 Uh, so yeah, that happened. Alright, you're super excited you get some Corbin. I'm Rick. And you follow Instagram and Twitter! It's so juicy. Oh, it's so juicy. Oh, it's so juicy. Oh, it's so juicy. Oh, it's so juicy. Oh, it's so juicy. Oh, it's so juicy. Oh, it's so juicy. I'm sorry. Why are you... You actually Corbin-ized it because it's Josh. Ah, whatever. Hi, sir. Good. Jay Hinn. Jay Hinn. Ah, yeah, it's pretty frickin' high after that. Yeah, so, uh, obviously, if you haven't seen it, I'm hoping you also. We got to, we got the pleasure of interviewing, um, I can't pronounce the U-name, but the... Ustad. Ustad, and then Ustadji is Sir Maestro. Ustadji is Hussein. And the reception to it was incredible. And it was the exact reception we were wanting. We were hoping for us, but we kept it a secret. I've, so, people asked about how it happened in our, they wanted us to talk about the interview as well, and we also got to see him in concert after that. Yes. So, um, Rick did a little, a thing on his channel, if you haven't seen that, go, go watch that. We're gonna talk over there. But then we know that 99% of you aren't on my channel over there, so we need to do this here. So, want to do a little one here, uh, and give a little of, uh, my insight, but, uh... And by the way, let's just point out the ridiculousness of the fact that the very first interview we do on the channel is that legend. Yeah. We are well aware. We, we, I've been working on a few interviews with different people, different degrees of, uh, celebrity if you were. Right. Uh, and some fall through, some just don't happen, some are still in the process. All of it. This one has been in process, honestly, since our first reaction to him. Uh, after horse running, that, uh, video we did. That blew our minds. That blew our minds. I looked up because I wanted, wanted to see him in concert because really this is amazing. Uh, but also I was like, if we can have the opportunity to do a Skype interview with this guy, that would be amazing. Uh, so I contacted, uh, some of his people, uh, and sometimes I was really not expecting actually to hear back. Right. Honestly. Because that's, you know, I, I contact, like I'm contacting Paracas people and not expecting to hear about it. Not expecting a response. But you know, you just do it just in case. Yeah. You know you're going to get a zero response if you don't do a thing. Yes. So at least you have a percentage of hope by doing something. So I, I, I emailed him and they got back to me, uh, and said, uh, I've talked to him. He would love to because we found out he, I was actually, he lives in San Francisco. And he's doing a tour currently in the United States. Right. And there's multiple areas outside of Los Angeles that he's in. And so he was Santa Barbara and he was like, where, which area would you want to meet him in? And I was like, Oh, meet him. Uh, cause I was expecting like a 15 minute Skype interview. And they presumed we met a one on one. So yeah, thanks for that. Thank you so much. Uh, but so I was like Santa Barbara is probably the closest to us. I just thought of something. Do you think now they're just going to get inundated with requests for interview? I mean, I know he already is inundated, but you think that now there's going to, I didn't tell him exactly who I contacted. There's many, many places. It wasn't, it wasn't him. I didn't contact secure anyway. Um, but, uh, so I contact him and this, like I said, has been in the works. I didn't know a definitive answer until about two weeks ago. I, it was, it was mostly, well, I think this is going to happen. Yeah. You had said to me something pretty cool. First of all, we knew he was in concert and we were going to go to the concert. That was a foregone conclusion. Yeah. When Corbin told me we have something pretty cool. It's going to, I've actually, his people have said he would do an interview with us. And I was like, what? And, and we both were like, that's not going to happen, but that's really sweet. Yeah. Reply. It's like, that's very sweet. If it happens, hopefully it's like a Skype. Yeah. Um, or maybe a phone call. Anyway, continue. Uh, and so, uh, it didn't, we didn't know definitively. He was like, well, we're pretty sure this is going to happen. He wants to do it. Um, and he told me after I think the fifth or something like that, um, he'll have a definitive answer. Right. And so he contacted me. He said, all right, you will have, um, this a lot of amount of time, 30 minutes, which we really like, please stick to your time because he has a busy schedule. So that's why the interview is 30 minutes. We timed it to make sure it was exactly. We didn't want to see him or not be named. It was on the counter. We didn't want to, uh, spend any more time than we were allowed. Correct. Uh, he's a very busy man. And so that was very generous of them to allow us to do that 30 minutes. Uh, and really, I thought it was going to be like just five minutes. Yeah. Allow us to express our appreciation. Say something to the stupid babies that would have been mind boggling. Uh, but so we got there, uh, really early, uh, and we thought we were going to, cause you have to take it up with the venue and him and his people to where you can interview. Right. The venue didn't have a adequate place to do it. So we thought we were going to do it in his tour bus. Yeah. When we got there, that's what we thought. We were told, go to the tour bus. We found the tour bus. We arrived really early and walked around the campus and then a Corbin had been instructed to let them know we're here right at 525. So at 524, we're standing there, the three of us, and he's got his phone. 525. Yup. Yup. On the bunny. Uh, and then we, so it didn't end up, it's the, the venue people actually ended up putting us in this dressing room. As you saw in the interview. As you saw, which wasn't the prettiest room. No, we, we walked into that room. I'm like, yeah. What? Not for us, for him. I'm like, yeah. We're, we're interviewing this legend in this bank little, Yeah. There's like a trash bin behind us that I moved because like there's no way I'm allowing a trash can in the background. There's a, I'm going to interview Mike. You're waiting behind me. The microwave doors opening up a weird lighting in there. And as you saw, it was really tight. That's where we were put and obviously we're not going to complain. Nope. We'll do it every second. So that's why it was there and not in a prettier setting. But you know, I was actually in, in retrospect of talking about this as far as I was talking to Andrani about this, how as, as I really felt almost disrespectful for the area we were in with him and wanted it to be better. But it added when you watched the interview, the knee to knee aspect and no table and his ability to touch your leg and fist bump us and his, his really connecting with us. I felt like the intimacy of that space, even though it felt like, I hope this is okay. I think it helped contribute to that sense of familial, relational, which was all him. Oh yeah. I mean, we went in and said, you can tell from our body posture at the beginning, we, it wasn't so much nervousness as much as it was wanting to be as respectful and allow him to determine the atmosphere. We did not want to become too friendly before he allowed us to be friendly. Yeah. Because normally I don't, I don't sit up like this normally at all. I'm, I'm, I have terrible posture. I normally sit like this. That laying back. Yeah. And but, you know, it's, it's something yet he's such a high stature person. He deserves that level. Not, he doesn't give that off as a person. Which is why you watch, if you watch our body language, we start to particularly, my purposefully mirror his body language and allow him to dictate the comfort level and no way presume I can be comfortable with him before he gives me permission to be comfortable. Yeah. And his, I mean, immediately he was Oh yeah. Man-shaking, making jokes, touching Corbin on the leg, making fun, fist bumping. I still haven't washed his hands instead. Gone to the bathroom numerous times. Numerous, numerous times. And even, even, you know, his, his body posture and feeling comfortable enough to cross, cross legs and talk that way. So yeah. Yeah. He's absolutely delight. And during the interview, like, like you were talking about, he's like probably one of the sweetest people I've ever met. And also one of the easiest people to talk to I've ever met. Oh, easy. Which is crazy, you know, because he is the tabloid. Right. There's not, He's a living legend. He's a household name in India and around the world, sadly not here. But he should be. Yeah. And he is to us. And so he has that side to it, but he was so kind, generous. He, like you said in your video, you never got the vibe. And sometimes interviews, you can tell that they're there and they don't really want to be there. Right. They're like, I got stuff to do. I got stuff to do. I mean, he's a busy man. He's got concert that night. You know, he may have a certain pattern to what he does. Not, he was so fully engaged with us and totally focused on us the whole time. Even I said this in my video. At the end, we went out to go take a picture and he beat us to the door. And held the door for us. And I'm literally like, no way that's happening. And he died. No. And let us go out so that I turned and held the door for him. And he said, thank you. Yeah. So he was extremely, extremely generous. We thank you so much, Shakir. That was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. Yeah. We said that at dinner. We were sitting down at dinner after. We had time from the interview to the concert to go grab something to eat and Stephanie and Corbin and I were sitting there talking and we're like, that just happened. And Corbin took the words out of my mouth. He said, I'll never forget this the rest of my life. Like one of the highlight moments of my life. Yeah, absolutely. And the fact that he's one of my, the way I relate to people and bond with people in my family as well is like, we make fun of each other. Yeah. Like all the time. And the fact that he did that, like the death stare was absolutely incredible. Legendary. Like we're like, oh yeah, that's Corbin Miles. Yeah, Corbin Miles. Yeah. Oh, that was amazing. And he did it numerous times. He did it right off the beginning when I said to him, you know, we're embarrassed to admit that we just recently discovered him. He said, oh, I'm still haven't discovered myself something like that in that nature. Yeah, like I'm not a musician. He's like, yeah, we can all be perfect. Yeah, exactly. Oh man, he's so funny. Like everything you saw in there and more, like he started it off with joke after joke after joke, right when he met us. Immediately wanted to put us at ease. So he's so, so sweet. And then we got the absolute honor of seeing him in concert after that. Yeah. It's about two hours after. Yeah, and we got to see even the pre. We walked up. I mentioned this on my channel as well. We saw the setup that they had for and it was him and three other legends instrumentally who were doing a banjo, double bass and flute. We'll talk about that in a second. And the setup was there and there was the maestro's setup with his tabla and the covers on them. And it was just an auspicious thing to be able to stand and see his setup. And I was mindful. I'm sure you were looking at the little covers. We talked about that. The covers he had on the instruments and how one of the most profound things he said was when I asked him about being a master of his instrument, he immediately corrected me in a gracious way and said in no way, shape or form do you master the instrument. It's a relationship that the spirit of the instrument allows you. He said that at one point. He said if the tabla doesn't want me to play it, I'm gone. Yeah. And there's a level of respect for the instrument that is not a domination of it in any way, shape or form. There's so much respect for it like before he ever gets up to play his tabla in his little forgiveness. There's a proper term for it. Stand. It's a raised up platform with what appears to be a really nice carpet or blanket. Yeah. And he comes with, I'm sure there's a right terminology for the kind of shawl scarf thing he has. Yeah. And then he, yeah. Every time he touches, before he steps up, he touches it and then touches his forehead and like his chest and back up. It's clearly a reverential place of where I'm coming. I've been gifted to be and I'm stewarding this. It's just, everything about the man is nothing but sheer humility, stewardship, thankfulness, gratitude, joy. Yeah. That's the guy. And as you'd expect, the concert was one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Unbelievable. It was, and also the audience, it was weird because that's not what we were expecting, but it makes sense because the two other people that were the most well known to, I think most of the people in there were Bobby... Wait, we should... Edgar Meyer. Edgar Meyer played the double bass. Correct. And then Banjo was, I don't like that we're studying, stuttering on this. I will figure it out. Because they're, every single one of these people is a legend on their particular instrument. Yeah, I'll figure it out. And there was a guy on Banjo and then there was, which we didn't know about. It was a surprise. It wasn't even on the... No, it wasn't. It was advertised with the three of them. And then out came Rakesh Charizia from... We're pronouncing it wrong. Playing the flute or whatever that instrument was. We have reacted to... We reacted to Zakir and his video together. We had no idea, but... So we also got that honor to be able to. Yeah. And he was incredible. And they also did that thing that they do in the videos often where they do the sparring basically. They mimic each other. Yeah. And so that was incredible. The concert, he was mind blowing. And the audience was 99% old white people. Yep. Santa Barbara population. Yeah. It's a really rich area. Very, very wealthy. Stereotypical white American going out to see classical music. And there was a lady behind us who I talked about this in my channel as well who saw us taking pictures before. And she asked us why we were taking the pictures and I got to explain who we were, who the channel was. She asked more questions and I told her what you're going to see because she had no clue who... That's probably most people in there. Most people. There were many of them who were probably there because I believe the gentleman playing, I'm pissed off right now that we're going to get sick of it. I keep talking. I'll get it. The double bass and banjo, there were a lot of people there for them because they know them by reason of them being American instrumentalists. Bella Fleck. Bella Fleck. Thank you. And Edgar Meier. Yeah. Bella Fleck and Edgar Meier. And most people were there to see them on double bass and banjo, which let's just talk about them for a split second. Oh jeez. The best. I didn't even... I wanted to say to you it's a... His... I have not heard anybody use a bow in such... Flawless. It was like there was no bow. Because he was doing this most of the time and then he would just randomly pick it up and go... I couldn't hear the bow strings. I couldn't hear an attack or a decay. It was just this... It just was sound emanating from it. And let's talk about next level jazz. Okay, so... There's this incredible jazz band called Open Hands. And I happened to know a couple of guys in the band, particularly Bill Maxwell, who plays the drums, who's a drumming legend. And I've seen Open Hands many times. At a great place here called the baked potato. Incredible long history there. And they're about as good as it gets in jazz. And they are. They're like spell-diningly. Oh my goodness. There were things that these four men were doing from memory. I've not seen. Changes in meter. Improvisational things. Connectivity with the way they're doing things. I just... It was... It was the highest level of musicianship you could possibly watch. And it was fun to dust just the three of us leaning forward, spell-biling, and just see stuff and turn to each other. But in front of people were... One of the coolest things was whenever, obviously... Obviously a lot of them were... They did mesmerizing things. But whenever is a cure did what's a cure does. Right? If you saw all these heads that just turned to each other and go, What is... Yeah, because they didn't know. Yeah. You have no one. They probably never heard of this instrument ever. Or anybody played this instrument also obviously at that level. At that level. Because, you know, there's nobody else. Yeah. They experienced something they've never experienced. Which was great. Which is cool to see because that's the whole part of this channel is about. Yeah. And so it was great to see the sea of white people. Yeah. Just get to experience this amazing man and his gift and the Indian culture. And it was a beautiful... I waxed eloquent on this when I was talking about it on my channel. To see the blending of water definitively. You have a definitively Westward, even though it's origin as we learned from the maestro is the banjo is from Africa. The banjo is definitively an American instrument in terms of country and bluegrass. He taught me in law in 30 minutes and you ever did in high school. Yeah. I do not discount that statement in any way. Totally affirm that. I mean it might be my fault but that's not true. No, no, no. No. So you have this definitively American instrument in the banjo and then a definitively classical instrument in the double bass. And then you have the world music of that flute sound that was being played. It was like a butterfly. It really was. And to see the blending it was so interesting to hear tabla, double bass and banjo and then flute added to it. And it worked in a jazzy format. Yeah. Unlike anything I've ever experienced it really was mind boggling musicianship. The highest level of musicianship you could possibly watch. Yeah. It was absolutely incredible. The whole experience and that whole day for us was insane. Crazy. As you're about to see because this is the first video we're dropping today. Right after this we hit 500,000. Thank you so much. Yes. And this, by the way this wasn't our 500K No. Celebration video. This is probably bigger than our 500K. Way bigger. So I'm hoping it could have been. I'm hoping it's not a let down. A let down. Right. But we've got another thing for you for the 500K celebration. Yeah. That we did that morning. Yeah. So we had a big weekend. 8 a.m. We were in studio. From 8 to 1 filming. And then at 3.30 We had about 2.5 hour break. Yeah. We had 2.5 hour break to then drove in our drive to Santa Barbara. Yeah. Did a 30 minute interview and then we're there until what? 10? We left at 10.30. Yeah. We got back a little after that. Got home at midnight. Yeah. Then he spent all day after that doing nothing but editing the 500K celebration. So I'm hoping you'll come back. Obviously. It's a big week and we thank you all so much. We thank Zakir who's saying his people and truly, truly humbled. Thank you. The blessing to listen to all those masters be able to play was an incredible experience. And thank you guys for introducing to us because obviously if you didn't this would have never happened. Because we would still not know everything on the channel. It wasn't for the stupid babies. It wouldn't have happened. I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you guys so much. I guess for our next interview we can do something small like Big B. I still don't think Big B will ever come back. You said that about Zakir! You said that about Zakir!