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Interview: FIVE · The Smallzy Show

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Hi, We're five to Small on Kiss Now on the
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  Speaker 1: Smilesie Show, on the show, and I'm very excited to
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  Speaker 1: meet you boys.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie. Five is in the building, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Well, welcome Confession your debut album I bought in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety eight.
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  Speaker 2: It was my first record amazing.
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  Speaker 1: So this is less of an interview more of a
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  Speaker 1: fan interview moment. So yeah, I'm I apologize in advance
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  Speaker 1: for any fan boying or my five fans show. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much. Well, welcome to Australia, Welcome back to Australia.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen videos on social so far of Perth. They
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  Speaker 1: were out of control, the fans, they were control.
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  Speaker 3: We're very lucky to have amazing fans and they loved
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  Speaker 3: the show, so yeah, we're really proud of it as well.
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  Speaker 3: So it was good.
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  Speaker 4: It's fun.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have any from back in the nineties days
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  Speaker 1: from that the peak pandemonium of boy band crazy? Is
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  Speaker 1: there anything that stands out with like how wild the
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  Speaker 1: fans were for you here in Australia. Do we do
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  Speaker 1: any crazy things?
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  Speaker 5: The issue we've got, mate, is that we've genuinely because
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  Speaker 5: it was so crazy back in the day, we most
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  Speaker 5: of us have got kind of almost like memory loss
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  Speaker 5: of it with everything was just one blur.
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  Speaker 2: Blacked.
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  Speaker 1: You've blacked it out because the parties were too big,
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  Speaker 1: or because it was just so such.
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  Speaker 5: A crazy ride that.
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  Speaker 4: I've got one. We played Melbourne, can't remember which venue,
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  Speaker 4: and their hotel let us like the pool closed, but
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  Speaker 4: they left Melbourne.
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  Speaker 1: Have the whole.
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  Speaker 4: I bought champagne and drinks up there and we had
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  Speaker 4: like a mad pool party.
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  Speaker 5: Remember, yeah, remember I can actually see.
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  Speaker 1: The pool now do you do you remember it? Because
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  Speaker 1: did the police come or was it just a wild night?
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  Speaker 4: It was just it was one of those privileged moments
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  Speaker 4: of being in a pop band and being.
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  Speaker 2: A ladder people. Yeah, I know, I know, I believe that.
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  Speaker 4: I believe that.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that it's funny just touching on the peak
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  Speaker 1: of the fame. You would have been go, go go,
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  Speaker 1: non stop. I was joking about having, you know, blacked
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  Speaker 1: it out the memories, but there was what would have
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  Speaker 1: been so crazy you would have barely many any memories
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  Speaker 1: because every day it was just crazy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. It was eighteen hour days and every day was
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  Speaker 5: just fall from start to finish. Yeah, and you just
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  Speaker 5: get up and do it again and again and again.
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  Speaker 5: So the whole thing just rolled into one kind of
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  Speaker 5: blurry massive.
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  Speaker 3: It's been managed really well this time, you know. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I think everyone learns from from the nineties and how
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  Speaker 3: it was done.
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  Speaker 1: When you guys found fame. Social media wasn't a thing, right,
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  Speaker 1: so there wasn't everything was done the old fashioned way
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  Speaker 1: would was like get to press the flash and fly
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  Speaker 1: around the world. There you had to go to radio stations.
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  Speaker 1: There was you had video clips, but they only did
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  Speaker 1: a bit of work.
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  Speaker 2: To build a connection, you had to go to the countries.
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  Speaker 5: And that's what happened with this band as well, because
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  Speaker 5: it took off so quickly straight away, they tried to
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  Speaker 5: break us.
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  Speaker 2: All around the simultaneously.
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  Speaker 5: So we were in the States, we're over here, Australasia,
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  Speaker 5: all over Europe, South America, and then that just just
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  Speaker 5: what just broke the camel's back.
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  Speaker 4: We wouldn't know. We'd wake up on a on a
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  Speaker 4: coach and we'd actually like be squinting at road signs
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  Speaker 4: to know what continent we were on.
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  Speaker 3: I remember looking at a window and going it could
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  Speaker 3: be Japan.
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  Speaker 2: Really no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Where you were, because you also would have had people
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  Speaker 1: holding your passports for you, and you would have had
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  Speaker 1: a team around you, and you just literally shuffled from
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  Speaker 1: location to location, not being aware of where you were.
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  Speaker 1: There's a couple of stories, and forgive me, I know
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  Speaker 1: you probably would have spoken about them before, but just
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Not everyone knows them.
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  Speaker 1: Simon cow signed you guys did was what was he
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  Speaker 1: like as a boss before TV signed? As you see
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  Speaker 1: him really relentlessly, relentlessly like driving you boys on the day, then.
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  Speaker 4: It's literally the thing is with Simon we learn very
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  Speaker 4: early on that if you were if you had an idea,
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  Speaker 4: you had to make him think it was his idea
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  Speaker 4: and need to go repeat it back to you and
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  Speaker 4: you go, that's a fantastic idea.
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  Speaker 3: What he used to do in meetings, which was we got,
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  Speaker 3: you know, sort of saving to it in the end,
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  Speaker 3: was he you thought that he was just winking at
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  Speaker 3: you and you were his favorite?
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  Speaker 2: Give you that's how he made me feel proper.
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  Speaker 3: But you'd give you the wink, right And then we
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  Speaker 3: started to go anyone, did you wink at you? And
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  Speaker 3: he would wink. He would he would wink at every
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  Speaker 3: one of us without the other seeing.
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  Speaker 5: We were quite good friends with the guys from West
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  Speaker 5: Life as well, so they'd be coming in for a
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  Speaker 5: meeting after we were even or vice versa, and I'd
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  Speaker 5: walked past Brian's and then you go, how many winks
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  Speaker 5: did you get today? For the next time, seeing I
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  Speaker 5: got Tree up day?
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  Speaker 1: What was What was your relationship like with the other
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  Speaker 1: boy bands of the time, West Life, Backstreet Boys, in Sync?
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  Speaker 2: Was there a war? Was there was a competitive or
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  Speaker 2: did you There.
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  Speaker 4: Was definitely competition. We were competitive, yeah, but.
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  Speaker 3: There weren't the wars everyone said there was.
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  Speaker 2: Now tell me.
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  Speaker 1: According to Wikipedia, there is an Aston Martin story about
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  Speaker 1: a car.
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  Speaker 2: Is this true?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so I want to I want to tell it.
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  Speaker 1: You tell me where I'm wrong here. Apparently Simon Cowe
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  Speaker 1: was trying to get you Max Martin's Britney Spears Baby
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  Speaker 1: One More Time as a song for this group for you,
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  Speaker 1: and then Max wasn't sure it was right, but then
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  Speaker 1: he offered that Simon cow offered an Aston Martin as
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  Speaker 1: a gift.
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  Speaker 2: Is that the story whose.
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  Speaker 4: Stories that your mixes up? That he offered Max Martin?
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  Speaker 4: It was a really expensive Mercedes for Baby One More Time?
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  Speaker 4: But Max said, we've given it to this girl and
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  Speaker 4: the Aston Martin story. Okay, because we were actually broke.
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  Speaker 4: We'd released like everybody get up when the lights go out, slammer.
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  Speaker 4: We were on like one hundred pounds a week and
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  Speaker 4: we were really struggling, right non seriously, We've gone in
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  Speaker 4: and we'd gone, look we need some more money and
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  Speaker 4: stuff like. He was like, okay, yeah, look we'll transferred
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  Speaker 4: like a few thousand whatever blah blah blah. And then
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  Speaker 4: he comes out of the underground thing in his convertible
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  Speaker 4: Aston Martin and then he goes, hey, guys, we turn
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  Speaker 4: while we're waiting for our VANCA company goes this was
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  Speaker 4: everybody get up.
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  Speaker 1: You have one hundred pounds in your account. And then
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  Speaker 1: he drives out of the underground car park in an
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  Speaker 1: Aston Martin that your song that you had performed had
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  Speaker 1: brought him here.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but I did kind of.
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  Speaker 3: I did kind of get my own back a little
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  Speaker 3: bit in that Ester Manin because when we were doing
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  Speaker 3: when the Lights go out, he he says he needs
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  Speaker 3: to move it, and I said, I'll move it for you, Simon,
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  Speaker 3: and I literally took it over Putney Bridge and took
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  Speaker 3: off in it. Basically when I when I parked it
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  Speaker 3: back up, all the pistons were going, and he come
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  Speaker 3: out and he went, he went, he did just park
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  Speaker 3: It didn't went, Yes, Simon, Yeah, of course I did
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  Speaker 3: literally four wheels off the off the floor and then wow.
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  Speaker 1: And then the last story that I had heard, Bye
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  Speaker 1: Bye Bye.
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  Speaker 2: Which in Sync released. Did it come to you boys? First?
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  Speaker 3: It did, but it wasn't formed. That's all that they
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  Speaker 3: had at the time was the hook, which is a
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  Speaker 3: very good hook. At They had that part, and we
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  Speaker 3: were working it and writing it and Jay was doing
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  Speaker 3: like a melodic wrap over it, which because I'm ray Man,
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  Speaker 3: I remember and and quite literally we were doing it
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  Speaker 3: and it just wasn't feeling right because obviously it was
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  Speaker 3: always meant to be an end Sync song. So well, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: our kids have actually said and they shown that they
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  Speaker 3: like one of the moments that we didn't do it
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  Speaker 3: and it obviously wasn't meant to be, because it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: mean it couldn't have worked.
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  Speaker 4: It did sound like Ken Sink in the studio sound.
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  Speaker 3: I only learned very very like a couple of days
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  Speaker 3: ago or a week ago, because one of the insinct
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  Speaker 3: I think it was Joey he said that slam was
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  Speaker 3: offered to them. Oh wow, yeah, well yeah, what He's
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  Speaker 3: come out in an interview very recently said that slam
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  Speaker 3: was offered to them and they didn't take it, so
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  Speaker 3: it's meant to be had.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, no surprises here. I have tickets to
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  Speaker 1: the show tomorrow just so you know I will be there.
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  Speaker 2: I will be there. Boys. It's a pleasure to meet you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being open, thank you for being like
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess those stories you know how much
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  Speaker 1: they mean to the fans. And I appreciate you because sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I meet artists that are like, I'm not
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: telling this again for the fiftieth time, but I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate the time.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, no, thank you for being.
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  Speaker 4: Here Entertainment Center tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and then Brisbane and then Melbourne next weekend.
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  Speaker 5: And it legitimately is a banger