Welcome to the 12 Days of Podcast. This series of 12 perfect episodes is brought to you by the good people at Def Jam. Hey, hey you, you're going to the store, right? Well, pick up Jeezies pressure for me because it's in stores now, all stores, every store. We're talking Brookstone. We're talking Lord and Taylor. We're even talking Auntie Ann's pretzels. And if you can't find them there, it's because it's sold out. But worry not, go to gZ shop.com today. Get yourself an autograph copy of GZ's pressure by tonight. Hey, Jeff. Hey, Eric. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you? Doing well, thank you. Day number eight of this silly little operation that we like to call the 12 days of podcasts. How are you feeling? I'm feeling pretty good. I'm looking at the board. Yes. And I'm thinking that we're going to make it. Hallelujah. As long as nobody else can't. We've had a few cancellations come through. All right. what we've done rather than the ones that we have not gotten done. The ones who've gotten away? The one that we started off with was a question and answer podcast. It is the 150th episode of a waste of time with it's the real. And we did all questions that were submitted by our loyal listeners. And that's a great episode for everybody who wants to get to know more of us. You want to know what Ninja Turtles I do not fuck with? Listen to that episode. Yeah. The second episode we did. That really gets to the core of who I am. The second episode that we did, well, you also don't like peanut butter, or you used to not like peanut butter. We learned that. Somebody sent me a message about peanut butter after that. Well, it wasn't like a threat, but it was like... Yeah, well, you're not allergic, so that's good.

Yeah. Episode number two, the 2017 roundtable, we had our friends Rembert and Naomi and Scotty Beam and Jersey Jinks and Phil Chang over. Yeah. Amazing conversation. Crowded apartment. It was a crowded apartment. A lot of snacks. A lot of snacks. A lot of great takes. It was a really, really, really, really good episode. Doesn't it bum you out when you find out that all of your friends are smarter than you? No, I'm happy. I'm happy because it covers up whatever stupid opinions that I have, right? Yes. Third episode, we had upscale vandal come over here. This is a man who, listen, we see him out. We see him with his Rockefeller hat. With his numerous pairs of glasses. And we just don't know who he is. We had a chance to have him sit down and explain exactly who he is, and that's a great episode. Then we had Carly Hustle. Yeah. And Carly Hustle, we knew had a great story. Yeah.

So, she proved us right. Radio veteran started up in Eugene, Oregon, worked her way down the West Coast and eventually over here to Hot 97 now works for Apple Music, beats one. She's got a

fantastic story. Love that episode. Fafoo. Fafoo. Our guy, Fafu. I hope people heard him in the episode that we

did right after Prince died. He gave a really good picture of what it was like to work with Prince,

and we had him come back up to talk about everything he's done in addition to the print stuff.

Which, by the way, Fafu's story cannot be contained in one episode. No, we were really lucky to get an hour 45 out of him. No, I'm saying, like, we need to have him back at some point. I understand. I'm saying we got that hour 45. Yeah. It was concise. It was good. And we probably need to do a full hour 45 again with him.

Just the Bahamas story about being... Oh, the puff and... People... Don't ruin it. It's too good. Yeah. You have to hear fat food tell that story. You don't want to hear me just summarize it? Then we had OT Genesis come through. Uh-huh. What a good guy, OT Genesis is. this is somebody who, we all know, has hit after hit after hit,

Coco and everybody mad and thick and push it, right?

And he talks about all those songs,

but we get to the core of who he is as a person growing up in Long Beach, stealing cars.

See, but we don't talk about his least favorite Ninja Turtles

or if he was allergic to peanut butter.

Well, this is true. Then we we had the debut episode of two Jews and two black dudes review the movies with our friends, Stiles P. and Sheik Luch. One of my favorite episodes ever. Ever. It was so much fun. We went up there to Yonkers. We had a great time recording with them. There's going to be more episodes of that series of this podcast, and we're very excited.

And then today, we've got T. Grizzly. T. Grizzly, man. T. Grizzly, who, by the way, squeezed this episode in to his very busy schedule. Which was very nice. Yeah, because, like, T. Grizzly has had a crazy year. It is one year ago that he dropped first day out.

Which is wild.

And we talk about that today.

We talk about growing up with his grandparents, how he was a great student, how he was going to get into finance, how he had an internship, how we went to college for a semester.

And then?

And then he gets arrested.

So we get into that. He actually takes us through the entire crime um actually i guess there were a couple of crimes and he took us

through the whole mindset the whole play by play and how he got out of jail determined to make a career.

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