Open Mike Eagle
The Questlove Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
During the pandemic, Questlove joined Open Mike Eagle for a season of his What Had Happened Was podcast to discuss The Roots’ earliest days and their first four albums. Years later, the two creatives reunite—and discover just how much they have in common—to talk about Mike’s career and latest album, Neighborhood Gods Unlimited. The conversation gradually takes a turn, morphing into something that feels part What Had Happened Was, part free-flowing exchange about life, art, trauma, and the real-time building of a genuine friendship between two like-minded creatives bonded by nostalgia, pop culture, and a commitment to diversifying talent.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | The Questlove show is a production of I-Heart Radio. |
| 0:13.2 | Good people. How are you doing? What's up? |
| 0:15.4 | On this week's Quest Love show, I talked to the one and only open mic eagle. |
| 0:20.8 | I did a whole season, one of the best interviews I think I've ever given in life. |
| 0:26.7 | Look up what it happened was by Open Mike Eagle. |
| 0:29.9 | It's one of my favorite podcasts. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm so jealous that I don't do that podcast. |
| 0:34.4 | That's how much I love it. |
| 0:35.7 | It's basically an artist gets an entire canon for a season. |
| 0:41.4 | There's the Prince Paul season, not even episode seasons, Dante Raw season. |
| 0:46.2 | LP is also part of it. |
| 0:48.4 | And, of course, mine is there. |
| 0:50.5 | I cover the first four albums of the Roots career. |
| 0:53.3 | Very insightful. But, you know, for this |
| 0:56.1 | particular episode, I will say that it's more like a conversation between friends. Mike was my |
| 1:03.7 | de facto therapist for this episode. He's a calm present, very thoughtful guy. And, um, this also marks the first time |
| 1:13.3 | where I kind of publicly spoke about the struggle in processing and dealing with, uh, |
| 1:20.6 | our dearly departed Michael DeAngelo Archer. Anyway, I was supposed to be interviewing Mike, |
| 1:27.2 | but instead I used Mike as a soundboard to talk about my problems. |
| 1:33.1 | But that's the kind of guy I use. |
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