What I'm gonna. I'm meant to fix my hair before I came on.
I didn't fix it right here. This is real life, kids, this
is real life, behind the scenes, real life. The first thing in
the morning and I washed my face, thresh my teeth. I have not
made coffee yet. It's just be the hottest day of the week here in
Los Angeles and totally cool down tomorrow. So I'm very excited. I'm James.
Do you even know who I am? It just says right through on
the side there, I'm gonna. I feel like I'm in a new season.
I'm coming into a new season this first half of the year. Oh
yeah, you can watch those episodes. Yeah, but I feel like now
I'm coming into a newer season. You know. I'm always reinventing and inventing
myself both. I always like trying to start new things or change things up
because I do some different things. And it's been and but the strips happening.
The WJA strike just ended, so we stopped the SAG after. But
that forced me into kind of a different because of living here in La to
a mindset. My people who are sick are doing better. I'm still involved
with they're doing better, so I had a little more time to myself.
I actually took a mini vacation. It was too short, but I had
to help somebody and I just just whatever it is. But I was able
to leave lad in a while. That's what was mentally I needed that.
I started kind of a new tep of new shows. And I also I've
been looking back, so I mean, I've been looking at my sos.
All this kind of stuff is happening. So I just feel like I'm in
a new season. I lost weights. I'm so far about fifteen pounds less
than I was two months ago, and that's I feel differently about that.
I feel differently. I'm really it's like I've been a new a new stage.
I am stressed at all the time looking I'm on the large but that's
how I'll figure out managing all that. But there's some greats in the middle
of all that, there's some great stuff. And you know, I was
looking at I said, well, first of all, I started this new
series of shows, jil J E this evening and jil J after dark.
I don't wam. I was think about one night going and be kind of
funny. I mean the jokes always have made jilj after dark blah blah blah.
But I have created these shows. I've done maybe a handful of episode's
of Reach, and they've been eye opening. They've been so much fun.
It's a whole dron vibe at nighttime. And I'll say at late night,
and I don't have to rely on famous people or famous guests. It's like
people come on. I get a nice little crowd at night and there's a
whole world of insomniacs. We work late at night now and stuff. But
love I've been having get My guests have been my friends have come on and
joined me. And last night I was on. I was on last night
for three hours and forty eight minutes. Didn't I even seem like it even
though I did. The Idea was on for two hours. Idea was on
for two hours day and then people are actually watching and listening to and thank
you afterwards comments on you know. It was just that was so much fun.
It was so funny. I put it on in the background and I
was like, okay, because my morning show, I do you have This
Morning, which is very popular much about two hours of that one. People
are like, no, we put on in the background we sleep or I'm
doing work or clean the house. So I listened to you and that's what
I used to do with certain people. So it's kind of cool that I
again have retro going backwards. It's reminding people of that time period. And
I shot all time on people. People put on podcasts stuff and they kind
of walk around you stuff. So I'm finding because I'm like, I'm gonna
get the numbers, and you guys are amazing. The numbers are really good.
I'm like, I'm doing this. I have I have college. You
can't get people to watch a fifteen minute video and I'm doing three hour far
because who are watching them? We'll listen, Joe. It's it's actually amazing.
Oh, I speaking on my nail polish the other night as somebody and
that was that's somebody who's I get. I'm they're a fan of mine anyway,
but they pop every once in a while on my chats live chats and
otherwise I recognized the handle, but I wouldn't say I don't. I don't
think they're huge fans of mine, and I don't want I don't want it
whatever. I don't think, I don't feel want me. But they came
on and saw my nails and it's a guy and basically saying I'm old school,
like this was too much, and then left, I'm out, so
I'm out, and then they're her from them again on a chat and that
that was racis because I mean, you haven't pay my nails. Okay,
who cares? I grew my hair along. Okay, I'm not trying.
It's actually nothing. I'm not trying any statements. I'm not trying. I
feel like I'm I'm a man, I'm whatever. You know, but what
that means to me, I don't have any I'm just doing something different,
switch things up a little bit, because it's life. Paying my nails doesn't
change anything about my life. Just I'm paying my nails a lot. I'm
being paying the nails a lot of a lot of rock stars and artists have
been paying nails for years. Usually deduce these stars used to be black.
It was black. It's I'm an entertainer. I just I e changed my
looks. So as I shot off my goates and as I leave it up
and my hair is gray, I don't change it like I've dyed my hair.
Just it's all just it's all, it's all stuff, it's all outside
trimmings. I don't I don't rely on my fingers for success. They're just
they're they're they're functional and and no one, I mean la, I get
a lot compments actually on it from guys that like it. I mean that
the young kids are doing it. Nobody even cares, like nobody, nobody,
nobody's my hands. That took me off Gardener. But I was like,
wow, there are people out there who are so closed minded, and
it's like it's different. It's different when I understand you're saying from me,
I just would I would because for years for me, I wouldn't be on
Nils either. Fore year it's like, that's's not me. I mean tattoos,
you know folks who were like I would never get tattooed. That stuff.
I get that stuff. I'm like, that's that's pretty standard, you
know stuff. I get that that's such preference for your body. But I
mean some of the stuffs like oh okay, that's what that's what we're doing.
But I just thought that's very interesting. And people sometimes people just are
like, no, it's too much for them, and I'm like, I'm
fully who I am all the time. I mean, I'm whoever I am
at any given time, and I thought all kinds of subjects and that's something
too, I'm enjoying. Between these shows they read the top like last time
we talk about music, there we got and then we got just a safe
talk about angelic voices. They to start talk about the Jackson like we had
talks about We went deep down and dived down and the chat was involved and
my co hosts were involved, and it was such a and I think it's
well contribute to the Frogner. But the whole thing I say for me is
that it I have a new lease on life because I know that I was
like, I'm trying to find ways to stay engaged, and it's really new
and different, and I've really fall into the space of the fans, and
the fans time what they want a lot of times and keep well, you
should do this, you said that I write I write it down. I
have these things I write wild cards are write down and then I just I
think about it and then maybe I think I'll try this or I'll try that
and see what happens. And you guys dictate kind of what you didn't even
show up, you show up, and it dictates kind of what I do.
And it's been very interesting thing because I I there's there's some shows I've
cut, other shows I haven't one of my other shows I do. They
wanted to live after show I attracted. Somebody big wants to be on my
show. I do it and so far as audio only, I do it
when I feel like doing it. And but they're enjoying my nostalgia trip.
So I don't know. I've just it's been just I'm feeling pretty good professionally.
I'm also doing organizing again, a little more organizing again. That keeps
my dexterity up. And you just I just love seeing the faces people when
they're so happy after I clear a space for them or make something make or
help them with something that actually got to call somebody actually after this and book
for next week. Actually, it's wonderful. It's a wonderful feeling. As
I'm in my mid fifties, I'm just like this is I'm actually I'm doing
stuff I want to be doing. I just uploaded a book that's coming out
hopefully end of the week or a beginning next week. I have an EP
out right now with somebody that I will produce and rites and that's out now.
And I we're a new song last night. I actually completely new song
last night here on my little computer. And so say it's been I'm feeling
creative again. I'm feeling like there's I'm trying some new stuff and it's working.
And also I'm looking back. I you know, I have my brother
Inn, and I've been going to record stores here in La like Amba CD
Trainer and finding old music. And I have so for me, I have
everything, right, so I have I have my I have CD players,
I have CD, I have what do you call it this ben? I
have walkman, I have tape players, boom boxes, DVD laser did I
have all. I have everything. I keep all and it all works.
All this stuff works, so I literally can buy whatever format. And I've
been reading about cassettes making a comeback finally, kind of weird. Finol is
always selling, and then CDs are making a come back to you because there's
because not everything is out there, not everybody. There are some people who
don't just want the hits. There are folks who enjoyed full albums and album
tracks and rare tracks and B sides and they're not always on Spotify or Apple
Music or where you fire Pandora. They're literally just out of prints. They're
not they're not or they're just they're just out there in the world. And
so I've been trying to for years. I've been doing the I've been collecting
prints, stuff and office proteges and anybody's written songs for I try. So
I'm going I'm going in my other bedroom and trying to pull out all my
records and tapes and can set singles and everything and gather in one place all
my princes and prince related stuff and see what I have. So when I
go out there to look for stuff, I know what I need. And
so far it's been good. I've only bought one duplicate of something, but
the album is so rare that I'll have to go over. It's fine.
I like the album, but I have I've been fine. I was going
through all yesterday. It's been fun going through time and seeing because I was
doing it back in the day. Thank god, I was buying stuff back
in the day because I have it. Someone I said, some stus out
of print or now super expensive since Princess passed. So but I just ordered
some stuff last night, really cheap I found on ebaying. That's I just
told me. It's on its way coming on to twenty ninth. I love
it, so that's fine. Cold things coming, I mean, really inexpensive.
But luckily this I have all formats. Might just buy it, have
it and then we can we'll assess it. And I have adapter, so
I buy. I have a cassette adapter. Was I was like, I
can buably. You get into a computer. So I first just gathering thing
and just really look at all this stuff. It's just it's it's been great
since the Princess statis kind of slowly taking his time releasing stuff. They have
a new think coming out of course with Diamonds and Pearls in October. But
also I've been reading Office, but I'm reading all these books on him at
his writing process and the song process, and that's fascinating too. But this
is inspiring me. But just going back in time and I'm finding a few
things back in time, which on my Patreon I share patreon dot com slash
James Jr. I always share all that stuff on there with my patrons.
But it's it's gonna be it's it's been I feel like I've been a new
a new era coming up, and I'm hoping it's a good one. It's
gonna be good. But it's it's kind of exciting, all right. But
it's keeping me busy. I mean, I'm seriously between family and that I'm
tapped out for the most Sorry, but I've been really doing my best to
find time for friends, find time for certain people. I've been really doing
that. It's very important, not just because it's important to me. I
mean I need I personally need breathers. I just can't. I can't all
work. I don't want to go. I don't want to be just a
workaholic all work all the time. So I don't want to do that.
But hopefully you guys can catch me one of my lives, catch you on
And I also want to thank you guys last week. This show is a
top ten show. It's never a top ten show on audio never never,
never is. But for some reason, you guys were listening last week,
so all the listeners were listening to this. Thank you. That's why I
offered these shows audio and video. I took the after best TV model.
I used to work there, and you know what, but it's really good
because some folks can't sit down and have time to watch something and this thing
could be better. So I will always offer both. From most things,
some things are one or the other. So I worked that out. That's
all this is. There's actually a positive post. I mean it's my post.
Been a little sad, but I'm hanging in their folks, I really
am. I'm trying. It's not easily, but I'm trying. Fifty plus
everywhere. I'm James dot Junior and I'll talk to you next time.