Tarriona "Tank" Ball

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

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Speaker 2: Just play in alone, I think just playing alone with.

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

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Speaker 3: Hi, Hi.

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

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Speaker 4: She is a very very unique, charismatic performer and person.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: 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 think you're gonna love this episode. Enjoy. Here's Terryana Tankball.

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Speaker 7: Back and wash this ship play out.

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

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Speaker 6: Running from whatever, running towards the shell.

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Speaker 3: Baby.

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

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Speaker 3: Don't you go to.

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Speaker 6: God crazy crazy you looy you can save me baby.

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

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Speaker 5: Don't you go too?

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Speaker 6: 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.

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Speaker 5: Out loud, you running from one.

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Speaker 3: Running to shut.

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

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: Did you not like it?

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I said that is how I said that.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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

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

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Speaker 5: You was into that one? Which one was that one?

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Speaker 1: That it was?

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Speaker 5: It was cool?

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Speaker 1: But this one's cooler?

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Speaker 5: Which one is about the world? Though?

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Speaker 1: Man? What was this? Take it away?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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

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Speaker 7: I was?

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Speaker 1: I think I was watching the news a little too much.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: I care about the world. But yeah, I care about.

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

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

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: Deeply from the children.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: I've been told.

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

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

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

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Speaker 5: Sex, makeup, hair, Instagram.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing.

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Speaker 5: And how does my account look?

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

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Speaker 5: 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.

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

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think we can.

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Speaker 7: She don't, won't fuck it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, don't overdo it, don't ever do.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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

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

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Speaker 5: 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.

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

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Speaker 5: Imagine being a group of a bunch of nippickies.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's such a different thing.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 2: The moral.

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Speaker 1: Family. I love your band.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: I saw that you wasn't watching the news.

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

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

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Speaker 1: Now I'm a lurker.

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

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

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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

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

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: And what drew you in the club?

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Speaker 1: 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 she didn't You didn't know, that's why. No, because the guys Aloish's three band that she sang with.

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Speaker 5: Now I have to now I have to hear her next time I see it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, So.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: The way your.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: Singers, Okay, it depends on a show for show.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: It's a lot of energy.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: The whole band is just like.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: I think, first of all, I think we all liked it.

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Speaker 1: You needed it, we needed it.

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Speaker 5: We need it.

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Speaker 1: I heard that from so many people, and.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: And thereats that sounds really.

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

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Speaker 1: That's like, pretty great.

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Speaker 5: I enjoyed my quarantine.

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

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Speaker 5: No, I didn't miss the road.

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

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Speaker 5: 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. I just I love performing the performance.

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Speaker 1: The people.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe, well now you don't.

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Speaker 5: Why would you know? Huh, how would you know?

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Speaker 1: What do you mean?

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Speaker 5: They always gonna appreciate you?

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Speaker 1: 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?

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: 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?

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

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: You didn't.

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Speaker 5: 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 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.

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Speaker 1: Did you meet Billy?

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Speaker 5: 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 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.

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

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

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Speaker 1: She she's like an old soul voice.

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Speaker 5: That's a good voice.

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Speaker 1: She's an incredible voice.

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

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Speaker 1: It was really great.

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Speaker 5: The album was good.

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

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Speaker 5: You wear dress?

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Speaker 1: I wore dress and well color black sow me.

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Speaker 5: Even well pink dress.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: So it's hard for me.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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

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

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 3: Didn't serve any food.

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

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

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I can imagine.

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Speaker 1: So you got snacks they gave us they worked.

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

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Speaker 1: Stuff, so so not an official like a sweet guy.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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

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

00:19:39
Speaker 1: Can we do a song from your album?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: 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 numbers and I smile to myself.

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Speaker 3: Friend goals.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're friend goals.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: Can we sing a song about that?

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so fun today.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, yes.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 7: Oh.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 3: I've got.

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Speaker 5: 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. 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 the can sat the vida in. Trust me. Everybody need a good friend of God friend goals.

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Speaker 9: I've got I've got friend goals.

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Speaker 1: We grew up so many people who around.

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Speaker 2: You're the only.

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Speaker 5: One who ever helped me down.

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

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Speaker 7: So you probably him and.

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Speaker 10: 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.

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Speaker 6: I'm fast because who I am before was never met.

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Speaker 5: 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?

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Speaker 1: How many of us got him?

00:23:47
Speaker 5: 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 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, 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 stand with me, not a fire saying with.

00:24:52
Speaker 3: Me A y'all.

00:24:53
Speaker 11: 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.

00:25:09
Speaker 5: 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.

00:25:27
Speaker 1: You wrote a song about friends.

00:25:29
Speaker 5: I wrote a song about friends, about you, about us, friends. You gotta do the friends.

00:25:38
Speaker 6: Tell many of us got friends faces?

00:25:46
Speaker 7: How many of us got them.

00:25:50
Speaker 11: Faces?

00:25:54
Speaker 5: How many of us?

00:25:56
Speaker 3: God, I've got face?

00:26:02
Speaker 7: How many others?

00:26:04
Speaker 3: God?

00:26:17
Speaker 1: I love that one?

00:26:20
Speaker 5: So sweet thing you know remind me of the kind of way you did your friends.

00:26:27
Speaker 12: Was the creepy election song love we did that at you had me do that in New Orleans?

00:26:41
Speaker 1: What what was that event called again?

00:26:43
Speaker 5: 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.

00:26:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was Louen and go swoll and you did a little dance way they did.

00:27:05
Speaker 5: Hillary mask and a Donald Trump mask and they did a dance around your purple piano.

00:27:10
Speaker 1: Because it was Halloween.

00:27:12
Speaker 4: Time.

00:27:14
Speaker 6: And though I colored my eyes, I knew they go way.

00:27:20
Speaker 1: God, I haven't sung that song myself.

00:27:23
Speaker 5: 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.

00:27:44
Speaker 1: Honey shu.

00:27:51
Speaker 5: Man girl say, I.

00:27:52
Speaker 1: 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.

00:28:05
Speaker 5: 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.

00:28:24
Speaker 1: Well, it's heavy, and.

00:28:25
Speaker 5: We're a little screwed.

00:28:26
Speaker 1: 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.

00:28:40
Speaker 5: Yes, you're absolutely right about it.

00:28:43
Speaker 1: So I'd like to talk more about politics. Now.

00:28:45
Speaker 5: Wait a minute. Yeah, so I had a cheesecake. You have had gumbo, have you?

00:28:54
Speaker 7: No?

00:28:54
Speaker 1: I've never had gumbo. No, I'm kidding.

00:28:57
Speaker 5: Was going on with you?

00:28:58
Speaker 1: 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.

00:29:07
Speaker 5: You always order, you always something good. You always let me order whatever.

00:29:12
Speaker 1: 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.

00:29:22
Speaker 5: Like do you always order? You know what?

00:29:25
Speaker 1: 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.

00:29:48
Speaker 3: I don't.

00:29:50
Speaker 1: Just chuck it out.

00:29:51
Speaker 5: That's what my mom has been cooking for me.

00:29:53
Speaker 1: But that's amazing.

00:29:54
Speaker 5: 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.

00:29:59
Speaker 1: So you have basically you have your own personal chef system.

00:30:02
Speaker 5: 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.

00:30:14
Speaker 1: But like unhealthy, unhealthy.

00:30:17
Speaker 5: 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.

00:30:28
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna cook more now that the weather is gonna.

00:30:31
Speaker 5: Get hot and it's gonna get cold.

00:30:35
Speaker 1: It's hurted cooking.

00:30:37
Speaker 7: Do you cook?

00:30:38
Speaker 5: 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.

00:31:02
Speaker 1: So it is your special baked chicken wing.

00:31:04
Speaker 5: I like doing bike chicken wings and fried chicken wings.

00:31:06
Speaker 1: Okay, that sounds great. Someday, someday we'll have time to cook free.

00:31:11
Speaker 5: 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.

00:31:19
Speaker 1: I want to come visit now that you know.

00:31:21
Speaker 5: 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.

00:31:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, well because the food is amazing, so yes, they want some more activities.

00:31:39
Speaker 5: 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.

00:31:46
Speaker 1: That's a good way to see a city. It was amazing.

00:31:49
Speaker 5: I feel like a tourist in my own city, especially since I really don't know what nothing at.

00:31:53
Speaker 1: That's funny. Do you drive? I do?

00:31:55
Speaker 5: I just bought my first car.

00:31:56
Speaker 1: Nice.

00:31:57
Speaker 5: 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.

00:32:11
Speaker 7: I was.

00:32:12
Speaker 1: I would think you would go right a lot because it's harder to turn left in front of uncoming coming traffic.

00:32:18
Speaker 5: I'm just wrong.

00:32:20
Speaker 1: Are you left handed?

00:32:21
Speaker 5: Yes?

00:32:22
Speaker 1: Why did I think that?

00:32:23
Speaker 5: I told you just now.

00:32:27
Speaker 1: I'm not really listening. I've got it. I've got an earpiece, and the producers feeding me questions.

00:32:32
Speaker 5: Are you serious? No, I'm about to say as small as hell.

00:32:35
Speaker 3: No I'm not.

00:32:36
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. I'm joking.

00:32:40
Speaker 5: That's how I live on stage though, Josh is the voice of God in my ear on stage.

00:32:43
Speaker 1: Really it's helpful for everyone or just you, for everyone. So he's he's directing it for real like that.

00:32:50
Speaker 5: Yes, but that's just that's that's a recently.

00:32:52
Speaker 1: But you guys have a lot going on on stage.

00:32:54
Speaker 5: Show.

00:32:54
Speaker 1: It makes sense.

00:32:55
Speaker 5: 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.

00:33:09
Speaker 1: Doing all right, So it's like a cheerleader. It's like having a cheerleader.

00:33:15
Speaker 5: God, being a cheerleader.

00:33:17
Speaker 1: That's kind of amazing.

00:33:18
Speaker 5: Oh my god, I love that. You don't want that air be trying to concentrate, do your little poeng.

00:33:26
Speaker 1: 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.

00:33:35
Speaker 5: 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, but you're trying to go on that little tangent. Learn it, learn of fires, and then go on your tagent.

00:34:01
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it's like language. You got to learn it.

00:34:03
Speaker 5: And you I can say that my own little self talk a.

00:34:05
Speaker 1: Bunch of crap. How many poems do you think you've written in your life?

00:34:08
Speaker 5: Am I life?

00:34:09
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:34:09
Speaker 1: 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.

00:34:16
Speaker 5: It wasn't a.

00:34:18
Speaker 1: Real answer I expected. But you've you've just like it just comes out of you, like every second.

00:34:23
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, let's see if I just opened up my notepad or something.

00:34:27
Speaker 1: Just well, that's why it was fun to do those sessions and write together, because you just had a bunch of stuff.

00:34:32
Speaker 5: I did and I was just going through them, like, but I thought we.

00:34:36
Speaker 1: Were on Instagram, but you were actually going through your poems.

00:34:39
Speaker 5: Oh my god, you did.

00:34:41
Speaker 1: I didn't think.

00:34:42
Speaker 5: 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.

00:34:56
Speaker 1: But you need it. That's okay, you think soon? Is that how roller Coasters started? Was it a poem?

00:35:02
Speaker 5: 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.

00:35:12
Speaker 1: 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.

00:35:25
Speaker 5: Are you going to do it?

00:35:26
Speaker 1: Can you do it?

00:35:27
Speaker 5: Are you going to do the hook?

00:35:29
Speaker 1: Can you do it?

00:35:30
Speaker 5: Can you do the hook?

00:35:32
Speaker 1: Will you do it with me?

00:35:34
Speaker 3: No?

00:35:36
Speaker 5: I want to hear you do it. Oh my god, so special. I've always wondered why people wrote the biggest 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.

00:36:37
Speaker 3: It's the butterflies.

00:36:41
Speaker 6: And a fly, flies fighting in my story.

00:36:50
Speaker 5: The light between their ways scared the flies.

00:36:58
Speaker 3: I might come. I think I'm ready now, I'm so bretty.

00:37:16
Speaker 5: 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 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 you get free and you let your own worms wire. I know I'm flying.

00:38:07
Speaker 3: Right now.

00:38:12
Speaker 7: It's the butterfly.

00:38:16
Speaker 6: And the fire flies fighting in my stone, the.

00:38:25
Speaker 5: Light between noise.

00:38:28
Speaker 6: I'm scared to fly, the miccome. I think I'm ready now ready.

00:38:39
Speaker 2: Now getting back and.

00:38:57
Speaker 7: M hm.

00:39:02
Speaker 10: Like like.

00:39:06
Speaker 11: Like like.

00:39:10
Speaker 5: Oh oh oh.

00:39:16
Speaker 3: Oh bl b lif fly like honey waters last water lad mm hmm.

00:40:14
Speaker 1: I I didn't know if I should do it or not.

00:40:16
Speaker 5: 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.

00:40:28
Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna say it, but I want to do that.

00:40:30
Speaker 5: 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. 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.

00:41:01
Speaker 1: And then the drop.

00:41:04
Speaker 5: 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?

00:41:19
Speaker 1: Cool? Was it very French?

00:41:21
Speaker 5: I think?

00:41:22
Speaker 1: Did you feel very American?

00:41:24
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?

00:41:24
Speaker 5: 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.

00:41:39
Speaker 1: I want to go on tour with you.

00:41:41
Speaker 5: I think I think you would have a good time.

00:41:43
Speaker 1: I think we'd have fun.

00:41:44
Speaker 5: And you gotta be in my van because my van is like the nerve van.

00:41:46
Speaker 1: Okay, did you go ever? Was it Copenhagen?

00:41:52
Speaker 5: Yes?

00:41:52
Speaker 1: 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.

00:42:06
Speaker 5: The Yeah there.

00:42:08
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of like moments there. I like that almost barfing. They have like some intense ones.

00:42:15
Speaker 5: 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 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.

00:42:44
Speaker 2: That.

00:42:45
Speaker 5: 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.

00:42:58
Speaker 1: There's some great stuff there.

00:42:59
Speaker 5: 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.

00:43:13
Speaker 1: 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.

00:43:22
Speaker 5: It's just different.

00:43:22
Speaker 1: 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.

00:43:29
Speaker 5: 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 more languages.

00:43:50
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, do you speak anything?

00:43:52
Speaker 5: I speak New Orleans twang, Yeah, I got it.

00:43:58
Speaker 1: No French, Well you probably have a great like fake like accident.

00:44:05
Speaker 5: 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.

00:44:15
Speaker 1: It's really too bad that we weren't forced to speak like we're just a little harder. Yeah, yeah, I agree.

00:44:20
Speaker 5: Yeah we should have been because everybody knows our language. Plus there's yeah it's awkward.

00:44:26
Speaker 1: Yes, And then the.

00:44:26
Speaker 5: Crazy part is the best sound and sound engineers I've ever had was in Japan. Oh yeah, like at the Blue Note.

00:44:33
Speaker 1: Don't she love Japan? It's so different.

00:44:36
Speaker 5: 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.

00:44:43
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, those are so good. And they even have like a manual how to eat them perfectly.

00:44:48
Speaker 5: 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.

00:44:55
Speaker 3: Chicken wings.

00:44:56
Speaker 5: Oh I love It's time to go back. Yeah, I miss it. I'm missing now.

00:45:13
Speaker 1: Wait, so did you grow up in the church singing in the church.

00:45:18
Speaker 5: It's a family full of pastors. Really that I would be a pastor too. Really, Yes, I'm not surprised because my delivery.

00:45:25
Speaker 1: Your delivery works.

00:45:27
Speaker 5: 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.

00:45:33
Speaker 1: It's amazing.

00:45:34
Speaker 5: I feel like a revival. And I think the guys feel it too.

00:45:37
Speaker 1: 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.

00:45:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, just stay hand movement, you know what they about to go? I know, but that's also something amongst you freaking musicians too.

00:46:11
Speaker 1: 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.

00:46:21
Speaker 5: What did you say?

00:46:21
Speaker 1: 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.

00:46:41
Speaker 5: 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.

00:46:50
Speaker 1: Whole time, and he was jealous of you.

00:46:52
Speaker 5: 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.

00:46:58
Speaker 1: That's interesting. But you were in the choir the time. How big it was it like acquiring your church?

00:47:03
Speaker 5: 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.

00:47:13
Speaker 1: Really, No, I was more of a speaker because you're such a good singer.

00:47:18
Speaker 5: 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.

00:47:39
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like that.

00:47:40
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. I feel like I know very hindredly seriously connected to you. I feel like we're the same person.

00:47:47
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I love you. Thanks for doing this later later, alligator pabors.

00:48:09
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay, okay, nice things.

00:48:15
Speaker 5: I ain't got no chill, I ain't got your meal.

00:48:19
Speaker 1: Look, do some nice things.

00:48:22
Speaker 5: Fummy that was you should that's nice.

00:48:29
Speaker 3: Things for me. It's a good look.

00:48:34
Speaker 5: You should buy some nice cream.

00:48:37
Speaker 7: Fumming.

00:48:42
Speaker 5: You should do some nice things.

00:48:44
Speaker 3: Funny.

00:48:46
Speaker 5: 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 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.

00:49:18
Speaker 3: You should do.

00:49:18
Speaker 5: 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.

00:49:38
Speaker 6: I like a.

00:49:40
Speaker 5: 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?

00:49:56
Speaker 3: Is we Chilean?

00:49:58
Speaker 5: 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?

00:50:17
Speaker 3: Mc? Can't you?

00:50:18
Speaker 5: Can you open up the doors for me? Can't you bring it back?

00:50:22
Speaker 3: Shutting down?

00:50:23
Speaker 4: Door?

00:50:25
Speaker 6: What?

00:50:25
Speaker 5: Can you open up the door for me? Or slide the keys? Say your mother, good chap.

00:50:31
Speaker 6: You should do some nice things for me, Gucci bus, Gucci Watch, nice.

00:50:39
Speaker 5: Things for me.

00:50:43
Speaker 3: That's a good luck.

00:50:43
Speaker 5: Say good look, that's a good luck. You should buy some rabees for me.

00:50:49
Speaker 3: Oh like rabbees?

00:50:51
Speaker 5: 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, smell those papers?

00:51:18
Speaker 6: Okay okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

00:51:23
Speaker 2: Some nice things, nice things.

00:51:33
Speaker 5: Okay okay okay okay okay.

00:51:39
Speaker 3: Job.

00:51:40
Speaker 1: Really you wanted to do this one?

00:51:47
Speaker 4: Right?

00:51:48
Speaker 3: You saying don't know why?

00:51:51
Speaker 1: Once? Yes, when before I met you?

00:51:53
Speaker 5: Yes, you know what was my ship? That mother, that that goddamn come away with me too? What?

00:52:00
Speaker 7: Thank you?

00:52:02
Speaker 5: Why would you be shocked?

00:52:04
Speaker 1: I'm not shocked.

00:52:05
Speaker 5: I just said was the movie?

00:52:07
Speaker 1: Oh my god?

00:52:08
Speaker 7: I love that.

00:52:10
Speaker 5: Did you meet Jennifer Lopez?

00:52:11
Speaker 1: I did meet her a couple of short She's so britty, she's so small and pretty.

00:52:15
Speaker 5: That's a small woman.

00:52:16
Speaker 1: She's gorgeous.

00:52:17
Speaker 5: She looks good.

00:52:18
Speaker 7: Though.

00:52:18
Speaker 1: I actually love almost every single Jennifer Lopez movie.

00:52:23
Speaker 5: I can understand that.

00:52:23
Speaker 1: They're all really good. I could understand that, and they're great, and now they're like nostalgic from that era.

00:52:31
Speaker 5: I love Maiden Manhattan and I love.

00:52:35
Speaker 3: You heard that song?

00:52:36
Speaker 5: 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 your song came on.

00:52:57
Speaker 1: Well that's like you know, you got to get them running away? You're nice?

00:53:05
Speaker 3: What and I will.

00:53:09
Speaker 1: You?

00:53:10
Speaker 5: Saw do it?

00:53:15
Speaker 2: No, you do it?

00:53:19
Speaker 7: Come away with me on a bus, come away with me, and I.

00:53:30
Speaker 3: Will ride.

00:53:33
Speaker 1: You so, oh my god, you're so pretty? Can you just re record all my songs for me?

00:53:41
Speaker 5: Please go best with your mad as hell? And I want to wake up.

00:53:47
Speaker 3: With the rain.

00:53:51
Speaker 5: Falling on a tin road while I'm safely in your.

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

00:54:06
Speaker 3: Come away with me and will kiss on a mountain?

00:54:15
Speaker 7: Come away?

00:54:19
Speaker 3: Man?

00:54:20
Speaker 5: Yeah, yo, it was the songs.

00:54:23
Speaker 3: Man.

00:54:24
Speaker 1: See you like that song because you love love?

00:54:28
Speaker 4: Yeah?

00:54:28
Speaker 5: Fine, it's nice.

00:54:30
Speaker 1: 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.

00:54:39
Speaker 7: Like I have it.

00:54:39
Speaker 5: But and then once you have it, it's not even as magical.

00:54:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's more complicated.

00:54:47
Speaker 5: 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 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?

00:55:18
Speaker 1: Oh, Olivia Rodrigo.

00:55:20
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's okay, that's her name.

00:55:21
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I love that.

00:55:22
Speaker 5: That's the one that in the car.

00:55:24
Speaker 1: And the kids really like it.

00:55:25
Speaker 5: I can imagine, yeah, because I never felt this way about no one.

00:55:36
Speaker 1: It's intense when you're young.

00:55:38
Speaker 5: 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.

00:55:47
Speaker 1: Well, it's more fun.

00:55:48
Speaker 5: Give me a lot of material.

00:56:03
Speaker 6: Wait a tie, I show the shirt. I don't know why I didn't come, left you by.

00:56:20
Speaker 7: House fun.

00:56:24
Speaker 3: I don't know why.

00:56:27
Speaker 7: I didn't come.

00:56:30
Speaker 1: I don't know why.

00:56:35
Speaker 7: I didn't come.

00:56:38
Speaker 5: 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 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.

00:57:15
Speaker 3: With the wind from my guy.

00:57:16
Speaker 5: 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. 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.

00:57:52
Speaker 3: I think we're gonna have.

00:57:53
Speaker 5: 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.

00:58:02
Speaker 7: Be bored with me.

00:58:03
Speaker 5: 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.

00:58:20
Speaker 3: I'm a great secret keeper.

00:58:21
Speaker 5: 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, 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.

00:58:56
Speaker 2: Me.

00:58:57
Speaker 7: You call me random, and I say, this is day. I do you want to fund?

00:59:01
Speaker 3: You say, girl?

00:59:04
Speaker 5: 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.

00:59:31
Speaker 3: MM.

00:59:38
Speaker 5: Something has to make you. I don't know why you did not come.

00:59:53
Speaker 3: I have fashion take as.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

01:01:07
Speaker 4: 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.

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

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

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

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

01:01:37
Speaker 4: 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.

01:01:51
Speaker 1: 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.

01:02:11
Speaker 4: 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.

01:02:19
Speaker 1: 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.

01:02:43
Speaker 5: Match.

01:02:43
Speaker 1: 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.

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

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

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