Buskers

*screeching melodica noise* Buskers! A time honored staple in the subway stations of New York, along the street corners of Stars Hollow, and on the famous Santa Monica Pier, buskers never fail to make life more musical, whether you want it to be or not. Today on the pod we sat down with 4 buskers from the famed Santa Monica Pier to listen to their musical stylings of both classic hits and original songs, hear their dreams for the future, and see them participate in a rare jam. So look in your purse for a dollar, tap your feet along to the music, and get ready to sing along as you listen in! MERCH HERE! https://artistsonartistsonartistsonartists.com/shop This episode was filmed in the beautiful Dynasty Typewriter Theater, and tech-produced by Samuel Curtis. For live shows and events you can find more about them at dynastytypewriter.com. To learn more about the BTS of this episode and to find a world of challenges, games, inside scoop, and the Artists being themselves, subscribe to our Patreon! You won't be disappointed with what you find. Check out patreon.com/aoaoaoapod Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists is an improvised Hollywood roundtable podcast Created and Hosted by Kylie Brakeman, Jeremy Culhane, Angela Giarratana and Patrick McDonald. It is a production of Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players and iHeartMedia Podcasts. Executive Produced by Matt Apodaca and produced by Alexandra Dennis and Laservision Productions. Music By Gabriel Ponton, editing by Conner McCabe, and social media editing by Adam Keller. Thumbnails by Josh Fleury and logo design by Lucy Tomkiewicz. Hollywood's talking. Make sure you're listening. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube! Please rate us five stars! See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Welcome back to Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists. This week's roundtable is full of buskers.

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  Busking is the art of singing outside in a popular, public setting. It is spontaneous. It is a mixture of professional and non-professional singers. All that we know for sure is they are adding sound into the atmosphere.

• 2:32Speaker 07

  People can busk in many different ways, but we have decided to sit down with some people that busk in a very interesting way. Maybe, we'll see.

• 2:42Speaker 05

  So pull out your old-ass guitar, throw your hat down, hit a penny into the guitar case, and listen in.

• 2:53Speaker 05

  Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you so much, thank you so much, thank you.

• 3:03Speaker 06

  Wow, wow.

• 3:04Speaker 07

  What are you playing? What are you playing?

• 3:05Speaker 05

  What do you, what do you guys want to play? What are you, what are you on G?

• 3:07Speaker 07

  G, I'm on G.

• 3:08Speaker 05

  All right, let's go, let's go, I'll be on G.

• 3:09Speaker 07

  One, two, one, two, three, go.

• 3:28Speaker 07

  Wow.

• 3:29Speaker 05

  That worked a lot better than I thought it would. Lot better than I thought it would.

• 3:33Speaker 06

  Pretty good, everybody.

• 3:34Speaker 05

  I tell you, you're actually hot as shit right now.

• 3:36Speaker 07

  Unbelievable.

• 3:36Speaker 06

  Wow, that is just amazing.

• 3:44Speaker 05

  Welcome.

• 3:45Speaker 06

  Guys, it's so good to be indoors. Can I say that?

• 3:48Speaker 07

  It's all about the music, man.

• 3:49Speaker 06

  Can I say that?

• 3:50Speaker 07

  It's all about, you can say it's good to be indoors, man. It's not about the money.

• 3:56Speaker 06

  And you're right, it's all about the music.

• 3:57Speaker 07

  It's not about the money, it's about the music, man.

• 4:00Speaker 06

  It's not about the money. If you make some money, cool.

• 4:02Speaker 05

  I don't know if this is going up on YouTube or something, but put a hat down in the link in the description below if you want to put some dollars in there.

• 4:10Speaker 07

  Yeah, come on, put it in.

• 4:11Speaker 06

  Go ahead, walk on by, throw the dollar in the hat.

• 4:14Speaker 05

  Hat emoji in the comments. Coin emoji in the comments.

• 4:17Speaker 06

  But it's not about the money.

• 4:18Speaker 07

  No, man, I'm not about this capitalist society, man. I'm not here to make music for money, man. I'm here to make music to live. But if you do feel so inclined, please throw a penny or a dollar in there. Feel free, feel free.

• 4:31Speaker 06

  I've thought about selling out. I've thought, I'm sure we've all had the thought.

• 4:35Speaker 07

  We all had the chance, man.

• 4:36Speaker 06

  Maybe I'll make music like Dua Lipa, Britney Spears, Coldplay.

• 4:42Speaker 07

  Coldplay.

• 4:43Speaker 06

  But no.

• 4:44Speaker 07

  No.

• 4:45Speaker 06

  We're out in the streets.

• 4:46Speaker 07

  Streets.

• 4:47Speaker 06

  On the Santa Monica Pier. Making music for people as they're going in the ocean.

• 4:55Speaker 07

  Music for people.

• 4:56Speaker 05

  As they're going to the ocean.

• 4:57Speaker 06

  As they're going in the ocean. Well, why don't we introduce ourselves, say our name, a little bit about our song, and what our whole thing is.

• 5:06Speaker 07

  Well, why don't we introduce maybe the whole collective? I mean, we are a collective of buskers. Some people lightly call it a cult.

• 5:13Speaker 05

  A little bit, a little bit of cult. We're just free love.

• 5:15Speaker 06

  We just call ourselves the Bus Boys.

• 5:16Speaker 05

  We're the jesters of Ocean Avenue.

• 5:19Speaker 07

  The Bus Boys.

• 5:20Speaker 05

  Yeah, the place on the Ocean Avenue.

• 5:23Speaker 07

  Love that song. That is a good one.

• 5:26Speaker 05

  It made me think of a song.

• 5:27Speaker 06

  That is a good one.

• 5:27Speaker 07

  I love that you're always thinking of songs. But yeah, we are, we are collective. We each drive our different RVs, kind of up the coast, down the coast.

• 5:36Speaker 06

  Oh, my gosh.

• 5:36Speaker 07

  The Bus Boys. We love what we do. We wouldn't, I wouldn't call us a band because we all do our own acts at different kind of corners, but we do travel together. So it's this kind of beautiful, immersive community of artists where I get to learn about art in such an ethereal, majestic way.

• 5:55Speaker 05

  We're all a part of the same record label, and I'd say the label is God. The label's God.

• 6:00Speaker 06

  The label is God.

• 6:01Speaker 07

  Or the divine, the divine, I would say.

• 6:02Speaker 05

  It is.

• 6:03Speaker 06

  I say God.

• 6:04Speaker 07

  Christian God, not Christian God.

• 6:05Speaker 05

  A crew of magnetic, I would say, eventually, I think, polyamorous artists. Eventually, once everybody gets okay with it.

• 6:14Speaker 06

  You don't have to say that. I think we're well eventually.

• 6:16Speaker 05

  Everybody here is okay with it, but Destiny, Destiny's a little not into it.

• 6:21Speaker 07

  Just because you're all polyamorous doesn't mean you're all hooking up, is what I'll say.

• 6:24Speaker 05

  That's so true.

• 6:26Speaker 07

  That's so true.

• 6:28Speaker 06

  Guys, my name is Rosie Etheria Mon- Montra, and I, I play the snare drum on Santa Monica Boulevard. Cut to the wide, would you?

• 6:42Speaker 07

  And that's a bass drum.

• 6:44Speaker 06

  I play the bass drum on Santa Monica Boulevard. Thank you for correcting me. Cut to the wide, will you?

• 6:50Speaker 07

  And can you even see the drum in the wide? That's my.

• 6:52Speaker 06

  Can you see the drum in the wide?

• 6:55Speaker 07

  Whoa.

• 6:55Speaker 06

  Well, then, they're asked and answered.

• 6:58Speaker 05

  I want to know if you can see the drum in the wide.

• 7:01Speaker 07

  That's good.

• 7:02Speaker 06

  I want to know.

• 7:04Speaker 07

  Can you see the drum in the wide?

• 7:08Speaker 05

  Hey, listen, listen, listen, listen. We're not doing this for money. We don't have a hat down, so let's just give up the modernization rights now, huh? Giving it up.

• 7:15Speaker 06

  Giving it up.

• 7:16Speaker 05

  I know we don't like to do this a lot, but I am wondering, should we just give that up right now?

• 7:20Speaker 07

  Absolutely.

• 7:21Speaker 05

  Let's give it up mentally and hope that no one catches on.

• 7:24Speaker 07

  Absolutely.

• 7:25Speaker 06

  We won't toggle the thing to the left.

• 7:27Speaker 07

  In my head, I don't think we'll be close enough for any sort of system to pick up what we're singing today.

• 7:32Speaker 05

  We'll find out, won't we?

• 7:34Speaker 06

  No, no way.

• 7:36Speaker 07

  Yeah, yes.

• 7:37Speaker 06

  Yes, and you know you're in, then you're out.

• 7:40Speaker 07

  Talking about in. Down, down.

• 7:43Speaker 06

  Wrong when it's right.

• 7:44Speaker 07

  Right.

• 7:45Speaker 06

  And it's white.

• 7:46Speaker 07

  White.

• 7:48Speaker 06

  We kiss, we make up.

• 7:50Speaker 07

  If there's anybody out there in a relationship that's going through it, let us know. Oh, you two, that's awesome. Congratulations. This part is for you.

• 8:17Speaker 07

  You're in love. Unbelievable work.

• 8:20Speaker 05

  Unbelievable, no.

• 8:23Speaker 07

  It's just song to song to song.

• 8:25Speaker 06

  It's song to song to song. You know, you say something, the song sparks here, you take it away. That's kind of the improvisational nature of busking. Sometimes a man walks by and his outfit inspires a song. I saw a man the other day, he was, you know, he was wearing his dog tags from the military, and it made me think of a little song, a little song of a little something that goes like this.

• 8:46Speaker 07

  Come on.

• 8:50Speaker 05

  Seven Nation Army.

• 8:54Speaker 05

  Fight.

• 8:54Speaker 06

  I'm gonna fight them all.

• 8:58Speaker 06

  Seven Nation Army.

• 9:02Speaker 05

  Why don't you tell them what grade you're in? Because that's amazing.

• 9:04Speaker 06

  I'm in the 14th grade.

• 9:07Speaker 05

  That's right.

• 9:07Speaker 06

  The grade of life.

• 9:09Speaker 07

  Grade of life.

• 9:10Speaker 06

  I'm in the 14th grade of life.

• 9:12Speaker 07

  And it's so crazy. I mean, that's the beauty of things like that. You can see dog tags, and all of a sudden, you're remembering the most famous song, maybe in the history of the world right now.

• 9:20Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, absolutely. You just remember out of the blue, the most famous song.

• 9:24Speaker 07

  Playing at every stadium across the world.

• 9:26Speaker 05

  Of all time.

• 9:27Speaker 07

  Out of the blue, you can remember a song.

• 9:29Speaker 05

  Where does that come from? The most popular songs in the zeitgeist?

• 9:32Speaker 07

  Yeah, well, I should introduce myself. My name is Lapis Lazuli.

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  Lapis.

• 9:37Speaker 06

  Lapis. Lazuli.

• 9:38Speaker 07

  I am a busker. I've done busking now for about 10 to 15 years. I won't tell you which one. Life has been.

• 9:47Speaker 06

  Which, are you counting not consecutive years?

• 9:50Speaker 07

  Won't tell you.

• 9:53Speaker 07

  Life is a journey, and we, life is an ocean. And we're on all our different sailboats, just sailing along. And I'm so lucky and happy to have connected my sailboat via rope and ladder to a couple other buskers that think alike.

• 10:08Speaker 05

  All you need is a rope and a ladder.

• 10:10Speaker 07

  Oh, Lapis, oh, Lapis.

• 10:12Speaker 05

  You're mooring us down, baby. You're so grounded and earthy. We love you, man.

• 10:16Speaker 07

  Thank you, brother. Thank you so much. So yeah, my main instrument is this thing, I would say, the pipes.

• 10:24Speaker 06

  The neck.

• 10:24Speaker 07

  Little guitar here and there, the neck of the guitar and the neck of my throat.

• 10:28Speaker 05

  You know what's funny, man?

• 10:29Speaker 06

  Double neck.

• 10:30Speaker 05

  I don't want to tell on you, but it's funny because I can, it's so obvious you're really, really trying to get on The Voice or American Idol because sometimes. You say, man, this will be great. This will be a great story for American Idol.

• 10:41Speaker 07

  I don't know if that's completely true, but I mean.

• 10:43Speaker 06

  Yeah, you keep saying, this will be, we should get some footage for my package.

• 10:47Speaker 07

  I don't know. I don't know.

• 10:49Speaker 06

  For my backstory package.

• 10:50Speaker 05

  You do. You're always looking for a good spot with good lighting because you say it'll be a good hometown package.

• 10:54Speaker 07

  Well, I don't know.

• 10:55Speaker 06

  And you're shooting it horizontal, so we know it's not going on TikTok.

• 10:58Speaker 07

  No, no, I don't know about that.

• 11:00Speaker 05

  You always say, can we sing this song? Do you think the rights for, do you think ABC would be able to get the rights for this?

• 11:05Speaker 07

  I don't know. I don't know. I don't know about that, you know? But I do always try to aim for, you know, even though we're busking, I am trying to constantly be discovered. Because what else is there to busking?

• 11:15Speaker 05

  Busking, hey.

• 11:16Speaker 07

  Busking.

• 11:17Speaker 05

  Busking makes me feel good. Oh, I was doing a different one.

• 11:21Speaker 07

  We all landed on busking makes me feel good.

• 11:23Speaker 05

  I'm not gonna fit in.

• 11:25Speaker 07

  No, you are.

• 11:26Speaker 05

  You are.

• 11:27Speaker 07

  You fit in all the time.

• 11:28Speaker 05

  You fit in more than I. Tell me your name. I'm Lazarus. I am so excited to be here. I usually busk in the countryside. That's why I say I don't fit in sometimes because I'm not really fast enough for city folk. I'm a little slow. I busk usually in the mountainside.

• 11:46Speaker 07

  It's not the best area, too. I mean, how many people you see in the mountainside?

• 11:49Speaker 05

  Yeah. Monetarily, financially. Just the amount of cars driving down a road or people walking on a street. I mean, I don't see many a peep. Um, and busking for cars is hard. You gotta be good fast.

• 12:02Speaker 07

  Especially on those windy highway roads.

• 12:04Speaker 05

  Roll down your window. Roll down. Bring an amp. And amps are hard to busk with.

• 12:08Speaker 07

  Especially in mountains. No electricity plugins there.

• 12:11Speaker 05

  But ever since I met these cats, Lapis and all my buds, we've been doing covers together. We've been doing duets together. I love all of you.

• 12:18Speaker 07

  Some originals if we sneak it in.

• 12:20Speaker 05

  And some of that damn good polyamory. I love it. Eventually. And I'm great for it.

• 12:25Speaker 06

  I love it. I'm so grateful for it.

• 12:26Speaker 05

  I'm great for it. I mean, eventually, some say inevitably. Yeah. I love, um, pop songs. I love, I love playing the same four chords over and over again. I think that's what makes you feel happy. So, um, the four chord, the four chords of love. Name the chords, man. Name the chords. The four chords of love. Communication.

• 12:46Speaker 06

  Mm-hmm.

• 12:47Speaker 05

  Melody.

• 12:48Speaker 06

  Melody.

• 12:49Speaker 05

  Harmony.

• 12:50Speaker 06

  Harmony.

• 12:50Speaker 05

  And good sex.

• 12:51Speaker 07

  Wow.

• 12:53Speaker 06

  Wow. And that is how to make it work.

• 12:55Speaker 07

  G for good sex. Go ahead.

• 13:02Speaker 05

  Well, it looks like it's my turn to introduce myself.

• 13:04Speaker 06

  Go on, man.

• 13:05Speaker 05

  You want a little backing? Sure.

• 13:08Speaker 06

  You want some backing from me?

• 13:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 13:09Speaker 07

  Jesus.

• 13:13Speaker 05

  Sure.

• 13:14Speaker 07

  Whoa.

• 13:15Speaker 06

  No, I'll let, I'll let Lap- Lazarus.

• 13:18Speaker 07

  Lazarus and Lapis.

• 13:20Speaker 06

  Lapis and Lazarus.

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  And Rosie.

• 13:22Speaker 06

  And Rosie.

• 13:25Speaker 05

  Hello, my children, my brothers, my sisters, my siblings of all kinds.

• 13:32Speaker 07

  This is, this is something that fell out of tune.

• 13:34Speaker 05

  How did it fall out of tune so fast? How did it fall? It fell out of tune. I'll tune while you talk. That's what happens in the sun, by the way. D turns to a G pretty fast in Los Angeles.

• 13:44Speaker 06

  When you're on Ocean Avenue, sometimes the strum you hit is a different one altogether.

• 13:51Speaker 05

  Friends call me Copper Mountain Baton. Copper. Ever since I was little, I was really different. I was wearing suspenders in second grade. And mind you, I was going to school in Connecticut.

• 14:02Speaker 07

  No.

• 14:02Speaker 05

  I was different.

• 14:03Speaker 06

  No.

• 14:04Speaker 05

  I used to go by different names. I used to go by Hayseed. I used to go by Pepito.

• 14:10Speaker 07

  Pepito was wild.

• 14:11Speaker 05

  I was always different and always unique. And I always led with an energy that said, what's that guy gonna do? Can I tell you? Turns out it's this. It's weird to be on the pier with you because so many people are saying each other's names and they're going, Dylan. You go, what? Yeah. And it's other people talking. Because I've gone by so many names.

• 14:28Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 14:29Speaker 05

  Um, but you know, it's not surreptitious or shady in any way. I choose different names based on who I am in my life. At one time, I was somebody named Trashcan for a week.

• 14:40Speaker 07

  Trashcan was wild.

• 14:41Speaker 05

  Trashcan was a tough time in my life.

• 14:43Speaker 07

  You were going through it. I mean, you just went through that awful breakup where you broke up with 15 people consecutively?

• 14:48Speaker 05

  It was, it was, uh, it was kind of a, uh.

• 14:51Speaker 07

  Poly divorce.

• 14:52Speaker 05

  It was a poly divorce. It was 15 people at the same time.

• 14:54Speaker 07

  A poly catastrophe.

• 14:55Speaker 05

  They, uh, they kicked me out of the polycule. And so it was a 15-person breakup.

• 15:00Speaker 06

  Oh, well, you hate to hear that.

• 15:01Speaker 07

  Did each of them sit separately with you or was it one just kind of group?

• 15:04Speaker 05

  Yeah, well, so we did four, five, and then I said, all right, if we're all gonna do this, can everyone just come in? Because I didn't want to do one by one if I knew it was all gonna, it just, the writing was on the wall, man.

• 15:15Speaker 07

  Out of 15, not one of them wanted to stay with you. That's hard.

• 15:19Speaker 05

  It's tough. But I wished them all well. And I heard they're into making jam now. And I'm jealous. How'd you hear it? I heard it through, well. The grapevine. And I'm going to be mine.

• 15:36Speaker 05

  So something that does keep accidentally happening is I keep blowing into the microphone because I think you sing this. So you do hear that. That's somebody who doesn't use a mic.

• 15:45Speaker 06

  I'm sorry to the misophobes out there.

• 15:47Speaker 05

  I keep doing this. I keep going.

• 15:49Speaker 06

  You are not gonna hear what you want to hear.

• 15:50Speaker 05

  Maybe the editor can go back and show that. Maybe in like a nice little.

• 15:58Speaker 05

  I can't wait to. I'm not used to talking, man. I'm, I speak with my melodica.

• 16:02Speaker 06

  It's tough.

• 16:03Speaker 05

  Would you believe it? I'm completely untrained. I just listened to it.

• 16:06Speaker 06

  Would you believe, would you believe? Untrained on the melodica?

• 16:09Speaker 05

  Yeah. Watch me.

• 16:10Speaker 06

  No.

• 16:11Speaker 07

  Play us something.

• 16:11Speaker 06

  That's not possible.

• 16:12Speaker 05

  Don't believe me, just watch.

• 16:22Speaker 07

  Yeah, I can see how you're untrained.

• 16:25Speaker 05

  I love it. It sounds like weird music when you're walking.

• 16:28Speaker 07

  It kind of sounds like.

• 16:29Speaker 05

  Cadillac keyboard. Kind of sounds like a toy that you give to a three-year-old, huh? But I'll tell you this, that's the best part about busking is you don't need to sustain anything for too long. It's people walking by.

• 16:39Speaker 06

  Just can I say the great gift of busking that Mother Earth and Mother Gaia gave to us is that people's expectations are rock low. They are rock bottom.

• 16:50Speaker 05

  Rock low.

• 16:51Speaker 06

  They are low.

• 16:51Speaker 07

  If you can bring them anything entertaining even slightly, they will be overjoyed and overwhelmed.

• 16:56Speaker 06

  Exactly. If you supersede their expectations, then they wanna, it's also the music is a moment to, uh, it's an invitation to start a conversation with a stranger. I mean, I can't tell you how many long conversations I've had with strangers who've just stopped by to go, hey, I, I, I like the rhythm of that song. What, what is that song? And then I tell them and then, I don't know, maybe we go out for a drink or something. Maybe we.

• 17:23Speaker 07

  Does that happen a lot to you, Rosie?

• 17:24Speaker 06

  It happens a lot to me.

• 17:26Speaker 07

  Wowee, Rosie.

• 17:27Speaker 06

  It happens a lot to me.

• 17:29Speaker 07

  Well, because you're doing a lot of spoken song, which I like. You're taking people that walk by and kind of telling a story, kind of like Jewel used to do when she used to busk.

• 17:36Speaker 05

  I love it.

• 17:37Speaker 07

  See somebody and, uh, come up with a whole story about their life in just a couple of seconds.

• 17:41Speaker 06

  Yeah, with just me and my bass drum, like if I'm walking, like, take that man over there, that P A. Walking down there, he's dressed in stage blacks. Stage blacks.

• 17:53Speaker 05

  This is good.

• 17:54Speaker 06

  Hey there, man. Looking at your stage blacks. Hey there, man. Hey there, man. Look at your stage blacks. Hey there. You've got so many.

• 18:05Speaker 07

  A beautiful, full story.

• 18:41Speaker 05

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• 20:47Speaker 05

  Hey there, man. Hey there, man. Looking at your stage, blacks. Hey there, man.

• 20:52Speaker 07

  No, easy now. It was not that rhythmic.

• 20:57Speaker 07

  Come on, do somebody else, Rosie. Do somebody else. Easy now. It was rough. What about the photographer right there wearing that checkboard?

• 21:03Speaker 06

  Oh, the photographer. Hey there, man. The photographer. Holding that camera. What's he looking for? What you looking for, ain't you photographer? When you're photographer, it's almost like the glasses. But your glasses, they're a camera. Your glasses, they're a memory. A memory that lasts forever. You could put it in a picture book, or an Aura Frame, or an iPhone camera roll. That's a photographer.

• 21:26Speaker 07

  Wow, I love how the drum got louder and I almost had a panic attack. It's so funny. The glasses are a memory.

• 21:34Speaker 05

  If I'm that photographer and I'm walking by, I feel seen, heard, and loved.

• 21:38Speaker 07

  And I'm speeding up my walk.

• 21:40Speaker 06

  Yeah. I will say, I think, I love my bass girl. I love my bass. My bass, I call her, I call her Jerry Seinfeld, my bass.

• 21:48Speaker 07

  Your bass girl?

• 21:53Speaker 06

  I call her Jerry Seinfeld. I bring her with me everywhere in my busking career. But I will say she intimidates some people, you know? The resonance is, it's tough for some people to hear. They, especially when people are, you know, maybe they take a little, a little bit of mushroom, a little bit of marijuana on the beach. They're walking around and they hear this sort of booming heartbeat.

• 22:16Speaker 07

  It's tribal. It's tribal.

• 22:18Speaker 06

  It makes some people, some people aren't ready to address what's in their heart.

• 22:22Speaker 07

  No.

• 22:22Speaker 06

  But the bass gets to the brute of what's in your heart.

• 22:26Speaker 07

  Gets to the broody, what's in your heart.

• 22:27Speaker 06

  That's what I said.

• 22:28Speaker 07

  I mean, what's crazy too is we all come from such different schools of loving music, you know? I'm the classic Bob Dylan guy. I'm also kind of a Bell and Sebastian guy because I have a lot of guy. Well, that's what I was gonna ask. I mean, who's everybody's biggest icon? And why is it Mumford and Sons?

• 22:46Speaker 07

  Why is it the Lumineers? Why is it Chase and Maras? But they were buskers first, man. They came from the culture. They came from the culture. I mean-

• 22:54Speaker 05

  Simon Cowell was a busker.

• 22:56Speaker 07

  Simon Cowell, was he busking notes?

• 22:58Speaker 05

  Busk judging. He was busk judging.

• 23:00Speaker 07

  He would busk judge. We actually have an old, I think I found an old clip of him on YouTube we could play. Okay. I've made him busk judging in London. Wow. Yeah.

• 23:09Speaker 05

  Cape walking. Bad walk.

• 23:11Speaker 06

  Excuse me?

• 23:12Speaker 05

  Bad walk.

• 23:14Speaker 06

  I'm just walking to work.

• 23:15Speaker 05

  It's a bad walk.

• 23:16Speaker 06

  Well, fuck you, man.

• 23:17Speaker 05

  Hey, you're going to Hollywood.

• 23:20Speaker 06

  Well, I am.

• 23:20Speaker 07

  25 cents in your hat. Wow, that was an interesting clip.

• 23:28Speaker 07

  Really interesting clip. Really short on BlackBerry. Really old.

• 23:33Speaker 05

  BlackBerry Pearl.

• 23:34Speaker 07

  Give me more Gordon Ramsay, if I'm being honest.

• 23:37Speaker 05

  But everyone has busked. We've, I've seen, I've seen people busk and do all kinds of towns.

• 23:43Speaker 07

  It's not about the music always. It's about the busk, the art of entertainment, the purest art of entertainment. How are you gonna get eyes long enough to get a scent? It's not about the money. It's about the interaction.

• 23:55Speaker 05

  Have you seen the busk podcasters?

• 23:57Speaker 07

  Oh, the busk podcasters.

• 23:58Speaker 06

  Oh, those guys who are sitting there offering hot takes about the difference between New York and LA.

• 24:04Speaker 05

  And it's hard to know the difference because you go, are those two just sitting on a bench?

• 24:07Speaker 07

  Yeah, are they podcasting?

• 24:10Speaker 07

  Well, they're talking into ice cream cones, so you know it's not a real podcast.

• 24:15Speaker 05

  There might be a mic on that. I don't know.

• 24:18Speaker 07

  I don't think, I don't think you can put a mic in ice cream. Yeah.

• 24:20Speaker 05

  In LA these days, you can't just walk by a bench and think it's just two people on a bench. It could be a podcast, could be a musical, could be a short film.

• 24:26Speaker 07

  Well, that's what we have to talk about. I mean, the TikTok-ification of busking. It's how, it's, busking has moved into the online space and it's become more about, the modern day busk is the NPC role-playing online. Have you seen this? Yeah, I have. Yeah.

• 24:46Speaker 06

  The modern day busk is the NPC role-playing?

• 24:49Speaker 07

  Weird fringe girl? The, think about it because-

• 24:51Speaker 05

  Explain it to me. I don't get it.

• 24:52Speaker 07

  Because on TikTok, they have this option where you can donate. You can donate and people play NPCs for donation.

• 24:58Speaker 05

  Live, when they're live.

• 24:59Speaker 06

  Oh, yes.

• 25:00Speaker 07

  You're talking about that girl, like pussycat doll or whatever. Yeah, and the guy who pretends to be Spider-Man. I mean, there's a whole culture of these people online, and that's the modern day busk.

• 25:10Speaker 06

  I've never thought about that.

• 25:11Speaker 07

  And I just thought about it right now.

• 25:13Speaker 05

  I'm genuinely moved by it.

• 25:16Speaker 07

  Have you seen those, when the people are under a giant water balloon, they're like, no, no, no, no, don't donate. Don't donate, it'll pop. That's a modern day busk.

• 25:24Speaker 05

  Or I love seeing like a man in the middle of the night just singing people who put their name in the comments.

• 25:30Speaker 07

  With a, yeah, with a thing.

• 25:32Speaker 05

  With a thing. We could do it these days. Like, it's, it's, it's a beautiful way that busking is going to transfer to the algorithms.

• 25:39Speaker 07

  Yeah. Yeah, it's nice to know it's not going away because busking at its heart is a very human thing, man. I mean, does anyone have any moments that they've realized that they're changing the world by their busking?

• 25:51Speaker 06

  Oh, man.

• 25:53Speaker 07

  None come to mind. All right, all good. We can move on.

• 25:56Speaker 05

  I think it's less about feeling like you're changing the world, but you're, you're more just adding a smile to someone's face for a second.

• 26:03Speaker 07

  That feels like changing the world. That's what I meant. Yeah, I meant, I was asking. You know what? Play me in.

• 26:10Speaker 05

  When you want.

• 26:10Speaker 07

  Because there was this one lady one time, and I was busking on the side of the highway.

• 26:18Speaker 05

  I gotta tune this thing.

• 26:21Speaker 07

  It's, that's the one that's wrong, yeah?

• 26:25Speaker 07

  Lady walking on the side of the highway, lost her shoes, lost her place in life.

• 26:34Speaker 07

  So, it doesn't work. It doesn't really work for disconnected like that.

• 26:38Speaker 05

  What just happened, what just happened was-

• 26:40Speaker 06

  Why we don't play together?

• 26:41Speaker 05

  No, but that, no, I'd say what just happened was distance too close.

• 26:44Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 26:45Speaker 05

  We busk all the time together, but far away.

• 26:47Speaker 07

  That was, that was when you're accidentally, a little too close and you hear two buskers doing two different things.

• 26:52Speaker 05

  And if it's a little too close, I gotta tune that.

• 26:55Speaker 06

  Because now, we are very specifically not a band, and there's a reason for that.

• 26:59Speaker 07

  We're not a band.

• 26:59Speaker 06

  Because, you know, we play our best when we are exchanging glances as coworkers from down on Third Street Promenade, different ends, you know? We're at different ends, talking to each other.

• 27:11Speaker 05

  Truly. And I think like, sometimes we'll go, like, just like how there's a, I saw on The Pit recently. I watch The Pit sometimes.

• 27:17Speaker 07

  You can't watch The Pit. Too capitalist for me.

• 27:19Speaker 05

  Oh, no. Well, I say that sometimes there's bleed, right? There's a bleed. There's a clot. And I'd say sometimes we walk in between our busking stations and we go, there's bleed here.

• 27:28Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 27:29Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 27:29Speaker 05

  Like, just now there was a bleed there, and the sound went into that, and it wasn't a collab. You don't want on accident collabs. You only want purposeful collabs.

• 27:37Speaker 07

  We're, we're like a, you know, changing the channels, city block version. You walk past one person, he's playing Mumford and Sons. You walk past another person, he's playing Kings of Leon. You walk past another person, they're playing, you know, Sonder, you know? All these people, they're very, very different.

• 27:58Speaker 06

  It's a beautiful tapestry. Can I ask you guys, how, what's your technique for asking people respectfully to tip? You know, when people stand around for a long time and they've clearly listened and enjoyed to a song?

• 28:12Speaker 07

  The funny tip. I mean, that's what you gotta go like, and if you want to, my hat is empty. Yeah, I have some, I have some phrases. Wasn't trying to wear this one on our head. Yeah, yeah. I say, if your pockets feel heavy, I'll take care of that. That's good.

• 28:26Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah.

• 28:28Speaker 05

  Do one that you do on there.

• 28:29Speaker 07

  What?

• 28:30Speaker 05

  Put your, put your fingers on there.

• 28:31Speaker 07

  Oh, okay. Yeah, let's do a little bit of this.

• 28:36Speaker 05

  Hat empty. Hat empty.

• 28:44Speaker 07

  Let me get in on this.

• 28:47Speaker 07

  A minor E.

• 28:52Speaker 07

  Hat is empty on the ground. Fill it up, make your old man proud. Hat is empty on the ground. Fill it up, make your old man proud.

• 29:26Speaker 06

  If your hat feels empty, put something in it.

• 29:31Speaker 07

  Your hat feels empty, put something in it. If your hat feels empty, put something in it. If your hat feels empty, put something in it. Ho! Hat empty on the ground. Make your old man proud.

• 29:54Speaker 07

  Hat empty on the ground.

• 30:02Speaker 06

  Hey, I don't do-

• 30:02Speaker 05

  Hat still empty.

• 30:03Speaker 07

  Wow, that'd be so good, guys. We gotta film that.

• 30:06Speaker 05

  That's good.

• 30:07Speaker 02

  We gotta.

• 30:07Speaker 07

  We gotta film that. That'll be great. That'll be so good.

• 30:10Speaker 05

  What were you gonna say at the end of that? Were you inspired by something?

• 30:12Speaker 06

  I don't remember. I'm just happy to be here.

• 30:14Speaker 07

  Oh my God, Rosie.

• 30:16Speaker 06

  Guys, this is what life is all about. Would you say so?

• 30:21Speaker 05

  Y'all ever have a toddler come in and kick, kick your hat off?

• 30:24Speaker 07

  Toddlers are Satan's little minions, I would say. The parents think their kids are cute all the time. They're not cute to us, man. Three to five is the worst age to bust for unless they know a song that they want to sing. Yeah. And if you can sing with that kid?

• 30:39Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 30:40Speaker 07

  Millions of dollars.

• 30:41Speaker 05

  This is what I do if I see a kid coming. Either I take a deep breath or...

• 30:48Speaker 05

  Baby shark, do do do do do do. Baby shark, do do do do do do. Baby shark, do do do do do do.

• 30:55Speaker 07

  Baby shark.

• 30:57Speaker 05

  Baby shark, do do do do do do. Baby shark, do do do do do do.

• 31:01Speaker 07

  Okay, can I say?

• 31:05Speaker 07

  The first note is...

• 31:08Speaker 07

  Always you guessing.

• 31:10Speaker 06

  It takes, it takes a minute.

• 31:12Speaker 07

  You find it, you find it. But God, do I love the coming on your songs. Of course, man. It's beautiful. Look, I wanted to remind you guys I'm completely untrained. Yeah. Sometimes you make beautiful content and sometimes you swing and miss. It's track out. Well, look, man. What is life if not trying things and then never doing them again?

• 31:33Speaker 05

  Amen to that. Do you ever play anything different if it's kids? So that's what I play for kids. Do you ever do anything different for like old people? Or like anything? Or like if you see a school go by, any trips, tricks and tips?

• 31:44Speaker 07

  Oh, trips, yeah. Schools go by. I try to do that 50 states song. Alabama.

• 31:51Speaker 05

  Play it, play it.

• 31:52Speaker 07

  All right, here we go. I'll do both.

• 31:58Speaker 05

  No, it's not the mic problem. He just, he needs two mouths.

• 32:18Speaker 05

  If I'm a school kid walking by?

• 32:22Speaker 07

  What would you do?

• 32:23Speaker 05

  I'm stopping. I'm going, I say it in school.

• 32:27Speaker 07

  I need to film this.

• 32:28Speaker 06

  I need to know what's going on.

• 32:30Speaker 07

  Is this man medically in danger? You know what's funny is I frequently get, instead of tips, business cards of doctors.

• 32:39Speaker 07

  It's so fun.

• 32:39Speaker 06

  You know, that's never the group you want to be networking with. It's tough.

• 32:43Speaker 07

  But they go, hey, I saw you from across the room and I think you could use my help.

• 32:46Speaker 06

  You know, when, uh, old people walk by, I typically go for some Sinatra. Some, uh-

• 32:53Speaker 05

  On Jerry Seinfeld.

• 32:54Speaker 07

  Some bass drum Sinatra.

• 32:56Speaker 05

  You without Jerry Seinfeld.

• 32:58Speaker 07

  Without Mrs. Jerry Seinfeld and you go for some Sinatra.

• 33:02Speaker 06

  Mrs. Jerry Seinfeld and I play some Sinatra.

• 33:06Speaker 07

  And you play some Sinatra.

• 33:08Speaker 06

  That's life. Oh.

• 33:11Speaker 05

  This won't get flagged at all.

• 33:12Speaker 06

  That's not it, that's not it, that's not it. Somewhere... No, that's not him.

• 33:16Speaker 05

  Bobby Darin, that's Bobby Darin.

• 33:18Speaker 06

  That's Amore. When the moon... Okay, no, that's not him. That's not him, that's not him.

• 33:23Speaker 05

  Maybe, um, the way you look tonight.

• 33:25Speaker 07

  Fly me to the moon.

• 33:25Speaker 06

  The way to hold me. And the way you look tonight.

• 33:33Speaker 07

  Jerry Seinfeld is excited.

• 33:37Speaker 07

  That's a rapid beat for that song. Every quarter note.

• 33:41Speaker 06

  I felt like I was on a train. I couldn't get a hold of him.

• 33:45Speaker 07

  I love that. You're never hitting the bass notes. You're just hitting every note with the bass.

• 33:50Speaker 06

  Every note.

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• 36:58Speaker 06

  Every note. You know, people think a bass can't do a lot of things, but it can do more than you think it can.

• 37:03Speaker 05

  Like what?

• 37:05Speaker 06

  Well...

• 37:06Speaker 07

  Some of your poetry. My favorite is some of your poetry. With this thing out, show us the real. We all have like our own, we should stop doing covers and maybe do some of our original music. I mean, we've all tried to release EPs.

• 37:17Speaker 05

  It's harder to grab people. I'll say it.

• 37:19Speaker 06

  Of course.

• 37:19Speaker 05

  I'll be first to say it. I do feel like sometimes a sellout. Because if I got, if I'm putting my, if I'm trying to make music and make people turn, it's hard to do it with an original track.

• 37:29Speaker 07

  But I think your track is the most beautiful gift Gaia can give us.

• 37:33Speaker 05

  I think all of our original tracks.

• 37:35Speaker 06

  I want to hear all of our original tracks.

• 37:36Speaker 07

  I love our music, man. I want to share it with the world.

• 37:39Speaker 06

  I want to hear all of it, of course.

• 37:40Speaker 07

  I want to hear every single one of our original tracks. Let's do it. Let's start from the number one on each of our EPs. Name what your EP is and then talk about it.

• 37:49Speaker 06

  All right, so this is an EP I called Ryan. Um, this was my ex-boyfriend Ryan. We consciously uncoupled not six months ago, and this was a poem I wrote about the night he left me.

• 38:02Speaker 06

  No note on the door.

• 38:07Speaker 06

  Will you please leave the house? Note on the door.

• 38:14Speaker 05

  You can hear her crying.

• 38:16Speaker 06

  To the wood on the door. It says, I'm leaving. It says, I'm leaving tonight because you don't have any money and you don't pay the rent for the house that we split because you are always at the beach. The beach. The beach. I'm gone.

• 38:39Speaker 07

  Wow. That was gothic. That was amazing. Can I say something? It did sound like you unconsciously could do couples. Doesn't sound conscious.

• 38:49Speaker 06

  I think he was pretty conscious, so we had a lot of conversations, so many conversations.

• 38:53Speaker 07

  It sounds like you were unconscious when he left.

• 38:56Speaker 05

  Can I say, I think you need to, I think you need to put that song on TikTok. I think it'll do numbers.

• 39:02Speaker 07

  That's gonna do numbers.

• 39:04Speaker 05

  He's at the beach. I'm gone.

• 39:10Speaker 07

  Really good. I mean, that's amazing the way you do that.

• 39:13Speaker 06

  Thank you so much. Thank you.

• 39:15Speaker 05

  I'm dying to hear it. Pick it up, Lapis.

• 39:17Speaker 07

  One of my originals?

• 39:18Speaker 05

  Come on, Lapis. One of your originals, please.

• 39:20Speaker 07

  Okay.

• 39:22Speaker 07

  Yeah. You need my help on this one? Yeah, jump in. Oh, you want me to? Okay. Yeah, great.

• 39:29Speaker 07

  You know, um, there's a river somewhere. Of course, yeah. I'll come in at the right time.

• 39:35Speaker 06

  Hmm, wow.

• 39:42Speaker 05

  There's a river somewhere

• 39:46Speaker 05

  Covered in gold

• 39:50Speaker 05

  And all I tried to do

• 39:55Speaker 05

  Is get to the river Swimming in shores Covered in gold, that's what I'll do

• 40:07Speaker 05

  But I wonder if I'll find it

• 40:15Speaker 05

  Wonder if it's there

• 40:21Speaker 05

  River, river runs through it

• 40:27Speaker 05

  I hope I find it sometime soon

• 40:34Speaker 05

  The river, river of gold

• 40:42Speaker 05

  Where are you now?

• 40:47Speaker 05

  River, river of gold

• 40:54Speaker 05

  Where are you now?

• 41:19Speaker 07

  Yeah, perfect, man, perfect. Thank you, man. Perfect. It's so fun to jam with you, man. It's so fun to jam. It's so fun to jam with you. It's so fun to jam, man. So fun to jam. You nailed it, man, you nailed it.

• 41:34Speaker 06

  It's so fun to jam, it's really magic the way it all works together.

• 41:38Speaker 07

  I love a backup vocal. I would love to play with you, I would love to jam with you. Can I jam open? I'm open to jam.

• 41:44Speaker 06

  Can I jam with you?

• 41:45Speaker 07

  Yeah, you wanna jam right now? It's awesome, it's awesome.

• 41:48Speaker 06

  You gotta jam with him. He's such an inventive collaborator.

• 41:52Speaker 07

  You gotta jam with him.

• 41:53Speaker 06

  You gotta jam with him.

• 41:55Speaker 07

  Oh, let me know, man, you wanna jam right now?

• 41:57Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 41:58Speaker 07

  And just jump in when you want.

• 41:59Speaker 06

  And this is one of your originals?

• 42:01Speaker 05

  Yeah, you could just...

• 42:02Speaker 07

  I love your originals, Lazarith. You're so soulful.

• 42:06Speaker 06

  Lazarith.

• 42:17Speaker 05

  Hurry up on top of the mountain, hurry up on top of the wall, Hurry up on top of the school bus. Hurry up on top of the mountain, hurry up on top of the wall, Hurry up on top of the school bus. I want it bad.

• 42:39Speaker 05

  I want it good.

• 42:43Speaker 05

  I want it bad.

• 42:47Speaker 05

  I want it good.

• 42:52Speaker 05

  Hurry up on top of the mountain. Hurry up on top of the school bus. Hurry up on top of the mountain. Hurry up on top of the school bus.

• 43:09Speaker 05

  Come on.

• 43:24Speaker 05

  I see it in your future, I see it in your eyes, I see it in the way you tantalize. I see it in my forehead, I see it in the way You play it all, play it all, play it all day. I see it in nothing. Okay, that's great, that's...

• 43:44Speaker 07

  So good. So good to jam.

• 43:47Speaker 06

  What a real good jam.

• 43:49Speaker 07

  Such a good to jam.

• 43:50Speaker 06

  That was such a beautiful jam to see.

• 43:53Speaker 07

  Beautiful jam. God, it's so good to jam.

• 43:57Speaker 06

  It's so good to jam.

• 43:58Speaker 05

  It's just gorgeous.

• 44:00Speaker 07

  And your confidence coming in is sky high. It's so good to jam, man.

• 44:04Speaker 06

  It's just good to see people at the top of their game.

• 44:07Speaker 07

  Absolutely. Good for everyone equally coming in, batting a hundred.

• 44:13Speaker 06

  Wow. Wow.

• 44:15Speaker 07

  Absolutely.

• 44:16Speaker 06

  That's so beautiful.

• 44:19Speaker 07

  So good to jam.

• 44:19Speaker 06

  That's so good to jam.

• 44:21Speaker 07

  Can I ask you guys something?

• 44:22Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 44:22Speaker 07

  Look, I know we're all wandering spirits, wayward souls, Gaia protectors and followers, but, um...

• 44:30Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 44:31Speaker 07

  Do you guys have dreams? I mean, when you wake up at night, when you look up at the stars, what do you think in your life is gonna be like? Where do you wanna end up? You know, I met a man in Reno who said that dreams are simply memories that somebody else had.

• 44:51Speaker 06

  Wait, so you didn't dream of? So who do they belong, what do they belong to?

• 44:58Speaker 06

  What are you talking about?

• 44:59Speaker 05

  I just memories somebody else had. So what do you mean dreams? I just memories somebody else.

• 45:09Speaker 07

  What, man? I just stopped down, but what? What, man?

• 45:13Speaker 05

  I've never heard something like that before in my life. Dreams are just memories somebody had, what do you mean?

• 45:18Speaker 06

  Somebody else had.

• 45:19Speaker 07

  Don't push it, man. Okay, keep going. I mean, it makes sense. And don't question it, I got it tattooed. I don't wanna think about it. Dreams are just memories somebody else had.

• 45:29Speaker 06

  Keep going.

• 45:29Speaker 07

  Dreams are just memories somebody else had.

• 45:31Speaker 06

  What did this man think of, what did this man make you think about your own dreams?

• 45:35Speaker 07

  Well, he made me think that they were the dreams of a coal miner in the old 40s. Dreams of a man who...

• 45:45Speaker 06

  I think so.

• 45:46Speaker 07

  Wait, sorry, they were memories. That man made me realize that when I was dreaming about being a coal miner in the 40s, I was actually having the memory of a man who lived in the 40s. So you're just talking about some weird premonitions you had.

• 46:02Speaker 06

  So you are dreaming of a past and you think that's actually a memory of someone in the past?

• 46:07Speaker 07

  Dreams are just memories somebody else had.

• 46:09Speaker 05

  Explain it again, do you have another version of it?

• 46:11Speaker 07

  Yeah. I think you're having some sort of past life regression. I had a dream that my teeth were falling out and I left, I left home in my underwear.

• 46:20Speaker 06

  Oh my God, that's somebody's memory.

• 46:22Speaker 07

  Turns out that's the memory of somebody whose teeth fell out and they left home in their underwear. I was just in their shoes, man. The man. Man, that's beautiful, man. That's so beautiful. Man, that's beautiful. So that's how I see dreams and where I'm about to be. Absolutely. Rosie, what about you?

• 46:38Speaker 06

  What do I dream about? Well, I dream that one day, after I'm done with this crazy life, after I'm done with this crazy lifestyle, I post up on a farm in Big Sur, on the coastal part. I sit down with my three kids, two chickens, two cows, one pig, and one nasty goat.

• 47:07Speaker 06

  And I bake the eggs the chickens laid for me not that early morning.

• 47:11Speaker 07

  Bake them in the oven.

• 47:13Speaker 06

  I bake them in the oven.

• 47:16Speaker 05

  You bake eggs?

• 47:18Speaker 06

  I bake eggs.

• 47:19Speaker 05

  You bake the eggs?

• 47:21Speaker 07

  Rosie's baking eggs, everybody hurry up.

• 47:23Speaker 05

  So is that like a frittata?

• 47:25Speaker 06

  No, so it's just the eggs. It's not a quiche, it's not a frittata, it's not scrambled, it's not over easy, it's not over hard, it's not over medium, it's not poached. It's its own thing, dude.

• 47:35Speaker 07

  It kinda boils them weird in Seattle.

• 47:38Speaker 06

  There are no rules. You crack them in a baking sheet, you stick them in a pan. It's like one layer of lasagna except just the pasta part.

• 47:49Speaker 07

  They're playing this mic again, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

• 47:52Speaker 06

  The future could be so beautiful.

• 47:55Speaker 07

  And who do you see married to, Rosie, with your two kids? Three kids, two chickens, one nasty goat?

• 48:00Speaker 06

  I see myself married to the man of my dreams. He's a man who works at the Sweet Green across the street, on Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. Every day, when he's walking into his shift, I try and sing a song about him, but he won't look my way.

• 48:18Speaker 07

  How's that song go, Rosie?

• 48:20Speaker 06

  Song goes a little something like this. I'll play it on old Jerry Seinfeld.

• 48:26Speaker 06

  Salad boy, salad boy, come get your wife, salad boy.

• 48:34Speaker 07

  Oh, so beautiful, Rosie. Where does that music come from within you?

• 48:38Speaker 05

  Rosie, Rosie, Rosie.

• 48:40Speaker 07

  Rosie, it's so beautiful.

• 48:42Speaker 06

  Rosie, it's so beautiful.

• 48:44Speaker 07

  So beautiful, Rosie.

• 48:46Speaker 05

  It's so beautiful, Rosie.

• 48:48Speaker 07

  Salad boy, come get your wife, salad boy. We know that's just the intro, Rosie.

• 48:52Speaker 06

  We know that's just the intro.

• 48:53Speaker 05

  Rosie, go to the bridge, the bridge is beautiful.

• 48:55Speaker 06

  All right, we'll go to the bridge. Leaves on your hands, in your apron, but no woman, no woman nearby, get your woman. It's me, I'm her, it's me, take me home, salad boy, salad man.

• 49:14Speaker 05

  You gotta make theater, Rosie.

• 49:16Speaker 07

  Rosie, that's coming straight from the gut. It's, I mean, it's definitely Bob Marley influenced.

• 49:21Speaker 05

  It's coming from your gut.

• 49:22Speaker 06

  I always say, I don't sing from the heart, I sing from the lower stomach.

• 49:26Speaker 05

  Cause it is one tempo and one tempo only, it's one note.

• 49:30Speaker 07

  They, you know, Bob Marley saying, no woman don't cry, but Rosie saying, no woman come get her.

• 49:40Speaker 07

  That's beautiful. What about you? What are your dreams?

• 49:44Speaker 06

  What do you dream about?

• 49:45Speaker 07

  Lazarith.

• 49:46Speaker 06

  Lazarith, you have to have a dream, or at the very least, somebody else's memory.

• 49:54Speaker 05

  I dream of one day, when all the buskers could play a festival.

• 50:02Speaker 07

  Wow.

• 50:03Speaker 05

  We stand around...

• 50:07Speaker 06

  What?

• 50:09Speaker 05

  We stand around together, like a burning man, but all along the streets, and people drive down the road, and there will be an orchestra of some sorts, a buskers, no bleed, just harmony.

• 50:31Speaker 05

  Sweet, sweet, polyamory.

• 50:39Speaker 05

  Sweet, sweet, sweet, polyamory. It's got the melody, the harmony, the punch and... And good sex. Cause it's sweet, sweet, holy amberie.

• 51:03Speaker 05

  Now play, come on.

• 51:11Speaker 05

  God, it's good jamming.

• 51:12Speaker 07

  It's good jam.

• 51:14Speaker 06

  Beautiful jam.

• 51:15Speaker 07

  It's so good to jam with you.

• 51:17Speaker 06

  Beautiful jam.

• 51:18Speaker 07

  Love to jam with you.

• 51:19Speaker 06

  God, it's so beautiful.

• 51:21Speaker 07

  It feels good to jam with you guys.

• 51:23Speaker 06

  It's so good to jam.

• 51:24Speaker 07

  It just feels good to jam.

• 51:26Speaker 06

  It just feels good to jam.

• 51:28Speaker 07

  It just feels so good to jam with you guys.

• 51:29Speaker 06

  It just feels so good.

• 51:30Speaker 07

  It feels so good to jam with you guys. It feels so good to jam.

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• 51:59Speaker 06

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• 52:11Speaker 07

  It feels so good to jam. It feels so good to jam with you.

• 52:15Speaker 06

  It feels so good to jam. Guys, it's the best thing in the world to jam together.

• 52:22Speaker 07

  It's just the best thing in the world to jam with you.

• 52:24Speaker 06

  I feel so bad for regular people who have to clock in, clock out.

• 52:28Speaker 07

  Mr. Business ain't never jamming like we're doing. The Salary Man, the Salary Man goes in and we see. Which is different from the Salad Man. The Salary Man. The Salary Man, he goes in and out in his suit.

• 52:39Speaker 05

  Come on, the Salary Man is friends, he's friends with the record label man. And he goes in with his suit.

• 52:49Speaker 06

  The Salary Man is friends with the politician man. He goes in with his suit.

• 52:55Speaker 07

  The Salary Man is friends with the accounting man. They're punching the money. They're taking the tab. They're walking on in with their suits.

• 53:06Speaker 05

  Quick, the tempo's changing.

• 53:07Speaker 07

  The Salary Man don't know what's happening in the streets. The Salary Man must never go to the streets. No, it's illegal for the Salary Man to be on the streets.

• 53:18Speaker 06

  The Salary Man don't breathe fresh air, the Salary Man breathe only AC. The Salary Man is only him, only him, never alone.

• 53:27Speaker 06

  Salary Man, Salary Man, Salary Man, Salary Man, Salary Man. Salary Man, Salary Man, Salary Man. Only cares about the money.

• 53:45Speaker 05

  Good as jam.

• 53:47Speaker 07

  God, it feels good to jam. We've never jammed before, Rosie.

• 53:50Speaker 06

  We've never jammed before.

• 53:51Speaker 07

  You guys have never jammed, you know what? I don't know how you guys have never jammed. They said you could.

• 53:57Speaker 06

  How on earth have we never jammed before?

• 53:59Speaker 07

  They said we medically couldn't.

• 54:00Speaker 05

  They said you never could.

• 54:01Speaker 07

  They said if we did, we'd die and we wouldn't even hurt.

• 54:04Speaker 05

  You did, I want to know, if anyone gave you the opportunity to get off the street and singing and sing inside, what would you sing?

• 54:13Speaker 07

  I would be so confused.

• 54:14Speaker 05

  I wouldn't know what to do.

• 54:15Speaker 07

  Cause what do you do inside? What is there to sing about? I mean, what's it even sound like in there?

• 54:19Speaker 05

  And I'm not saying that buskers don't know what to do when they go inside a record label or.

• 54:24Speaker 07

  It's just us.

• 54:25Speaker 05

  It's just that we don't know.

• 54:26Speaker 07

  I guess I'd be scared to play inside because I'd have to hear myself, you know? I think that's what makes me nervous. What am I sounding like? Don't tell me. You sound good to us.

• 54:35Speaker 05

  I want you, I'm gonna.

• 54:36Speaker 07

  It feels good, it feels good.

• 54:38Speaker 05

  I'm gonna play a little bit and I just want you to make a mess on your melodic. I just want you to play, I want you to play the sounds of your heart.

• 54:45Speaker 07

  Okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna kind of let loose a little bit. I'm gonna be a little more buttoned down than I've been playing so far. Buttoned down, brother.

• 54:51Speaker 06

  You were gonna be a little more buttoned down.

• 54:52Speaker 07

  I'm gonna be a little more informal, that was my formal plan.

• 54:54Speaker 06

  And you know what? If this is good enough, maybe we'll take this inside.

• 54:58Speaker 07

  Rosie, and I want to see what you got, Jerry has to sing.

• 55:00Speaker 05

  I think Lapis is gonna sing a little.

• 55:01Speaker 07

  Okay, if you guys insist.

• 55:03Speaker 06

  Well.

• 55:09Speaker 07

  Here we go.

• 55:13Speaker 07

  Ooh, doggy.

• 55:21Speaker 07

  Guess I'm forced to sing inside.

• 55:29Speaker 07

  I really hope it is alright.

• 55:37Speaker 07

  When you sing inside, there is an echo.

• 55:45Speaker 07

  So I guess I'll just have to let go.

• 56:24Speaker 07

  Yeah. Cause it's music, the power of a note.

• 56:35Speaker 07

  It's music.

• 56:38Speaker 07

  Like every good quote.

• 56:43Speaker 07

  It's music.

• 56:46Speaker 06

  It's good to jam.

• 56:47Speaker 07

  It's so good to jam.

• 56:49Speaker 06

  God, it's so good to jam.

• 56:50Speaker 07

  God, that feels good to jam.

• 56:52Speaker 06

  God, I wish we could bottle up the feeling of the jam and drink it all night long. When you, I can't wait for you to look back at your face when you're doing, because I know we don't busk in front of cameras often, but you are, you are blowing so hard. And it looks like you're like in pain.

• 57:12Speaker 07

  I don't care how I look, man, I only care how it sounds. And it sounds damn good.

• 57:18Speaker 05

  You may look weird, but you look good.

• 57:20Speaker 07

  Sounds damn.

• 57:22Speaker 06

  It sounds damn good. Hey, can I gasp you all a favor at home?

• 57:26Speaker 07

  Go ahead, gasp them.

• 57:28Speaker 05

  Gasp them, gasp them, Rosie.

• 57:32Speaker 07

  Rosie, gasp them.

• 57:34Speaker 05

  Rosie, gasp them.

• 57:36Speaker 06

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• 57:43Speaker 07

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  Or comment one dollar. Yeah, just comment the phrase one dollar. And remember, man, next time you're out there seeing someone and you choose to walk on by, maybe stop, double back and listen to that guy's story. Cause we all got stories.

• 57:59Speaker 06

  We all got stories.

• 58:01Speaker 07

  And this is the last story we'll leave you with. It's a story of.

• 58:08Speaker 07

  When you're busking, busking feels good.

• 58:13Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 58:14Speaker 07

  When you're busking, busking feels good. In the good, good. When you're busking, busking feels good. When you're busking, busking feels good. Come on.

• 58:34Speaker 06

  Now busker move. Now busker move. Now busker move. Now busker move.

• 58:45Speaker 07

  I got Lazarus and Rosie. And I think your name is Jerry. It's Copper. Copper.

• 58:54Speaker 06

  So close.

• 58:57Speaker 07

  And there ain't no way to busk correct. There ain't no way to busk, a, a, a proper, proper, proper. Cause a, cause a, cause a busking comes from the soul. The place where music comes to. Busking comes from the soul. The place where music comes to. Busking comes from the soul. The place where music comes to. Busking comes from the soul. A place where music comes to. Jerry Seinfeld solo.

• 59:40Speaker 07

  She's losing it, she's losing it. She's going crazy. Cause a busking comes from the soul. The place it music comes to. Busking comes from the soul. If there's music comes to.

• 59:56Speaker 06

  Busking.

• 1:00:19Speaker 05

  Do you guys have a license to play out here?

• 1:00:21Speaker 07

  Oh.

• 1:00:21Speaker 05

  Do you guys have a license to play out here?

• 1:00:22Speaker 07

  Oh, shit.

• 1:00:23Speaker 06

  It's in my car.

• 1:00:25Speaker 05

  Wait, show your busking license or else you have to get up.

• 1:00:28Speaker 07

  No, we're cool, man. We'll clear out. My dad is Eric Garcetti. What? Your dad is Eric Garcetti? Yeah.

• 1:00:35Speaker 05

  Then you guys play as much as you fucking want.

• 1:00:37Speaker 07

  Thank you, man. Thank you.

• 1:00:38Speaker 06

  Wow, thank you so much.

• 1:00:39Speaker 07

  I had no idea your dad is Eric Garcetti. Yeah, don't lead with it. You lead with your dad?

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