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This is Unsigned Spotlight Launch Party Too Bold to Blend · The Scene Projects

• 0:05
  Lay up.
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  It starts with a smoke at two
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  Hello, everybody.
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  Have got Rosie on me, Michael Kager with us.
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  How are Michael?
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  Hello.
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  Hi,
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  buddy.
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  I'm I'm actually feeling pretty good.
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  You're feeling pretty good, are you?
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  Well, that's I'm glad you're feeling pretty good.
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  I've got a private chat already, and I think this is gonna be a very, very busy party.
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  Ryan has put oh, a happy birthday to a certain Michael Cagle.
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  It's your birthday, mister how old are we?
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  21 again?
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  It we are 20 no.
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  I I can't lie.
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  I'm 29.
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  You're 29.
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  Okay.
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  We'll we'll take it as 29.
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  We'll take it as 20 Hey, everybody.
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  We are here for a live live show this evening, which is going to be an absolute cracker
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  because we have got a brand new album brought to you by Michael Kaggle, good two ball to
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  blend.
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  Wow.
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  We have waited a long time for this, mister.
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  And for those of you who are joining us at the party this evening, you have got 15 yes.
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  You heard it, 15 tracks to listen to tonight of my brand new music.
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  Some of them you may have heard already, but there's plenty of great ones on there which are
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  brand new that you wouldn't have heard.
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  So it's a great album, one which is being released when, Michael?
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  Today.
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  On his birthday, his album release, DuBolt Blend.
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  So you're joining us for the party.
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  Comments are gonna be going along the screen as normal.
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  If you are joining us today online, you will be joining us live on my Facebook.
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  If you're a friend of mine, give us a wave.
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  We hope you are.
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  There should be 2,600 people on that Facebook page.
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  Where are you?
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  I want to see you.
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  On the inside spotlight page where me and Michael, we used to do the outside spotlight
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  quite a lot together.
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  That is 1,500 people on my LinkedIn.
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  I'm not even talking about my LinkedIn numbers.
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  I've only just started, so we won't talk about them.
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  But on YouTube, there's also there's 700 people.
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  So I can find where are you all?
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  We want you here live for Michael's party and joining us.
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  Fantastic.
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  Has everybody got people who are coming to say, hey, Angela Marie.
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  Nice to see you.
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  Hey.
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  Hey.
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  Hey.
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  And also a big happy birthday to Michael.
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  Thank you, Angela.
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  Thank you, Jessica.
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  So Michael, before we get the album itself, we have missed you like crazy since we left the
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  unsigned spotlight together some about two months ago.
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  So tell us what you've been up to for the last two months, mister.
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  Well, I have missed everybody.
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  Honestly, I I love the show and and loved working with you, so I just wanna say that.
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  And a lot of people thought maybe there was a bad falling out or something, and that wasn't
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  the case.
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  It was We still
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  love each other.
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  Oh, we do.
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  And I love Bubba.
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  I love what they're doing, and trying to work within,
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  oh gosh,
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  scenes project to do my own own podcast.
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  It'll to be kind of fun.
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  But, basically, getting everything ready for this release, it's been a busy year when I look
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  back at everything that's been accomplished, it this goes back three years.
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  I mean, I started writing and started recording about three years ago, starting putting
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  everything together.
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  So it's been a long process.
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  But I kinda knew what I wanted to do, and I wanted this to be the year that I really amped
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  everything up.
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  I hooked up with a great manager over in The UK.
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  He's pretty amazing.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't know who that is.
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  I don't know.
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  Don't really don't know what his name is, but he must be amazing.
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  He must be one one day, everybody one day.
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  Okay?
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  One day, this will be AJ's sitting room.
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  Okay?
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  So if everybody thinks this is AJ's sitting room, it is a back drop.
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  Okay?
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  But we're working there, Michael.
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  Okay?
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  We're gonna be superstars.
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  We are.
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  And one day, me and Michael, we'll
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  be What do you mean gonna be?
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  Michael already
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  yes, Michael.
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  But we are superstars.
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  Michael, I'm here.
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  Okay.
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  Alright.
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  Okay.
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  Me.
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  Okay.
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  One day, I'll be a superstar, and I will have my piano.
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  Michael will be coming over because he's famous.
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  There you go.
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  Is that fair or no?
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  Here's the deal.
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  It it's I have gotten a lot of support, and the last couple months have been putting a lot of
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  time and effort making sure this album was exactly what I wanted it to be.
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  I loved my last album.
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  I I absolutely loved it, and I'm really proud of it because I got to say, hello, everybody.
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  You know, I got to really pour my feelings and emotions deep things.
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  I I tell everybody the album was the first album was how I got to be me personally, not
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  professionally, not the things that inspired me, but it was an introspective look at how I
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  got to be me, some of the things that I've gone through and went through and worked through.
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  This album is a different animal.
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  This is a lot more fun.
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  It's a lot more pop.
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  There's some really amazing there's amazing there's some really cool lyrics in it, but this
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  album now celebrates how I got to be the artist.
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  The other album was how I got to be me and how I worked and and went through things to become
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  me as a person, quote, unquote.
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  Okay.
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  This album is a celebration of the things that make me the performer that I was.
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  And so there's a lot of
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  You're welcome.
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  I'm gonna do a Ryan now.
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  In fact, you was or would be you are?
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  Am I what?
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  I'm gonna do Orion now.
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  As you was or as you are?
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  The performer you are or as you was?
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  I'm getting confused.
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  No.
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  As I as the performer that I am now.
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  I
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  mean But what I'm saying?
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  Right.
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  Because there's a lot of there's a lot of musical influence that my family was all
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  musicians.
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  My my you know, my mom and father were musicians on the East Coast.
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  So music was always part of my life.
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  And but there are very much musical influences.
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  I spent a lot of time in church, so there's a lot of gospel, r and b feel to my performances.
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  I also have spent a lot of time, obviously, like Ryan, doing show tunes.
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  I've been in a lot of musicals, So that was a big influence too.
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  So
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  Is that JP in the background?
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  Did he charge No.
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  That's my my my little nephew who
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  Aw.
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  Hi, little nephew.
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  He's enamored.
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  But so, anyway, so this album, you'll hear there's influences of Celine Dion.
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  You'll hear influences of Ben Platt.
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  You'll hear influences of Sam Harris.
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  You'll hear influences of Whitney Houston, Journey, you know, all all the artists that
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  helped mold me into this crazy thing that I am now.
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  You're not crazy.
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  You're talented.
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  There's a difference.
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  Well, talented.
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  Talented.
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  Talented.
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  Talented.
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  I've got a younger Ava trying to get in.
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  Ava Lee Bee is trying to get into the show this evening.
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  Unfortunately, her camera and also her audio isn't working, and there's also three of her on
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  the line at the bottom.
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  So, Eva, unfortunately, we can't let you in when there's three of you because I think
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  that's what's knocking your camera off the day.
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  But also, you could try and log yourself back out and come back in, we will give you a
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  message shortly.
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  But, hopefully, you can join us.
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  If not come and listen, the browser keeps blocking it.
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  Yeah.
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  We try and find the Chrome.
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  It's probably better.
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  A laptop, if you can get to one.
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  But in some time with StreamYard, it does get a bit awkward.
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  But if you come off, Michael, and come back in, sometimes that works.
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  Okay?
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  So, hopefully, we can get you back on there.
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  If not, enjoy the party.
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  We are gonna have to get to the party.
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  We're gonna have to start the party because we've got Number one, Bold to Blend is the
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  first one.
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  Give us a understanding of this track and how it comes about.
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  Okay.
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  Well, honestly, this is pretty self explanatory.
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  This I knew this was going to be the title of my album, and I knew this was gonna be the
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  song.
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  It just talks about me and being proud of who I am, where I'm at, and making no excuses.
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  I'm taking notes.
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  Take taking notes.
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  He did it in the last album party.
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  He's here again in his party.
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  No.
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  This is this is just a really and I want everybody this is a song that I want everybody
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  to fall in love with because I want them to drive down the street or walk down the mall
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  proud of who they are, whether, you know Amen.
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  So that's that's kind of where this song comes from.
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  So there you go.
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  Two Bones Blend, everybody.
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  Here's your first track of 15.
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  Enjoy.
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  I'll write the script.
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  No state direction, no casting call just self reflection, freestanding lines and neon ink.
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  You blink, I change what people think.
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  Spotlight chasing.
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  Now I am the low and wherever I want.
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  I steal the show, I bob on frequencies they can't decode.
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  I'm Vince's thunder in future mode.
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  Your copy paste shift.
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  I'm too bold to blend.
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  Not at my chest.
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  I'm riding rhythm, bend.
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  Hello.
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  Sorry.
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  We're just having a few technical difficulties.
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  We will get there.
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  Betsy, Michael, hello.
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  Really awesome.
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  The you know, that's
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  that's the one of the songs I wanna make a T shirt for just because I think the message is
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  so universal.
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  It's like, it's not about just about me.
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  It's about anybody that just wants to be proud about who they are, and it's anything.
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  You know?
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  It's so yeah.
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  The if I if so if I go about making a t shirt, one of them is going to be that that song.
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  And it cuts I got to perform about five different pride events in June.
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  I wish I had done more, and I I'm I'm excited.
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  Was the opening song.
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  It was
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  While we're waiting for Michael and AJ's signal to come back on
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  You can't hear me?
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  No.
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  Can hear you?
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  I can't hear you at all, my friend, until just now.
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  Oh, no.
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  Well, I can hear, Michael.
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  Michael, let's all check we can hear Take a little glitch as it happens.
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  You see, Internet.
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  It's not a perfect science.
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  There's AJ.
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  I'm here.
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  I'm here.
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  Michael, can you see me?
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  I can.
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  I mean, I I just hope everybody heard what I said.
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  Yes.
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  That's my one song that is going to be a T shirt, because I've literally my the feedback
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  when I because I've gotten to sing some of these songs live, which is really exciting.
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  That song goes over really well with
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  What what what was the inspiration behind the artwork of the cover?
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  Well, that's the cover of the single.
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  The album is actually pretty almost the same thing except it's me with surrounded by people.
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  And it was just if you look, I I just wanted to create a a cover that showed everybody kind of
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  the same way.
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  Like, existing Yeah.
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  Like, one dimensional.
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  Yeah.
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  Right.
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  Existing in the in the world, everybody kinda looks the same, kinda cookie cutter, doing
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  everything kinda safe.
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  And for me, I was like, I wanna stand out.
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  I I wanna be different.
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  We've got one shot in this world with impact.
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  And Sure.
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  I think we've been joined by Ava.
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  Ava, do you wanna come and say a quick hello before we lose your signal again?
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  Are you with us, Ava?
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  Hello?
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  Hello, Eva.
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  Are you okay?
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  I I don't think that's working.
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  I can't hear nobody in the background.
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  My goodness.
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  Hooray for technology.
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  We can hear you.
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  Well, I can hear you.
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  I don't know.
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  Michael, can you
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  hear me?
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  Technical difficulties.
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  I can hear.
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  I can't hear her.
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  Abel and Dean, can you hear us?
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  I think Amy's just gonna have to be able to text because that's that's not gonna
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  Oh god.
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  In.
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  Okay.
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  Text in, please, Avon.
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  Okay?
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  Right.
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  We're gonna have to go to track number two because we have got 15 to get through.
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  So the charts tell us about this next track?
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  Which one?
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  If I had a chance.
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  Oh, very, very you know, this song is really, really cool.
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  It's just I remember writing this one and thinking, basically, a lot of my songs are
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  sadly written about my feelings towards my husband.
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  There's just no way around it and his impact on on me.
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  And and so this song was kind of I remember I remember writing this one and feeling really
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  inspired about what would I do differently.
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  You know, as as we get older, we go worth are there things that we wish we had done
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  differently?
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  Would we have chose a different path?
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  Would we have walked through a different door?
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  Would we have shut a door when we left it open?
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  And so that's kind of what this song really talks about, and then it talks about, you know,
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  the one things you can't always go back in the past and end up with what you've got.
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  You know?
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  It's everything works out a certain way for that to happen.
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  And I thought, okay.
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  If I went back in time and I did did change some of the things that I had done or taken
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  more risk or would I end up where I'm at?
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  And if the most important thing in my life would not be there, it wouldn't be worth it.
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  And so there you go.
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  There you go.
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  So now what it is, we are now going to hear the next track.
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  Those of you who are trying to pop in and see us, we will get you on after this if we can get
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  your technology working.
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  Okay?
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  This is the next track.
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  If I had the chance to find the lady Michael Cagle, I hope you enjoy this next track.
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  If I could turn
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  the hands of time, I'd take the chances I left behind.
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  The dreams I dropped, the words unsaid, the roads I feel, the love I fled, or would I
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  change it all?
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  Undo the pain started over.
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  Live it again.
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  If I had the chance, I'd go back in time.
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  Relieve the moments left behind.
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  But I would only change what I've been through if I knew it would still lead me to you.
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  Yes, I'd take it up, the joy, the pain.
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  But I need your love to remain if I have the chance to do it again.
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  Let's still meet you in the end.
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  The friends I lost, the fights I've made, the reckless nights, the heavy mistakes, the
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  lessons learned, bridges burned so many pages.
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  Love to turn when I trade it all.
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  The joy and the pain.
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  Not if it brought me if I had the chance to do it again.
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  I'd still need you in me.
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  I'd only go back, only rewind If I had the chance, I'd go back in time.
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  Relieve the moments I left behind.
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  Well, I would only change what I've been through.
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  If I knew it would still lead me to you, even if the story
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  air.
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  In
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  Yes.
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  I do it all again, but only if it brought me still.
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  There's that voice.
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  Awesome.
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  Awesome.
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  That's what I'm gonna say.
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  Awesome.
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  You can't copy me.
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  I said it first.
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  Well, I'll just have to come up with something different then.
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  I think what JP was up, I think to say he's got bag and he's gone again.
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  JP, do you know where you are?
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  I love the line, you still still need you in the end.
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  I love that line, Michael.
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  That's such a powerful phrase.
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  It's really that hit that hit me in in the heartstrings.
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  That was awesome.
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  Yeah.
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  I I I
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  literally had somebody tell me the other day, why do you make songs everybody cries at?
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  And I'm like,
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  I didn't mean to
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  yeah.
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  You did.
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  Hi, babe.
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  Hi, babe.
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  Hi, Jason.
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  Hi, babe.
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  What's that?
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  High award winner, Jason.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Sorry.
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  I'm cool.
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  I know what they do.
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  He's the best.
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  Yes.
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  He got his single of the year award.
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  What?
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  Hello.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm awesome.
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  That's so awesome.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm awesome.
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  I like that.
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  I hear
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  like, somebody's in the car.
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  Trying to get food to us, but it really is struggling.
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  Unfortunately, I'm gonna have to, like, get you just to come and join us in the audience, are
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  you?
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  Because you really are struggling, mister.
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  So Yeah.
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  You know, if you could just join us in the audience, that'd be absolutely brilliant.
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  Hi, Orwiz.
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  You're muted, sweetheart.
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  Unmute yourself.
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  Say hi, everyone.
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  Hey, Darlin.
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  Love you.
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  Love you too.
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  What an amazing song.
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  Oh my god.
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  Your vocal range.
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  Just have your songs on repeat.
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  This is beautiful.
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  Especially that one.
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  All this in the background, you would say, there's that voice, an amazing voice.
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  I totally agree with you.
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  There's a certain they no one can do it like Michael Cagan.
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  I'm sorry.
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  When they hit those certain notes, no.
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  It's a Michael Cowan song.
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  You know?
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  His voice is so unique.
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  It's like when you hear it, you know it's him.
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  Exactly.
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  I I well, that means a lot.
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  And Orlis is a multi award winner as well with best indie pop production, best indie pop song.
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  So
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  Oh, Michael.
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  Truly feel really amazing to be recognized.
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  It is such an accomplishment, and it's such a wonderful feeling.
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  And it is amazing that JP won the whole shebang.
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  I I mean I mean, that's the highest award.
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  Yeah.
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  Single of the year out of all the Single of
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  year?
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  Everything.
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  Alright.
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  Awesome.
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  He's got he's got got his camera on deliberately because he's gloating behind the
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  There you go.
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  There he is, everyone.
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  Hey, JB.
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  Hey.
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  Sorry.
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  I'm I'm at I'm at work, so I'm I still have to make a living even though I'm awesome.
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  And
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  Ow.
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  Jeffrey, hop on.
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  Again.
• 28:01
  Jeffrey's in tears again already.
• 28:03
  Jeffrey is in tears track two, and he'd made someone cry.
• 28:08
  Jeffrey's really cool.
• 28:09
  He he designed he designed my album cover out of the kindness of his heart, and I can't wait
• 28:14
  to work with JP and Michael.
• 28:17
  They have an they have a record label now.
• 28:21
  I don't know if you knew that, AJ.
• 28:23
  I do.
• 28:24
  Yes.
• 28:24
  I do.
• 28:25
  I'm I'm so excited to work with the both of them and and put together something unique and
• 28:30
  different.
• 28:30
  Definitely different.
• 28:31
  It's definitely gonna be different,
• 28:36
  especially coming from my last try, Ava.
• 28:39
  Definitely, Ava.
• 28:40
  One last try.
• 28:42
  These two guys are hear it.
• 28:45
  Best people in the world, Michael and JP.
• 28:48
  Thank you.
• 28:50
  Alright.
• 28:50
  Are we moving forward?
• 28:52
  We are moving forward.
• 28:55
  Let's go.
• 28:55
  Greg has for it.
• 28:56
  Yeah.
• 28:56
  Seriously.
• 28:57
  Let's go to the next song because we are got 15 songs to play.
• 29:01
  So the next song we are on the list, we are going to be going one that you probably all
• 29:07
  have never heard before.
• 29:09
  This is Against All Lodge.
• 29:10
  If it's any better than Phil Collins, I'm gonna be quite surprised.
• 29:14
  Against All odds.
• 29:15
  What made you come up with that?
• 29:16
  Come on.
• 29:16
  Phil Collins would have,
• 29:17
  like, sold
• 29:18
  at you.
• 29:19
  This this is not Phil Collins.
• 29:23
  Nope.
• 29:24
  This is
• 29:24
  Doesn't sound anything like Phil Collins.
• 29:26
  This is a song about when this is basically a song that starts j JP and I's getting to know
• 29:37
  each other, budding a friendship into a romantic thing.
• 29:42
  So this kind of goes back to the very basics when everybody said, yeah.
• 29:52
  This is a because hey.
• 29:55
  I I won't throw shade because it's not a shady thing, but JP's comes from a a LDS background
• 30:04
  where it's kind of frowned upon.
• 30:07
  And, so we approached our we approached our relationship with respect to everybody else but
• 30:17
  still pursuing our own happiness until everybody realized, okay.
• 30:22
  This these guys are our soulmates.
• 30:25
  So that's how the song got going.
• 30:28
  I love these stories by every single track that you give us.
• 30:31
  I'll tell you.
• 30:31
  It's absolutely beautiful.
• 30:33
  This is Gareth Solovs, everybody.
• 30:34
  I hope you enjoy.
• 30:52
  That no one could see.
• 30:55
  They whispered doubts.
• 30:59
  They cast their stones, said we were lost, that we never find home.
• 31:08
  Some said it was the fading and that it wasn't right.
• 31:15
  But we knew in a horse, we could win this fight.
• 31:22
  So we held on tight through the darkest night.
• 31:29
  We would solace the haters if we didn't lose sight.
• 31:35
  But kissed over us when we stood our ground in a world of town.
• 31:45
  We never locked down.
• 31:48
  They said we'd fall, but we were so strong.
• 31:55
  Through the skeptics wrong, our love still going on through stormy weather and endless
• 32:06
  trials.
• 32:09
  We faced it all with unyielding smiles.
• 32:15
  Hand in hand, we walked this road with every step.
• 32:24
  I love only crows.
• 32:28
  Some said it was impossible, that we'd never last.
• 32:35
  But fighting each other, we divide our own cast.
• 32:42
  We divide the norm.
• 32:43
  We divide the norm.
• 32:45
  We silence the score.
• 32:47
  We silence the score.
• 32:49
  Whatever it shall be, our bond was reborn.
• 32:55
  Life's journey is unpredictable, but together we're unbreakable.
• 33:08
  Through every twist, through every turn, our laws are flavorful forever, but they called us
• 33:16
  risky.
• 33:17
  We were acting like booze, but we didn't care.
• 33:53
  On.
• 33:55
  Some let them talk, let them see what they wear.
• 34:02
  Our love's a testament,
• 34:27
  Awesome.
• 34:31
  Well, I'm not really into World Awesome because I was banned from it last time.
• 34:35
  What?
• 34:36
  I with my can come come up with my own.
• 34:39
  I'm amazingly beautiful and normal.
• 34:45
  I don't know.
• 34:47
  That one, I've that one, I I still wish I could redo you know, sometimes you do stuff and you
• 34:56
  go back and you're like, I wish I could redo something.
• 34:59
  And I
• 35:01
  You're not happy with that one?
• 35:05
  I'm I you know, I I I'm happy with the overall feel.
• 35:09
  I just there's things that I wanted to do that be it would have meant reimagining the entire
• 35:18
  song, and I'm like, it works for what it is.
• 35:21
  But it it it is a song, though, about the message, and it was you know, that that was the
• 35:29
  big thing.
• 35:30
  The I think I kinda captured the feel that I wanted.
• 35:34
  I'm never happy completely with
• 35:36
  something.
• 35:37
  Perfectionist.
• 35:38
  He really is.
• 35:38
  BD's manager, he is very, very much a perfectionist.
• 35:42
  But I think that, you know, I think you've got to be self critical to your own album.
• 35:46
  And when you bring albums out on day one, you know, actually listening to it back like this,
• 35:53
  it makes you think, actually, actually, did I choose the right one?
• 35:56
  Am I happy with it?
• 35:57
  Or
• 35:58
  True story.
• 36:00
  This is the first time I'm listening to the entire album from start to finish.
• 36:05
  Wow.
• 36:06
  Okay.
• 36:06
  I have not done it.
• 36:07
  I have not done it in order.
• 36:09
  This is the I'm listening to it for the first time as well.
• 36:13
  Obviously, I know the songs because I had to sing the things, and Jason knows the songs
• 36:18
  because yeah.
• 36:21
  Yeah.
• 36:21
  That face because he had to mix them and go, Michael, no more takes.
• 36:28
  No.
• 36:28
  No more takes.
• 36:29
  No more takes.
• 36:30
  That that flask, every time I see you, that flask gets bigger and bigger and bigger.
• 36:35
  You know?
• 36:36
  During this album, I bet that's, like, been filled quite a few times by the looks of it.
• 36:41
  Oh, yeah.
• 36:43
  Alright.
• 36:44
  What's next?
• 36:45
  Love is still coming while I get this ready.
• 36:48
  Tell us about the next track.
• 36:50
  Okay.
• 36:50
  So I am in love with this song.
• 36:53
  I love this song so much.
• 36:55
  I I we actually have made a music video for it that is, I think, going to be released soon.
• 37:03
  I I honestly do.
• 37:04
  But this is a prime example of me paying tribute and or an homage to someone that really
• 37:14
  affected me.
• 37:15
  And I never realized how much until I I had a reviewer listen to my last album and said, you
• 37:26
  remind me a lot of a male Celine Dion.
• 37:29
  If Celine Dion was a male yeah.
• 37:32
  What yeah.
• 37:32
  I mean, stupid.
• 37:34
  But I never realized how true that was until I went back and started also watching, like, her
• 37:44
  concert footage, how she approaches the song, her dramatics, her theatricality.
• 37:52
  And so I wanted to pay tribute to some of the artists that had really influenced me and or,
• 38:02
  you know, as an inspiration, and Celine was.
• 38:04
  And so I literally set out to make a song that I could hear Celine singing.
• 38:14
  And, also, I said on this album, I'm not gonna hold back vocally.
• 38:22
  I'm gonna do everything that I know I can possibly do going back to when I was a, you
• 38:27
  know, young kid singing the Bee Gees at the top of my lungs and journey and, you know, just
• 38:33
  wailing around in my head voice and falsetto and everything.
• 38:37
  And I'm like, everybody knows me as a straight belter.
• 38:41
  You know?
• 38:41
  And a lot of people tell me, you sound classical.
• 38:44
  We can really and which I take as a compliment, but there's a lot of other styles that floated
• 38:52
  around in my head that I never really got to release, and I didn't really release on the
• 38:58
  last album.
• 39:00
  It was straightforward pretty much straightforward belting and with a little bit
• 39:05
  of head voice or whatever.
• 39:08
  This album, I really pushed myself.
• 39:10
  And that guy right there really gave me the confidence when I, yeah, when I stepped up to
• 39:17
  the microphone to do this, and I was starting to feel like, I don't think I can do this.
• 39:22
  He was like, yeah.
• 39:23
  You can.
• 39:24
  We're we're gonna we're just gonna take our time and do it.
• 39:26
  If he didn't, Michael.
• 39:28
  Seriously.
• 39:28
  You know, look look at that pen waving.
• 39:30
  It's like, conductor is ready for you.
• 39:33
  If you weren't gonna go put this one out, especially for the lovely to lead me on, and we
• 39:37
  are tracking you to lead.
• 39:39
  We want you to hear this.
• 39:40
  Okay?
• 39:41
  So any social media or anything that can be sent out through to lead from anybody in the
• 39:48
  music industry, we would love for her to hear this because this is dedicated to her, and this
• 39:52
  is is still common.
• 40:23
  Every story you've been told didn't turn out right.
• 40:27
  Now you're second guessing every quiet night.
• 40:36
  You see what you're for, the ones that don't wait.
• 40:39
  Easy smiles, easy hops, no wait.
• 40:42
  And you start to wonder if you missed your chance.
• 40:46
  If love was never part of your plans, but need you to hear me when I say this low.
• 40:55
  Something has taken longer than you'd know.
• 41:01
  It's never too late.
• 41:04
  Love doesn't follow and resilience before you move.
• 41:20
  They'll rise above what you go with through.
• 41:27
  Love is still coming.
• 41:30
  It's already gone its way.
• 41:33
  Nothing you live through can keep it away.
• 41:40
  Love is still coming.
• 42:14
  But it's our pain to trust.
• 42:18
  Nothing around you feels like getting it out.
• 42:24
  I never too late.
• 42:27
  Your love doesn't follow a cock will pull you through and rise Oh, ever can move mountains,
• 43:20
  it can move through you, through every broken piece you've been walking through.
• 43:26
  Faith isn't allowed.
• 43:27
  It's what you hold inside when everything else says you should hide.
• 43:32
  And I know right now it doesn't feel the same, but I still know.
• 43:41
  Shouldn't I?
• 43:43
  But it knows where you who carry you through and rise above what
• 45:55
  What?
• 45:56
  JP's got his What's happened, JP?
• 46:00
  Why are you hiding, mister?
• 46:03
  I'm just having flashbacks to three weeks of videos.
• 46:11
  Oh, hey, Michael.
• 46:13
  Hey, Michael.
• 46:15
  What climbs?
• 46:17
  What vocal climbs?
• 46:19
  Holy crap.
• 46:20
  The tonality is just so perfect.
• 46:23
  The way that you could how long that you could hold out a note and manipulate your vocal
• 46:28
  quality and tone on that.
• 46:30
  Holy god.
• 46:32
  What a gift you have.
• 46:35
  Great song.
• 46:36
  Great.
• 46:37
  Great.
• 46:37
  I tell you what, that's the comments, Michael.
• 46:40
  All the way through that song, you've had people who's like, hey.
• 46:42
  Stand up on their arms.
• 46:44
  You know?
• 46:44
  We've had some messages through to you.
• 46:49
  Ken Meeky, never too late to blend.
• 46:51
  Great vocals, he said.
• 46:53
  That was from Ken.
• 46:55
  We've also had in from Ava to Lee.
• 46:57
  This one needs to be in a rom com movie.
• 47:01
  Okay.
• 47:02
  Especially close to the end or slow dancing.
• 47:05
  Okay.
• 47:07
  We like your visions on these songs.
• 47:11
  Let's get them all in.
• 47:12
  I'm liking this.
• 47:13
  I'm liking this.
• 47:14
  Did you imagine it being like that, Michael?
• 47:16
  Did you want it in a rom com?
• 47:17
  Of course.
• 47:20
  Of course.
• 47:20
  So what would it be?
• 47:21
  You know, if you had a rom com for this, you know, which who would be drawing in it?
• 47:26
  I think oh, if it was me.
• 47:29
  Of course.
• 47:31
  Who's your own rom com?
• 47:34
  Wow.
• 47:35
  Yeah.
• 47:35
  I don't know.
• 47:36
  You know, I I I don't write for myself.
• 47:42
  I I mean, initially, it's I want it to be the vision that I have, but I want
• 47:54
  Sorry about that, everybody.
• 47:56
  I missed you being great.
• 47:57
  But you do know the next one which is coming up is going to be I will stand.
• 48:03
  But I why yeah.
• 48:05
  Okay.
• 48:06
  Because Michael was talking, and he's the birthday boy.
• 48:08
  We don't wanna interrupt him.
• 48:09
  No.
• 48:10
  No.
• 48:10
  No.
• 48:10
  No.
• 48:10
  No.
• 48:10
  That's fine.
• 48:11
  You know, I all of my songs, I I would love to either see in a movie or on Broadway because I
• 48:19
  just those were that was my influence.
• 48:22
  That's why, you know, a lot of where a lot of my a lot of my security blanket came
• 48:32
  from movies and movies and Broadway and It's desperate to be played.
• 48:41
  That's what it is.
• 48:42
  That's what's going on.
• 48:43
  It's okay.
• 48:44
  So this song is just I want I wanted to make a song about sheer sheer dedication.
• 49:00
  And, you know, it it it's getting tougher and tougher for for people to find happiness.
• 49:10
  It's it's finding you know, it's it's getting harder for people to I don't know what's
• 49:20
  happening.
• 49:21
  I don't know what Beth's doing.
• 49:22
  I I think she's, like, completely, like she's, like, stopping at the traffic lights or
• 49:26
  something.
• 49:26
  Don't you get caught by the police?
• 49:29
  No.
• 49:30
  Well, I was going self on oh oh oh, without video, but I didn't wanna miss the party.
• 49:41
  Oh, okay.
• 49:45
  This song is just a I wanted a I wanted an anthem to although most of my songs are
• 49:54
  anthems.
• 49:55
  This is a song that I want people to say regardless of how tough it might get be out
• 50:07
  there
• 50:07
  out there.
• 50:11
  We need to declare that we are there for each other and there for ourselves.
• 50:18
  And, yeah, this one this one kind of came from a really weird spot, and then it changed.
• 50:28
  Like, how I wanted to do it changed.
• 50:31
  Poor Jason.
• 50:32
  This this was prime example of a song that started off one way, and then I'm like, no.
• 50:38
  I think I wanna do it this way.
• 50:41
  I honestly.
• 50:42
  And so it meant, okay.
• 50:44
  We're gonna redo
• 50:46
  some Everything.
• 50:48
  And I'll be thinking that we're gonna do this.
• 50:50
  Yeah.
• 50:52
  Wasn't quite dramatic quite dramatic enough for me when I made it.
• 50:59
  So I wanted it to be a little bit more dramatic.
• 51:02
  And then, okay.
• 51:04
  Now I wanna use a little bit more range.
• 51:07
  Oh my god.
• 51:08
  This song was.
• 51:10
  Let's put it on.
• 51:11
  Let's see how we go.
• 51:12
  I will stand everybody.
• 51:14
  Enjoy this next track.
• 51:15
  It's track number five on the album.
• 51:17
  Okay?
• 51:36
  Presses down.
• 51:42
  Dreams feel distant.
• 51:46
  Hope feels drowned.
• 52:03
  I'll be the hand you can always hold I made a vow.
• 52:13
  And I will let go through every storm.
• 52:20
  You'll always know I will stand and I will stand with every breath with all thy hands.
• 52:38
  I will fight and will defend to the very end.
• 52:52
  I will stand I will stand.
• 54:13
  I will stand with every breath.
• 54:18
  Who it's all I am.
• 54:36
  I will stand.
• 54:44
  Will stand.
• 54:50
  I will stand.
• 55:00
  I mean, the shelter in the rain, the steady cop when you feel pain.
• 55:07
  Hobby the light when the night is long, a guiding flame to keep you strong.
• 55:14
  Hobby the anchor when the waves are high.
• 55:17
  The lighthouse shining through the sky.
• 55:25
  I will stand.
• 55:29
  I will stand but with every prayer with all I am I will fight I will I will stand.
• 56:51
  Can you hear me?
• 56:52
  Yes.
• 56:53
  We can hear you.
• 56:54
  Wow.
• 56:54
  What a track.
• 56:56
  Hello?
• 56:57
  Can you hear me?
• 56:58
  Yes.
• 56:58
  Yes.
• 56:59
  Yeah.
• 56:59
  I cannot hear you guys.
• 57:01
  Oh, no.
• 57:03
  You're having my technical difficulties this afternoon, aren't you, Aida?
• 57:06
  You can't even when it got saved into a nice blue top just like
• 57:09
  My PC literally just crashed on me.
• 57:13
  There's black screens.
• 57:14
  I can't turn it on or off.
• 57:16
  The hard drive, like, completely fried.
• 57:19
  Oh, no.
• 57:20
  No idea.
• 57:21
  Cracks go out.
• 57:22
  So
• 57:23
  And come back in.
• 57:25
  I can still hear the music, Michael.
• 57:27
  You sound incredible as always.
• 57:29
  Yeah.
• 57:30
  Beautiful.
• 57:33
  Absolutely beautiful.
• 57:34
  Is it for me?
• 57:35
  Any West End in The UK would take that song.
• 57:39
  Any West End in The UK would take that song.
• 57:41
  That's God's honest truth.
• 57:42
  I was a man.
• 57:43
  I was taken back to my kid days going to the West End in London, and I just thought, you
• 57:48
  know what?
• 57:48
  Actually, someone singing that to me at the West End would be amazing.
• 57:53
  I would love it.
• 57:54
  You know, you are known for your theater, and you are known for your big vocals.
• 57:59
  You're known for your big tracks.
• 58:00
  And that one, it would resonate with, you know, with the greatest showman, that type of song,
• 58:06
  which basically tells everybody to do one.
• 58:08
  I will stand and do what the bloody hell I want.
• 58:10
  And that, for me, that's how powerful that song is.
• 58:14
  And I I Right.
• 58:16
  Well
• 58:17
  It's that song I really love, and it's kind of like a kind of what is that?
• 58:24
  Kind of like a dark horse that stuck in there.
• 58:28
  I but I think it really has I think it really has a lot of potential there, and I I had a
• 58:37
  blast singing it.
• 58:39
  Thank you, David.
• 58:40
  And yeah.
• 58:41
  I just I just I just wanted that kind of rousing building with a really strong chorus,
• 58:49
  like, you know, just that you could someone could repeat over and over and over and over
• 58:53
  again and just yeah.
• 58:55
  I I You've
• 58:57
  got some great comments coming in, birthday boy.
• 58:59
  You know, I hate to say happy birthday to You've also got oh, wow.
• 59:05
  What a voice coming through as well.
• 59:08
  Jeffy said for the Celine Dion track, Celine would have been very proud of you.
• 59:13
  That was from Jeffrey as well.
• 59:14
  So you've got some lovely comments coming in this afternoon, but we must get through to the
• 59:19
  next one because we have got lots more for you to enjoy this afternoon.
• 59:24
  What about you lot?
• 59:25
  Weather here in The UK is rather hot.
• 59:27
  Is it hot where you are?
• 59:30
  No.
• 59:30
  We haven't really had a summer yet here in Seattle.
• 59:33
  It's been kind of weird.
• 59:35
  Like, I'm waiting for, you know, a week of eighty, eighty five degree weather, and we're
• 59:41
  getting, like, seventy, sixty two, and 80.
• 59:45
  Anyway,
• 59:47
  take the risk.
• 59:48
  Was it risky if you put this one on there, or was it one that you're really happy to put on?
• 59:53
  Take the risk with me?
• 59:55
  This is just a really fun song.
• 59:59
  I kind of got inspiration from Jeffrey, our friend Jeffrey.
• 1:00:09
  I'm like, this is a song that I think he would kinda do as well, and it's just kinda fun.
• 1:00:16
  It's kind of it's kind of like an Ed Sheeran feel, I think.
• 1:00:20
  What do you think, babe?
• 1:00:23
  Yeah.
• 1:00:23
  Yeah.
• 1:00:24
  I wouldn't I'm
• 1:00:27
  It's it's like you're in you like this one.
• 1:00:29
  Oh, I'm quite looking forward to that.
• 1:00:31
  I'm not hurt you doing that cheer, but No.
• 1:00:33
  Okay?
• 1:00:33
  Take the risk, everybody.
• 1:00:35
  Enjoy.
• 1:00:55
  You keep your world inside the lines, afraid of what you might not find.
• 1:01:07
  Like my life was never built, better way.
• 1:01:11
  It shifts, it bends, it makes us free.
• 1:01:14
  But I can be the place you fall, the safest rest of all.
• 1:01:20
  There's no promise carved in stone, but you don't have to face a non doodle.
• 1:01:31
  So take a risk with me, Step into the mystery.
• 1:01:37
  I'll be the hand you hold the fire against the cold.
• 1:01:43
  We're road ahead to a winding stream, but I'll be constant as your dream.
• 1:01:50
  Love won't give a guarantee, but my love is certainty.
• 1:01:57
  So take the risk, take the risk with me.
• 1:02:16
  Learn.
• 1:02:20
  When shadows rise and down, I'll stand beside you crystal clear.
• 1:02:32
  And when the sun feels too loud out, it's too high above the crowd.
• 1:02:39
  I'll carry hope when yours feels gone.
• 1:02:42
  We'll find a place where we belong.
• 1:02:45
  Sometimes in me, it feels far too wide.
• 1:02:50
  But the sweetest love waits on the other side.
• 1:02:56
  So take a risk with me.
• 1:02:58
  Step into the mystery.
• 1:03:02
  I'll be the hand you hold the salted from the storm.
• 1:03:07
  The world may spin Step into the mystery.
• 1:04:08
  No more waiting on me.
• 1:04:11
  Come and cross this bridge.
• 1:04:14
  I'll be the voice that lifts you high The spot that fuels your fire through every loss,
• 1:04:21
  through every win, I'll love you deeper than the end.
• 1:04:26
  So take a risk with me.
• 1:04:29
  Together, we'll ride the destiny.
• 1:04:48
  Take a lead.
• 1:04:52
  Take the risk with me.
• 1:05:10
  Oh, Michael.
• 1:05:11
  Michael.
• 1:05:12
  Michael.
• 1:05:12
  Michael.
• 1:05:13
  What?
• 1:05:17
  I'm ufft.
• 1:05:21
  You bet someone caught again.
• 1:05:24
  Oh, man.
• 1:05:26
  I'm just glad my computer's working again.
• 1:05:29
  I don't know what in the world just happened.
• 1:05:32
  That's cool.
• 1:05:33
  Michael, bud, I'm a take my trust, take my vow, those words.
• 1:05:40
  Like yeah.
• 1:05:44
  Dude, you know how to write a song unlike anybody's business.
• 1:05:50
  I take it deep
• 1:05:52
  in my heart.
• 1:05:53
  I don't know where this gift of yours comes from, but I I pray that it never ceases and
• 1:05:58
  never stops.
• 1:05:59
  Thank you.
• 1:06:00
  Because I because
• 1:06:01
  you are an inspiration to a lot of people.
• 1:06:04
  And you may not realize that, but you are.
• 1:06:07
  I, you know, I I it's a weird thing.
• 1:06:11
  It's I get emotional a lot listening to the music, and I was when I watched the video the
• 1:06:19
  other night of love of woman's still coming, and I got super teary eyed again.
• 1:06:25
  And Jason says, what's wrong and or why?
• 1:06:29
  And I'm like, when you have something inside you that you've wanted to share since you were
• 1:06:36
  a little kid and you always thought you were just too weird or wasn't it wasn't your time or
• 1:06:45
  you weren't good enough, and you always looked at everybody else, and you you heard other
• 1:06:50
  people's opinions of you to have to see what has been inside you come alive, you know, not
• 1:07:03
  just on paper, but to come alive.
• 1:07:05
  And it is overwhelming.
• 1:07:08
  For me, it is incredibly overwhelming to to to hear my feelings, if that makes any sense.
• 1:07:18
  I know my feelings.
• 1:07:20
  I know I know what I feel, and I know where why I write that right in pipe.
• 1:07:29
  But to have it come back to me is is an overwhelming thing.
• 1:07:35
  And it's like, that's why I get so emotional listening to my stuff.
• 1:07:39
  It's not because I think I'm great.
• 1:07:41
  It's because it's finally out there.
• 1:07:44
  Like and I've been brave enough to to let it out.
• 1:07:50
  You know?
• 1:07:51
  And so and the comments, you know, I I'm still floored.
• 1:07:58
  You know, I'm still floored to this day when I go even go to karaoke and somebody comes up to
• 1:08:03
  me and says, dude, your voice is, like, ridiculous, I still am amazed by that, that
• 1:08:10
  somebody will take the time to say that because, you know, this is who I've wanted to
• 1:08:15
  be forever.
• 1:08:16
  This is what I wanted to do.
• 1:08:18
  So yeah.
• 1:08:19
  And I think the next track the next track that's coming up is that I can imagine, you
• 1:08:24
  know, Michael, I met you years ago, and we've been on a journey since December together.
• 1:08:29
  And I can imagine all of those feelings that you've gone through, you know, all those
• 1:08:33
  awards, the albums coming out, the film coming out.
• 1:08:37
  You know, every time we speak on the phone, that flood of emotion is just there.
• 1:08:42
  Not just because of, you know, the awards that you've won or the film coming out or but Every
• 1:08:49
  time I I think back to when you're writing these songs, it's a connection between you and
• 1:08:55
  the individual song.
• 1:08:56
  It's what's meant the most to you.
• 1:08:58
  Now you love the fact that in the spotlight with the award shows, with the magazine covers,
• 1:09:04
  you know, all of that.
• 1:09:05
  But I think you've always been so humbled by the fact this is all about you being able to
• 1:09:10
  tell anybody.
• 1:09:12
  This is my story.
• 1:09:13
  This is me.
• 1:09:14
  This is who I really am.
• 1:09:15
  And I've waited so long to tell you all exactly what's on my heart and it coming through, and
• 1:09:21
  Ryan said it perfectly.
• 1:09:23
  It's coming through every single part of this album.
• 1:09:26
  You know, you can really hear your heart, you know, just telling a story to us all, and it's
• 1:09:31
  beautiful.
• 1:09:33
  I've known for years.
• 1:09:35
  Well, yeah, of course.
• 1:09:37
  You're married to him.
• 1:09:38
  You're married to him.
• 1:09:40
  You know a lot of things about him.
• 1:09:42
  So yeah.
• 1:09:42
  See, Jamie has to do it every night, but we, as an audience, you know, followers of Michael and
• 1:09:47
  fans of Michael's.
• 1:09:48
  We're getting it.
• 1:09:51
  Maybe just have to start with it a lot of times.
• 1:09:54
  Yeah.
• 1:09:54
  What's the album release for your album, babe?
• 1:09:59
  I think we should do one.
• 1:10:00
  I think we should do one.
• 1:10:01
  It's next Wednesday.
• 1:10:03
  Anyway Michael,
• 1:10:06
  your your composing skills as well.
• 1:10:09
  I you're you're you just there's something about the way that you compose your music as
• 1:10:16
  well that really stands out amongst the crowd.
• 1:10:22
  And I don't know how to place my finger on it.
• 1:10:25
  I think if there's something that's more spiritually connected than you than than you're
• 1:10:31
  not telling us, perhaps?
• 1:10:36
  He's put in the background.
• 1:10:37
  I know what JP's up to in the background, but he's, like, doing a bit of a whistling kettle.
• 1:10:42
  They practically put the tea bag on because he knows we're halfway through.
• 1:10:45
  We are nearly halfway through, folks, of this amazing album.
• 1:10:49
  We are on track seven.
• 1:10:51
  I can't imagine.
• 1:10:53
  Okay.
• 1:10:53
  So I can't imagine, I think, is going to be I wrote this song.
• 1:10:59
  I I wanted to make an ultimate love song.
• 1:11:04
  And if you really listen to my music, it's obviously I'm very much in love, and I'm very
• 1:11:11
  grateful from because once again, people like me were told we couldn't find love or that it
• 1:11:21
  wasn't right.
• 1:11:22
  And I did, and I found someone that has dealt with the crazy and the good.
• 1:11:32
  Know?
• 1:11:32
  Mostly crazy.
• 1:11:33
  And the psychotic.
• 1:11:39
  So I started writing this song as an ultimate love song.
• 1:11:46
  And when I sent it over to Jason, when I finally finished it, he goes, this is gonna be
• 1:11:53
  ten minutes long.
• 1:11:55
  And he goes, do you
• 1:11:56
  realize you did?
• 1:11:57
  And he said, your bridge has 12 lines in it alone.
• 1:12:02
  16.
• 1:12:03
  Oh, 16 lines in it.
• 1:12:05
  And he's like, that's not normal.
• 1:12:07
  42, the answer to everything in the universe.
• 1:12:10
  I I said, I don't care.
• 1:12:12
  This is this is the song.
• 1:12:13
  I I will I will make it work.
• 1:12:16
  Can you hear me?
• 1:12:17
  Yes.
• 1:12:18
  We can hear you, bud.
• 1:12:19
  Okay.
• 1:12:20
  I What what happened to Michael?
• 1:12:21
  I'm right here.
• 1:12:23
  Michael's still with us.
• 1:12:24
  Yeah.
• 1:12:25
  So Is he?
• 1:12:26
  His picture's gone.
• 1:12:29
  So
• 1:12:34
  I ended up this song is only only You know,
• 1:12:37
  I wonder if there's a solar flare today.
• 1:12:40
  Think there's a silver flare with you, Ryan, today.
• 1:12:43
  No.
• 1:12:43
  I I it's like it's like I'm a jinx or something.
• 1:12:46
  You are.
• 1:12:47
  Because you're cutting Michael off and he's going red faced.
• 1:12:51
  Well, no.
• 1:12:53
  No.
• 1:12:53
  No.
• 1:12:54
  Want show it to him.
• 1:12:56
  First, my computer shuts down and completely goes blank.
• 1:12:59
  And then my my laptop, I can't hear the music from.
• 1:13:04
  And then I come back in, and then it goes back out.
• 1:13:06
  And I just
• 1:13:07
  I Yeah.
• 1:13:07
  But I everything My I would love to use your muscle's face right now.
• 1:13:14
  Ava, I feel your pain.
• 1:13:16
  Ava, I feel your pain right now.
• 1:13:18
  Hear about it?
• 1:13:20
  What a
• 1:13:20
  bad day.
• 1:13:21
  I can't say Michael.
• 1:13:23
  It's just this video.
• 1:13:24
  We
• 1:13:24
  are gonna be moving by just about to say Michael could finish.
• 1:13:28
  Michael.
• 1:13:30
  Okay.
• 1:13:32
  So
• 1:13:32
  Tell us about the song.
• 1:13:34
  So, anyway, so this song ended up only being five minutes and something, and I thought it
• 1:13:38
  was gonna be
• 1:13:39
  eight.
• 1:13:39
  Only.
• 1:13:40
  But I figured out I figured out a way to do this song that wasn't overly dramatic but very
• 1:13:47
  emotional.
• 1:13:47
  So this is a very emotionally driven song, but I think it's probably the most for me, the
• 1:13:56
  strongest love song.
• 1:13:58
  I I could see couples everywhere grabbing onto the song and singing it to each other.
• 1:14:04
  And that's kind of
• 1:14:06
  If it's one of those type of songs that it's gonna work, I'm gonna send it to as many
• 1:14:09
  females as I can because you never know.
• 1:14:11
  I might get some love into that.
• 1:14:12
  Okay.
• 1:14:13
  I can't imagine what I feel like.
• 1:14:16
  Here we go.
• 1:14:17
  Okay.
• 1:14:18
  Here we go.
• 1:14:38
  Questions as the world passed by, tracing shapes in the clouds above, trying to
• 1:14:44
  understand this thing called love.
• 1:14:47
  I couldn't imagine what my life might hold, who I'd become.
• 1:14:52
  I'm a story be told if I find a place that felt like home or always feel like I'm on my own.
• 1:15:01
  Couldn't imagine where I belong if I'd be fragile or somehow strong in a smiled, in the
• 1:16:08
  way you stayed, something in me stopped being afraid.
• 1:16:13
  And all those questions I used
• 1:16:15
  to
• 1:16:15
  chase started finding answers in your face, in late night long.
• 1:16:47
  Every doubt I used to know loses crowd when you say don't go.
• 1:16:54
  I couldn't imagine.
• 1:18:56
  Breathing through a world that doesn't lead to you.
• 1:19:01
  Every road, view, ends and begins with you.
• 1:19:11
  I couldn't imagine back when it was true.
• 1:19:19
  Now I can't imagine
• 1:19:41
  Bravo.
• 1:19:43
  Bravo.
• 1:19:46
  Fantastic, Michael.
• 1:19:48
  Fantastic.
• 1:19:49
  That one's gonna be a taste.
• 1:19:51
  I was like, ugh.
• 1:19:52
  Seriously.
• 1:19:53
  If you have a word with You words need to have this track.
• 1:19:57
  I feel getting buried in here.
• 1:19:59
  Can't hear anyone.
• 1:20:01
  You can't hear us?
• 1:20:02
  I can't even hear you, Michael.
• 1:20:04
  Oh, dear.
• 1:20:05
  Man, there's computer problems.
• 1:20:07
  That's okay.
• 1:20:08
  Okay.
• 1:20:09
  Can
• 1:20:09
  you hear me, Michael?
• 1:20:10
  Can't hear.
• 1:20:11
  Well, those who can hear are here now.
• 1:20:14
  Okay?
• 1:20:14
  But, Michael, wow.
• 1:20:15
  Yay.
• 1:20:19
  I I love that song.
• 1:20:22
  That song It's a beautiful one.
• 1:20:25
  It is.
• 1:20:26
  And it's not flamboyant.
• 1:20:28
  No.
• 1:20:28
  It's it's very even keel across the board.
• 1:20:31
  It's like, it's almost like an easy listening song.
• 1:20:34
  Right.
• 1:20:35
  It builds.
• 1:20:35
  I mean, it's a hard Oh, yeah.
• 1:20:37
  It's a hard song, but it doesn't
• 1:20:40
  I could never sing it.
• 1:20:41
  It's
• 1:20:43
  I don't you always ask me, oh, you should try to sing that.
• 1:20:46
  I'm like, no.
• 1:20:47
  It's your song.
• 1:20:48
  I can't sing your songs.
• 1:20:50
  They're yours.
• 1:20:52
  Yeah.
• 1:20:52
  That song is really amazing.
• 1:20:55
  Alright.
• 1:20:55
  So the next song is a funny story about this song.
• 1:20:59
  Don't we have to do a tea break thing?
• 1:21:01
  No.
• 1:21:02
  Mean, gonna have a track, and then we're gonna have our tea break because we've got a very
• 1:21:06
  special tea break to do this afternoon and also a very special reminder for Michael of what it
• 1:21:12
  used to be like on the time spotlight.
• 1:21:14
  Okay?
• 1:21:15
  So we'll bring the tea break in very shortly, but we are going to do beautiful drive.
• 1:21:20
  Okay.
• 1:21:20
  So this song is just fun.
• 1:21:22
  This is just a fun, fun, fun.
• 1:21:26
  In fact, when I wrote it, Jason goes, seriously.
• 1:21:30
  He went, nah.
• 1:21:32
  It's okay.
• 1:21:33
  It's an okay song.
• 1:21:34
  I'm like, but it's not supposed to be lyrically wow.
• 1:21:38
  This is a song all about attitude and just when the opening chord kicks, you'll hear it, and
• 1:21:47
  you'll know why I wrote this song the way I did because this song is just about fun, throwing
• 1:21:54
  the top down, having a good time.
• 1:21:58
  And so now Jason loves the song.
• 1:22:01
  But he liked it when I wrote it.
• 1:22:03
  He's like, nah.
• 1:22:04
  It's kinda basic to me.
• 1:22:06
  I like it.
• 1:22:08
  I like it.
• 1:22:08
  Well, beautiful drive.
• 1:22:09
  Let's see what you all think.
• 1:22:21
  Cruising down the boulevard, wind in our hair, top drop sunshine everywhere.
• 1:22:33
  God my sweetie by my side, blue.
• 1:23:09
  Radio playing our favorite song, singing along as we roam underneath the sky.
• 1:23:49
  So blue.
• 1:23:55
  Every curve, every turn takes us high up in the storm and up in the bay by night.
• 1:24:06
  Just me and you and the open road I love the story that's never been told.
• 1:24:17
  Drop in the top, feeling alive with you by my So let's keep on rolling, baby.
• 1:24:40
  Heard him hang on this journey to wander.
• 1:24:49
  Drop in the top with you by my side in this endless moment.
• 1:24:55
  Let's enjoy the ride.
• 1:25:17
  Is a different ending.
• 1:25:19
  I like that.
• 1:25:23
  Just like Me
• 1:25:24
  and more cowbell.
• 1:25:26
  Do the cowbell.
• 1:25:29
  Dude, Michael, that, like, needs to be in your musical for real.
• 1:25:33
  That's a fun song.
• 1:25:35
  It is.
• 1:25:35
  You are correct.
• 1:25:36
  It is just fun and cute, and it fits, though.
• 1:25:40
  See, when I hear that, I I picture you and Jason driving down the road together.
• 1:25:45
  And JP's like, yeah.
• 1:25:48
  Whatever.
• 1:25:49
  I I can see.
• 1:25:50
  I can reach out to you.
• 1:25:51
  He loves his convertible.
• 1:25:52
  Michael, your songs tell a story.
• 1:25:54
  And that's something that a lot of songwriters have struggled with, and I think you do an
• 1:26:03
  excellent job.
• 1:26:04
  It does.
• 1:26:06
  Completely.
• 1:26:07
  Like, for you, Ryan
• 1:26:09
  I can't hear you.
• 1:26:10
  Beth, your mic's muted.
• 1:26:12
  Oh, I said you are an incredible songwriter.
• 1:26:16
  And I am really curious about about the production and who does the drums and who does
• 1:26:27
  and who does the guitar.
• 1:26:31
  A lot of that is done with I hate to use to say this, but we use a lot of plug ins.
• 1:26:41
  We have gone out to for instruments that don't sound as good as we want them to be, we reach
• 1:26:48
  out to Fiverr.
• 1:26:49
  People the artists on Fiverr for $25.30 bucks, they'll you give them your music, and they'll
• 1:26:55
  play a track for you.
• 1:26:57
  Yeah.
• 1:26:57
  A lot of the stuff a lot of the stuff that I I that we do is either composed with what I think
• 1:27:10
  is the most amazing thing for an artist who can't play a lot of instruments.
• 1:27:15
  We use this tool called Vocella that you literally sing into the microphone.
• 1:27:23
  It's, like, $300 for the program, but it has something like 1,100 different instruments.
• 1:27:30
  And you can literally sing or make make noise, and it gives you your tempo and your rhythm, or
• 1:27:41
  it gives you a string section.
• 1:27:45
  It gives you guitar section, everything.
• 1:27:47
  So but Beautiful.
• 1:27:49
  For a lot of the really good live sounding stuff, we've gone to Fiverr and had musicians
• 1:27:58
  play it for us.
• 1:27:59
  We also use a MIDI keyboard.
• 1:28:02
  We use yeah.
• 1:28:04
  It we we've used samples.
• 1:28:08
  Yeah.
• 1:28:09
  Yeah.
• 1:28:10
  There's there's it's a lot of work.
• 1:28:13
  I'm trying to get a job for you to drummer.
• 1:28:15
  I think she's trying to get a job.
• 1:28:16
  She wants to drum for you.
• 1:28:18
  Woah.
• 1:28:19
  What?
• 1:28:20
  I you you you know?
• 1:28:21
  Everybody.
• 1:28:21
  No.
• 1:28:22
  No.
• 1:28:22
  No.
• 1:28:23
  No.
• 1:28:23
  No.
• 1:28:24
  Please. No. No.
• 1:28:25
  No. No.
• 1:28:25
  No.
• 1:28:25
  Oh, hey, Nava.
• 1:28:26
  Can you hear me back?
• 1:28:28
  What?
• 1:28:28
  Yeah.
• 1:28:28
  We can hear you.
• 1:28:31
  It's a little choppy, but we can't hear you.
• 1:28:34
  Let's get that question off of the team, Brian.
• 1:28:36
  Okay?
• 1:28:40
  Imagine capturing the raw essence of nature with its infinite color and beauty.
• 1:28:49
  Now, envision turning that into something truly transformative.
• 1:28:55
  Pure and easy tea cultivates the goodness of nature's bounty into fuel for your body.
• 1:29:02
  We are what we drink.
• 1:29:05
  Pure and easy tea, the pure nourishment your body craves.
• 1:29:16
  Did you did you miss it, Michael?
• 1:29:18
  Did
• 1:29:19
  you miss it?
• 1:29:20
  I love my Pure and
• 1:29:21
  Easy Tea.
• 1:29:22
  No.
• 1:29:23
  Let's get off the topic of music because we've got a little bit of a break.
• 1:29:27
  Okay?
• 1:29:27
  And I think there's only one thing to do for the break because it's birthday, boys.
• 1:29:31
  So after three, everybody.
• 1:29:32
  One, two, three.
• 1:29:34
  Happy
• 1:29:35
  Happy birthday to you.
• 1:29:38
  Happy birthday to you.
• 1:29:41
  There's a train wreck.
• 1:29:43
  Happy birthday, dear Michael.
• 1:29:46
  Michael.
• 1:30:01
  Michael, it is your birthday today.
• 1:30:04
  Did you wake up with lots of birthday messages and presents?
• 1:30:09
  Not a lot of presents, but a
• 1:30:11
  lot of There you go.
• 1:30:13
  Go ahead.
• 1:30:13
  Get off to the shops.
• 1:30:15
  Go get him some presents.
• 1:30:18
  I've got them.
• 1:30:20
  He hasn't gotten them yet.
• 1:30:22
  Oh.
• 1:30:23
  I woke up there was, like I think I woke up to, like, a 150 birthday messages so far.
• 1:30:32
  So that makes me feel good.
• 1:30:34
  I gave him the most important one, but I did it in person.
• 1:30:38
  Right.
• 1:30:39
  Okay.
• 1:30:42
  It's fine.
• 1:30:43
  No.
• 1:30:43
  I just said
• 1:30:44
  I just I woke up.
• 1:30:45
  I rolled over.
• 1:30:46
  I said, happy birthday, you old bastard.
• 1:30:51
  Hey, Michael.
• 1:30:53
  Yes.
• 1:30:53
  Hey, Michael.
• 1:30:57
  Okay.
• 1:30:57
  And and cut
• 1:30:58
  that about wishing Michael a happy birthday.
• 1:31:01
  But the answer
• 1:31:03
  Happy birthday, Michael.
• 1:31:04
  The answer that I have or the comment I have about the production is it's spectacular.
• 1:31:13
  It's wonderful.
• 1:31:15
  The drums are played so incredibly tastefully.
• 1:31:19
  The parts that you add, they're not overplayed.
• 1:31:22
  The space in between, the pauses.
• 1:31:26
  It's done so incredibly well.
• 1:31:30
  So, yes, a person can have these tools, but they can overuse the tools.
• 1:31:34
  You don't overuse them.
• 1:31:36
  You use them to your advantage.
• 1:31:39
  I will tell you.
• 1:31:40
  I I will tell you that a lot of that is the collaboration between Jason and I.
• 1:31:47
  Can you repeat what she said?
• 1:31:48
  Because I can't couldn't hear her or whatever.
• 1:31:51
  She wanted it production wise, she was like she was impressed with not just the sound, but how
• 1:31:57
  well the sound was implemented.
• 1:31:59
  Like, it wasn't overdone and, like, it was tasty.
• 1:32:02
  And a lot of
• 1:32:04
  that restraint.
• 1:32:05
  And and yeah.
• 1:32:09
  A a of people think that I am pre you know, kind of over the top or flamboyant or whatever
• 1:32:17
  the case may be.
• 1:32:19
  And and to a point, that's true.
• 1:32:22
  But musically, I've always been intrigued by things that don't sound the way they should be.
• 1:32:37
  It's like on this like, a prime example on this song is the fact that I literally wrote this
• 1:32:45
  song with a very blues feel, but I didn't wanna be stuck just in that.
• 1:32:53
  So and Jason is a really big fan of syncopation.
• 1:32:57
  Like, he loves very Loves.
• 1:33:01
  You know, he doesn't like routine things.
• 1:33:04
  So that plays off both of us.
• 1:33:06
  It was like because when you're working with when you're working with plug ins or you're
• 1:33:13
  working with, you know what's the word I'm thinking of?
• 1:33:20
  Patches.
• 1:33:21
  You know, you get sometimes it's for thirty to forty five seconds, but you don't wanna use all
• 1:33:28
  that.
• 1:33:29
  You know?
• 1:33:29
  But it gives you that base to play off of, and then you can pull in and out of it and go, I
• 1:33:35
  like that.
• 1:33:35
  I like this.
• 1:33:36
  And then once you get something live drums are so important.
• 1:33:45
  You know?
• 1:33:45
  You know that.
• 1:33:46
  You're a drummer.
• 1:33:47
  You know?
• 1:33:48
  And so for us, I think aside from the melody, for me, it's always been how does this song
• 1:34:01
  sound rhythmically?
• 1:34:03
  And Jason is incredibly great at that.
• 1:34:07
  You're using, like, great tonal sounds, great snare, great bass, great toms, great great
• 1:34:17
  simple, great percussion.
• 1:34:19
  There's nothing that I would go, you know, that's not a good sound.
• 1:34:26
  I mean, you're really picking some great sound.
• 1:34:29
  I think We have I honestly, we have and and I'm not embarrassed to say this because we do this
• 1:34:37
  for a living pretty much.
• 1:34:42
  We probably have a sound bank of about 3,500 sounds now.
• 1:34:47
  We've because we have a studio.
• 1:34:49
  We have Autumni.
• 1:34:50
  We have Coachella.
• 1:34:53
  I have literally spent probably 4 to $500 just in patches, chord structures, drum structures.
• 1:35:03
  And once you find something that you and you're like me.
• 1:35:07
  I want something to sound the absolute best if it's going to be sampled or used in in in our
• 1:35:16
  music.
• 1:35:16
  And so we're we're really pretty picky that way.
• 1:35:21
  And this is why it's taken us two and a half years.
• 1:35:25
  And it's been an absolute brilliant album.
• 1:35:27
  We are on track eight, everybody.
• 1:35:30
  We're gonna have to get forward.
• 1:35:31
  Okay?
• 1:35:31
  Or we could be doing production on the album for the next ten hours.
• 1:35:36
  Okay?
• 1:35:36
  Okay.
• 1:35:36
  We are
• 1:35:37
  gonna have to get into it because we've still got about six, seven great songs to bring you.
• 1:35:42
  And the next one, if you could only see through my eyes, Michael Cagle, tell us all about it.
• 1:35:49
  Okay.
• 1:35:51
  It's another stupid love song.
• 1:35:52
  Oh my god.
• 1:35:53
  I never realized how much I wrote love songs I wrote.
• 1:35:56
  Put it on
• 1:35:57
  a loop.
• 1:35:58
  Oh, I
• 1:35:58
  wrote this song for Jason.
• 1:36:00
  Okay.
• 1:36:00
  Oh, wait.
• 1:36:01
  I wrote the next one for Jason too.
• 1:36:03
  Oh, that one too.
• 1:36:04
  Oh, and that one.
• 1:36:05
  Okay.
• 1:36:05
  And I wrote that one for Jason as well.
• 1:36:07
  They're not just but they're not just for him.
• 1:36:09
  I think these are songs that are universally understood.
• 1:36:13
  Really?
• 1:36:14
  Well, no.
• 1:36:15
  I don't want because not everybody's gonna love Jason, but they're gonna love the person that
• 1:36:21
  they're with.
• 1:36:21
  And
• 1:36:21
  Everybody loves Jason.
• 1:36:24
  Everybody loves Jason.
• 1:36:26
  Everybody loves JP.
• 1:36:28
  I've worked
• 1:36:28
  with JP.
• 1:36:29
  Point.
• 1:36:29
  I'm just gonna put it on because at the end of day, we all know this about Jason.
• 1:36:33
  So if I could oversee you, move our eyes.
• 1:36:36
  He said
• 1:36:38
  he he was feeling down about getting old and not being attractive and not being as good
• 1:36:44
  looking as he was and, you know, that age is and I'm like
• 1:36:48
  How are doing?
• 1:36:48
  And so I literally said to him, yeah.
• 1:36:51
  But that's okay because you don't see yourself through my eyes.
• 1:36:56
  And then I'm like
• 1:36:59
  Oh, Alright.
• 1:37:01
  Let's get over this song because Jason's, like, pulling faces at everybody now.
• 1:37:05
  Look.
• 1:37:23
  We've walked a thousand roads, you and me.
• 1:37:30
  Not the boys we were, but all that we could be.
• 1:37:38
  Times written stories on our skin.
• 1:37:44
  Every lot of memory of where we've been.
• 1:37:52
  And you say the years have taken that swell, We don't run like we used to, chasing the dawn,
• 1:39:02
  but we've built a world where love keeps So when you doubt, just remember this truth.
• 1:42:21
  No one's more perfect than growing old with you.
• 1:42:43
  I hate me.
• 1:42:45
  I hate me.
• 1:42:46
  I love that.
• 1:42:47
  What do you hate me so much?
• 1:42:48
  No.
• 1:42:48
  You don't.
• 1:42:49
  I guess I just I hate you.
• 1:42:52
  Jeff, prime example on this song, what we are talking about.
• 1:42:58
  My drum fill when I first was working on this was a lot more allowed.
• 1:43:03
  No sound.
• 1:43:04
  Can you guys hear me?
• 1:43:05
  I can hear you.
• 1:43:06
  Yes.
• 1:43:07
  If you can hear me.
• 1:43:09
  I can't hear you guys.
• 1:43:10
  Okay.
• 1:43:11
  I'm back out again.
• 1:43:12
  This is so distracting.
• 1:43:13
  I'm sorry, Michael.
• 1:43:14
  No.
• 1:43:15
  You're fine.
• 1:43:15
  Don't worry.
• 1:43:15
  Again.
• 1:43:17
  Okay.
• 1:43:21
  Technology.
• 1:43:23
  I swear there is something happening in the solar system that is affecting
• 1:43:28
  people's health.
• 1:43:29
  Is Our blowing up all around us.
• 1:43:32
  Like, everybody's having their, like, switches being tripped every now and again, which is
• 1:43:36
  where I just run to.
• 1:43:38
  I think the heat is playing, like, dividends, especially in The UK with everybody.
• 1:43:43
  Alright.
• 1:43:43
  Next song.
• 1:43:44
  Next song.
• 1:43:45
  Next song.
• 1:43:46
  Okay.
• 1:43:46
  Track number 10.
• 1:43:47
  Let's go to track number 10.
• 1:43:49
  Where have we got to mister?
• 1:43:51
  We have got to Dream Wheel.
• 1:43:53
  It's the next one.
• 1:43:53
  Tell us about Dream Wheel.
• 1:43:55
  Okay.
• 1:43:56
  Alright.
• 1:43:57
  I love the okay.
• 1:44:00
  I wrote this song.
• 1:44:01
  This is the fastest song I've ever written ever.
• 1:44:05
  Fastest?
• 1:44:07
  Fastest song I've ever written ever.
• 1:44:10
  Absolutely the fastest song.
• 1:44:11
  I think I had this song completed lyrically, knew what I wanted.
• 1:44:17
  Well, when you hear it, it's not hard to figure out.
• 1:44:19
  It's not musically elaborate.
• 1:44:22
  But I wrote the song complete from idea to completed in about twenty five to thirty
• 1:44:33
  minutes.
• 1:44:34
  The lyrics.
• 1:44:36
  The lyrics.
• 1:44:36
  Because it's the lyrics.
• 1:44:38
  JP is like, just the lyrics.
• 1:44:40
  Okay.
• 1:44:41
  I was gonna say, wait a minute.
• 1:44:42
  Because I knew I because I knew what I wanted.
• 1:44:46
  I wanted a song that honored I wanted a song that honored all my favorite movies.
• 1:44:52
  Because as a kid that was felt very alien, very weird, very movies were my escape, and they
• 1:45:02
  still are to this day.
• 1:45:03
  And so
• 1:45:05
  this Universal.
• 1:45:06
  This is a Easter egg.
• 1:45:10
  What do they call it?
• 1:45:10
  A card?
• 1:45:12
  The Easter egg.
• 1:45:13
  Yeah.
• 1:45:15
  To all my favorite movies.
• 1:45:20
  And, yeah, it did and this
• 1:45:22
  was We never get this on the outside spotlight.
• 1:45:24
  What we can do is we can all come back and say how many failed would we recognize because we
• 1:45:29
  were gonna do that on unsigned spotlight.
• 1:45:31
  Remember?
• 1:45:31
  We were.
• 1:45:32
  We we
• 1:45:32
  we'll do it now.
• 1:45:33
  We'll come back.
• 1:45:34
  We'll listen to the song.
• 1:45:35
  We'll say, right.
• 1:45:36
  I heard back to the future.
• 1:45:38
  Okay?
• 1:45:38
  We'll see how many we want, see how many we can get correct.
• 1:45:41
  Okay?
• 1:45:41
  Michael, put in.
• 1:45:42
  We really look forward to it.
• 1:45:43
  This is really real, everybody.
• 1:45:45
  Am I allowed?
• 1:45:47
  No.
• 1:45:47
  Oh, JP, of course, you're allowed.
• 1:45:50
  No.
• 1:45:52
  I've got the lyrics.
• 1:45:53
  I can count them.
• 1:45:57
  JP, you're banned from the competition.
• 1:46:02
  Alright.
• 1:46:11
  When the world stops, passion like scene gone wrong.
• 1:46:14
  Build stacking high and the days feel long.
• 1:46:18
  I
• 1:46:18
  close my eyes, flip the switch and I'm gone to a silver screen where I truly belong.
• 1:46:24
  Holler at the moon with the wolf man's grin.
• 1:46:27
  I find gravity when I take back room for a spin.
• 1:46:32
  Back to the future embodying dark, eating Mars and we're the Halloween moon, sharing a water
• 1:47:18
  with Stitch dancing on the blue balloons.
• 1:47:21
  I'm on the road with the bed and pedal the floor yelling Geronimo with the doctor, every
• 1:47:26
  steps of the tundra storm.
• 1:47:28
  Shading smart ass quimps with dead bull, breaking the fourth wall.
• 1:47:32
  Yet in my dreamscape, I can literally do it all.
• 1:47:40
  No bills, no pain, just scenes are still slow.
• 1:48:27
  Mowling ride where the hard lights go.
• 1:48:30
  Clip onion stunts with Indiana Jones.
• 1:48:33
  Dodging chopsticks with whips and bones.
• 1:48:37
  Singing a showstuff, Oscar in sight.
• 1:48:40
  In my dream, will I hold a spotlight?
• 1:48:43
  Lights, cameras passed away to a world where I get to save the day rule.
• 1:48:50
  Credits on the doubt and fear.
• 1:48:53
  I'm a star when the dreams appear.
• 1:48:58
  I'm swimming with jaws living free and wild.
• 1:49:02
  Toothless at my side, I'm like a fearless just press play and set me free.
• 1:49:33
  I
• 1:49:53
  Wow.
• 1:49:54
  I think I know we've got one of them because Ryan's gone and got changed as though it was
• 1:49:59
  Indiana Jones moment coming into that song.
• 1:50:04
  So that was Indiana Jones was one of the guests with Jeffrey.
• 1:50:07
  Actually, she'll go to the audience because Jeffrey's actually probably guessed all of
• 1:50:10
  these.
• 1:50:11
  So he said, Michael, Indiana Jones, was it in the song or wasn't it?
• 1:50:16
  It was.
• 1:50:17
  Right?
• 1:50:17
  Yep.
• 1:50:17
  Got on, Jeffrey.
• 1:50:20
  ET.
• 1:50:20
  He heard ET.
• 1:50:21
  Was it in?
• 1:50:22
  Yep.
• 1:50:23
  Okay.
• 1:50:25
  And, of course, we knew Michael, Harry Potter would be put in there with the Slytherin
• 1:50:29
  reference.
• 1:50:30
  We knew that.
• 1:50:32
  Jeffy's also a god with Wicked.
• 1:50:35
  Yep.
• 1:50:36
  Yes.
• 1:50:36
  We do.
• 1:50:37
  Oh, yep.
• 1:50:37
  Back to the Future.
• 1:50:39
  Yep.
• 1:50:40
  Godzilla.
• 1:50:41
  Yep.
• 1:50:42
  Yep.
• 1:50:42
  Star Wars.
• 1:50:43
  Yep.
• 1:50:44
  Yep.
• 1:50:44
  Deadpool.
• 1:50:45
  I didn't where were the Deadpool weapons?
• 1:50:48
  Deadpool's in there.
• 1:50:49
  In there.
• 1:50:50
  Dude.
• 1:50:50
  Creating smart ass quips with Deadpool.
• 1:50:52
  I heard it.
• 1:50:53
  Breaking the Breaking the fourth wall.
• 1:50:54
  Yep.
• 1:50:55
  Breaking the fourth wall.
• 1:50:56
  Yeah.
• 1:50:57
  Jaws and many more.
• 1:50:59
  Anyone else got any all the advances or the ones that we put in?
• 1:51:02
  Or JP would tell us all of them which we'll put in the actual for yourself.
• 1:51:06
  Michael, my question to you, and I've been a a hard ass towards you about it.
• 1:51:13
  And I will continue to be a hard ass towards you when I first heard this song.
• 1:51:18
  Did you you change the lyrics recently?
• 1:51:21
  You only changed one lyric.
• 1:51:24
  No.
• 1:51:25
  The only lyric that I changed well, no.
• 1:51:27
  Because I added I I I added Slytherin in the in the studio.
• 1:51:33
  One.
• 1:51:34
  And then I also, I had a reference to zombies, and I got rid of the zombies, and I put in I
• 1:51:47
  can't remember.
• 1:51:48
  I think it was the Indiana Jones.
• 1:51:53
  Nope.
• 1:51:55
  What did I replace zombies with?
• 1:51:58
  You replaced zombies with
• 1:52:01
  He's got the wiz.
• 1:52:02
  Casting wand effects with casting wand effects as a Slytherin.
• 1:52:06
  Okay.
• 1:52:07
  Yeah.
• 1:52:07
  That makes
• 1:52:08
  sense because
• 1:52:09
  it's a two syllable word, so that makes sense.
• 1:52:11
  With Indiana Jones Indiana Jones, five syllable word versus zombie.
• 1:52:21
  So that makes sense.
• 1:52:22
  Good.
• 1:52:23
  Yeah, man.
• 1:52:23
  Good.
• 1:52:23
  Ryan, what are desperately trying to get through?
• 1:52:25
  Ryan, why is waving these hands frantically?
• 1:52:27
  What's up, Ryan?
• 1:52:28
  So my thing that I was originally saying is, are you going to write a version of this with
• 1:52:35
  just Universal movies?
• 1:52:36
  So that way Universal Studios can play your song while you're walking through the park with
• 1:52:42
  you.
• 1:52:42
  Idea.
• 1:52:43
  Brilliant idea.
• 1:52:44
  Why?
• 1:52:44
  I
• 1:52:45
  and I'm just waiting for all this to do.
• 1:52:47
  Yes.
• 1:52:47
  I'm gonna do what I call the Universal dream reel, and I'll send that to them, and then I'm
• 1:52:53
  gonna do a Disney dream reel.
• 1:52:55
  Oh, okay.
• 1:52:55
  Great.
• 1:52:56
  I'm a did.
• 1:52:56
  Brilliant.
• 1:52:57
  Excellent.
• 1:52:57
  Fantastic, Ryan.
• 1:52:59
  Me and you talk Would you would you like me to list off all of the
• 1:53:01
  different movies that were in the show or in the show?
• 1:53:05
  Keep going.
• 1:53:05
  Keep going then.
• 1:53:08
  Okay.
• 1:53:10
  The Wolfman?
• 1:53:11
  Yeah.
• 1:53:12
  Wolfman.
• 1:53:15
  Defying Gravity from Wicked, Back to the Future, Jaws, Toothless from How to Train Your
• 1:53:24
  Dragon, Godzilla, obviously, Star Wars, The Great Escape.
• 1:53:31
  Oh.
• 1:53:32
  Yep.
• 1:53:33
  Trick or Treat, which is a scary movie, Lilo and Stitch Yeah.
• 1:53:42
  Smokey and the Bandit, the doctor from doctor who, Deadpool, Dreamscape, and Jurassic Park,
• 1:53:57
  Harry Potter, ET, and the greatest showman.
• 1:54:03
  I'll tell you what, there's only one person that 19 people in the whole of the world who
• 1:54:07
  could do a song which has got so many movies in it.
• 1:54:10
  That's amazing.
• 1:54:11
  There are a total of 19 references to 19 different movies.
• 1:54:15
  Wow.
• 1:54:15
  You've gotta say that.
• 1:54:16
  You've gotta you've gotta say that.
• 1:54:18
  That'd be absolutely brilliant.
• 1:54:19
  The cinemas just love it.
• 1:54:20
  For the Oscars right there.
• 1:54:22
  That's pretty pretty pretty good.
• 1:54:24
  Gotta do
• 1:54:24
  one for the Oscar winners, Michael, and submit it to the Oscars.
• 1:54:27
  Would be all night, mate.
• 1:54:28
  Seriously.
• 1:54:29
  Right.
• 1:54:29
  Okay.
• 1:54:30
  Track 11.
• 1:54:31
  Where are we?
• 1:54:32
  We are on Track 11.
• 1:54:34
  Jesus.
• 1:54:35
  We're on this ride, I think, it's meant to say.
• 1:54:37
  I'm just gonna double check.
• 1:54:39
  We're on this ride together.
• 1:54:40
  We have been on this ride together because we're on track 11.
• 1:54:43
  Tell us about this one.
• 1:54:44
  Right.
• 1:54:44
  So another one of these songs that came came towards the very end of putting the album
• 1:54:51
  together.
• 1:54:51
  I I actually had to bump some tracks to make room for the three new ones.
• 1:54:56
  I love this song.
• 1:54:57
  I am obsessed with this song because it's got elements of it's got elements of kind of a
• 1:55:06
  yacht rock feel, but it's contemporary yacht rock feel.
• 1:55:11
  And then this is kind of an homage to kind of a Sam Harris feel to it as well.
• 1:55:25
  Sam Harris was a big influence on my life and still is.
• 1:55:29
  I think one of the best vocalists I've ever heard ever.
• 1:55:32
  And so this song kind of plays into that kind of r and b kind of more of a soulful sound, but
• 1:55:43
  very laid back and a really nice build.
• 1:55:47
  Like, this song just goes from you'll hear it.
• 1:55:50
  I I really put
• 1:55:52
  it on.
• 1:55:52
  I'm really excited now.
• 1:55:53
  Okay?
• 1:55:54
  Here we go.
• 1:56:12
  I've done come with a map of one inside.
• 1:56:19
  Twists and turns we never see in time.
• 1:56:25
  One day you'll fight next we may stand.
• 1:56:32
  Trudden makes sense, but we don't understand.
• 1:56:38
  It's very high, every fall, every storm we weather.
• 1:56:45
  One thing I know we're holding on together.
• 1:56:51
  We're on this road together.
• 1:56:55
  No way to know forever where this road is gonna lead.
• 1:57:02
  Oh, who it's gonna be?
• 1:57:32
  Crazy nights and days that break your heart, moments that can tear your world apart, but
• 1:57:41
  every tear, every laugh, free share is proof that we're still standing here.
• 1:57:47
  When you're weak, I'll be the strengths you lean on.
• 1:57:53
  When I fall, you're the reason I hold on.
• 1:57:59
  We're on this fight together.
• 1:58:03
  Don't wait to know forever where this home is gonna lead.
• 1:58:10
  Oh, who would gonna be?
• 1:58:13
  But where bright in every chapter in this story ever after.
• 1:58:20
  Let the world spin how it wants to spin through the lost, the love, the chaos we're in.
• 1:58:28
  Yeah.
• 1:58:29
  Whatever comes, whatever tide or weather, we're on this ride together.
• 1:58:40
  So when the night feels too heavy to breathe in the lies too far to see, just take my head,
• 1:58:50
  we'll make it through.
• 1:58:52
  We'll find the way we always do.
• 1:58:58
  We can't together.
• 1:59:58
  Ride together.
• 2:00:00
  Yeah.
• 2:00:01
  Hold on.
• 2:00:02
  Sigh it down.
• 2:01:03
  Ain't that the truth?
• 2:01:05
  No.
• 2:01:05
  I wouldn't change anything.
• 2:01:10
  What a fucking crater.
• 2:01:36
  Warning explicit lyrics?
• 2:01:40
  Nope.
• 2:01:43
  I didn't hear any explicit lyrics.
• 2:01:46
  I'm really excited to hear what Orlys thinks.
• 2:01:50
  The energy was absolutely spectacular.
• 2:01:53
  I love the energy.
• 2:01:55
  I just love the feel of the whole song.
• 2:01:58
  It it just just Michael, your voice just carries and transcends throughout.
• 2:02:06
  I I mean, just the fact that you could hold a note that long and modulate it to the my god.
• 2:02:13
  To the pitch is just incredible.
• 2:02:19
  I just had to change that.
• 2:02:21
  Can everybody hear me?
• 2:02:23
  Yeah.
• 2:02:23
  Yeah.
• 2:02:24
  They don't call him ballad belter for nothing.
• 2:02:27
  Well
• 2:02:27
  That's they definitely don't.
• 2:02:29
  No.
• 2:02:29
  They definitely don't.
• 2:02:30
  And a great, great performance again.
• 2:02:32
  You know?
• 2:02:35
  Beautiful.
• 2:02:36
  I I know.
• 2:02:37
  And and the ending, me and me and Jason kind of went around and around, and I I the ending, I
• 2:02:46
  was always planning on throwing the f word in there because that's I really wanted it to end
• 2:02:51
  that way.
• 2:02:52
  I made it a little bit more subtle.
• 2:02:55
  And and
• 2:02:56
  That was subtle?
• 2:02:57
  No.
• 2:02:57
  I made it a little Originally, he made it more subtle.
• 2:03:00
  And I I wish you had kept it subtle.
• 2:03:03
  And Jason had said, you know what?
• 2:03:07
  It's it's built up to that, and it's such a catch you in the moment and then comes back
• 2:03:13
  that it works better like that.
• 2:03:15
  And so I don't know.
• 2:03:17
  I've I've had goods, and I've had positive and negative feedback.
• 2:03:21
  Not really negative.
• 2:03:22
  You know, obviously, there'd be, like, a radio in if it ever went on.
• 2:03:26
  But, you know, the nice thing about indie radio is you can kinda say what you want.
• 2:03:31
  But do you I thought it was
• 2:03:32
  We can't.
• 2:03:33
  Artistically, it's
• 2:03:35
  I absolutely love it.
• 2:03:36
  Artistically, Michael, absolutely love it.
• 2:03:39
  It just catches you off guard.
• 2:03:41
  And as soon as I heard it, I went like, yeah.
• 2:03:44
  Just the
• 2:03:45
  energy and the voice
• 2:03:47
  and just the buildup to it.
• 2:03:49
  It was just like, yes.
• 2:03:50
  Like, he said it.
• 2:03:51
  Like, it went.
• 2:03:52
  Yes.
• 2:03:53
  It
• 2:03:53
  was It was amazing.
• 2:03:55
  It had a shock factor for me definitely when I heard
• 2:03:57
  I saw your face.
• 2:03:59
  You went you were just, like, enjoying this it was cute.
• 2:04:02
  You're enjoying the saga that all of sudden.
• 2:04:05
  Yeah.
• 2:04:05
  I I got people's different reactions.
• 2:04:07
  You know?
• 2:04:07
  I'm watching everybody on the bottom while they're listening to this song.
• 2:04:10
  You've got some people just tapping away, enjoying the songs.
• 2:04:13
  You got some people like, yeah.
• 2:04:14
  Actually, you got other people just like, I love being like, watching the show.
• 2:04:19
  It's great to watch.
• 2:04:20
  You okay, JP?
• 2:04:22
  Oh, yeah.
• 2:04:24
  I'm fine.
• 2:04:25
  No.
• 2:04:25
  My mother hated it.
• 2:04:26
  I'm sure.
• 2:04:30
  Hating on the song.
• 2:04:31
  We'll never listen to it again because she doesn't like the end.
• 2:04:35
  Why?
• 2:04:35
  When did she say that?
• 2:04:37
  When I was talking to her on the phone.
• 2:04:39
  What?
• 2:04:40
  Oh.
• 2:04:41
  Well, she well, that's a that's a bit of an that's like No.
• 2:04:45
  No.
• 2:04:45
  No.
• 2:04:45
  She didn't No offense.
• 2:04:46
  Let's let me be let me be clear.
• 2:04:49
  She'll listen she will listen to the radio edit version, but she won't listen to Okay.
• 2:04:56
  Swear in it.
• 2:04:57
  Yeah.
• 2:04:58
  Just like she'll never listen to FAFO.
• 2:05:00
  A lot of a lot of
• 2:05:01
  a lot of LDS, myself being one of them, do not appreciate that word.
• 2:05:08
  For some reason, I don't know why.
• 2:05:10
  Don't appreciate that word, Ryan?
• 2:05:12
  I don't like the f word.
• 2:05:13
  I honestly do not like the f word.
• 2:05:15
  I try my best not
• 2:05:16
  to driving.
• 2:05:17
  Very out.
• 2:05:18
  Okay.
• 2:05:18
  Since
• 2:05:19
  when you're
• 2:05:19
  driving driving and
• 2:05:22
  get yeah.
• 2:05:22
  Alright.
• 2:05:23
  You're correct.
• 2:05:24
  I'm like I said, I am working on it.
• 2:05:27
  Next song.
• 2:05:28
  Next song.
• 2:05:29
  Well, we have a next song.
• 2:05:30
  It's not something special who's gonna work with the crowd.
• 2:05:34
  So he wants to come and say hello.
• 2:05:37
  Richard Melbourne is wishing you a happy birthday, and it's it's lovely to see you all
• 2:05:42
  together.
• 2:05:43
  Richard, we wouldn't expect anything from you any less than actually you giving us a comment
• 2:05:49
  like that.
• 2:05:49
  That's typical you, Richard.
• 2:05:51
  Okay?
• 2:05:53
  There you go, Richard.
• 2:05:54
  That one's for you.
• 2:05:55
  Excellent.
• 2:05:56
  So we are going to go on to Endless tonight, and it's getting towards the final three songs.
• 2:06:03
  Okay?
• 2:06:03
  So this is number 12, track 12, Endless tonight.
• 2:06:07
  Okay.
• 2:06:09
  Oh, we hadn't had an introduction.
• 2:06:11
  Let's quickly go back to Michael before he finish, mate.
• 2:06:14
  Look at that.
• 2:06:15
  Look at that.
• 2:06:15
  Look at that.
• 2:06:16
  Okay.
• 2:06:16
  Before you put it on, let me tell you what it's all about.
• 2:06:20
  Go for it, Michael, before you die first.
• 2:06:22
  Oh.
• 2:06:26
  This is my attempt attempt.
• 2:06:30
  I don't know if I succeeded.
• 2:06:32
  This is my attempt at a very sexy song.
• 2:06:38
  Like Oh.
• 2:06:39
  Song that you would wanna have sex with or sex
• 2:06:44
  Hey.
• 2:06:44
  Dad, fool.
• 2:06:45
  Remember there's kids watching.
• 2:06:47
  Hell.
• 2:06:49
  Come on.
• 2:06:50
  Seriously?
• 2:06:52
  I don't think there are any kids watching.
• 2:06:54
  Okay.
• 2:06:55
  I'm doing it for birthday, Michael, but seriously, come on.
• 2:06:58
  What?
• 2:07:01
  Dude, you you all know there are certain songs that put you in the mood, and you're like, and
• 2:07:06
  that's kind It's a romantic song.
• 2:07:10
  It's a very, very seductive romantic song.
• 2:07:15
  You'll hear a very different side of my vocals on this.
• 2:07:19
  Okay.
• 2:07:19
  I really, really loved playing with.
• 2:07:24
  It's not about Walter.
• 2:07:26
  It's very much
• 2:07:29
  Okay.
• 2:07:30
  Get your mind out of that gutter over there.
• 2:07:32
  Why?
• 2:07:33
  Wait.
• 2:07:33
  I see.
• 2:07:33
  What is so funny?
• 2:07:35
  What did I say?
• 2:07:36
  It's JP.
• 2:07:39
  He's dying.
• 2:07:40
  Play with it.
• 2:07:41
  Play with JP is dying over there.
• 2:07:43
  Play with JP?
• 2:07:44
  What?
• 2:07:45
  No.
• 2:07:46
  I'm at work.
• 2:07:48
  Oh my
• 2:07:50
  god.
• 2:07:50
  This just went too far.
• 2:07:52
  And this is going to We're gonna turn
• 2:07:54
  the fuck.
• 2:07:55
  I'm I'm gonna play Endless Deny.
• 2:07:57
  I'm just not gonna try to if yeah.
• 2:07:59
  It's going weird.
• 2:08:00
  But Endless Deny.
• 2:08:02
  Oh my god.
• 2:08:03
  Oh my god.
• 2:08:04
  We're done for.
• 2:08:10
  I'm gonna open up the windows.
• 2:08:19
  Snow dancing to the quakes and tide.
• 2:08:27
  The dazzling foes, they watch you Figures trace secrets we promise to keep.
• 2:08:49
  Everywhere's but touch a spark ignites your lips on my skin setting spots of the night.
• 2:08:56
  Can you feel the way the unit can't believe that you are mine.
• 2:09:33
  Say in this moment, frozen in time.
• 2:13:03
  Yeah, bud.
• 2:13:04
  So
• 2:13:07
  your attempt was more of a success than it's an attempt.
• 2:13:12
  Yeah.
• 2:13:12
  Thank you.
• 2:13:14
  I I I I kinda got that Celine Dion love song feeling from that song.
• 2:13:20
  To a point.
• 2:13:22
  I felt I could hear that inspiration there.
• 2:13:25
  Is that Yeah.
• 2:13:26
  I mean, I I I
• 2:13:29
  sometimes you go and you do something with the intent to do that, and then sometimes you just
• 2:13:34
  hear the influence anyway.
• 2:13:36
  And, yeah, that's kind of a
• 2:13:40
  Thank you.
• 2:13:41
  Hey, Liv.
• 2:13:42
  You want
• 2:13:42
  It's like a wedding song dance kinda song.
• 2:13:44
  This is like a wedding song dance.
• 2:13:46
  I don't see this as an intimate, as far oh, well, I mean, I'm not sure the kind that
• 2:13:53
  Is somebody talking?
• 2:13:54
  I yeah.
• 2:13:55
  Hello?
• 2:13:55
  Can hear fast talking to you.
• 2:13:57
  Oh, I can't I can't hear.
• 2:13:59
  I've got a of death.
• 2:14:02
  Uh-oh.
• 2:14:03
  The circle of death.
• 2:14:04
  I say I mean, I'm not sure.
• 2:14:06
  I mean, I'm not sure what kind of sex that you have, but for me, that wouldn't have worked.
• 2:14:12
  But I see this as a wedding dance song as a couple just, like, looking into each other's
• 2:14:19
  eyes and spinning each other around.
• 2:14:21
  Right before they boink.
• 2:14:24
  No.
• 2:14:24
  Before they boink.
• 2:14:25
  Why boinking?
• 2:14:27
  Get off the boinking, Michael.
• 2:14:28
  Before the
• 2:14:29
  exactly.
• 2:14:30
  Hit
• 2:14:30
  hit the song before the boinking.
• 2:14:36
  My god.
• 2:14:37
  I'll you what.
• 2:14:38
  We've gone on to track nine before, and it's gone to 50 shades of gray here.
• 2:14:42
  I'll tell you.
• 2:14:43
  13?
• 2:14:44
  13?
• 2:14:46
  13, he said.
• 2:14:47
  14, Andy.
• 2:14:47
  Okay.
• 2:14:47
  13.
• 2:14:48
  So
• 2:14:48
  on that song.
• 2:14:50
  Quick anecdote on on enlist tonight.
• 2:14:52
  That that really cool, like, cracking snare that you hear, like, sounds kinda like
• 2:14:58
  something that gets hit on the side of the snare, that rim shot that you keep hearing
• 2:15:02
  throughout it, that in you know, that syncopated rim rim shot.
• 2:15:07
  I actually went out into the backyard and just took two big two by fours and, like, clapped
• 2:15:13
  them together while I recorded.
• 2:15:16
  Oh.
• 2:15:16
  And then we plugged it in, and
• 2:15:18
  we made and we put a bunch of echo on it, and it it worked really well.
• 2:15:23
  It sounded so cool.
• 2:15:25
  Anyway, that's my bit.
• 2:15:27
  Oh, no.
• 2:15:27
  No.
• 2:15:27
  Do you know what that's pulling, JB?
• 2:15:29
  Because, you know, we we try and understand what goes into these albums and these songs,
• 2:15:34
  and that's something that people wouldn't even dream of.
• 2:15:37
  Like, it actually happened during the song.
• 2:15:39
  And that's how creative people are being with their with their albums, and that's brilliant.
• 2:15:44
  Yeah.
• 2:15:45
  He he is a master of sticking
• 2:15:49
  Weird shit instruments.
• 2:15:51
  Or changing the sound of a of an instrument by placing it with something else at the same
• 2:16:00
  yeah.
• 2:16:01
  He's pretty brilliant.
• 2:16:03
  He
• 2:16:04
  k.
• 2:16:04
  Michael, stop so we can what?
• 2:16:07
  What's the next one?
• 2:16:07
  What's this all about?
• 2:16:08
  Stop Go.
• 2:16:10
  Alright.
• 2:16:11
  That's it, I am.
• 2:16:13
  Can we go now?
• 2:16:14
  Is that the album finished?
• 2:16:16
  We're gonna go.
• 2:16:17
  Alright.
• 2:16:17
  So stop We we can go is I just love this song.
• 2:16:21
  This is a great I wanted you know, I I think for the first time, I I really stretched myself
• 2:16:34
  as far as how much playing between genres can I do?
• 2:16:39
  So this is kind of a pop r and b kind of feel.
• 2:16:46
  But I just love the song because
• 2:16:51
  it
• 2:16:51
  basically tells someone to take a chance, And the only way they can take a chance is by stop
• 2:17:01
  running.
• 2:17:03
  And sometimes
• 2:17:04
  people who I can give those messages to.
• 2:17:07
  Yep.
• 2:17:08
  Here you go.
• 2:17:09
  Fantastic.
• 2:17:10
  I like this one.
• 2:17:11
  Stop.
• 2:17:12
  We can go.
• 2:17:29
  You.
• 2:17:40
  In every way but prayer.
• 2:17:44
  Heart keeps reaching out.
• 2:17:47
  Bow your hands still hold the chains.
• 2:17:51
  I can feel your fear of falling, but love on them in pain.
• 2:17:57
  Don't you know my soul is crying so lean?
• 2:18:06
  I've never been so such and never been so true.
• 2:18:15
  Don't let the world decide our fate.
• 2:18:19
  The clock is ticking all the hide.
• 2:18:42
  Holding back what we both know so we can find a honeycomb into the fire, into the storm.
• 2:18:52
  That was the only place we're warm.
• 2:18:56
  Take my hand at the rest of space, though.
• 2:18:59
  Stop.
• 2:19:00
  So we can finally go.
• 2:19:03
  We've got a love the world can't take away.
• 2:19:08
  Forever starts if you just say.
• 2:19:17
  I can't promise answers.
• 2:19:22
  I can't promise seeds, but I'll fight through the shadows.
• 2:19:29
  If you walk with me, every bow, every stumble will turn into light.
• 2:19:41
  Even in the breaking, we'll make it so we can find all this is the chance we've been waiting
• 2:22:18
  for open your heart and will so we can finally
• 2:23:14
  Great production.
• 2:23:16
  Surreal great production.
• 2:23:17
  Great piano.
• 2:23:18
  Just great production.
• 2:23:19
  Great sound.
• 2:23:20
  Yeah.
• 2:23:21
  Michael, really.
• 2:23:23
  And, JC, just the sounds that you guys pick out absolutely blends.
• 2:23:29
  I don't hear I don't hear cords crashing and against each other.
• 2:23:36
  Just really splendid sound.
• 2:23:41
  Question.
• 2:23:42
  Where did you get the choir?
• 2:23:45
  Thank you thank a studio.
• 2:23:49
  Yep.
• 2:23:50
  So that's that's a, like, a legit choir that Yep.
• 2:23:54
  Does that sound quality?
• 2:23:55
  Or
• 2:23:56
  Oh, no.
• 2:23:57
  No.
• 2:23:57
  That that's all done computer wise.
• 2:24:00
  It's digital.
• 2:24:01
  Wow.
• 2:24:01
  Yeah.
• 2:24:02
  You could have fooled me.
• 2:24:03
  You could have fooled me.
• 2:24:04
  You and they have You can take you you record what you want to record, and then you plug it
• 2:24:09
  in.
• 2:24:10
  And then you add the lyrics as well so that it knows what it's saying, and then you also give
• 2:24:17
  them a vocal idea of what you want.
• 2:24:21
  And they and you can have everything from full on gospel choir to
• 2:24:27
  To a chamber choir to
• 2:24:29
  Chamber choir, baroque, pop.
• 2:24:32
  Yeah.
• 2:24:33
  You do the tabernacle choir.
• 2:24:35
  Actually, they do.
• 2:24:36
  They actually
• 2:24:37
  do I don't know if they do
• 2:24:38
  a specific choir like that.
• 2:24:40
  But
• 2:24:40
  They wouldn't call it that.
• 2:24:42
  They wouldn't call it like that, but they
• 2:24:43
  they probably wouldn't because that would be copyright.
• 2:24:45
  But yeah.
• 2:24:46
  But they so So, Michael,
• 2:24:48
  between the last album and this album, this album for me has got more I don't know.
• 2:24:56
  It's got a lot of feeling it with the choirs and things.
• 2:24:59
  I I love the use of choirs and background music.
• 2:25:02
  I've seen you before when I've listened to your songs.
• 2:25:04
  I think when you're performing on stage, if you could get these live choirs actually singing
• 2:25:10
  with you live on stage, oh my god.
• 2:25:13
  Anybody would pay money to come and see this.
• 2:25:15
  All it takes is three voices.
• 2:25:17
  The thing that we did and it started off we my first album didn't have a lot of choir stuff
• 2:25:23
  because a lot of it was stuff that we did with our DAW, you know, because Cubase does its own
• 2:25:30
  kind of choir effect, but it was kinda basic.
• 2:25:34
  And then when colors of the sun album came out, I really wanted to reinforce the choir,
• 2:25:43
  especially on this the song colors of the sun, which is when we we decided to go with a
• 2:25:50
  different program.
• 2:25:52
  And it's a little bit more inter like I said, it's more intricate because you have to feed it
• 2:25:55
  the lyrics, but then you also have to give it a a vocal, what's the word, vocal sample of what
• 2:26:04
  you want.
• 2:26:04
  Stop.
• 2:26:05
  Boom.
• 2:26:06
  Boom.
• 2:26:06
  And then feed that into it, and then it just comes up.
• 2:26:09
  And then but the cool thing about it, I could have made an all male choir.
• 2:26:14
  I could have made an all female choir, whatever.
• 2:26:17
  And it just Fantastic.
• 2:26:19
  Amazing.
• 2:26:19
  Well, we'll get those on stage.
• 2:26:21
  That's a definite idea.
• 2:26:22
  Brian, I'm loving your, like, changes in jackets all the way through tonight's program.
• 2:26:27
  It's been quite entertaining.
• 2:26:28
  That's a great red jacket.
• 2:26:30
  He looks like like, you know, the showman.
• 2:26:33
  You know?
• 2:26:33
  That's hard to feel, especially with the background there, Ryan.
• 2:26:36
  You look fantastic.
• 2:26:37
  Okay.
• 2:26:38
  It doesn't matter that this is the penultimate song.
• 2:26:43
  Why was it so special for that penultimate moment?
• 2:26:47
  It doesn't have to be
• 2:26:49
  Oh, this is just a really cool song.
• 2:26:54
  I believe I wrote this song for me as talking to my younger self If I went back in time to
• 2:27:07
  talk to myself as a kid.
• 2:27:10
  I isn't that right, Jace?
• 2:27:12
  Yeah.
• 2:27:14
  It's a
• 2:27:14
  it's a whatever.
• 2:27:17
  It's a it's a letter to your to your younger self.
• 2:27:20
  Yeah.
• 2:27:21
  Yeah.
• 2:27:21
  That's what I want.
• 2:27:23
  Let's see what he says to his younger self, so we and let's play.
• 2:27:26
  It doesn't matter.
• 2:27:26
  Let's see what Michael is actually telling his childhood self.
• 2:27:47
  Is yours to see.
• 2:27:50
  You'll go come mountains, cross the ocean wide, nothing will hold you back.
• 2:27:55
  You'll turn the tide, your heart so open filled with endless dreams.
• 2:28:01
  You'll make a mark or so it seemed.
• 2:28:05
  I just gotta get dust in your eyes.
• 2:28:08
  You've got the strength to touch the sky.
• 2:28:13
  You're a force unstoppable, bold.
• 2:28:16
  The world's your canvas, painted in gold.
• 2:28:21
  It does matter, always believe.
• 2:28:25
  You're more than you know, you soon achieve.
• 2:28:28
  You can be enough.
• 2:28:57
  Wondering if you'll break, but deep inside you know there's still a spark to wake.
• 2:29:03
  Though it's hard, you keep pushing through your eyes again.
• 2:29:09
  Soldier than you knew.
• 2:29:11
  It does matter, you're destined to rise.
• 2:29:15
  You got the strength to touch the skies.
• 2:29:19
  You're a force, unstoppable ball.
• 2:29:23
  You're what you can then spin it and go.
• 2:29:27
  It does matter.
• 2:29:29
  Always believe you're more than you know.
• 2:29:32
  You'll soon achieve.
• 2:29:34
  You can't be anything.
• 2:29:37
  Just hold on time.
• 2:29:39
  The future is waiting.
• 2:29:42
  And it's yours tonight.
• 2:29:44
  I'll hear you stand the battles across the shore, but you're wiser now, and you've learned
• 2:29:50
  to go.
• 2:29:51
  The world tried to break, you tried to make you small, but now you know that you can stand so.
• 2:30:00
  You've got the fight, the will, and the grace.
• 2:30:03
  You're still chasing dreams.
• 2:30:05
  You're still in the race.
• 2:30:07
  What they didn't see is the strength in your soul.
• 2:30:11
  Now you're walking the path.
• 2:30:13
  You're in control.
• 2:30:17
  It does matter.
• 2:30:18
  You're destined to rise.
• 2:30:20
  You got the strength to touch
• 2:30:23
  the
• 2:30:23
  skies.
• 2:30:25
  You're a force and stop over gold.
• 2:30:29
  The world's your canvas painted in gold.
• 2:30:33
  It does better.
• 2:30:35
  Always believe you're more than you know.
• 2:31:20
  Gold.
• 2:31:21
  It does matter.
• 2:31:23
  Always believe you're more than you know.
• 2:31:26
  You're still to achieve.
• 2:31:28
  You can't be anything.
• 2:31:31
  Just hold on tight.
• 2:31:32
  The future's waiting, and it's yours tonight.
• 2:31:38
  Does matter.
• 2:31:39
  Don't you ever doubt you were born shy to stand out?
• 2:31:46
  You changed the world.
• 2:31:47
  Just wait and see.
• 2:31:49
  It does matter.
• 2:31:51
  Just believe in me.
• 2:32:07
  You can hear can you guy can you hear me?
• 2:32:12
  Yeah.
• 2:32:13
  I can hear you.
• 2:32:14
  Okay.
• 2:32:15
  Yeah.
• 2:32:15
  It's funny because you can hear me winded at the end of that.
• 2:32:20
  You could and it was one of those things.
• 2:32:24
  I wanted
• 2:32:25
  a bitching hard song to sing.
• 2:32:27
  It is.
• 2:32:28
  And I didn't want it to be clean at the end because I wanted it to feel like I was running
• 2:32:33
  a race.
• 2:32:34
  So I made sure that I did, like, the last phrasing altogether, like, in one breath so
• 2:32:43
  that it felt with
• 2:32:44
  The the energy collapsed.
• 2:32:47
  Yeah.
• 2:32:47
  It that song was super hard.
• 2:32:54
  Okay.
• 2:32:54
  Both of.
• 2:32:55
  Yeah.
• 2:32:56
  It was yeah.
• 2:32:58
  But that's my song to AJ.
• 2:33:01
  Aw.
• 2:33:02
  Thank you.
• 2:33:04
  You know what?
• 2:33:05
  It you you when you look at, like, your younger self and how you're gonna grow up and where
• 2:33:10
  you're gonna be.
• 2:33:12
  And, you know, I think you've gone through such different changes in your career, you know, to
• 2:33:20
  where you're gonna be.
• 2:33:22
  You know, where you are even now, collected all of the awards this year, going on a movie
• 2:33:27
  screen with colors of the sun, you know, everything that you're going through as a
• 2:33:33
  younger self and telling your younger self that you're gonna grow up like this and you're gonna
• 2:33:37
  go through like this.
• 2:33:38
  You know, it's your birthday today.
• 2:33:40
  And, really, if you could actually think about your whole career, you know, we've this before
• 2:33:47
  when we had a one to one, and I've got you to look back about all those career highlight
• 2:33:52
  moments for you and what a career you've had.
• 2:33:55
  You know.
• 2:33:56
  And this year, it's just one of the years compared to what you have been through.
• 2:34:01
  You know?
• 2:34:01
  So from this little kid growing up and wanting to be in the music industry, would he have ever
• 2:34:06
  believed that it would ended up in all things that you've done?
• 2:34:12
  In my deepest hopes and dreams, yes.
• 2:34:17
  You know?
• 2:34:19
  But as you get older, you get more cynical, and, you know, you get a little bit more jaded.
• 2:34:28
  You meet real life.
• 2:34:29
  You meet real people.
• 2:34:31
  You meet people that are supposed to be your friends but aren't, and it makes it hard.
• 2:34:36
  I mean, it makes it hard.
• 2:34:38
  Hold on.
• 2:34:39
  And I think it was the breaking point of some major things that happened three years ago with
• 2:34:50
  some relationships with people that I had trusted, and I just said, I need to I need to
• 2:35:00
  do what I feel like I've always wanted to do and not be afraid and gave myself the the
• 2:35:08
  courage to not be afraid.
• 2:35:11
  And I think that's a really hard thing for me.
• 2:35:14
  Thumb up from mine there.
• 2:35:17
  Thumb up from mine there.
• 2:35:19
  He he believes in you in there.
• 2:35:20
  And I think, you know, Ryan, did you wanna chip in, mate?
• 2:35:23
  Because, you know, that that faces the old buddy.
• 2:35:26
  You know, it's it's interesting.
• 2:35:28
  I've known Michael for, what, thirteen years now or something like that.
• 2:35:31
  Thirteen?
• 2:35:32
  Yeah.
• 2:35:33
  And we hated each other when we first met.
• 2:35:38
  Well, that's fine.
• 2:35:40
  We did we did really
• 2:35:41
  hate each other.
• 2:35:42
  We he found me on Facebook, and, you know, it was all about me.
• 2:35:47
  I was self centered at that time.
• 2:35:49
  And but, anyways, I have learned so much from him as an individual to sit back and let go and
• 2:36:00
  let god.
• 2:36:02
  And that's something that Michael really showcases to everyone he meets.
• 2:36:11
  You know?
• 2:36:11
  He he's a compassionate and caring person, and he helps people grow so much.
• 2:36:17
  And Definitely.
• 2:36:19
  He helps people see the true the true self within them within themselves.
• 2:36:25
  And, you know, Michael is just a great guy in general.
• 2:36:30
  He's an inspiration to many, many people.
• 2:36:33
  And I always was telling him, you know, like, don't give a rat's ass what anybody thinks.
• 2:36:38
  And I would tell him Exactly.
• 2:36:39
  Many times.
• 2:36:40
  It's like, who the hell cares?
• 2:36:43
  Truly.
• 2:36:44
  Who the hell cares?
• 2:36:45
  Because And I see the music the music industry has had that big wake up call this year.
• 2:36:50
  A big wake up call.
• 2:36:51
  Look look again at all of what's happened this year and how many awards you've bowed between
• 2:36:57
  you and JP.
• 2:36:59
  You need a bigger help.
• 2:37:00
  You know, if you these were actual physical trophies coming into your house, you two this
• 2:37:06
  year have
• 2:37:07
  There are trophies.
• 2:37:08
  In the music industry.
• 2:37:09
  They they they will be sending him the trophies.
• 2:37:12
  There are trophies.
• 2:37:12
  I know.
• 2:37:13
  That's what I mean.
• 2:37:13
  And there's more to come.
• 2:37:14
  A case, bro.
• 2:37:15
  You're gonna need a case.
• 2:37:17
  Yeah.
• 2:37:17
  We've got so I have to say this year together as well.
• 2:37:20
  You know, you've got it's just been an amazing year.
• 2:37:23
  So look again.
• 2:37:24
  This album is going to be an absolute phenomenal album for everybody to listen to.
• 2:37:30
  We're two and a half hours into the show, and it's been a brilliant show once again and the
• 2:37:35
  cracking pie of the cracking music, and we've all actually loved and enjoyed every moment.
• 2:37:41
  I and I really thank everybody for showing up or listening, and I I'm getting messages on my
• 2:37:47
  phone as well, people that are watching or whatever.
• 2:37:50
  And I I I really that means an awful lot.
• 2:37:55
  This song is I have to write one serious song because it's just in me to to do that.
• 2:38:05
  And this song is kind of a wake up call for all of us.
• 2:38:11
  It's super depressing.
• 2:38:13
  Okay.
• 2:38:13
  Stop.
• 2:38:14
  Don't tell me that, JP.
• 2:38:16
  No.
• 2:38:16
  Look.
• 2:38:17
  Don't end the album on super depressing.
• 2:38:19
  Yeah.
• 2:38:19
  I know you're gonna do movies.
• 2:38:21
  I hope you're gonna be like it's like everyone's gonna shoot each other as they come
• 2:38:24
  out with the next album.
• 2:38:26
  Okay.
• 2:38:26
  Listen.
• 2:38:27
  It's a great it's a great song.
• 2:38:28
  Okay.
• 2:38:30
  But depressing.
• 2:38:31
  Not it's
• 2:38:32
  not depressing if you listen to it.
• 2:38:34
  But it's
• 2:38:35
  a wake up call for all of us to to treat each other with more compassion, to
• 2:38:44
  not just
• 2:38:45
  base our opinion on somebody by what we think we see.
• 2:38:51
  When we look at someone, we think we know their story.
• 2:38:55
  You know?
• 2:38:55
  If if Yeah.
• 2:38:57
  They're homeless, they're they're terrible.
• 2:39:00
  You know?
• 2:39:01
  If somebody is acting out in the street, it's because they're you know, they wanna be there,
• 2:39:08
  and they're cracked out on drugs, and and and nobody wants to understand that they didn't
• 2:39:15
  start off that way.
• 2:39:17
  You know?
• 2:39:17
  And this is a way you know?
• 2:39:19
  And and we all we all do it, including me.
• 2:39:23
  You know?
• 2:39:24
  You see someone if they're, you know, maybe overly obese.
• 2:39:29
  You immediately view them as a fat person and not a person with feelings.
• 2:39:36
  And so I wrote this song for all of us to just say, take a moment to be a better person.
• 2:39:48
  Take a moment to make the world a better
• 2:39:51
  great, great message for the end of the album.
• 2:39:54
  I love it, Michael.
• 2:39:55
  It is.
• 2:39:56
  Yeah.
• 2:39:56
  It is it depressing?
• 2:39:58
  The stories are kinda depressing, but really listen to the words and then listen to the the
• 2:40:06
  the The chorus.
• 2:40:07
  And then I we'll get it.
• 2:40:10
  Sounds like your last song of the night, everybody.
• 2:40:12
  Look again.
• 2:40:13
  This has been a great album.
• 2:40:14
  Well done, mister.
• 2:40:22
  Got a blanket for a jacket, cardboard for a baby.
• 2:40:30
  He hums old love abides.
• 2:40:33
  He sang when his kits were fed.
• 2:40:37
  Once he fits the neighbor's fence, mow the widow's lawn, stayed up late to fix the fridge.
• 2:40:48
  Keep the water curtain fall, the bills bow high and lights went out.
• 2:41:09
  The fights turned into blame.
• 2:41:13
  His wife packed up the kids and left.
• 2:41:16
  She couldn't bear the shame.
• 2:41:20
  Now we perhaps are flattered signs that beg for spread lose change, but they never see the
• 2:41:29
  father who would give his soul.
• 2:41:37
  Rent exchange.
• 2:41:44
  She's sitting in the corner while the pretty people sneer.
• 2:41:50
  They whisper words like fat pig loud enough for her to hear.
• 2:41:57
  They don't know her body fights her every single day.
• 2:42:03
  A cruel disease that traps her fire and won't let the swimming fade.
• 2:42:11
  Once she ran the high school track to cold medals golden blue, She danced BAM, but in her
• 2:42:19
  mother's dress, the wind and wild sky knew.
• 2:42:24
  Now her legs are heavy, anchors, knees swollen like tight drums.
• 2:42:30
  Every step's a battle fog where no one hears the gun.
• 2:42:37
  She hides her pills in pockets, counts, she showers pain, wears a smile like armor, hides
• 2:42:47
  the tears behind the rain.
• 2:42:51
  They love and point in hallways, cover names she won't repeat, but they don't see the silent
• 2:43:00
  war that rages beneath her feet.
• 2:43:06
  So look again, look deeper, don't stop at what you see.
• 2:43:13
  Get uncooked your bum and listen to the heart behind the screams.
• 2:43:20
  Put yourself inside their shoes before you cast that stone.
• 2:43:27
  Be the head that lifts them up.
• 2:43:30
  Don't leave them there.
• 2:43:34
  Don't be so blind and selfish that you judged before you know.
• 2:43:40
  Every face has got a stony.
• 2:43:43
  Every heart's been bruised by blows, made a whole fair reaching bar When the world just
• 2:43:52
  turns away, look again.
• 2:43:54
  Don't turn your back.
• 2:43:56
  Be love that space.
• 2:44:07
  He sits beside the bus stop, fingers twitch and shake, trace his names upon the concrete only
• 2:44:18
  he can make.
• 2:44:20
  Once he wrote his mother letters from the desert sand, tucked a photo in his helmet of
• 2:44:30
  his little brother's hand.
• 2:44:34
  He dreams of boots on gravel.
• 2:44:37
  Here's the monarch life, feels the blood beneath his boots, counts the kids who die,
• 2:44:47
  came sitting at night, counting all the dead.
• 2:45:07
  Pops his knuckles slaps his face to drown out what they say.
• 2:45:14
  Strangers mutter crazy bats but never cross the street to see the soldier praying hard for a
• 2:45:24
  single night of sleep.
• 2:45:30
  She hums to hush
• 2:45:32
  the night her cousin came. Then another
• 2:45:51
  Then another man in foster care repeated all that shame.
• 2:45:58
  She didn't ask to carry seeds from nights she cared a race, but she plants them in soft
• 2:46:07
  blankets, kisses bruises off their face.
• 2:46:11
  She braids her daughter's tangled hair, wipes her baby's chin, whispers mama's gonna get us
• 2:46:21
  out.
• 2:46:22
  We won't go back again.
• 2:46:25
  She scans for help wanted signs, close your legs, your tree is all in spine, but they never
• 2:46:46
  see their praying.
• 2:46:48
  Please let my babies shine.
• 2:46:54
  So look again and look deeper.
• 2:46:58
  Don't stop in what you see.
• 2:47:01
  Get uncomfortable and listen to the heart behind the screams.
• 2:47:08
  Put yourself inside their shows before you cast that stone.
• 2:47:15
  Be the hand that lifts them up.
• 2:47:17
  Don't leave them alone.
• 2:47:21
  Don't be so blind and sufficed that you'll judge before you know.
• 2:47:28
  Every face has got a story.
• 2:47:31
  Every heart's been bruised by those.
• 2:47:35
  Be the whole fair reaching bug.
• 2:47:37
  When the world just turns away, you'll begin.
• 2:47:42
  Don't turn your back.
• 2:47:44
  Be that state.
• 2:47:54
  So look again, look deeper, don't stop at what you see.
• 2:48:01
  Get uncomfortable
• 2:48:33
  Wow.
• 2:48:34
  What an end today.
• 2:48:37
  That's it.
• 2:48:38
  The album is complete as they say.
• 2:48:42
  Michael, how does it feel listening to me for the first time from track one to track 15?
• 2:48:49
  What made you pick these songs or the song order the way you did?
• 2:48:54
  In order.
• 2:48:54
  Yeah.
• 2:48:56
  Because I I I'm curious to know why that song last.
• 2:49:04
  I know this sounds cliche, but I feel like my my job as a songwriter is to entertain and to
• 2:49:18
  inspire.
• 2:49:20
  But for me, it's pivotal because music has been so important to me and has really helped shape
• 2:49:29
  me.
• 2:49:30
  I wanted to end the song with a challenge and a message because I want them to know I'm here to
• 2:49:42
  have fun.
• 2:49:43
  I want people to love my music, but I also want them to know that I wanna be a pioneer or
• 2:49:50
  someone that brings change or does all that I can with the talent that I have to try to
• 2:49:59
  better us, especially in times like this.
• 2:50:02
  Yeah.
• 2:50:02
  So that's kind
• 2:50:04
  You are.
• 2:50:05
  And I and I think one thing you are, Michael.
• 2:50:09
  You're a pioneer of music, Eddie, but there's so many people who look up to you.
• 2:50:14
  There's so many people who are wowed by every note, by every song, by every what you write.
• 2:50:23
  You know?
• 2:50:24
  Everybody loves everything you do, and anyone who is covered into the music industry has only
• 2:50:32
  got to go and look at what you've done through your career, through what you're doing now if
• 2:50:38
  they want to succeed in music.
• 2:50:39
  You are you've left the legacy.
• 2:50:41
  You've already left a legacy.
• 2:50:43
  You know, I'm lucky enough to be your manager, and I'm lucky enough to write your notes on
• 2:50:49
  your career.
• 2:50:50
  You know, I don't know if this is going to be an an album and then having a break, or you're
• 2:50:56
  gonna be doing another one.
• 2:50:57
  But I tell you what, one of my sort of things I love you today, this needs to go into a book.
• 2:51:02
  This needs to go into a book.
• 2:51:04
  He's not taking a break.
• 2:51:05
  He has to write the music for somebody's song.
• 2:51:08
  Oh, god.
• 2:51:09
  Alright.
• 2:51:09
  So he still got stuff to do, but are we you know, we are now coming towards the end of the
• 2:51:14
  show.
• 2:51:14
  Michael, where are the guys reacting to this?
• 2:51:17
  What did what did Orlas think?
• 2:51:21
  I I feel blessed being in the same room with you.
• 2:51:27
  It's just such an honor to be invited for your birthday and happy birthday.
• 2:51:32
  It it was great to sit here and hear your stories for each song, and I feel blessed.
• 2:51:40
  And it that's true what AJ said that you really touch people's lives, and you really make a
• 2:51:46
  difference.
• 2:51:48
  And I feel your energy, love your voice, and I appreciate your friendship.
• 2:51:54
  Fantastic.
• 2:51:55
  You know what?
• 2:51:56
  What a lovely way to end the show.
• 2:51:58
  Jeffy's also put on here.
• 2:52:00
  We definitely have a partner.
• 2:52:01
  The power to bring such a positive change, I mean, all by your lyricism and overall
• 2:52:06
  musicianship.
• 2:52:07
  You know?
• 2:52:07
  So I think you've some beautiful signs.
• 2:52:10
  I do have to say this.
• 2:52:13
  I I've always said my my circle that of people that I call my friends are stupidly talented,
• 2:52:26
  ridiculously talented.
• 2:52:28
  Like, I they are some of the best singers, some of the best writers, some of the best artists,
• 2:52:35
  some of the best, you know, performers.
• 2:52:38
  I I have I have a universe that I get to be part of that I am constantly circled by
• 2:52:49
  greatness.
• 2:52:50
  And to to have people like Adrian, who's a songwriter and has been in the music industry
• 2:52:59
  for a long time, you know, seeing something in me and saying, I wanna manage you.
• 2:53:04
  And Orlis, who's I fell in love with from the first moment I heard Haddon and Orlys's stuff
• 2:53:11
  and just got to know her.
• 2:53:12
  Just fell in love with her.
• 2:53:15
  Ryan, we've been friends for thirteen years, and I didn't hate him.
• 2:53:18
  I just thought he was a selfish dick.
• 2:53:24
  Yep.
• 2:53:24
  I was.
• 2:53:25
  I certainly was.
• 2:53:26
  He has turned out to be a great friend, a a giving friend, a he's someone that has
• 2:53:32
  sacrificed, you know, and done a lot.
• 2:53:35
  You know, obviously, JP here, you know, something's right.
• 2:53:38
  We've been together for twenty seven years.
• 2:53:42
  So
• 2:53:44
  Like, you you haven't seen your birthday present yet?
• 2:53:47
  Oh, I've seen it before.
• 2:53:49
  Oh, wait.
• 2:53:50
  Oh, okay.
• 2:53:51
  I thought he'd bring it over Tesla May bot for you.
• 2:53:53
  Anyway, everybody, it is time to try to see.
• 2:53:57
  But if you look at the people yes.
• 2:53:59
  If you look at the people that have responded, a lot of them like, Brandywine has messaged me.
• 2:54:05
  These are people that are peers that are out there doing what I'm doing, who I respect and
• 2:54:12
  admire and love what they're doing, and I wanna support.
• 2:54:17
  So it it really just means a lot.
• 2:54:20
  This this has been a really I hope I hope this has entertained people and inspired them.
• 2:54:27
  Definitely.
• 2:54:27
  But I always get inspired when someone comes and says that what I've done means something to
• 2:54:36
  them.
• 2:54:37
  That is the greatest compliment ever.
• 2:54:39
  Well, you've given us another amazing album of which we are gonna be spending many years
• 2:54:44
  listening to.
• 2:54:45
  Okay?
• 2:54:45
  So thank you.
• 2:54:47
  You know, it's out on StreamYard now.
• 2:54:48
  It's also out on all of your social media channels.
• 2:54:51
  We will be passing it around.
• 2:54:53
  The the greatest gift that you can give Michael on his birthday is just to pass it around all
• 2:54:58
  of your socials, all of your friends, all of your radio stations.
• 2:55:02
  And, hey, you never know.
• 2:55:03
  I'm gonna end the show.
• 2:55:04
  Celine Dion may pick it up.
• 2:55:07
  Let's hope.
• 2:55:07
  For your birthday, that'll be amazing.
• 2:55:12
  That would be amazing.
• 2:55:13
  Mhmm.
• 2:55:14
  Good day, everybody, from The UK.
• 2:55:16
  Thank you very much for joining us.
• 2:55:20
  AJ, we can't end it until we hear his famous tagline.
• 2:55:26
  Oh, that we definitely have gotta do that one last time before we go.
• 2:55:30
  Let's have a birthday.
• 2:55:32
  Goodbye.
• 2:55:32
  Okay?
• 2:55:33
  Michael, go.
• 2:55:35
  Goodbye.
• 2:55:39
  See you later, everyone.
• 2:55:40
  Take care for the team, PaulTech.
• 2:55:42
  We'll see you again very soon.
• 2:55:43
  Take care.
• 2:55:44
  Bye bye.
• 2:55:44
  Take care.