MJTV: ODB Once Gave Fester a Mysterious Bag

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00:00And he gives it to me.

00:01And as I'm putting my hands on it, he goes, don't look inside.

00:08You heard us talking about the Macy Gray National Anthem controversy that some people were allegedly snickering.

00:16And I don't know what was wrong with Macy Gray's NBA All-Star Game National Anthem.

00:20I thought she was fantastic.

00:21It was fine.

00:21Yeah, I like her voice a lot.

00:23I thought she was great.

00:24So I said, hey, you want to really laugh?

00:27Have you ever heard the rendition Macy Gray doing a duet with ODB, Old Dirty Bastard, one of the founding members of the Wu-Tang Clan?

00:38And you aren't funny.

00:40This, this is funny.

00:46Now, Macy's fine here.

00:48It's just, it's ODB.

00:53Anyway, so that's a little sample.

00:55I used to like that song.

00:57So, well, that's the Elton John and Kiki D, right?

01:02So, Fester says at the very end of the segment, I'm up against the clock.

01:07I got to take my break.

01:08It's, you know, 7.20 a few minutes ago.

01:10And I'm like, all right, hold on to that story.

01:12Fester starts to say, did I ever tell you my ODB story?

01:16I'm like, no, what?

01:17Fester just proceeded to tell us a story off the air during the commercial break.

01:21I'm like, oh my God.

01:22That was incredible.

01:23How did you never tell this story on the MJ Morning Show back when this happened?

01:29Well, Old Dirty Bastard doesn't come up very often.

01:32No, no, he doesn't.

01:32Again, one of the founding members of Wu-Tang Clan.

01:36Remember the Pharma Bro?

01:38Remember that Martin Shkreli?

01:40Remember before he was busted federally?

01:43Didn't he buy, like, a one-off CD of, like, the Wu-Tang Clan?

01:48A one-off recording of a new album.

01:51He paid, like, $2 million.

01:53Remember Martin Shkreli?

01:54He's the Pharma Bro dude.

01:55Yeah, I vaguely remember that.

01:58So, Fester has an ODB story that he's never told me.

02:04And I'm like, what?

02:06This is, like, tremendous content, and he's never told the story.

02:09Okay, again, ODB doesn't come up terribly often.

02:12But still, what year was this?

02:151996, 97.

02:18This is crazy.

02:19All right, tell the story precisely, concisely, go.

02:24As this was before I was on the MJ Morning Show,

02:26and I was schlepping around the promotions department of an intern at the radio station.

02:31All right, so this was before I recognized Fester as a possible oaf for the MJ Morning Show.

02:36You recognized me as an oaf the first time we met.

02:38You're like, wow, you're quite the oaf.

02:40And you wanted to be called Moose.

02:42Oh, this was a big deal.

02:43You gave me that.

02:45Oh, did I give you that, too?

02:46That's a different story.

02:47All right, so first I called Fester Moose, and then I said, you know what?

02:51You need something funnier.

02:52I need you to shave your head.

02:53I'm going to call you Uncle Fester.

02:55And that's how the whole Fester thing developed.

02:58All right, so ODB.

02:59So you're working in promotions.

03:01You got your gig.

03:02You're just tooling around at the radio station.

03:04I'm driving the radio station van.

03:06All right, this is back old FLZ days.

03:09I mean, we had no insurance on me.

03:10They had no copy of my driver's license.

03:12Take the purple van.

03:13Fester walks in, gets a job in the promotions department, and what?

03:17Joe Mama Johnson hires you.

03:18Right.

03:19I'm under Joe Mama Johnson's authority.

03:21Okay, so you're driving the FLZ van to a promotion at a Blockbuster Music?

03:27So it's a Blockbuster Music on Fowler Avenue and ODB.

03:30Oh, right near the mall.

03:32Right near the University Mall.

03:33Yeah, okay.

03:34So ODB was making a special appearance at this location to sign records or CDs or whatever

03:40he had going on, and there were hundreds of people there.

03:44And I'm there in the radio station van.

03:45Joe Mama Johnson's with me.

03:46He's the air talent.

03:48What up, dude?

03:49And Joe Mama's in full Joe Mama form.

03:51Listen, Joe Mama did the Quiet Storm for years on FLZ.

03:55He did the Quiet Storm.

03:56Here on Q105.

03:57He rekindled it here on Q105.

03:59Yeah.

04:00So nice.

04:01So ODB arrives with his whole entourage of people.

04:05Yep.

04:05He has like 20 people in his entourage.

04:07Uh-huh.

04:08And he comes up to the radio station van, and he's eating potato chips out of like a brown

04:13bag.

04:14It sounded like he was eating potato chips in that Macy Gray rendition of Don't Rule

04:17Breaking My Heart.

04:18He's like, I'm...

04:19All right, go ahead.

04:20He always sounds like he's eating potato chips.

04:22I'm watching him eat potato chips out of his crazy bag.

04:24Not anymore, because he died of a drug OD.

04:26Yeah.

04:27He died in 2004.

04:28All right, go ahead.

04:28And he says, hello.

04:29I said, hi, how you doing?

04:31And real, very pleasant, very friendly.

04:33I really haven't met that many rappers.

04:35All right, so he recognizes that the station promotional van, which you're driving, is right

04:39outside in the parking lot, out in front of Blockbuster Music.

04:42Joe Mama Johnson introduced himself, said, hey, we're going to be out here.

04:44He's going to be out here all day.

04:45Help.

04:45Anyway, ODB's like, all right, I'm going to go inside.

04:49His people start walking him, and in front of the door to the Blockbuster Music were

04:53about eight uniformed Tampa police officers.

04:57TPD, obviously, brought in by Blockbuster.

04:59For the crowd.

05:00For security, crowd control.

05:03Listen, it was Wu-Tang Clan.

05:04You never know what the hell's going to happen over there.

05:07All right, so ODB, he's getting ready to walk into Blockbuster Music, and there's a

05:11whole bunch of Tampa cops there for security.

05:14ODB starts walking to the door with his entire entourage of about 20 people, and says, guys,

05:18stop.

05:20Wait for me.

05:21He turns around, walks back to the radio station van, where I'm the only one in there.

05:25Yep.

05:25And he says, you're going to be out here the whole time?

05:28And I was like, uh, yeah.

05:29He's like, hold this for me.

05:31And under his arm was another, like pinned up against his armpit, was another brown bag.

05:37And he pulls it out from his...

05:38So he had potato chips in one bag?

05:40So...

05:40And then...

05:41More potato chips?

05:42So the potato chips were in his left hand, and he's eating with his right hand.

05:45And underneath his right armpit was this other brown bag.

05:47Like a sandwich bag?

05:49Like a...

05:50Bigger than a...

05:50Like the mid-size bag.

05:52Not the full grocery-size brown paper bag.

05:55But not the liquor bottle bag either.

05:56The size below, like, the paper Publix or Winn-Dixie bag.

06:00Yes.

06:00All right.

06:00And it's all crinkled up.

06:01You know, paper plastic.

06:02I like the paper.

06:04I do.

06:04I'm a paper guy.

06:04I like the paper.

06:05So it's all wrinkled up, and it was so wrinkled it was almost soft.

06:09Okay.

06:09And he goes, you're going to be out here the whole time?

06:11And I'm like, yeah, I'll be here, ODB, Mr. ODB.

06:14And he goes, hold this for me.

06:16And he pulls it out from his armpit, and he gives it to me.

06:18And as I'm putting my hands on it, he goes, don't look inside.

06:24All right.

06:25And he turns around and walks into Blockbuster Video to disappear for three hours.

06:29ODB, hands fester, a crinkled, crumpled, brown bag.

06:35Yeah.

06:36So it wasn't filled with, like, old VHS stuff that he needed to return to Blockbuster.

06:39Nothing like that.

06:40And he says, don't look inside.

06:42Don't look inside.

06:44And then he walks away, back to the store, towards the front door with all the TPD.

06:48Yeah.

06:48All the Tampa cops.

06:49So, of course, I'm in the radio station van.

06:52I close all the doors.

06:53I'm in there by myself.

06:54What do you do?

06:55You look in the bag.

06:56Yeah.

06:56How do you not look in the bag?

06:58It's like impulse control.

06:59No, no.

06:59I have to look now that you told me not to.

07:01A founding member, listen, old dirty bastard.

07:03A founding member of Wu-Tang Clan at a record signing at Blockbuster Music says, don't look

07:09in the bag.

07:10Like, how do you not look in the bag?

07:14So.

07:14So, Fester, you looked in the bag.

07:16Yes.

07:16Well, you went in the van, though, right?

07:17I was in the van.

07:18Nobody was around me.

07:19Of course, if it's secret, I don't want anybody else to see it.

07:22He had two loaded handguns.

07:25Oh, my handguns.

07:26Oh, my gosh.

07:29You're, like, initiated into the gangster rapper lifestyle.

07:32I'm holding.

07:33You're holding the bag.

07:34I'm holding the bag.

07:35You're literally, you're holding the bag.

07:37So, for three hours, I have this clutch under my armpit, and I'm protecting it like it's

07:41a football.

07:42I'm not letting anybody in.

07:43Dude, he hands you a bag of guns?

07:46Loaded guns.

07:47Loaded.

07:48Loaded guns.

07:49Loaded guns.

07:50And I'm like, ah!

07:51And when it was over, he came out, and he walked over, and he gave me a look, and I

07:59handed him the bag, and he took it, put it under his arm, and disappeared.

08:02Never saw him again.

08:02Did he ever say, did you look in the bag?

08:04No.

08:04He said nothing.

08:06There was no.

08:07Come on, he had to know that you looked in the bag.

08:08Of course not.

08:09Did he give you a little bit of an eye, like, yeah, I know you looked in the bag?

08:12No!

08:12He gave me an eye, like, give me back my damn guns.

08:15I mean, give me back my bag.

08:16All right, Cooper's like, what?

08:18Cooper, are you old enough to know Wu-Tang Clan?

08:21No, I don't even, I didn't even know who ODB was until today.

08:25You're 24 now?

08:26How old are you?

08:26Yeah, 24.

08:28Wow.

08:28Yeah, Wu-Tang Clan fans are probably somewhere in their 40s right now.

08:31That's unbelievable.

08:33You were handed a bag of guns.

08:35Now, did you have the responsibility to maybe go up to one of the, that would have wrecked

08:41the whole promotion.

08:41That would have wrecked my entire radio career.

08:43He would have been arrested.

08:44ODB, you could have had him arrested by TPD in front of Blockbuster Music on Fowler

08:50circa 1996 as ODB handed you a bag of loaded guns.

08:56Okay, Joe Mama Johnson, who held my fledgling broadcasting career in the palm of his hand

09:00at that point.

09:00Did you ever tell Joe Mama Johnson this?

09:03At the time, I might have told him the next day.

09:06Oh my God, I ought to call Joe Mama.

09:09We ought to call, do I have a cell number?

09:11I think I do.

09:11Joe Mama, yeah, here we go.

09:12Let me, let me, imagine if Old Dirty Bastard told people what you did for him.

09:16He's probably, you know, you've got a lot of street cred.

09:20Hold a bag like that for a friend.

09:22I don't even know.

09:22I got a bag I need you to hold, Fester.

09:24Yeah, this still rings.

09:25Don't tell me not to look inside, because I'll look inside.

09:28I'm trying to call Joe Mama.

09:30Oh yeah, it's ringing.

09:31Hey, Fester, pick up the phone.

09:32See if Joe Mama picks up.

09:34It's the Quiet Storm with Joe Mama Johnson.

09:38All right, it's ringing.

09:39I know it's ringing.

09:40I handed it to you, and it was ringing.

09:42It's still ringing.

09:42All right.

09:43See if he picks up.

09:45That is a crazy story.

09:47That's nuts.

09:49Two loaded guns.

09:52I wonder if those...

09:53One free hand when he's done eating the chips.

09:54What if he...

09:55What's going on with this?

09:56Is it going to voicemail?

09:57It's just ringing?

09:58Still ringing?

09:58No, your call's been forwarded to an automated voicemail.

10:00All right.

10:00All right, so I wonder if he then used those guns in the commission of a felony.

10:05You think he capped somebody's ass later on?

10:07Okay, so ODB...

10:08Did he have some business in, I don't know, Suitcase City later that day?

10:12I mean, what...

10:13Why did he have a bag of loaded guns?

10:17I don't know.

10:19I didn't get into that.

10:20That's crazy.

10:21Excuse me, Mr. DB.

10:23ODB.

10:24ODB.

10:26ODB.

10:28ODB.

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