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Interview: Bebe Rexha · The Smallzy Show

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  Speaker 1: A small show, A smallsy show.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, our guest, she's on live from LA and
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  Speaker 2: she has that collapse with David Ghetta, Louis Tomlinson, Martin
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  Speaker 2: Garrick's Nicki Mina eminem as well.
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  Speaker 3: It's bb REXA.
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  Speaker 4: This is bb REXA, the music film, the music Religion
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  Speaker 4: on the Smallsy Show.
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  Speaker 3: Bb rex A. Queen.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, you don't know how much I have missed you.
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  Speaker 2: It is so wonderful to see you.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to see you. Hopefully we'll see each other
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  Speaker 1: in person again.
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  Speaker 3: I hope. So too quick update for you.
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  Speaker 2: I changed radio stations since the last time I saw you,
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  Speaker 2: So welcome to my new home at iHeart here in Australia.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing, I know, and.
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  Speaker 2: Look at you your back. New Religion is a bop. Congratulations,
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  Speaker 2: capital b op, capital B capital capital P exclamation mark.
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  Speaker 1: We like to hear.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, catch me up, Coan. What's been going on since
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  Speaker 2: I saw you last? It's been a while.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. I'm now an independent artist. My album
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  Speaker 1: Dirty Blonde, it's gonna be my first release as an
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  Speaker 1: independent artist. New Religion is out. It's feeling really amazing
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  Speaker 1: about to leave La to go tour Europe and now
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's that's so much to unpack. Their independent artists. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have any doubt that you were gonna do
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  Speaker 2: it on your own? I guess because when you have
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  Speaker 2: been an artist, maybe you've been on a major record label,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes it can be a bit daunting, right of course.
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  Speaker 1: Because you're kind of you kind of grow up on
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  Speaker 1: seeing the major system and you know, you don't know
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  Speaker 1: where you're gonna go from there, and when you're independent,
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  Speaker 1: you know what. But I'm like happy I'm independent because
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  Speaker 1: the team I'm with right now, everybody like really believes
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  Speaker 1: in me and is like really uplifting. And that's that's
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  Speaker 1: the most important thing. I think. It's about being with
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  Speaker 1: people that like see and understand and believe in your vision.
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  Speaker 3: And more money too, right for yourself, you keep more of.
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  Speaker 1: It if it does well.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And it's doing very well, and the song New
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  Speaker 2: Religion is doing very well and the album is coming
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  Speaker 2: out on June twelve. Dirty Blonde, Is that your natural
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  Speaker 2: hair color? Or are you not a natural?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: You see the roots coming in there. Yeah, I'm actually
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  Speaker 1: a brunette. Yeah real, but I died my you know,
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  Speaker 1: I dyed my hair one day. I was like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to dye my bleach bleached blonde, make my hair
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  Speaker 1: bleach blonde, excuse me? And everybody's like no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, no, I'm definitely doing that. And
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  Speaker 1: I just did that, and I just like, I want
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  Speaker 1: to dye of blonde.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, is that how you want to go out
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  Speaker 2: being blonde?
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  Speaker 1: Hope they can, like, you know, make sure I'm completely
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  Speaker 1: platinum blonde.
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  Speaker 2: When you're laying in the casket on you on your
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  Speaker 2: final rest, you want me roots, have the roots touched out,
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  Speaker 2: the completely platinum, make me look like this exactly. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I knew the album was called Dirty Blonde, so I
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  Speaker 2: thought I would find out what I would look like
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  Speaker 2: because you know, I don't know if you know this,
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  Speaker 2: but some guys when they bleach their hair, they'll do
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  Speaker 2: like a buzz cut and that's yeah, and I, well,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't go completely dirty blonde with my hair.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it'd be it look strange.
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  Speaker 2: So I got chat GPT to find out what I
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  Speaker 2: would look like with a buzz cut blonde.
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  Speaker 3: Are you ready to be Are you ready to be horrified?
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  Speaker 3: Because it's yeah. The buzz cut and the blonde.
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  Speaker 1: I actually love it. I actually really like it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I can pull that off, but.
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  Speaker 1: I actually really like it. I think it looks pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Now I have great hair.
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  Speaker 1: You have great hair. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I know you're a liar.
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  Speaker 2: Now I know you're actually looks really good.
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  Speaker 3: It's very kind. You said you're in LA.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yes, I have to ask slightly political question because
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  Speaker 2: I do pay attention to the LA mayoral race that's
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  Speaker 2: going on.
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  Speaker 3: The LA mayor race is going on at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: And I know what the question is going to be.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Okay, So for people who don't know, alumni
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  Speaker 2: Star of the Hills, Spencer Pratt is running for mayor
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  Speaker 2: of LA. He's going up against Karen Bass, the current
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  Speaker 2: mayor of LA. Spencer and a lot of people in
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  Speaker 2: LA tend to think that they that Karen let their
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  Speaker 2: houses burn down in the Palisades, so there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of anger towards her. A lot of people are supporting
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  Speaker 2: Spencer as an LA resident. Are you voting in this
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  Speaker 2: coming mayor? Upcoming mayoral race.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like to get political. I don't like to
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  Speaker 1: go into politics, but I will say that I have
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  Speaker 1: been watching a lot of the debates and they are
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  Speaker 1: very entertaining, like very entertaining, a little too entertaining. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's some things. Look, I never thought there
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  Speaker 1: are certain things. I'm like, I never thought in my
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  Speaker 1: you know, my Bengal card, that I would be agreeing
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  Speaker 1: to some of the things that he's saying.
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  Speaker 2: No, I can, I can I say the same thing
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  Speaker 2: because obviously, uh, And I'm going to choose my words
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  Speaker 2: carefully because I don't like to delve into politics either.
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  Speaker 2: But Karen Bass doesn't really care for voter id laws.
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  Speaker 2: I've actually thought about flying to LA just to vote
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  Speaker 2: in the mayor or race because I think Spencer has
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  Speaker 2: some great policies that could change LA for the better,
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  Speaker 2: because I love coming to La.
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  Speaker 1: Are you sire? Are you joking? Are you being serious?
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little bit joking, but also I'm just trying
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  Speaker 2: to highlight the craziness.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like you're fifth. I feel like every joke
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  Speaker 1: is half true, half true.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't want to get into a homelessness is I think
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  Speaker 1: is a big thing here, and it does lead to
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of it's a really tough
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  Speaker 1: issue and it gets really intense, and really there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot to it. So that's like I wish we could
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  Speaker 1: fix out here, but that's not Let's not get into
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  Speaker 1: that right now.
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  Speaker 3: Let's not.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just let's promote primo your songs. Let's keep it
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  Speaker 2: all just top topic, just keep it all lot, Let's
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  Speaker 2: just keep it all light.
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  Speaker 3: Let's give it all light. I want to ask you
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  Speaker 3: a serious question.
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  Speaker 2: Though people who have followed your music, followed your career,
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  Speaker 2: you've been very open about like sometimes the trolling has
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  Speaker 2: been very intense. I get trolled as well, no doubt
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  Speaker 2: after that question will get trolled. How do you handle it?
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  Speaker 2: You make a joke, but you know, does it sometimes
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  Speaker 2: sting or have you sort of built a tough exteria
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  Speaker 2: that you tried to not let it get to you.
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  Speaker 1: The way I would explain it is, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: people play guitar and they get these calluses on their hands, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know you kind of pul like a heavy scar
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  Speaker 1: tissue on your hand on your fingers. That's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like a muscle that you have to build as well,
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  Speaker 1: because after a certain time, people could tell you anything
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  Speaker 1: about you and there's very few things that actually bother me.
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  Speaker 1: It's like when they bring in my family or stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that, then they get like upset. But they could
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  Speaker 1: talk about anything about me and they could say whatever
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  Speaker 1: they want, and I'm like, okay, like really I've read everything,
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  Speaker 1: seen everything. And that's why sometimes if I'm in the
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  Speaker 1: mood and I wake up one day and I'm feeling
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  Speaker 1: a little you know, spicy or whatever, fight, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: will literally just I'm like, should I go on Twitter
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  Speaker 1: on X sorry on X? Should I go with crazy?
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  Speaker 1: Or should I just lay low? But I know the
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  Speaker 1: right pop star thing to do is not say anything.
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  Speaker 1: But sometimes I just like, I like it's fun. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's like they could have fun. I could
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  Speaker 1: have fun. Let's like, let's go at each other for
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  Speaker 1: a bit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think there's a obviously you would know about
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  Speaker 2: this video for people who don't know, you did that
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  Speaker 2: video where you were running on the treademill and then
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  Speaker 2: you're I'm gonna play I'll have to play a clipie
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  Speaker 2: because it's very it's very funny.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here at the Key Asylum. He said, I can't
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  Speaker 1: stop until those thirty pounds it's too fat or I
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  Speaker 1: have a hit song.
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  Speaker 2: So that's you running on a treade meal with the wise,
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  Speaker 2: trying to sign that. The record company won't.
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  Speaker 3: Let you add six and shiels, Yeah, sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: Chiels because she's always committed to the craft. They won't
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  Speaker 2: let you out of the Kia Asylum. The Keya Asylum, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: is a penitentiary where where they put women female pop
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  Speaker 2: stars who the Internet has said is not how to
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  Speaker 2: hit in a while, you're out.
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  Speaker 3: Just so you know you're out. You're out.
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  Speaker 2: You're so far out, you've broken free. Happy days for
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  Speaker 2: you for now, for now?
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  Speaker 1: Who knows, right? Yeah, but it's funny. I you know,
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  Speaker 1: I saw that online. I was like, let me play
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  Speaker 1: it on the joke because I feel like in life,
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  Speaker 1: if you just take yourself too seriously, it's like boring.
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  Speaker 1: I like playing joke. There's nothing that somebody could tell
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  Speaker 1: me that I don't know about myself or what. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: it's been like six years all the stuff has been
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  Speaker 1: going on in the world. Yeah, now your girl's backing
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  Speaker 1: at it, you know, ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we love it, We love having you back. I
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  Speaker 3: love that. Are you going to come to Australia. We
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  Speaker 3: would love to have you here.
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  Speaker 1: I was actually just talking to somebody and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: we were just talking about the coffee and how I
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  Speaker 1: feel like Australia has some of the has the best
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  Speaker 1: coffee in the world. I'm like a coffee yack. I
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  Speaker 1: do want to come back, I really really do. It's
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  Speaker 1: just like I gotta make my way there.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta we'll pitching.
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  Speaker 1: Is the flight is. You know, we got to figure
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  Speaker 1: all that, all that out, but one hundred percent I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna come. It's like I'm never coming. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be there for.
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  Speaker 2: Sure because you've done a lot of collapse with all
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  Speaker 2: the aussiotists in your time, and so it would only
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  Speaker 2: be fair.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, oh yes, oh yes I have.
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  Speaker 3: We love you baby, thanks for being on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Smallsie. I hope in the next year so we
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  Speaker 1: can do this in person. No, absolutely, it's so much
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  Speaker 1: better in person.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm coming to a light about for Spencer Pratt,
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  Speaker 2: so I'll see you there.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see you. Have an extra I have an extra
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  Speaker 1: better right here.
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  Speaker 3: Love you, love you quaint, don't sir.
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