Jimmy Fallon

Host of The Tonight Show, and Saturday Night Live alum, Jimmy Fallon talks with Questlove about the joy of sleep, being raised on doo-wop music, making mixtapes, their favorite musical performances from Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show, plus some once-in-a-lifetime encounters with Prince and Stevie Wonder.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quest Love Supreme is a production of I Heart Radio.
Ladies and gentlemen, we promised you all freaking summer that
we'd be back, and I told you I was told
to never ever make a promise I can't keep. Yet
still we're back and we're better than ever. I've gotten

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rid of the deadweight, no more boss Bill and unpaid
Bill and Sertasty and like I'm kidding, of course, the
family is still here, but we're gonna do a little
bit different right now. This is officially the return of
Quest Love Supreme. Shout out to our new family on
I Heart Radio. Hello to our new our new listeners
on YouTube, title, Apple, Spotify, wherever you uh keep your

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podcast anchor. I will say that right now we are
worldwide for the first time a lot of you. We've
heard your cries. Yes, we're officially worldwide. We're not just
us and Canada anymore. Another cause for celebra ration is
our guest Today, five time Emmy Winner, People's Choice, Webby
Writer's Guild, Critics Choice and Grammy Award winning, which I

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tried to make a word out of it, but it's
just continents exactly more about the most importantly our guest
Today is a comic student. He is a Saturday Night
Live legend, still the coolest late night talk show host
and New York Times bestselling author My bud Please welcome

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back to the return of host Left Supreme. James t
just called me. Just call me, Jimmy, just call me
jim Wait, time out. What the hell is T stand for?
T is your middle name, right, Tiberius? No captain kna,
T is uh Thomas James Thomas found I never knew

(01:56):
that we shared a roote Thompson Thomas. I did not
know you were Thomas. Okay, do you have a middle
in you ready? All right? So it's pronounced the way
that you say it is hallib halieb k h a
l i b a mirror collib halib collillib. Wow. Yeah,

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my parents were on some next next when when I
was born calib collibe Thompson, Yes, which made me all
the more just wanting to have a question mark for
my name all my life, That's exactly. But we went
through your names once before, like you've had it was
it always brother, brother quest alright. So when we first

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when the group first started, um, I was, oh god,
you have dude, that's we all came from somewhere I
don't want to miss all right, Okay, so oh just

(03:05):
say it, dude. This is like therapy. When you first
first my first name it was deaf dough money. I
want to do something that I normally don't. I never

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I never do like rapid fire questions on this show.
Like it's always like, you know, the conversation yeah, like,
oh so you were born in Yes, I know you're born.
I'm pretty sure that everyone pretty much knows your backstory.
So this is a question. I always wanted to start with.
What did you have for breakfast this morning? I had, uh, pancakes?

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You have you cooked them more? You know? I had?
I had a meeting this morning. What time do you
wake up? Man? I don't want to wake up, but
the kids wake me up. They It's insane right now.
I have a six year old and the four and
a half year old, and they get in bed around
probably four in the morning. Usually wait what I know,

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And I'm just like, dude, I gotta sleep. But I
went on the Showbiz Kids. My wife is like, no, no,
they go to sleep at like seven or at night,
but in their room, but then at four in the
morning they walk into our bedroom and come in to
bed with me and my wife and just want to
sleep in the bed with us. And I was like,
we gotta just tell them no, and they got to
go back to the room. My wife's like, they won't
do it forever. There's no you know, thirty year old

(04:31):
kids sleeping with their parents. Eventually they figured it actually
goes one day. We'll be wanting our kids to come
in and send at lane. So anyways, so they come
in around four, I try to I tossed and turn
until about probably seven, and then we wake up around
six thirty seven. When he's not at the school age.
Now she in first grade year, she's in first grade
and she still wants to get up at six in
the morning. Yeah, they got up at six in the morning.

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They play for the excited and they love it. They
play for an hour like all their toys, and then
we brush our teeth and that we have breakfast. Usually
make them breakfast, but I didn't eat with them because
I had to. But normally what I would do is
you know what I've been doing is the gross apple cider, vinegar, uh,
lemon hot water you do. And I'm used to it.

(05:14):
I'm still not used to it. It's disguis like honestly
painful for me really to drink vinegar every morning. It
sounds like torture. Why don't we do that to each other?
Or do you put a little bit of honey in it? Yes,
and it's still hard. It's getting better a little bit
for me. But I think I was maybe I was
putting too much vinegar in mine. Okay, I was just
drinking like hot vinegar. It was pretty gross. But but
you do it every day. I look forward to it.

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You do. Yeah, And I put kay on pepper. Yeah,
I do that never now. And then I threw I
throw that in there. But if anyway, So that's normally
I would not have breakfast. I would just have that.
But I had a meeting about the show today, so
I had to go order something to just be rude.
So your morning routine used the starts at seven, Yeah,
and then because the thing is is that sometimes I'll say,

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most of the time, unless we're talking about a sketch
or some sort of whatever, the format of what we're
gonna do later, I never see you, so I never
know what your morning routine is. From nine in the
from eight in the morning, till three or two. Yeah,
because usually I'll say that I used to probably up

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until like a year and a half ago, I used
to go to bed at five and then wake up
at nine. But now I'm on a whole new regular schedule.
Like this is the most regular I've ever been in.
You know, my my girl won't allow me to. She
wants it lights out at eleven o'clock and no Soul

(06:44):
train on loop either. Like, wow, I watched the Soul
train usually when I walk into you got she asked me.
She asked me, like maybe I'll say like I could
probably do three episodes a week. A week I used

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to do three hundred a day. Gosh, like I just
used to be my jukebox or that kind of thing.
So I go to bed as soon as I can.
I go we I'm one of those people now I
go out to dinner. If I go out to dinner
with Nancy, we go out at like I'm there at
five o'clock. So you're like, I can't wait to go
to sleep. I love sleep. I started I hate I mean,

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I'm afraid that sleep is. I feel like me saying like,
oh man, I can't wait to go to bed is well, no,
I just feel like it's it's me admitting that I'm
getting up there. Like I used to be proud to
like five days in a row. I've been up now, dude,
we have Remember Grace Jones just came on the show
and she goes, I go, uh uh. She goes, what

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are you doing tonight? And I go, this is it.
I mean, I'm going home. I'm probably just gonna eat something,
go to bed. She's like, oh man, I go, You're
not doing that. She's like, no, I gotta I gotta
show tonight. And then after the show we're going to
uh something, some club. I go, you stick at the clubs.
She's like, yeah, oh yeah, I got What time do
you get home? It's like four or five. She's like,
I don't know what's wrong with this generation? Go to

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bed too earlier. I'm like, Grace Jones still go stays
out the five in the morning. I go, oh my god,
I wouldn't even know what to do. I would have
no clue. Well, yeah, I'm just I love sleep now,
and I hate to admit that I love. It's the
greatest thing. That's the one thing you can get me
for my birthday for Christmas or anything you can get sleep.
I would love sleep, man, that would you gotta know

(08:33):
there's coupon. One time I thought Twik was joking, but
he had these coupons made for like uninterrupted. No Twik
fixed this or Dad, I need help with that, Like
that was his birthday gift. Like yeah, yeah, I did
that with my parents when I was a kid. I
made them coupons. Yeah. I'm like, oh, so they could
leave you alone, so I can leave them alone or

(08:56):
help him out like he uses coupon whenever you want
me to go, like, I'll you know, watch the car,
I'll do whatever instead of just regularly regularly chores. Yeah,
exactly like that. All right. So you of course mentioned
your your dad's affinity and love for um do Wat music.
Oh yeah, yeah, we I grew up with it, loved.
What's the first single do you remember purchasing? Oh man,

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non duo or just in general? First five? So, like
his record collection was your record collection? Oh yeah, I
remember that? Yeah all right, so what was your favorite
of his of his record collection? You're trying to learn
harmony to the song called Zoom because like zoom zoom
zoom zoom zoe zoom zoom, zoom, zoe zoe zoom, zoe

(09:46):
zoe zoe zone the same format. I've never heard that
song in my life, but I knew, so I was
trying to. So he would try to teach me and
my sister to sing zoom so we could harmonize and
be like, you know, I don't know the Osmonds or whatever.
Sometimes now I was Marie, but I was. It's like,

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so my sister immediately was like, I'm out. I don't
even I don't get harmony. I don't like this. I'm
out of the out of the group. But me and
my dad, I mean, yeah, Gloria was the repe So
me and my dad could sing zoom pretty well. Uh,
And so that was just I would just start learning
all these harmonies and uh then getting the trick your
harmonies and trying to like, I mean, I just loved it.

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I just so would he would he go to all
those like Dick Fox productions of like at Westbury Music Fair,
doo wop stuff kind of. Yeah. We grew up in Sogrids,
New York, which is upstate by Kingston Pokeepsie, Woodstock that area.
So there was a place called Ulster Performing Arts Center,
you pack, and they would have oldie shows there and

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so I would go to see. My first concert concert
was Weird Al Yankovic. But my first kind of venture
into concert was with the whole family went to a
Doop show and I saw like, uh, oh gosh, you know,
chances are it was a Dick Fox production. Yeah, Larry
Chance and the Earls were there. Yeah, that's Joey D

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and the Starlight star Lighters slide note. Alright, so not
many people know that Hendricks used to play and Joey
D and the Starlighters. What Yeah, Hendricks. Joey always tells

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that story, like when when I see him. Joey D
had a son that was in the Starlighters as my age,
and so at one point in my dad had this
idea like, Okay, we're gonna get Joey D's son, gary
Us Bond's daughter. Uh but my middle name is middle

(12:12):
right right, his two nieces, my sister and I. It
was like it was like an eight kid group of
all do Wop legends, and they wanted to call it UBI,
the next generation re Redodo called UBI. I don't know

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if we were redoing Duop, but it was just a
thing like, let's put a supergroup together all like the Legends.
We did one session at the studio that's now that
used to be Sony on four and eleventh Avenue, so
somewhere in their files in six there's like a four

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song oldies doop demo from the Legends of doo Wop.
I think that was like my first studio session ever.
No way it was Acapella was a duop or was it?
We we played like I drummed and see I could
see that working. But that's because I think I grew
up brainwashed that duop was the only music thought right right.
My parents tricked me as well, because well, my dad

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was in Vietnam, so he would like he had these
real to real tapes of him and his group on
the ship singing duop. So I always thought that Vietnam
everyone's saying duop songs. And then I'm watching these movies
I watched Apocalypse Now or whatever, and no one's singing
any duop, And I'm like, I'm here like the doors
and right, did I go, what is this music that
I know for a fact people saying doop? Unless she

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turns out my dad was just like a nerd to
mean no, we got tricked, man, we got check right
because in in my first Great class, my first homework
assignment was bringing in your favorite forty five. The next
day everyone came in with contemporary stuff and he gets,

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I just want to be everything Disco duck yeah, Rick
Dee's all that stuff. And I came in with why

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do Fools Fall in Love? And my teachers were like, oh,
this is from my era, and none of the kids
knew my record, and right my teacher explained like, well,
I'm here like when I was your age, this is

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what I listened to, and I'm looking like, how come
this isn't resident with This happened to me a bit
such later in life. I was like, I was actually
in high school or college. People do that now. I
remember at one point uh Kamal decided that he was
going to make his kids think that Michael Jackson's Off

(15:08):
the Wall was a brand new album. So I know
kids to do that now, like just put their kids
in the time warp and don't listen. You know, there's
nothing to do. Did it work? Um for a little bit?
Well it's weird now because I'll say that of all
the roots kids Kamal's kids are the weirdest. His daughter Now,

(15:31):
as as as of this taping, your your Grateful Dead
experience will be over. But um, Kamal's oldest daughter is
and she I think she just turned twenty. She's like
a total deadhead, like she knows American beauty. She went
to college one year and then they just put her
on too, like the first four Grateful debt records. Because

(15:56):
she's having all these quotes on her social media, I'm like,
wait a minute, what do you know about chair car?
See you dude? I think it's It's changed my life
a little bit. I've never listened to him at all,
and I'm really into it. I dig it, I get
it all right, I totally get it. And then Kamal's
son is straight up country what yo? No, I think

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your kids. Your kids are gonna be the total opposite
of what you are, which explains it because even Kirk's
Kirk's Son isn't too like the hardest trap music of
all time. Really like when when certain acts come on
the show and kirk Son doesn't show up, I'm like, yo,
you didn't want to see d Da da da da.

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You'd be like, no, that's too commercial for me, like
what like like underground stuff. He if it's if it's
if it's two mainstream, he won't he won't mess with it.
I just realized I gotta teach you when he how
to dance because we went to this Halloween party and
they're like first grader dance competition, who wants to dance?
And she goes, well, I have to go, dad, it's
first grade. It's the dance competition, like do you really

(16:59):
know how to and dude, they played like everybody dance now,
and she just stood there and kind of like walked
back and forth. It's really stiff. And the dude next
to her was like duding backspins and flips and like
moon walking. And I was like, oh my gosh, my
kid does not know how to dance. I got a teacher,
and the kids discover YouTube yet no, yeah, it's like

(17:21):
they got it. I mean YouTube is a slippery slope
because you don't want them controlling, like what the search
watching one thing? And I just said, hey, maybe no
more YouTube because it was no it was like adults
moving toys around and doing voices for dolls like that's it, dude,
And they were obsessed with this show and it's like
it's the any parent out there knows what I'm talking about.
It is the creepiest thing ever because like a hand

(17:42):
will hold like a paw patrol doll and like, hey,
what are you doing? Oh I'm bo and they play
with dolls and the kids just watch it like like
it's them playing with dolls and it's the It goes
on for hours on a loop on YouTube, and kids
like it. I don't know how they found it, but
they loved it. And I was like, oh, dude, we
gotta take this. We gotta watch something with the beginning,
middle and a plot. Anything. You can watch anything, but

(18:05):
not this. What's it called? I have no idea what
it's called. But I almost want to soothe these people
because it's like I don't like it. I don't want
it in my house. Now, you you just gotta show
a bunch of dance clips on that we know you
we know how to play music for for them, because
it's just like Alexa or you know, you know, show
him soul train. I should I gotta get put it on.

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Trust me, a good soul trying clip. They will emulate it.
That's how everyone in America learns how to dance. That's it. Yes,
that's how they learned. Hey, do you remember the first
mixtape you ever made for someone? Yeah, he's a big deal.
How long did it take you to craft it? I
mean plussing play record and pause and having the record

(18:50):
start up. And it wasn't even a great mixtape. It's
just my stuff, which is all weird stuff. And I
would take it because I had this thing when I
was a kid that I didn't and this is you
could ask my sister. I wouldn't let anyone copy my music.
Why because I thought it would affect the record industry.
Wait what because I must have seen someone talk about
it on TV or something. So I said, you're gonna

(19:10):
ruin the record industry if you record a song, if
you take my song, you have to buy the record.
You can't just take the song off of my record
that I bought. This is gonna ruin the industry. And
my sister was like, You're the worst, You're the weirdest kid.
And so I would have to take my music to
the party, I play my mix tape, then I take
the tape home. I would just I would own my

(19:32):
my mix tapes. You wouldn't give it to no one, no,
no shut up bills in the other room, like, yes,
I agree with you, right, I would. I would. I
wouldn't give it to anyone, not even my sister, Like yeah,
I was the opposite. I feel I am Spotify like
the the the amount of work I don't have to

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do now in the age of streaming is mind boggling
because back when you he had to make mix tapes
and mix you don't have to listen to the whole song.
I was the guy you had to come to to
make whatever, Like I was the king of mix tape making.
But you never made a mixtape for anyone. Well, I
mean I might have done like earlier, because I remember

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I used to listen to the radio all the time
that was like I loved it. I had a boombox. Uh,
And I've tried to think of the brand the brand
name of my boom box. I forgot. I mean I
remember my brain looking at it. Just listen to this
radio station, have play record and pause, just they're just
in case. The radio Ghostbusters was my jam. I was
like Ray Parker Jr. Ghostbusters. If I heard that I got,

(20:40):
I would run over and like try to record it,
and I was like, oh, And then like I remember
listening to another like my dad would play radio and
I would bring the boom box over to his speaker
so I could record the song from his speaker onto
my cassette players like can tape it that way, like
if there was like a special Beatles thing. I was
really into the Beatles at one point, so I had

(21:01):
those type of mix tapes. And then I remember listening
to Dr Demento. Do you know him at all? That's
how weird Out got his start, right, Yeah, Okay, he's
just was the legend of Dr Demento. He played novelty
songs and novelty record so any comedy song there was
a whole mess, a whole different. They don't do it
anymore as much, but in the seventies, especially in the eighties, Uh,

(21:22):
it was all comedy joke songs like that was the
birth of weird Owl. But it was like Steve Martin,
you know, doing King Tut that was like charted that
that's all That Disco Duck was a hit, so I mean,
that's a novelty record, all these like, but do you
remember he would just played novelty records. Do you remember
the Coasters. They had that song while driving and cattle

(21:48):
what it was called beat Beep, and then by the
end of the song it gets faster. So it's like
that that that that that that that that that be
beep beepeep the hormone bepepeep, and now I'm going to
a hundred and so it was like a song about
it a race, but the song it was not a
real It was like a novelty song. But it was

(22:08):
a hit and it was Yeah, so all these songs,
so he would play all these kind of weird songs
like that and very it was very more seventies than
anything else. But I would listen to that Sunday nights
and and and just try to record all these funny
songs and then see if I can start writing them myself.
So you write them down in perform. And the first song,
my first parody song I ever wrote, was awful, but

(22:31):
it was what's your what's your defto money? This is bad?
Do you remember um? King Kong Bundy was a rapper.
I was a wrestler, so I did. I wish it
was King Kong Bundy instead of Magic Monday, Like I
wish it was King Kong, Bundy, that would be a

(22:51):
fun or whatever, and it was like it was awful.
And I remember writing it like and what had my eraser?
My paper mate eraser mate uh, and like rewriting the lyrics,
I was like, oh my gosh, I'm reading like I'm
gonna be weird now, and that's what I and I
remember writing. It was just I thought it was so
clever and fun. Then it was too embarrassed. I couldn't
play for anybody. What year weird out? Did you see?

(23:12):
What period is the Dare to Be Stupid Tour? I
had a teal concert te no sleeve concert tea. That's
what I That's what I bought. What was I doing?
I just I wanted to be you know, this is
pre Zac Morris. But I was like I would have that,
or gosh my wardrobe. I was trying to be as
fashionable as it could as a kid. And you know,

(23:35):
grow up in Sorrdis, New York with you and Gerard
together going to this concert or Drew was there, he
was put he was not, No, he wasn't. He wasn't
my best friend yet. But now Dregy's talking about Gerard
Bradford Woods on our show as a producer, and but
I we started hanging out more. I'd say probably end
of high school when we getting into the Beast two

(23:56):
boys and started like we had We had a bad
We had a fake rap group that was terrible. Was
the name of the group. We were called the minute
Man and I don't know why, and we're not even
knowing there already was a punk band called a minute Man.
We were we just thought and I can't tell you
it's honestly, this is worse than uh de money. Dude,

(24:16):
my name was Jim Hat and the room is explosive
back there, I was like Jim Hat with that B
boy style. Wold dude, it was awful. I thought, Jim Hatch, No,
like that makes logical sense. I would have wanted to

(24:39):
be cold Gate. I thought that would be a cool
rap name. Cold Gate. Yeah. Like I thought people could
have the logo on the shirt, like the toothpaste, and
they still make Colgate. I don't you know. One day,
like whenever I land in l a X, the first
time I make is that I go to pharmacy to
do the trial size stuff like things I need to
prus toothpig. And I was just noticed and like brands

(25:01):
that only exist there well no, well brands that I
thought were out of you know, like Safeguard or like
they like seventies brands cam they still they exist in
trials hize. So what other what other concerts did you

(25:22):
go to when you were uh weird? I saw um,
oh gosh, it was that you pack so um. There
was that group that's saying, um, expose, come go with me.
You saw expose expose that They had a song that
was really I loved it. It wasn't come go with me,

(25:43):
but it was pointing to overturn. Yes, uh you're taking
knee right yeah, and they had seasons change, seasons change.
I love that song. I was a member of Columbia

(26:05):
House to me too, but I was like I would
never return the alright. So for those that don't know
what Columbia House is missed out. If you yeah, this
this was our Spotify you you would basically they will
offer you uh twelve uh cassettes or CDs for a penny.

(26:26):
You would tape scotch tape of penny, scotch tape of
penny to the to the order form, um, pick your
pick your twelve CDs or cassettes you want it, and
then for an extra three for an additional three records,
you had to I forgot what the check was like for.
You know, for a dollar ninety eight more, you can
get three more, so you can get fifteen altogether for

(26:49):
under the lolo price of three bucks. And then you
were part of this club in which every month they
would send you product and you had you have like
two weeks to mail not even yeah something like that. Yeah,
you either liked it or mail at that. If you
kept it, it it was like twenty bucks. Yeah, if you
kept it, it was definitely like or something like that.

(27:11):
But if you mailed it back. And I think between
that and the first two years of trying to catch
Michael Jackson videos on MTV was how I developed my
vocabulary for pop music because I would never mail back

(27:32):
Debbie Gibson's Out of the Blue or or first record.
I think I got tricked into that one too yet,
I know, you know what, I think she thinks I'm
being sarcastic, like I'm cool with her now, but in
the beginning, I think in her mind it was like,
what you're trying to tell me? What you're saying that? Yeah,

(27:54):
my first, I was like, yeah, I had a blue
electric youth electric you like I was. They were first, right,
I was like, no, really I was. I was a
fan of yours, and she was just looking like, Okay,
where's where's the where's the exactly right. She's cool though
she didn't believe. She didn't believe it for the longest,
but then I think she realized like, oh you are.

(28:14):
But every album back then I loved it, even if
he had like one hit song in there. I remember
I was trying to I didn't know what music I
was going to be into, so I tried every type
of genre and they're like, oh, maybe I'm in the medal?
Is it really yeah? I was like, dude, maybe I
should like worship with the Devil, And they're like, what

(28:34):
am I talking about? I'm an altar boy. I think
it's I think the weird thing is that I think
between twelve and seventeen, you're open to anything, which you
know I can't like now. I really have the patients too,
like sift through records and see what I'm into, and

(28:55):
the way that I used to back in the day,
like I would listen to an entire mind me sound
machine record whether I liked the song or not, because
you didn't want to go up to the cassette and
fast forward. Okay, I don't like this song. What's what else? Is? Like?
You would just play the whole thing? Yeah, exactly, Like, yeah,
I don't want to. It's easier to listen to Needle
move that back, but no, I would listen to the
whole album. Then I'd like the b sides. I would

(29:17):
know what song follows what song too, in order. See
that explains why sometimes when artist comes on and then
you ask for the deep cut and I'm like, wait
a minute, what what about the hit that the hit
joint and you like, nope, I want the Yeah, that's
the secret one that you go like, oh, like like
if you buy Cyndy Lawper, you just sing she Bop,
you know, it's like, that's the that's the secret song

(29:39):
off of the Girl, right right? Do you have a
top five like performances on the show for us, God,
there's so much now we've been done. We've done so
many shows now, it's crazy. I mean you have a
top five. I have a top five of me performing
and a top five of me watching. It was one

(30:01):
of your top five recently, dog dude, I almost sometimes
it's it's hard not to because I'm so connected to
music and the memories that it brings on. Because whenever
I hear fly like an Eagle, I instantly think about
the first month of school, and I'm thinking of like

(30:23):
my parents not conning me, like Okay, we're gonna take
you to this brown building and you're gonna stay in
here for the next seven hours and then we're gonna
come and get you at three o'clock. And you know,
like I was just never explained the concept at school.
It's just like, huh wait, I'm playing with them, and
so I think during like one of those explanations, it
was the radio was just playing like Billy Davis and

(30:47):
Merlyn mccou'se you don't have to be a star, um
and then like dam radio at this point, uh you
know what, So Philly, Philly was really good with f
and dio on the weekends, though um f M radio
turned religious and then you'd have to live and listen

(31:08):
to AM radio, so we'd have to switch a Wizard
one hundred. And the thing is is that I lived
in a don't touch my stereo household, so again a
big part of my palette is the fact that I
had to listen to what my sister wanted to listen
to and what my dad. I didn't control the car
radio nor in my bet you know, the room that

(31:29):
my sister and I shared, so like, I just remember,
like I remember pressing, like being able to press the
button in my dad's car that would would be a plastic,
hard plastic button that you would actually switch the station.
You would see the zip to the one side, and
I actually tune. I mean, this is pretty digital scan

(31:51):
and seek for something. It was actually pressed the button
and you would feel like gears moving like to the
radio that you want. Yeah, And I was like, oh,
and I just to hope to hear like the rolling
Stones or something like that. And so fly like an
eagle was definitely did you crust that one? And I
was like, dude, I actually had to look over to
see what your face was doing because usually I can't

(32:12):
see the drummer I was doing. Every I had two
moments in which I kind of had a I might
cry moment. It was awesome, dude. It was honestly, it
just clicked like because you did the first like the
space I had to beg for those extra because at
first they were like three minutes and thirty seconds, you know,
and I was like, wait a minute, guys, not for

(32:32):
this one. You don't understand, like the most important part
of the song is like the beginning. We got to
do that. So did out. So it was so yeah,
I didn't want to end. And he was having fun. Yeah,
and he was having and he was so look at
it because you know, we have these guys on that
like they don't play with anyone else but their band,
and they're jaded and they're like, well, look, it's almost

(32:55):
feel like they're cheating on their band. But then when
they see how much love and how much work you
guys put into that song, like Eddie Grant, Oh, I forgot.
He was so nervous. I know, he was so nervous,
like Jimmy, I, I I don't I only play with my band.
I I'm these guys are great, but I don't know them,
and you know, to play with my song, you know,
Electric Avenue, And so he goes, do you remember you

(33:17):
brought a harmonica? Yes? Oh? Did you wait? When we're
sound checking? Are you watching on Closer? Sometimes I'm watching,
sometimes I am, But sometimes i'd like to be surprised.
But doing a sound check, it was like a ten
minute version and we're like looking at each other, and
I was like harmonica to electric avenue, like who is
du blaming? Like stop? But so I saw him and

(33:42):
he goes, yeah, I'm just gonna bring this just in case.
I go, Eddie, you don't need a harmonica. The Roots
will got you cover. Trust me, man, It's gonna be fun.
And he did the song, didn't do harmonica and crushed.
It was great, And I went over to say thank
you for being on the show. I went to shake
his hand, and what was in his hand? You know what?

(34:03):
It's also like a big part. I'm always nervous about
the legend because one you don't want to ruin, like
the thought in your head like, uh, what's it gonna
be or what's it not going to be. It's it's
just that sometimes, all right, I'll admit we had one
guess that walked away, do you remember, Just because I think,

(34:29):
okay in our minds. In their minds, it's like, okay,
I'm gonna play with the roots. So they think like
I'll take my song and filter it through and I'll
rootify it, like that's the one word I we hear
the most inside the rehearsal room, like you know, don't
don't do the normal version like Roots deify it. And
I'm like, dude, what you don't get is that us

(34:51):
Roots defying it is doing it just like your album version.
That is because we we want the I mean, we
want the exact sound. We want Eddie Grants to go
out in the streets if he if he yeah, he
doesn't want to do that anymore. He goes, I don't
do that. I haven't done that years ago. Bring it back.
That's the part of the song that we love, those
little nuggets, those little those awesome little eggs. Was Easter

(35:14):
Eggs where you're like, oh no, that's the one part
you gotta do like like on the dock side of
down yeah or something like you didn't do that, And
he was like, like when we have it was a
crowded house or something came on. I'm like, all I
want to hear is that base like voodoo that was freedom.
If you don't hit that baseline and I need that,
it's part of my whole thing of loving that song.

(35:36):
It's like, but we usually hit it like the time
we convinced the people that are like, come on, you
gotta do that part and like, oh, I don't hit
that note anymore. It's like, yeah, but try it. Just
go for it because trust me, we'll get your back.
And then they do it in its scores. Well. Probably
the one humorous moment for us was definitely in the
air tonight, where that was the only time I saw

(35:59):
you being nervous, dude twice twice in my life. But
I've talked myself into major sabotage. I was. I wasn't
helping that, like I We'll see. I didn't know about
meditation back then. What I should have been doing was
basically deep breathing, get out of your head, just hit
these three times the way you've always done it all
your life in the basement. And for some reason, right

(36:21):
when Phil Collins is like and I remember, and I
was like, don't mess up, don't miss it. I remember,
don't worry, I don't up. Don't it how good I ever,
I'm looking at Jimmy. Jimmy's looking first. I went from
behind my desk to the front and look at your face.
And I'm looking at the band standard for the roots
members and silence up. Oh boy, don't using food me.

(36:44):
Oh Dan, camera to me, he's looking at me. The
hurt doesn't so look at the pain still grows. Sustainis
dude me to come swarms and and I hit that
symbol and it was just drop a stick or something.
No my my my ride symbol. Oh yeah, I fell
fell down, l fell So I broke in pieces. I

(37:12):
was gonna let it slide and just be like I'm
going home. I failed and then shout out to Sugar Steve.
Steve's like, no, man, I can't let this happen. We're
gonna fix this. And I was like, well, we can't
go back and tape it like it's over, and he says,
I bet you. They have sound check on tape. So
we basically spent at least an hour. Oh god, you

(37:36):
remember that he was here. He was there to five
in the board. We're the only show that gives that autonomy,
like gives that power to guess to come and edit
their own thing and mix their own thing. Any other
show like I've done Letterman. When I'm like, okay, so
we want reverb or in Universe two and then they're
like it's can't touch it. Right, they're like, it is

(38:00):
what it is, and we let everyone like go and
listen to it and mix it. But we usually we
have the right sound between you know, we have the
best sound. I feel like we have the best sound
mixing and engineering. Yeah, that Simon stayed up until right
before a segment, which is unheard of. Right that we
were nervous because I do we got to deliver the
show and this is when we're doing twelve thirty five, right,

(38:22):
so in an extra hour. But it was like I
think it was up to like it. It was actually
up to midnight, right, it was right two commercials before
you were. Actually he spent we take that five or six, right,
and he engineered it like it was a real song
for five hours. It must be the best engineered song

(38:42):
of all time. I don't even I kind of remember
what it was that wasn't the one with stomp, was it?
We don't even remember. That's the thing. It's just I
gotta go back in the archives. And he spent the
time in that one. But but then back to the
Phil Collins thing, because you ended up nailing it on
when you see it on TV, because all in a
pack a lot. Yeah, that that to me that that

(39:07):
was a moment. I mean, I love that. I love
Jim James. I was from Late Night. I love that.
That's right, he did another life all of his presentations
whenever Tim James comes on. I also liked when you
guys come when the Roots come on and we spend
extra time like making a production and it's actually it's
almost like a music video or musical musical. Yeah, my

(39:29):
three moments from that. I don't know why. Once I
realized that we had a lot of I didn't realize
the power of how Davis as as a director, David
Metti and and and directing in doing tricks and all
those things. So I thought, like, I wonder how we
could pull off a song that makes us look like

(39:50):
we're playing in slow motion like the Beastie Boys always do.
Like if that's so what you want? Video was like
the impetus of it, like of then performing in you're
hearing the song in real time, but it's like them
doing it slow motion. So when Usher was on the show,
you know, I knew it was going to confuse the audience,
Like we had to do that Usher song like chipmunks. Dude,

(40:12):
it was like and he's dancing really super fast, and
and he caught and he caught like he was dancing.
That's the thing I thought, like, do you need to
practice this? Like do you need to figure out your splits?
And everything looks so weird and so you're almost laughing
at him, right, But then when you watch it, it was, oh,
it's magical, dude. He's like slow motion doing the perfect
dance moves and singing on the you know, on the right,

(40:34):
exactly right. It was insane. That was That was a
cool moment. Yeah. The second time, Tyler, Tyler, they created
did See You Again with Caliches and he created this
It was almost like a surreal musical. But it's it's
to me, that was like a moment, dude. We we

(40:54):
we have to talk about Prince. There's there's two things.
There's so many. Yeah. For me, the best part of
the craziest memory is definitely the ping Pong the ping
pong story, but even goes on before that. Do you
remember bring me on stage at the Garden, Oh, Madison

(41:17):
Score Garden. So Chris Rock comes on and he goes,
he goes blah blah blah, he goes, Well, of course,
Prince is my favorite concert. I've never seen him, goes,
you've never seen Prince, like you you love music and
you've never seen Prince and concert? What are you talking about?
How could you even say that you're a fan of
what do you? I can't talk to you until you
see Prince, all right? And so like, all right, I
gotta go see Prince and you're like, dude, I can't

(41:38):
believe you haven't seen him. So anyways, I go to
the garden to see Prince and he is unbelievable. He
really is. I remember Madonna was at the concerts in
the audience watching Prince stone face, just going like wow,
I gotta up my game. It's just so magical. And
she's great too, he was so he's crushing it. And
Prince's manager or whoever this was, came up to me

(41:59):
and yeah, Hi, I'm Prince's manager. I don't even think
it was Carol was someone to say, like, Prince would
really love you to get on stage at the end
of the concert and dance with him, like he gets
a bunch of celebrity friends and to go on stage
dancing at the enda. Go, that's not really my thing.
I'm not really a big dancer, but thank you. I'll
just watch the concert. Next song, someone else comes, I
was like, Hi, how you doing. I've worked for Princess

(42:20):
and person different person, Prince would really love for you.
I go, yeah, I don't think so. I mean, I
was shopping with my thing, and I don't even think
he really wants me to dance with him anyways, So
that happens to me maybe two more times during the
whole concert, and the concert I'm like, I see you
because I didn't see if the whole concert go what's
up doing? You go, I'm gonna get on stage at
the end of the concert. I go, oh, if you're
getting up there, I'll go up with you then, So like,

(42:41):
all right, so you get up, I get up, you
go behind a drum set. And as I get up
and you get behind drum set, Prince leaves. He's keep
his he's on a keyboard and it goes in sinks
into the state and I could see him down there,
almost getting in his limousine right there, and I'm like,
and I'm looking around. There's no one else on stage
dancing but me. It's just me dancing and you're playing.

(43:02):
I go, oh my, that's exactly why. Yes, this stuff.
So I think it kind of started there, and then
when Prince came on the show, it was always fun.
So Prince came on the show and is uh probably
his Kirans manager says, hey, Prince would really like to
play ping pong on the show. So we go, Okay,
we don't really play ping pong, play beer pong, but

(43:24):
if he wants to play ping pot that's fine. Then
he calls back and he goes, you know what, Prince
does not want to play beer pong on the show.
He doesn't want to play ping pong. Okay, whatever, he
just come on play music. As long as he's fun,
We're good. He calls back, he goes, Prince does want
to play ping pong. We we really thought about it. Okay,
we'll have it ready to go just in case. He
calls back. He goes, he doesn't. He wants to play

(43:45):
ping pong, but he doesn't want to play it on camera.
He wants to do and I go, what's your obsession?
He goes, he just thinks, Jimmy be fun to play
ping pong with. I go, whatever, we'll have it ready
to go play backstage. Whatever. Man. So he comes on
the show and never brings up pong, doesn't even mention it, right,
it just comes on plays he's great and he and
he leaves. Uh, and it was a great show and

(44:06):
it was awesome. I that was interesting. So I tell
the story on the show about the whole ping pongk
thing and I go, by the way, the Prince, if
you're watching, I would probably kick your ass in ping
pong or something like that, alright, just joking on. So
then I think that week I'm at the dinner, right,
so this is the this is the rare night. No,
this is when winning when he when he was being born.

(44:27):
So I get a call it was around that time.
I remember, like it was any moment, you know what
I mean. And I get a call at ten pm.
Now I would think I was sick this night, because
this is one of the rare times I was in
bed at like ten thirty pm on a school night
or whatever. And they're like, uh, Prince wants to play Jimmy.

(44:51):
Now it's Susan Surrandon's ping pong spot Ye Spin Spin,
And I was just like, oh man, you know he's
about to a kid that dada, so um yeah, I'll
let him know. And then like a minute later, they're like, well,
he's uh, you know, he's down to do it right
now if you know available, And I was like, oh,

(45:14):
maybe I didn't get the message. I was like, no, no, no, uh,
Jimmy's about to have a kid, so uh yeah, it's
might you know, it might be busy or whatever. And
then a minute later he said, okay, well, uh just
name the time and place and you know he'll be there.
I'm like, oh, they're just not listening or not take
a note for an answer. So I was like, no,

(45:36):
I'm not gonna answer this. So I went to bed
for like twenty minutes and out of my eyes and
I was like, I don't know, let me at least
tell Jimmy. So then I texted you. I say, hey, uh,
Prince wants to play in ping pong. So I had
no idea of this whole exchange that you just went through.
I said, for some strange reason, he wants to play
in ping pong at Susan's a random spot and I

(45:57):
told him that you're tied up with baby stuff. So anyway,
just passing the message along cool. I had no idea
that you were going to answer that message. Yeah, because
I was out. I was out to dinner that night. Okay,
I wasn't because it wasn't yet. It was close to.
It was close to it. I knew any moment that
it was, any moment I had to be on the
ready for winning to be born. But I was like
out dinner that night. I'm like what And then I

(46:19):
got a text from his manager or something, so you
gave him Did it happen that night or the next night?
It happened soon. I think it happened that night because
I got a text from their manager and saying like, hey,
this is Princess manager, Princess at Spin. He wants to
play you in ping pong right now. So I go.
It's the weirdest thing. I go. So I told the

(46:40):
first time I haven't dinner with him, Like all right,
I gotta go. Man, Prince wants to play me in
ping pong and I'm gonna meet him at the Spin
at sus Randon's Club. So I I leave, I you know,
getting a cab and I go down to Spin. I
go out, I go into the story, go down the
steps and there's a girl working there and I go, hi, um,
I'm I'm here to see uh And she goes, Prince

(47:03):
go yeah, She goes, He's right behind the curtain. He's
in the private room over there. You go, all right?
So I go and there's a good velvet is a
velvet rope and a and a curtain, and I go
past the rope and I opened the curtain and he's
Prince is standing there and a crushed blue velvet suit. Uh.
We're in the high heeled shoes and he's holding a

(47:26):
pink pong old paddle and he looks at me. He goes,
are you ready to do? And I go, oh my gosh,
I go, I guess. So she goes on warm up.
I go, uh, yeah, I warm up a little bit,
like in my head, I don't even play pink pot
even know what he's talking about. So we start warming
up a little bit. If he had two friends in
the room, he goes, everybody leaves, everyone goes, so it's

(47:47):
just me and Prince. So everyone had to leave the room.
It was just me and Prince and nobody else. And
I goes, all right, you ready, I go to start.
So he hits the first he's like, hits it over
and it goes and it just it was a good
shot and I didn't hit it back. He goes, one's it.
I go, you're gonna talk smack or right, and this
is gonna happen twenty one points this dude, this man,
let's go print. So I go, let's go start playing

(48:09):
and you know, hitting back and forth. It was it's
he's crushing me. So I think now it's like twenty
two ten or something like that. He's killing me. And
he goes game point. I go, let's let's go, man,
and he hits the shot and it's like and it's
like beautiful, perfect shot and the pains spin and spit
flames coming off it and it hits the hits that

(48:30):
corner of the table that's just impossible to hit the
you know what I'm talking, like a perfect shot, and
went flying behind me and I go, ah, you want,
you want? And I go and I'm looking in the
background and I turned around and he's gone, and he's
not there. And I don't know him that well, so

(48:52):
I thought maybe he was hiding or of it. So
I'm like Prince Prime, Prince Prince. So I'm like looking
under the Pink Punk table like their security, but it
looks like crazy. I was like, is he hiding behind
a curtain. I don't know, but I don't know the
type of says the humor. It's funny. But I was like,
but then I look in the kind of rope is
kind of moving, almost like Batman. Yeah, yea, yeah, go

(49:16):
to the girl. I go? Did he was yeah, he left?
I go okay. Then I went up and up to
stairs on the street. So me being notoriously late for everything,
I got back from a DJ gig and got your
text that about to play Prince right now. I was like,
I'm on my way over. So I drive to Manhattan

(49:39):
to spin get out the car, and I forget who
from the show was outside smoking a cigarette. But I
run and I was like, am I too late? Am
I too late? And she's like, wait, you just missed him?
That that was him? And I looked, uh in the
street and and stuv he was there and pulling off

(50:03):
to a red light. I was like hey, wait, and
I'm running and straight up great poopon style. I'm like
knocking on the door and the window rose down slowly.
That's wait, it's over, it's over. What happened? And seriously

(50:23):
he's ask your boy? And then this thing but window
goes slowly. I'm just like the great Poupon covers takes
off and takes off. The only thing I noticed that
he had the paddle with him. Yeah, and it was
a gold paddle. And later did I learned that he
is that obsessed with it. We did a show with

(50:45):
him in carouse ol uh we will, I'll rephrase that.
We were supposed to do a show with him. We
did it. We showed up with him. There's the weirdest
lineup ever. Diana Ross, Toto, Los Lobos, Dude, Dina Ross
who booked this God Dinah Ross, Loss, Logos Toto Journey,

(51:12):
Prince the Roots you care use now And he was
supposed to do a three hour set then the Roots, right, yeah, friends,
don't play that. Princes wound up doing a five hours
set and no roots. We like to finally like we

(51:35):
still do, you know, trying to like, yeah, we're still
gonna perform, and we did like one and a half.
We just stopped this song like all right, what you'll
want the seed? Okay, we'll just do the just do go. Yeah.
It's like at this point to in the morning, the
place holds like eight thousand people. I swear to God,
it was like thirty five people. Yeah, they also plit
once Prince left, like we just stop, like y'all the seed.

(51:59):
But what's the one that the DJ night with Prince?
Remember that that one? Yeah? It was he he that's
the best story of it. I was okay. So I
was on I was on a blind date, and um,
I wanted to appear cool, to be cool, and so

(52:19):
um I asked this, you know, like, uh, I got
tickets to Princes you want to see it? And I
had ten tickets and me not thinking I invite it,
I said I got ten tickets, so invited ten of
my friends. I never counted myself as one of the ten.

(52:40):
So when we get there, it was like, here's your ticket,
here's your ticket. He's your ticket, he's your ticket. And
I was like nine, oh fuck, and this is beyond
sold out. So they're in and I had the number
of his assistant and so I'm like, hey, um, I'm
on a date and I forgot to buy myself a ticket.

(53:02):
Decided to explain the whole thing, and she's like, yo, man,
like no one can get in, like you know whatever.
Now Sharpton was trying to come down. Spike Leave was
trying to say please anything ever ready. So he just
happened to be in his own custom golf cart in
Philly doing like forty miles an hour in a golf cart,
like not doing donuts, but like like that sort of thing.

(53:26):
And I was just like, just tell him straight up.
I said, look, I made a mistake that that I
had ten friends. I forgot to include myself in the tent.
Can I sit somewhere please? And he was just like
all right, cool, you can sit on the stage under
the stage. So the way that that stage is designed
like his name, like it's it's a thirteen foot tall stage,

(53:47):
and so I'm literally sitting under the arrow that is
his name. Meanwhile, my dates like sitting with my friends
in the audience, but I'm sitting like under the stage.
And mid show is assistant comes by. It says, Prince
wants you to throw him a party, and I was like,
I have no resource, like right now. He said yeah tonight,

(54:09):
and I was like, well, well I would have to. Yeah,
you can use our phones, but I'm like I'm going
to miss the concert. And now I's like, oh, I'm
working for Prince now, so I'm like leaving the concert
going into I gotta you gotta throw him a party, right,
So I called my friends who I normally do parties
with in Philly. I was like, look um, Prince would

(54:31):
hang on second. He wants what pool table? Okay, hey,
Prince wants to do a party tonight, So like four hours,
can you find me a spot? They said, we found
a spot. I said, okay, Now he wants a pool table.
They're like, well, this is a five story walk up table.

(54:51):
Please can we please just make this happen? Please? Please?
So they had to find U detachable pool table to
carry up five flights stairs. So then I rush home,
get my records ready, get there. You know, Prince is
like a late party. So this party is not starting
to like one thirty, and it's ten of us and

(55:12):
we're inside and basically he wants to control the door.
And you know, there's a whole group of people waiting
outside but they're inside. There's only like seventy people. The
club should hold about three anyway. So I'm playing like
a bunch of like failure, you know, West African funk music,
and I'm thinking like, okay, I'm gonna educate Prince on failure.

(55:33):
He likes James Brownie likes George Clinton and playing the
original you know, West African got a funk and he'll
be into it. And Prince wasn't into it. He was
just like what else he got? I was like, okay,
I played another failout song. Uh what else he got?
I was like, damn uh. He's like, play some of
your music and I was like, I never played the
Roots in the club, like, I'm just scared to do

(55:54):
that because it's incident club. So I'm failing. And twenty
five minutes in and his assistant walks up and says, here,
play this, and she gives me a DVD and it's
Finding Nemo. And I was like, yeah, the movie, not

(56:14):
the soundtrack, the actual movie. And I was like, wait,
what do I I don't there's not a DVD player here.
She's oh, she comes back, gives me a portable DVD player.
I was like, well, I say, it's a nightclub, they
don't have. His engineer gives me like the cords. I said, yeah,
but there's no projection. There's a projection screen. So suddenly

(56:38):
I put this thing on, but I'm still DJing, so
I figured like he just wants the visual of like
the Fish playing in the background, and then they come
home and they're like, no, no, no, can you turn
the volume up. I was like, wait, we're in a
nightclub in Philadelphia to watch Finding Nemo. And he said, yeah,
it's just you know, just killed the music and put
the thing up. And I was like, oh no, you

(57:00):
set me up. So I got the opening DJ guy,
I said, look, um, about five seconds to do the
transfer and put up the So suddenly we go from
like this this funk music talking about protesting the government
in Nigeria to suddenly like Ellen degenerous voice, he just
wants to watch. Yeah. And it was like it didn't

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affect nobody in his crew, like this happens all the
time every day. And I'm just sitting there dejected, like
no one has this story, No one has this story.
That is the greatest. I just sat there like, you know, dude,
like you're playing Finding Nemo in the club like popping
bottles in a and and you remember the club back

(57:42):
in like in two thousand and four, like it was
sexy back then then. No, he wanted we were watching
Pixar in the Duck Club. Are you Duck Club? Are you?
Did you read beautiful ones. Yet yes, I read it
and it's a man it makes me so at like
he he wrote that. Normally when people write books, you

(58:05):
do it with a collaborator, like with me, it was
like going back to school, like chapter for chapter, Like
my guy, I would saying okay, right about the first
time he brought a record, and then I write something
and he goes and okay, let's run on sentence dad, no, no, whatever,
or traditionally you just do a twenty hour interview with
someone and then they write the words in your voice. Um.

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But he wrote that book and he only wrote thirty pages,
but it revealed so much about at least up until
the age of four, which you know could have been
But he took a lot of photos, like so there's
a lot of unanswered questions, uh about his childhood. Maya

(58:49):
Rudolph is really gonna love this book because there's I
guess if Instagram we're out back, then Prince would have
been on Instagram instead. Like he just kept photo books
of all the abums he made, like the process of
making it, like my Breakfast, my engineers sleep on the
couch again dry So there's a there's a picture where

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he Prince is driving down Sunset and there's a big
giant ad of many Riperton's new album Stay in Love,
like on Sunset Boulevard and Prince is waiting at a
red light and Flash takes the photo. It's a perfect shot,
like this would have been his iPhone back in seven.
And the caption was like this woman could cause a

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car crash and I was like, oh man, my Roodolf
is really really gonna love that? Yeah? Wow? Did he
ever know that she loves him that much? Oh? Definitely,
I think because he talks about uh, even though he
only covers the first four years of his life, he

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often jumps to modern references, So there's a There is
a mention of him watching uh the Darling Nikki performance
that is also in my top tip that and Stevie Wonder.
I'm starting to figure, like what else Jorn Darling remember
that my hear my Stevie Wonder story with you guys?
Remember opened for you guys in Atlantic City? I hate

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you for this man, dude, I opened for the Roots
in Atlantic City and we get there and someone forgot
James keyboards. James, Yes, we forgot James Boyson's keyboards. So
how do you forget an instrument? To we were new?
You forgot his key So we get there and James like,
I do my set. I came back and I go, James,
what are you doing? He's like, they forgot my keyboard.

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I'm just gonna watch. I go. Oh. He's like, you
want to get tequila? I go sure. So we get
a drink and then somebody comes back and go, hey,
do you guys want to meet Stevie Wonder? I go,
what he's here? He's also playing a different room venue.
I go, oh, let's go. So we run over to
see Stevie. You leave the Roots and then run see
Stevie and see Stevie Wonder and I go, uh, what

(01:00:56):
do you uh? It was only like maybe it was
a meet and greet with like ten people. He does
this every time, and it's ten people, and I go, uh,
he's Stevie Jimmy Fallon and James like I'm from the
Roots blahlah blah, and go I'm the biggest, biggest fan.
I start going through all his bits and I start
going like Ebony and Varie, and then he starts harmonizing
with me, dag and dude. So then James starts going

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playing the song on on Stevie's other piano. So then
Stevie James playing piano and I'm harmonizing with Stevie. Wonder
we sing perfect harmony ebony, and Ivory did jumping up
and down like what did George happened? Like, all right,
love you buddy, I tuck you. Later we split, we're backstage,
We throw down a couple more drinks. We watched you
guys your last song. You finished the set, You're like, oh,

(01:01:47):
it was pretty good. What do you guys do? I
can't wait to tell you what we did, you bastard dude.
We can go on forever with these stories, but both
of us have day jobs. We gotta two. I know
we're just going to finish this conversation one way backwards. You.
I really want to thank you for helping us and well,

(01:02:07):
first of all, for everything you've done for me personally. No, seriously,
dog like that was I always joke that, not even joke,
because everyone asked like, well, how did you guys manage
to do the show? And I always tell them that
we were prepared in the nicest way possible to say

(01:02:29):
no because we didn't want to burn a Bridge and
be like, Okay, when we have a new album out,
we can come on said show. I said, but then
you disarmed us and literally ten minutes, which no human
being has ever done. I mean, we've had the finest
of women, the finest of models, the biggest of acting there.
I think there was a point where we were supposed

(01:02:51):
to go fishing with uh um, George Clooney at one
point like that's a typical backstage thing, like George Clute,
We're going to fishing tomorrow or whatever, and like we're
so standoff is as a group, and literally in ten
minutes you had us doing a human pyramid the eight

(01:03:11):
is enough human pyramid at U C l A. And
only because Turek was on the bottom row. Who you know,
his clothes are so expensive. It was like Trek is
actually getting his Japanese denim dirty. And I looked at
Risk like we're not getting rid of this guy anytime soon.
He's like, Nope, you do it right there. I couldn't

(01:03:31):
figure out what you did to disarm the Roots in
ten minutes flat. And I was like, oh, this this
is the next stage of my life right here, I'm
watching it. But yes, I want to thank you for that,
and also thank you for helping us with our new
uh are about to say jump off like it's it's
two thousand and eight, our new jump off on I

(01:03:53):
Heart Radio. Thank you very much. Thank you by the
way for changing the whole game. And honestly, it wasn't
for you, we wouldn't be I wouldn't be where I am.
So here's do another twenty five years in magic. Let's
do it. Yes, yo on behalf of the team Supreme.
Who's tied up in the room next door? Boss Bill
unpaid Bill Fontigolo? Uh la yah, I love you anyway,

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I hear. Yes, we are heart Sugar Steve. Yes, I
forgot about you can forget about it? No, I did
that purpose anyway. This is of course love. We'll see
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