The Questlove Show - Philly Cheesesteaks & Escape Rooms — A Rabbit-Hole Mailbag Edition

Episode Date: September 4, 2026

Questlove and Cousin Jake field some deceptively simple mailbag questions about cheesesteaks and cereal. Ahmir breaks down his fiercely loyal cheesesteak habits, giving way to tempting side quests about ketchup etiquette and Ultramagnetic MC’s memorabilia on South Street. The Q&A then pivots to music nerdery, with Ahmir naming his all-time favorite live album and dissecting what makes a live recording sonically “perfect.” He also shares the story of his first time onstage with his parents’ band as a kid. Along the way, the conversation hits bygone Philly landmarks, 2 a.m. laser tag, and what we can learn from escape rooms. As a reminder, hit QuestloveSupreme.com to submit questions or DM us on Instagram or Facebook.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Questlove Show is a production of IHeart Radio. What's up, everyone? This is Cousin Jake, one of the producers of the Questlove show, and we're here for a mini episode. Doing the fan mail, the mailbag thing. At the top, I'm going to encourage you all. Go to Questlove supreme.com. There's a contact us for him. send a question.

You can, you know, leave it a comment, a thoughtful comment on YouTube or DM us at the QLS handle on Instagram. We want to get these read. We do this from time to time. So what I'm noticing Amir is we're getting a lot of questions that you're asking other people. And you're a big serial guy. You know, you're always asking folks like what their cereal is. And then I was a serial guy if my trainer and, uh... When I say serial guy, I also mean you like to talk about cereal.

Yes. Food, I feel like for guys my age is almost like the new strip club. I will look at Marvellat and repost the most toxic foods of all time. You mean, calorically speaking? Yeah. I really can't indulge in, you know, what it is that would rush me to the emergency room. So, but yeah, I love looking at it and fantasizing about food. That's where I am in life right now. No, listen, it's also my favorite form of small talk. Like this morning on the train up here, there's so many times I sit next to somebody if it's a crowded train. And they ask me if I live in Philly or I live in New York. And I ask them what neighborhood? And then I mention like, oh, do you like this spot? And then I asked them, like, what's your favorite spot in your neighborhood?

Funny enough, 16 years ago, the first conversation you and I ever had, you put me on the game. I owe you. It was longer than 16 years ago. You put me on a Cosmes, which is now. Yeah, man. And you said that was your pandemic farewell to arms me. Yeah, Cosmes is, you know, at one point, I take the Philadelphia cheese steak and hoagy guide very seriously. Whenever Philadelphia Magazine does their annual ratings, I'm not going to indulge in all 50 sandwiches at once,

but I will usually allow myself a two-week period around Roots Picnic Time in which, you know, for those 14 days that I'm in and out of Philadelphia, I will have, tried at least 10 of those sandwiches. And I got to say, what I've been doing lately has been very, very foul. So this is something that I learned in New York City. So basically in Philadelphia, I'm very loyal to Delisandro's. And it's weird how Philly is because when a place gets too popular, then suddenly it gets pushed into the tourist trap the tourist spot you know like back in the early 80s Jim steaks was like the destination place because it's like yo they're using cheese whiz oh my god in west or on fourth okay so

I didn't learn about west until if you see many of my DJ gigs you know that uh my long time sidekick yami in our world you know he's from west philly and 60th street and he told me the original Jim Stakes was right across the street from his house in the neighborhood. And of course, it got so popular that they formed one on South Street. So, you know, the first time that I would venture on South Street, and this is when I was like going to school in the same neighborhood at Performing Arts, the concept of putting cheese whiz on your cheese steak to a 12-year-old is like dopamine rush. You know what I mean?

Yeah. But it got too popular. And then it just got sort of added into the, the tourist pile. And the same for Iskabibbles. Like Iskibbles, if the roots made like north of like $130 busking, sometimes we would skip our Wawa meal. Like turkey sandwich you always reference. Right, exactly.

Like literally the goal of a Saturday with the busking routes as you know it was to make a enough weak money, but also if we had like $20 left over, we would just get coal cuts. We would make a hoagy based on individual amorosa rolls and turkey and pepper cheese and, you know, you get free condiments. But if we made like 40 bucks, we would go to Iskibbles and get like a chicken cheese steak and a gremlin. You'd go chicken.

You got to at just group. Yeah. You know what? I've never had Iskubibbles to me is the, the one spot for whom their chicken cheese steak is better than their actual cheese steak. And so I will say that, you know, I got hip to Delisandro's when it was still like an underground secret of Philadelphia. And then it got too popular.

And the same thing happened with Maxes, but I do not mess with Maxes. So, you know, all the slander there. The most respectful thing I can do is to say, air quote, slander, slander. slander, end quote. So Delisandro's has always been my spot of choice, and it got so popular that someone wisely opened up, you know, set up shop across the street. Is it chubbies? Chubbies is open.

They said that up back in the day, right? You know what? There are four really intriguing spots on that block. there's two other like really good looking seafood spots where I always say you know what I'm gonna give the seafood spot a try but then I'm like dog I'm here yeah I can only get a good cheese steak once in a while so I always go down to DeLessandro's but no cheese was there yeah none no no no I do it the real way and so you know I've been hearing all this buzz about chubbies and And Kamoa, my keyboard player is literally treating me like I'm having an extra marrow fear.

And I got to admit, during this past run, the Jay-Z picnic, I've went with the intentions of going to D'Alessondros. But that line. The line, and I went across the street and dog, yeah. I have never been. I'm a believer. So, you know. Somebody told me. that, you know, the ABC show in the 90s boy meets world with Ben Savage, Fred Savage's younger brother.

Yeah. You know, it was set in Philly. And, I mean, as Hollywood backlot as you could possibly. Yes, exactly. But their hangout was called Chubbies. So, like, some people said it was always like a nod to Rock. Always in a reference to it. I'm like, I got to fact check that a little bit.

Yeah, that might be a little too deep. Like, I didn't hear much buzz on Chubbies until recently. Maybe like a year ago when it started rising up in the ranks in Philadelphia. but also, you know, but Tariq is a lifelong Angelou's. Okay. You know what? I'm not sold on seeded bread. I need my bread to be...

Eat that chew. Yeah, it's... But the thing is, you know, they also have Angelo's teamed up with Bradley Cooper. Right. And, you know, Angelo and Coop's spot in New York is all the rage. Like, the line is crazy. I don't like the Suf Nazi method of it all

But I respect it Right they sell you one thing one thing only And you can't adjust the order You have to give it to them the way they give it to you Which I respect because it's New York And you got to represent like perfectly It was only because of Angelos That I learned

That it's disrespectful To put ketchup on your cheese steak No kidding, really Dude, I didn't know this. And, you know, like, other... And these are, like, out-of-town bloggers that, like, if you put ketchup on a sandwich, that means that that sandwich wasn't good on it.

Like, a sandwich has to be excellent on its own. It's like, you had Pad Malakshmi, you told her that it's sacrilege to put ketchup on a hot dog, and she looked at you like, I'd do what I want. Yeah. Well, no, no, no. Chicago believes is sacrilegious. I put everything on my hot dog, so...

You know, so you mentioned Jim's my favorite fun fact, and I hope it survived the fire at Fourth and South. when you're waiting in line and that line can be long. Right. You get to the corner before you want, and there's an autographed ultra-magnetic MC's next plateau. They were next plateau, right? Press photo, autographed.

And I asked Cool Keith about it one time. He's like, I love gyms. I love it. He almost rode with me from the Bronx to Philly one time to get Jim. That's what, okay, that's, that's odd because at Iska Bibbles right across the street is where I learned. Okay, so Iskibibbles, not. Nothing scares me more than walking into a restaurant establishment. And there are, I feel like putting an 8 by 10 in a restaurant is a mark of death.

It's a moment of time. Like if music is a polaroid of where your life is at that moment. Right. And a picture is literally a polaroid of where your life is at that moment. Nothing scares me more than to be frozen in time. And when you go into Ishgabibbles, there's such a. very specific 1989 to

1995 window of music where they have not changed any of those eight by 10s. They were working on the wall and they're like, yeah. Right, exactly.

So I, the only eight by 10 that the roots have ever like collectively given to a spot to be hung up there is an Iskabibibbles but then I called it a curse. Okay.

So when they weren't looking, I stole it back. Yeah, because I didn't want to get the mark of shame. of it. But there's a wild pitch era, Ultramat, Nettingham C's 8x10, and Iskibibibbles across the street. They might have just walked the street one day and handed them out. That's fun. Dude, there's no loyalty in the cheese steak game, man. I promise you this. And it might be a way to hustle up

a freebie of some kind, you know, like, yay, put this up. You know what? You know, the irony of it all is, is I've been sort of frequenting Iskibibbles since the days of the roots busking. Matter of fact, I've done magazine articles in which I play I cosplayed an employee there where for an hour, like some magazine.

For like the photo shoot or for the actual? For I think I, for two hours I had to be an employee of Ishgabibbles. Okay. To this day after 35 year history there, I still don't think

they put two and two together or who or what I am. Yeah. So I'm just a regular customer there. But also in Philly, I don't walk around looking like Questlove. You're not going to cut the line also at Del Sondros. Like, you are a civilian. So that's funny.

That's great. Well, the question that was asked. Oh, wait, we didn't even get to the question. No, but this is great. People ask us about this all the time. Mike, open Mike and I were talking about cheese sticks. We needed you. But here's the question.

What is the most overrated cereal of all time? and that is from Trav from Columbus, Ohio. Overrated cereal. Yes. Good people, I am not completely sold. And I think the cereal only meant something for the millennial 80s generation. I have not been sold on, what's the cookie cereal? Cookie Crisp?

I've not been sold on Cookie Crisp. And really, cinnamon toast crunch. I don't know why I'm not team cinnamon toast crunch. And I often hear people who are six to ten years younger than me really riding for Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Monthly, I do, as a New Yorker, if I am home on a Saturday afternoon, there is a spot that I go to, the Nighthalt movie theater. And which, once a month, they'll show like Saturday morning, cartoons and they'll also have a buffet bar of at least like an option of 40 different cereals and they'll bring in cereals from around the world fun fact uh post the post cereal

brand uses the walmart businesses to test future cereals that you'll get so i think uh the walmart cereal brand is called morning not morning due or morning sunrise or whatever. It's the no frills of Walmart, like the cheap cereal. Right. But no, it's really post-serial testing out new flavors like strawberry shortcake or the duce leche or French toast cereal. The Walmart brand cereal is the best cereals of all time. And I can't believe I just said that.

You're going to get me in the Wally World and it takes a lot. Yeah. You know? I got to admit it. Behind every night spent making the kids' lunches, there's a lot of suspense. Will they finally eat the veggies? Will the pasto survive the first bite? Will the lunchbox come home empty, half full, or come home at all?

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I just remember this low, taunting voice next to my ear saying, shut up, don't say anything. Every week, I'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable. I knew if he woke up, without a doubt, he was going to hurt me. I started feeling that there was someone at the end of my bed, and I just started screaming. They are abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced. But these aren't stories about what's taken from them. There's stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to the Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

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I would never expect. I would never set expectations for something like that to happen. If the universe allows for something like that to happen. I'm open to it. I'm always going to accept. You know, Danny McBride, fine. Yeah, it's all this fragile masculinity exuding. I could smell it walking down the hallway, to be honest with you.

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They feel like they're standing in opposition to an entire administration. Guess you didn't move in on a bunch of dumb hillbillies now, did you? Listen to our town on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So another question we got. This is from Flying Tortus, not Flying Tortoise. Lion Lotus. Okay. What is your favorite live album?

And is there a show you attended that you wish was recorded? So, oh, God, this is so weird to say. Okay, so my favorite live album is also my favorite album of all time. And I believe that a big part of this is because, I mean, most of you know the lure of how it was called the drums with Steve Farone and the average right band. A year later, after seeing that Soul Train performance, they released a double live album called Person to Person, which is pretty much. much my North Star, we purchased that album.

First day of school, we bin shop as a way from my parents to con me and to go on to school. I thought we were going record shopping, and then they're dropping me off with, you know, a bunch of kids. And I'm crying like, wait, what's going on here? Like, I feel like the first day of school for any kid is almost like being dropped off to prison. And, you know, they called and checked on me. He's crying all day, whatever. and they take me bin shopping for records. And so as a reward for completing first grade,

they took me binge shopping on the last day of school. Okay. And so... Same record store each time? Same record story. King James and West Philadelphia. And, you know, my dad shops like I do right now where we just, hey, that, that, that, that, that, that, that. Michael Jackson's style.

Yes. Oh, exactly. like coming home with a box of like 90, 90 or 100 records. And yeah, person to person spoke to me. However, I will say that ideally the equipment and the recording conditions of whatever Grover Washington Jr. used for Live of the Bijou in 1976, I feel is probably one of the most exemplary perfect sonic recordings of funk musicians in a zone. It's so good that I will say that Premier has easily,

during Premier's 1990 from Daily Operation to maybe the group home album. So let's say like between 91 and 95, there are at least six or seven gems that you'll hear from that Grover, like the drums are miced perfectly. That was like my North Star for the first Roots Come a live album. Okay. A live album that I'm still not too happy with because it sonically doesn't feel like what it is when you're at a root show.

We tried to match it, but it's also very slow and lethargic sounding like. So that was the moment. You know, a person, like, will walk past himself in the mirror and be like, ooh, I got to lose weight. Yeah. When I mastered, the roots come alive and realize how slow the next movement was, then I was like, dog, I got to drop 100 pounds, man. I'm drumming like a turtle. But, yeah, I'll say that, however, this is the first for this show.

I really never took my own horn for anything. of self-promotion, you know, I will say that I am very, very, very impressed with how the roots come alive too turned out sonically. You know, as a person who I knew what we had coming against us. First of all, it's like, you know, when a legacy act is like, here's our 17th record. And, you know, it's like, all right, it's not like the five that I like, the five that I you know, that you stick to. Like, there's no group that has ever, at the most you can hope for like one or two good songs

from like their new album. Right. So in my mind, I knew going into making the roots come alive too, like what barriers of cynicism do I have to knock over in order to like make people do the Dame Dash Kanye thing where it's like, oh shit, this ain't whack. And so the way that we captured and recorded, which thanks to the,

you know, now that Dave Guy and Ian Uncle Chief Hendrickson are roots members from the Dap King world, you know, I've been doing a lot of recording of the new album and of things that I do

over the studios that they used in Brooklyn, especially now they're not being utilized that much now that Sharon's not here. So they have a mobile truck that's pretty much vintage 70s like it takes you back

into a time period so pretty much this new Roots album if you guys just give it a chance and listen to it from top you will yeah Tarek's astounding breath control is there sonically it is I feel like one of our most perfect

recorded time capsules so and I rarely toot my horn so if I'm like it's all right then it must be good No, that's great. We'll end on a simple note. I've heard you speak of this before, but I want to honor the question. This is from Frank Miller.

Wait, my Frank Miller? No, I don't think so. Okay, I was like, wait a minute. There's a few Frank Miller's in the world. I know at least two of them. Okay. Where was your first professional playing gig? Like the first time I played in front of an audience?

Yeah, we can say that. Okay, so I mean, everyone knows the story of how I was a part of my parents' show at the age of seven as a means to keep an eye on me not because like, hey, our son has a talent, but more or less like, we want to know where he is 24-7 because you might get kidnapped. So, you know, they would sit me weird enough. I was, imagine a seven-year-old sitting at a bar in a nightclub, you know, and back in the smoking area, too, just, you know, a nightclub. In the worst area. And I live in the don't talk to strangers type, you know, there are heavy repercussions if we can, catch you talking the strangers, but you're putting me a cute kid at a bar, you know, in whatever,

Bloomfield, you know, that sort of thing. All I remember was it was 76 and my dad had just introduced covering Paul McCartney and Wings just let him in into the set. And my parents were always big on like the crowd participation thing. Like seeing the rappers do the whole somebody say ho thing or I want to see which side is liver this side or this side, you know. My parents were doing that since the 70s. Like, my dad would represent the fellas.

Men, now we want you to sing. And if we don't catch you singing it, then they run up to them and put the mic in their face and put them on the spot and front row it. Yeah. Oh, but they would go throughout the nightclub. So if you weren't singing with enthusiasm, they put you on the spot.

And my parents had like really good comic timing. So I think out of fear, because the bar was getting, little too crowded. They called me on stage to sing, let them in. Wow. And, you know, back in the 70s, Michael Jackson was the only prototype we had,

and I already had an Afro like him. So I would just dance like Michael Jackson. Not even the silvers. You just had we went. No, yeah, straight Jackson. Just like that, the whole skippy thing with his left leg and scuffle with his right leg. And that bought some time.

And they're set. So much not going out of the door. So I was ringing the film. I'm like, you know, people like knocked out like, oh, shit, he's so cute. So, yeah, that's the first moment that I performed in front of the audience. I was like five. Nice. That's a good story.

There you go, Frank. Well, as every time I enjoy doing this so much, please in the comments, let us know, like, the Philly natives and those that have passed through. Advocate for your cheese stick. I'm going to tell you mine is Little Sicily 2. Oh, what's that? Yeah. Columbus Boulevard right by where, you know, the movie theater used to be in that little shopping with the gas station.

Yeah. It's an Indian fusion. It's owned by Indian folks. Indian fusion chicken cheese steak. Hoo. In that cut? In that cut. Is that movie theater, the United Artists?

Almost came back and didn't. No, I think they're turning in a loft. Trader Joe's is coming now. So, fun side story, I would, there was a laser tag spot there. Okay. So pretty much during things fall apart recording and phrenology recording, when we were done recording at like one in the morning, one of the first times I'd flexed my Michael Jackson muscles. You would always hear things like stories opening for Michael Jackson, like F.A.O. Swartz opened up at 3 a.m. so Michael could come in. I would often pay the laser tax spot. I'd slide them a couple hundred dollars just to stay open until four.

AM. I'm certain that they just pocketed, you know, whatever employees were there at the time. The owner did not know. Right. The owner absolutely did not know. And the met, like the levels of evil strategy of us playing the laser tag at two in the morning.

That's where, you know, pretty much our hangout spot would be like after we record, go do laser tag from midnight to three. Cool off. Yeah. Exactly. I wonder if laser tag is going to make its renaissance. Like, people are so in love with, like, 90s culture, that in virtual reality. So is that going out?

All right. So I just came back from Minnesota. And, you know, kind of my integrity thing is making sure that I get my steps in. Try to do like 15 to 20,000 a day, which is a lot for my schedule. And when I was in Minnesota, I decided, all right, I'm going to get up at 6 a.m. And way to find out the mall doesn't open to 11. So Just walked around the mall?

Well, I did two rotations around the actual mall structure. And then I followed a guide on online or how to go to every spot and if you do the entire Mall of America, which it has a complete amusement park inside the mall. Yeah. Right.

So pretty much you're going to get 18,000 steps in it. And when I was going through it, one, it was the last mall I've ever seen in which people still actively visit it. Like now malls are a ghost town. But man, in Minnesota at Mall of America, there were like a lot of laser tag spots. No kidding. Okay. And so I think those group activity things are good for work.

Now there's a group of us. Janina, actress Janina Gavin Carr. Sometimes Chappelle, like we will organize. escape the rooms. Okay. Escape rooms, yeah. So I use Escape the Rooms as kind of a low-key kind of tester

for people. Like this shows me who they are in terms of how do you work in groups, how do you solve problems, how smart you are, how much, how patient you are, how you strategize. So Escape the Rooms was sort of the genesis to the game night's idea. do now. Okay. So before the game nights, I would say that at like Janina Gavancar is kind of my,

my game wife. Okay. In which even now, like I think she's coming to shoot a movie here in New York for two weeks. And her first thing is like four nights have escaped the room, but she's like. And you're going on new ones so you don't know. And total new. Like her level, the way that she finds new escape the rooms is crazy. She's even done a kind of a, what do you call it, a Houdini level, not in the water, but like, literally like escape the safe that's trapped inside of a thing and boxing. Like, yeah, it's, it's. She's ready for like Michael Douglas, Sean Penn the game. Oh, she's past that. She's way past that. So yeah, escape the rooms. Nice. All right. Well, please let us know your cheesecake spots, greater Philly proper. Submit questions. These are fun to do.

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