Open Mike Eagle Talks Touring, Europe, & Chicago Food
The Questlove Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In a recent conversation with Padma Lakshmi, Questlove brought up the near-sacrilegious act of putting ketchup on a hot dog in Chicago. Chicago native Open Mike Eagle reacts — while admitting he may already be disqualified from the debate for entirely different reasons. The podcast affiliate (and recent guest) also speaks about the hometown food he gravitates towards, name-checking some purveyors.
The mini episode conversation with Mike and show producer Cousin Jake also veers into touring life, road food, and experiences traveling through Europe.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.2 | The Questleff show is a production of I-Heart Radio. |
| 0:24.6 | Open Mike Eagle. |
| 0:25.9 | What up, sir? |
| 0:26.8 | How are you? |
| 0:28.8 | I'm a key real answer, Jay. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm exhausted. |
| 0:35.6 | Well, you got reason to, and I'm going to ask you about it in a second, but for everybody out there that's like, where is Questlove's voice? This is the Questlove show. This is a mini episode. I'm Cousin Jake, one of the producers on the Quest Love show. And we're here with Open Mike Eagle, who is newly getting integrated with the family. And I got to say, I love it. And I think the reason you're exhausted is one of the reasons I really appreciate you. You've had a busy week. Oh yeah, man. I was |
| 0:57.6 | doing some. I love it. And I think the reason you're exhausted is one of the reasons I really appreciate you. |
| 0:55.2 | You've had a busy week. Oh, yeah, man. I was doing some touring last week. So I was in Brooklyn, Montreal, Toronto, Lansing, Michigan, and Cleveland. |
| 1:06.2 | And I got back a couple days ago and just been hitting the ground running in between tour legs because I fly out to start the next leg in Amsterdam in a couple of days. |
| 1:19.0 | Nice. Well, around the time this runs, we like to go from farm to table around here pretty quickly. |
| 1:23.9 | So this should be up if you are part of our audience in Europe. |
| 1:28.7 | You know, definitely check Mike on the socials. Everyone should do that anyway, but he might be swinging through your neck |
| 1:32.8 | of the woods. Indeed, indeed. That's dope. That's dope. So in those, you know, five or six states, |
| 1:38.5 | you just came off of any highlights, was there any place in the limited downtime you had that you |
| 1:43.1 | were like, I really like this area. You know, I really like Montreal. I got a chance to spend a couple days there |
| 1:49.4 | late last year. I was on tour with a Fantagram and we had a day off. So I really just got to hang |
| 1:58.1 | out in Montreal for a while. And it's such a beautiful city with art everywhere, good food everywhere. |
| 2:06.8 | You know, and it's even though, you know, most cities on this hemisphere are relatively new, you know, compared to like Europe and a lot of other places. |
| 2:19.8 | Montreal feels old. |
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