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Benson Boone Takes Over The Smallzy Show On KIIS · The Smallzy Show

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  Speaker 1: What's up, guys?
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  Speaker 2: This is Benson Boone, and you are listening to Smallsy
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  Speaker 2: Now on KISS.
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  Speaker 3: Benson Boone? The Boone Dog?
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  Speaker 1: The Boone Dog.
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  Speaker 3: The Booninator? The Booninator!
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  Speaker 1: Woo!
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  Speaker 3: We roll with those nicknames? Is that good? Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Can we?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in Australia, I'll be the Booninator.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we will. Booninator. Your Aussie accent gets better every time.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, mate.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. We do love to give everyone a nickname,
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  Speaker 3: so the Booninator is what we will refer to you as.
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  Speaker 3: far out um lovely to see you it's lovely to
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  Speaker 3: see you it's been a while it has been a
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  Speaker 3: while um catch me up what's been going on because
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  Speaker 3: you've been very busy.
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  Speaker 2: Yes yes yes um we've pretty much been on the
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  Speaker 2: road yeah for the most part of the last like
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  Speaker 2: give or take three years yeah um it's been a
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  Speaker 2: lot it's been really good but it's been a lot
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  Speaker 2: um I got a house.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: I want to go there. You haven't been to it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I have been there, just not enough.
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  Speaker 1: I've been there for like.
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  Speaker 3: This was going to be my question, so I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to derail you as you catch me up.
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  Speaker 1: No, derail.
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  Speaker 3: When you tour the world and you travel constantly, I
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  Speaker 3: heard some wild stat about another artist that was going
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  Speaker 3: to check into a hotel for something like 28 days
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  Speaker 3: in LA because they were going to be writing a
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  Speaker 3: record or something like that. Whoa. When you are traveling,
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  Speaker 3: you don't go home, right? You rarely spend much time
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  Speaker 3: at home. It's hotels.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I just said, whoa, and I have definitely
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  Speaker 1: done that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of how it goes. When you're on the road,
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  Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of artists that write a
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  Speaker 2: lot on the road.
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  Speaker 1: I can't. I can't do that. I can't write if
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  Speaker 1: I have not lived any life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I got to go out and experience the world,
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  Speaker 2: even if that's just in like.
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  Speaker 1: A very lazy way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah. So when I'm on the road, we're traveling
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  Speaker 1: every day.
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  Speaker 2: We're in a, In a green room and then in
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  Speaker 2: a new city and then maybe in a hotel for
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  Speaker 2: a day off. And then when we go home, my writing,
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  Speaker 2: I've set.
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  Speaker 1: Up a studio at my house.
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  Speaker 3: Are we cooking on a record?
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  Speaker 1: We're cooking. We're cooking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been, before this tour, this Wanted Man tour,
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  Speaker 2: I wrote quite a lot. And then afterwards, I'm planning
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  Speaker 2: on continuing that. So we'll have next year a substantial
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  Speaker 2: amount of songs.
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  Speaker 3: I like the sound of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 3: I like the sound of that. You are coming back
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  Speaker 3: to Australia. You'll be here in November. Yes. Favorite memories
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  Speaker 3: from last time you were there? What are you looking
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  Speaker 3: forward to doing?
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? You know what we never got to
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  Speaker 1: go do?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know exactly what city it's in, but I
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  Speaker 2: see so many people go and do this. They go
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  Speaker 2: to like this sick zoo or like this, it's like
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  Speaker 2: an outdoor experience where you can like see kangaroos and koalas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can do that. That's in Sydney.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I've never seen a kangaroo.
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  Speaker 2: And I've been, I've actually been traveling to Australia a
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  Speaker 2: little bit in the last, like right before tour I
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  Speaker 2: went and stopped there.
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  Speaker 3: And you've not, never seen a kangaroo? No, never.
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  Speaker 1: Never seen a kangaroo.
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  Speaker 3: I think we need to have a chat to the team. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: This seems very easy to organize. Like, they are in
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  Speaker 3: abundant supply in Australia. That's what I hear. Like, that
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  Speaker 3: you haven't seen one is quite shocking. Yeah. Because, and
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  Speaker 3: this is not even me pulling the leg of someone
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  Speaker 3: from overseas, they bounce up and down the street.
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  Speaker 1: Literally.
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  Speaker 3: Literally, they bounce.
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  Speaker 1: They are the definition of bounce on it, dude.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: That is a kangaroo. That is their literal essence, man.
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  Speaker 3: Seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Seriously. For real.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get you a kangaroo.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: If you can name it as well or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Because as I said, there's a lot of them.
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  Speaker 1: And do they... Wait.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry. Go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm now derailing this conversation a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Am I stupid or do they box people?
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  Speaker 3: No, they fight.
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  Speaker 1: Do they actually square up?
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  Speaker 3: So they will rear up like this. What? They will
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  Speaker 3: rear up. The big daddies will rear up. They will
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  Speaker 3: stand on their tail.
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  Speaker 2: Wait.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Like their whole weight?
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  Speaker 3: Their whole weight is on the tail, and then they'll
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  Speaker 3: get their hind legs like, can I, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: demonstrate this to you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Weight on the rear. Their hands like this, and they've
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  Speaker 3: got these big, you know, like Jurassic Park, like the big.
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  Speaker 1: Like claws?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Slash at your belly.
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  Speaker 1: No way.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. So don't square up to one at all.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how quick are they to do that? Because they're
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  Speaker 2: leaning back.
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  Speaker 1: They can turn.
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  Speaker 3: They can turn. That's why we put the older ones
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  Speaker 3: in the petting zoo. They can't move as quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So only the elder kangaroos are allowed to be pet.
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  Speaker 2: Do they ever get acquainted with people? Are they ever like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, I've been around people enough. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to square up to this child.
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  Speaker 1: Completely.
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  Speaker 3: No, the old ones, they'll just lay on the ground
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  Speaker 3: and let kids come up and pet them.
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  Speaker 1: No way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why I say to you, I'm
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  Speaker 3: shocked that you haven't done that yet. But we can
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  Speaker 3: arrange that for when you're here in Australia next time.
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  Speaker 3: Will you be back flipping for us?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I feel like that's a pretty obvious thing. But
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  Speaker 1: it's definitely going to come. It's got to come to
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  Speaker 1: an end someday. Do you think so? I've actually been
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  Speaker 1: thinking about that.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I have. Don't do this. Not now. Not now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still young and spry.
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  Speaker 3: One day, though.
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  Speaker 1: But, dude, one day. I've never missed one besides an
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  Speaker 1: intentional miss.
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  Speaker 2: I was in this like, celebrity football game and I
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  Speaker 2: had this handshake with this gal where she would like
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  Speaker 2: get an arrow and shoot it at me and then
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  Speaker 2: I'd like fall back and do a backflip and everyone
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  Speaker 2: saw and they're like Benji Bruce losing it I was
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  Speaker 2: like no guys that was on purpose but other than
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  Speaker 2: that yeah I've always landed you.
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  Speaker 4: Have uh and we appreciate that you've landed yeah yeah
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  Speaker 4: well me too yeah totally and your team um and
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  Speaker 4: everyone in your life yeah yeah I'm just waiting for
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  Speaker 4: the day though that Has anyone pulled you aside, though,
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  Speaker 4: and gone, hey, the one tonight, like, you need to
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  Speaker 4: calm down a little bit?
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  Speaker 3: No. No. No. Do you know where you're going to
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  Speaker 3: do them in the show? No. Because I've always, okay, wow.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a.
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  Speaker 3: A planned thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Actually, I saw a video of this gal who
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  Speaker 2: was like, I wonder what Benson Boone does for, like,
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  Speaker 2: for his tour prep.
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  Speaker 3: Like.
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  Speaker 1: People are out here like on a treadmill running.
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  Speaker 3: This is my question here. We're stretching, pre-show stretching. Do
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  Speaker 3: you pre-show stretch? No. You don't.
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  Speaker 1: Pre-show stretch.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You must.
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't.
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  Speaker 2: I should.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I should.
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  Speaker 2: But even like for a whole tour, I don't really
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  Speaker 2: practice the flips. Like that doesn't, it's never happened. So
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  Speaker 2: when I go and I play the first show of
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  Speaker 2: a tour and I haven't been performing for eight.
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  Speaker 1: Months, that is my first flip in eight months.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Unless I like went cliff jumping or something.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not like a.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds dangerous. But I'm glad that you're so far
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  Speaker 3: so good.
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  Speaker 1: So far so good.
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  Speaker 2: So hopefully that continues through Australia because, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Did you... Next question just about performing on stage because
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  Speaker 3: it's about the tour. Did you know you'd look like
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  Speaker 3: that in the Spider-Man onesie?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: Because the internet, like everyone loved it. And you're going
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  Speaker 3: to bring a onesie to Australia.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? I've been thinking about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I've been wondering, what's Australia's vibe with Spider-Man?
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  Speaker 3: No, we love Spider-Man.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Go for gold.
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  Speaker 1: Well, then I'm sure it will continue.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, great. I do kind of need to get a
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  Speaker 1: better suit, though.
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  Speaker 2: Are you.
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  Speaker 3: No, it was good.
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  Speaker 1: It was much better than the Grammys, where the front
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  Speaker 1: actually was great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The front, like, didn't, you know, like, ride up too far.
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  Speaker 1: The back, however, it was like... It was like... I
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  Speaker 1: don't really even know what to compare it to.
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  Speaker 2: It's what I would imagine wearing a thong would feel like.
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  Speaker 3: It would feel like, yes. It was very hungry.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: It's very hungry.
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  Speaker 3: It's a hungry Spider-Man. It's a hungry, yep. Let's talk
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  Speaker 3: about music. The Time of My Life came out in June.
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  Speaker 3: You said you've been writing. Yeah. Have we got a
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  Speaker 3: full album almost done, do you think?
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to say.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to say. I definitely have.
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  Speaker 1: Enough songs, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a very particular process for everyone. Of course. Like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know what anyone else's process is.
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  Speaker 2: Just for me, I kind of want to wait till
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  Speaker 2: I know I have the right tracks. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Which, you know, could be in a week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Could be in a couple months.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: All right. What's inspiring you in life? Is there anything
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  Speaker 3: in general? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Love.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that's the greatest inspiration of all time.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, new love I think is a very beautiful feeling.
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  Speaker 2: I think when you first open yourself up to someone,
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  Speaker 2: it's like one of the greatest things ever to feel
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  Speaker 2: as a human being and to have that be accepted.
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  Speaker 1: So I have quite a lot of inspiration right now.
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  Speaker 3: I like that. Does it change the process? Are you
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  Speaker 3: writing in a way that you didn't write before? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Are you seeing things you didn't see before?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not necessarily like this big change of
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  Speaker 2: how I go about it, but it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're writing in a time of your life where
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  Speaker 2: you don't have a lot to write about and you're
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  Speaker 2: kind of picking from older places in your life or
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  Speaker 2: like looking at the people around you, sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: It's harder to grab a lot of lyrics and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of words and.
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  Speaker 2: And even melodies but like when you have something to
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  Speaker 2: write about um I'm sure most other artists that write
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  Speaker 2: are are like this like those feelings just very easily
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  Speaker 2: turn into melodies and words so easily.
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  Speaker 1: It comes very quickly.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I can't wait to hear it. I can't wait
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  Speaker 3: to hear it. Last question. How much time do we
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  Speaker 3: spend grooming? Honestly, I can confirm in real life, it's
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  Speaker 3: more impressive.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Look, it was impressive on the socials, but in real life,
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  Speaker 3: being this close to it? Benny Boone, I'm not surprised
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  Speaker 3: you've got new love. Like, I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 2: I will spend maybe, maybe, maybe five minutes a week.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just, it's just trimming. It's just trimming.
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  Speaker 2: Is it really? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Because, you know, some of us who are, like, almost
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  Speaker 3: a lot older than you are.
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  Speaker 1: Almost. Almost a lot older.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, almost.
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  Speaker 4: Not at all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't, for the life of me, even cobble together
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  Speaker 3: any of that.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm being real.
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  Speaker 1: Because you're now, you won't commit.
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  Speaker 2: Because you have to commit to looking so terrible for
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  Speaker 2: like two months.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, this is where I've broken. I start to look
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  Speaker 3: terrible and I'm like, this is it. I'm done. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You push through the ugly.
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  Speaker 1: That's a hard barrier to push.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that's the note I'm taking.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily, I did it like before.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like, you know, a lot of people were caring about
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  Speaker 1: what I look like.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so I will take that on notice. Push through
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  Speaker 3: the ugly when it comes to growing a mustache. And
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  Speaker 3: we'll see you in Australia in November.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Can't wait to have you back.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to be back.
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