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Tayme Thapthimthong · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: On with maeztst joining me right now from the third
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  Speaker 1: season of White Lotus actor Tam Tacked Tim Tong, how
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  Speaker 1: are you, man.
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. Thank you, Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for taking the time.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, you crushed.
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  Speaker 3: It as a guide talk in White Lotus, and I thought,
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  Speaker 3: thank you very much. That storyline, in particular, you and
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  Speaker 3: the young lady you had a crush on that was
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  Speaker 3: that was so seed and romantic and and fun. I
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  Speaker 3: gotta imagine you had a blast working on that set.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's it's just been huh man, I don't
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  Speaker 4: even know what to start. It's just been amazing. Ever
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  Speaker 4: since I got casted for Guy Talking, everything just changed,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like this my whole life, my whole world
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  Speaker 4: just changed for the better, I guess. And it's just,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the whole experience, you know, being in four
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  Speaker 4: seasons with all these other amazing actors I've watched, you know,
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  Speaker 4: from a from from a young age, and to get
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  Speaker 4: to be in a hotel with them for like seven
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  Speaker 4: months and work with them, it was it was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I actually had no I had no bad moments.
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  Speaker 4: I really enjoyed every moment of it and I'm still
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  Speaker 4: enjoying it right now.
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  Speaker 3: I have that and I love your character arc. He
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  Speaker 3: really had a great way to wrap up the series
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  Speaker 3: in the last episode, and he came through in this
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  Speaker 3: sort of heroic fashion and ended up being the driver.
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  Speaker 3: And it looks like you got the girl and you
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  Speaker 3: were going soft.
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  Speaker 2: On me, but you manned up when you needed to. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: did you know.
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  Speaker 3: The way the show is going to end from the
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  Speaker 3: beginning or did they the writers? Did Mike reveal it
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  Speaker 3: like as it went on?
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  Speaker 4: No, So when I first received the script, I read
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  Speaker 4: through it the whole thing, and you know, it was
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  Speaker 4: just amazing to see that ending for my character, because
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  Speaker 4: you know, in the beginning, you know, as I was
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  Speaker 4: reading the script, I was always trying to sort of
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  Speaker 4: picture sort of just like the scene, you know, and sort.
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  Speaker 2: Of how how I am throughout the whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, it wasn't until the very end that
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  Speaker 4: it got me so excited because it meant that my
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  Speaker 4: character has like a kind of a full arc, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like starting from being that this kind of smiley guy
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  Speaker 4: all the time who's just got a massive crush on
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  Speaker 4: on on Mook and you know, slowly, as you know,
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  Speaker 4: has he when he loses the gun, when he when
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  Speaker 4: he's trying to find it, when he gets it back.
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  Speaker 4: I just really enjoyed sort of going through all those
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  Speaker 4: layers with that character, and then to finish it off
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  Speaker 4: at the end with that bang. It was just it
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  Speaker 4: was so satisfying for me, you know, because I've always
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  Speaker 4: wanted to play like a layered character. So when I
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  Speaker 4: when I when I start finished reading the script, it
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  Speaker 4: was just like, wow, Okay, now I know how to
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  Speaker 4: sort of design him, you know, from episode one to
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  Speaker 4: three and then like four to six, having an eight
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  Speaker 4: you know, it was just really fun to play around
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  Speaker 4: with that.
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  Speaker 3: And it was really about the only one you could
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  Speaker 3: get behind and root for is everybody else that's going on,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there really was. It was an alter your motives.
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  Speaker 3: You had a crush and you wanted to do the
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  Speaker 3: right thing, and so it was great. I'm so glad
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  Speaker 3: they ended it like that, not in a negative negative.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah me too, Me too, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: You're also starring in this upcoming Hulu series Alien Earth,
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  Speaker 3: and it's actually a prequel to Yes.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, it is, so I think it takes place.
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  Speaker 4: Before even the original Alien happens, but it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's the first one out of the whole franchise that
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  Speaker 4: takes place on Earth, so you know, it's there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of excitement there, but you know what happens when
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  Speaker 4: an alien gets released on Earth, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're also working on a movie with Jason
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  Speaker 3: Statham called Mutiny.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so that one was actually a very small role,
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  Speaker 4: but they decided to write me a small more role
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  Speaker 4: into that movie because they saw that I was British
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  Speaker 4: and they said, you know, this would be a great
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  Speaker 4: chance to just get him to have a foot in
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  Speaker 4: the door in the British industry because you know, I
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  Speaker 4: was born and raised in England and you know, my
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  Speaker 4: parents still live there and my little brother. So my
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  Speaker 4: manager said, you know, this would be great if even
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  Speaker 4: if it's a small role, because you know, at least
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  Speaker 4: you go get to go and film in England. And
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  Speaker 4: then after that we actually did just rounds of going
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  Speaker 4: to meet different agencies, so I ended up getting getting
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  Speaker 4: signed to the Independent Talent over over in London.
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  Speaker 2: It was a very productive trip.
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  Speaker 3: So so you were born and raised in England, are
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  Speaker 3: you by ethnicity tie?
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  Speaker 4: Though yes, both my parents are tied. They just went
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  Speaker 4: to work in England or you know, back when they
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  Speaker 4: were younger, and then just stayed there.
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  Speaker 2: Got it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because I was going to say, you spoken fluently
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  Speaker 3: very well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know it's funny because uh, I think discussion. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I have a discussion with my with my manager, and
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  Speaker 4: he was saying that, you know, I'm really trying to
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  Speaker 4: you know, the reason I'm getting you to do so
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  Speaker 4: many general meetings with all these people in LA right
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  Speaker 4: now is because I have a feeling that people must
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  Speaker 4: believe that you talk like how guy talk talks.
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  Speaker 2: English, right, you know that's a testament. You're right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I really worked on that because at
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  Speaker 4: first I was kind of cringing at myself, sort of
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  Speaker 4: sort of speaking like a more broken English or tie.
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  Speaker 4: People call it tinglish. So so it took it took
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  Speaker 4: a few practices in front of the mirror to get
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  Speaker 4: to to not my you know, not be cringing at myself.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm glad. I'm glad it was that convincing to people.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it's nice to let people know that this
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  Speaker 4: is how I speak.
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  Speaker 2: No exactly exactly, good pipes. Is it true you were
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  Speaker 2: actually a bodyguard before.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, so I was actually in the I've had a
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  Speaker 4: whole thing in the military. So I back in England,
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to be a raw Marine and I actually
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  Speaker 4: trained for it, and you know, got trained by an
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  Speaker 4: ex SAS soldier who whose assistant is my mum's best friend.
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  Speaker 4: And when he heard that I wanted to join the Marines,
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  Speaker 4: He's like, send him up to Hereford, I'll train him.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that's where he lives. And he took me
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  Speaker 4: out and trained me in the mountains in the hills
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  Speaker 4: and it was it was great. But you know, I
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  Speaker 4: couldn't join in England because I found out at the
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  Speaker 4: medicals that my ear wasn't working so well. So that's
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  Speaker 4: why it was that shift, that that event that happened
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  Speaker 4: in England where it made me shift to Thailand because
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  Speaker 4: I was so depressed in England because I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: join so bad and.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't because with medical problems.
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  Speaker 4: So so I came to Thailand and started off a
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  Speaker 4: whole new leaf, and you know, that's how I got
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  Speaker 4: into the entertainment industry. But ultimately I still ended up
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  Speaker 4: in the Thai Army, which was pretty cool. They didn't
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  Speaker 4: care about my ear. So I actually served three years
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  Speaker 4: as a as an officer in the Thai Army, and
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  Speaker 4: then a further two years I went private. That's how
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  Speaker 4: I ended up as a Bodygut's.
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  Speaker 3: Ironically character being what it was too.
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  Speaker 2: It was, yeah, that's cool.
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  Speaker 3: I thought you were a Coachella got to see Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: what's the young lady's name?
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  Speaker 2: He played Mouke Lisa Lisa Yo. Lisa is like a
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  Speaker 2: big star. Huh oh yeah, she's she's huge. You know.
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  Speaker 4: When I found out that she was going to play
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  Speaker 4: my love interest in in White Lotus, I was just
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  Speaker 4: you know, I thought things couldn't get any better for
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  Speaker 4: me already after being casted and then getting an American
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  Speaker 4: manager approaching me and helping me out and everything, and
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  Speaker 4: then to Lisa sort of you know, being my my
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  Speaker 4: co star was just like, it is just real.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, wow, she's is she also from Thailand
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  Speaker 3: or is she ty?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, she's originally from Thailand, you know, because she was
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  Speaker 4: in Black.
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  Speaker 2: Pink, that's what a girl group.
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  Speaker 4: She actually went to train to be become a Black
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  Speaker 4: Black Pink member since she was like fourteen, so she's
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  Speaker 4: been in that world for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I know that's that's crazy man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And yo, you got pipes yourself. Man, I heard you
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  Speaker 3: singing a little no diggity yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Is that is that? I mean? Were you just messing
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  Speaker 2: around her?
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  Speaker 3: Singing something you pursued, something you always wanted to do.
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  Speaker 4: Singing music to me is something that's very dear to me.
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  Speaker 4: It started off with just me singing to myself in
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  Speaker 4: the shower and it's at home. I never actually thought
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  Speaker 4: I turned into a career. And so I came to
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  Speaker 4: Thailand and entered this competition and that was that was
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  Speaker 4: in twenty thirteen where I entered this. It was like
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  Speaker 4: a half Big Brother half X Factor competition in Thailand.
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  Speaker 2: That's a wild bromise.
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  Speaker 4: It was crazy to like go back to Thailand within
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  Speaker 4: the year I was in this in this competition, right
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  Speaker 4: and it you know, I came second in the end,
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  Speaker 4: and I got like a five to five year like
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  Speaker 4: contract with this record label. But I'm really into R
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  Speaker 4: and B and blues, you know, in hip hop, and
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  Speaker 4: to sing R and B in Thailand at the time
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  Speaker 4: at least, it just wasn't a thing like it.
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  Speaker 2: Just there just wasn't a market for it.
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  Speaker 4: So they try to make me do rock and like
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  Speaker 4: like T pop, you know, a type hop, but I
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  Speaker 4: just wasn't feeling it. So you know, that's where I
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  Speaker 4: shifted heavily to acting, and I'm glad I did because
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  Speaker 4: you know, it led to this. But music has always
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  Speaker 4: been a big part of me. So even when I
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  Speaker 4: was in the military here and during basic training, there
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  Speaker 4: was no music. The only MU that you ever hear
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  Speaker 4: was the national anthem in the morning. And that's why
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  Speaker 4: I made me realize I can't, I can't. I can't
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  Speaker 4: live without music. So I would be singing to myself,
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  Speaker 4: humming to myself as I'm doing all this training running,
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  Speaker 4: and yeah, that's why we really realized I need to
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  Speaker 4: I need to also do music as well.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm really glad that that No Diggity.
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  Speaker 4: Clip went viral because it just really gave me another
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  Speaker 4: shot to do music here in the US, where R
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  Speaker 4: and B and blues is actually you know, really lightd
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  Speaker 4: So I can't wait to do some music here. And yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I've already met with a few music producers and we're
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  Speaker 4: trying to work on something.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you. Man.
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  Speaker 3: I like your style, brother, I like your style. Congratulations
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  Speaker 3: I'm so happy.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much for your tame and listen.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate you stopping buying everyone. If you haven't checked it out,
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  Speaker 3: please do you got to see the third season A
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  Speaker 3: White Lotus, which is of course streaming right now on
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  Speaker 3: Max TAM. Hope to meet you in person, brother.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I like your T shirt. By the way, thank
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  Speaker 2: you you jumper at Bruce Lee. That's awesome. Swarts all right, brother,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, Take brother, thank you so much. You gotch
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  Speaker 2: see you soon. Take care of you, got it. Goodbye
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