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Interview: Drax Project · The Smallzy Show

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  Speaker 1: All right, we ready? Hey, what's up? We're Drax Project
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  Speaker 1: on The Smallsy Show.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen these lads in a long time back
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  Speaker 2: on the show. And for the first time at our
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  Speaker 2: new home. You like what I did with the joint?
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  Speaker 3: What a view.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: The fact you built this with your own hands through Smallsy,
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  Speaker 3: this is incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Drax Project here, everybody. Welcome, lads. Catch me up.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: We're trying to work out the last time we saw
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  Speaker 2: each other. We think it's 2019. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was in a, it was in a rundown sort
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  Speaker 1: of Hollywood shack.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That sounds real. That sounds, I believe that.
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  Speaker 1: You guys were staying there and we got a, we
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  Speaker 1: got a message from an unknown number.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was very, it was, it was a good interview and, um.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: And, um.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate the feedback. It was a positive memory for us, especially.
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  Speaker 1: That was probably the last time we were, actually that was,
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  Speaker 1: that was the last time we were in the US.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't gone back. Have we?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, I hope it wasn't anything to do with
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  Speaker 2: yours truly.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, it was nothing to do with that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that was.
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  Speaker 3: It was the.
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  Speaker 2: Drug smuggling, and that was why.
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  Speaker 1: We've had multiple talks about that shack, but.
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  Speaker 3: No, that was the last one. This is nice.
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  Speaker 1: This is way nicer. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Well... You guys.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just kidding everyone, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know, they didn't smuggle drugs whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: They were dressed in all white and it was a
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  Speaker 1: very nice house.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Now, you briefly lived here in Australia over
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But then you two have gone home because you're now dads.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask, remember, there's no wrong answer here.
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  Speaker 2: Even though you feel the pressure, because some people say,
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  Speaker 2: best thing I ever did was to become a parent.
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  Speaker 2: Is being a rock star, pop star, or a parent better?
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  Speaker 2: What's better?
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  Speaker 1: No, there's not. I think just biologically.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't. It feels.
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  Speaker 3: You can be both.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. That's what he's trying to say.
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  Speaker 1: I guess so. But there's nothing. They're just completely different things. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: It's like the highs of each are extremely high and amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The baseline of a rock star. whatever that is.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. I just never really think we were like what
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  Speaker 1: you described.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah. But also the lows.
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  Speaker 2: Pop yourself up.
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  Speaker 3: The extremes of parenthood are more extreme than a baseline.
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  Speaker 1: You think you've been sleep deprived because your flight's delayed?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, you haven't.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, is that so? Because I tell you, jet lag
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  Speaker 2: can really mess you up.
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  Speaker 1: With jet lag, you see the end. You're like, I
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  Speaker 1: know at least when I get there, I can sleep.
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  Speaker 1: But with a two-month-old, Yeah, oh, there's no sleep. You
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  Speaker 1: don't actually know when you might get a full night's sleep,
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  Speaker 1: and it might be two years. Oh, God. You don't
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  Speaker 1: know when the end is.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have kids, obviously. You can tell. So, like,
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  Speaker 2: you're not talking this up to me, right?
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  Speaker 1: There's a huge difference. But when it's good, it's literally
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  Speaker 1: impossible to explain.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then the love.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I guess you feel like you've actually contributed. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We've done something.
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  Speaker 1: It feels so good in a really happily selfish way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you're so amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm, shit, we did a good job.
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  Speaker 2: How old are they? They're only like two years old.
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  Speaker 2: They're two years old, yeah. They're going to be geniuses,
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  Speaker 2: you can already tell, right?
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  Speaker 3: I feel everyone thinks their own kid is the greatest
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  Speaker 3: human to ever exist.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you can see that, right? Because everyone also
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  Speaker 2: thinks their kid is.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Let's be real. Some babies can be ugly.
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  Speaker 3: You said it, Smallsy. No, I know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying it as the casual observer. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's weird.
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  Speaker 3: It's weird how you said that after I showed you
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  Speaker 3: my baby. But yeah, no, we've got two-year-olds. I've got
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  Speaker 3: a four-month-old as well.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm now on the double. We've doubled up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, okay.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, we've just written a song about it, actually.
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  Speaker 2: This was it. I was going to dovetail into the
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  Speaker 2: new song you've written about being dads, yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. For the first time, it's probably the first
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  Speaker 3: time we've brought in a super personal element of our
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  Speaker 3: actual real life into our... It's not work, but you
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean. It's non.
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  Speaker 1: It's like... Everything has kind of always had an element
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  Speaker 1: of fiction.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: In songwriting, for me at least. It's like never really
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  Speaker 1: super specifically personal. But this one is like no fantasy elements,
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  Speaker 1: no fiction. It's just like, yeah. This is life now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it felt really good to write.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It felt really good.
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  Speaker 2: Was it a hard decision to come to to write
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  Speaker 2: something so personal?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I wrote the original idea.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it's changed a decent amount since then. The guitar
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  Speaker 1: completely changed. We've added lyrics, added sections.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But I just showed it to everyone in our like
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  Speaker 1: group chat and everyone was like, sweet as, but Matt said,
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  Speaker 1: he was like, bro, obviously he's the other dad in
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  Speaker 1: the group. The only dad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So he's like, bro. And then like a couple of
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  Speaker 1: months passed and we were jamming and he's like, we
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  Speaker 1: just have to, can we, can we try that one?
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  Speaker 1: Can we try that one? Can we try it? He
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  Speaker 1: was a pretty big advocate of finishing the song. So yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know. It just felt really just
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  Speaker 1: like a flow of, I was bawling my eyes out crying,
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  Speaker 1: like writing the song.
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  Speaker 3: Oh really?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Like super deep for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess. Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a sad song.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not sad.
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  Speaker 3: I think parents will relate to it. It's just that
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  Speaker 3: feeling of... Just so happy. You know, people try to
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  Speaker 3: explain it all the time. There's no point even trying
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  Speaker 3: to explain it. It's just overwhelming.
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  Speaker 2: You're really making me feel like an empty vessel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: And thank you for that. I appreciate you. Cause you're
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  Speaker 2: describing something I'm not going to experience. So on that note,
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  Speaker 2: go fuck yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I think, I think I feel, I felt like there's
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  Speaker 1: a lyric. It was like, yeah, life starts to make
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  Speaker 1: a little sense. It's like, oh shit. Like maybe this
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  Speaker 1: is actually what my whole purpose in life was to
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  Speaker 1: do was to be. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: I like that. Um, are we activating dad mode? Uh,
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  Speaker 2: in the, are we, have we, are we, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think we got it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, do you hang your phone on your
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  Speaker 2: belt now?
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  Speaker 1: Matt's been dad modding for so much longer than me.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like just your general demeanor.
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  Speaker 2: Do you like just, you know, just, just shout at
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  Speaker 2: the TV more than you used to.
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  Speaker 3: Sit down more. We raise the first.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have one of those lazy boy couches? You
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  Speaker 2: just go, Hey babe, get me a beer. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm at the point where I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to be purposefully active. Because I've only got a two-year-old.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that'll change when they're a teenager.
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  Speaker 2: Have you trained them to get you snacks yet?
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  Speaker 1: Or are they not walking? No, I'm full butler mode.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, good.
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  Speaker 2: That's the one thing that is like, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: can't wait, if I do have a kid, to train it. To, like,
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  Speaker 2: take the bins out. Oh, you've got to optimize that thing. Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I'm building up so much brownie points with her. I've
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  Speaker 1: done everything for you for so long.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: The least you could do is take the bin out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and wash up and stack the dishwasher.
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  Speaker 1: She loves helping, though. They just love to help, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: They don't consider a chore as a chore. Not yet.
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  Speaker 1: Not yet. But if you start them early, apparently, it's
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  Speaker 1: just part of life.
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
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  Speaker 2: I like that. Later this year, you're going to be
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  Speaker 2: jumping on tour with Robbie Williams. Are you looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to playing those shows?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, massively.
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  Speaker 3: Two stadiums back home in New Zealand, so that's going
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  Speaker 3: to be mind-blowing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty excited. It's like Robbie Williams.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What? How did you get the call for that?
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  Speaker 1: It was like a group call with the whole band
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  Speaker 1: and the manager. And our manager, he's like, hey, we
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  Speaker 1: just got the yes.
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  Speaker 3: This has come across my desk. How do you feel
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  Speaker 3: about opening for Robbie?
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  Speaker 1: And then Matt was like, are you serious?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Matt's actually, yeah, he's a big advocate for all of
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  Speaker 1: our successes. But everyone was like, oh yeah, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Matt was like, what am I doing here? Are you
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  Speaker 1: guys taking the purse? Of course, say yes. So we're
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  Speaker 1: glad Matt has the energy.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of the first one, first kind of big
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  Speaker 3: slot since Christina Aguilera.
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  Speaker 1: Since we saw you guys at the house shack.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be cool. Christina Aguilera was a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Just for the record, it wasn't a shack.
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  Speaker 1: No, sorry, sorry.
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  Speaker 2: It was a mansion.
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  Speaker 1: Really nice.
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  Speaker 3: You can call it that if you want.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, literally since then we haven't. I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: did the New Zealand 660 stuff during COVID was, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: a big deal in New Zealand. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What's great about opening slots is that there's no real
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  Speaker 3: pressure on you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: We have 30 minutes to play. So we trim all
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  Speaker 3: the fat. It's just the songs that we like playing
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  Speaker 3: and people know, hopefully.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And we can just go hard. I love that. And
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  Speaker 3: then we're done, and then we get to watch a
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  Speaker 3: world-class act afterwards. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes try and sneak in, eat some of his catering.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Treat yourself backstage.
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  Speaker 1: The stadium catering is, I forget about it every single time.
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  Speaker 1: And then you get there, and you're like, I forgot.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. You leave with lamb shanks in your pocket. I'm
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  Speaker 3: taking this home.
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  Speaker 1: There's one time, are we talking about catering now? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we've got catering. There's one time there was this, I've
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  Speaker 1: never eaten lobster before.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But I didn't really understand. Everyone's like, lobster's so fancy
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. I was like, okay, it tastes like fish.
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  Speaker 1: But it was just, it was next level, dude. I've
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  Speaker 1: definitely eaten some of the best food of my life.
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  Speaker 1: Backstage at a stadium tour? Some sort of, At some
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  Speaker 1: sort of festival. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. Well, I hope you get the lobster
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  Speaker 2: you deserve with the Robbie tour. Congratulations on the new song.
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  Speaker 2: And let's get you back in again, right?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, I would love to. Thanks for having us. Smallsy,
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