DJ Hesta Prynn's Music is Therapy
May 29, 2026 · 28 min · 19 segments
John Oates of Hall & Oates — the biggest-selling rock duo in music history – walked away from all of it. He sold the planes, the cars and the apartments, and rebuilt his life from scratch with nothing…
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[record scratching] I was gonna talk about something that I prepared for John to come on.
[clears throat] Right before I come on the show, when I do it from home up here in my attic, I put my kid to bed, right? I have an eight-year-old.
I put my kid to bed, and I was getting my kid, kinda, you know, rushing to get it done so that I could come up here and get my thoughts together for the check-in, and you know what she said to me? Eh.
[clears throat] She said, "Mommy, in school today during circle time, everyone got to share something that they love about themselves." And I said, "Oh, really? What did you share?" I thought she was gonna say she loves cats, 'cause she does.
This, this p- beautiful angel that I birthed said to me at eight years old, she said, "I shared that something I love about myself is that I love music." And I, my heart obviously exploded.
In preparation for John, I've obviously been listening to a lot of Hall & Oates, but that's not hard for me 'cause I listen to and play live a lot of Hall & Oates anyway.
But I was thinking about what I was listening to when I was my kid's age, and the song Out of Time, which came out when I was actually six, not eight, the song...
The song Out of Touch was a really important song to me when I was that age, and that's true.
I remember sitting in the back of my parents' car growing up in the suburbs outside of New York.
What a gift to be the kid being driven around in the car in 1984, 1985 with these songs.
Because in 1984, I didn't have perhaps the happiest home life, and I remember sitting in the back of the car and hearing these words: "You're out of touch, I'm out of time, but I'm out of my head when you're not around." To be a kid in 1984 was a stroke of luck really can't even quantify.
How could I not love about myself that I love music? When I was six years old, this was what was playing on the radio while I sat in the backseat.
Could you be so lucky as to be born at the time that I was, at the time that a lot of us were, to hear this music without even searching for it? That's like a miracle.
That's what I'm excited about, about being on air here, because I get to share music that I love, and as I flip around, I get to hear other people sharing music that they love, and it's effortless, just like it was effortless that I heard those songs then.
[record scratching] I was gonna talk about something that I prepared for John to come on.
[clears throat] Right before I come on the show, when I do it from home up here in my attic, I put my kid to bed, right? I have an eight-year-old.
I put my kid to bed, and I was getting my kid, kinda, you know, rushing to get it done so that I could come up here and get my thoughts together for the check-in, and you know what she said to me? Eh.
[clears throat] She said, "Mommy, in school today during circle time, everyone got to share something that they love about themselves." And I said, "Oh, really? What did you share?" I thought she was gonna say she loves cats, 'cause she does.
This, this p- beautiful angel that I birthed said to me at eight years old, she said, "I shared that something I love about myself is that I love music." And I, my heart obviously exploded.
In preparation for John, I've obviously been listening to a lot of Hall & Oates, but that's not hard for me 'cause I listen to and play live a lot of Hall & Oates anyway.
But I was thinking about what I was listening to when I was my kid's age, and the song Out of Time, which came out when I was actually six, not eight, the song...
The song Out of Touch was a really important song to me when I was that age, and that's true.
I remember sitting in the back of my parents' car growing up in the suburbs outside of New York.
What a gift to be the kid being driven around in the car in 1984, 1985 with these songs.
Because in 1984, I didn't have perhaps the happiest home life, and I remember sitting in the back of the car and hearing these words: "You're out of touch, I'm out of time, but I'm out of my head when you're not around." To be a kid in 1984 was a stroke of luck really can't even quantify.
How could I not love about myself that I love music? When I was six years old, this was what was playing on the radio while I sat in the backseat.
Could you be so lucky as to be born at the time that I was, at the time that a lot of us were, to hear this music without even searching for it? That's like a miracle.
That's what I'm excited about, about being on air here, because I get to share music that I love, and as I flip around, I get to hear other people sharing music that they love, and it's effortless, just like it was effortless that I heard those songs then.
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