who is 21 years old? myself and my father, we're all dying with rob rob. problem. kidney brought a black hole. and the good way. yeah. maybe they'll actually work more hill is more important than ah hey folks, next up, ziggy marley bennett's realm, plus one loved his dad. always loved his rod to v. seems like he passed around the boy who's $18.00 grammys over the years. and now is branched out in the children's literature. we'll talk to him about his new book, ziggy marley right after this son, dennis miller plus one. 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 reggae pioneer, bob marley. and he's also now an accomplished children's author. he's co authored. i think it's a 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 a 68 and i was always wandering. i thought certainly couldn't have been bad or they couldn't have been given a name's vicky at birth, but i always maybe boy who was such a sponge doug the fact that gerald men named you ziggy like the he star dusters at the reverse, you're baptized of the are born something else,

and then you took ziki because you dug both, which one was at apple or her? the egg or the chicken? the egg and i didn't get angry cause i met david bowie once in new york, a. we're a new york. where do you know event and, and i met him, were boxed in, and he actually brought it up here that i tell me, oh, when did you get in the him, how you get you the him and i saw i told him unfortunately i wasn't named after you know, in jamaica we get nicknames were bond, 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 we probably loved dissolve mad at a via david lee. but 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 dude. and, and then tell me about little john crow here. 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 algola 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, doing a song fight is a story that i wrote with my wife photo oath 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 and a girl was 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 or the

beach or so why it, i've everything in this about as good as i've ever felt my life. and i wonder in jamaica most been a groovy place for a kid to grow up. right. well, yeah, and so groovy so movable. i mean, it's not what 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. i me and it does me it. it is still so much a part of who i on those experiences, you know. now the rhythms there were definitely different than anywhere i had ever been. man, i'd go swimming, then i'd go to the cock stand, get myself a nice lunch than i need to sit there and listen to some music in the 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 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 never seen that color green before. just me. you've gone for 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. yeah. he, if you got him know, you know, who is dealing with at that time when you know, i, new york and 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 to brother, i would have went past the lime green house twice. i know the she rice,

well you make them. but for the 3rd time, i'm start to feel disappears. now my back, 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. busy was what was that your childhood hound? my dad is mom and dad. i just we got him last year right before the client in thing i'm. so i grew up with dad, but since i moved to eli with my wife, we have 4 kids living at one with us. they've always wanted a dog and so like 10 years, 10 years oppression we'll finally give in last year. and in the quarantine not know we had a puppy and does oh, when experience how they're like a new is having like a baby you know, having another baby in the house. so yeah, i'm 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 i put a song about a dog and the album we made

a book with that one 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, babies are that were for 2 year old. she, you know? yeah, get romeo spayed or neutered man, because eventually female dogs, we screamed. wherefore art thou, romeo? next thing you know, you'll be, i next thing you know, rosie, you have a whole crew for the next time. it being funny. a tell me about the movement delay. listen, 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 god does. it may help 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, it does the story, the thought l. o,

a beautiful woman. i'm stuck here. now if you're stuck in a vertical case, the brother, so when i wrote a very touching thing about your father, it at the end, and i'm trying to think, gees 12 years old, what a time to lose 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 our, is our own singing. i'm going to church or whatever, but i just my earliest memory i carmen will go into the studio like him, taken me to a studio, 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 what 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 me, i'm a 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 her. so sitting 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 a very hard worker. he was a very committed to his craft, you know, mess and saw like that. so i am know, i like i learned that we like you gotta commit to your crappy guy, committee, a t r. what you're 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 i did right in song that as a, you know, after, after my father possibly actually like 13 a year after. so i kind of started seeing the arrow to guitar and didn't stand put some words together and in a feel like i started searching for like when mine started opening up

a started to search for religion and ideas and philosophies and inspired my thought . and i started to write more songs based upon that. and then, you know, i just get inspired now or that's how it works right now. just kind of in, i'm inspired to write. well listen, i think many children and i've seen you use the word in the interviews, i read with him. 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 saying, wow, what a groovy cat, my, what a nice approach to life, what a sweet soul. so for you to be sitting at the knee of that that it must have been wash and oh yeah, like a beautiful wave. no. seriously, cause i resent that phone like so many pictures of me and him together in different situations. and i, i mean, i don't remember the ford has been taken says like why i was sitting there with him in the middle of that hour. 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 i can pick up. you know? yeah, that was your return address back then ziki right off my old man's knee. he was sitting right there, sac. yeah. the love sucking up the knowledge. and it was funny for a kid to realize that their dads such a, well, i guess that's what my parents and kids love each other. they keep them in a gravitational field. it's traditional because 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 manners and respect and all that stuff. i remember one said disability money a give me a couple minutes and about that, but i was all right. you know, a good, good, good, good. i love to play a 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 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 later on, talk to think about his move his music career. i also want to pick his brain a little bob rastafarian faith, which i'm fascinated by. and we will talk to ziggy marley right after the sun, dennis miller plus one ah

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being lost with hey folks. welcome back to dennis miller plus one. we're talking to the esteemed 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 that he is. is he not the you explain to me how to 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 the connection with his last the and solomon to shoot a jewish culture? he's a descendant of sodom on so it's a who are prophecy. is that what 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 mind saying turn

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 way a guy has got up and so they started, people started looking for their own idea of what god is and your 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 crowned eyes and saw use in that connection as phone the identity of a spirit child being in this mine. yes. as people cite in christ are people seen somebody has this site 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 sort of an idea of what, whatever, what it institutionalize. it's not an 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 roster far i every one who believe 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 my not or the right you know, i'm, you know, i always find you're 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 loses. beloved father,

what do you feel your father at the end? did 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 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. he's on his a bit and he like this because men. so come in and i'm calmer right beside him. and kind of whisper is saying like him 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. no, 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 a we like, you know, i feel like i'm a part of him. he's a part of me. i, we had pizza or, you know, it were here. i had 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 cause my consciousness. i think he is very welcoming in a way there's work. there's room for all. there's like 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? everything up last year like the current in us jasmine, a lot of come right. so we're all on, i mean our own them, it's hard to find stuff to do. we're always active. i've been trying to find fun stuff to do, and music is a part of dandy. we're in the studio with me and we just had a blast making that record and had a lot of good guess. artists who are called up on it, been up a shirt crew, alanis morissette, and julie kitchen, buster ram tama 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, you know, car into, you know, you know, who knows when you know, we don't things out 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 her. yeah. everybody starts 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 and 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 and los angeles brother, where's it at? where can i find a food from one spot named joseph joseph, there are no jews to go do today. no. what? washington, what is called juices that all of our? yeah, and i usually get, i usually get my ra produced to that much to me and stuff. so i can't cook so my to them. they're on their food and they have like the wrong stuff too. i love that 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, were, is like 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 charter in elly called hola, which does after school programs for kids. we work with them on so we really just transfer and give kids 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 great artists, 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 on. so being famous and being talented isn't that you can you can pay it forward. other people it's quite yeah, it definitely it was. yeah. i couldn't do that. i asked her 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 stage at ingrim 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, and 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 shoes are, does a rip my regular shoes. what size venue is he looking for like theaters 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 it 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 live soonest you that you got isn't it wasn't an adjustment for me to not be out year different, an adjustment said. 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 at the heard 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 marly spirit in perpetuity. my friend good. that good to see it is. thank you. so i'd rather r a z marlins. dennis miller plus one ah,

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