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[0:06] Robert Bannon: It's the round table with me, Robert Bannon. Listen, she's been running as fast as she can for as long as I've been alive. I have been obsessed and loved, loved our next guest since I remember having a 78. I remember the tours. I remember going to my cousin's house and listening to your records. I was just listening to you this morning to get ready. And not only does Tiffany have major hits, she sings her face off, y'all. I love a ballad. I love a sings her face off. And now she's cooking her face off for you too. And we're going to talk all about it. She's on tour. She has a brand new cookbook. She's been cooking on TV. She's been singing around the country, and now she's here on the round table. Welcome to the show.

[0:46] Tiffany: Oh, well, thank you so much. Appreciate that. You know, I am in a neighborhood close to your heart. I believe you were not born here, but I'm in Detroit, right hop, skip and a jump from Dearborn, where I know you have and I know your history, you make some good old Middle Eastern food. I gotta come over and eat.

[1:06] Tiffany: Well, it's the cookbook. You mentioned the cookbook, me cooking. So this is Pop Life, everybody. And yes, my sitto is in here. I dedicate this to my grandmothers, my Mimi, and my sitto, who is Lebanese. So we do have our spinach pot pies. There's spinach pies in here. We've got a few recipes from both of my grandmothers. So yes, I just got my hands on the book last night. So I literally slept with it. I'm like, oh my gosh. Um, and it's not just a cookbook. This is like my 80s memories. So, you know, it's got pictures of my family, pictures that of me on the road that no one's seen before, and my stories of the 80s and how it all started for me being a foodie, but my 80s experience, you know, um, which was very tied to food because of course I've been traveling the world since I was 15 with my music.

So it was all about meeting new people and meeting my fans all over the world. And I never wanted to be somebody that stayed in the hotel. I always wanted to go out to where the locals were. Uh so all the local food, all the local shopping, that's always, and it's still my jam now. I'm like, I don't want to stay in the hotel. I want to go see things. I want to, I want to know the culture because for me, being just a Norwalk kid, you know, from East LA and California, I never thought I'd be traveling the world. So once I started doing it, I was like, well, now that I'm here, I want to know more about this culture or these types of people and you know, the language. I always try to learn a little bit of, you know, a couple words. I just went in there. I love it. I love, I like, I like the, you know, uniqueness of the world and different cultures. And I find that food definitely has a language, just like music.

[2:55] Tiffany: Yeah. Oh yeah. And I'm a foodie, and I love music and I love to eat. So I'm your kind of friend, Tiffany, because that's what I'm all about. What's it like for you to go back in the memory bank, find these pictures, find these stories? I mean, you were thrown into super stardom, 15 million plus records. I mean, music that will play forever is literally a part of pop culture. It had to be scary. Was it scary?

[3:23] Tiffany: No. No, I don't think it was scary. I mean, it was exciting. It's still exciting. Um, you know. Um, I just I didn't have any expectation. I mean, I just want to sing, and then all of a sudden it really happened. Um, so for me, again, to be traveling the world and going different places, I think it was a ride that I didn't know if it would stop. So I just really enjoyed every minute of it. It was never really scary. It was, it was liberating and exciting. And every place I went that people knew my music. They knew something about me that I liked, like olive pizza, or they'd be wearing jean jackets, you know. I was like, oh my gosh, they know a little bit about me. So that really made a big impression on me, that connection with my fans.

[4:14] Robert Bannon: They've been with you now for decades, and they're still with you as you go on tour. You're on tour right now, and you're going on tour. You got a book tour, you have a concert tour. You don't sit still, you're ready to go to work. Tell me a little bit about what's a Tiffany show like in 2026.

[4:32] Tiffany: Well, this show, all this time, the all this time tour is a little mini run before I do start the book tour. So it's priming you for that 80s resurgence, like reconnection. Of course, there's been so much 80s resurgence with Stranger Things and pop culture just exploding right now, I think again. Um, so I'm very proud to be a part of that. I'm very proud to be an 80s baby. I think that there's something magical about that time, and I think a lot of people want to run back there because of the simplicity of it. Um, there is something to 80s music that brings us a lot of joy, you know. So we definitely need that at this time. Um, and for me, I call this tour all this time because my fans have been with me all this time.

We've grown up together. We've been hanging out for 40 years now. Um, and I think we're getting better and better. So I really wanted to highlight that connection. Um, of course, I have a song called All This Time. Uh, so we kind of lengthen that song. It's a real feature in this tour. Uh, I bring out an old school phone where I pick up the phone and I say, I'm calling all my 80s people out there. And I talk about, you know, being on the phone and waiting for that phone call. If you remember, we didn't have these devices in our hands all the time. We had to go home and we had to wait for that phone call. And there was something special again about waiting and connecting with people and going to the mall with people.

You know, I mean, now it's like I don't know about everybody else, but sometimes I'm like talking to 50 people on my device, you know, and it's and that's cool, but it's not so personable, you know, and sometimes it's very overwhelming as well. I'm like, why am I talking about? I don't really need to have this conversation right now. You know, so I think we're bombarded and a little desensitized, where there was a magic about it about okay, I'll call you at six, and you ran home for that phone call. Um, you know, and it was like you talked on the phone, and then you got to see your friends the next day, and you went, you planned things and you hooked up. So, you know, it was really great to be, I mean, Stranger Things nailed it.

I used to ride around with a posse on our bikes up and down the street. That was a real thing. So I talk a lot about that in this tour. I just really I say, I'm taking you back to the 80s. Are you ready to go? You know, and everybody goes, whoa, you know, um, and you know, I'm just gonna take that magic from this tour into the Pop Life cookbook, Pop Life Experience. We're gonna have some Pop Life parties where it's all 80s themed, and I host it and the food comes out, and we start tasting food and hanging out together. Our first one is May 12th in Vegas, which I'm very excited. That kicks the first one off. Um, and then of course, I'll be doing cookbook signings, you know, for Pop Life. I am so excited for people that have experienced your music or may have only seen you cooking on television where you were like a rave hit on the Food Network and did use all your skills.

Now people can come to an event, you can hear the music, you can dance, you could meet friends, you could hang out, you could take a picture with Tiffany, you could eat some of the food that's in the and then you could take the book home and try it at your own house.

[7:51] Tiffany: What is food symbolize for you when you get off the road, you open your suitcase, you sit down, you take out those pots and pans, your family, your friends come over? What is it about food that makes us all feel something special? Well, it's the connection, you know, it really is. It's the memories of, you know, for me, uh when I do, it's exactly what I do. I go home and I am so tired, but I want my family to come over. We're I'm already planning a barbecue, and it's just the connection of people, and I love feeding people and I love talking to them, and I love you know, just being around them and food feeds your soul, and the connection feeds your soul, and you know, and it's just and I'm a big um person about like doing things with people that I invite.

So my mom back in the 80s, she always had everything perfect. Um, whereas for me, I like that interactive. So I may have dishes that we're still preparing while people are there. I'm like, oh, you can make it your own. Come over here. I've got the little taco station or whatever it is, you know. Um, you can roll your own. Like, I mean, sometimes I'm I'm making Arabic food, you know. So I'm like, oh no, I'm not completely done. But you can get over here and we can talk, have a glass of wine, and uh, we could do this together. So I encourage people just to gather. You know, it's that connection again. Always doesn't matter if you have a million-dollar home or a small apartment, invite people into your space because they're your memories.

That's your home. And you know, that's all we really take in this life is that dude, these memories of being with people. And um, you know, and when you're down, you're gonna look around in your space, and that's gonna bring you up as well. You're gonna remember, oh, I remember sitting here and my family at the table, having laughs and talking, and you know, the dog ate off the whatever. I mean, you know, because my dogs do, they're like in everybody's business. I have to like correct them, but but yes, Daisy loves a thing or two. Uh so but you know, I mean, it's just and it's the mistakes, it's the mishaps. Uh, I burnt the rice that day, whatever it is. But you just that that's what another thing about the 80s. We were always gathering, we were always connecting with people.

And um, I'm just you know, kind of encouraging people to do that again. Let's do that again because the world is crazy and we need to get together and be with each other and celebrate every single day. And you do that by food and love and family and your friend and music and music. That's like you gotta make sure you get tickets when Tiffany's in your neighborhood or you can you definitely gotta get pop life.

[10:28] Robert Bannon: So pop life is gonna be available. We could we're able to order it. It's gonna be, I know it's gonna be on your website. You can go to TiffanyTunes.com. I know you can go to a live event and see it. Where can we find it? When can we find it?

[10:39] Tiffany: You can order it on Amazon. So it is available for order on Amazon right now. Of course, TiffanyTunes.com for all things tip world and all the events around Pop Life as well. But of course, we'll have them at the shows as well. I love this book. I love that it's not just recipes, it's actually pictures and memories. And your music is our memories. And that must feel incredible that people come up to you, they see you, and they must tell you their stories about when they first heard a song, their first crush, their first love, their first record. What is it like when you travel and hear people tell you their stories about what you mean to them?

[11:16] Tiffany: Well, yeah, I mean, like last night at the show, I had a girl that she bought a meet and greet, and she came back and you know, she goes, I don't want to be like, I don't want to bring it down, you know. She goes, but I just can I give you a huge hug. And so she hugged me and she gave me the tightest hug, but she started to cry, and I was like, Oh my gosh, you know, are you okay? And she was like, you know, I had a really rough upbringing, and I I was from home to home to home, like like my family, I just couldn't be there. So I stayed in a lot of foster homes. She goes, and there was just times that my world was falling apart, but I listened to your songs non-stop, and literally you were the only thing I had.

And I just was like, oh my gosh, you know, because I too came from a rough home, you know, a lot of stuff behind the scenes people don't know. And there were songs for me, and that you know, Stevie Nicks was one of them. That that was it. I just turned on Stevie Nicks and I pretended I was someplace else, and I planned my future, you know, and I was like, one day it won't be like this, but right now I just I just don't want to hear the screaming outside my door. So you know, that meant everything to me that she that I was her lifeline, you know, that that different type of connection. And I totally understood what she was saying. So I just hugged her back together. I was like, we've been together a long time, babe, you know, and uh we made it, you know.

So it was like a really cool bonding, but I and that's that's the thing, you know. Some people, my music was everything to them. Uh, and I don't take that lightly. It really means a lot to me, you know, and I and I understand that feeling because I too was that kind of kid that had to escape from a lot of stuff uh through music.

[13:00] Robert Bannon: And it worked out 40 something year for you been around here singing for if you go to, I was listening to you when we were on I was in Spotify, and when you go through the hits and you be besides, I think you're alone now in all this time and all when you go to songs like It's the Love or Not the Love, and you go to If Love is like you were singing your face off out here on the road, and you got to listen to these songs. All of these songs will take you right back to a special place, and the music is an escape, it's still an escape for me at at 40 something years old. It's I still listen to it and takes me back to those really special days. So it's really, really a special important thing for all of us to get the book, listen to the music, and go see the show in community with one another and celebrate.

[13:40] Tiffany: Yes, please. Come hang out with me. I saw your videos. You have a fun band, they're rocking on stage.

[13:46] Robert Bannon: Thank you. You're rocking Tiffany.

[13:48] Tiffany: We have a good time. She got her leather jacket, she's got her short skirt, she is up here as a party. It's up here. She is belting and screlching her face off. The audience is screaming and yelling their faces off. It is a now add that energy with some food.

[14:02] Robert Bannon: Yes, like good night. We're coming for you.

[14:05] Tiffany: We are coming for you. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for what your music means to all of us, the memories and the excitement that you bring to be here with me. It means the world to me and everybody out here that's listening to us. I had when I said you were coming on, so many people said, like you said, you're the you're the sound of their childhood. You're their growing up. You were their safe specials place. Um and the music that meant something to them. And all the time you spent away from home and all you went through brings us. And congrats on turning your career into now a TV reality. You just Tiffany can do it all. I've seen you be out here boxing, cooking, singing. You do it all.

[14:40] Tiffany: Yes, I just have fun. You know, it just I just have fun with it. And everybody can go to TiffanyTunes.com because I will be coming to Michigan uh before the end of the year. So you can come and see me.

[14:51] Robert Bannon: Yeah. I'm coming to see you.

[14:52] Tiffany: Well, let's make it happen. I can't wait to see you in person.

[14:56] Robert Bannon: I'll see you. I'm gonna give you a big hug. I'm gonna sing your music right to you, and I'm gonna bring you some. I'll go to Dearborn and get you a great belief. I'm ready for you, Tiffany.

[15:03] Tiffany: We love it. Thank you. Well, I I gotta let my family know that I'm coming. So definitely.

[15:09] Tiffany: Yes, I get to see this. Is what another thing I love about touring is I get to see family and friends. So I make it work for me as well.

[15:16] Robert Bannon: Well, thank you. Thank you for not making us feel alone. And thank you for all the music and the time you spent with us. And thank you for hanging out with me. Congratulations.

[15:23] Tiffany: Thanks, guys.

[15:24] Tiffany: Bye.