Questlove 😖

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Questlove (The Tonight Show, Descendant) and Justin talk about the pressures of being a DJ, what it was like to win an Oscar right immediately the notorious slap and his latest documentary project Descendant, about the legacy of Africatown and the Clotilde slave ship.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to Life is Short. Add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:13.4	Being a DJ is a lot of responsibility. You're responsible for everyone's collective energy and they're fun.
0:19.7	I know that only a little bit. I tried my hand at it once.
0:24.1	Seth Herzeg, a friend of ours, would he host a comedy night called Sweet, and I would be his
0:29.8	kind of sidekick DJ. It was my responsibility to play music, play the intro and outro music for
0:37.1	all the comedians who were coming on stage. It was a series of comedians. A couple times I remember
0:42.4	the comedians themselves heckled me for introducing them with lacklustre music.
0:50.3	It wasn't that bad. It wasn't that bad. It wasn't that bad. But I was relating to TV jingles and
0:58.0	I still am. I thought that'd be fun. Who doesn't like the Golden Girls, for example.
1:03.2	You take the good, you take the bad, you take the balls and then you have the facts alive.
1:06.6	That'd be upbeat to me. It was, but you'd be surprised. But you've got melancholy taste in music.
1:11.0	I do, but he's like the shins.
1:14.7	Oh yeah. So it's safe to say that's not your calling. At all. You know what is your calling?
1:20.0	Oh, I was posting a podcast. Oh, I hope. Well, let's see.
1:27.9	Oh, dude, dude, dude, dude, shimbo.
1:30.9	You're listening to Life is Short. I am your host podcast host and not DJ Justin Long.
1:36.8	Life could be a dream sweetheart. Dude, dude, dude, dude, shimbo.
1:44.9	And with me is always is my co-host and brother, Christian.
1:48.7	I'm trying to think of the Golden Girls theme now. I think it's.
1:51.6	We should know this.
1:52.7	Friend. You friend.
1:56.6	Friends.
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