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🎶 Magnus Ferrell talks what it was like growing up with a famous father... · KIIS Breakfast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kiss Breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: We have Magnus Ferrell, the son of Will Ferrell, live
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  Speaker 2: with us on Kiss Breakfast.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, mate.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm so good. How are you?
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  Speaker 4: We are good. So you're single, asleep talking, rocking the
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  Speaker 4: charts all over the world. including here in Australia, have
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  Speaker 4: you been here?
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  Speaker 5: I have not, no.
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  Speaker 4: Well, get on a bloody plane.
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  Speaker 2: No, I want to know because I always hear what Americans'
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  Speaker 2: perception of Australia is like and it's normally so wrong.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to know when you think of.
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  Speaker 2: Australia, are you one of those people that thinks there's
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  Speaker 2: kangaroos just hopping around on the street everywhere or there's
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  Speaker 2: spiders going to bite you and kill you everywhere you go?
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  Speaker 5: A little, like just a little bit. I know that's
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  Speaker 5: so wrong, but like a little bit. In the back
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  Speaker 5: of your mind, you kind of want Australia to look like.
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  Speaker 3: that with kangaroos i don't even know koalas everywhere no
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  Speaker 3: it's just not.
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  Speaker 4: A thing whereas australians we think you're all walking around
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  Speaker 4: with guns in america you got a gun on you that's.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of true though.
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  Speaker 4: Depending on where you are right you're in california yeah
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  Speaker 4: yes oh well then no right.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no. Yeah, gun laws are pretty strict here.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, dude, you could go to a Big Five and, like,
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  Speaker 3: purchase a weapon.
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  Speaker 5: That's the crazy part.
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  Speaker 1: That is mental. That is really weird to us.
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  Speaker 4: A Big Five's like a Kmart or something, right?
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  Speaker 5: It's a sporting goods show, yeah, or a sporting goods shop.
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  Speaker 1: So it'd be like they go on a, I don't know, Kmart?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, but a sporting course.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Rebel, Rebel Sport.
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  Speaker 5: Rebel Sport.
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  Speaker 4: Going to get some new sand shoes and coming home
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  Speaker 4: with a gun.
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  Speaker 1: That's mental.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: That's actually crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I want to talk about this song, Asleep Talking.
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  Speaker 2: It's a really cool vibe and it's fully just not
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  Speaker 2: what I expected when I heard.
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  Speaker 5: What did you expect?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: When I heard, like, Will Ferrell's son is a musician,
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  Speaker 2: for some reason my brain went two places, rock or opera.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the opera comes from the end of
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  Speaker 1: Step Brothers.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And I just imagined you to be really operatic. And, like,
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  Speaker 1: your dad's actually got a really good voice as well.
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  Speaker 5: But I want to know what's... He can kind of sing.
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  Speaker 5: It's kind of crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't really realise it, but I've seen all these
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  Speaker 3: clips now and I'm like, oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely he can. But I want to know, who are
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  Speaker 1: your biggest musical influences?
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  Speaker 2: Aside from your dad.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I would say I have my
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  Speaker 3: biggest musical influences. I have a long list of musical
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  Speaker 3: influences because I think there's just so many great musicians
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  Speaker 3: and so many great artists in the past that.
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  Speaker 5: are so good. Like I love Silk Sonic. I love
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  Speaker 5: Stevie Wonder.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Marvin Gaye, like Gap Band, Bobby Caldwell. I like anything
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  Speaker 5: old soul. Jamiroquai. I could go like, I could go on.
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  Speaker 3: And on and on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, how good is Jamiroquai? What happened to him?
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  Speaker 2: You know who we were talking about the other day
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  Speaker 2: on this show? Remember Mika?
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  Speaker 1: Was Mika a thing and he had like big girls,
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  Speaker 1: you are beautiful, or are you too young for this?
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  Speaker 1: Or was it not a thing?
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  Speaker 4: Grace Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: No, you know Grace Kelly because your dad, I think,
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  Speaker 2: actually sung Grace Kelly in a viral video once. with
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  Speaker 2: another famous person. Well, bring back Jamiroquai and Mika, I say.
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  Speaker 2: They're the two at the same level. You're also nominated
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  Speaker 2: for a VMA coming up for Best New Artist. How
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  Speaker 2: does that feel?
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  Speaker 3: The fact that that's a real sentence I get to
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  Speaker 3: say is crazy to me. Like every time I say it,
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  Speaker 3: it's just unbelievable. Yeah, I mean, that was like the
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  Speaker 3: cherry on top. I went with VMAs last year and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, man, I'd really love to be here.
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  Speaker 5: In consideration and here we are. So it's just bonkers. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How much can change in a year?
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  Speaker 2: Now, other people that are nominated, Miles Smith, Sienna Spiro,
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  Speaker 2: Stella Lefty, all huge names as well. If it can't
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  Speaker 2: be you that wins, which by the way, my vote
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  Speaker 2: is with you. If it can't be you that wins,
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  Speaker 2: who do you want to see win?
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, it's really hard to decide because everyone's so talented,
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  Speaker 3: but the one that has had the biggest effect on
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  Speaker 3: me is Sienna Spyro.
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  Speaker 5: Her voice is just unreal. I was lucky enough to
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  Speaker 5: see her sing a song live and I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: it just falls into that thing of, like, she's a
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  Speaker 5: real musician. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, raw talent, vulnerable sounding voice. She's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: We will be back with Magnus Ferrell after this. He
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  Speaker 4: is going to tell us what his dad, Will Ferrell,
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  Speaker 4: is really like. We'll do that next right here on Kids.
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  Speaker 4: We are back with Magnus Ferrell.
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  Speaker 2: Now, can we talk about your dad for a second?
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  Speaker 2: Because I'm sure you get sick of talking about him.
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  Speaker 2: But also what we really like about you is the
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  Speaker 2: fact that you don't shy away from... your nepo baby status. Like,
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  Speaker 2: you embrace it and you kind of just are like,
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  Speaker 2: why would I get angry about it?
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  Speaker 1: It is what it is. So is there ever been
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  Speaker 1: a moment where.
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  Speaker 2: You've sat there and wished you weren't the son of
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  Speaker 2: Will Ferrell or you've always loved that your dad was
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  Speaker 2: a huge actor who made these movies? Everyone around the
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  Speaker 2: world is quoting to this day.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think, like, I just have to acknowledge the immense
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  Speaker 3: amount of privilege I've had.
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  Speaker 5: I also... Like, I've.
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  Speaker 3: Been lucky enough to chase a dream and been lucky
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  Speaker 3: enough to do this thing full time. Like, some people
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  Speaker 3: don't even get a chance to. So, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: It's that. But, like, I also have worked incredibly hard
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  Speaker 5: to get here.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And continue to put in the work to get better
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  Speaker 3: that I believe, I don't know, it balances itself.
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  Speaker 1: No, you deserve to be where you are.
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  Speaker 2: And honestly, anyone who hears your music would go, okay,
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  Speaker 2: this isn't a situation where he's where he is because
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  Speaker 2: it's because he's a talented musician.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, obviously it's opened some doors. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to, like, deny that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You have to walk through the doorway and if the
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  Speaker 3: music was bad, which, by the way, that has happened
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  Speaker 3: before where the music wasn't ready yet.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, okay. Yeah, and so it's like that can just happen.
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  Speaker 5: You still have to make really good quality music.
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  Speaker 4: Do you get over people asking you about your dad then?
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  Speaker 4: That could get annoying at some point.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think that's kind of part of the thing.
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  Speaker 5: It's like I get to do all these things.
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  Speaker 3: I get to experience all these cool life experiences And
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  Speaker 3: all I have to do is talk about my dad
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  Speaker 3: for a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: It's not.
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  Speaker 1: Well, then I'm going to ask two more questions about
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  Speaker 1: your dad.
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  Speaker 2: First one, how old were you when you realized that
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  Speaker 2: your dad was Will Ferrell?
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  Speaker 1: As in like the celebrity, not your dad.
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  Speaker 3: I was probably like 11 or 12 when I fully
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  Speaker 3: got to see the full scope of things.
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  Speaker 1: That old?
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  Speaker 4: So when you were before that, what did you think
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  Speaker 4: dad did? Or like, yeah, that's strange that you were older.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I knew.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like, I knew he was an actor, but
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  Speaker 3: it didn't, you know, they made sure we had such
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  Speaker 3: normal upbringings that.
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  Speaker 5: you know, it didn't really strike us that he was famous.
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  Speaker 1: That's great.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm guessing as well that you're in California, LA, right?
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  Speaker 4: You'd be friends with so many other people that have
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  Speaker 4: parents that are actors or musicians or producers or it
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  Speaker 4: had just become normal.
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  Speaker 2: When we think that about California, like while I was
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  Speaker 2: asking what you think of Australia, is that the truth
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  Speaker 2: that in California it's just everyone's famous everywhere, like walking
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  Speaker 2: around or not really?
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  Speaker 5: No, it's not.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say that's true, no. Um, yeah, you see
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  Speaker 3: the occasional celebrity, I guess, but we're, you know, they're
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  Speaker 3: all just.
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  Speaker 1: A pretty normal life.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The last question on your dad is your favorite character
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  Speaker 2: that he's ever played.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. I'll leave it at that with your dad.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, yeah, I mean, probably... Ron Burgundy.
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  Speaker 3: I think Anchorman.
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  Speaker 4: Anchorman, there we go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, love it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, the Jonas Brothers are coming to Australia for the
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  Speaker 2: NFL and they're going to play, it's like a full
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  Speaker 2: NFL game that's being played in Melbourne and they're performing
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  Speaker 2: at the halftime show. Now, I know that you're lined
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  Speaker 2: up to support the Jonas Brothers on tour and I'm wondering,
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  Speaker 2: is there a way that we can also get you
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  Speaker 2: to Australia to perform the NFL halftime show in Melbourne?
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  Speaker 5: No, that'd be really fun. I mean, if we can
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  Speaker 5: make it happen, let's make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: Who do we have to speak to, Mikey? Do you
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  Speaker 1: know anyone we can make a call?
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  Speaker 5: NFL, why?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll call the head of the NFL.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, just call up Roger Goodell and see what he says.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: And that is the head of the NFL that we
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  Speaker 4: did not know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were like, who is it? Is it on
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  Speaker 1: my notes?
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  Speaker 4: Magnus' new single, Asleep Talking, is out now.
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  Speaker 1: It is so good.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone's loving it, mate. Thank you for being on the
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  Speaker 4: show and get your ass to Australia at some point,
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  Speaker 4: all right?
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate it. I will very soon.