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(magic wand swooshes)
Hello, neighbor.
I’m MS PAM and welcome to Martyr Sauce Pop Art Museum.
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(phone ringing)
Kisha Vaughan,
just the person I was thinking of.
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-Hey.... -Hey...
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[Announcer] Thank You, MS PAM
was recorded in front of a live studio audience.
-You know something I've been thinking about.
The first piece of art
that you ever own is your lunch box.
Now, I know, I know.
It sounds crazy, but just think about it for a second.
In addition to it being a cute fashion accessory
to match, either your bookbag or your Trapper Keeper, it’s
a visual representation of all your faves: your favorite colors,
your favorite characters,
and your favorite television show.
(magic wand swooshes)
This lunch box from the hit television show Julia,
which aired in 1968, starring the late,
great Diahann Carroll.
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And even though I wasn't around back then,
this lunch box represents a few of my faves.
For starters, did you know that Diahann Carroll
was the first Black woman to ever appear on a lunch box?
A sophisticated choice for a kid to make over
superheroes like Spider-Man, Superman and Wonder Woman.
But we all know who the real superheroes are.
Mothers.
So I supersized it.
What do you think's inside it?
What was inside your lunch box?
Do you remember?
Do you want me to show you what was in mine?
I'll show you.
Now we all know what was prepared in the morning,
didn't always last until lunchtime.
(snap)
(magic wand swooshes)
Every lunch, I always had a sandwich.
And you can't have a sandwich without
bread.
(snap)
(magic wand swooshes)
(applause)
Let's make a sandwich, shall we?
(cartoon falling sound)
(snap)
(magic wand swooshes)
As you can probably guess,
I'm not a big fan of cheese sandwiches.
(cartoon falling sound)
Well, enough about what's in my lunch box.
Let's check out the fantabulous London Plane.
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-Hey. -Hey.
-I’m so happy to see you.
-Great to see you. How you doing, MS PAM?
-Oh, great.
(film crinkles)
-Ryan Waters
(applause)
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(film crinkles)
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-Right now we're cooking
with asparagus, fresh greens, lots of lettuce, which is,
sounds crazy,
but we're really excited about it because it's springtime
and we haven't had lettuce like good lettuce all year round.
We are always changing the menu and it's really it's
totally dependent on what we get from the farms.
And we work with probably,
I don't know, seven or eight farms
and they always deliver stuff throughout the week.
The vegetables and the stuff in the farm really
is like the focus of this restaurant
outside of the pastries and the flowers.
It's three pretty big parts of this business
and we all try to like work together.
Actually a lot of our farmers do bring flowers
to our floral team.
-Man, that seems like the perfect thing to eat.
Like, fresh off the road. -Perfect.
-Yeah.
-So any time
I come to a town, I'm looking for a place like this.
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(film strip crackles)
-We need somebody in here
with as much flavor as this bubblegum.
(phone rings)
Kisha Vaughan,
just the person I was thinking of.
♪♪
♪ I can get fly, fly, fly ♪
♪ Fly fly fly. ♪
♪ I can get fly, fly fly. ♪
♪ Fly, fly, fly. I can get fly. ♪
♪ Fly. Fly, fly, fly. I can get fly. ♪
♪ Fly. Fly, fly, fly. ♪
♪ Relax your mind, ♪
♪ and let it unwind. ♪
♪ No time for fights. ♪
♪ Just open your eyes. ♪
-Hey. -Hey.
-I’m so happy you’re here.
-I know.
-Oh, my goodness. -This is beyond.
Beyond right now.
This space.
Us. -Us being here.
Yes. Yes.
Well, it's such a treasure to have you here.
I’ve been a fan of yours for a long, long time.
So I have to ask, cause I remember,
So it was just me and my sister,
grew up in Richmond, Virginia, have experience
when you go outside,
you need to come in
before the street lights come on,
kids in the neighborhood, that kind of thing.
I know there was a lot of competition
with who was up on
the latest dance moves, who could kick it the flyest.
-You already know, I have, like, a vivid memory of this one
New Year's Eve.
And it was like
the kids were all downstairs, parents were upstairs partying.
And it was like the first time I actually taught someone a dance.
Which, granted it was the Electric Slide.
And I don't even know how I had learned it, but somehow I did.
And so I taught it to my sisters and our next door neighbor.
And we danced to Big Daddy Kane.
-Do you remember the name of the song?
♪ Is this good to me I’ll do for you ♪
-I did it. I just said I wasn’t going to do it.
-But I was with you.
(Overlapping voices) Like, the beat was perfect for it.
Yeah. And that's what we did all night.
And so we
and that's
what I always like to tell my students, like,
if you can do the Electric Slide, I mean.
That's weddings, parties,
anything.
Like it's just a standard good vibe moment.
-Yeah. -That is going to bring everyone together.
-Yeah. -And that was like my first time
really like teaching. -Yeah, yeah.
-Of course, like, I always knew I could dance and I loved to dance, but
the opportunity to take classes just wasn't available to me.
-Yeah.
And so it was me watching Solid Gold
and dancing on the coffee table,
and then going in the bathroom, closing the door
and in the mirror, like trying to do the moves,
trying to learn dances off of music videos.
And that really was like my first time, like
trying to learn choreography.
I mean, Janet Jackson, “If.”
(humming)
And that was like
so my like pop culture longing for movement
and the idea of being a dancer, it seemed so far for me,
but like during that time it just felt like accessible.
♪ Let’s just take a ride along the bay ♪
(camera shutter clicks)
♪ We don’t need to work, reconsider our new place ♪
♪ I've been waiting for so long to get away ♪
(camera shutter clicks)
♪ Baby, don't hold back ♪
♪ All you gotta do is say, what would you like ♪
♪ to be satisfied with me ♪
All right.
Now for sandwich number dos - two.
We have the classic
(fingers snap)
PB and J
(magic wand swooshes)
into the lunch box you go.
(cartoon falling sound)
Da-da-da-dahhhh.
So what was in your lunch box?
What was the mainstay like?
You can always count on this to be in there.
-Me and my older sister, would have to make our own lunches.
-Okay?
Like most things we’d make a game out of it.
Like cleaning our room.
Like we'd flip one of those, like, hourglass timers,
and you have to clean as much as you can.
30 second cleanup.
So making our lunches we did doctor peanut butter
and nurse jelly and be like nurse, bread (hands slap)
knife (hands slap) peanut butter (hands slap)
you know like we would make our sandwiches
and then put it in the little plastic bag
and then you would open it up
and it'd be flat because the apple rolled over it.
And you just have this like bread
that just had the sink hole and it'd be like gray, like,
and then you like peeling it out kind of.
And yeah, I mean, it’s just so.
-Where it started and where it ended up
are two completely different. -Completely.
-Yeah. -Well, thank you for being here.
Thank you for coming.
And thank you for bringing all the flavor.
I really appreciate it.
-Thank you for having me. -Yes.
All right.
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(dreamy mumbling)
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Live from the Paramount Theatre, it’s the
Tonight Show with MS PAM.
(applause)
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Hold on to your butts hey.
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(applause)
Hey.
All right.
How y’all doing up there?
Yes, welcome, welcome, welcome.
Welcome to The Late Show.
I am your host, MS PAM.
(applause)
I woke up this morning thinking, oh, I am tired.
Boy I'm not sure if I'm going to get myself together today.
I mean, I'm not sure if I can make it.
And then I thought, wait, wait a minute.
I think that every single morning.
(laughter)
Am I right.
Oh. I tell you, mornings in America.
Happy I'm only dreaming.
(television static)
Speaking of dreamy, we're coming to you tonight from the world
famous historical landmark, the Paramount Theatre.
Yeah it’s crazy right?
This is where dreams really do come true.
And it's not even 100 years
old, and yet it's considered historical.
Oh, your memory has to be pretty short
to think that something
that is less than 100 years is historical.
Am I right.
Sorry, Grandma.
(applause)
And with that, we have a great show for you tonight.
The Black Tones are here.
(orchestra warming up)
I want y’all to say hello
to the legendary Bonkers
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[ANNOUNCER] America's favorite, quality and values since 1930.
(bleep) Take it away, MS PAM.
(magic wand swooshes)
You know, I can throw down in the kitchen,
but for those times where you need something quick,
fast, and in a (bleep). Shall we?
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Aramis Hamer and Jazz Brown.
(applause)
Oh. So happy to see you.
Right.
Both of you were a part of RE:DEFINITION,
its inaugural
-Right
debut event.
Inaugural debut event.
Yes, it was a really fun thing that Jonathan Moore
and I started, the late, great Jonathan
Moore, back in 2000...15?
2015. Yeah.
So what do you remember about those openings?
-Oh, my God.
-Oh. First, I thought it was amazing.
Like so honored to be a part of the project
with you and Jonathan and the entire team.
Vivian was there. Just.
It was just.
Yes. It was just amazing.
I think I was showing some pieces from my trap conscious series,
like I love trap music.
I actually do like,
It was like this kind of play on words.
I paint a lot of chains in my work.
-Yeah -I love chains.
Kinda this nod to hip hop, but also how can we break
free from the chains that like keep us mentally bound?
You know,
and so the actual word of trap, how does music keep us trapped?
But how can it also be a tool to free us? -Yeah.
So those are some of the pieces
I had in that in that RE:DEFINITION show.
And it was just that was my first series
actually where I did like a collection of,
like a body of work itself.
-Yeah, yes. -I'm honored that you, like.
Provide us with the opportunity to do it.
-Oh, my goodness.
Jazz, what do you remember about the show?
-You know, looking at the pieces there in the gallery,
I can see where I was transitioning from angles
to circles.
-Yeah.
-You know, retrospectively, I see now that the, you know,
the the right angles that I used, it was,
you know, somewhat of a trap. -Yeah.
-You know.
-Yeah.
-So, you know, I could see them in there.
And I can also see now where essentially, you know,
they're no longer necessary.
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-Can you remember, like when you were a kid,
what was in your lunch box growing up?
-That's a,
you know, I don't really think I had a lunch box. Like we had,
it was like the cafeteria.
And I just remember, like, being in line with the tray in.
Elementary school.
And like getting my free lunch.
-Right, right, right. -Oh, you know,
Moms took care of us. She,
she truly did, you know, with the with
the means that she was able to do.
But I do remember Flamin’ Hots, Flamin’ Hots was my jam.
And even in Elementary school, I would draw people's name
in, in bubble letters for a quarter
so that I could buy a bag of Flamin’ Hots.
-Right. -What about you, Jazz?
You remember your lunch?
-I didn't have a lunch box either.
-Yeah. Yeah. -It was, you know.
Ate in the cafeteria. -Yeah, yeah.
I had a lunch box up until about third grade and then,
but then it became not cool. -Yeah, I was gonna say.
-to bring your lunch box.
it was like, no, you didn't you’re not buying your lunch in the cafeteria.
-Yeah.
-What was your favorite day menu in the cafeteria? I know mine.
-Like if they ever had, like, French fries.
Like, it was such a treat,
if there was ever, like, some sort of fried anything.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Just give me something crispy or fried.
-Right, right, right. Yeah. -That was my jam.
-Yeah, yeah. What about you Jazz?
I always went for the pizza.
That square pizza. -Yeah, the rectangle pizza.
-Yeah. -And hope you get the good part.
-Yeah, yeah.
That was always, yeah.
I didn't want the edge.
-Right, I know, you got to hope you get the nice lunch lady
that's gonna give you the one you point to. -Exactly.
-You’ll eat what I give you. -Yea, but yeah.
Pizza day was always, and chocolate milk.
-Chocolate milk! -Yeah!
-Now I'm like, that would destroy me.
-Yes. I’d be on the floor.
Done, I know.
Behind the jiffy. Played out for the rest of the day.
Well, Aramis Hamer and Jazz Black.
Everybody we’ll be right back.
♪♪
(television static)
Ladies and gentlemen.
(dreamily) Ladies and gentlemen.
The Black Tones
(dreamily) The Black Tones.
(orchestra warming up)
♪♪
♪ Don’t you want me, baby? Don’t you want me,too? ♪
♪ Don’t you want me, baby? Because I want you. ♪
♪ You want your feet off the ground Well, I can take them around. ♪
♪ You wanna ride on through My ghetto spaceship for two. ♪
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♪ Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me, too? ♪
♪ Don't you want me, baby? Don't you want me, baby. ♪
(camera shutter)
Oh! That was an amazing time.
I hope you had a great time as well.
(applause)
Well, I will see you next time.
(applause)
(magic wand swooshes)
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-Yep, you guessed right. It's tattoo season.
-Ooh -And I'm so excited
because I get to get a tattoo from one of my
favorite artists in all of Seattle.
Can you guess what I might be getting a tattoo of?
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