Oh man, are you guys ready? Are you guys ready for the end? And I say the end of Prince's

life, but we are talking about 30 years that we are going to condense into this episode

from Batman to Prince's untimely death. And I'm excited about it. I've learned a lot.

I've grown a lot. And I wish that now in reading about all of the ways that he

truly battled with how his image was controlled and what he would allow out, I wish I could see

more performances by Prince. And that is something that will forever make me sad.

Well, at least there are 800,000 of them available on YouTube.

Yes, absolutely. And I have been watching those. Hello, by the way, I'm Holda McNeely. This is our

Part Three pop history on Prince joined, of course, by Jackie and Natalie. Hey guys.

And I am excited to jump in it. We have been, it's been a roller coaster of emotions for me.

I've been battling with my thoughts of someone that is a true genius. And again, I'm not going

to keep screaming, get a therapist, but just so you guys know throughout everything that we're

talking about in the back of my brain, I'm begging him to get a therapist.

And I think that it's put a lot into perspective for me of there are times when you can't,

you can't blame a genius for being mentally ill. But you never got that help.

Everybody about me. You know, that's the thing. But play me for what I do. But you can,

you can ask for help and you can at least try to get help. And unfortunately, he did it the wrong

way. I'm very emotional. Yeah. So we all sat down. I feel like we all went our separate little

ways and did our research. And I came in being like, just so much while my guitar gently weaves,

what a great performance. Such a good performance. I came in really sad because I had a revelation

at the end of all of the research. And it was a sad one. And then you came in, Jackie, just guns

ablaze in. I got guns ablaze in over here. And I came in with like a little smile and a little

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