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John Colbert

John Colbert

Actor ‧ Stephen Colbert's son

Aug 4, 2026

28:23
Did you want to answer Andy's question while you were talking?
28:26
Oh yeah.
28:27
Uh, I mean, for mine, they're Atlas stones.
28:29
Cause that's, that's my first love.
28:31
I love natural stones are great, but for me, it's Atlas stones.
28:34
And, uh, the best one is, uh, Well, two of them really would be Rebecca's 300, which I finally loaded at her kitchen day last winter.
28:44
That was a big deal for me.

1 HR 25 MINS LATER

113:51
been fine like don't just pick up the same rock a bunch of times like with atlas stones you just you pick up the same one and you go like again and again again but with natural stones you want to pick up like a bunch of different ones and you want to like keep challenging your brain to figure out like okay this one's heavier on one side so i want to like position it this way kind of stuff
15:43
He's the recently retired former owner of the oldest continually operating jazz club in the world, Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit, Michigan.
15:52
And, uh, the son, he worked the diner in the evening times, Clarence Baker.
15:57
And, uh, well, he went down and purchased an, uh, upright piano and, uh, of course set it over in the corner, called the Detroit Musicians Hall and had a audition for someone to come out and play.
16:09
And, uh, one of his regular dining customers told Clarence that he should hire this guy.
16:15
And, uh, certainly it worked out real well because, uh, the gentleman was a, uh, jazz pianist and, uh, the rest is history.
16:22
Night after night people would show up to, uh, hear this, this pianist.
16:27
[piano music] As it turned out they [laughs] they ran out of room for people, uh, w- wanting to, uh, hear this pianist play.
17:28
Who were some of the early entertainers?

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