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The 500 with Josh Adam Meyers
181 - Bob Marley - Natty Dread - Maz Jobrani
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Maz Jabroni joins The 500 for the first time to discuss the first major Bob Marley release without Peter Tosh & Bunny Livingston.
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Josh Adam Myers
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Maz Jobrani
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Josh Adam Myers
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Maz Jobrani
The song is Lively Up Yourself is by Bob Marley and the wailers from the 1974 record Natty Dread. It's also number 181 out of 500 on on the 500 with Josh. Adam Myers, thank you for joining me on the only podcast the Pad Cast event. I'm just. I can't talk today. I'm a comic. I'm going through Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums. I'm making my way down, talking fast and I'm homebound. That's all I hear. What's up, party people? Welcome to the show. Welcome to the Yo. Welcome to the no. And you need to know where I'm going to be this weekend, December 20th through the 22nd I'll be at the LA Joll Comedy Store in San Diego. Then the following weekend, December 26th through January 1st I will be at the House of Comedy in Minnesota. Then in January I will be at off the Hook in Florida some where. Oh off the hook in Naples. January 10th through the 11th. February is starting to really fill up. I've got the punchline, I've got the Reno Laugh Factory. I have a bunch of shit starting to come. Thank you. Good job agent. Go to Josh Adam Myers.com for tickets. Punchup live backslash Josh Adam Myers or follow me on all social media at Josh Adam Myers to stay in the know of all jam Jam related things. I'm in LA right now. Lek is on Prednisone. She's wearing a diaper. She's the best. Dude, don't ever die. Like I don't ever die. But when you do, man, it's going to be tough. If you love your dog right now, go find your dog and give it a big sloppy kiss. All right. Want to watch the podcast instead of listening to it? Well, go to our YouTube page and on Thursdays we drop YouTube.com backslash the 500 podcast. Also subscribe to the Patreon. Full episodes are there. $5 a month really helps us. Really, really does. And if you've been 25, we'll give you even more. We'll give you merch, we'll hook it up. We'll give you the love that you deserve. Help support the show. There's a lot of great people, Emily. Me, Jeremiah, Adam, Pete Tur, Melissa, Chusid. We've got a lot of people and we love them. Emily, I love you the most because you are literally what's keeping the show together. All right, let's talk about Bob Marley. We did it before with Indica Flower and I probably masturbated a million times to her since because she's one of my faves. But today, the one and only Maj Gibrani. You know him being one of the bigger comics working today. You've seen him in Friday After Next. You've seen him in Superior Donuts. You've seen him on Curb youb Enthusiasm. He's got a new special, the Birds and the Bees, filmed at the world famous Comedy store, streaming on YouTube right now. This dude is on Twitter. He is amazing. He just did the jam. He is my homie. And we sat down and we went deep into Maz and Bob. Dig it, rate, review and most importantly, subscribe to the 500 listen free on all platforms or anywhere you get your pods, give us a five star rating and leave a review. It helps us out. Get rid of the negative ones. Give us the positive ones. Follow me at Josh Adam Myers on all social media. The podcast you can follow at the 500 podcast. Email the podcast@500podcastmail.com Follow the Facebook group run by Crazy Evan. And for all things 500, go to the website the500podcast.com. This is all Richie. This is Richie. God bless Richie from the Comedy Store. Yeah, he, you know, because. Because I think it's like when you move away from Los Angeles, you know. Well, I know if I ever told you this story, I might have said this to you, jt, but it's about how I ended up in the Andaz. When I first started coming back, the second I moved to New York, the Comedy Store was like, we want to do the jam here at the Comedy Store. And I go, okay, so I'll come back once a month. You make a little bit of bread. Great. I can keep my footprint here in Los Angeles. And it was probably like the fourth or fifth time I had done it. I was in the parking lot. There's this girl from my acting class, and we're like, making out in my. In my rental car. And she's like, let's go back to your hotel room. And I was like, oh, I'm not staying at a hotel. I'm staying at a friend's house. And she's like, are you on a couch? And I'm like, yeah. And she's like, dude, you're 42. And I'm like, oh, God, yeah, you got me. I. I shouldn't be staying on this couch. And since then, I got shamed into it.
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Josh Adam Myers
Shamed into giving yourself the credit that you deserve.
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Maz Jobrani
100.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah.
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Emily
And being an adult.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah. It's like when your agents or managers are like, we're trying to get you a bump, or we're trying to get you whatever, double banger, whatever. They do talk about the trailers and all that stuff. And you're like, no, I'll do it for free. And they're like, shut up. Yeah, Won't do it for free. You, you, you. You have value.
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Maz Jobrani
They. They don't realize these comedy clubs have no idea that we just need that gratification, instant gratification, so much to be on stage that they could lo. Like the clubs in, In. In Los Angeles, actually, for the most part, have it right. They barely pay the comets out here. And we're still like, oh, man. Like I want to do every night, and you'll give me three shows a night. And. And it's. It's just. They don't. It's crazy. I mean, also, this is. This is the. Probably the. Like the. I'm at the hotel right next door, you know, this is the. The hotel of the famous guy that, like, jumped off of it.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah, Steve Lubitkin.
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Maz Jobrani
Oh, you know that. Do you know the story?
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah, the story was in the. The book. The book was called I'm Dying Up Here. It was the. Then they turned it into a TV show for Showtime. But it's a great book. If you. If you are fan of the comedy story, you should read that book because it talks about the history and the strike. And then that guy, Steve Lebitkin, who was basically. He was friends with Richard Lewis and his career just wasn't starting to take off, and he was. You know, there was letters written back and forth at home about, oh, I'm trying to make it. And then basically, I think at some point when the strike happened, he might have walked in the. He might have, you know, walked in the picket line or something. And he had just gotten. I think, if I'm not mistaken, I think the story goes that they finally. Mitzi finally said, I'm gonna let you go do San Diego. So he was supposedly, like, driving down to go do La Jolla. And then since he had gone on strike like all the other comics did, word got that Mitzi had seen him, you know, protesting, and then on his way to go do the shows in San Diego, he got a call or something saying, you know what? Just, you're not gonna get that spot. Like, we're canceling your spot. And it just kind of put him over the edge. And then he decided to go and jump off the Andaz to try and land at the Comedy Store. And I think he didn't hit it. He landed in the parking lot. Yeah, it's horrible.
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Maz Jobrani
I always think about killing myself, too. But then I'm like, yeah, though. That'll teach them. But then you're like, nah. But then I'm not there to see it. You know what I mean?
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Josh Adam Myers
Who cares? Nobody cares if you. That's the one thing I remember. There was a comedian, I think it was Doug Williams was his name. He might still be doing it. And I remember one time early on in. In my career, they had Premium Blend, which was the show on Comedy Central where everyone does five or six minutes. And at the time, me, Aaron Cater and Ahmed Ahmed were part of the axis of Evil Comedy Tour, you remember? And I think we were being considered to be on Premium Blend. And at some point they picked Aaron Cater. And then they said, you know, we don't want to pick anybody else from your background, basically, like, this is back when they would do shit like this. And I just remember being like, what do you mean? Like, we're two different comedians. Just because we have. He's Palestinian, first of all, I'm Iranian. And that does. If you get a Mexican, someone who's Mexican descent, you can't have a Cuban. Like, what is that? So anyway, I was upset. I was kind of bitter. I was at that. I was at the Comedy Store in that front patio there, and I was talking to him, and he goes, you know, man, he goes, never get bitter. Because he goes, the only person that's affected is you. Because when you get bitter, you're like, I'll show them. I'm going to show this agency, and I'm going to show that my girlfriend, I'm going to show my wife. I'm going to do it. You know, you're the only one that's being affected. And you're going in your spiral. Nobody. If somebody kills themselves, no one's like, you know what? Ah, that taught me my lesson. I'll never. I'll never not give another guy a spot again. Like, they're going to still not give spots away.
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Maz Jobrani
Did you ever. Did you ever know, like, the story? I know we got somebody segue into Bob, but I've been doing all this research. Did you know that, like, the interesting way that. That he. Bob Marley could still be alive right now? You know what I mean? Just like Bob Lebetkin could still be alive. Is that his name? His brother was Bob. Yeah, see, but the, you know, this guy, you know, I was reading like he had a melt. He hurt his foot playing soccer.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
Had a melanoma, had a cancerous thing on his foot all the way down there. Said, no, I'm gonna let. I'm gonna let jaw handle this. And then it spread to his brain and his lungs, and then he. Then he dies. That's in. That's crazy.
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Josh Adam Myers
That's what's crazy. When you think of, like, you know, he's such a heroic figure, he's such a transcendent figure, political, smart, a lot of stuff going on. But once you go to that route of, like, you know, once you get super religious, I don't care if it's Jah or, you know, Jesus or, you know, Muhammad or whatever, Allah, whatever it Is it leads you into just stupid decisions. You should let the doctor do his thing. And you will live a long life and see your children for a long time.
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Maz Jobrani
This is how I'm going to segue. I'm going to try to merge both of these because I was, I was. I love, like, what? I love doing this. I've known you, I've known you for years, by the way, Jared, like, Maz might be one of my favorite people to do the goddamn comedy jam. Because I don't think you realize, Maz, how great your voice is. You have a seto that is. I mean, the first time you did it, you did. You did the Bee Gees.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yes.
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Maz Jobrani
And. And murdered it. You did. We started with, I mean, killed it, dude. He started with how deep is your love? I think. Was that it? And then went into.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah, so I remember. So, so listen, first of all, I will be honest with you. I, I, if people go, if you could, if you weren't a comedian, what would you be? And I'm like, I'd be a rock star. Like, and then, and then the next thing I say is, like, I need to talk to a therapist. Like, why is every job watch me, you know, because they go, if you're not a rock star, what would you. I'd be like, I'd be a professional Soccer. It's always being watched. But years ago, I actually had an idea, like the comedy jam. But I'm not. I don't have your background, and I just didn't. I never thought, I never followed through with it. So once you did it, I go, oh, my God, I've been waiting for this. So once I got in, I realized, okay, there's ways to have fun with it. And so the first time I did it, I thought it would be fun to tell the story of coming to America in the late 70s and being in New York for a minute, and how somehow every time I watch Saturday Night Fever, it just is nostalgic for me because I was a kid, it was my first foray into America. And then I led the audience to believe that I was gonna do Staying Alive. Because I said, so, guys, I'm gonna sing this song. You guys all know it, you love it. This is gonna be a jam. Let's go. And then the band starts playing, you know how deep is yous love? Which is just a lot slower. And I think the audience was watching me, like, okay, that's an interesting choice. What's he doing with that? And then at some point, he goes, how deep is Your love. How do I really need to learn?
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Jeremiah Watkins
Cause we live in a world of food.
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Josh Adam Myers
So he keeps going higher and higher. And so I intentionally. The idea was like, for me to, like, start straining and going. And I go, ah, guys, crap, I can't do it. And I go, you know what, guys? Thank you for letting me try. That's it. And as I started walking out, they start playing Staying Alive. I come back and I, you know, rip into it with like. You can't tell by the way, Are you. But here's the kicker, which is funny. Kira Sultanovich, who's a funny comedian, has she ever done the goddamn.
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Maz Jobrani
She did. She did. You know, it's funny that you bring her up. It was. It was. She did Piano man and went out and learned harmonica so she could play the harmonica part annihilated.
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Josh Adam Myers
She's great. And so she was in the audience that night, and she told me. She goes, you know, when you gave up and started walking away, I thought it was real. And she goes. I was like, oh, my God, I've never seen Mars or any comedian, like, just give up.
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Maz Jobrani
And I.
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Josh Adam Myers
And I was like, then I sold it, man. I sold it, right? So that was so fun. So ever since then, I started finding ways to do, like, a double version, either a mislead or like a song that starts, like, another time. I don't remember if you remember. I did. What's that? Jonesy's on a vacation far away. Yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
Wait, wait, did you do that all the way through, though? Because that's. That's one. Yeah.
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Josh Adam Myers
No, so what I did was that night, I was just. Because I took the material to go into having kids, and then I said, when you have kids, there's songs that they like to listen to. And so I'm just gonna go ahead and do a, you know, their song Baby Shark. And we started doing Baby Shark. And then it started like, baby shark. And then it started getting crazier and craz. Jam, jam, jam. And I'm like, fuck that shark. We, like, start cursing out the shark. Because the bit was all about, like, how. How mind numbing it is to. To listen to that kind of stuff. And then from there, somehow we transitioned it into, like, I'm gonna sing the song that I want to say, you know, and so we sang that. So I always found ways to do the. The Mislead. And it's fun.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah.
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Josh Adam Myers
You've set up a great, great situation. Yeah. Even last night we did. You know, a couple nights ago we did another version of Hotel California.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah, dude, Jer, it was. It's just funny. Like, watching. It's also. Maz is doing it, and you're doing it in half English, half, like, did you. Persian? Is it Persian or Farsi?
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Josh Adam Myers
It's both. So Persian is how Americans would say it. Farsi is how Iranians would say. It's like saying, like, Deutsch versus, you know, speak as the Deutsche versus you speak German, right?
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah.
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Josh Adam Myers
But it was interesting because the way this idea came for me to do this was I was doing Pauly Shore's podcast, and when he does your. When you're a guest on a show, he tries to build a theme around you. So he built a theme of Middle Easternness around me. So he had, like, a guy who taught us how to cook certain foods. And then. And then he had a band. And the band, I knew some of the guys, and they were just jamming. And as they were jamming, I kind of heard the Hotel. It was a Persian song they were playing. But I heard Hotel California in there. So I just went on the mic, I started singing, and I would just, like, say, you know. And that was actually very nonsensical. I was like, welcome to the Hotel California Such a lovely place, Such a love. And I just kept going in circles with it, and it was fun. And then I did it again there with them. And I realized the second time I did it, I was, like, short on breath. And then I'd forgotten about that until I came to rehearse it with you guys on Sunday. And I was rehearsing with the band, and I was like, oh, my God, I'm gonna have a heart attack. And I stopped, and I was like, guys, I don't know what's going on. And they go, well, there's already a ton of words in the song.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah, they're going fast.
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Josh Adam Myers
You're speeding up doing, like, the Gypsy Kings version, which is fast, and then you're trying to throw in Persian words in between so you're not getting any breath. So I was like. So when I did the show, I was like, I just hope I don't die tonight, guys. And. And we made it. We made it.
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Maz Jobrani
We made it. You. It was. That was. Honestly, I mean this sincerely. Like, that. That one on have been one of my favorite ones that we've ever done musically, because I love Hotel California. I tried to get Bill. I've been. I. I told you this, Maz. With Jer. I've been trying to get Bill to play drums and sing Hotel California as Don Henley, like, With the curly wig. And if he wasn't already doing, like, two other songs, I think he would have done it. And. And it was just with. With Maz doing Hotel and Chris Porter's doing Taken to the Limit by Eagles, which was amazing. And Brad doing nookie. And. And it was just such a great show that, like, what a great way to end the year. And that was. You were the. You were one of the last people I booked, and I was trying to put it all together where it was like, I got Bill first, and then it was like, okay, now I can put all the people that I love because I know, like. You know what I mean? It's like, it's. It's just once you get. You get like, you know, you get him. It's like. Because sometimes it's always like, all right, I gotta put. Put nine enormous names on it or just to sell tickets. And you're like, once you have Bill, it's like, dude, we can just make it the best show possible.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
And I've told you, Miles, how much I love you. And. And also, like, thank you for coming on for this too, because.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah, man.
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Maz Jobrani
You know, this was. This was such a. You know, like, it's funny. Like, Bob Marley is. Is arguably one of the most iconic artists in. In anything. And.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
And. And it was like, booking this show was hard, dude. Yeah, I know. But listen, I'm glad it's mine. I would much rather do this with you, Maz, than with Nick Hexum. And I'll say it from 311. We almost had. And you don't understand, I hate 311 so much because of the guys that we went to high school with, Jer included, that loved 311. They loved Sublime. That's all they listened to. And it ruined the music. And you know what? I think Bob Marley was in that too, because, you know, high school kids in Maryland, we're all get. We're getting into smoking dope. We're. We're driving the high roads. Reggae music is just kind of there. And. And so, you know, white people, what do we do? We take a great music that black people created and we it up and 3:11 sublime. That's what they did because we were trying to book this and we almost had. We almost had him. And that would have been. It would have been funny. Yeah, Right?
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah, definitely.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah.
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Emily
Consistently shat upon 311 on this show.
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Josh Adam Myers
So.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah. But it's this. I want this because I love you mods. And it's like, we Never get a time to, like, sit down and talk. And it's. You have such an interesting background. And. And so. So I want to put the pin on the Bob Marley death. I want to bring that back because I want to ask you a question. I'll show you how I merge that later. I want to get into the meat and potatoes of like. Like, your relationship with Bob, like, how did it start? How early was it, who, you know, who introduced? Because he's just there.
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Josh Adam Myers
So, I mean, well, you know, he transcends. Like you said, he transcends just the ages. I. You know, there's a handful of artists that you think. Because I have kids now and they know Bob Marley and they. And they've listened to and will often listen to Bob Marley, and Bob Marley is always kind of in the background. Our neighbors. When I was. When my son was born, the neighbor's kids. The neighbor, the father was, is black American, but of Jamaican descent. And the mother is white from the Midwest. Great, great family. And their. Their son was born a month before my son was born. So they ended up being best friends, neighbors. Like, literally a fence dividing. And they would go one house and the next house. It was amazing life with them. But they constantly had Bob Marley on. Like, because he's Jamaican, I think he always had him on. But I can also remember when I was in college, I was in a fraternity, and it was a bunch of white dudes, and Bob Marley was always playing. And there was always, like, either Bob Marley playing or there was like a. They would do a beach volleyball tournament. Bob Marley Barley. Bob Marley was playing. Bob Marley is omnipresent. He's everywhere. And he's also someone who's everywhere that you don't go, oh, my God. Like.
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Emily
Like.
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Josh Adam Myers
It's not like the Mariah Carey.
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Maz Jobrani
Yes, I know.
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Josh Adam Myers
You're Christmas song where you're like, yeah. You're like, that's enough, Bob Marley. You're like, oh, I'm getting in the mood. You know, matter of fact, when you. When you told me we're gonna do this, I just. I hadn't listened to his albums in a while, so I just put it. We. We just remodeled our house, so I put speakers in. So I was like, turning it on. And I was like, this is actually great music to. To chill too. To be in the kitchen too. To have friends. Because sometimes there's music that just interrupts. This is music that you can enjoy kind of like half paying attention. And then when you pay attention, you're like, oh, shit, he's talking about some revolution. Yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah.
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Josh Adam Myers
And there's very few artists that can transcend generations and genres and be political. Stevie Wonder is another one. He's gone through different, you know, generations and making some political statements. You're right. So it's. You know, he was one of. One of the guys. And so I just. I. I don't remember when I first heard him, but it's almost impossible not to hear him, you know?
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Maz Jobrani
Did you have Legend? Because I feel like that's everybody's. That's everybody's, like, album that even. I don't think even people that are fans of Bob Marley per se, that are like, I'm a huge Bob fan. You just have legend. Everybody in their life has had that. And I bet you. Jer, will you do me a favor and check to see if Legend is on the 500 grade latest albums list? Because I would be shocked if it's not. If they put probably that.
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Josh Adam Myers
And. And money and. And most money made, probably because they probably has sold the most as well. Or somewhere up there.
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Maz Jobrani
It's been on. If I'm not mistaken, it's been 46. Yeah. This a compilation. So this is like, a lot of the songs that are on here. And then there was that one. And there was another one. Was it Natural mystic or what was the second one it opened with Natural mystic, but Legend was the one that I got probably. Probably in high school. And I love that you said that. You couldn't have said it better. It's like there. There is a. A background music that I don't think anybody has ever been like, dude, like, turn this off. Like, this is annoying.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah, right.
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Maz Jobrani
This is. This is. I feel like this is reggae at its purest form. Where. Where it doesn't have to be. You know, it's this. This. Every race, color and creed loves Bob Marley. I don't know anybody. I'd be shocked to find if there was like, a Bob Marley hate group in the world. And.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
And. And why is it. Is it because it's just the music and the way it sounds? Or is it because, like you said, it's the. It's the message. It's who he is. Do we love the music or do we love what Bob Marley stood for? Because we think of Bob Marley as almost like a Christ like figure. He is very, you know, he's. He's the. He's the Pope kind of, you know.
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Josh Adam Myers
Well, he's very. You know, that it's a little bit of both because he's also kind of like, like a Che Guevara type. Like, you know, like they, you know that his image is used to kind of symbolize rebellion and all. And then at the same time, ironically, it's been hijacked and used as a commercialization. Right. So it's almost like the things that he was criticizing, he is now, you know, someone, someone realized the market value for that. They're like, oh, we'll, we'll take a revolutionary and, and, and make money off of him. And also let's, let's, you know, the truth is the fact that he died young and he was a good looking guy. So there's a lot of stuff that comes together and the fact that he died young that also I think has some level of iconization because, you know, if he had, it would have been great if he kept living. But who knows how his future albums would have been? Who knows if at some point people are like, ah, I'm done with him. But he transcends everything, I'm telling you. Color and race and, and, and the music is just it's job music, man.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah. And you know, he, it's, it's the you, you said about like, where would he have gone? You know, I always like to ask that question, I've asked it a million times on the podcast of like, is like, did you know Nirvana? You know, another, like, I'm not going to say they put Kurt Cobain on the same level as Bob Marley as like a, he is, he is as iconic. Meaning just like, you know, we, we love him and he died young and so we always wonder what if. But I think, I think that, you know, there is more of a question of what someone like Kurt Cobain would have done, but not Bob. I think Bob probably just would have been doing what he's been doing his whole life and just keep writing these political reggae songs. Maybe, maybe, you know, but I don't think it ever would have gone. I would have, I don't think we'd ever be like, did you hear that? You know that when he went a little country or like, you know, rhythm.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah. How about Bob's All I Want for Christmas? All I ever wanted for Christmas is to get some presents. Yeah, all I want is for Christmas. You're like, oh, no. But you know, the other thing is that, you know, the music's amazing, but also the message. And I think we live in an era where, you know, sometimes I personally sometimes get sick of talking politics because I know that it just. So many people are so triggered now, but I Also have always admired people that have been able to put politics into their art. So, like, that's why I love Public Enemy. Matter of fact, Public Enemy has a line in the, the song He Got Game, it basically is something along the lines of like, fuck the game if it ain't saying nothing. So it's like, what's the point of having game if you're not saying something? And so I always, always love a politically tinged song where you listen and you look, oh, this is a commentary on X, Y and Z. And that means that that person stood for something. And I think that attracts a lot of people to that music. And the thing that Bob has is he's got the lyrics that'll attract you, if you like that, the politics of it, but he's also got the music that, like, people that have no idea what he's talking about are just gonna enjoy the music. And they might, they might be the people that he's protesting against. You know, you might be some like rich dude on a yacht and going like, hey, I love Bob Marley, man. But meanwhile, Bob Marley's like, you know, it reminds me of Eddie Murphy did a character on SNL years ago where he was a reggae singer.
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Maz Jobrani
Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Josh Adam Myers
He goes, kill all the white people.
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Maz Jobrani
We're going to kill the white people. Damn horse.
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Josh Adam Myers
Right?
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Emily
It's like some sugar with your medicine or whatever.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yes, yes, exactly.
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Maz Jobrani
Well, speaking of, speaking of that, you kind of had to do that post, you know, when you were talking about working with Ahmed and Aaron, like, you know, you guys, you know, Persians or people from the Middle east, had a real rough go of it, probably post 9, 11. And also to be a comic, what was that like trying to navigate stand up comedy during, you know, a time, even up until, you know, 2016 when Trump came into office and the first thing he did is, is ban, you know, Muslim speaking, not Muslim speaking, but Muslim countries into America. Like, how have you had to navigate that with your comedy? Because you, you do a great job of it.
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Josh Adam Myers
Well, thanks, man. I, I, When Mitzi Shore first made me a regular at the Comedy Store, it was like, I think it was neither 99 or 2000. And I'm so bummed that I don't know the exact day. I always go, why didn't I write it somewhere? But whatever it was, that was like the war on terror hadn't started yet. It was, but, you know, bin Laden and terrorism and all that was kind of in the Zeitgeist. And by the way, I came from Iran in late 78. And then the hostage crisis happened. So I'd been experiencing this my whole life, where my people are all of a sudden demonized because of the actions of the government back in Iran. And so I'd always kind of been like, you know, seeing the other side of it of, like, you know, most of all, the Middle Easterners that I know are good people. Then I don't know any terrorists. I've never been a terrorist, but my people were being depicted as such and also sometimes being attacked for it. Right. And so when Mitzi made me a regular, I was just doing my. Doing my thing, talking about my life. And then she. She was Jewish, and she had been watching the news, and there was the latest uprising. It's called the Intifada, with the Palestinians and the Israelis, and they were starting to fight. So she's watching cnn, I think, and she goes. She felt like there was going to be a need for a positive voice for Muslims and Middle Easterners in the near future. And that's why she put that show together with me. Ahmed, Aaron, Sam Tripoli was on it because he's half Armenian. Anybody who was, like, remotely close to our region was on the show. And she called it the Arabian Nights. And we started doing it. And Iranians aren't Arabs, so Iranians would come to the show and they'd be like, you know, we had a good time at the show, but, you know, we're not ar. And I was like, I know the Jewish lady named it. What do you want from me? But at some point, blame the Jews.
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Maz Jobrani
Always blame the Jews.
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Josh Adam Myers
We're good.
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Maz Jobrani
We're a good scapegoat, dude.
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Josh Adam Myers
But she, at some point, like, was talking to me, and she was like, you know, you're going to do for your people what Richard Pryor did for his people. Like, she wanted me to, like. Because Richard Pryor is someone who they say helped bring kind of the black experience to the mainstream. Sure. And so she was saying that about me, to me, and I was like, okay, okay. And I'm thinking to myself, I don't know what she's talking about, but sure, why not? But then the subjects I would talk about a lot of times were those types of subjects that were talking about the discrimination or the. Or even, like, you know, when 911 happens, I become very. I was very patriotic. So I was, like, so upset, because part of it, too, on my mind, in my mind, I'm thinking, not only did innocent people die, but also these people that did what they did have now made it harder for me and other people from my background to be in America. But then of course, like, you know, a couple months into it, or maybe a couple weeks into it, you realize, oh, wow, the Bush administration is going to use this as an excuse to go into Iraq that had nothing to do with bin Laden, Al Qaeda. And so you see the hypocrisy. So you just start talking about it, talking about it. And so, you know, things would happen like. Like, I've done a few bits now about, like, people getting kicked off of airplanes because they were speaking Arabic. And this actually happened, like, oh, yeah. So I would do jokes about that where I was like, listen, so my advice to you is if you're. If you're gonna speak Arabic on an airplane, just throw in random good words just to put people at ease. So if you're. If you're walking on the aisle, you're going like. And be like strawberry and then rainbow. You know, ironically. Ironically, recently I was on an airplane coming back from. I forget where it was, but I'm sitting in my seat and these three young Arab looking dudes with, like, beards, they walk past where, you know, my area, and they go all the way to the back. And then the flight attendant brings them back and, like, helps them sit, and they sit. Kind of like, it almost looks strategic. Like, one was in the middle over here, another one was in the middle here, and another one was in my row over here. And. And they looked apart and they were kind of looking at each other a lot, and they were texting, and I was like, oh, am I profiling my own people right now? It's like, I go, what? What? How ironic would it be if this guy who had made fun of this idea of like, there's no terrorists among us all of a sudden dies in a terrorist attack? And these guys are the nicest guys. When we landed, it was funny because there was a guy. The guy sitting next to me was this black dude who'd smoked so much weed, he just stunk like weed. And he just slept the whole way. And then the Arab dude that was in the window seat, the young Arab dude, when we landed, the young Arab dude was like, he tapped that black guy and he's like, hey, do you mind if I get a selfie? I want to get a selfie of you sleeping on my shoulder. And the dude's like, what? And he's like, yeah, it's just a selfie for the. So. And then the guy's like, all right, fine. So now they're doing these selfies to like, post on social media. And I was like, these guys aren't terrorists. They want to be influencers.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah. Yeah. Dude, are you, Are you just. I don't know why this popped my head. I'm just curious. You think you learn a lot about people. Are you. And this is you too, Jeremiah. Are you a window or aisle?
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Josh Adam Myers
Aisle. Big time aisle.
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Maz Jobrani
Your aisle. Why window? Just, I mean, control the light.
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Emily
You want to move for anybody. If you can just hold your going to the bathroom, then you're, you know.
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Maz Jobrani
I used to be window. I, I used to be window when I vaped because then I could vape like and blow it against the wall. Now, now I have to be aisle, because Aleka. Why? Why? Maz, are you, Are you. I'll just.
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Josh Adam Myers
He said it right. It's the bathroom. If I want to go pee, I have the access to go pee. And also, by the way, I feel like you get a little extra leg room into that aisle. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
Stretch out a little bit.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah, I'm all about the aisle.
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Emily
You don't sleep, you don't sleep on the flights then? Is that.
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Josh Adam Myers
No, I sleep all the time. I'm out, I go, oh, my God, I get in that plane, I sleep. When I first started touring with the, with the guys, I, I, I had a little routine. I'd get on the plane and I'd put on shine on you crazy diamond, which is, I think a 17 minute song or so. And I would just let that. Yeah, I would just let that take me. And then by the time it was kind of hitting itself, I'm out now. I don't need the music. I just sit there, I'll take my hoodie, I'll go like that, I'll close it up, I'll put a little cap on top of it. And it's funny because some people love talking on planes. And I'm a comedian, so a lot of people think like, oh, you're comedian. It'd be funny. You're gonna be talking. No, I'm tired. I was up late last night.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah.
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Josh Adam Myers
Maybe had some tequila. I'm sleeping. I need to land in LA and go do my shit.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah, but also you're, you know, you're recognizable, Maz. I mean, you're, you know, people, people know who you are. So you have to, you're gonna have to shuck and jive just maybe for a moment just to like, yeah, that's me, I'm a cop. Yeah, I'm all heading here. Okay. And then because it's hard Like, I have to talk to people because of whoever I'm sitting next to because I have lekka. So I have to like, kind of. Oh, yeah, I might, I might like, you know, you, you ease them in. Some people right away are just like, oh my God, I love dogs. Don't worry. You have nothing to worry about. Some people, you just want to make sure that they're cool. So it's almost kind of like when you know, you're, you're trying to. You're like almost full. Not flirting, but you're, you just want them to.
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Josh Adam Myers
Recording them. You're courting.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah, dude. Yeah.
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Josh Adam Myers
Like, my biggest pet peeve, My biggest pet peeve is when you get on that plane. I've been on planes now where like, it's like maybe it was like a one hour, two hour flight and I'm trying to sleep and these two dudes in the back, like right behind me have just met each other and they're going into this long, like, they don't stop talking. And then I land and I'm like, like, how do these guys talk for two hours straight? Like, and why won't they, why aren't they sleeping? What is wrong with people?
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Maz Jobrani
My new thing is I watched Long Legs, the, the Nicholas Cage movie. It's. Which is. I love it so much, dude, I'm, I'm such a huge fan, but it's like such a disturbing movie to watch on a flight.
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Josh Adam Myers
What is it? What's Long Legs?
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Maz Jobrani
Really? You don't know about it? I don't know. Long. Oh my God.
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Emily
I have to watch it. But I don't really watch horror movies.
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Maz Jobrani
But it's my. It's one of my favorite movies that's come out probably the last five to 10 years. It's basically about a serial killer named Long Legs, played by Nicholas Cage, who's completely unrecognizable when you see him. And they what? And this is something that I, I love about it. It's just, it's about them trying to catch this guy. But they use the music of T. Rex as like this bed that kind of plays throughout it where it's, where it's almost like, like the T. Rex's music influences the killer. And this is not a huge part of giving anything away, but it's just, it's just stylish and it looks really cool and I love anything that is just, you know, it reminds me, you.
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Josh Adam Myers
Watch it over and over again.
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Maz Jobrani
I. I put it on and I fall asleep and then I put it on again. And I just like it. And you can't get it on the streaming services right now. And then also it's like pretty violent. And so the person sitting next to me probably looks over and sees like. Like, you know, it. Just watch the movie and then come back and be like, yeah, dude, you're.
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Josh Adam Myers
You know, Nick Cage has done so many movies. I watched Nick. Nick Cage running Man on a flight to Kuwait. It was Kuwait Airlines, Kuwait Airways. And they censor anything slightly sexual.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah.
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Josh Adam Myers
And so it's funny because I did a bit about it once I got to Kuwait. I was like, it was crazy. I go. Because he, you know, you guys censor everything sexual. So I go, he was about to kiss the girl and then they would cut it and he'd be running. And I was like, what happened? Did they get together? What happened? And then I go at the end of the movie, I said, they got a divorce. I never knew they were married. It's so funny.
- [40:44]
Maz Jobrani
That's a good. I wanna. Out here. That's. I wanna. Because like you, you do go back to the Middle East a lot to perform. So I wanna, I wanna put a pin on that and bring it back to Bob and Bo. You know, I think one of the reasons that he is this, this not just icon around the world, it's just like how much he loved Jamaica. And I think the album title itself is really a homage and, and really putting it up like his dreadlocks, you know, in a sense started in Jamaica. It is, it is part of like that experience. And, and when you think of Bob Marley, you think of Jamaica just the same way. I would say, like, I know when you think of like Maz, when I think about you as a comic, not just a comic, but you do so much for the, the Persian community. I mean, whether it's doing. You're going over there, you're doing festivals. Hey everybody. So you guys have probably heard me talk about how I've been in bands my whole life. I love writing songs and performing in front of crowds. Just like with comedy. As a musician, it can be kind of hard to cut through the noise and really stand out as an artist. I feel like half the music projects I've been and have ended just just because we couldn't figure out the answer to that eternal question of how do we get people to hear us. But then again, that was before there was Distrokid. Distrokid is a digital music distribution service that brings your sound to the masses. It's a one stop shop for getting your Songs on itunes, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon, Deezer, Tidal and many more. What's Deezer? I never even heard of Deezer. How many of them are. Are there? I know all that. That's like the holy grail of streaming services though. And. And getting paid. They want to. We want to get you paid for your music. That's huge because a lot of bands go broke before they get big. But Distrokid collects earnings and payments and sends 100% of these earnings to artists minus banking fees and applicable taxes. And that's just one of the tons of benefits of using Distrokid. You can send big files to anyone with their Instant Share feature. You can use the Hyper Follow feature to promote your release and get pre saves on your song. You can even create personal landing pages for yourself, your band, your brand and whatever you like. It has a free Spotify Canvas generator too to generate your own Spotify Canvas for your songs. And the Mixia feature instantly masters your tracks for higher quality audio. So if you're ready to bring you your band to the next level, it's time to check out Distrokid. The Distrokid app is now available on iOS and Android. Go to the app or Play Store to download it. Listeners of this show can get 30 off their first year by going to distrokid.com VIP the 500. That's distrokid.com VIP the the 500 for 30% off your first year. Dig it.
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Josh Adam Myers
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Maz Jobrani
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Maz Jobrani
LinkedIn knows how so. So let's dig in to what would be a good place to start. Jerry, what do you think? We're going to talk about this record because I know because this is our.
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Emily
First Barley album, right? We have Exodus coming up in a few months, but which we know who.
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Maz Jobrani
We have that with, right? We have that with Citizen Cope. Citizen, do you remember Citizen Coat? Do you remember Mods? You remember Citizen Cope? He was a white dude, hip hop, folk, almost really had a good. I mean, dude, he's awesome and I mean he, he never like blew up. Blew up. But I think there's a lot of people if you know his music or you Know, you were kind of, like, influenced, I think, like, you know, the. The. The Jason Momoa and Michael Raymond James, all those actors that I kind of. When I first moved to la, that I was friends with, like, they loved it. He's great. And. And so he. Because that's Exodus that he's doing. And I think this record. This one is a little bit. You know, a lot of the songs that are on here are some of his biggest songs. Just different versions of it. So, Jer, where do you think is the best place to start? Because we don't need to go through his whole, like, overview.
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Emily
It's just kind of interesting, the fact that. So this is Bob Marley's first album without former bandmates Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston. He hasn't just saw. He's, like, basically part of the royal family of reggae. If you, like, look at.
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Maz Jobrani
Who are they? You. You would say. You would say it's Bob Marley, Peter Tosh. Who's the guy that we. Toots. Is Toots in there? Toots and the Maytols?
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
Rules, dude. That album. We did that album. You ever listen to that, Maz? Toots in the Maytols. I'll send you. He does a vers of Country Road by John Denver and turns it into very, like, you know, flips it away from being in, you know, wherever the south of. Of, Of. Of the United States. But he talks about it in the Jamaican. Like, it just changes the words and it's brilliant, I think, this one. So, look, I guess let's start here. Peter Tosh. So I guess the. The original band is Bob Marley with Peter Tosh and then Bunny Whaler. Hence why it's Bob Marley and the Whalers. Peter Tosh leaves the Whalers in creative differences and a desire to pursue a solo career. He felt his contributions to the band were not being fully recognized. He wanted to explore more. So Tosh departs. The remaining members of the Whalers continue. There wasn't a direct replacement, so the group continues with just its core members, focusing on Marley's leadership and songwriting. However, the band did expand and collaborate with various musicians over time. All right, let's get to the meat and potatoes of this. All right, so the band breaks up. Marley carries on under the band's name. The album Natty Dread then comes out in 1974. Where do you have. Where do you say, like, Jer, is the good place to start? Because it doesn't have any, like, real. It's just.
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Emily
I mean, this is when Eric Clapton, the next year had. I Shot the Sheriff came out. So basically, Bob Marley became an international star at that point, thanks to Eric. Clap.
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Maz Jobrani
So this is. This the album that blew him up.
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Emily
I mean, this is towards the end of the. I mean, 1974. This came out 75 with I shot the Sheriff. And then, I mean, there was rastaman vibration in 76. I mean, they put out so many albums. But this is on his own. And he also. The other detail we didn't mention is that he had. He had female vocal trio, which was familiar on a lot of the songs in the live albums from the i3s. Was the name of the. The backing trio?
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Josh Adam Myers
Well, one of them. His wife was. One of them his wife, yes.
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Maz Jobrani
How many kids does he have? I feel like there's every. Every few months there's like, another, like, canon of reggae.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah. Yeah, you're right.
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Maz Jobrani
Is that, like, a thing? Is that like. Dude, they just. They don't. They just believe in procreating and, like, you know, I don't know anything about, like, the Rastafari religion. I just know that, like, I've been trying to do this joke for years about making fun of white people doing reggae music because. And I'm gonna try to hear, but it's probably not gonna get the laugh. But it's like every song because. Yeah, dude. Lively of Yourself. No Woman, no Cry, you know, Natty Dread Revolution. These are all rebel music. These are all songs about the black experience in Jamaica. Right? And all the white people making reggae music are from Orange County, California. So, like. So every song should be like, we're hiking. I'm going hiking with you. I'm hiking after Pickleball is through.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
Hey, it's not that bad. It's not, dude. It's. I've gone through so many different variations.
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Josh Adam Myers
I'm walking my golden doodle. You gotta keep going. Like, we're going to. We're going to Whole Foods for. For the salad bar. Yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
It's like this morning smiling Arise in place Three little Pomeranians are on my.
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Josh Adam Myers
Doorstep yeah, you gotta add more. You gotta add more of the white experience. Singing Kale food, Gonna have kale for lunch Singing this is my message to.
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Maz Jobrani
You no pumpkin spice, no cry.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah, I think if you. I think if you play with it and you do find a couple of Bob Marley songs that are very well known, Obviously there's a lot of them. But you'll. You'll hit one where the lyrics will work very well with that message. And I think that joke will. Will go.
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Maz Jobrani
I have a Buddy Mike Figgs in. In New York City, that he's just this younger comic. He's such a good guy. Shout out to him if you don't know who he is. Follow him. All the listeners out there. He's great. He loves the idea of the joke. And he keeps feeding me stuff and he'll just be like, he'll just send me. That's one thing I love about stand up comics is like, I mean, you know it, dude. Even right there, just you. I come up with the premise. We love comedians in the community. And I would say this maybe, maybe the same thing about, like, what. Why reggae? Because reggae is such a small community of artists, you know, that do this. And I feel even the way that Bob worked with Peter Tosh and he worked with Bunny Whaler and then they worked with Toots and then they worked with this. It's like, it feels like there is a support group and, you know, and I love it. I love. That's the.
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Josh Adam Myers
We also love. We. We also love. Sorry to cut you off. But we also love. We also love taking someone's idea a bit and going like, hey, this is another way. Like, you were just doing that. Made me think if you could. You could actually do no Whole Foods, no cry. Yeah, no Whole Foods. And then go into a whole thing of some poor guy who's like, somewhere where there's no Whole Foods, he doesn't know what to do with himself, you know, or something. Or. Or going into. Remember that guy did that funny video a while ago? It's getting real in the Whole Foods lot. You got a real. In the. It was a viral video where the guy's looking for parking at Whole Foods and then he gets in and he's like getting the quinoa and all that stuff. You could do a rendition of that with reggae. No Whole Foods, no cry. I think that would. That. That's one way to go.
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Maz Jobrani
Totally. And also, Jer, this is not our first Bob Marley record. We did it with the porn star Indica Flower. You ever. You ever seen her work, Maz?
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Josh Adam Myers
Never seen it.
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Maz Jobrani
Is white chick dreadlocks thick? You know, I don't know how, like, I don't know how the she ended up on the bus. She rules, though. She's awesome.
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Josh Adam Myers
Like, I was about to ask, like, how do you get these guests? Like, were you just like, masturbating? You're like, we need to get her on.
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Maz Jobrani
Well, she has dreadlocks and she's been. She always posts videos of her. She's like a neo Hippie, like, very. Like, she. She. Yes, I have. I have masturbated to her porn many, many times. A Very attractive. And then she. Oh, you know, dude, trust. It's.
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Emily
She's a popular episode on YouTube.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah, of course. But she's also not a typical porn star. Like, she lives on a farm in New Orleans. She is a. She is like, completely off the grid. She's doing. She's a lesbian and does basically porn just so she can live this lifestyle that she wants, like, with a farm 10.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah, you're totally right. That's like a hippie porn star.
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Maz Jobrani
And she's. And she's so awesome, dude. She's. She really is a dope chick. And. And it was. She came in with. Because it was also. What I love about the podcast is, which is being able to, you know, we use the record as a road map to interview you. And she had a lot of. She had a very interesting path about, like, you know, know how she suddenly went from being, you know, like, you know, all right, well, I'm gonna. I'll dance. Just, you know, because she's young and then does one porno and she has dreadlocks and all these white guys go nuts over it, and she blows up. And now she's like. She literally has an only fans. She probably makes. She probably makes more. She probably makes, like, Shane Gillis money. You know what I mean?
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
Insane money.
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Josh Adam Myers
Well, that's like, you know, that's like anything like, on Instagram. I'll look at. You know, I'm. I'm struggling to grow my Instagram. Like. Okay, I meant whatever, seven hundred and something. Thousand. It's just been stuck there for a while. And then you'll look at, like, someone. It's not even a porn star, but, like, someone who's like. Does like a girl who's pretty, who does like, some kind of puts on makeup, and she's got like 3 million followers. I'm like, why are 3 million people following this girl?
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Emily
Disheartening, right?
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Maz Jobrani
Dude, don't even get me started on social media. Is. I'm praying. I mean, I am. Am praying that the government shuts Tick tock down on January 19th. Shut it down.
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Josh Adam Myers
It's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen because Donnie is in and. And supposedly the. The CEO was meeting with Donnie, and Donnie's gonna help save Tick Tock. And all the young people are gonna be like, I told you he's good for us. And. And it'll probably be because he's getting a Little kickback. So there you have it.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah, but, dude, it's that, you know, you have to really. It's already been voted on by the Senate and the. And the. The Congress, so I don't know the legal mumbo jumbo, but I definitely think there's more. There's more hoops to jump through than just him saying executive decision, because it has to be a majority of them.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
And. And. Or the Supreme Court or something. And. And, dude, this company does not want to sell to some American company. Like they're. This is a. They're. They. They don't want to. They don't want to do that. And so there's a good chance. I pray, I pray. But that's besides the point. Let's talk about.
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Emily
Let's talk about the assassination attempt of.
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Maz Jobrani
Sure, tell us about it. Tell us about it, Jer.
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Emily
Well, so this album comes out, like we said, in 74. A couple albums later, Marley survived assassination attempt at his home in Jamaica, which was believed to be politically motivated. He permanently relocated to London, where he recorded the album Exodus, which is my favorite album, which is not on this list. List. And which incorporated elements of blues. We're doing.
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Maz Jobrani
No, no, no, no, no. We're doing.
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Josh Adam Myers
I like Uprising.
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Emily
Uprising is my favorite.
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Maz Jobrani
We're doing Exodus in a few months.
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Emily
But here. Here's the deeper story on it. Here goes into a little bit more detail. Two days before Smile, Jamaica was the name of a free concert organized by Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley in an attempt to ease tension between two warring political groups. Bob Marley, Rita, and manager Don Taylor were wounded in an assault by unknown gunmen inside Marley's home. Taylor and Rita had serious injuries, but later made full recoveries. Marley sustained minor wounds in the chest and arm, and the attempt in his life was believed to have been politically motivated, as many felt that the Smile Jamaica was actually a support rally from Manly. So he got caught up. He was trying to, like, make peace between these two groups. And it backed.
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Josh Adam Myers
That's how they get anytime. First of all, they had that.
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Maz Jobrani
The.
- [56:25]
Josh Adam Myers
The bio. Biopic. The biopic Marley. They had. I want to saw with my daughter. It's pretty good. It wasn't like. It wasn't as deep as, you know, some. Some movies have gotten with biopics, but. But it was good and you learn and they show up, show all that. But to your point. Point feels like people that advocate for peace are constantly killed, whether it's mlk, right. Or. Or Gandhi.
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Maz Jobrani
Why.
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Josh Adam Myers
Why is that Rabin?
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Maz Jobrani
Yes, I was. That was the Guy. I was gonna say, I was gonna say Yitzhak Rabin, the guy that was finally trying to bring peace between Israel in the Middle East. And you think he was killed by a Jew?
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah, he was a, it was a, one of these extremists who. I think a lot of times the reason that happens is because these people feel like they've been betrayed and they don't want peace. You know, there's a, there's a hard, there's definitely when, when there's a group that opposes some leadership. If you get in and go, hey, you know, I don't like the leadership either, but you know what, let's, let's find a peaceful way to move forward. There's people on the other side that are like, you're betraying us. And then that's what happens.
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Emily
Right, exactly. You're not going hard. In the pan stuff.
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Maz Jobrani
I'd seen that he. And one of these interesting facts about him that he had, he had, he, he had the assassination attempt and then like a day later or something played a concert for 80, 000 people.
- [57:52]
Josh Adam Myers
That's that concert he's talking about.
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Emily
Yeah, but the rest of the Whalers or whoever his backing band he had had to replace them because everybody else was like in hiding because they were still being pursued potentially.
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Josh Adam Myers
So if it were, if it were modern day, he had done the, the rest of the bank could have come in via Zoomies.
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Maz Jobrani
I wanted to, we, we talked about, you know, we talked about him playing, going to, to Jamaica, doing this. Like you go back and you do a lot of, you know, in the Middle East. What is the, what is the biggest show you've done in the Middle East?
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Josh Adam Myers
I did a show this past, I've done it twice now. I've gone to the Etihad arena, which is in Abu Dhabi. That seats about five, 6,000 people. I mean, it seats more like Chappelle did it. And I think they sold like 15,000 tickets or something. But yeah, they, they, they, they can go from, you know, from a thousand up to 15,000. So I've done a couple now. One time I did it with Mo Amer, and the next time I did with Bassem Youssef and we sold about 5,6000 seats. And what's amazing about it, because I'd done, I'd done big shows before, when I first started my career first started like taking off a little bit, they would do a. It was actually called the, I think it was called the comedy Jam. It was like a hip hop station. It wasn't the goddamn Comedy Jam. It was just Comedy Jam. And it was the hip hop station in Norcal and SoCal. And they would put these lineups together that was like rock and roll lineup. So they had Gabriel Iglesias, Pablo Francisco, Russell Peters, and then Cat Williams headlining. And like, some, like, you know, just all these. All these comedians. So the biggest one I did was they did a 20,000 seater at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Northern California. And I remember being backstage intimidated, going, oh, my God, how am I going to perform in front of 20,000 people? Like, it's gonna be hard to get to them. But what they do, which is smart, which I tell everybody, is if you're ever doing something big like that, you have to have the big screens so people can see you. You have to have amazing acoustics, which they do. So the guy in the very back of the 20,000 people is hearing you really well. And you have to have a camera person that will go to the audience. If you talk to an audience member, that camera guy goes right to that audience member. And now the people all the way in the back are seeing who you're talking to, and it becomes an intimate situation. And so that's what we did at the Etihad arena when we did the Abu Dhabi. And. And it's just a great venue, and it was just like. It's just electric, you know.
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Maz Jobrani
Dude, that's so cool, man. Like, I mean, what. What is that? Is that like, you know, were you born in America? Were you born in the Middle East?
- [60:46]
Josh Adam Myers
I was born in Iran, and I left in late 78 when the revolution was about to happen. Matter of fact, my dad was a successful businessman and he had made some good money and he had some friends in high places. And my father, the fictional character that most reminds me of my dad is Vito Corleone from the Godfather. People would come to my dad and he would do favors for them, and he was very generous, and he was always kind of trying to take care of people. And I've heard stories from other people telling me how my dad used his influence to help them. And so anyway, the revolution protests were happening in Iran. My father was on business in America, and he told my mom, he goes, bring, bring the kids and just come for a couple weeks and then things will quiet down. Maybe we can go back. And so I always say, we packed for two weeks and we stayed for 45 years. And as a matter of fact, when we came, my mom just brought me and my older sister and we left my baby brother back in Iran, because we thought we'd be back, and of course, we didn't go back. So then he came out a little while later with some, like, relatives and aunts and stuff. But that's also why I have such a soft spot in my heart for immigrants and refugees and all that, because I tell Americans I go, people aren't leaving a great situation to come to America. It's not like someone's in some country going, like, oh, we speak the language, we have all the money in the world. Let's go somewhere where they don't want us. No, they're fleeing a bad situation, and they are coming here to make a better life. So this whole demonization of immigrants, it just is a real. Bothers me a lot. And most immigrants come to America to do good, and they do do good. So that's kind of what happened. That's how I came.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah. Do you. You have, like that. It feels like every. You know, you really do care about the, you know, your heritage and. And, you know, like, where you came from. It's just. I'm not saying that's what's. Tate. That's what you're. If I think of you as like, oh, but he's only a Middle Eastern comic. You're a comic, but it definitely feels like you have a strong love for that, for that area. And it's. It's just, you know, it's such a, you know, with the situation that's kind of going on, you know, I guess there now. You know, I always see those old videos of what it used to be like in Iran pre the revolution. I mean, it's. It's. It's. I mean, it was as like. It was literally like West Hollywood, right?
- [63:17]
Josh Adam Myers
Yeah. Well, that's what. Listen, listen. Obviously, it was. It was. It had its problems, but it was definitely a lot freer and at least much better for women. At least. But that's what happens when you mix religion with politics, and that's what worries me about the current situation we're in. Because whether you like Trump or not, those people around him that want Project 2025, those people that are very religious, those people that spent 50 years laying in, you know, waiting to repeal Roe versus Wade and take away women's right to choose, whether you're pro abortion, anti abortion, doesn't matter. A woman should have that right to choose, but they've taken that right away from women. And then after that, then you start taking other rights away. You go after the LGBTQ community, and then you start going after religious minorities. And that's what happens when you mix religion with politics. And so we see it in Iran. You have this autocratic, totalitarian government that basically oppresses its people, executes its people, jails its people. And at the same time, there's people that are living there and living their lives, and they've grown accustomed to it, and they live their lives. And a lot of the Iranian people are great people. We're very hospitable. We have an old, old history. One of the reasons I think a lot of Iranians are so proud of their Iranian background is because of the history that we have. You know, we had King Cyrus was the first king that would conquer places, and he would let them practice their religions. We have poetry. Somebody was telling me last night, this. This guy who was. He'd studied history, he said, you know, they used to say that I think Arabic was the language of religion, Turkish was the language of politics, and Persian was a language of poetry. This is during the Ottoman Persian Empire. So, again, it's like we're a people who feel like we had a. We were living. We had a glorious past, you know?
- [65:20]
Maz Jobrani
Yeah.
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Josh Adam Myers
Sometimes I'll do a joke and I'll say, like, it's like. It's like being a football team. You know, we had. We had 10 Super Bowls, man, but we haven't been back in a long time, you know.
- [65:30]
Maz Jobrani
Right. Yeah. Are you the other type of football?
- [65:35]
Emily
Because Bob Marley apparently was like a huge soccer.
- [65:39]
Josh Adam Myers
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that he played. And, yeah, I've played since I was a kid. I'll watch. I'll watch it if it's on tv. And there's some players that I know, but I still play to this day. I actually went out this past Saturday, played a pickup game with my buddies. And I've learned now because what happened was for a while, in my 20s and 30s, I would play midfield so I could run up and down and get a good workout. And I wanted to try to get a shot in. More recently, when I was trying to play striker because I didn't have the endurance or the. I should say my back and stuff would hurt. I was trying to just play striker. I would. I would get yelled at by my. By my teammates because I, you know, I was missing shots and not quite hitting it right or, you know, because you just see your body, like, you'll tell your body. You'll tell your mind to shoot it this way, and the ball goes that way. So just this past weekend, I went back and they needed Me to play defense, which is kind of where I started when I was in high school school, and I played it, and I've got the instinct for it. So they. Rather than yelling at me, they were like, oh, you're having a good game. And I was like, yeah. I mean, I've been playing this for 50 years. I should be pretty good at it.
- [66:45]
Emily
So the quote is pretty good. Marley told a journalist, if you want to get to know me, you will have to play football against me and the Whalers.
- [66:53]
Josh Adam Myers
Oh, that's funny.
- [66:54]
Maz Jobrani
It's like. It's like Prince taken Charlie Murphy to the basketball court, and, like, that's how much he loved. I wanted to. I wanted to spin this, and I tried to do it with the. The. The. When we talked about how he passed away and how he wouldn't receive treatment. And this is how I'm going to try to spin it into a question for you, is it reminds me of the curb your Enthusiasm episode where the girl is. Has the allergy and she won't eat the brownie or she won't. She won't take Benadryl, so they put it in the brownie to kind of get her to do that. And so that leads me into being able to talk to you about. I'm always curious about, like. Like, Kirby enthusiasm. How did that go down? What was that like? Because it's such an iconic character. I mean, you're literally, you know, especially at the. In that season when it all comes back together at the final episode while he's on Broadway.
- [67:43]
Josh Adam Myers
Listen, when you're a fan of something and then you get a chance to be on it, I mean, that's just like. It's like a fantasy come true. So it was funny because this was the season where they were doing the. The Producers on Broadway, and it's. Larry David and David Schwimmer are going to New York to do the Producers. And. And it's funny because my agents, being American agents, they hit me up and they go, you're going to go and audition for the. For curb for. To play the part of a sheikh, like. And I thought, oh, like a Saudi sheikh.
- [68:17]
Maz Jobrani
Yeah.
- [68:17]
Josh Adam Myers
And I'm thinking to myself, all right, do I wear the full, like, head regalia, or do I go find it somewhere?
- [68:23]
Maz Jobrani
Or.
- [68:24]
Josh Adam Myers
I said, you know what? I've seen these guys a lot of times. They wear, like, a nice expensive suit and their shirts buttoned up. And I go, I'll do that. I'll just wear that. I'll show up. Up. I show up to Audition. And I look at the description, and it wasn't a sheikh. It was a Sikh. It was an Indian Sikh. And I was like, leave it to white people to mix up a Saudi sheikh with an Indian Sikh. It's like, this is totally different, people.
- [68:45]
Maz Jobrani
We don't give a shit.
- [68:46]
Josh Adam Myers
So I go in and I'm like, so what's the deal? And they go, the deal is that in the. And by the way, you get to audition with Larry. And he goes, the. The. The deal is that you're this Indian Sikh who works at the hotel where Larry's going to be staying, and you fix his air conditioning and his thermostat, and then you wait for a tip. He doesn't tip you. So then you're upset at him. And then word gets back to him that he's upset that you're upset at him. So he gives you tickets to the. To the. To the producers. And when you show up, you show up with your. Because Indian Sikhs wear those turbans. And he goes, you're gonna show up with your turban, and you're going to be seated right in front of Richard Kind, who's Larry's cousin, and you're blocking his view the whole time. And I thought, that's funny. So then now. So then they said they're going to improvise. So then. So Larry played Richard Kine, and I'm sitting in the seat in front of him, and then, you know, I'm like, just improvising. And, you know, improvise is. Yes. And Right. So, you know, he's like tapping me, and you got to be very grounded. You can't just be like, ah, you know, so he's tapping me, and I'm just like, you know, you know, whatever. I respond, and we go back and forth, back and forth, and it goes, well. And then I get it, and I'm like, oh, my God, I'm get to play in this league. Which, by the way, nowadays I don't think they would cast me as an indusik, even though I'm brownish. I think it's so specific. But. But what was amazing was, you know, usually if you're a guest star on Curb youb Enthusiasm, you go, in one day, two days, you're done. Well, this was like they were shooting one day at the Biltmore in Los Angeles, and then they were gonna fly me to New York to be. Because the rest of it played in New York. So they go, you're gonna fly to New York? I mean, it was amazing. They go, and this is early in my career. They go, they're gonna pay you to go do this. They're gonna give you a per diem. They give me a hundred bucks a day saying. And I forget what it was. It was some. It was some. It was some fancy hotel on the Upper east side. And I was so excited. I go there and I was. First of all, I was like, I'm gonna go have a. I'm gonna go get myself a steak dinner at one of these fancy restaurants alone. And I'm going to make it like, be with the tip. It's going to end at $100. I'm going to buy myself $100 worth. So I went and sat down, I get a steak, I'm having my wine, I look over and do you remember who Vernon Jordan was? Vernon Jordan. Vernon Jordan was Bill Clinton's guy who, when he got in trouble with Monica Lewinsky, he was the black guy who had like a fedora kind of hat. Not a fedora, but he had a hat. And he was like Bill Clinton's right hand man. Kind of worked. It got him through that period. I don't know if he was a lawyer or what, but he was this guy.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah.
- [71:15]
Josh Adam Myers
I'm sitting there, I'm eating, and I look over and by the way, it was all very romantic in my mind because like, I brought a book, I was gonna read my book while eating, like alone in New York City. And I look over and I see Vernon Jordan. I go, oh my God, that's Vernon Jordan. And then I look to his right and he's sitting with a girl that looks just like Monica Lewinsky.
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Maz Jobrani
I was like, is he sitting with Monica Lewinsky?
- [71:35]
Josh Adam Myers
And then I look close, I go, no, that's not Monica Lewinsky, but that's another girl of that same age. And I go, holy shit, these old dudes are in the Monica Lewinsky types like he and Bill. So it was amazing. And then I got to be on, you know, on set with Larry and all that. And the other thing that was amazing was this was. I was a regular already at the clubs in la. Comedy Store, Laugh Factory, sure, improv. But I, I wasn't a regular at the clubs in New York yet. And comedy seller being the mecca of the clubs in New York, I use that, that trip I used as a, as a way to get in. And I tell people this all the time, but people go like, oh, I want to try and get into this club, that club. And I. And if they have some heat going, I go, what you should do is you should have your reps call the club and say, I have a client who's working on a project. Can they do a guest spot? Which is what we did. They called in, they go, I got a client. He's working on Curb youb Enthusiasm for the Week. Can he do a guest spot at the Cellar? And of course, they said, sure, come on down on a Thursday, do five minutes. And Manny was alive then, and he watched. And Manny was very much into Middle Eastern politics. So I think. And my set went well. And then after that, that's how I became a regular at the Comedy Seller.
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Maz Jobrani
I love that.
- [72:53]
Josh Adam Myers
Come back Friday or whatever. And I was like, great. And then I just. Just became a thing. So I just put things, like, one thing led to the next, the next to the next, and it was just. It was. It was great. And to this day, I. I get residual checks for, like, 13 cents.
- [73:10]
Maz Jobrani
The gift that keeps giving, dude.
- [73:11]
Josh Adam Myers
It's giving, man.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah, I love that. And. And I know we. I want to. We got to wrap this up soon, but I wanted to talk to you because it's just. I never get to. To ask these questions when we're just hanging out. It's like you've. It's. You've actually placed two characters, in a sense that. Or two projects you've worked on that have donuts involved.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
You know. You know, you. Friday after next. What was. You know, how is that situation? How did that work? Because was that, like, your first, like, really big break?
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah, that was the first big break. And that was one of those where you just go on audition. And as a matter of fact, I think at the time, Sasha Baron Cohen had started doing Ali G, and I think they had worked, like, either trying to get him to be in the movie as that character.
- [73:52]
Maz Jobrani
Yeah.
- [73:52]
Josh Adam Myers
Which is Molly. Or maybe they would have just let him do Ali G as the character or whatever. But I think. Because I think I saw his name up somewhere on the board when I went in for casting. But I just went in and I auditioned and I improvised in the audition. And, you know, I said, you know, Jamie Masada famously says buddy a lot. Buddy, buddy, buddy. So I would just throw in the word buddy and everyone, you know, into the audition. You know, in auditions, we. Sometimes they want you to hit every word the way it's written, especially if it's a drama. But if it's a comedy, if you improvise a little bit, I think they like that.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah, for sure. They want to. They want you to be funny and Bring what you can do, of course.
- [74:30]
Josh Adam Myers
Yeah. So I did that and I got the part. And to your point, it was a big one. And, and it was funny because at the time I was working as a, as a receptionist at some like, marketing company and I took two weeks off to go film this and you know, let's say at the marketing company, like the whole year I would make like $25,000 this place. You know, I went and did Friday after next and they, they paid me like two weeks, 8,000 a week. I made $16,000 in two weeks. You know, VIP treatment, all that stuff. Got the new Cat, Cat. I'd met Cat before doing Stand up, but me, Cat and Terry Crews were the new guys on that one. And I got to work with John Witherspoon and Cube and Mike Epps and, and there was a lot. The director was Marcus Rayboy who would say, listen, Epps is going to go off book, so just go with him. And so we would. And it was fun and it was a lot of improvising and some, some really fun, iconic scenes that came out of it. And it was interesting because the movie was not a critical success. It wasn't like casting directors were calling me afterwards going like, oh my God, we saw your brilliant, you know, your brilliant turn as Moley in Friday Afternoon. But it was a, it was a commercial success in the urban community, so. Black Latino community, sure. So then a little while after, like, I remember one time I was at the Comedy Store doing a spot at like midnight, and then I had to walk down to the Laugh Factory to do the next spot. Like they had like a midnight show, so it was a late show. And at that time there'd be people cruising up and down Sunset Boulevard and some of the guys cruising were kind of like, you know, harder thuggy looking dudes. And there was a couple times where I was like, I wonder if it's dangerous for me to be walking on, on Sunset at that time of night. And I'm walking down and all of a sudden like the thugs and the gang bangers are leaning out their window going, yo, it's Moly.
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Maz Jobrani
What's up, Molly?
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Josh Adam Myers
I go, I got street cred, man. I got street cred. So that's, that's what that movie did for me.
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Maz Jobrani
We should go test that. Let's go to downtown LA right now and let's put on separate colors. No, let me.
- [76:27]
Josh Adam Myers
No, no, no, let me give you one, let me give you one. Because, because, because it did well in the black and Latino community to this day, when I come across. Especially when I come across, like, blacks or Latinos that are, like, around my age or of that time, yeah, they'll recognize me. So last year, this past. This 20, 24, this year, when Taylor Swift was in concert, actually was last year, I think. Anyway, she was in concert, and my daughter wanted to go, and I spent that crazy money. Spent. You know, it was like a thousand dollars a ticket, and it was like.
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Maz Jobrani
I was expecting a lot more.
- [77:05]
Josh Adam Myers
No, it was a thought. 2. I spent $2,000, and I go to the Sofi Stadium, and I go up that escalator, and I come out of the escalator, I'm with my daughter and her friend, and there's these two black dudes that are, like, probably in their, like, late 50s, early 60s, that are working their work at the stadium. And they see me and they go, hey, you're. I go, yeah. And they're like, yeah, man, what's up? How are you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I go, thanks, man. Da, da, da, da. And then I go, guys, here's my ticket. Where am I located? And the guy goes, oh, all right. This is what you're gonna do. You see the stage over there? All right, you're gonna go up and around the stage, the back behind the stage, and you're gonna go all the way up. He pointed to the exact opposite end of the stadium. I basically, for a thousand dollars, was. I couldn't even see her. I was behind the stage.
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Maz Jobrani
Oh, man. It was.
- [77:53]
Josh Adam Myers
It was. And it was embarrassing because it was like, oh, I'm Moly. I'm a celebrity. And they're like, oh, your ass is way up there.
- [77:59]
Maz Jobrani
Yeah.
- [78:00]
Josh Adam Myers
Oh, man.
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Maz Jobrani
That. That happened with. With Ari. Shafir bought tickets for us to go to see Billy Joel, and we were with Sal Volcano, and we went in this special way, and the tickets that he had bought were horrible because he doesn't give a. So I do. Like, I'm gonna go to a show, like. Because I've done that. I've had a. My agent once got me, you know, he. He had gotten free tickets to or something to see Elton John. And it was literally behind the stage. You could barely see anything until we show up at Madison Square Garden. They recognize Sal and they go. They see where he's sitting. They go, yeah, you guys can't. Sal, you can't sit there. And they gave us. They gave us, like, incredible seats. So nice. Dude. I. I think being in something, like, Friday is such. You mean, you've done, like, you know, some of the franchises that you've worked in, I mean, some of the most iconic things, you know, like, ever. Dude, Friday in the black community is. I mean, it's, it's no Woman, no Cry.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah, and it's. And it's. And it's a. And it's a Christmas movie, so they play it every year, so it's kind of nice. It comes back again, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
Dude, I'm gonna watch that tonight.
- [79:09]
Josh Adam Myers
Dude, watch it tonight.
- [79:11]
Maz Jobrani
I'm gonna watch me get you another 13 cents. What do you got?
- [79:14]
Josh Adam Myers
Right?
- [79:15]
Emily
The last fact I want to make sure we didn't gloss over was this how Marley wrote no Woman, no Cry, but gave a composer credit to one of his friends, Vincent Tarter Ford from Jamaica. So when Marley was like, broke, young, this guy took care of him tartar. And so this was apparently a common practice on Marley's later upput as he listed friends and band members as composers since the contracts were like, murky and you know, he was like, this is a way to guarantee to take care of somebody, so.
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Josh Adam Myers
Oh, that's cool.
- [79:52]
Emily
This guy Ford was also listed as a songwriter on Rastaman Vibration.
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Maz Jobrani
I love everything, everything I hear about about Bob, it just makes me love him even more. And, you know, it's, it's really cool that like all of his sons have. Maybe they're not huge superstars, but they've all had a song or a moment that like, like, like Damien with the way that he did more like dance hall reggae. Ziggy had like, you know, I think it was everyday people or it was something like in the, in the mid-80s and now there's a new one that there's. There was some like Tick Tock video that this girl was like the biggest tik tok in the history of Tick Tocks. It was just this hot chick like lip syncing or something. And like they use this Bob Marley song. I don't know if you probably. It's like these rules, they me like fire. No. Anybody.
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Josh Adam Myers
I don't see it. I haven't seen it.
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Maz Jobrani
Doesn't make a difference. It's, it's, it doesn't make. But that's the thing is that like, he, whether, whether or not he's still with us, like his legacy, whether it's through his kids, it's like Bob Marley's music isn't going anywhere. No, it will be constantly. There will be probably a Bob Marley legend will probably be on the Billboard. Check to see if Legend's on the Billboard right now because I bet you it is. I bet you it is. He. Let's just do his accolades and we'll get out of here. In June 78, he's awarded the Peace Medal of the Third World from the United Nations. The greatest hits album Legend was released in 1984. Became the best selling reggae album of all time. Find out actually what the sales are at now too, Jer. Honored by the Jamaican after his death with the order of merit by his nation. In 94, he's inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of Fame. His other achievements include a Grammy lifetime achievement award, a star, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I was hoping there'd be more of like his total sales. Usually Adam always puts like what his sales are at, but either way, before.
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Emily
I do that, Legend is on the Billboard 200 list for 1164.
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Josh Adam Myers
Wow.
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Maz Jobrani
Weeks, not days. Weeks. It ain't going nowhere.
- [82:03]
Josh Adam Myers
Nowhere.
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Maz Jobrani
And it's great. I'm gonna put it on. This is a perfect day, Los Angeles. Driving around in my. In my. My Hertz Cad Slack. It's by the way, guys, I'm just letting you know, if you have President Circle at Hertz, you can just take any card that has its keys in it and they won't stop you.
- [82:20]
Josh Adam Myers
Wow.
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Maz Jobrani
They will not stop you. I. I pay $30 a day and I get the night. I just literally go to a car that says reserved and I. If it has keyed in, I take it. And. And then like I said, you gotta like flirt a little bit with the person checking you out. Hi, girl. Just keep them talking. It helps if you've got a dog. Dog. By the way, Leca's got a pink diaper on right now.
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Josh Adam Myers
Where's my dog?
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Maz Jobrani
Let me see if you can see it. I don't want to this up over there.
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Josh Adam Myers
Oh.
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Emily
So Legend's only behind Pink Floyd's Dark side of the Moon. Just a full circle.
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Josh Adam Myers
There's mine. Look, there's mine. There's Yasu. They're both on couches, dude.
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Maz Jobrani
They're both okay. She wear. Is your dog wearing a diaper? Do you see it? Lekka.
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Josh Adam Myers
No, sit, sit.
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Maz Jobrani
She's wearing it. Yeah.
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Josh Adam Myers
Mini golden doodle. Yeah. Is that so she can pee like in the diaper?
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Maz Jobrani
She's. She. She's. She. She's on. Did you. When you. I don't know.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah. You said she was on something.
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Maz Jobrani
Her ear. Her ear is like. She's got cauliflower ears. So. Yeah. So. So we. They put her on prednisone. She peed all over My house. Like, I, I thank God. Like, you know, I had a mattress protector and, and, but the comforter. She peed on. She peed on my rug. She peed on two of my armchairs, and she came. I can't. It's not even like she's, she's not like, getting up to pee. Like, it's just coming out of her because the, the prednisone makes them just urinate. So I got her. So we're staying at the Andaz. I didn't want her to get sick here, pee on the floor, so we got the diaper.
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Josh Adam Myers
So she's an aisle cedar as well.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah.
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Josh Adam Myers
That's the, that's the message of this whole podcast.
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Maz Jobrani
Yeah. Let's do, let's do our final question. Wait, did you find out the total sales?
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah.
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Emily
18 million copies. It's sold. Legend has.
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Maz Jobrani
It's got to be one of the biggest records of all time. It's gotta be. Maz, this was so great. Let's do our finals and, and we'll get you out of here. Dude, what's your favorite song on this record?
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Josh Adam Myers
My favorite song on this record. I mean, no Woman, no Cry is in my head. So let's go with no Woman, no Cry, even though it's a different version that I've heard on Legend, which was live version, right? Yeah, sure.
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Maz Jobrani
And, but I think that's, I think, you know what? I, I, I actually, the, the, the one that's on Legend is much more, you know, it's, it sounds like this one sounds like it's almost. He's recording it, like, in his bedroom.
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Josh Adam Myers
Yeah, yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
And I think that's what's kind of special about it. It feels a little bit more naked, but I mean, that, dude, that's one of the biggest songs of all time. Ranked 140 in the Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs. I mean, when you think of Bob, this is definitely one that you really think of. Is there anything on this record that you skip over?
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Josh Adam Myers
No, I think you got to listen to it. You know, as we were talking about Bob. Bob, you can listen to the lyrics and, and pay attention, or you can just have background. So, yeah, I don't think you. I, I can't imagine skipping over Bob Marley songs.
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Maz Jobrani
This was easy. This was a very easy listen. Can you. To this record? Can you put this on?
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Josh Adam Myers
And I don't know about that. Maybe if she has dreadlocks.
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Maz Jobrani
Maybe if it's that indica flower. I think you can. I listen, I'M not saying. I think this is what. What Brandon from Incubus said when he was listening to Jeff Buckley. This is a record that you can to. But if you pay attention to what he's saying, it'll take you out if it. Because if you pay attention to what you're.
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Josh Adam Myers
What he's saying, it'll You.
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Maz Jobrani
It'll. You. You'll. You'll start thinking of revolution.
- [85:54]
Josh Adam Myers
Yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
You'll start thinking of J. Yeah. You know, there is my. My. Your belly's full.
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Josh Adam Myers
Then you think of his toe. You're like, oh, my God, he died of gangrene.
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Maz Jobrani
Gangrene.
- [86:03]
Josh Adam Myers
It goes a long way.
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Maz Jobrani
I was trying to see if I can make a joke. Is you. This. The song. Them. Them belly full. But really your. Your nut sack is full and you're trying to empty that. That. Yeah, I think he can do it, but just don't. It's not. There's something. It's. It's almost like you'd be to like. Like spiritual hymns. You know what I mean? That's what his music is. It's very secular. What would be your. Your elevator pitch to get someone to listen to this record?
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Josh Adam Myers
My elevator pitch would be, he's Bob Marley. He's lasted forever, and he's transcended everyone and everything. So you should listen to it. And if you don't like it, you're not a human being.
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Maz Jobrani
You're not. Nope. You are not. Promote away, please. Maz, what do you have going on? Anything you want us to talk about? We'll do it at the beginning as well, too.
- [86:53]
Josh Adam Myers
Touring all the time. I don't know when this comes out, but I'll be in Vegas right before Christmas. I'll be in La Jolla right before the New Year's, and then Miami and January. I'm all over the place. They go to mazjobrani.com or follow me at Maz Jobrani me. I got a special on YouTube called the Birds and the Bees. I got a special on Netflix called Immigrant. Watch it. Hopefully you like it. If you like it, tell your friends. If you don't like it, keep it to yourselves.
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Maz Jobrani
Dude, you are. You're one of my favorite people. And. And good. And just so you know, this comes out literally tomorrow. This might have been Jerry. Is this. Is this the closest.
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Emily
Yeah.
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Maz Jobrani
Perry. No, it wasn't the next day, was it?
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Emily
Well, I don't know. We recorded it earlier, but his people were slow to approve.
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Maz Jobrani
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because remember, I was in Italy when that came out. I think Sinbad was probably the closest we've ever done. I think this is. This is right next to it. So you literally are the are the last moment before Jeremiah sits down. But you don't edit it. But whoever does, either way. Dude. Dude, I'm so happy you came out. Thank you, brother.
- [88:04]
Josh Adam Myers
This was so Grab me. Love you back and safe travels. And I hope Lekka can pee normal pretty soon.
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Maz Jobrani
What did I tell you? What did I tell you? The one and only Maj Gibrani. Follow him on all social media at Mazjabrani and go to mazjabrani.com for all tickets. Check out his new special the Birds and the bees. It's on YouTube and go see him live. He is one of my favorites. Now we just listened to Bob Marley Natty Dread from 1974 for new music brought to you in part by Distro Kid is Happy Family by Junior Marvin, who is Bob's musical director and lead guitarist starting in 1977. You can find links to the music on our website the500podcast.com and if you were in a band and were directly influenced by one of these albums or artists and you want your music featured on the 500, send us your song to 500podcast gmail.com and put the album and artists that influenced you in the subject line. Next week it's Rolling Stones with their album now from 1965. It's an oldie, but it's a goodie. Do your homework and we'll see you then.
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Jeremiah Watkins
My family is far and wide. This I just can't hide. Guess there's a feeling of sorrow in my heart today I'm looking out just for you. You're looking out of just for me. We're a family, a happy family I love One day will come, I will come, I will.
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Maz Jobrani
Come.
- [90:06]
Jeremiah Watkins
My family is far and wide. And this I just can't hide. Cuz there's a feeling of sorrow in my heart today I'm gonna love you every way. I'm gonna miss you every day. Want to be with you, always want to be with you. I'm looking out just for you. You're looking out out just for me. We're a family, a happy family. I'm looking out just for you. You're looking out just for me. We're a family, happy family. All right. Welcome. Happy memory. All day will come, Our day will come. Happy family. Hey. A happy family. A happy family. Turn again. All day we come.
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Maz Jobrani
The 500. Keeping it fleecy for the fleece nation. On the 500. The hello, Tom May here, host of Future Friday. I've spent the last 15 years on the road with my band the Menzingers, where I've met all kinds of wild and fascinating people. So I started a podcast on Future Friday. I talked to fellow musicians about the moments that made them, their passions outside of music, and the curiosities that tie us up altogether. I've also talked to the likes of UFO researchers, magicians, soldiers, and documentary filmmakers, and I'm constantly searching for folks that can shape and change our view of the world. You can check out Future Friday wherever you like.
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Emily
Hey folks, it's Alex Collegian, creator of Project Greenlight from hbo, and I live and breathe film and I have for a long time and I want to share share stories with you from people.
- [93:35]
Maz Jobrani
That make the movies that you love and I love. So it's casual popcorn, you know, gossip.
- [93:42]
Emily
With behind the scenes, like how it was really made, but what it ends up being about is people and seeing life cinematically. So come join us.
- [93:53]
Maz Jobrani
Let's watch a movie together.
- [93:54]
Emily
How I Got Greenlit. Wherever you get your podcasts.
- [94:00]
Josh Adam Myers
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