Felicia Collins Part 2

hi this is Rupert G from the hello Deli and you're currently watching The Lettermen podcast welcome once again to the Letterman podcast my name is Mike Chisholm uh we're gonna do Felicia Collins part two coming up right here had a few people comment on the way we ended part one uh with Felicia revealing that David Letterman actually has Perfect Pitch we're gonna get right back into it with that Revelation um normally we would shoot an outro and uh I could blather on about a few things uh to finish the episode but full disclosure I was actually sick as a dog last week and uh we wanted to get the episode up so uh we four went four went or go foregone but it wouldn't be foregone we've foregone the no we for went we decided to omit the outro and just end it there uh um with the Revelation that David Letterman is uh in fact uh has is has a perfect pitch so we're gonna get right going on that Felicia is obviously a delight we get into a whole bunch of very cool uh Late Show Deep dive stuff with Felicia today uh we just appreciate her can't wait to have her on the next time uh got some great episodes coming up uh Jason zinnamon who wrote um the David Letterman the last the last giant of late night uh in 2017.

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if Dave knows what that is but he's got it so you don't have to be a musician to have perfect pitch it's just something you're born with yeah he would like be humming something and then we'd it'd be a whole segment later and it come back to his mind and he'd hum it again and it would be in the same key I would hold of the the guitar and go well I'll be darned that's the right key how did he know I mean it's 20 minutes later we've played five more songs since then and you know like there's a lot of three commercials and two or two interviews and he would just sing it you know just hum it because it was still on his mind from earlier and it would be in the right key I was like this man's got Perfect Pitch what was better his picture his drumming um well actually I just called his Pitch Perfect there you go there you go better than perfect I know there is nothing um well I just I can't I'm so happy doing this right now um okay so we get later on into oh there's a question when did Paul okay I as a as a as a viewer and a fan I always wanted to know about the second show going on and the second show going on was Paul talking in the microphone to you guys and gals um did was Paul's microphone to you all there right away or was that something that developed like after the horns showed up and all of that yeah that came a little later that wasn't right away okay but I you know what I can't tell you exactly when that happened maybe don knows yeah he probably does um and speaking of which let's talk about the horns um when the horn section showed up you know you you remix things a little bit more second keyboard is gone um the the the three horns show up bones shows up I I can imagine that the uh you know we've had him on the show the idea of how how amazing of a musical arranger he is um it seems that his skills coming into this thing and plus his history with Paul Blues Brothers all of that it seems to me that that was kind of a Perfect combo you're gonna add horns adding him as as as uh as well and the complimented skills that he has uh that sure gave the band uh much in my opinion it was a nod to kind of the big Tonight Show bands of old but with a new modern feel to it uh it must have been very cool for you like again loving the uh you know Sly and the Family Stone loving these big fun bands you must have been really excited when the horn showed up well um what you just said you just said it perfectly that it was sort of like a nod to the style of of the big band thing you know it's like a in a way it was it was a way to get a little bit of that at the same time as having our rock and roll band yep and it definitely opened it up to how much more we could do like even play-ons and I mean like after the horns got there then there was nothing that we couldn't play literally like from any genre at all having the horns just made made us go that extra few miles down the road to cover the whole Thruway after that you guys I like like that's the if I were to say there's a genre that I would like the CBS Orchestra to put an album out that was just one genre it probably would be like a like a like a blues Funk like a funk band like you guys were again I I attended the show I think it was 05 back that was Eddie Brill would have been the uh I I remember seeing in my memory uh dance through the music and Eddie Brill getting to play that sing the the low part I had somebody yeah and and like that band to me if there was one song that would kind of encapsulate what you guys could do that was it and you had the place just lit up um were there ever any times I know you played that song in particular quite a bit were there ever any songs that um kind of like when you talk about Cyndi Lauper I I don't want to play those I played those songs too many times was there ever any songs that you played too many so many times where you actually got a little bit bored of it or did you never feel that never felt that oh I love hearing that nope not once to play something that often where we would get sick of it right it just was impossible to happen amazing I I'm so us people who love this show so much uh love hearing that there's so many of you that are so grateful and actually were present in the moment knowing how grateful you were and how special of a time it was and when when we talk about this and it comes out uh that's such a cool thing that's that's what we would hope to hear now let's go the other way were there ever any songs where uh you know during rehearsal okay we're gonna play this one here uh Felicia you're gonna sing that one there something like that where you're like yeah right on were there any that was sort of uh your favorites to do oh yeah we all had our favorites what were some of yours yeah we had we had to you know like be conscious of making sure that that everybody got to do their favorites you know not just me or not you know not just any one person like everybody had their favors everybody brought songs into the band everybody suggested songs and everybody had songs that they loved and they loved singing and playing and uh Paul just found a way to to have it all happen like what we could we could get to the mall because we played every day so we we could get to anything and and the fact that those guys were so good they were such awesome musicians that it wasn't an imposition to ask for a new song to be learned because they could learn it like that it was not you know it was never like oh God now we gotta learn this it it it was they were so instantaneous with with it that you you could suggest like hey let's play you know I want you back back tomorrow well not that because I'm sure they already knew that but whatever you know Shame by Evelyn Champagne King it's like yeah you knew that they could learn it in three minutes so it did it never bothered them no no one was ever bothered by being asked to learn a new song because we could learn it instantly yeah and and we all had our favorite sure my favorites it changed over the years because we would have different ones in rotation yeah so like you know it ended up where some of my favorites were only so much oil in the ground I love there's a performance of you singing that and there's a there's a video of you singing that entire song online um that that was I don't know if you did it on the show or if it was just somebody captured it during a break but anyway yeah it is fantastic highly highly recommended lasted like 15 minutes because sometimes we don't know like when we're coming back from commercial like it's right you know they'll count it down and then stop it and then we have to keep going you know but we never know and then all of a sudden it's like three two one that was just bang you know we just ended up you know we just never know so we Paul's getting the feed in his ear from the A.D and he's the one that that is keep you know letting us know when we're gonna wrap it up and he has to balance that and you know he I guess it became second nature to him like he could he really knows how to do that how to another song that I love singing was a weak as I am by uh skunk and Nancy that was one of my favorites and it would all and all my favorites were like kickoff songs by kickoff songs I mean the ones that we would start to set with the first the first song yeah for the monologue would be the kickoff song uh there was one and I'm gonna oh this could be a high wire act that just I fall and fall on my face on there was one that you did the lead vocals on that going out to commercial um it started like this and then you kicked into the vocal right away after that do you know what I'm talking about when I say that important no okay it doesn't matter I'll find it and I'll send it to you because I know that I know and then and then you kicked right into a vocal on it um I always loved when you sang and it was so uh it was so cool whenever you had a highlight performance um and and would would do that I love we talked with Will um about when uh um uh you know he he he did the big version of um I can't believe that left me for a second there um he had that major moment and I I just loved what you guys did and how you you elevated that song um were there any other moments like that where you guys were asked to play a certain song and elevate it up that come to mind when uh that were a highlight for you well you know there weren't many like that yeah that was that was like oh my God will and that's like a famous that's such a famous performance in itself I can't really say that that's part of a group of things that happen like that that was very that was very special very special and Will was just awesome he was so good oh my God playing and blocking he's moving around he ends up on top of the cake yeah and then hit that high long note at the end I mean he was just man I have to give him his prompts will Lee is so major he is so wicked he is such a genius and so so gifted such a badass and maybe he gets the best guy award uh yeah I mean he and by the way your part in that was amazing as well Don just said that and I totally agree your part in that was was unbelievable as well uh but I want to talk about your vocal wrench you have a hell of a vocal range too like you hit them high notes as well when you when you go for it um you know do you do a lot will talk when he was on here talked about his vocal exercises that he does he's like he's like I'm pretty religious about it half hour a day kind of a thing do you spend a lot of time with your uh uh warming up this piece I warm up before a show you know before I got I don't do vocal exercises every day because I I I I'm I guess I don't really consider myself like a singer singer like that you know but um before I have to sing could have fooled me Felicia well thank you but he's um he's more disciplined and more Vigilant you know than I am that's why he's like light years ahead of me and and it's probably because of things like that that you know he he does his exercises every day maybe I should adapt more of willy-isms like now I think whatever you're doing you should just keep doing as far as I'm concerned but what do I know um you got it yeah yeah uh don just said that I might have been thinking of Soul Survivors express way to your heart I think that's I think that's it I think that's exactly the song there it is and then you kick right in what did I say yeah I've been trying to get to you there it is thank you oh my God that's the moment right right oh my God you just gave me goosebumps girl you just put them all over me just by doing that God killer I love you that's um that's a song I snatched from my childhood and and Paul let me do it like that that's what I meant like you could just ask for things and it would happen that's why I love that gig so much I would just pull songs that that meant something to me as a child and next thing I know we're doing it on television how could you not love a gig like that oh I could do that thank you for that pulled on I appreciate that um that's the moment I'm gonna okay so the weird thing about the expressway to your heart yeah soul survives Expressway here um I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna listen to you sing that lyric just on this the way you just did that I'm gonna do that like five times I love that you just brought back the um I want to talk about the show within the show again for a second the the the clever stuff um will talked about how Paul would um crack you guys all up by I don't think you know what I'm going to say here he would he would pick uh the folks who came out either with a toupee or a weave or some sort of uh follicle assistance of of some sort some sort of uh assistance I love it um he that's hilarious to me um were there ever any other kind of inside jokes that you could think of as I mentioned that where you guys had your own little thing going on otherwise start I mean once we got the ear monitors yeah and we could speak to each other unbeknownst to anyone else in the world game on enemy musicians are every musician I've ever met is pretty much someone who could have had a calling as a comedian also and just the jokes cracked constantly during the show you know it's non-stop it is non-stop the things that that I'm hearing in my ears and staying in other people's ears yeah yeah that went on constantly like constantly I love that um I love that you miss it so much uh because so many of us feel the exact same way I mean ah gosh that that that uh that show was one of those things where it put so many people to bed again for decades like and I can I could say that for decades it was the last thing no matter how my day my day could have been up high it could have been the the lowest of the low but when you guys um finished my day with me it felt like family and and and and uh you know that's why we do that's why we do the show is we wanna we wanna acknowledge that and basically try and keep that communal thing alive and learn about these little stories that you're talking about it's so amazing Felicia to hear you you talk about this um I want to be respectful me too Mike let me tell you you doing this you know because I miss it so much it's making me so happy to just go back through my memories and share them with you because you're helping me hang on to it as well I appreciate it a few people have expressed that sentiment to me and there's nothing there's not a lot of a higher compliment that I could take than that so thank you for that it's an honor to do this I don't know why I have this compulsion um you know I've talked about it a few times on the show uh I I I'm astounded how how quickly Johnny Carson was forgotten um and he's not completely forgotten but he certainly nobody thinks of him as the the biggest star in the world anymore and that's what he was um that's not gonna happen to you guys and gals on my wife I'm not going to let that happen and I I just feel the need to again you guys did so much great stuff but it was just so quickly forgotten because there was another show the next day and another show the next day and another show the next day and and and and and it's it's up to us to kind of pick up some of these amazing Treasures that were dropped and talk about them again and uh so this is this is such a thrill um oh the other thing too apparently you're not just uh uh you know a musical artist uh I someone told me that you with a blank piece of paper and a Sharpie can do amazing things apparently you're the greatest uh for a visual artist with a sharp um dare to elaborate well um I guess you're speaking of my uh visual art Talent if you will yeah before I mean I didn't go to school to study music but I did go to school to study art because I could always draw even when I was little and you know honestly I got to it's the only thing that I I'll say I mean every everything else that I speak about as far as I'm concerned is what's supposed to be a quote-unquote talent it's always like it depends on your gas you know talent to be over but when it comes to drawing I will totally let you know that I can draw like Leonardo da Vinci oh there we go what kind of stuff do you like to draw I like drawing uh portraits of people uh with a pencil and because it's such a challenge to make it look like a black and white photograph and um you know I got I'll do color when it's like really a special occasion but I really love pencil I that's like my favorite and I've done I've given gifts to people portraits of themselves or their loved ones you know where I just look at a photograph and I'll just draw it and and that's it and that got me into art school you know that that got me in they were like I remember going for my interview when I was 18.

yeah and uh I we left after we had our little initial meeting we had to put our portfolios down on the table and then they sent us out to lunch so I went out and just walked around I didn't know anybody and have anybody to talk to so I just came back to the room just to wait until it was one o'clock when we would reconvene and I saw that they had given marks to our portfolios so I went and over and looked at mine and they gave me an A plus and I called up my mother and I said ma I said I'm in she said they let you know already I said no but they gave my portfolio and plus so I know I'm getting the acceptance letter they're gonna let me in so um yeah that's and then I studied graphic design well and it's called advertising design and Graphics communication that's my my major and then the only thing I did with it was like probably make my slap t-shirt because that was the name of your band yeah yeah that was about it and my flyers well you clearly uh have impressed a lot of people with uh with that skill um and and again just being able I I wish I had uh that skill to be able to be to draw things like that it's it's it's it's a mystery to me but a beautiful one uh by the way if ever you auction off if ever you do auction off a guitar uh I'm definitely gonna be in the running for it but if and when I win that auction uh I will ask you to make a little drawing on the guitar and we'll hang it up are you a guitar player I but yeah unfortunately though I'm also a null guitar player so I I to the point where I'm a lefty so I play left-handed guitar okay so there's that I've got three of them I am good enough that I can Rhythm down or do it no no no no I actually get the left-handed guitar okay um I've got an ovation um and I've got a uh a really nice solid top takamini that I I keep in my my other office and and I I'll play that between clients and things like that but I'm I'm only good enough I know enough chords that I can basically sing along and you know Play Rhythm in a decent way that's that's all I am but I love it so much music just I'm a karaoke King I love that it just yeah Mike uh I have one I have a a fender uh I'm not a fan sorry a uh a Gibson Flying V uh an arctic white one that's well okay and again I don't play it very well I'm okay on the rhythm part of it but uh Lenny Kravitz is like I love Lenny Kravitz so much like so much and and he has an arctic white Flying V that he has and I was like I when I when I taught myself how to play these chords I'm like I just have to have that guitar uh it took a year and a half because Gibson they only flip their machines to make left-handed guitars once in a blue moon so I put the order in and they flipped them and I got it about a year and a half later so oh nice oh wow um but I'm terrible I'm terrible okay it's just enough for me to let it out a little bit but it gives you pleasure yes oh very much so very much so well okay this is something that I want to ask about you um and and we are going to get to the advertisement of of of what you're doing I want to get that out there too because I think that's really it's cool that you're doing this but um oh there's there's two things I want to touch on and they might be the same thing I'm not sure um when you and I started getting to know each other a little bit I talked about how you know if Walter and Company and end up making this an official deal and and I can expand I want to have very badly a second show called live at Letterman that just straight up focuses on the music of it and I kind of told you I said I want to do this and your immediate response which is one thing I just adore about you your immediate response was so do it like you just you want to do it so do it like you you seem to have this drive in you and this is the thing the other thing I want to marry it to because there there's no way I'm going to do a podcast with you this might be the only one we ever do you have a standing invitation to come back anytime but if this is the only one I have to tell me about it every day for something else to tell you good yes yes write it down you're in anytime you freaking want man I love it all right but I would be um I would I wouldn't be good at this job if I didn't ask you about being um a badass woman in a male dominated genre business all of that stuff and and I I almost think that the two might be related your drive um caused you to kind of push through and if you did receive resistance uh because of the woman thing you just kind of pushed through that and I wonder if if if that was a cognizant thing have you ever experienced that in something where you're like no I had to push through and that's where this drive came from because I am a woman having to prove myself um you know was it just that your guitar playing skills just like hey this is it you know and and you kind of mic drop let your talent uh speak for itself or you know what was it like coming up in this um in the world of entertainment uh being a woman many times having to be that much better than the the guy next beside you and again I'm making assumptions but I I think I'm bang on wow this wow there's so much in there which you just like this so much there's like a lot of yes and a lot of no okay all right let me just take a piece at a time sure well I think as far as it being harder on me as a woman I probably didn't even realize it okay until later I think I think that probably went over my head a million times like I didn't even know until maybe as I got better then I then I could start to see like hey wait I'm just you know and then you'd have to like show them but the thing is with when it comes to music I think everybody's a Slave to the Rhythm so even if you want to be racist and if you want to be sexist if you're a Slave to the Rhythm you can't because if somebody if somebody can kill it you just give in to that I I really don't I never had to go through the whole thing battling uh sexism because I could play and that's all that mattered like to anybody who wanted to play with me like they didn't care what package I came in all they cared is like damn she sounds like that you know and that's yeah that's all that matters you know so in a way and kind of in the early days especially it was my Ace in the hall because I wasn't a million times better than all the guys but it would get me picked first because it was like well whoever's seen anything like this oh there you go I love that yeah a chick that can play like this was like sort of oh get that you know now it's like 30 years later girls who are five years old can play circles around my ass because I think things have changed but back in you know 1982 there weren't too many um guitar players playing the way guitar players play now yes oh yeah much less female yes you know but yeah yeah that was so that that was that was sort of my Ace in the something like that that that's what sort of gave me an advantage you know not not an advantage in a way like um uh what do you what do you call that when you it's not steroids no not like that look you're unique like I was thinking of I can't think of the term they use for uh you know that what they're trying to get rid of for uh black students oh diversification it's not even their term when they give you uh they try to you know you're there because of uh trying to get a certain quota filled black students in the college up in Canada we call that uh diverse you want to be have diverse standards or or or or what not but uh yeah they got they got turned for it down here because I remember they said that uh it's like affirmative action almost like acid there you go okay yeah it was it wasn't an affirmative action thing I gotcha Don just said it as well there you go yeah yeah it was just that being right and it was it was a novelty that where they didn't have to sacrifice the playing to to get the novelty right so so it worked to my advantage when I was younger it really did so I didn't have to fight that you know I didn't have to fight sexism in that respect when it came to the plane you know the sexism just happens when you're a woman in the world yeah um I I will say this uh you know you don't seem to suffer what so many of the people who worked for Dave and company over the years seem to uh have the Affliction of self-deprecation the way that some of them do but I'm going to go a step further and I'm going to say thank you for being the influence that you are my granddaughter who is my favorite human on the planet um looks at people like you and says I can do it and if people like you don't exist she doesn't say that and and I know for a fact that you stuck out the way that you did there are girls who picked up guitars who said I can do this because of you and and and I just want to say I appreciate so much that whether you knew it or not um you were carving a path in the jungle that would make a path uh to the fresh water a lot easier for for for girls out there so thank you for doing that and sharing your gifts with the world the way that you have sure so I'm pleased to have made that happen because it happened for me yeah you know seeing um I'm sure that had some kind of influence on me seeing uh Cynthia Robinson play in the trumpet and Sly and the Family Stone's band and um uh I got a chance to tell Paul McCartney at the Rock and Roll whole thing when he and I were chatting just he and I at on stage at they were all jamming up front and me and him were back there chewing gum and talking and me and Paul yeah yeah well I didn't mean it to say it like that but this wasn't no no no no no I don't it's fantastic fantastic it was shortly after his wife had passed away so um the first thing I thought of when he came over to talk to me was that expressed my sympathies and his wife had passed away because that's what was on my mind when I when I looked at him and he came over and said hello and wanted to tell me what he thought about me my guitar playing all I could think of was to say I'm so sorry about your wife and and then and he went right there and just wanted to talk about her and I told him that I said you know what when I saw her playing keyboards in your band as a kid I said I think that locked in something with me to let me know I could do what I had already wanted to do you know it just gave me a little confirmation and a little boost I said because here was a woman not just playing in a rock band but playing in Paul McCartney's bed absolutely yep yeah and yep and he just gave me this big hug and just you know he was grateful that that that she had done that for me and I and I saw probably a lot of other little girls too so it doesn't surprise me that that would happen from seeing me up there every night playing the guitar and then you know you get these other little girls going I'd like to do that you know especially little black girls absolutely yeah it's not something I would expect but it doesn't surprise me it's a tell me that um I love and I don't want to put words in your mouth but I love that you know you got game I I love the confidence that you have very very much and when you're up on stage absolutely like I I watch you and I see a confident uh like just artist with with where the light and the uh the Charisma just like you're so charismatic to me and I've always the ruse is working there we go there's that self interpretation that there it is what you were looking for you will never convince me it's a ruse ever um I want to talk about some of the things that you're doing right now and we're gonna isolate this part of the video and throw it out there to to see if we can promote the show as well God damn if I lived in New York there are so many things I'd be doing if I lived in New York that have to do with people who used to work uh uh for for Dave in some capacity uh whether it be stand up whether it was people working for the uh for the band The Musical stuff the collaborations that happen there are so great um you know Will's got the big concert coming up here you've got a very cool gig I would love to go see you and your band are playing is it the Sly and the Family Stone's greatest hits album is it uh Greatest Hits plus so what do you what are you doing excuse me what was that last one what are you doing and when are you doing it oh okay well we're doing it it's back by popular demand because we did it a year ago and it sold out and uh we're doing it's February the 15th Wednesday okay so what I call what I call love hangover day and we're gonna be at The Cutting Room which is my favorite Rock and Roll concert venue uh Club in New York City where is it it's 44 East 32nd Street in Midtown on the east side and it's just oh my God it's so beautiful and I'm friends with the owner Steve because I remember when he had the old Cutting Room way back in the day when we were just like young kids rocking and rolling around underground New York Rock clubs and and this place is just so beautiful and so we played we did it last year and I used the band that I had as my core band for uh Felicia's jukebox live which is something we were doing there every Wednesday for about five or six months before covet hit and it was like a pro night it was like not just the open mic it was a little bit different because it would be the professional musicians that would come and jam and uh if they weren't on tour they would come and get up on stage and it was a way for us to see each other and and be in contact again because they had closed New York's had closed so many of the rock clubs that you didn't get to see live music anymore and we didn't get to see each other anymore do you get to see the musicians and the artists and I knew everybody was missing that and I knew everybody was missing each other yeah so I started this this Jam night called uh Felicia's jukebox live which was like I called it the dope pro jam and everybody would come through you know like everybody who wanted to play Bill Burr would play drums and Chris Noth would get up there and sing the blues and oh you had everybody The Little Rascals and and um oh the uh the guitar player uh from Matchbox 20 I forgot his name but just whoever was around with Bernie Williams from the Yankees who is an awesome guitar player oh my god really oh my God Mike he plays guitar as well if not better as he played first base for the entrance I mean wow yes yes there's a compliment this is no exaggeration like just Google him and YouTube them you'll see what I'm saying he'll see what I'm talking about so just different people like you know uh Julio Fernandez from spirogyra and Santa St Victor and Liv Warfield and just I mean the list just went on and on and on like every week this would happen so I used the core band from that night to uh do this line of Family Stone thing and it was so hot last year like I said it sold out in the standing room only that we kind of had to bring it back again so we're doing it again February the 15th at The Cutting Room at seven o'clock and where can people get tickets um you can go online www.thecutting roomnyc.com I think and just follow the link to the um uh the the link to the events calendar perfect yeah uh how I I gotta ask uh how big is your Ensemble because it didn't slime the family Sloan have stone have like 28 members or something like that wasn't it how big is your back I'll tell you in slides there was Sly his brother Freddy yeah his sister Rose his cousin Larry Graham on the dress okay so Sly on keys on organ and vocals Freddy was guitar Rose played electric piano uh Larry Graham played bass yes Cynthia Robinson on trumpet uh uh Jerry on the saxophone and Gregor Rico on drums so there were seven seven members okay and our Ben there's eight of us because I have two keyboard players and one of them doesn't sing so yeah um I can tell you this uh uh when my wife and I get a few things into place here that's the kind of thing where we're jumping on a plane to go see I I I can't wait is someone recording it are you gonna do you record any of these gigs are they one of those things where it's like nope you gotta be in the moment to experience it our our there's a woman about she's the wife of the drummer Lee Finkelstein okay and she is our archivist and thank God for her because I mean I didn't know it was gonna happen when I started it but she had her perch up on the balcony and she would record with her excellent camera all the performances at The Cutting Room and they live you know in foreverness now because of that she'll be far as I know she's the only person who's filming but then okay are those other people take their cameras and they get shots and a little footage going on you know okay so check out The Cutting Room NYC for uh for those events that's fantastic um I guess as we I hate to say we got to close it off but we'll to be continued the next time please um as we kind of close off here what you want let's keep going I mean like Okay so I want to talk about Dave some more please let's talk about Dave some more we need to talk about David though you ever done a Dave portrait no I haven't but you know that's a good idea you got a lot of character in his face which because you know it's hard for me to just draw on command like that's probably why you know I can do it better with music on command and withdrawing I'm really happy The Muse kind of has to hit you and yeah yeah and Dave's got a face like that that would make me want to draw him yeah yeah yeah yeah how about Paul you ever grab Paul never drew Paul I never did I never drew anybody in the in the band I you know I haven't really been drawing that much in recent years but that's a good idea that's a good idea I need to get back on my portrait game and um so yeah I could probably do a picture Dave I would like to do a portrait of date and I'd like to do David on the drum set because to me that his his drumming wasn't just Whimsical I think he really would like for himself to be a drummer because he's so appreciative of the music and actually he could play like if he was to really do it every day I think he could really be a decent drummer because he would come to work every day right after his little rundown of his rehearsal then he will go behind the drums and place you know some doofcrack and I was like I said he's got good time and he loved it and he did it every single day for years until his um his heart surgery yeah and after that I think it he was I don't know he was careful about exerting himself on the drums but I felt like he missed it so much word I I remember I bought him a drum set I got him a um a rolling kit where he could listen in headphones you know he didn't have to electronic deals yeah yeah so that way he could play he could hear himself and he could he could dial up the intensity without really having to to uh use his body yeah to hit the drums that hard and that way he could still enjoy playing the drums oh that's beautiful I don't know I I had I've heard a lot of stuff I've read a lot of books all that I've haven't I've never heard that one I don't know if anybody's ever I don't know if that's ever that's that's really sweet that you did that that's very cool um something happened where I couldn't play the guitar and somebody came up with a way where I could yeah I know what that would mean to me absolutely I I also like the idea that Anton uh you know uh rehearses gets everything the way he likes it and then Letterman comes in and goes and messes up his drums I like the idea I like the idea of that happening at least once if not more than once that's great uh were there ever any bits like I think speaking of Anton he was in so many bits throughout the show uh whatever whatever it might be whether it's little soliloquies or monologues that he would do or you know Brian Ted is suddenly sitting on his lap as the creepy guy that kind of a thing Anton was always like that um I'm trying to think were you ever uh approached by any of the writers were you ever was there ever anything where it's like let's make Felicia part of the show uh that either didn't happen or that did happen that you uh you wanna that brings the memories I asked that uh there was one that did happen whereas they had um this big gigantic yellow top hat it was as big as what I'm doing here and it was supposed to be like a sign of Springtime coming so the camera would you know I started off the show where I'm wearing this big ass hat you know and then finally like after the first commercial or something that comes back the show comes back on and David started talking about you know the spring is in the air the springtime has come what are some signs that bring us from and then you see different people in the studio like well Dave for springtime I'm doing this and you see anyway they get to me and I take the big yellow hat off and there's a tiny little yellow one just like it with like a couple of robins and some robin's eggs or some stupid that I remember and the only other time I remember is when we that was March 4th 96 by the way don don just pointed that to me March 4th 96 so anyway keep going and this and this one I don't know if Dad knows about oh okay but he might know it because he seems like he knows everything yeah we were in L.A one of the times we were shooting the show in La for a week and um I got a call before we before it was time to get to the studio I think Daniel uh Paul's assistant called me and said like the producers or the writers want me to come in early we're gonna do a shot where the band is going to be in our underwear and I said should I just hang up on you now or and he laughed he said I kind of thought that's what you would say I said yeah they should have thought that too I said yeah I said that ain't gonna happen we're not the Red Hot Chili Peppers no no a thousand times no so then we I get there and they tried to do it but I'm the only one standing there fully dressed and these guys are standing in there in the boxers and I'm like why I mean sure that you didn't think I was gonna do that and uh there was no way that was happening so I guess it didn't make any sense with one band member standing there fully dressed so they scratched it I go that thought there was even a chance in the hell that's gonna stand near my underwear you know honey please the writers spend a lot of time in the dark let's talk about running jokes I think about uh you know Dave's uh the last one that I can really think of is is him going up to the live performer at the end and saying hey are those your drums and you know that how many times did he say that are those eardrums are those eardrums to the you know it just was you know continual yeah right you know and I love the long joke the jokes that go through there was a time where um Dave called Paul Johnny car wash for what seemed like ever uh things like that the cape uh the Cape is something that I think is really really cool um yeah right that was a really awesome I don't even know how long the cape went on for and and how many people got a chance to do it we had Vinnie favali was on uh he talked about he was one of the last ones that got to put the cape on Paul um that must have been a pretty cool thing to watch play out all the way oh that was great that that became like a a thing and I just loved it because I never knew who was going to be the person to come out and put the cape on fall like we we never knew until it happened and it was something I look forward to it was always a Friday show I think and it was the Blood Sweat and Tears uh right um child is the father to the man no that wasn't it what's the song Don um something about I'll I can't help but love you uh what was that song Come On Dan what's the song it's coming it's coming uh it's kind of a long title I love you more than you'll ever know Al Cooper sang it on the first Blood Sweat and Tears album that was called child is father to the man that's right okay all right so yeah I love you more than you'll ever know when we started that song yes and Paul would sing that and he'd be singing his heart out and then like after like after the second chorus then all of a sudden he would come out from behind the organ come out on the front of the stage and face the audience and he's just singing his heart out his heart is broken she left them and he's just dying and then at one point he dropped down to his knees and then like um Kareem Abdul-Jabbar would just walk out from behind the stage with a cape put the cape over and fall like like a oh she's a poor bastard you know and like get him up and walk him try to walk him out you know and Paul would like throw the cape off and come back and fall back down on his knees this was every week and it was hilarious I mean the musical piece was brilliant I mean it was great Paul setting his ass off yep the band sounded great it's a great song of course but just the surprise every week because I never knew who was gonna come out there and then finally it was actually James Brown because you know the whole the whole act came from James Brown's act absolutely yeah so and they all and they still to this day like will and and I'm certain when I have Paul on here he'll talk about it too talk about the highlights of late night one of the one of the greatest moments of Late Night with David Letterman was when they had James Brown on and and so there's some full circle things going on there yeah you know and uh whatever yeah there's a there's such a deep tie into James Brown and Paul shaver and eventually I think it was James Brown might have been the last one to do it to come out and put the cape on him and that just blew everybody's mind like oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and I remember the first time James Brown came on this show I mean to answer your one of your first questions like that just I was like yeah you know like wow that's royalty just one after the other like the people out he was going to be the um sit-in guest because we would often have a sit-in guest that would be on stage with us for the entire show and play the you know with them through the commercial breaks and one night it was James Brown so when he walked out in the afternoon for the rehearsal he was by himself there there was no Entourage you know no publicist no person to hand them his throat lozenges or you know yep it was just him yeah and he came out and he leans on the front of the keyboard he's talking to Paul and Paul is telling you know like introducing them to me and he already knew the other guys and um he's letting Paul's like telling them like you know we thought we would start with I got the feeling or whatever it was yeah you know and everything Paul uh James would just nod his head like yeah that's cool he was with whatever Paul wanted to do which really hit really touched my heart because you know everybody knows like James Brown is notorious for he runs a tight ship yeah he is the captain and he knows exactly what he wants to do and there's no margin for missing it you know like so for him to just give it up to Paul like that and just say whatever whatever you want to say whatever you want to do pop whatever you want to do and I just said wow he trusts Paul so much he has so much respect yeah for Paul that you know he's just letting Paul tell him like we're gonna play this James you know Paul called him Godfather but you know it's just he was so relaxed he wasn't worried about a thing he just knew he knew Paul had it and that has struck a chord with me that has never left till this day uh you well the markers like that mean something when a master comes in and just yep you know turn the trust of a master is one of those things and you truly know that you're uh you're collaborating at that point it's 100 collaboration where they're just giving what they give you give what you give and that's it and there's not a lot of worry on top of that Paul talks a lot in his book about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame I I mean never mind having this amazing thing being on the hottest uh in my opinion the best variety show of all time having all these people the same stage where the Beatles played first um all of these amazing moments the the other part of that and it's ironic the two times I went and saw the show live were the times there were no top 10 lists because Dave was at the desk I never saw a top 10 live because both shows that I went to I think one was Winwood in 05 right after the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Dave admonishing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for not putting you guys as a band as a house band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and he did the same thing the last time I saw uh in April uh of uh of of 2015 the same deal um now that notwithstanding of course it goes without saying that that band that you have all these moments if you watched any of the ceremonies the moments that were created with the recipients or the tributes to the recipients that you guys all put together as the house band for that of course you should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but never mind those are another set of moments that you got a chance to be a part of that any musician would be like like I remember once you were quoted on saying you know what someone could hand me a Grammy for the greatest song of all time I don't want that I want what I had on like late show and these moments that you had those were the important things to you I love that you love these moments so much um the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame you saw just as many special iconic one-of-a-kind moments in that as well is that something that's going to come back again or is that time passed now oh I think we had our day already okay so the pandemic kind of stopped it right no I think we think we were up before that I think oh really yeah I think the last time the band did it was 2016 Maybe and also with 18 you inducted somebody then yeah that was different that wasn't that wasn't us being the house band okay so that was you performing you performed yeah this happened where they had me come in and helped to induct sister Rosetta Tharp yes yes into the Rock and Roll thing because of her position as the Godmother of rock and roll and her being this awesome guitar player back when 1930s or whatever you know she played like a like it looked like an SG too it looks like it looked like a yeah a three pickup white SG yeah yeah and that was like unseen back then you know yeah yeah and she could Jam too she was Elvis's favorite guitar player he would always tell Scotty Scotty playing like play like Rosetta play like was that you know she definitely deserved her place in the in the Hall of Fame so yeah we just came back for that the horn Paul yeah and myself and the horn players and um we've played with uh Quest love on drums and um the Alabama Shakes uh bass player I can't remember his name I'm sorry oh gosh um but he was on base and um yeah that was that was the last time I was there as a performer yeah okay but for the previous you know decade and a half or whatever it was I mean what an experience that was decades two decades yeah so like how much prep went into that um quite a bit because we'd have to do that while we were still doing uh Late Show with David Letter exactly yeah yeah so that those would be like really those would be heavy heavy days because we probably rehearsed we might have had like about four rehearsal days leading up to uh yeah the Sarah the induction ceremony and you know we had all the material and you know things are coming in at the last moment because people you know the artists like they're being inducted they don't know exactly what they want to do or you know what I mean it's like yeah sometimes it's right down to the wire like what what she's gonna sing you know what does Aretha want to sing oh she doesn't know like what you know they don't they might not know what's sting want to do oh we don't he doesn't know yet what's wrong so you kind of just hanging until the last minute with some of it and then some of the other stuff you know you get to work on but then you have four days where it's finally decided and and then we have our rehearsals and there's so many people like we leave the Letterman show you might have grab a bite to eat and then go to Sir around the corner onto the big stage and um you know one by one I guess there'd be like an hour or an hour and a half with each Act you know for over the course of three or four days yep yeah yeah where we will just rehearse what they're gonna do for their induction and then it and then we you know then come time to we would do Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday rehearsals then Monday night would be the show so we would leave Letterman and we'd have a police escort to get it because we literally had to well now we we had like 20 minutes to get because we'd have to do the Letterman show dressed in whatever we were doing dressed in for the Rock and Roll whole thing but the guys that would be tuxedo so we'd have to be dressed for The Rocker Hall thing we'd have to have everything ready yep yep we'd have to play instruments that we we'd have our instruments sent over early to the Rockwell Hall of Fame and then have to play different instruments on The Late Show because we couldn't we didn't have time to pack up everything and bring it plus it had to be set because we would have been there already in the morning for the sound check and the production run through from like 9 00 a.m and then run back and do Letterman and you know be back on stage at 2 30 to the Letterman show then run out jump in the cars get a police escort across town to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony induction so it was for five days it was like you know like yeah but fun no no yes by the way you've just uh I think I I love there's a lot of Full Circle stuff Happening Here one of the full circle things is uh of course your band is the perfect band to be the house show band for an event like that where you have somebody getting up to right up to the event itself where they don't they're not exactly sure what they're gonna do there's a lot of looseness to it in the sense of what are we gonna play what aren't we gonna play you guys are the best adapters uh around you know how to adapt and and so of course you're the perfect band to uh to be part of that event I think so yeah of course because we have so much um experience at that you know we're so used to that yeah you can count on us you can rely on us yeah that's the thing I learned from Paul it comes comes down to him being able to rely on you when when the moment comes yep are you going to come through that's all that's what he cares about and and of course he picks the nicest people for his band because every single one of those guys are the mo the nicest people you ever met in your life yep yeah yeah you can tell kindness is is certainly uh uh um a definitive currency of all of you every single person that I've talked to and I mean there's a lot of kindness of uh this this show wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Rick shackman and the kindness that he showed me shecky is so kind to me and how he kind of got me started here uh when I moved over to Steve O'Donnell again Dave's one of his head writers for so long so kind and and everybody who's introduced me to the family the pants family um kindness is one of those things again with self-deprecation as well they don't take everybody seems to not take themselves so seriously uh but kindness is just is really really high up there on the list of attributes it certainly uh makes sense that your band stayed together with most of the key members uh you know most of the time you know the band really had the same members for the vast majority of the Run um and and I mean I just even loved when we were talking to you and I were talking about uh about Chez and and Bruce and you're like oh they're as far as I'm concerned they're members of the hand the whole way like yeah there's still that you have it's amazing yeah say their names too when I when I say the band members I include Chez of course yeah and I just I just love that and I love the camaraderie that you all had um any other okay uh actually there was a moment uh April 28 95 Dave came and danced with you apparently oh my God you just took that thought out of my mind just now yeah I literally you said it's almost like you saw it playing on my forehead and said it I'd love to take credit Felicia it was Dawn it was Don that did that but Don saw it playing on my head and said it ruined see I if I can only harness that for like Powerball oh man I gotta figure out how to do that but yes that Mo yes I just had that moment playing in my mind dancing with them sir who do I was like I said this man has done this before yeah yeah I don't I can't remember what why that happened but I remember stepping out from behind the little Bandstand wall and I and I remember Larry Zinn cracking up later because I had to unplug the um the earphone pack yep so this did you see the wires swinging around while David's danced Dave and I are dancing and you see the air pack wire swinging around yeah it changes the shot a little bit he's very very I do have two more things actually uh the first one is going to be um you know I I I wouldn't know who Warren zevonne is if it wasn't for your show um and I think that there's a lot of people who who would say that as well you know um you know Werewolves in London okay that one hit but the catalog went so deep and his songwriting was so deep but also whenever Paul would go away on a on a a religious holiday or something like that Warren zevonne would be the guy most times who were uh who was who was kind of Manning the band I guess if you want to call it that did he there's my question did he lead the band uh when he came in or were you guys leading him kind of telling him this is how we're doing it don't worry about it Warren it's gonna be a night off uh how did that how did that work um it's sort of like half and half like he could he could count on us to have his back but we gave it to him to be the band leader because we were doing his music for the entire show so it came down to like what he wanted to do it's like he knew he had his back but we we also deferred to him to be the band leader and to be the head of the band that night so you know we didn't just dismiss him like don't worry Warren but you know you just did what we say you know it wasn't that at all we definitely it was Warren zevonne's night each time that he did it and what he wasn't used to he didn't have to worry about we you know what I mean we would just take care of it we had his back but all he had to do was do a little couple back and forth you know a little repartee with Dave yep and just do his music that's all he had to do you know and we we had his back for that so he didn't really have too much to sweat we just let him be Warren Zevon and we were his bands it was that simple um his last night I mean that last show and I I'm really grateful that uh Walter and the team at pants with the YouTube channel um I'm glad that they've highlighted that all that those moments already playing those three songs um that had to be and I mean I to this day uh one of the things I'll say to people in times of of need or whatever or times where I need where maybe if if uh if I need to remind myself uh maybe I'm getting wrapped up in the wrong things or whatever I'll say to myself God Mike Enjoy Every Sandwich um and I mean it's such a beautiful sentiment such a simple sentiment especially if you like sandwiches um uh you know that night um that has to be one of those nights like that night or 9 11 or the night that maybe Dave came back from surgery whatever there must be nights like that that just kind of really solidify themselves in your heart is that one of those nights where it's really easy to remember or it's kind of it's so much that so much emotion that night that you don't really go there oh no there's nothing wrong yeah and um I mean just enjoy every sandwich like ever since then that that has become like a slogan like you know I can't tell you how many times I've said that that stuck with me as I imagine it's stuck with so many people and and the fact that that album the name of the album was my ride School you know that that's really what struck me because I'm not sure when he named the album that I don't think he realized at the time the significance of that title falling in my rides here that I don't think he at the time he named the album I really don't think he uh realized the significance of it but to me just that just gives me chills yeah that's that's what he named the album and when I think of Warren zevonne like he said because of Dave I became such a fan of Warren's I I had no idea um his discography and his writing I mean I knew like Werewolves of London and maybe one other son but the the depth into which I got into his music was because of Dave and I appreciated him as such a brilliant songwriter and singer and he was a a sweet guy he was sexy and I just love them I I just loved them and one thing that breaks my heart when I think about it now it's not that show it's just that I didn't realize that Warren had left the message on my uh dressing room phone which I never I never checked I didn't even know I had um voicemail on that thing and uh you know I didn't know until Daniel called me to tell me that uh they switched to a new system and to enter a new code I was like what are you talking about I said I have voicemail and then I listen to all these voice messages for from like 10 years and oh my God one of them was Warren calling me to ask me to come play on his last album and I never knew him I never knew and I felt so bad because I'm like oh my God does he think that I just didn't respond like every time I think of that like like even right now I'm getting that feeling like oh oh man I've never knew wow let me encourage you no no he didn't think that it's not uh but wow it just kills me talk about do you believe in ghosts I mean that is uh every time I think about it of course you know but like I said I didn't even know I had voicemail I you know what it's funny um I'm a little bit I'm a total Gen X kid and and and and so I have appreciation for Bob Dylan Like massive appreciation and in his last performance of the way that it was shot and everything but to me a guy like Warren Zevon is actually more dylanesque to me with you know how I feel about life and things like that compared to say even my older sister how she would view Bob Dylan Like like I just look at Warren for whatever reason I don't know what the age difference would have been between the two but to me his lyrics um you know there's only a few artists out there that I would consider interchangeable with a poet or or or even a philosopher um you know where I would almost say it's interchangeable what they are but Warren to me is is one of those people and and and uh your guys your show uh the the relationship that he had with your band um was the trail of breadcrumbs that led me to that observation and I just I again there are so many parts of my life uh that were introduced to me because of that damn show and and Warren is is near the tippy top of that that list for me he's just uh and I mean you know there are sometimes if I'm feeling Melancholy I will watch uh him that performance of mutineer uh it was just it was so beautiful um it was just such a beautiful beautiful thing and there are so many beautiful performances that you guys got to be a part of um the last questions that I have for you have to to go with the with the last six weeks of the show um and I've said this many times I will Proclaim it I don't know uh if you if you're aware of the last days of Letterman but it's the best in my opinion it's the best book about Letterman uh and what you guys did out there it no offense to Bill Carter's books or or zinnamon's book but this book which Chronicles the last six weeks of shows and it goes through them all it took that momentum and that energy that you guys created for that last six weeks that special things and it and it it uh it put it into a treasure where it can be um remembered forever uh it talks about every guest every major moment that kind of a thing the band had some really cool um Dave again apparently not sentimental well in that last six weeks Barb and company made sure that the tension mentality was in there whether it was Tracy Chapman uh performing Stand By Me um I think about you guys with John performing um American Pie hi yeah you know and Dave asking him you okay Joe's like yeah no one can break the tension of a Sentimental moment like David Letterman there's no one who can you know come up with the exact right line and what though this could go really almost tears no we're gonna go hilarious instead um and that's one of his gifts that we love so much uh that last six weeks um clearly you know uh every night showing memories of of the shows of the past and moments and things like that um you know even up to the very last night when Dave's going through the staff and classy God did he ever go out classy um he gets to the band the first person that gets mentioned is you and uh it was such a you know such a cool thing um that last six weeks leading up to it any memories there that come to mind as I kind of throw this out there um only that it was it was different but once we knew that we were doing our final shows it felt different even though we did the show the exact same way it just felt I just remembered that it just it just felt different like we and and I think we all felt so grateful yeah we were grateful to David and to Paul and to the universe and to each other you know we we really felt that's that's what I remember feeling amongst us all that we were very grateful we weren't we weren't really sad yep you know what I mean it's like oh yeah yeah it wasn't like oh God it's over no that last six weeks was a celebration there's no question it was a celebration yeah it's like we would we would have wanted it to continue of course but it was like okay well hey there's nothing to complain about like we we had a great time we had a great run it was more than what you would one could even have expected it to to be so it's like hey you know sometimes you gotta die because nobody can live forever you know like and that and it's nothing to be sad about you didn't nothing bad happened it's just it's just what it is and and I just remember we were very very happy yeah very happy like we know it felt different because we were ending it but at the same time we were really upbeat really nobody was down in the dumps or anything like that no afterwards I was gonna say the crash comes after yeah for being depressed for like six months I didn't get out of bed till like one o'clock in the afternoon you know terrible and and really again you started there so young um and and for a musician to get any sort of regular gig you wouldn't think that that happens for a long time but you almost kind of did it in reverse and and where you had this regular gig for so long and now you're done but you're not done you're not done being the badass chick that you are you're amazing and you got so much left to do but then your career kind of goes back to the place of what many other musicians are doing where where where where there's uh you know not not a regular gig you gotta kind of uh use your creativity again to create what the next move might be or whatever these collaborations that you have obviously with the establishment of what you've what you've become throughout that uh very interesting how that's kind of flipped for you compared to other other musicians oh you're spot on with that it's like it's I'm doing it like in Reverse like you said like you know even for this show that I'm doing at The Cutting Room it's like is is something that I'm putting together myself you know you would think that after all these years in the business that I would know exactly uh you know what the uh protocol is but I had to have one of my best friends school me on like well Felicia you know like this is how you know gigging musicians like I did not like the business end of it that kind of a thing yeah it's like you know like like you know what what she was explaining to me how on like Saturday nights are like a big night for gigging musicians like there you go yeah that's a Full House yeah it's like the Saturday night has to be like their their uh you know their big ticket item if you will like they can't you know they can't just come down and like sing at the coffee shop with you on acoustic guitar on a Saturday night and I was like oh okay you know I I said I said you know what that's adorable Felicia I was so embarrassed and she said I've been blessed girls but at the same time it's like kind of embarrassing that I would be um you know someone would need to tell me this at this point in time ah everybody loves a fish out of water story that's adorable but now I know yeah you know now I know like you know it's all people for the big on Saturday nights um I'm gonna finish this actually there's a there's one other thing I'm going to ask um one thing that I've been doing now that uh um you know I'm sure Walter is going to change his number the moment uh you know I continue to keep doing this but I pester him quite a bit um and and more often than not he's very kind to get back to me has the idea of a reunion show something at Radio City I know at one point they kicked around the idea of a Christmas show I know that I hear there's legends about that if if somebody suddenly said we're going to do a one night show at Radio City a reunion show of some sort whether it's Dave in the audience with just you know people of the day coming out or whatever if there was ever any sort of reunion show would you uh would you be in for that of course all right good all right absolutely are you kidding let's build a Groundswell my friend let's let's build a Groundswell let's build it out there in the universe let's speak it into existence so it's a man of this yes you're speaking my language my friend uh that's exactly exactly what I was thinking uh have you kept up with um you know Dave's obviously been doing some stuff uh you know since my next guest um on on Netflix is one of the things one of the questions I like to ask um a lot of the long time folks is if you could see Dave um you know one or two people three people that you could see Dave doing in uh an in-depth long-form conversation with uh who would it be for you I'm gonna mix it up a little bit if there's three musical artists uh that you would like to see Dave do a long-form conversation with who would that be oh see I need to think about that all right for next time it's hard to just come up with right you know right off the top like that did you watch the Jay-Z episode no I highly recommend it it's one of my favorite yeah I I it's a really really really good episode where you had Jay-Z on I I just uh very much enjoyed that um and then on the Tina Fey episode he did a cutaway too where he went back to Chicago and watched a buddy uh Buddy Guy perform as well so that was a that was a neat that was a pretty neat moment as well um the uh I would love him to see I would love to see you guys get back together and do something again in front of a live audience um I know that there are times where Parts you guys sometimes will assemble and whatnot but just please know from The Lettermen fan base we love you guys uh as a band what you did how talented you are how entertaining you are I just from the bottom of my heart Felicia I do not want this to end uh it's going to be a two-parter for sure anyway but I don't want it to end but I just have to tell you from the bottom of my heart on behalf of the entire um you know Enthusiast base of David Letterman and company thank you so much for everything that you guys have done um inside that that theater outside of that theater we very very much appreciate you um any final words before we sign off here well just to you Mike I um all I can think about at this moment is you for having this and inviting me on here and and feeling the way you do and being a vehicle for the fans to uh try to keep it going and try to make it last forever I I can't tell you how much I appreciate you so I would like to end on that note all right well I'm gonna do my best to get my heart out of my stomach now as uh after hearing that thank you um hey everybody the coolest girl in the class just uh knows who I am thanks um oh you know what we can do this we can I can break the tension of that Holy thank you for saying that um yeah I'm I'm I'm uh I'm flabbergasted right now uh we'll we'll end off we have one sponsor Actually I don't even know if I told you this we have one sponsor at the Lettermen podcast one sponsor only and it is Rupert G and the hello Deli oh my God I'm not from like episode nine or ten on uh you know he they friends uh we just had them on last week he was last week's guest him and his girlfriend um so nestled within the womb of the Ed Sullivan Theater uh the hello Deli is still there if you live in New York go get a Soup Sandwich um it's great great food great company Rupert will take selfies with you I I still maintain that uh on average he is the most selfied uh human being in New York uh he's so kind and so nice and he is the only place that you can get licensed Late Show with David Letterman merchandise still go to hellodashdaily.com and uh order uh mugs shirts whatever you like Rupert will pack it for you personally ask him to autograph the receipt he'll do it ask him to add onions he'll do that too uh hello.com there you go uh Felicia any words before I do the outro I'm gonna do the outro with you here so any uh any words go for it want to watch it do your thing this has been one of those things where I am I am just blown away by these conversations that we have and this is uh this is what we want to do here at the Letterman podcast is is tell these stories keep them alive maybe provide some insights and uh and and if we're lucky um a little bit of entertainment as well so thank you very much for tuning in thank you for all the support that has come in since we started this last April I can't believe what's happened since then I am really looking forward to what's happening uh moving forward we've got some great guests coming up uh this has been another episode one of my very favorite episodes I know I say that about most of them but boy do uh I can't fake this this has just been so great uh of another episode of The Lettermen podcast uh she is Felicia Collins my name is Mike Chisholm thank you and good night overcoat and Underpants