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🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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0:00.0 | What's up everybody? Before we start, we have awesome guest, Ryan Shekler coming in, |
0:04.7 | but I want to explain a story behind a photo you might have seen floating around of |
0:10.3 | Tupac and me, and here's how that went down. My sister was singing back up from Michael Bolton. |
0:18.1 | She used to sing back up for a lot of big bands, Michael Bolton, Regis Brothers, |
0:22.0 | Pet Shop Boys on and on, and she invited me to the American Music Awards. Now, I originally |
0:28.2 | said it was 1991 based on the nominees that year, which included Michael Bolton and Digital |
0:33.6 | Underground. I'm super old, so the year is 91 to 95 or kind of fuzzy. I came to find out later |
0:40.0 | that it was actually 1994 and Tupac was nominated for a hip-hop award. So it was backstage with Riley's |
0:48.1 | mom Cindy and we were trying to get photos with celebrities. No one knew who I was because |
0:56.4 | skating wasn't a big deal back then, and so we were just, you know, we were kind of making the |
1:03.2 | rounds, cheesing out and got a photo with Tony Bennett, with Gene Simmons, with Weird Al, |
1:11.4 | Cindy Lopper, it denied us a photo. That's another story. And then Tupac was standing literally in |
1:17.4 | the corner alone. And I recognize him, I guess his first album would have been out by then, but |
1:23.7 | I recognize him from Digital Underground. And he's just standing alone and I was like, |
1:27.0 | there's Tupac, let's go get a photo with him. And I took a photo of him and Cindy. And I thought |
1:33.2 | that she took a photo of he and I, and it never, never developed on the role, or she didn't take, |
1:40.0 | I don't know what happened, but it was, you know, the day is a point you shoot, film cameras, |
1:44.5 | you got to go get a developed, you got to get the negatives, you got to get the prints. Anyway, |
1:48.5 | at the photo didn't exist on the role. And then I have been following for a long time Vemix, |
1:54.8 | who is this really cool, kind of Photoshop, mashup artist, who takes people from, |
2:03.1 | mostly musicians, legendary musicians and sort of matches up photos of them, existing photos of |
2:09.2 | them in different, in different contexts. And then he puts them together. He actually did one |
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