of the great greg, a pioneer, bob marley, and he's also now an accomplished children's author. he's co authored. i think it's his 2nd book personal. his bought his dog romeo new book called little john crow. that is out now and available where you purchase your books. the estimable, ziggy marley, how are you, my friend? good, good to be with you. nice id with you. i'm always wondering, i think you born in 68 and i was always wondering. i thought certainly couldn't have been bad or he 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 men named you ziggy flags that he star dusters at the reverse you are baptized of the air born something else. and then you took ziki because you dug bowen, which one was an apple or, or the egg or the chicken and egg because i met david bowie. wines in new york. a. we're a new. yeah. but you know, event and, and i met him were buxton, and he actually brought it up. you are that guy?

tell me. oh, when did you get in the m o you get you the human i like. so i told him, unfortunately, i wasn't named after you know, in jamaica we get nicknames, women, we didn't, we got a nickname when we were born. some a fight, a give me that nickname from the get go. you know? yeah, i could just see the time difference the 4 years i thought of boy probably love dissolve mad at a v a day to the even now i finally know the truth. thank you. clear 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's book when the 1st emma la children album, which was like what, 9 years ago called family time. and we took some of the songs from, from,

from the algola and put them into books. i know people will see him, you know, my finds and people with kids at the time. we loved the album kind of love the books too. and so that is all i started turning songs into book and we've done that a couple times. but this story little john crow is our original story. there's not some fight, which is a story that i wrote with my wife hotel 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 off with a girl one standing on the most beautiful beach i'd ever been in my life. the water was lapping up again. you could go out really far and it was still shallow in the beach was so white, i've everything in this about as good as i've ever felt my life. and i wonder in jamaica must have been a groovy place for kids to grow up. right. well, yeah, and so groovy so movable. i mean, it's not, would it be she's,

and just like the environment at a time, there was so much happening, so much creativity, so much revolutionary thought. and i grew up her own dis, allah, that the music coming up on like just like minds or not to see him time been her own at a child. and in jamaica, you know, going to the countryside and had been the fishermen bringing the boards when they go fishing is a low, it was a lovely, lovely experience for me and it does me it. it is still someone to apply to 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 than 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 writing me or i was like in new york. and i just remember saying very, i've never seen that color green before. just me. you've got a man looks over. sure. yes, no problem with even what i was getting taken for a ride. he was easy about it. right? or i did, you know, he, you, you got him know, you know, who is dealing with at that time when, you know, i, you know, we are going, jamaica is kind of like, we got the same, hostile was the thing going, you know, a clock and we have a good 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 back, it was the 1st. let's go back to the right and career was the 1st one you wrote a my dog wrote me. i assume that. busy 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. so i grew up with dad's what since i moved to eli with my wife. well, for kids living at one 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 on when experience i got 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 called more fun time, which is a follow up to the previous one and put a song about a dog on the album, or we made a book with that one. and that's for younger kids. little john cruise is for a little bit older kids. my daughter. all mean it's for like, you know, be a bizarre, that before 2 year old she, 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 yeah. next thing you know, really, you have

a whole crew for the next time about being family. you know, a, tell me about the movement delay list that 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 i, i don't quite know, but i'd visit may, how you i hope you're getting back to jamaica. like 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, does the story the thought l okay. yeah, it was a beautiful woman and i'm stuck here now. hey, go. you're stuck in a vertical cage, little brother. so when i read a very touching thing about your father, it at the end, and i'm trying to think, geez, 12 years old. what

a time to lose for any child the loser findable 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 our, is our own singing. i'm going to church or whatever. but i does the, my earliest memories. carmen will go into the studio like him, taken me to us today to talk to a producer. i remember the student. oh, like fantastic. it was in the room. i remember that, that vivid in my, in my mind. i'm those 1st experiences then when i wasn't, when i was all i know we used to sit in, we just you, he used to love having us around me. i'm a young man, my young about stevens. so we would like that my, my, my mother would be worried how we would be with him and his friends. and it would be kind of crazy. what music sitting in under associate in studio. you know,

him writing songs, all that stuff. you know that we can i got exposed to and the thing i think i take from it is that he was ever a hard worker. he was a very committed to his craft, you know, mess and so like that. so i am know, i like i learned that we like you gotta commit to your crappy guy, committee, a t art. what you doing? you know, that's the only way going to be, get good at it. you have to keep committing to it after i 1st started writing songs that as i, you know, after, after my father possibly actually like 13, a year after. so i kind of started seeing the arrow to guitar and you know, stand, put some words together and in a feel 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, or that's how it works right now. just kind of in, i'm inspired to write well us 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 don't remember to ford 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 is where he wanted it to be commer on and pick up what you 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 sucking up the knowledge. and it was

a funny for a kid to realize that their dads 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 like pop 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 on manas and respect and all that stuff. i remember one said disability money. he gave 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 to. it's about his dog romeo, my dog, romeo. and the 2nd one, we're moving it 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 adopt

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 about breast, a fairy and faith, which i'm fascinated by. and we will talk to ziggy marley right up to this one. dennis miller plus one. ah l look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such order that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about personal intelligence at the point, obviously is to rate trust rather than fear

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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 that he is. is he not the you explain to me, i put it. this is what it is. what is it? christians of jesus christ that jesus christ of the man who walk on earth right? he was crucified. all right, so is there that connection with his last the and salam, untrue to the jewish culture? he's a descendant of solomon. so it's a whole prophecy. it's so it's biblical, it's, it's connected to the by it is 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 a consciousness going on about like turning against the colonial mindset, turned against the colonial lessons. christianity was one of those lessons. and there was always the idea of, you know, the god being a white guy in the thinking of that 10 was like, more revolutionary like we, i mean the, we've been to, some of that we have to believe in this, why a guy has gotten up 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 he was in that connection as phone, the identity of a spiritual being in this mine. yes,

as he was citing, cries, are people seating somebody has their site in this month 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 sort of an 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 who vision in that i speak as an individual with a 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 on 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 is 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, can i transfer people to the window in the door? and i'm like looking up like this. and he goes like this. these are his a bit and he like this because men. so come in and i'm calmer right beside him and him kind of whisper is saying like him say young bob, i have

a song for you. and he said these words to me, he said on your way up, take me up on your way down. know, 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 him. he's 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 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 things 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 on. 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 the 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, according to knows jasmine, a lot of come, right. so we're all home. i mean our own them. it's hard to find stuff to do. we're all use active. i've been trying to find fun stuff to do, and music is a part of dandy. we're in the studio at 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 oper. sure cru, alanis, morissette, angelica you 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 tina, you know, noise, man, you know, we don't things out. none 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 hurt. 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 or 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 and los angeles brother? where's it and where can i find a food from one spot named juice is joseph. there to do if you don't use it, it will. what? washington, what is called juices as a boulevard. yeah. and i usually get, i usually get my ra produced to that, like jimmy comes on stuff. so i can't cook. so my to them. yeah. on their food and they have like the wrong stuff to a lot of fat. 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 uh the tour is like, where is like when, when i think it is sole in most of the shows we take like a dollar from each ticket and we put it in that phone dish and so much was have would have tried to wear it, what a charity itself is focused on children. um we have, we have been education. we have other charities. we, john, without a charities, we have a charity or in any called hula, which does after school program for kids. we work with them on so we really just transfer and give kids a who don't have the opportunity for a good education or even good dental care or whatever they may need to be helpful

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 has so being famous and been talented, isn't that you can you can pay it forward other people it's quite yeah. it definitely the other was yeah, i couldn't do that. i asked it, that's just, that's what we are a little we are. we have to, you get not and torn to share. what you got. plan for 20, let's say 2022. this one's almost unbelievably these years click by like that. when you're shooting for a 2020 tuesday where you're going to go. i'm heading out to the city a jetting grim, a tour coming up in june for the summer, with another artist. i think we're we into unknown stuff, but he's a, he's

a big artist. we're going to do some together, and then i'd be heading to europe. i doing some show celebry to my father to where do i actually sent from his shoes to someone to shoes are a boat. my father and in other shows are, does a 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 kind of mystery and out on the road it, it's that 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 an issue that you got isn't it wasn't an adjustment for me to not be out. dear. different an adjustment. say interesting. yeah, all right,

we've been talking to ziggy marley. good kat, he's at a time me award winner, emmy winner, and a philanthropist. obviously, he is bob son and he is a new complex children's author. the new one is called little john crow. and i don't know when this shows coming on, i think it'll be on an early november. obviously a nice christmas present for your kids. and it's now available where you purchase your books. you're a good spirit, man. i was such a fan of your old man. it hurt my heart a lot when he passed jim. 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, good. good. good to see it is. thank you so much. all right, marlene, this is dennis miller plus one.

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