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hey, welcome to dennis miller plus one. and we're happy to welcome ziggy marley to the show. 8 time grammy award winner emmy winner philanthropist a. obviously the son of the great greg pioneer, bob marley. and he's also now an accomplished children's author. he's co authored. i think it's a 2nd book. first of all is about his dog romeo new book called little john crow. that is out now and available where you purchase your books, the estimable ziki morally. how are you, my friend? good, good to be with you. nice id with you. i'm always wondering, i think you born in a 68 and i was always wondering i thought certainly couldn't have been bad or they couldn't have been given the names vicky at birth, but i always maybe boy who was such a sponge doug. the fact that your old man named you ziki fx and he started esther

is that the reverse you are baptized of the or born something else. and then you took ziki because you dug bowen, which one was an apple or her, the anger, the chicken and egg because i met david bowie. wines in new york, a we're a new aberdeen, a charity event. and i met him, were bucks these and he actually brought it up, you know, that i tell me, oh, when did you get in the him, how you get you the human i like. so i told him, unfortunately, i wasn't named after you know, in jamaica we get nicknames were bon, we didn't, we got a nickname when we were born. some a fight, a given that nickname from the get go. you know? yeah, i could just see the time difference in the 4 years. i thought of bowie probably loved his old, mad at a v, a david z. but now i finally know the truth. thank you. be clearing that up for music. now listen, obviously your music speaks for itself over the years. what has i,

i know your family man. i assume that brought your on to wanting to write some children's book. tell me about the when you decide to start do it and, and then tell me about little john crow yet when we started doing children book when the 1st temere let children album which was like what, 9 years ago called family time. and we took some of the songs from, from, from the algoma and put them into books. i know people will see him, you know, my, find them people with kids at a time. we'd love the album kind of loved the books too. and so that is all i started turning songs into book and we've done that a couple of times. but this story little john crow is our original story. you know, sung fight is a story that i wrote with my wife photo out of my imagination and out of the experience of growing a grown up iraq vultures in jamaica, turkey, villages. you know what i remember being off, i remember being around

a quarter mile out off with a girl was standing on the most beautiful beach i'd ever been in my life. the water was lap it up again. you could go out really far and it was still shallow, or the beach was so wide. i've everything this about as good as i've ever felt my life. and i wonder in jamaica, most of been a groovy place for a kid to grow up. right. wow. yeah, and so goofy, so goober, i mean it's not what it be. she then just like the environment at a time, there was so much happening, so much creativity, so much revolutionary thought. and i grew up our own this i'll at, at the music coming up on like just like minds or not to see him time been around at a child. and in jamaica, you know, going to the countryside and had been the fisherman bringing the boards when he go fishing is i love, it was a lovely, lovely experience for me and it does me it. it is still so much a part of who i on those experiences. you know that the rhythms there were definitely different than anywhere i had ever been. man,

i'd go swimming than i'd go to the cock stand, get myself a nice lunch. then i had to sit there and listen to some music in late afternoon. read. take a nap, get up. have a great high dinner. i was super, super grade, but i do remember once i had a cab drivers, a, you'll love this. i'm coming in from kingston. and i remember the cab driver went past the same lime green house 3 times i louis, i knew he was running me or i was like in new york. and i just remember saying very, i've. 2 never seen that color green before just me. you've gone for. 2 a man looks over. sure. yes, no problem with even what i was getting taken for a ride. he was easy about it. right. right. yeah. you know, even you got him know, you know, who is dealing with at that time when you know high, you and you, we are going jamaica. it's kind of like we got to say muscle must have been going, you know, i remember clock and read it. well, i would say almost said brother,

i would have went past the lime green house twice. i know this is royce williams. megan, but the 3rd time i'm starting to feel disappears. now my, it was the 1st, let's go back to the writing career. was the 1st one you wrote a my dog wrote me, i assume that was what was that your childhood hound? my dad is mom and i just, we got him last year right before to decline. 1000 thing. um. so i grew up with dads, but since i moved to eli with my wife, well, for kids living at home with us, they've always wanted a dog. and so like 10 years, 10 years, oppression will finally given last year. and in the quarantine not know, we had a puppy and it was a when experience how they're like a new is having like a baby you know, having a baby in the house. so yeah, but there his name is romeo and we did. we had a album last year con more fun time,

which is a follow up to the previous one and put a song about a dog on the album. we made a book with that one. and that's for younger kids. little john cruise is a little bit older kids. my dog. all mean it's for like, you know, babies are that well for 2 year or 2, you know? yeah, get romeo spayed or neutered man, because eventually the female dogs, we scream. and wherefore, art thou romeo? next thing you know, you'll be, i next thing you know you, you have a whole crew for the next time about being funny with tell me about the movement delay. listen i, i have things i love about ally, but certainly a different vibe in jamaica. i guess a lot of it has to be career. maybe want your kids out here. i don't quite know, but i'd visit may. how are you? i hope you're getting back to jamaica lot because it's such it's own its own environment. you must miss it when you're in l. i right. your mom is the via jamica

of course. yeah. but it was a woman that brought me to any, you know, it does the story, the thought l. o, a beautiful woman. i'm stuck here now and you know, you're stuck in a brother. so when i read a very touching thing about your father, it at the end, and i'm trying to think 6 east 12 years old, what a time to lose if for any child the loser bonneville, when did he 1st introduce you to music, or did you just watch him and kids watch their dad and thing i want to do that tell me about when you 1st got the bug. so my earliest memory of being exposed to music by my father in my mother was a musician to so you know, music was always our own singing. i'm going to church or whatever, but i just, the, my earliest memories cameron will go into the studio like him, taken me just to, to, to talk to a producer. i remember the student. oh,

i fantastic it was in the room. i remember that, that vivid in my, in my mind on those 1st experiences, then when i wasn't, when i was all i know we used to sit in, we just, he used to love having us around me. i'm a young man. i'm a young about stevens. so we would like that mom, my mom i there would be word god, we would be with him and his friends and it, we kind of crazy what music sit in under associate in studio. you know, him writing songs, all that stuff. you know, we can i got exposed to on the thing i think i take from it is that he was a very hard worker. he was a very committed to his craft, you know, mess and so like that. so i am, no, i like i learned that we like you gotta commit to your crappy guy, committee to art what you doing. you know, that's the only way you're going to be get good at it. you have to keep committing to it. after i 1st started writing sounded as a, you know, after, after my father possibly actually like 13, a year after. so i kind of started seeing the arrow to get her and you didn't stand,

put some words together. and in a fee like i started searching for like my mind started opening up, i started to search for religion and ideas and philosophies and inspired my thought . and i started to write a more song based upon that. and then nina does get inspired. now we're in, that's how it works right now. just kind of in, i'm inspired to write all this and i think many children and i've seen you use the word in the interviews. i read with you. i learned from their parents by osmosis, but definitely he was such an evocative, groovy, cat. i mean, i'm just a fan obviously i, but from a far, i used to always look at him and wow, what a groovy cat man. what a nice approach to life. what a sweet sol, so for you to be sitting at the knee of that, but it must have been wash and oh yeah, like a beautiful wave. no, seriously, cause i resent that 4 leg so many pictures of me and him together in different situations. and i, i mean,

i remember the 4th has been taken says like why i was sitting there with him in the middle of that. oh, i was there. a mom is like right by him sitting down doing something there. so yeah, yeah, i think that is the way that his way he wanted it to be calmer on and pick up what he can pick up. you know? yeah, that was your return address back then ziki right off my old man's knee. you were sitting right there, sac. yeah. the love 2nd up, the knowledge. and it might be a funny for a kid to realize that their dad such a, well, i guess that's what, why parents and kids love each other. they keep them in a gravitational field. it's traditional cause you know, the whole world love pot marley and it must been nice to see my dad not always really, but he's good dad and he loves me that. that's a, it's a beautiful mix man. yes, no, no you. i mean, he was a good father, he was a discipline father. do i mean mine has and respect and all that stuff. i remember one said disability money e give me a couple beds and about that, but i was all right. you know, but yeah, yeah, good, good, good,

good. i love to play you love to play around. he loves to play around. yeah. beautiful. we're talking to ziggy marley. and he is now writing children's books. first one, as he said, little more for juvenile, but he, maybe he's learning the craft at that point too. it's about his dog romeo, my dog, romeo. and the 2nd one we're opening up. it's like the goose bumps books. this move in up for a little young adult literature, something little john cro maybe not young adult, but a little older than juveniles. and it's a new book, a little john crow that is now available where you purchase your books when it come back little and talk to think about his mood, his music career. i also want to pick his brain a little bit breast, a fairy and faith, which i'm fascinated by and, and we will talk to ziggy marley right up to this one. dennis miller plus one. ah

you know that this is the 400 year anniversary of the very 1st bank, steve, and think about that 400 years of thanksgiving in north america. really an incredible miles down in sure. i don't see him in the official mr. hatch or someone at that just need to check with the wash the discussion and walk you through the phone. yeah, i think you should postpone this. there's actually a lot on there besides that. so i me at that with him and i bet she usually

said almost by you. so what i'm going to look up and did is it took to test initially. so you have the key moments which she's leeway and she shared the was in the process of finalizing what is being called this strategic compass for security and defense. this is a shorthand for what may become an e u army. this is not a new idea. and there is no guarantee that will ever come about. is europe capable of defending itself in this competitive world? it really is something that kosh ride on police report. it's an all cash in december 2020, a group of anti fascist. sell out a film crew access for 3 months for like if people, organization, if an idea,

fascism must be opposed, channel out the game while they may kill their faces. but they can say what they believe in. we believe in helping our community. we believe that our fascism is one of the major threats to united states has gotten proven. this is a chance to see who and t for really are in order for me to exercise my 1st amendment right and say that my life matters to be on to the teacher that i felt america. we can't trust the police, we can't trust the government. we can't trust anyone except ourselves to protect ourselves in a folks welcome back to dennis miller plus one. we're talking to the steamed author children's books, ziggy marley, new book, little john crow. that's now available where you purchase your books. and so yeah, i wanted to pick your brain for a 2nd about the rastafarian faith because i'm sort of fascinated by it in that they

chose such a good man. but indeed, a man haile, selassie to be the he is the, is he not the you explain to me, i put it, is it put it as well? is it christians of jesus christ that jesus christ of the man who walked on the earth. right. he was crucified. all right, so is there the connection with his last the and solomon? true to the jewish culture. he's a descendant of salem on so it's a who are prophecy. it's our, it's biblical, it's. it's connected to the bible. it's connected to jesus. it's all connected on so during the time of the, the realization of this, this person, especially from a jamaica perspective memo, we just coming out of slavery. we just got independence. but still we were under british rule and we were still, we still there was that there was that consciousness going on about like turning

against the colonial mind saying turn against the colonial lessons. christianity was one of those lessons and there was i with the idea of, you know, the god been a white guy in the thinking of that time was like a more revolutionary like we, i mean the, we've been to some of that. we have to believe in this white guy as god. and so they started, people started looking for their own idea of what god is and their own identity to their own identity and reference in biblical passages. there was a passage about the king of kings, the laws of those who this man was crown does. and so use in that connection in the end as phone, the identity of a spiritual being in this mine. yes. as people sight in christ are people seating somebody has no the aside in this man and that that is the origin of it. right?

but my live, my life as, as using that as my foundation is not, is not confined to any thought of. ah, idea of what, whatever, what it institutionalize. it's not the institution, it's a, it's a, it's a mindset that is free. like i am free to evolve is not not written in a book that it has to be this, we are that we are one we, we are, we are designed to evolve our consciousness. and so for me as an individual, i speak for myself, i don't speak for every rastafari, every one will be sure in that i speak as a individual with individual consciousness that evolves on its own. and so that is my foundation, but i'm not limited to that in the way. am i not? or the right? you know, i'm, you know, i always find just such a joyous man. and yet i, as i said earlier, i alluded to the fact that i, i can't imagine a harder time for a young boy to lose his beloved father. what do you feel your father at the

end that he encourage you to go lead a joyous and fruitful life that he, i, it's such a like a set of hard seen for a young kid. but you seem so i imagine you live a joyous life to serve his memory in some way. here when he's who we are, we are dennis. and then the last time i saw my father was in the hospital in miami couple years before he passed away. i'm so she was in like an intensive care place . so i was like kind of chance a peep through the window. you know, it's a door and i'm like looking up like this. and he goes like this, these i was a bit and he was like this because men, so come in and him calmer right beside him and kind of whisper is saying like, and say young bob, i have a song for you. and he said these words to me said on your way up, take me up on your way down, don't let me down. and so that was the last thing he said to me last time i saw him

and some in, you know, we are, we are, we are part of one. and we like, you know, i feel like i'm a part of the muse applied to me and we help each other. oh, you know, it, we're here. i have him, he has me. and i said we're a part of one, especially in the consciousness in, in that might, in the mindset. especially the, or, you know, yeah, that's the good thing about cosmic consciousness. i think he is very welcoming in a way there's work. there's room for all. there's like, it's a big welcoming room with your children now. do you refer to any of them as young bob? that's such a sweet name for it. i hope you pass that off. that's such a beautiful. if i was a kid, i would big that name, young it. tell me about more family time. the children's album, what? like i said, i can see that the family is all to you after the music and i assume i don't know that kids must love it. that there's a children's album. yeah. my,

i'm love it man. i mean did. so the album we did album last year, right. they everything up last year like the current in us, jasmine, a lot of to come. right. so we're all home. i mean our own them to find stuff to do . we're always active. i've been trying to find fun stuff to do and music apart today. and then they were in the studio with me and we just had a blast making that record. and i had a lot of good guess artists who are called up on it, been up a shirt cru, alanis morissette, angelica job busta rhymes tama of a bunch of people and your friends like we are. it's funny, like last year was the most ever reached out to people, you know, like during the car and to, you know, you know, noise, man, you know, we don't things on there that there, that in the next ripple man, it's so weird to me that what you can reach out to each other due to the dictates of the world at any given moment. everybody gets, everybody starts to reach an odd boy. the unintended consequences of human life is

unbelievable. to me is 8. let me ask you real quick because i'm down in l. i to doing an interview. we're in separate parts today, but i got to know before i get, i want to talk about urge, but i, i do have to know where do i get good jamaica? in los angeles, brother, where's it and where can i find a food for this one? spot named juice is joseph there to do. if you don't use it, it will what washington, what is called juices that all of our yeah. and i use it. i get, i usually get my ra produced to that much you, me and stuff. so i can't cook. so my to them on their food and they have like the wrong stuff too. i love the fact i love the fact that you look out for everybody in your look at out for others with the unlimited resources giving enlightenment. i love the i love the urge and explain the foundation to the people and what you're

doing out there. so the phone is showing like when the tour is like, where is it like when i think it is sole in most of the shows we take like a dollar from each ticket and put it in that phone dish. and so much was it would have tried to wear it what a charity itself is. focus on children. um we had, we had been education. we had other charities with jan without a charities, we have a charter and, and he called hola, which does after school program for kids. we work with them on so we really just transfer and you give kids who don't have the opportunity for a good education or even good dental care or whatever they may need to be have full in, in, in that part of their life. so it's, it's broad, but it's focused on children. i and that's a call you just, you know, i,

when i sometimes look at people who are a great artist, i often think boy, they get to be a great artist. and then they have the even amplified gift of being able to help people who follow them and don't have as good a deal in life. it really, it really is the great side. hi. so being famous and being talented isn't that you can. 3 you can pay it forward. other people it's quite yeah. it definitely there those. yeah. the i couldn't do that. i after that's just, that's what we are a little we are. we have to get out and torn to share what he got planned for 20, let's say 2022. this one's almost unbelievably these years click by like that. what are you shooting for in 2020, to say, where are you going to go? i'm here to know to the still getting women to are coming up in june for the summer with another artist. i think we're, we into know, instead what he's a, he's a big artist. we're going to do some together. and then i'd be heading to europe. i do some show celebry to my father to where do i actually sent from his shoes. so

somebody shoes are a boat, my father, and in other shows or does it rip my regular shoes? what size venue is he looking for like theatres and stuff like that? is that what you yeah, we do. yeah, we did some this we did some few weeks ago. so we did like outdoors, amphitheaters, type of stuff. it's funny and i think i'm a comedian on the side. and when i go out on the road, i used to go out on the road and hated so much. and then when i noticed the same thing about the pandemic, how it teaches you odd lessons, i'm everything and i try to mystery it out on the road. and say it's that was unexpected because when i was on the road for 30 years, i thought i got to get off the road that i was on the road. i thought i kind of missed the road. so you never know, do you use to do that? you got, isn't it? it was an adjustment for me to not be out dear. differently and adjustments, say, interesting. yeah. all right, we've been talking to ziggy marley. good kat, he's at a time grammy award winner emmy winner and a philanthropist. obviously he is a bob son and he is

a new accomplish children's author. the new one is called little john crow. and i don't know when the show's coming on. i think it'll be on an early november. obviously a nice christmas present for your kids. and it's out now available where you purchase your books. you're a good spirit, man. i was such a fan of your old man, hurt my heart a lot when he passed young. but it's nice to see the vibe and the spirit and the soul is going forward. i assume you're going to revisit on your kids and we will have the, the beauty of the marley spirit in perpetuity. my friend, can you say good that good to see it is. thank you so much rita. r i t z, marlene is dennis miller plus one ah. with

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