“Lovin’ You” by Minnie Riperton

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[00:01:00] In this week's episode, we embark on a journey through the melodic landscape of Minnie Riperton's

[00:01:04] unforgettable 1975 hit, Lovin' You, where every note carries the essence of her unparalleled

[00:01:10] vocal mastery. While the song's presence in countless movies, TV shows, and commercials

[00:01:15] keeps it firmly in the public consciousness, facets of the life of the woman behind it may

[00:01:19] be surprising. More than a singer, Minnie was a mother, and her heartbreaking departure from

[00:01:25] this world came way too early. From collaborations with Stevie Wonder to an unforgettable lion attack,

[00:01:31] we explore Riperton's musical legacy, where every la-la-la-la-la resonates with timeless allure

[00:01:36] and poignant significance.

[00:02:06] So Matt, we are here today to talk about Minnie Riperton's Lovin' You and the career of Minnie

[00:02:28] Riperton in general. Are you familiar with this song? I know you don't go deep into the 70s too

[00:02:34] much. Do you know this song? Actually, I feel like the part that I think it's the 80s deep

[00:02:39] cuts are the ones that are the hardest for me. 70s and stuff like that. I usually know

[00:02:44] because of either just pop culture being unavoidable, or, you know, I have an uncle who's

[00:02:51] been in a wedding cover band for like 20 years. And there's a lot of... Did they play this?

[00:02:56] Oh, I don't think they play this, but they play a lot of 70s songs. I'm looking at all the ways

[00:03:00] that this song was used in different things. And I genuinely think my first introduction to this

[00:03:07] song... Do you want to guess? I know it's been used in a lot of commercials. Was it used in maybe

[00:03:14] like a Burger King commercial at some point? It probably was, but I know it from an episode,

[00:03:21] an early episode of South Park. Season one, episode four. The episode's called Big Gay Al's

[00:03:28] Big Gay Boat Ride. The premise is that there's a big football game between the South Park

[00:03:33] Elementary and some other school's elementary. And Jimbo and Ned decide that they're going to

[00:03:40] strap a bomb to the opposing team's mascot, and it will trigger whenever the halftime show singer

[00:03:50] hits the high F note in the song Loving You. That was my first introduction to this song. And

[00:03:56] I mean, the iconic note. Oh yeah. I never knew that that was called

[00:04:02] the whistle register when you go up to that. It's like above falsetto. And of course,

[00:04:09] we all know that Mariah Carey has made that famous. And Mariah Carey actually cites Minnie

[00:04:14] Riperton as an influence, as you would expect. But yes, that is what she is most known for.

[00:04:20] And she so effortlessly goes to those notes. I don't know if you watched live performances of

[00:04:26] her. I watched her on Midnight Special. I watched her on The Tonight Show. And it's just wild how

[00:04:31] she can go to that note just on a dime. Yeah, not an issue whatsoever. One of the

[00:04:37] things that made me... I love when we're doing One Hit Thunder, and it feels like there's just

[00:04:45] little pieces of past episodes that fall on top of each other. I'm not sure if you saw this,

[00:04:52] but before she was Minnie Riperton, before she was the solo artist that we know and love,

[00:04:57] she had been in a bunch of different groups. And one of the groups, it said,

[00:05:03] achieved a cult status in the Northern Soul movement.

[00:05:08] Was it the Gems? The Gems. The Gems in the 60s,

[00:05:13] while they didn't blow up in the States, in the UK during the Northern Soul movement,

[00:05:17] the Gems were like a group that was very beloved in that scene. So Kevin Rowland may have been

[00:05:24] Rowland to some Mickey Riperton. Minnie Riperton.

[00:05:28] Minnie, Minnie, Minnie, I know. As soon as it came out my mouth, look, Mickey, Minnie,

[00:05:31] they're both mice. Mickey. All right. I see how you did it. Oh, it's impressive. I was talking

[00:05:38] to our past guest and friend, Johnny, last night. We went out and got dinner. He's like,

[00:05:43] Matt mispronounces everything. I went, you're telling me. You got too much going on up there.

[00:05:50] That's what it is. You have too many cross references all running into each other at all

[00:05:54] times between movies and music and TV and everything else you have going on. There's

[00:06:01] probably like 50 other things going on up there. I hope the listeners get that and just don't think

[00:06:06] that I'm an idiot because I would like to say that I'm kind of smart, but I definitely get

[00:06:11] frazzled. Anyway, there were so many different elements of Minnie Riperton's kind of tragically

[00:06:20] short career that blew my mind. This is like one of the more interesting

[00:06:27] careers I think we've dove into in a while. Oh, she's awesome. And it's, I don't know,

[00:06:33] it's very sad. We'll get to the sad stuff. But to start, she was born in 1947, grew up in Chicago's

[00:06:40] Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, and she studied music,

[00:06:44] drama, and dance at Chicago's Abraham Lincoln Center. As Matt mentioned, when she was a

[00:06:50] teenager, she sang lead vocals for the Chicago-based girl group, The Gems, who obviously were popular

[00:06:57] in the Northern Soul movement. For those of you who don't know, the Northern Soul movement was in

[00:07:03] the UK and it was like groups and artists that were only minorly successful in the United States,

[00:07:09] but people loved them there. Yeah. It almost seemed like, from what I understand about that

[00:07:15] movement, that it was like, who could find the most obscure artists and make them popular? They

[00:07:23] were actively not listening to whatever the popular Motown records were. Sure. That led to

[00:07:31] her affiliation with the Chicago-based Chess Records, which led to opportunities for her to

[00:07:37] sing backing vocals for Etta James, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and Muddy Waters. And she also sang

[00:07:46] a lead for the psychedelic soul band Rotary Connection from 1967 to 1971. And everything

[00:07:54] that Minnie Riperton does leads to another opportunity. And I guess when you have a

[00:07:59] five-octave vocal range, you're going to get opportunities. Yeah. Because you're not going

[00:08:05] to be able to replace this person. Right. It makes you stand out. It gives you something that's

[00:08:12] one of a kind. And when you're the main draw of not one but two different groups,

[00:08:22] a solo career seems only eventually around the corner.

[00:08:27] Yep. And that's where we get to Come To My Garden.

[00:08:30] Yes. This album, Come To My Garden, which was released in 1970, was produced, arranged,

[00:08:38] and orchestrated by her Rotary Connection bandmate, Charles Stepney. But several of the

[00:08:44] songs on the album were co-written by Stepney and Richard Rudolph, who she later married in

[00:08:50] August of 1970. So it seemed like a quick romance there and marriage. And the album ended up not

[00:08:58] being commercially successful at the time. But in retrospect, it is now acclaimed by music critics.

[00:09:05] By 1973, three years later, she was a homemaker. She had two kids. Of course, we have to mention

[00:09:14] one of those kids, of course, being Maya Rudolph. This is Maya Rudolph's mother.

[00:09:21] I feel like somewhere I knew that and I still was like, oh, no shit when I was doing the research

[00:09:27] for this. I mean, she literally sings Maya's name in the song towards the end of the song.

[00:09:33] She sings Maya, Maya, Maya, Maya. And when I was watching the music video for this...

[00:09:39] I think I just used to think that was oh, Maya, Maya, Maya, Maya or something like that.

[00:09:43] Maya, Maya, Maya, Maya. And one of the top comments for the YouTube of this was,

[00:09:49] I know Maya Rudolph's here watching this on bad days or something, you know?

[00:09:55] Oh, I mean, probably, definitely. There's no other... I mean, we'll get into why that's so

[00:10:01] fucking sad to read. Yeah, we'll get there.

[00:10:04] It was a college intern. An intern found her and got her out of retirement, which I think is

[00:10:08] awesome. Yeah, an intern for Epic Records. Yeah, she'd become a homemaker and she was

[00:10:15] a mother of Maya and Maya's brother in Gainesville, Florida. But then...

[00:10:20] Oh, hanging out with Krista Makes.

[00:10:23] Well, maybe a newborn, not even newborn. He may have been a fetus at that point. After this

[00:10:30] intern heard the demo of the song Seeing You This Way, he took the tape to Dawn Ellis,

[00:10:35] who is the VP of A&R for Epic. And she signed with Epic and then the whole family moved to LA.

[00:10:41] That is where she made the album Perfect Angel, which was co-produced by her husband,

[00:10:47] Richard Rudolph. And who else?

[00:10:50] Stevie Wonder.

[00:10:51] But Stevie Wonder.

[00:10:53] Now, did you see he had to do a pen name for this album because...

[00:10:59] Wow.

[00:11:01] However, Stevie Wonder was signed with Motown Records. So to avoid contract conflicts,

[00:11:07] he's credited under the pseudonym El Toro Negro, which is Spanish for the Black Bull,

[00:11:13] because Stevie Wonder's astrological sign was Taurus.

[00:11:17] Wow. Okay. So is mine. Yeah. So once this album came out that was co-produced by her husband and

[00:11:25] Stevie Wonder, the sales started slow. They released three singles and Epic was already

[00:11:31] ready to move on to the next record. But her husband, Richard Rudolph, convinced them to

[00:11:37] release another single, that being Loving You. Now, how... I mean, I've listened to all the songs.

[00:11:45] How was this not the obvious first song to release?

[00:11:49] You would think, right? Because this is like the exact same time when the Carpenters are killing it

[00:11:54] on the Billboard charts. This is perfect. You weren't going to have a better time period

[00:12:02] to do this song than right here and there. And it was also a song that... This album comes out in

[00:12:11] 73. They've been working on it for two years. It had been like a composition they were working on,

[00:12:19] where apparently Minnie came up with the melody, and Richard wrote the lyrics and the chords based

[00:12:26] off the melody. I agree with you, man. It's such an interesting time. I didn't do my normal Billboard

[00:12:35] charts thing here. This song hit number one. It wasn't just a hit. It was a number one hit.

[00:12:42] It was a number one hit for one week in April 5th, 1975. And when you see what it unseated

[00:12:50] and what unseated it, it feels a little bit more impressive because it's so different than

[00:12:56] these other songs. The week prior, the number one song was Lady Marmalade by LaBelle.

[00:13:02] Okay.

[00:13:02] So you're thinking like fun disco song kind of. And then the next week after she hit number one,

[00:13:09] Elton John Philadelphia Freedom is what knocked it back down to two. So I think the easy listening

[00:13:16] period was starting to slow down and it was getting more into that disco and dance music.

[00:13:22] Yeah.

[00:13:22] So I could maybe see why Epic thought, oh, the time for that type of song has passed.

[00:13:30] But Richard could see it's an undeniable hit that's going to connect with people.

[00:13:34] And connect with people it most certainly did. It really put her on the chart. It put her on the map.

[00:13:43] People knew who she was suddenly.

[00:13:45] Yeah. She was the lady with the high voice and flowers in her hair. This went on to sell a

[00:13:52] million copies. And Perfect Angel, the album went gold. And Minnie Riperton finally was someone

[00:14:00] that everyone knew after a long and quick journey. I gotta tell you, a lot happened in this

[00:14:08] lady's life in what seven or eight years ago.

[00:14:12] Seven years of being a musician really. Yeah. So we got to talk about the next album.

[00:14:17] Right? She makes her third album, Adventures in Paradise. Look up the cover, one of the most

[00:14:25] badass covers in history. And there was an incident shooting promotional footage

[00:14:33] for that album cover. And you sent me an interview that she did talking about it.

[00:14:38] Back up and tell people what the cover is. So you might want to pull out your phone right now and

[00:14:43] Google Minnie Riperton, Adventures in Paradise. And I think that's the greatest... I don't know.

[00:14:51] I think it's one of the greatest album covers I've ever seen. It's basically just her

[00:14:55] sitting in a chair next to a lion. Now, I would have thought that maybe that lion was super imposed

[00:15:01] in there. But no, that's a real lion sitting next to her. And oh, Matt, I sent you that video the

[00:15:06] other day. What's the video called? So the video is actually going to be hard to find because it's

[00:15:11] literally just called like Minnie Interview 1979 is the name of it.

[00:15:15] Okay.

[00:15:16] But yeah, there is an interview where she's on television and she shows the footage of... And

[00:15:21] she explains this was not the photo shoot for the album cover. That she used a lion for the album

[00:15:27] cover. And then the record label said we should film some promotional videos. And she said,

[00:15:31] I'll only do it if you get the same lion that we had the last time. And they weren't able to

[00:15:37] and brought in a different lion. And as soon as she sat down next to this lion, it attacks her.

[00:15:45] And it's like jaws open at her head type attack.

[00:15:50] Yeah. And you can watch it. I mean, was that maybe Johnny Carson?

[00:15:54] That was not Johnny Carson. I don't know who that was. Now on Wikipedia, it says that she

[00:15:58] also showed this footage on the Sammy Davis Jr. show, which I would love to find that one because

[00:16:03] apparently it's her, Sammy Davis Jr. and Richard Pryor watching the footage. And that I have to

[00:16:10] find that interview clip because I'm sure that their reactions to it are also unbelievable.

[00:16:17] Let me tell you though, what is also crazy about it is her husband, there's two guys run into like

[00:16:27] pull the lion off of her instantaneously. One of them being her husband, the other one being the

[00:16:34] lion, the handler or whatever. But that's love right there. I mean, he did the moment.

[00:16:40] I would not attack a lion for most people, but

[00:16:43] even the moment of lion attacking the woman you love, I got to think I'm going to run in and pull

[00:16:50] it off. I would like to think that I would run at the lion, but man, that is some bravery and

[00:16:57] some love on Richard Rudolph's part. I want to ask you a punchline related

[00:17:01] question real quick. Sure. If we had done this episode, let's say eight years ago,

[00:17:08] right before punchline puts out the album lion, how hard would you have pushed for the band to

[00:17:15] try to recreate that album cover for the lion album cover? Yeah, I wish I had known about this

[00:17:20] this album cover. I swear to you, I'm not making this up that I've always wanted to have like an

[00:17:26] album cover with another cheetah. I thought it'd be so badass if it was like a well put together

[00:17:34] photo and there is a live cheetah in the photo, sitting there like a band member and stuff.

[00:17:39] Even if you guys did like a pet sounds type cover where you're just like feeding goats.

[00:17:45] We need some much calmer animals. I think animals on album covers are awesome. I always thought an

[00:17:50] awesome album cover would be everybody in our band in punchline, like with all of our pets.

[00:17:56] I'd be holding two cats. You know, everybody has pets in the band. I thought that would be

[00:18:02] such an awesome album cover. But no, I don't think my band agrees with me.

[00:18:07] I would see that album cover, literally do it like any of the Weezer self titled albums where

[00:18:12] it's literally just a backdrop and all of you just stand in there holding pets and I'd be like,

[00:18:15] I got to check this album out. Imagine if you somehow got if it was like everyone was sitting,

[00:18:22] arranged in a really cool way. And all the animals were also sitting looking straight ahead.

[00:18:27] How would you I don't know. I'm trying to think how many dogs and cats are in punchline. Others.

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[00:21:13] on all podcasting apps. Amazing album cover aside, it did not lead to sales unfortunately

[00:21:23] for many repertine partially because the lead single inside my love many radio stations refused

[00:21:31] to play for the lyric will you come inside me? Oh wow. Yeah, I mean there's no doubt about it.

[00:21:41] These many repertine songs are sexual like a loving you is a very sexual song. It's it's almost

[00:21:48] as if when she hits those high notes that's like I don't know orgasms right and she says

[00:21:56] there's even things that are like she says lines where it's like and when you

[00:22:00] ooh, you know and and things it's I think it's she knew what she was doing. They knew what they were

[00:22:07] doing here literally the the first two lines are loving you is easy because you're beautiful

[00:22:11] making love with you is all I want to do. Yeah we're not beating around the bush here or maybe

[00:22:16] we are beating around the bush. It's quite literally but I also think I also think that

[00:22:22] if you needed me to have evidence that that a guy wrote this for a girl to sing versus the other

[00:22:29] way around I feel like a girl would have come up with a prettier way to say making love with you

[00:22:36] is all I want to do like that's that's some dumb guy romance right there. Well you know and

[00:22:44] and only Minnie Riperton could make lyrics like that sound so beautiful gorgeous. Yeah now we

[00:22:53] got to get into some sadness on boy do we it was a year later on August 24th of 1976 that Minnie

[00:23:02] revealed on the tonight show that she had undergone a mastectomy due to breast cancer

[00:23:07] and at the time of her diagnosis she found out that her cancer had already spread to her lymphatic

[00:23:13] system and she was given about six months to live at that point keep in mind she's in her

[00:23:19] mid-20s at this point mid to late 20s when she eventually passed away in 79 she was 31 so this

[00:23:25] is all happening mid to late 20s. One positive thing that I can say though in 76 while we're

[00:23:34] sitting here with the sadness of everything is her friendship with Stevie Wonder continued

[00:23:40] to the point that she sings on the song Ordinary Pain on Songs in the Key of Life an album that

[00:23:46] many consider to be one of the greatest albums of all time yeah and then Stevie Wonder collaborated

[00:23:53] on a song with her on her next so like it seems like whatever that producer relationship was

[00:23:59] turned into a genuine friendship all the way till the end yeah with her. Yeah so after she revealed

[00:24:06] this in 76 I mean they said she was given six months to live but she did get a good bit more

[00:24:11] than that she continued touring in 1977 and 1978 she became the national spokeswoman for the

[00:24:18] American Cancer Society's 1978-79 campaign but during the recording of her final album Minnie

[00:24:26] her cancer had progressed to the point where she was in a great deal of pain and in her final

[00:24:30] singing appearance on TV her right arm remained in a fixed position during her performance you know

[00:24:36] near the time where she died at one of her last concerts she changed the end of Loving You we

[00:24:41] talked about that Maya Maya Maya line she changed it to Maya Maya Ringo Maya Ringo was the nickname

[00:24:48] for her son Mark and then she died on July 12th 1979 in the arms of her husband and that Sunday

[00:24:58] following a funeral service attended by more than 500 mourners she was put to rest in the Westwood

[00:25:05] Village Memorial Park Cemetery in LA and Stevie Wonder paid tribute to her during an episode of

[00:25:11] Soul Train after she died several artists contributed vocals to tracks she had recorded

[00:25:16] before her death to help her compile her husband Richard's final tribute to his wife called Love

[00:25:23] Lives Forever included in there among others were Peebo Bryson Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder

[00:25:30] and her last single Give Me Time was released in 1980 so at only 31 years old Minnie Riperton

[00:25:40] passed away Maya Rudolph being I believe seven or eight years old at this time like one of the

[00:25:46] other bummers in a weird way is we talk about like legacy right I think that as far as Minnie

[00:25:55] Riperton being alive was concerned Loving You was probably just this song that was really popular

[00:26:02] for a little bit at the start of her career it's kind of a bummer that when you look at like

[00:26:08] it as a pop culture icon it was almost 20 years later that it started showing up

[00:26:15] everywhere showing up in movies it became sometimes for comedic effect but it became

[00:26:21] this thing where in movies two characters in love would sing this song or it'd be the cue

[00:26:28] for two characters in love it would either be that or it'd be a joke about someone not being

[00:26:32] able to hit the notes that she could hit but like I don't think she ever got to experience the song

[00:26:39] being the full-blown phenomenon that it is now at the time it was just the biggest song that she

[00:26:45] was able to release at that time the song wasn't even that far in her rearview mirror at the time

[00:26:51] that she died I mean it was a hit in 75 she died in 79 yeah that's four years ago that's a blink of

[00:26:58] an eye and she had a lot more music to make and uh you know when you dive into her catalog

[00:27:06] I mean it's awesome it's awesome soul r&b kind of some am gold of the 70s uh hey you know matt

[00:27:16] a lot of mini ripperton songs were sampled and rap songs in the 90s tupac dr dre a tribe called

[00:27:22] quest they all sampled mini ripperton at one point or another there's nothing that you could

[00:27:27] find or watch about mini I watched a bunch of interviews with her that doesn't make you just

[00:27:35] love her yeah no she seems incredible um chris I have a question because when I was looking at

[00:27:42] the ways this song was used in pop culture there was one thing that didn't make any sense to me

[00:27:46] when I read it so maybe you can give me some more context here it says in the early 2000s

[00:27:52] VZ used a clip of the song in a tv commercial where the song was played during a Pittsburgh

[00:27:59] Steelers game to the dismay of the players and the fans in the middle of the commercial

[00:28:05] it cuts to a scene at a music store where an employee of the stadium sound crew was trying

[00:28:11] to buy a copy of who let the dogs out by using a check what does this mean this this was the most

[00:28:18] confusing sentence structure I've ever read in my life do you know this commercial at all

[00:28:23] I do not know this commercial but I can only ascertain from what you told me that

[00:28:29] the idea of the commercial was they wanted to get the crowd fired up but then maybe accidentally

[00:28:36] or instead played a song that would not get a football team and crowd loving you got it okay

[00:28:42] he was trying to buy who let the dogs out and he only had a check but so he had what's so funny

[00:28:48] about that is that is who let the dogs out gonna get gonna get the Steelers crowd fired up I mean

[00:28:56] famously if if they knew what they were doing they would have had the guy buying a copy of

[00:29:02] sticks renegade to play at the Steelers game because that is what they play at the Steelers

[00:29:06] game to get the crowd fired up I just pulled up the commercial I do remember this commercial

[00:29:25] I don't care what stadium you work for all right if you want to write a check for who let the dogs out

[00:29:30] I'm still gonna need to see some my date I gotta show you this Chris

[00:29:33] It'll get you in, out and on with life

[00:29:37] Backing this up for a second tell me if you can figure out who's playing the guy working at the record store

[00:29:45] Oh that's I think that's a young Charlie Day that is Charlie Day yeah

[00:29:51] Wow just words colliding all over the place so we got a young Charlie Day in this commercial too

[00:29:56] Okay so as far as Minnie Riperton goes you know her the song lives on I would assume that

[00:30:06] all of our listeners listening know this song I do have a game for you today Matt

[00:30:11] All right let's do it we'll play we'll play a little game to raise our spirits a little bit

[00:30:16] Yeah because we left on a sad note we need we need a happy ending we'll play a game

[00:30:20] All right yeah let's get let's get our spirits high let's play along at home let's go

[00:30:26] The day before Loving You went to number one this company was founded as a partnership between two

[00:30:33] guys named Bill and Paul to develop and sell basic interpreters for the Altair 8800

[00:30:41] I don't even know what half of those things were um I'm just gonna say Blackberry I don't know

[00:30:48] That would be Microsoft that would be Bill Gates and Paul Allen

[00:30:53] I was sitting here being like he's probably going to be talking about Apple so I was waiting

[00:30:56] to hear the word Steve like Steve and I didn't and then I just gave up immediately I should

[00:31:01] have went with Microsoft what a dummy all right off to a bad start yeah Microsoft started the day

[00:31:07] before Loving You was the number one song that's crazy all right okay are these all things tied to

[00:31:14] all things May of 1976 all things tied to this song in one way or another okay got it and you're

[00:31:21] not getting any multiple choices all right perfect here's another one this should be an

[00:31:25] easy one who is Maya Rudolph married to oh my god I don't remember this I genuinely don't remember

[00:31:36] was it Fred Armisen no I don't know who it'd be P.T. Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson that's right

[00:31:44] she is married to PTA yep damn I'm a dummy man this is not good this is off to a terrible start

[00:31:51] how many questions are there there's four more all right I think I'm gonna get one I thought you

[00:31:55] were gonna get all six but apparently I was wrong okay a few weeks later on April 30th of 1975

[00:32:07] this ended a few weeks later 19 April 30th of 1975 this ended ended this ended what the

[00:32:22] fuck does that mean I feel like this is something super obvious less than a month after Loving You

[00:32:27] was the number one song I know listen that's fine I'm assuming it's like a TV show that ended or

[00:32:34] something maybe we can maybe we could even say that this song now this song had nothing to do

[00:32:39] with this ending yeah I feel like this has nothing to do with anything this absolutely has nothing

[00:32:43] to do with this ending well it's not mash because that was into the 80s so what's another giant

[00:32:49] ending oh this is the biggest ending of the 70s believe me was it roots the end of roots no

[00:32:58] oh that would be the Vietnam War oh yeah that would be important too the biggest ending in

[00:33:04] the 70s uh yes North Vietnamese troops captured Saigon on April 30th of 1975 thus ending the

[00:33:11] Vietnam War you're out for three Matt boy this is the worst this is the worst performance I think

[00:33:16] I've ever given on this show yeah maybe we shouldn't record this early come on you got to

[00:33:22] get these last three boy do I all right let's go three days before Loving You went to number one

[00:33:29] that said this would be April 2nd of 1975 this Chilean American actor known for Game of Thrones

[00:33:37] Narcos and the Mandalorian was born in Santiago Chile Pedro Pascal you got it okay

[00:33:44] yeah finally got one okay here's a good one on the day that Loving You went to number one

[00:33:53] this rapper songwriter and record producer who is a founding member of Three Six Mafia

[00:33:59] was born in Memphis Tennessee fuck I don't know who's in Three Six Mafia I'm just gonna

[00:34:06] go with a random guess of a rapper who I think may have been associated with

[00:34:11] Three Six Mafia is it too short no it is Juicy J wouldn't have gotten there all right I thought

[00:34:19] you knew about all the 90s rap Three Six no no okay one more and you better get this one

[00:34:27] well let's see my standing is that I was correct with my one prediction so far on the day after

[00:34:34] Loving You went to number one this actor known for playing a doctor on TV was born in South

[00:34:41] Orange New Jersey oh this was uh Zach Braff yep you got it he was born boy Zach Braff yeah you

[00:34:48] got two you got two there I had a feeling the second you said doctor in 75 or yeah 75 I was

[00:34:54] like oh Zach Braff was born in 1975 you know way too much about Zach Braff then you said New Jersey

[00:35:01] and that sealed the deal for me oh yeah okay um well Matt do we even have to ask no this is

[00:35:09] Thunder this is a certified Thunder you know we don't know how to get that certification to you

[00:35:13] but but we love you Minnie so yes Minnie Riperton rest in peace sir rest in peace knowing that you

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