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (21:09):
Everybody wants somebody they could kick you with, after school,
hanging for the weekend, down for the court, to the
bitter in trust me, everybody made a good friend of
God friend goal.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
I've got.

Speaker 5 (21:29):
I've got friend goal. He Lona all alone in the corner,
feed the mother sandwich, crusts got off person, kick on us,
shut it out off from my perspective for future sons
and daughters. On the subject of Frisher, how to stay
away from my stech, maybe actually starting a club with folks.

(21:52):
You need to luck and stop. Thank for conversations huggs
on body side to get back so when your low
on human glos, just know that out being your back
in case you didn't. You know those no needs to
reflash after school. Thank you well a weekend down for

(22:12):
the can sat the vida in. Trust me. Everybody need
a good friend of God friend goals.

Speaker 9 (22:25):
I've got I've got friend goals.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
We grew up so many people who around.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
You're the only.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
One who ever helped me down.

Speaker 6 (22:55):
Help me use your Netflix chair and sleep on your
cash fucking values.

Speaker 7 (23:00):
So you probably him and.

Speaker 10 (23:01):
Now when I was running into something, running from myself
to nothing, when I needed something else, you were there,
never left. All those times you got together way better
than that.

Speaker 6 (23:13):
I'm fast because who I am before was never met.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
Sady wants somebody ain't a cake it away after school
hanging father breaking, don't father cols the better? Trust me?
Everybody need a good friend. I've got friends. How many
of us I've got I've got it friend snaking out?

Speaker 1 (23:44):
How many of us got him?

Speaker 5 (23:47):
On the school you're playing Jack's alone eating apple jacks,
Nick neck and Patty whack nikkas meaning Patty's wack cats.
Some of the jungle gym missing out with no friends.
School is in friends after school no friends. Me and
myself and I I think I should start a new trend,
a club where all the lorners go to preating that

(24:09):
we are friends. After that, we walking home and contemplate
how life it is lonely as a man god me
looking at my back? What happened about he was super
a laid back on roads day bes for like me
as I was, But I couldn't et changed back to believe.
So she's a scooper. She's sleeping on her gold standing,

(24:29):
no ambitious, sleeping on her future sept I know more
what Mike would about Mike what he was all right?
But it was never for quite right. And you know,
friendships have been instantly aged like a fire wise spontaneous
cosmic in the gy down. You're so piggy. You're right
just finding a friendss triggy. I need the tip to

(24:49):
stand with me, not a fire saying with.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Me A y'all.

Speaker 11 (24:53):
I get lady, I get cleany, I get singing. I
like to sing the chingy. So now the neighbors gonna
hear me. You feel it, you get bored easily. I
got an a D D thing. I can't sit straight.
My focus kind of swing.

Speaker 5 (25:09):
I'll forget something you just said to me a word.
I'm also lawyah, I'm sweet, I'm considerate and humble. Were
down to earth. I got morals. I'm chill. You can smoke.
I won't judge. We can argue, no crutch. I hold
on tight its. I love it. I wrote a song
about friends.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
You wrote a song about friends.

Speaker 5 (25:29):
I wrote a song about friends, about you, about us, friends.
You gotta do the friends.

Speaker 6 (25:38):
Tell many of us got friends faces?

Speaker 7 (25:46):
How many of us got them.

Speaker 11 (25:50):
Faces?

Speaker 5 (25:54):
How many of us?

Speaker 3 (25:56):
God, I've got face?

Speaker 7 (26:02):
How many others?

Speaker 3 (26:04):
God?

Speaker 1 (26:17):
I love that one?

Speaker 5 (26:20):
So sweet thing you know remind me of the kind
of way you did your friends.

Speaker 12 (26:27):
Was the creepy election song love we did that at
you had me do that in New Orleans?

Speaker 1 (26:41):
What what was that event called again?

Speaker 5 (26:43):
It was at the Music Box in New Orleans. We
did a show called Alice Lost I loved around the
time that Hillary and Trump were going hands right before
the election, and they did a special dance and Nora
did her election song, which I love. You're gonna do
at least the first one.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah, it was Louen and go swoll and you did
a little dance way they did.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
Hillary mask and a Donald Trump mask and they did
a dance around your purple piano.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Because it was Halloween.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
Time.

Speaker 6 (27:14):
And though I colored my eyes, I knew they go way.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
God, I haven't sung that song myself.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
I'll be all over in my car. I love the
things that you give to me, indeed even more that
I am free, that they.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Honey shu.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
Man girl say, I.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Love, I love, and most of all that I am free.
But sometimes I don't understand the way way we play. Yeah,
that's the lyrics. What God, I wrote that many elections.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
And that's so real because it be scary and and
even though it be it scares me, but even some
of my friends and something it scares them more. I've
seen people cry when certain presidents were elected. You know,
I know, and and and as I moved now into
this future of what's going on right now, I see
why you would cry.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Well, it's heavy, and.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
We're a little screwed.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
We're a little screwed. But also a lot of people
have a lot more to lose than other people. And
then a lot of people watch the news more and
feel it more, and a lot of people know how
to shut it out if they're able, And it's like
a whole thing.

Speaker 5 (28:40):
Yes, you're absolutely right about it.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
So I'd like to talk more about politics. Now.

Speaker 5 (28:45):
Wait a minute. Yeah, so I had a cheesecake. You
have had gumbo, have you?

Speaker 7 (28:54):
No?

Speaker 1 (28:54):
I've never had gumbo. No, I'm kidding.

Speaker 5 (28:57):
Was going on with you?

Speaker 1 (28:58):
You came to the city, remember the first time I
met you and I had you come up. I promise
you I would make you food. But but you always order.

Speaker 5 (29:07):
You always order, you always something good. You always let
me order whatever.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
I won't anything for my You have never cooked though, no,
because my kids and you know, they don't eat anything.
And I'm always too.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
Like do you always order? You know what?

Speaker 1 (29:25):
I used to cook a ton and I was a
great cook, and I swear in the last year, I
have not cooked much. No, I cook. I have to,
but it's hard to get motivated because they like to
wash the dishes. Me neither, and also the kids. But
I don't want like to order and get a bunch
of plastic crap either. You know that feels weird.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Just chuck it out.

Speaker 5 (29:51):
That's what my mom has been cooking for me.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
But that's amazing.

Speaker 5 (29:54):
Yeah, I give fifty dollars and she cooked me a
meal for the week and I just be eating off
of it the whole week.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
So you have basically you have your own personal chef system.

Speaker 5 (30:02):
I was trying to get healthy and she was helping.
Then at some point she just started getting too jazzy
with it. Mama, wait a minute, now, it was too much.
She was throwing to go hard in a good bad way.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
But like unhealthy, unhealthy.

Speaker 5 (30:17):
But like your food rolling. But MoMA, okay, you going hard.
And I stop putting the pork in the cabbage. Yeah healthy,
al right, stop putting the pickle meat in the cabbage, Mama,
the pig tails.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
I think I'm gonna cook more now that the weather
is gonna.

Speaker 5 (30:31):
Get hot and it's gonna get cold.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
It's hurted cooking.

Speaker 7 (30:37):
Do you cook?

Speaker 5 (30:38):
I cook sometimes, but not often at all. I either
buy my man Tybe, go out a lot. I eat
a lot of steak this year. Jesus Christ probably should
have been doing it like that, and Tybbe cooks, and
my mom cooked, and every now and then I'll make
some bike chicken wings with some macarona cheese or some
baked chicken wings and some jumbala off, some big chicken
wings and some dirty white so some baked chicken wings.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
So it is your special baked chicken wing.

Speaker 5 (31:04):
I like doing bike chicken wings and fried chicken wings.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Okay, that sounds great. Someday, someday we'll have time to
cook free.

Speaker 5 (31:11):
I mean, I would love for you to come to
my house in New Orleans, because I'm in my first
house and I love it a lot. I only I
love to be there. That's what I love to be.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
I want to come visit now that you know.

Speaker 5 (31:21):
Yes, I will make you something and Tavy will make
you something, and then we'll go out to dinner, so
we'll eat any We're on three different occasions. Okay, yeah,
I'll do different occasions because all we do in New
Orleans is is bring people out to eat. I noticed that.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Yeah, well because the food is amazing, so yes, they
want some more activities.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
And I would also bring you on the more pads
and we could ride the city. Yes, I did that
right before I left with T and Jelly, and it was.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
That's a good way to see a city. It was amazing.

Speaker 5 (31:49):
I feel like a tourist in my own city, especially
since I really don't know what nothing at.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
That's funny. Do you drive? I do?

Speaker 5 (31:55):
I just bought my first car.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Nice.

Speaker 5 (31:57):
I drive a wrong. I get lost and I get scared,
and I'll be fine, and I just I don't think
i know where I'm going a lot because I'm directly challenged.
I go left a lot because I'm left handed.

Speaker 7 (32:11):
I was.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
I would think you would go right a lot because
it's harder to turn left in front of uncoming coming traffic.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
I'm just wrong.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Are you left handed?

Speaker 5 (32:21):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Why did I think that?

Speaker 5 (32:23):
I told you just now.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
I'm not really listening. I've got it. I've got an earpiece,
and the producers feeding me questions.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
Are you serious? No, I'm about to say as small
as hell.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
No I'm not.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
I'm just kidding. I'm joking.

Speaker 5 (32:40):
That's how I live on stage though, Josh is the
voice of God in my ear on stage.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Really it's helpful for everyone or just you, for everyone.
So he's he's directing it for real like that.

Speaker 5 (32:50):
Yes, but that's just that's that's a recently.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
But you guys have a lot going on on stage.

Speaker 5 (32:54):
Show.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
It makes sense.

Speaker 5 (32:55):
Honestly, A lot of times people need it because his
memory when it comes down to our show is the best,
probably because you know, he creates it. So he is
the voice of guy. And it's like horrible and great
because it's like, oh, I did forget that part is coming,
and sometimes y'all doing real good, y'all.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Doing all right, So it's like a cheerleader. It's like
having a cheerleader.

Speaker 5 (33:15):
God, being a cheerleader.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
That's kind of amazing.

Speaker 5 (33:18):
Oh my god, I love that. You don't want that
air be trying to concentrate, do your little poeng.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
That's too funny. But it also enables you guys to
be more spontaneous because somebody's reminding you where to go, like,
oh my.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
Gosh, I don't know. No, I don't think so. I
think it makes it pretty straight. But it's so much
energy and it's cause there's moments of your own little
solo and interpretation of how you're doing the song. I
think you just know the song well enough and then
you can go and then you can go on your
little tangent. When you're confident a song, you can do that,
and a lot of us sometimes you're not confident yet,

(33:57):
but you're trying to go on that little tangent. Learn it,
learn of fires, and then go on your tagent.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Well, yeah, it's like language. You got to learn it.

Speaker 5 (34:03):
And you I can say that my own little self
talk a.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Bunch of crap. How many poems do you think you've
written in your life?

Speaker 5 (34:08):
Am I life?

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Like would you say you ask something, ask how many
hands on your head? Oh no, I know, it's not
how many poems I wrote. It wasn't a real hairs
on your head.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
It wasn't a.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Real answer I expected. But you've you've just like it
just comes out of you, like every second.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
Oh my gosh, let's see if I just opened up
my notepad or something.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Just well, that's why it was fun to do those
sessions and write together, because you just had a bunch
of stuff.

Speaker 5 (34:32):
I did and I was just going through them, like,
but I thought we.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Were on Instagram, but you were actually going through your poems.

Speaker 5 (34:39):
Oh my god, you did.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
I didn't think.

Speaker 5 (34:42):
Okay, I love to make these songs poems for this album.
I've made a lot of these poems songs, and I
really love them. I love that I haven't written as
much as I should on this tour though. I've been
sleeping a lot.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
But you need it. That's okay, you think soon? Is
that how roller Coasters started? Was it a poem?

Speaker 5 (35:02):
No, that started from like following my sister around while
she was going on like she was while she was
dainty Ezekiel. Yeah, and it was amazing. I just felt
like such a great third wheel. I was like, Oh,
these people.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Are in love and you were curious about it. Oh well,
I've been curious about love for years. I love this
song and it's one of the first ones I saw
you play because you were playing this when I saw
you really, Yeah, you were doing it.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
Are you going to do it?

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Can you do it?

Speaker 5 (35:27):
Are you going to do the hook?

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Can you do it?

Speaker 5 (35:30):
Can you do the hook?

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Will you do it with me?

Speaker 3 (35:34):
No?

Speaker 5 (35:36):
I want to hear you do it. Oh my god,
so special. I've always wondered why people wrote the biggest

(36:09):
roller coasters, why the feeling brought up some type of
excitement that they didn't receive on a regular day, Like
when did feeling sick become equivalent to thrill or nausea
of the new expell I've always wondered why people wrote
those really big roller coasters. And I remember, I remember
when I did.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
It's the butterflies.

Speaker 6 (36:41):
And a fly, flies fighting in my story.

Speaker 5 (36:50):
The light between their ways scared the flies.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
I might come. I think I'm ready now, I'm so bretty.

Speaker 5 (37:16):
Like. It's the twisting, the curve, whether up in the swerve.
It's smiling so wide I'm smiling. It's the feeling of
my nerves on the front edge of the seed. Eyes
are open, tears are coming from the thrill of sight,
moving as fast as light, laughing for no reason, screaming
for all things I should not have said in that

(37:36):
last fight. Those roller coasters, those roller coasters, Those roller
coasters are like meeting God with the kite and your
left hand strings are still twisted around your forefinger. Your
right hand it's busy gripping the safety rail. There is
this moment when you feel like You're an incredible ocean
of your own butterflies, and this is the moment when

(37:58):
you get free and you let your own worms wire.
I know I'm flying.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
Right now.

Speaker 7 (38:12):
It's the butterfly.

Speaker 6 (38:16):
And the fire flies fighting in my stone, the.

Speaker 5 (38:25):
Light between noise.

Speaker 6 (38:28):
I'm scared to fly, the miccome. I think I'm ready
now ready.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Now getting back and.

Speaker 7 (38:57):
M hm.

Speaker 10 (39:02):
Like like.

Speaker 11 (39:06):
Like like.

Speaker 5 (39:10):
Oh oh oh.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
Oh bl b lif fly like honey waters last water

(39:40):
lad mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
I I didn't know if I should do it or not.

Speaker 5 (40:16):
No, no, I was wondering how you was gonna end it.
That's so like that has been just resonating in the air.
Oh my god, it sounds so pretty on the hook.
I've never heard nobody else really sung it.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
I thought you were gonna say it, but I want
to do that.

Speaker 5 (40:30):
I'm doing a poem that's true love. I love love.
It's a great It does feel like that roller coasterun
til you be scared and so yeah, and then once
you get back on it again, you still get back
in line, over and over and over thinking it's times
gonna be different, all that you're gonna feel the same thrill.
You can't wait to tell your friends about this new person.

(40:53):
Like when I say I can't wait to tell my
friends about the top and how it looks from the
very That's what I mean. You can't wait to tell
your friends when you messing one specially and how they
make you feel.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
And then the drop.

Speaker 5 (41:04):
Throat just be smiling for no reason. Just spit all
in your slip just he know. I love Rollicas. It's
been too long. It's been too long. I went to
Disney World in Paris before too really, yes?

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Cool? Was it very French?

Speaker 5 (41:21):
I think?

Speaker 1 (41:22):
Did you feel very American?

Speaker 3 (41:24):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (41:24):
I think American? Yeah, Just the fact that you're in
Disney World Paris, just like, ah, it's dope. Period. We
I think we went to maybe like two or three
theme parks overseas. We always find something really special. Do
we ride our bikes through Amsterdam, all of us we
have the greatest time.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
I want to go on tour with you.

Speaker 5 (41:41):
I think I think you would have a good time.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
I think we'd have fun.

Speaker 5 (41:44):
And you gotta be in my van because my van
is like the nerve van.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Okay, did you go ever? Was it Copenhagen?

Speaker 5 (41:52):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (41:52):
That that place in Copenhagen that theme park. I can't
remember what it's called, but like we did. I'm like, yeah,
i'm looking too, Yeah that place is Yeah we did that.
I can't remember what it's called.

Speaker 5 (42:06):
The Yeah there.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
I've got a lot of like moments there. I like
that almost barfing. They have like some intense ones.

Speaker 5 (42:15):
I miss it. Like at first, I was being a
little little jockstrap because I was thinking, every every seas,
every summer overseas, every summer, I'm missing Essence Festival. Yeah,
you know when I started being like a little pissy
baby in Essence because I love Essence Fst in New Orleans,
whereas Oh, okay, it's just it's just so great and

(42:37):
so big and so black and so awesome. So I
met I kept missing it because we're going overseas, but
I had to keep telling myself, you're going overseas for
the summer.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
That.

Speaker 5 (42:45):
But so when it was taken away, yeah, that when
I was like, wait a minute, now, Yeah, where's Germany.
I know it's Germany, and I'm never looking for Germany,
but I know Germany has some of the best music festivals.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
There's some great stuff there.

Speaker 5 (42:59):
Yeah, I mean you could literally just be there on
any given in it's tanking a bang as Leela's Thundercat
and freaking that mostly amazing boy that's his name, but yeah,
it's amazing. Well.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
Also being in Europe in the summer, it's like you're
in so many and also the variety of all the
small countries, like you can go between all these small countries,
you can.

Speaker 5 (43:22):
It's just different.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
It's a pretty different thing. I mean, I know our
country is big and very but it's diverse. But it's yeah, it's.

Speaker 5 (43:29):
Pretty much the same. I never feel like it's it's
never as special as it is overseas, and I never
feel as American until I'm overseas. Yeah, y'all don't speak
any English, Like, yeah, I'm like dang. I never felt
American and in America I feel black, and in Europe
I feel American. That's interesting, It is interesting. It lets
me know that they should have definitely taught me some

(43:49):
more languages.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Oh yeah, do you speak anything?

Speaker 5 (43:52):
I speak New Orleans twang, Yeah, I got it.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
No French, Well you probably have a great like fake
like accident.

Speaker 5 (44:05):
Yeah, And they should have told me more than that.
And that was from fifth grade. But if they would
have kept it going, I would have known. I don't
think that America wanted us to communicate with anybody else.
They want us the thing that we were the greatest
in the world.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
It's really too bad that we weren't forced to speak
like we're just a little harder. Yeah, yeah, I agree.

Speaker 5 (44:20):
Yeah we should have been because everybody knows our language.
Plus there's yeah it's awkward.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
Yes, And then the.

Speaker 5 (44:26):
Crazy part is the best sound and sound engineers I've
ever had was in Japan. Oh yeah, like at the
Blue Note.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Don't she love Japan? It's so different.

Speaker 5 (44:36):
It was the best sleep I've had in my last grade. Yeah,
and I didn't know that Nagoya was known for fried
chicken wings.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Oh yeah, those are so good. And they even have
like a manual how to eat them perfectly.

Speaker 5 (44:48):
Yeah yeah, so they had to make breakfast. There's so
many of them. I took them on a plane with me.
I took out twenty wings and a napkin on a plane.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
Chicken wings.

Speaker 5 (44:56):
Oh I love It's time to go back. Yeah, I
miss it. I'm missing now.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
Wait, so did you grow up in the church singing
in the church.

Speaker 5 (45:18):
It's a family full of pastors. Really that I would
be a pastor too. Really, Yes, I'm not surprised because
my delivery.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Your delivery works.

Speaker 5 (45:27):
But I feel like I'm at church every day I
get on stage, exactly. I feel very I feel like
a little like it's like a little revival.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
It's amazing.

Speaker 5 (45:34):
I feel like a revival. And I think the guys
feel it too.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
Yeah, and most of them grew up in the church too. Yeah,
there's a thing. It's like I feel it because I
grew up in Dallas and a lot of my friends
from high school came from playing music in church. And
it's just like it feels like home to me. The
way you go, it's a whole different thing.

Speaker 5 (45:58):
Yeah, just stay hand movement, you know what they about
to go? I know, but that's also something amongst you
freaking musicians too.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
No, but it's different that that people that grew up
in church, people that grew up playing in the church,
specifically black church. You know, It's like I grew up
singing in church, but it wasn't like that.

Speaker 5 (46:21):
What did you say?

Speaker 1 (46:21):
I sang, our Goddess is awesome God, our God is
a Catholic. No, but I actually did have a Catholic.
She taught us a lot of hymns in Latin. She
was from a Catholic church, that's why she taught. It
was she this choir director I had named Shawna. She
was really sweet and she always gave me the solos.

Speaker 5 (46:41):
Oh my, my, dude didn't give me no solos really,
and I was thinking, you think you could sing better
than me. He couldn't sing and I only had like
one soul of the.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Whole time, and he was jealous of you.

Speaker 5 (46:52):
I couldn't say that. I just think that he liked
his little shits eye and behind that little piano. But
I never had a lead.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
That's interesting. But you were in the choir the time.
How big it was it like acquiring your church?

Speaker 5 (47:03):
Well, it was a couple of churches because the one
I did never got to sing lead. That was was
on the praise team and at church church, I didn't
sing any leads because I really couldn't sing that well.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Really, No, I was more of a speaker because you're
such a good singer.

Speaker 5 (47:18):
I mean, I've grown to be much better than I was,
and I still have so much ways to go. But
you know, I'm a little what's another word for lazy?
You know what I'm like another one though, just kind
of like comfortable. I got a gift but laid down. Yeah,
like to take a rest, watch a little Netflix, have
a little ice cream with little hershees on top.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
I'm kind of like that.

Speaker 5 (47:40):
Yeah, I know. I feel like I know very hindredly
seriously connected to you. I feel like we're the same person.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Oh my gosh, I love you. Thanks for doing this
later later, alligator pabors.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
Okay, okay, okay, okay, nice things.

Speaker 5 (48:15):
I ain't got no chill, I ain't got your meal.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Look, do some nice things.

Speaker 5 (48:22):
Fummy that was you should that's nice.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
Things for me. It's a good look.

Speaker 5 (48:34):
You should buy some nice cream.

Speaker 7 (48:37):
Fumming.

Speaker 5 (48:42):
You should do some nice things.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
Funny.

Speaker 5 (48:46):
Nice things. So I hit him on a tuestak, making
sure I ain't too busy. That's the only time I'm
in your city. I ain't had no nice things in
a minute, bottom wiggle shop fin for the visage. I
need a O G. What a gold sea got a

(49:07):
cadialectal call sea, keep it pine fresh. That's that calie
weed on a lake from that's the summer sea makes
common sense, like August green.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
You should do.

Speaker 5 (49:18):
Something nice things, fummy ow Gucci bars, Gucci Watch, that's
when I buy myself watch some nice things, fummy, that's
a good love. You should buy some nice cream, fummy.
I like vanilla, I like it.

Speaker 6 (49:38):
I like a.

Speaker 5 (49:40):
Tart, I love strawberries. Nice things, what seconds? It's the
weeked already played all week? And hit up your friend
sex Mike's boyfriend?

Speaker 3 (49:56):
Is we Chilean?

Speaker 5 (49:58):
Or what wish a link? Can't see face and the
makeup like we're made up in them? Suicide doors I
one more that's a score? And beaches and thel a
pretty boys down there in look bag? Can you open
up the door for me? Can you bring it back?
Shutting down the stors for me?

Speaker 3 (50:17):
Mc? Can't you?

Speaker 5 (50:18):
Can you open up the doors for me? Can't you
bring it back?

Speaker 3 (50:22):
Shutting down?

Speaker 4 (50:23):
Door?

Speaker 6 (50:25):
What?

Speaker 5 (50:25):
Can you open up the door for me? Or slide
the keys? Say your mother, good chap.

Speaker 6 (50:31):
You should do some nice things for me, Gucci bus,
Gucci Watch, nice.

Speaker 5 (50:39):
Things for me.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
That's a good luck.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
Say good look, that's a good luck. You should buy
some rabees for me.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
Oh like rabbees?

Speaker 5 (50:51):
I forgot my oars ball empisode. Nice things for me?
Nice things yeah later later later alligator smell those papers
okay okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I ain't
got no chill. No, I ain't got your later later later, alligator,

(51:17):
smell those papers?

Speaker 6 (51:18):
Okay okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Some nice things, nice things.

Speaker 5 (51:33):
Okay okay okay okay okay.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
Job.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
Really you wanted to do this one?

Speaker 4 (51:47):
Right?

Speaker 3 (51:48):
You saying don't know why?

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Once? Yes, when before I met you?

Speaker 5 (51:53):
Yes, you know what was my ship? That mother, that
that goddamn come away with me too? What?

Speaker 7 (52:00):
Thank you?

Speaker 5 (52:02):
Why would you be shocked?

Speaker 1 (52:04):
I'm not shocked.

Speaker 5 (52:05):
I just said was the movie?

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Oh my god?

Speaker 7 (52:08):
I love that.

Speaker 5 (52:10):
Did you meet Jennifer Lopez?

Speaker 1 (52:11):
I did meet her a couple of short She's so britty,
she's so small and pretty.

Speaker 5 (52:15):
That's a small woman.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
She's gorgeous.

Speaker 5 (52:17):
She looks good.

Speaker 7 (52:18):
Though.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
I actually love almost every single Jennifer Lopez movie.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
I can understand that.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
They're all really good. I could understand that, and they're great,
and now they're like nostalgic from that era.

Speaker 5 (52:31):
I love Maiden Manhattan and I love.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
You heard that song?

Speaker 5 (52:36):
Yeah, I even love that. Oh I want to spend
dive to the end. I love that on a pink dress,
what she got on that diamond that she stole? And
the dude was singing at the at the party. I
remember that part and then I remember all of it
did when she was about to sleep with them, then

(52:56):
your song came on.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
Well that's like you know, you got to get them
running away? You're nice?

Speaker 3 (53:05):
What and I will.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
You?

Speaker 5 (53:10):
Saw do it?

Speaker 2 (53:15):
No, you do it?

Speaker 7 (53:19):
Come away with me on a bus, come away with me,
and I.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Will ride.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
You so, oh my god, you're so pretty? Can you
just re record all my songs for me?

Speaker 5 (53:41):
Please go best with your mad as hell? And I
want to wake up.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
With the rain.

Speaker 5 (53:51):
Falling on a tin road while I'm safely in your.

Speaker 7 (54:00):
Want you try to.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Come away with me and will kiss on a mountain?

Speaker 7 (54:15):
Come away?

Speaker 3 (54:19):
Man?

Speaker 5 (54:20):
Yeah, yo, it was the songs.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
Man.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
See you like that song because you love love?

Speaker 4 (54:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (54:28):
Fine, it's nice.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
No, but I remember that's my roller coasters. That's like
my I want love. So I'm gonna I'm gonna write it.
I'm to write a song.

Speaker 7 (54:39):
Like I have it.

Speaker 5 (54:39):
But and then once you have it, it's not even
as magical.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
Yeah, it's more complicated.

Speaker 5 (54:47):
Yeah, I think that the fantasy of it is much
more fun and gives you much more inspiration, because after
that it's just hurt. Yeah, that's why I can't believe
you didn't want it, didn't. I like that's that girl,
name that new girl, because you could tell she's been
burnt baby, and I love it. I've been writing songs
for like a little show and they and they asked

(55:07):
me to listen to her for one of the songs inspirations,
and I just got on and I was like, damn,
this girl is better. I loved that. I love the
no idea whatever it's called. Is it called her the
driver of license?

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Oh, Olivia Rodrigo.

Speaker 5 (55:20):
Yeah, that's okay, that's her name.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Yes, yeah, I love that.

Speaker 5 (55:22):
That's the one that in the car.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
And the kids really like it.

Speaker 5 (55:25):
I can imagine, yeah, because I never felt this way
about no one.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
It's intense when you're young.

Speaker 5 (55:38):
I'm happy I wasn't in love when I was young.
Oh boy, I wouldn't have time for it. I wouldn't
be able to concentrate. I'd rather have fantasized it.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
Well, it's more fun.

Speaker 5 (55:48):
Give me a lot of material.

Speaker 6 (56:03):
Wait a tie, I show the shirt. I don't know
why I didn't come, left you by.

Speaker 7 (56:20):
House fun.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
I don't know why.

Speaker 7 (56:27):
I didn't come.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
I don't know why.

Speaker 7 (56:35):
I didn't come.

Speaker 5 (56:38):
I want to sit you underneath the belly of a rainbow.
I want to see if your skin tone matches God's craons.
So maybe I'll build a zillion foot ladder just to
see if you can outshine the stars that New York
tries to compete with. Or maybe I'll sit you in
the middle of a New Orleans June just so you
could battle with its raids. Or hey, maybe I can

(57:00):
place your heart in Africa just to see if you
can compare to what home really feels like. I want
to take the brilliance of your character in battle with
against lions. Maybe you'll be David and I'll be glithe.
And if you get too close, I promise I'm a
bid it. I'll break your forward.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
With the wind from my guy.

Speaker 5 (57:16):
Look at you as if you never told me to
shut up twice. But I'll throw way every fight like
small leftover just now and say again that you're not
come in over. I need to show it us like
Bush needed them soldiers. So come, as a matter of fact,
run to the nearest tree climb up like a coward
or comet. They all go up the same. Don't you
ever love me in vain? I don't know when you do.

(57:40):
I travel the flight streams and I live in your veins,
and it's still fluto. It's so damn small. Jesus won't
even notice it's missing. And if he does, let's just
blame it on the devil because he steals things.

Speaker 3 (57:52):
I think we're gonna have.

Speaker 5 (57:53):
So much fun if you let me tell you how
I used to be your mother in Korea. Yes, I
used to be eight, not just saying, and you ain't
never gonna.

Speaker 7 (58:02):
Be bored with me.

Speaker 5 (58:03):
Let's go fishing, which can just be like Sydney because
we killing the humans up the sea. I don't want
you to pray for me. I want you to pray
with me. I hold my hands like praying hands, to
say my name, but not too loud, of your girl
my hair. But I do not mind loving you in secret.

Speaker 3 (58:20):
I'm a great secret keeper.

Speaker 5 (58:21):
But would you like me to keep your heart or
your beep? Either way, I won't tell your girl. I
have the number to either. I had your secrets in
my sleep. Because you need to love me. You need
to love me, Mike all and leave up. Probably my
bro I won't open no fiets up. Tell me I'm
not even in mine number thirty three. I like to be,

(58:43):
you know, treated special. Every human being has needs. I
may be a little selfish, but so are starfish. Why
do you think they constantly sting the sea? I just
wish that you were with me all the time, just
so I could go crazy when you're not around. You
call me random.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
Me.

Speaker 7 (58:57):
You call me random, and I say, this is day.
I do you want to fund?

Speaker 3 (59:01):
You say, girl?

Speaker 5 (59:04):
You random? I like fried chicken and I hate salmon.
He wants to get me cultured. I say, go screw
the mailman. Let's sell man on the water, Betty at
the lake, Betty, I pass thy mistakes, and let's go
bake some cookies and let's chase streams that for once,
don't run. Let's make love and make fun of the sun.
We must live a wise one one sand. We must
shake the dust, shake the dust, so shake the dust.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
MM.

Speaker 5 (59:38):
Something has to make you. I don't know why you
did not come.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
I have fashion take as.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (01:00:04):
You didn't come. I don't know why.

Speaker 5 (01:00:12):
He didn't come.

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
Don't know why you did.

Speaker 7 (01:00:29):
Come welcomes worthy.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
I love that. Oh I love you, I love you,
thank you, and I missed you.

Speaker 7 (01:00:44):
I miss you too.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
I'm just playing alone with it. I'm just playing alone with.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
I hope you enjoyed that. That was awesome. We had
so much fun. She's amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:01:07):
I have to say, you know, Tank and I have
a little bit of a relationship where we kind of
dig at each other like a kind of a sisterly Yeah,
you guys give each other a lot of crip, do
we really do? And so here's something that I wouldn't
say to her face, because you know whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
But god, she's so good.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
That's really talented. I think she's amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
And you know, she's never going to listen to this podcast,
so she won't hear me say.

Speaker 1 (01:01:34):
This, but so she'll still think you can give her
this side.

Speaker 4 (01:01:37):
Although I did, I mean, I did notice that when
she was listing her friend goals, she didn't mention me.
But that was clearly just like an oversight, right because
there is just assumed I guess she's.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Your friend, you know it. She's so sweet. I was
kind of surprised that she ended up singing my songs
so much. In this podcast. It's not necessarily my goal
with this show is to make other people sing my songs.
But it was really fun too.

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
She also, you know, in her songs it's like a
million words per minute that it's like, I don't even
know how she gets not so fast.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
So she's Yeah, I was nervous about this show. I
don't know if you know that. I was actually very
nervous because she's not playing any instruments, so I had
to kind of cover the basses on and I want
to get words out well and try to follow her lyrics. Yeah,
and that was kind of hard, right, And she's got
a very unique phrasing that maybe is hard to.

Speaker 5 (01:02:43):
Match.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Yes, I mean I would think she's such a wonderful,
beautiful nut. I love her. Yeah, that was fun. She's awesome. Well,
thanks for joining us on playing along. I'm Nrah Jones,
I'm Sarah Oda, and we will see you next time.

Speaker 4 (01:03:04):
This episode was recorded by Matt Marinelli, mixed by Jamie Landry,
additional engineering.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
By Greg Tobler, artwork by Eliza Fry, photography by Shervan
Linez

Speaker 4 (01:03:17):
And produced by Nora Jones and me Sarah Oda.