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'BRING IT IN THE HOUSE' - new Podcast Show - Episode 100 · 'BRING IT IN THE HOUSE' - Weekly Podcast Show

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  premiere
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  Hello everyone, welcome to the show. It's another great edition of bring it in the house podcast show
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  We're celebrating our 100th episode. I'm your host Millie Mills and we have a great guest in the show in the house tonight
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  The show is spotlight musicians
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  entertainers artists and leaders and he is definitely an entertainer
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  Mr. Robert Rob diggy Morrison
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  How are you doing?
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  I'm doing great. Thank you. Look what the wind blew in all the way from Chicago
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  I'm just thankful that you you know to time out to speak with me and you know come over to the show
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  Man, it's been
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  Congratulations on all your success. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. I mean you've been around the world in bag with your career, haven't you?
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  pretty much yeah
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  And it all started, you know, we met
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  over 30 years ago back at the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff you were
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  Communications major or was a music
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  Yeah, I know that's what I used to see you on both sides I'd see
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  You know playing the piano over on the music side then I see you over in the class with us
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  So I was like well, he probably has a dual, you know major
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  Major music
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  Plagas some apply
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  And then I dropped out
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  Okay, you kind of like took a shortcut yeah, I guess because you already have some experience
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  You had been playing before you made it, you know arrived to college, right? I
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  Was playing trombone
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  Trombone player out of high school. I'm John Marshall high school under the direction of Elinor Vanden and
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  Got a Scottish show from
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  University of Arkansas, of course and
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  I fly knowledge
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  Wasn't a great reader
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  But I had a great year
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  Yeah, you know, I
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  And I was in class and one of them dropping
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  Wow
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  Amazing
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  UAPB wasn't amazing and that experience that whole thing was amazing
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  What was one of your fondest memories as a student at UAPB?
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  HBCU
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  One of my fondest memories is a bunch if I could 10.1
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  Mm-hmm. I would say the band that we played in polo
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  The band polo yes
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  Planning the band polo
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  Who are some of the members who were they help me remember Larry?
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  Larry
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  There and we had Greg Sainz
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  You remember Greg yeah, Greg saying we had Lamar little
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  What's we have Greg
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  Kind of
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  And we had more phase on keys
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  Okay, we had a bunch of guys
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  We had about 12 guys in the band and still for it. Let's get through it. Yes
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  Dumb and off was a part of the band
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  And that was probably my biggest my likes because we did a concert on campus
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  For Roger Trout, you open up a Roger and that yeah
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  And that was like huge
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  That was really huge because I remember people talking he's like they're gonna blow up
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  They're about to get a big record deal in the next big thing. I remember
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  We showed out that
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  Amazing and Larry Briggs now he's one of the lead singers for the the temptations now the temptations today, right?
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  Only he left
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  Okay, okay
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  Okay, okay, I mean but you guys have done so much with your music careers. I
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  It's just amazing. I could go on and on and on just you know
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  Talking about all your success
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  But kind of key is in on how did you how did you get that foothold on me after you finish your APB?
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  graduated
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  What was that big break that kind of launched that music career for you?
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  Have you talking about breaks? It was probably
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  Doing the remix
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  Plan on different records
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  As a session board and I've got probably
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  From there, you know
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  More gigs
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  I mean, who did you meet who would you run into and say hey man?
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  We like what you're doing. We want you to join us on whatever, you know, you know
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  I don't remember if I did
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  I did
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  Well, you know Chicago, yes, I work on a lot of stuff
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  Some dance music artists that will come to town Robin s crystal waters. Oh
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  So yeah, it's like the 90s like almost like a blur
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  Yeah
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  Yeah, but but it was in 2004 when when you really I mean I see all your your your
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  Plax your wards on the wall behind you and it was to my knowledge
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  2004 is when you worked on one of Janet Jackson single remixes
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  Yeah, and also Beyonce's biggest selling single crazy in love
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  Yeah, yeah, we are we did that no for and
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  That was a remix
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  Something that we I know we do any way play on records
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  And go home like I was doing my job at 230 as a teacher
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  and then we were I would go to the studio and
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  From the corporate studio, I would stay there and work and play on different songs
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  But you never know what song is gonna do
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  What?
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  Yeah, you know, I can give you my name right now and find records
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  You just don't know what record is gonna be what you know, so I was happy and thankful
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  Cuz he could have my pardon on my recent you could have gotten
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  Anybody
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  You know, but he waited on me
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  No, that blessing was definitely meant for you. Yeah
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  But they say go get it go get your blessing
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  Okay, Mary Mary
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  Yeah, man, that's amazing and so from there, I guess it just took off that I start seeing you know seeing you all over the
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  You know Facebook doing different things
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  year year like international music composer in Dubai and
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  Tell us about that Rob. Tell us about that experience
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  that experiences in
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  2018 I
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  Met some guys on that
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  They actually they were gonna move because the Gandhi murder
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  And
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  They asked me it was called full
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  And actually I like to come over and work on their phone
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  They heard my material
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  We got together and
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  from there I
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  Was on the plane
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  It took about four years
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  Oh, yeah, about four years before we actually got it
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  finalized
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  So we talked and chat
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  Get the Skype thing
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  And
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  Last time correct a year a year 2016
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  So what's 16 happened we developed
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  a conversation
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  we developed
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  schemes for the film what kind of music and
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  From there
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  And I went over there do what I have to do
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  But I'll tell you
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  What I was happy about I didn't have to do
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  Indian
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  You know, I could have done it but they wanted an American school
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  Right, so with that
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  You to the table exactly
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  Was infuse a lot of their culture into the American
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  And
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  It's only work
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  I was looking at some of your clips out, you know on YouTube and I got one right here that I want to
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  Play for the for the viewers. Let me I'm sorry about that. It's never
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  Okay, yeah, I want to play
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  One of the singles that we had kind of briefly talked about
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  You know before we went online and it's called Dubai forever and it's beautiful
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  Oh
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  Oh
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  You know, will you put that flavor in?
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  Oh, that's really nice. Yeah, I was a promo over there
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  Well, that's what I
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  Resort that's why it's like 60 seconds to a minute because it's for a commercial
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  Oh
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  Man, what is that like man you got to stay over there for how long
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  The first time for about
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  And then the second time I just
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  I can look at the half too much like that
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  So I know the city quite well
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  Yeah, that's a beautiful place. It is really beautiful. Yes
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  And you stand so busy these days and I know some of the
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  Success your busy schedule comes from your publicist who want to give a shout out to her
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  Miss Desiree
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  Yes Desiree Benson. Let's give a
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  Yeah, let's let's everyone see all the special ladies. Well, these are your two favorites in your life right about now
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  Yes, and of course
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  Gotta give a shout out to mom. I know she's you're welcome. I know she's very proud of all your success. Yeah, she's my biggest friend
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  I know how she's doing. She's good. She's good. I think I talked to her just before I made dinner
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  Oh, okay. So you cook too?
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  Wow, that's good. You're making me hungry. Yeah
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  Yeah, Rob, you have been so busy with with so much going on
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  Do you ever just kind of think back to the first song you composed or
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  I think back to my childhood
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  to your childhood a lot of times and
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  My mom used to call me her little Bert back right back right
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  and the rest is because he just passed like about a month ago. A little less than a month ago
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  and um
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  Playing a style I played the car
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  as a kid and um, I was just trying to write a song
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  I don't know what I was doing
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  And I was trying to write lyrics and then I was going stuff wasn't making any sense
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  And um, I reflect back on both
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  I reflect back on
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  how I
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  taught myself to play the car
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  You know how the concerts and many concerts I've played
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  or and everything like that
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  I just I just I think back and reflect and all those things and
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  I build that up until like a big ball for one of the go back and put my ball in the ball and pull that out
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  Yeah, and and like kind of like a crystal ball
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  Watch my life
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  before all this
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  stuff is happening now
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  Do you remember the where did you first record your very first studio do you remember?
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  Oh
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  Yeah, I mean I'm a 10
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  This is a story
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  For real for real. Um, it was a studio in Chicago called
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  P
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  S
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  Surround
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  A lot of the old heads here know
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  Paul surrounds
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  But um
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  Somewhere like an Indiana in Chicago
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  So
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  What a new McCormick place he is now, right?
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  My cousin
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  Who was a drummer
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  exception at
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  well
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  You know great drummer and he played in the gospel. Right?
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  so
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  The gospel was one to the studio
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  So they say my cousin's right. I'm going for school. You want to go out like storage? Yeah
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  Yeah
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  Kids, you know, we're getting the power to go to the studio. We go to ps ps
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  I don't think he was there
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  But but going into the studio for the first time to see his consoles
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  You know all these tracks and drums and guitars are not button
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  They're fascinating at like 12 or so
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  I'm involved. You know, I think it's like 13
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  And I saw this and I got I was like, wow, this is great, you know, you know and
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  Millie, I tell you
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  That was my cousin's that wasn't mine because he played
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  You know, I just went with him and when I got gone
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  Tell you
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  I cut my first record
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  Wow
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  That was and and I got a chance and paul of it and I
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  And I got a chance to express and tell him I said man, I was about the 13th
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  This is a studio. I came to visit
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  And he shook my hand and gave me a little and
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  If I felt real good about that because it was a session
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  Where it was like r&b blues
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  track I
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  And um, that was the first time I reported when it's to use that particular students
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  Yeah, that's history. That is history. Yeah
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  Man, I thought I'd go back to the studio as a kid
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  Yeah, and you have a you have a daughter speaking of kids, right? You have a daughter. Yes. Yes
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  Yes, is she is she's a musician a singer or like you
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  Theater theater she got the theater side. Okay
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  Wow
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  She's an actress or she teaches
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  Is
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  Okay
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  backstage
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  Yeah, of course, of course
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  That is wonderful. So I know your publisher is not here. But is it safe for me to ask
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  What's next for rob diggy?
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  Yeah, I say for you that
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  I'm my own PR
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  She's
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  What's next? I've done a couple of projects
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  Things that I might have to revisit
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  I'm working on a documentary on LA. Well, I just finished it. I'm talking about called golden heart
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  Yep, it's narrated by Danny Glover
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  And it's written by my wonderful cousin Frank underwears younger the brother of Blair Underwood
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  uh-huh
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  Lawson Jacobson part of this
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  Kathleen Bradley is Parker
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  So we all pitched in
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  together for
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  My producing partner
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  I can't wait to see it. It's it's a political
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  Documentary I would say I guess about um
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  Diane what watch them who was the one congresswoman in the 80s
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  Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So with that said
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  Um, Malina got together and where the people and put together this documentary and um, Howard Hughes also
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  Yeah, so we're getting together so so with that
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  Another project. I just finished called um, lipstick
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  Yeah, lipstick is pretty cool. It's a thriller
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  Yeah, and I and I did that
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  I
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  And then I have um
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  The unseen
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  Which is a horror. I never I never had school
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  And that was pretty that was pretty cool. Yep. Yeah
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  You have been really busy. Yeah
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  It's very exciting. Yes. I've done a whole bunch of projects. So um, I'm gonna have a
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