Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson - "Summer of Soul"
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Comedy Central
4.2 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:02.5 | Now. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:05.5 | Thank you. Thank you, right? |
| 0:06.5 | How you doing, sir? How have you been? |
| 0:07.5 | This is great. I love this. |
| 0:09.5 | There are a few people I know who have had more jobs than you, |
| 0:12.0 | and excel at more jobs than you. |
| 0:13.5 | I know many people have had more jobs than you, |
| 0:15.0 | but for a bad reason. |
| 0:16.5 | I don't know many people who have had as many jobs as you have |
| 0:18.5 | and just done well at it. |
| 0:19.5 | I was one of those people, though, |
| 0:20.5 | because at one point, I thought there was honor |
| 0:22.5 | in sort of matching James Brown |
| 0:24.0 | and the hardest working man in show business. |
| 0:26.5 | Once I stopped doing everything, |
| 0:31.0 | then a whole new world of magic opened that I never knew of. |
| 0:35.0 | And one of them is what I call storytelling or directing. |
| 0:39.5 | This definitely wasn't on my bingo card back in 2005. |
| 0:47.5 | But if you look at it, everything I've done to this point |
| 0:51.5 | is preparing for this moment. |
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