Speaker 1: It's unknown whether our next guest has more hit music,
Speaker 1: singles or tattoos, but it is known that he has
Speaker 1: had a lot of boats.
Speaker 2: I'm the same. We're so please.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Teddy, he swims.
Speaker 2: You know it's my house. So good.
Speaker 3: I'm paying for the next few.
Speaker 4: Ll I'm doing really good, man, I'm really happy to
Speaker 4: be here.
Speaker 2: Excited. I'm really excited.
Speaker 3: Cool, we are. We're sorry, happy to have you back
Speaker 3: in Melbourne. Last time we saw you, you played Not
Speaker 3: of His Red Room and absolutely killed it in that
Speaker 3: beautiful theater last year. Since then, Mat congrats your dad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, he's he's actually out here with us too.
Speaker 4: So it's it's such a wonderful thing they have him.
Speaker 4: It's about to be four months than tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's cool.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess maybe like the day after, because we're
Speaker 4: kind of a day ahead of but I guess it's
Speaker 4: still you know.
Speaker 3: County, So I got three boys under twelve now. So
Speaker 3: I just want to say thank you for making this
Speaker 3: interview tonight because I've gotten out of bed.
Speaker 4: Judy oh Man, well, run of rock and roll time though, Man,
Speaker 4: I bet that's it's fun.
Speaker 3: You enjoying it.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 4: I love It's he's like just now where he's you know,
Speaker 4: in the last month, and so just starting to smile
Speaker 4: and laugh. And that's kind of become my whole purpose
Speaker 4: and identity right now, trying to get in a crack
Speaker 4: no matter what I got to do.
Speaker 3: And then what about singing?
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm always singing to him. She's always singing to
Speaker 4: him too, in and we actually like it's so weird
Speaker 4: because they came on to Melbourne too, like right before
Speaker 4: I had left Brisbane, so like we we had left
Speaker 4: Sydney with them and you know, just to cut the
Speaker 4: flights in half with for them. And it was three
Speaker 4: days I was going from him and I get back
Speaker 4: with him, and it's like, it's so crazy how much
Speaker 4: changes in three days for him.
Speaker 2: Like he's like.
Speaker 4: Laying up now, and like was from the TV and
Speaker 4: we were we had this like you know, me and
Speaker 4: Race have been watching that like Monster ed Geen story
Speaker 4: thing and as soon as he looked up and got
Speaker 4: locked in on it was like we got to turn
Speaker 4: this out.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we need that kind of like
Speaker 2: stuff like that, ye put them just like every how.
Speaker 5: Does how does dad life change? Being a bit a
Speaker 5: rock star, like are you nights earlier?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 4: You know now now, I uh, I don't really and
Speaker 4: I'm happy. I'm happy about it because I don't. I
Speaker 4: don't go as hard as I did it, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm definitely like I feel like kind of a shame
Speaker 4: being like he's sometimes like hammered in front of him too.
Speaker 2: I know he doesn't. He won't remember it. It's all
Speaker 2: worse like waking up in the morning because like you
Speaker 2: have to face a hand. Yeah is different, right, God,
Speaker 2: it's just not warth it and.
Speaker 6: You wake up with the Wiggles right like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're not We're not quite there yet. So like
Speaker 4: luckily we haven't. We haven't gotten to the Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but I'll say we haven't. We're he's not watching like
Speaker 4: the Wiggles or yet.
Speaker 3: So you know what, I just realized it's gonna happen
Speaker 3: to you in a couple of years when he starts
Speaker 3: going to school. You're gonna be calm to do the
Speaker 3: performances at the school fairs and stuff and be like,
Speaker 3: come on, your kid goes to the school, Teddy can come.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I'm happy to you, you know, I'm
Speaker 4: happy to like always make everything about me, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean?
Speaker 5: Well, you did have the Wiggles on stage with you
Speaker 5: the other night. Yeah, that was the coolest thing ever
Speaker 5: that was coming you will.
Speaker 4: Then, Well, so I I like, I had reached out
Speaker 4: to them years ago, you know, when when I first
Speaker 4: started coming on Instagram, because they're they're really like my
Speaker 4: hero is growing up and always like always wanted to
Speaker 4: collab with him, and so I reached out to them
Speaker 4: like you're my heroes.
Speaker 2: I love you, like I'd love to do something one day.
Speaker 4: And and then finally right when we landed in Sydney
Speaker 4: going into like we went on to Today show before
Speaker 4: the n r L and they happened to be on
Speaker 4: the same day. So I met them in the hallway and.
Speaker 2: They were like, you want to play food Salevis And
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, yeah of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So so like we'd asked him like, did you
Speaker 4: guys want to pop out for the show, you know,
Speaker 4: one of the shows and then come do something with us,
Speaker 4: And so we did Ackabye Bear you know.
Speaker 2: Dude, we did fruits. Oh dude, it was so sick.
Speaker 4: We did this whole three song medley and the whole
Speaker 4: band was evolved.
Speaker 2: It was like the coolest thing ever that I think.
Speaker 4: It was, like, I mean I even said it afterwards
Speaker 4: like that was that was my mate it moment for me.
Speaker 2: You know, it was really playing with and I'll.
Speaker 5: Get cred with your baby when You'll be like, look
Speaker 5: good daddy did. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I hope, I hope he thinks I'm cool man.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: Really it's certainly a colab none of us saw coming.
Speaker 5: But I also want to talk about this collab with
Speaker 5: David Ghetto and Tones and I what a trio?
Speaker 4: Yeah, dude, I well, you know I've been friends with
Speaker 4: with Tones for for a couple of years now too,
Speaker 4: and I'm David as well for a couple of years.
Speaker 4: And so when he sent me the record over, I
Speaker 4: was like, yeah, no problem, I'll write a versus this
Speaker 4: in a heartbeat, you know. So we're I'm really really
Speaker 4: excited too because Tones is gonna be it's our little
Speaker 4: secret though, but she's gonna be popping out this evening
Speaker 4: and doing the song with us. I'm really really excited
Speaker 4: to have her out and we haven't seen each other
Speaker 4: in so long, so.
Speaker 2: She's got cool energy, doesn't She's the coolest man. She's
Speaker 2: the best. She's just like, you know, a superstar to.
Speaker 3: Cover it out in the back of the moment, just
Speaker 3: to keep it as surprise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's okay. I mean I think people
Speaker 2: are gonna be bombed up.
Speaker 6: But I mean she's cool. But you're obviously cool as well.
Speaker 6: You you look so comfortable always on stage in Australia.
Speaker 6: Obviously you feel comfortable here. What is it about these crowds,
Speaker 6: you know?
Speaker 4: I think that they so much appreciate when people make
Speaker 4: the trip really and also, I like this has always
Speaker 4: been the place that has cared about everything that I've
Speaker 4: ever done first before anybody else, you know, And so
Speaker 4: I just like and I think this, I always say
Speaker 4: this and everything that Like there's just like a I
Speaker 4: think Australian people believe in the inherent goodness of people,
Speaker 4: and turn everybody's just a little less jaded and a
Speaker 4: little bit more sweet and kind.
Speaker 6: Goes down south in the States totally.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think much like that, you know, I think
Speaker 2: it's so much like I.
Speaker 3: Think you come in with a similar energy, Like I
Speaker 3: remember when we meet you at the Red Room. Afterwards,
Speaker 3: we're like, it's just like to be with a mate
Speaker 3: down at the pup.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, that's how. That's yeah, that's how. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: how this whole country feels to me. Like I don't
Speaker 2: feel like I left by.
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm like I'm not that far away
Speaker 4: from home, but I'm like on the other side of
Speaker 4: the way.
Speaker 3: So you did the NRL Grand Final. Are we going
Speaker 3: to get you an a f L match?
Speaker 2: Maybe next year? Yeah, I'll be honored. I'd be happy to.
Speaker 4: That was you know, especially for for coming to Australia
Speaker 4: all the time. There's so much time with like touring
Speaker 4: out here that you're kind of flying in that day
Speaker 4: and playing the show and flying out the next days
Speaker 4: in the next city, so you don't really get to
Speaker 4: see So that was my first time actually being able
Speaker 4: to be and like I felt like the real like
Speaker 4: the culture of the whole thing and like we're it.
Speaker 2: Was just so pumped, man, it was cool. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: that's that's why people are there.
Speaker 5: Have you stayed here the whole time between the our
Speaker 5: in our ground final.
Speaker 4: Or so we we went we did christ Church in
Speaker 4: Auckland and then back and then Brisbane and now here right.
Speaker 5: Back in Melbourne. Now this might make you too squirm.
Speaker 5: I don't know, Clinton j you've seen this yet. Last
Speaker 5: time we saw you, Teddy, you just got your tiny
Speaker 5: Teddy tattoo on.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Now I know you're running out of space on
Speaker 5: your body.
Speaker 2: But did I see the baby?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, Did I see today that you.
Speaker 5: Got your arm pit?
Speaker 3: Dumb?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, this is fresh. Yeah, it's just just yesterday
Speaker 2: it happened. It's so miserable. It was the worst.
Speaker 4: But I'm running out of space and I'm trying to
Speaker 4: I'm trying to be done by the end of the year.
Speaker 6: So so that's there's a boxing kangaroo there, which.
Speaker 2: I can say is that fresh as well?
Speaker 4: That one was a couple of days ago. That was
Speaker 4: when we were still Sydney. So Lauren Windsdor did what
Speaker 4: should do my tiny Teddy?
Speaker 2: My little box?
Speaker 4: And is the arm pit?
Speaker 6: That?
Speaker 4: This is by Jessica Rebel too. She's actually here right
Speaker 4: now as well, so she's.
Speaker 5: Like she's a melbourneirl, right, she doesn't fine line tattoos.
Speaker 3: Man, what's left to do there?
Speaker 2: I know, I think I'm gonna not do that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: but I didn't. I try to just leave that floating
Speaker 2: and to see if tattoos, you.
Speaker 4: Know, say what's up? Plus if I got it done,
Speaker 4: it'd be a whole more more like riding high than hello.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I guess the depends on the moon.
Speaker 5: Do you have a favorite or have you kept count?
Speaker 5: You know how many of you know?
Speaker 4: I feel like though, if I had to say like
Speaker 4: a percentage of body, I would probably say I'm about
Speaker 4: ninety percent.
Speaker 5: Come, do you have a favorite?
Speaker 4: This one right here is my my best pal Derek.
Speaker 4: He's done like a lot of my tattoos. And we
Speaker 4: did a lot of first together as he was coming up,
Speaker 4: and he used to be afraid to do portraits, and
Speaker 4: so a few years ago I was like, well, look, man,
Speaker 4: why don't you do a portrait of yourself on me.
Speaker 4: You're not gonna make yourself look stupid on your best friend,
Speaker 4: you know, so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then then he nailed it. And then now.
Speaker 4: He's like done a Dave Chappelle tattoo on me, and
Speaker 4: he just kills portraits now, and it's it's it's he's
Speaker 4: he's grown so much.
Speaker 3: And so you actually are there. Sorry if you guys know, Teddy,
Speaker 3: actually you tattooed to mind him on in New Zealand
Speaker 3: the other wake Maddy drink. Yeah, yeah, tattoo, he's clean skin.
Speaker 3: Do you travel with the tataro just to catch.
Speaker 4: A lot of times we do, because so many times
Speaker 4: like we like, especially as I've gotten like filler gap,
Speaker 4: I've been just handing the machine to my my all
Speaker 4: my buddies and yeah, they're just signing me and stuff
Speaker 4: and drawing a little pictures.
Speaker 3: And the airport and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's been.
Speaker 4: It's been fun to like Also, like in therapy, they
Speaker 4: said I should have a hobby, you know, outside of this,
Speaker 4: and I yes, I was like I was enjoying like
Speaker 4: just doodling on people and having fun. And so many
Speaker 4: times too, like right before my son was born, I
Speaker 4: was trying to take a couple of months off the
Speaker 4: booze and and so we'd always have like you know
Speaker 4: kind of party after the show in the green room
Speaker 4: and stuff, and there's so many people. So I was like, well,
Speaker 4: instead of like fighting like fighting the urge of drink,
Speaker 4: I could just pull the tattoo machine out and all
Speaker 4: the drunks would just let me tattoo them.
Speaker 2: You know, my hands busy, you know.
Speaker 6: I did go to that cocktail bar opening and got
Speaker 6: a tattoo. Remember yeah, yeah, Mine's not like.
Speaker 3: It was a compass.
Speaker 2: They were great.
Speaker 3: That's remember I got tatted. We're sick what you get
Speaker 3: a because now that I'm fraid.
Speaker 2: The PA, that's the way to get him, man, that's
Speaker 2: the way to get him. It's the best way to
Speaker 2: get tattoos. I think. I think it's more about like
Speaker 2: the memory and the and the time of it. And
Speaker 2: I didn't forget it.
Speaker 5: Do you know any that you regret though, Because when
Speaker 5: you're letting people put their names on your body, have
Speaker 5: you had a falling out with anyone and you've gone out.
Speaker 2: To change to something else.
Speaker 4: When I was sixteen, I got my first tattoo, and
Speaker 4: I was so like you, it was you first. So
Speaker 4: I got it covered up when I was you know,
Speaker 4: maybe nineteen or so. But it was a cross and
Speaker 4: with my last name in it. And then I had
Speaker 4: another banner that said established nineteen ninety two and it
Speaker 4: was such a cheesy tattoo that I was like, I
Speaker 4: just needed it. I wanted a tattoo so bad. And
Speaker 4: so I not that I'm the guy to take tattoo
Speaker 4: advice from, but I would say just maybe like, don't
Speaker 4: let sixteen year olds make a lifelong decisions. You know,
Speaker 4: by the time I was eighteen, I was a completely
Speaker 4: different person. So I was like, maybe maybe like decide.
Speaker 4: I feel like I feel like we were talking to
Speaker 4: I was talking to my engineer the other day and
Speaker 4: he was like, you know, his kids are like sixteen fourteen.
Speaker 4: He's like, you know when Rambow gets older, Like, what
Speaker 4: what do you think, Like you would like, what do
Speaker 4: you think it's an acceptable time for him to start
Speaker 4: getting tattoos?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I was like, I was like, well, I would just
Speaker 4: make sure that he like is sure about what he
Speaker 4: wants to do or doesn't like put way too much
Speaker 4: thought into it and the end up hating it, you know,
Speaker 4: just like make sure he's like ready, yeah, ready for
Speaker 4: you know, and like fourteen or anything like that. But
Speaker 4: I was like, I got one at sixteen, Maybe I
Speaker 4: would be okay with myself one at sixteen.
Speaker 2: But I don't.
Speaker 6: Know many getting any inspiration learn I mean, any of
Speaker 6: you regret.
Speaker 5: That lots of people have tattoos with that regret, but
Speaker 5: it tells the story.
Speaker 2: It's all about the fun.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 4: I'll try not to put too much thought into it.
Speaker 4: You know, just go for things that are funny or
Speaker 4: are good or you know.
Speaker 5: No, I was just gonna say, Australia is a second
Speaker 5: home to you. Now I've heard you say that before.
Speaker 5: You love it here, it feels like home. Would you
Speaker 5: ever spend a lot, a large chunk of time here.
Speaker 5: I know there's a lot of musicians who come out
Speaker 5: and write and go and sit and by and by
Speaker 5: spends six months.
Speaker 2: I would love to.
Speaker 4: And you know, I'm also my my my dog, Matt Krbie,
Speaker 4: Like I've been listening to him. He's one of my
Speaker 4: favorite artists in the world. I've been listening to him forever.
Speaker 4: And so he's on the store with and we've been
Speaker 4: spending every night together. Just been like we gotta we
Speaker 4: got to get together. And you know, do do a
Speaker 4: bunch of stuff. So I plan on I would. I
Speaker 4: would really buy a place here.
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 4: I would be like maybe I love Melbourne, I really do.
Speaker 4: And and my sweet friend Tash is always out here.
Speaker 4: We're supposed to be trying to work together as well.
Speaker 4: So like you know, there's there's so many people that
Speaker 4: I love and would love to work with tones more,
Speaker 4: and so I would.
Speaker 2: I think I would really do.
Speaker 4: I would. I would, I would move, but like also,
Speaker 4: you know, try to have a place back home too,
Speaker 4: because obviously, just like the grandson away from everybody's.
Speaker 5: Grandparents would not be had. You can't take a baby
Speaker 5: away from grab Ben's a lie.
Speaker 2: I do I love it here? I would?
Speaker 4: I would, I would. I would eventually get a place here.
Speaker 4: I think would be like.
Speaker 6: Just quickly, where do you go for your like inspiration,
Speaker 6: be it writing, you know, playing to relax, where's your
Speaker 6: sort of your comfort spot.
Speaker 4: We always try to go what I've found, Like so
Speaker 4: a lot of times with writing, I mean we're even
Speaker 4: writing right now, was in the green rooms. But a
Speaker 4: lot of times I feel like the best success for
Speaker 4: us has been it's like, well we'll go away and
Speaker 4: do like writing camps, you know. So we try to
Speaker 4: take like usually maybe eight of us and set up
Speaker 4: like two rooms and like we'll get a big Airbnb.
Speaker 4: And sometimes there's been Palm Springs, or we went to
Speaker 4: the Smoky Mountains earlier this year, back in like February,
Speaker 4: and we try to go into somewhere like where we're
Speaker 4: just kind of trapped in a home in the middle
Speaker 4: of nowhere and we have somebody come and cook and
Speaker 4: we just lock in together and just you know, five
Speaker 4: days and just like all work and work and work
Speaker 4: and work, and you know, you can spend out twenty
Speaker 4: songs and yeah that span of five days, but we're
Speaker 4: just all locked in this little hole together.
Speaker 2: So you caught off from the world.
Speaker 6: If you're at camping, you just got that one lyric
Speaker 6: and A do you do you plug it into AI?
Speaker 2: Do you pug it into jet chat GP.
Speaker 4: T No, we but I would say that there is
Speaker 4: there's been times that we have used it and when
Speaker 4: the best ways too, so like sometimes maybe it is
Speaker 4: like we're trying to figure out if it's a if
Speaker 4: it's an end or a butt or so or you know,
Speaker 4: like and there's been times where I've been like, so
Speaker 4: one of these songs is getting across the line and
Speaker 4: maybe I'm here in Australia and Julian will call me,
Speaker 4: and you know, I used to be like, hey, can
Speaker 4: we try and or butt on this, you know, and
Speaker 4: then I'd have to go to a studio or like
Speaker 4: plug in and do this line a hundred times. And
Speaker 4: now he's actually like, I think it was one on
Speaker 4: my song funeral.
Speaker 2: Uh he changed a word.
Speaker 4: I can't remember exactly what the word is unless I
Speaker 4: was looking at him right now, but he had changed
Speaker 4: like it was like it was something as simple as
Speaker 4: like an end or in a butt, and he just
Speaker 4: like went and just like punched it in the word
Speaker 4: and then like threw my an ai of my voice
Speaker 4: over it. And then that's that saved me from having
Speaker 4: to go spend a bunch of money on the studio
Speaker 4: and spend hours at a time. So we've we've used
Speaker 4: it for wonderful things like that, which has been like
Speaker 4: I think, I think it can be very helpful in
Speaker 4: a lot of ways, but I think it can also
Speaker 4: be dangerous a lot of ways too.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm not going to say like a hologram
Speaker 3: feeling and if you're too hung to perform or anything.
Speaker 6: I think that's awesome for good you and.
Speaker 3: Teddy, welcome back to Australia.
Speaker 2: Mate.
Speaker 3: We love having you in Melbourne and any any time,
Speaker 3: I think we'd be happy to have you here living
Speaker 3: here anytime, with open arms. Good on your mate, Good
Speaker 3: to see.
Speaker 2: You too, guys. Good luck tonight. I can't wait to
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