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Interview: Jack Gray · The Smallzy Show

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: A small show, a smallsy show.
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  Speaker 2: Give it up for Hey, what's up? This is Jack Gray.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hanging out with small shot back.
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  Speaker 3: All right on the show tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Very first time, I think it is the very first
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  Speaker 1: time we've ever done an interview.
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  Speaker 4: It is first time Jack Gray's in the building. Welcome
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  Speaker 4: to it, mate, Thank you so much for having me.
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  Speaker 1: The only time we've ever met each other pre now
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  Speaker 1: was we sat next to each other at the Aria
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  Speaker 1: behind Joseph.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we had a great time.
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  Speaker 2: We had the best time we did.
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  Speaker 1: It was a pleasure to get to know you at
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  Speaker 1: that time. And then since then you've been dropping bangers.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: We've been playing them here on the show.
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  Speaker 3: So welcome to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you so much for having me. This is
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  Speaker 2: this is very exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Now for people who don't know Jack Gray. What is
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  Speaker 1: the Jack Gray story? Give it to us so people know.
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  Speaker 4: I grew up in a very musical family, just surrounded
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  Speaker 4: by you know, my dad was in a band, so
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  Speaker 4: I just grew up around music. I went to college
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  Speaker 4: for about six months after school and then I dropped
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  Speaker 4: out because I signed.
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  Speaker 2: To a label.
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  Speaker 4: Moved to Sydney for a year, then I moved to
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  Speaker 4: La for a couple of years. I've been producing for
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  Speaker 4: myself and writing for writing and producing for other people too,
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  Speaker 4: and skipping over a ton of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: No, of course you get the get you know, I
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  Speaker 3: get the GEPs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then so La is home now right now, you do
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the sunshine there, if you enjoy.
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  Speaker 2: The food the sunshine my friends.
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  Speaker 1: Spence, sorry, Spencer Pratt's running for me in La at
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  Speaker 1: the moment. I've heard I would vote for him if
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  Speaker 1: I could.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard something about like the like the film
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  Speaker 4: he's going to make, like there's no filming permits you.
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  Speaker 3: Need, yeah, something.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to do a whole bunch of stuff, including
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  Speaker 1: bringing back like lots of movies to LA and cleaning
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  Speaker 1: up the human pool that too, which is important because
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of human shit in La and Urine.
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  Speaker 1: Why is that, well, I don't know, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: guess it's one of like the Hollywood's like one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest attractions in America, and it's crazy that it
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  Speaker 1: is not well, do not go to Hollywood, people who
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  Speaker 1: are listening right now. Hollywood is all glamour and it's
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  Speaker 1: all like bright lights. But do not go to downtown Hollywood.
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  Speaker 3: Do not go down. Go to West Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: That's nice, can be sketchy at times, to be careful,
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  Speaker 1: but do not go to Hollywood.
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  Speaker 4: Santa Monica is nice, yeah, nice ish, but in Hollywood
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  Speaker 4: it's rough as good.
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  Speaker 1: Like the Chinese Theater, human shit out the front, the
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  Speaker 1: Dolby Theater, human out.
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  Speaker 2: Just naked guys doing all sorts of things.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's not clean it up, clean it up,
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  Speaker 4: clean up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you on that one.
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  Speaker 3: You're here with a brain. New song. It's called look
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  Speaker 3: at You. Tell me about it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I had a good a good friend of mine who
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  Speaker 4: went through something pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 2: His partner cheated on him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and we were we were talking about it for
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  Speaker 4: you know, a good length of time afterwards, and he
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  Speaker 4: said some very interesting things that inspired this song.
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  Speaker 1: And do you take the cheetah back? Do you move
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  Speaker 1: on for good? Do you forgive and forget?
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  Speaker 3: What do you do? Jack?
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  Speaker 4: I guess you in some ways you forgive him, you forget,
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  Speaker 4: but you definitely move on.
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  Speaker 3: You don't take the cheatah?
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  Speaker 2: Do you deserve better? Right? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Keep the standard.
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  Speaker 2: Could you look at someone when they've done that to you?
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  Speaker 1: You know? Yeah? And then every time you close your eyes,
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  Speaker 1: you just be picturing them with.
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  Speaker 3: Someone else's That's the whole thing. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Now. I love the new song. I love your voice.
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  Speaker 1: I've just you know, I lost yourself. You know I
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  Speaker 1: described you as take this as a compliment. I have
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  Speaker 1: them getting ready the Australian Benson boone.
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  Speaker 4: Oh wait, that's you know what, that's really really nice.
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  Speaker 4: But I couldn't wear that crown. He's actually can you
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  Speaker 4: do backflips? Because I've been telling everybody we might get
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  Speaker 4: you to, Well, I'll try, but I'll probably break my neck. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: but yeah no, I also can't sing like him. That
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  Speaker 4: guy has got the most crazy voice.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll take the.
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  Speaker 1: Complicate, the compliment. Take the compliment, roll with it. You
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  Speaker 1: are about to in the next week or so. Next week,
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  Speaker 1: actually you're going to be supporting freyer Sky Lucky.
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  Speaker 3: She was here on the show last night.
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  Speaker 2: I know how cool is that.
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  Speaker 4: She's incredible and at sixteen, it's actually not fair. It
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  Speaker 4: shouldn't be like allowed to be like that talented and
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  Speaker 4: successful at that age.
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  Speaker 2: Life's not a famine.
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  Speaker 1: Can I share this part of a conversation that we
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  Speaker 1: had when we're at the Arias.
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  Speaker 3: Know about you living in LA.
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  Speaker 1: And do you play basketball with Will Ferrell's You told.
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  Speaker 2: Me I do. Yeah, yes, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: So when you say you live in LA, you're like
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  Speaker 1: with the Beverly Hills celebrities. Lifestyle is the Richard Famous La.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I guess. Look, they're the most normal people
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  Speaker 4: in the world. And and Magnus here is such a
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  Speaker 4: legend and such an incredible artist.
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  Speaker 2: You should go listen to his music. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Is he good at basketball? Though?
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  Speaker 2: He's incredible. He's constantly dunking on me. Yeah. No, But
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  Speaker 2: like just so much love for them and that family.
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  Speaker 1: But have you found yourself at any weird Hollywood parties?
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  Speaker 1: Obviously you've got a circle there of slightly famous people.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever rocked up and just gone oh here
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  Speaker 1: we go, Yeah, plenty of Do you get your phone out? No?
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  Speaker 2: I never do. No, you don't know. No, I mean
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  Speaker 2: I probably should.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've better person than I am, because I'd be
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  Speaker 1: like film this shit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah No, I mean maybe it's the reason I get
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  Speaker 4: let into these parties because I don't.
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  Speaker 2: But I know I have been some weird ones.
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  Speaker 4: There was one a long time ago, bb Rex's Grammy
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  Speaker 4: Party and I actually ended up wearing her grammy dress
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  Speaker 4: by the end of the night.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: It was like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I actually don't even remember how I found myself in
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  Speaker 4: that dress. It's not shady, by the way you're looking
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  Speaker 4: at me like it's shady.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds shady. But that's a fun story.
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  Speaker 2: That is a fun story that was a while ago, though,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. That's all you needed to say.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do a lightning round of getting to know Jack
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  Speaker 1: Gray questions you ready to go? This is like the
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  Speaker 1: poking prodden, get to know what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Give it to me. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: If animals could talk, which ones do you think would
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  Speaker 1: be the rudest?
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  Speaker 2: Cats?
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  Speaker 3: For sure?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean there's no question, there's no question. Cats
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  Speaker 1: just miserable, miserable. What's the most useless talent that you have?
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  Speaker 2: I playing pool?
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  Speaker 3: Are you good at it?
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  Speaker 2: Or were pretty good at that? Yeah? Wow, Yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: should go for a game.
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  Speaker 3: Do you put like the dollar coin on the side? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, well, normally I like to go to
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  Speaker 2: some nicer establishments.
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  Speaker 3: We can book out the different between you and I.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if your life had a theme song, what would
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  Speaker 1: it be.
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  Speaker 2: You know what song soundtracks my life. I always go
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  Speaker 2: back to. It's some bad book.
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  Speaker 4: I know, it's the Holo scene by Bonivo and I
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  Speaker 4: don't know why not conceptually or lyrically, but just that
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  Speaker 4: song throughout my life, I just always go back to.
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  Speaker 3: I like that, and it just it.
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  Speaker 2: Feels like I'm in a movie scene when I'm listening
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  Speaker 2: to that.
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  Speaker 1: That's a nice answer. Yeah, see I went trash. You
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  Speaker 1: you went wow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I could have said CARDI something what it's something you've
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  Speaker 1: done that sounds completely made.
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  Speaker 3: Up but actually true.
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  Speaker 2: I wore bb Rex.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. You just told me.
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  Speaker 1: If you were to compete on a reality TV show tomorrow, which.
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  Speaker 3: One are you're signing up for?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. You could do maps, maps, Yeah, let's maps.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you'd be Would you be the Love Island your
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  Speaker 3: Love Island Survivor master Chef.
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  Speaker 4: It's the worst cook in the world, so definitely not
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  Speaker 4: the Master Chef Survivor.
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  Speaker 2: I would also crumble out, amazing, race.
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  Speaker 3: Is amazing race still yeah, yeah, still going.
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  Speaker 2: That'd be kind of fun. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Or you could be a groom on maths.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, or I could be a groom on Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 3: You'd be the problematic one, I think.
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  Speaker 1: So. Last question, if we swap phones for thirty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: what's the most embarrassing thing I'd find on yours?
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  Speaker 2: Probably just all my selfies.
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  Speaker 3: Do you take a lot?
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  Speaker 2: I take a lot and then don't post them because
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I hate that.
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  Speaker 3: Do you like? You like your insecurity clicks?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I'm just like, but that is the like. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 4: like that. It can't be right. Yeah, there's something wrong
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  Speaker 4: with my lens.
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  Speaker 3: No, not, there's nothing wrong with the lea.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the lens.
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  Speaker 1: It's maybe a smudge, but you can't unsmudge it. That's
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  Speaker 1: what it looks like.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually worse.
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  Speaker 3: The album is coming out in September. Ye Swimming in Jeans. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: tell me about it.
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  Speaker 4: It's an album that it's my debut album, and I've
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  Speaker 4: been writing it over the past couple of years and
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  Speaker 4: producing it in my little bedroom in LA and I'm
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  Speaker 4: super proud of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of just about my.
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  Speaker 4: Experiences of over the last few years and some things
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  Speaker 4: that I've been through, and.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really proud of it.
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  Speaker 1: And you've got some salt. You gotta do some headline
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  Speaker 1: shows too. In the around the album release.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly early September in Australia, New Zealand.
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  Speaker 4: So get your tickets at your website, my website anywhere
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  Speaker 4: on all all of my socials.
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  Speaker 2: Will have it all printed all over the Yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well better luck with the Fryer shows.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: On so pumped, and then back to La.
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  Speaker 4: Back to No actually off to my manager it's her birthday,
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  Speaker 4: and so straight from Auckland, I gotta fly that night
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  Speaker 4: after the Auckland.
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  Speaker 2: Show to Crete in Greece. Oh okay, it sucks to
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  Speaker 2: be me.
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  Speaker 3: Euro Summer in coming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you ready my rig?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 4: No, I need to get a ten. I need to
• 8:54
  Speaker 4: go sit out in the sun for like four weeks.
• 8:56
  Speaker 4: But no, so that and then I go to London
• 8:59
  Speaker 4: for a show and then and then back to LA
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: from there.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, nice, Well let's catch up next time in La.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you can take me to the Air One.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: No, I don't want it to be We can go
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: shopping at Air one and you can buy me that
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: really expensive strawberry.
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: Have you seen the big expensive straw I have I have?
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: Let's stay it today.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah great, let's go eat big expensive strawberries at air
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: one and watch out for the human shit and the
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: piss in the street.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. It's very vigilant.
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. The song is called look at You.
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  Speaker 1: It is out now and we'll see you on the tour.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, man, Thank you.
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