1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: The city and with with Kate Ritchie podcast, we've got 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 1: a very talented young man in the studio with it. 3 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: His voice is one of the best that Australia has 4 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: at the moment. His latest song Therapy is out everywhere now. 5 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: He's just played the Cydney Opera House as well. Buera, Welcome, Welcome, 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: welcome to the show. 7 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:19,920 Speaker 2: I've just been reading some information about you. I didn't 8 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 2: realize that you auditioned on the Voice and no one 9 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 2: turned their chair. 10 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 3: How embarrassing. No, that's well. 11 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 2: For them exactly. And then like you just played the 12 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 2: Opera House last week. So it's just incredible how things 13 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:33,840 Speaker 2: turn out. 14 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 4: It's pretty crazy. I'm quite glad how it turned it. 15 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, he should be. 16 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:40,559 Speaker 1: How old are you, buddy, I'm twenty one, twenty one 17 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 1: years But when. 18 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:44,520 Speaker 5: You did, say twenty nineteen, I think it was where 19 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 5: nobody turned around. What were the steps then that put 20 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 5: you where you are now selling sold out shows at 21 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:53,480 Speaker 5: the Opera House. 22 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:57,279 Speaker 4: I just decided to keep singing. Yeah, that's really all 23 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 4: I do. You know. I was working at macas I 24 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 4: quit my and I just did gigs in my local 25 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 4: cafes and kept writing songs. 26 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 3: And your voice is extraordinary. Well, I practiced a lot. 27 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's how you get That's how you get 28 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:13,240 Speaker 2: good at that. If you practice this radio gig a 29 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 2: bit more, you can twelve years and I'm still warming. 30 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 3: Up the Edge Shearing thing. How did that come about? 31 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: Did you did you get told by the record company 32 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: that he's a fan of your work or how did it? 33 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 4: I'm still trying to figure out how that happened to do? 34 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 3: You know what? The best thing you can tour. 35 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 1: You can support a lot of these artists and the 36 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: majority of the time you don't get to see them. 37 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,960 Speaker 1: But Edge Shearan is a man that comes down. He 38 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: watches you play, He talks to you regularly on the tour. 39 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 3: That must have been a huge learning curve for. 40 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 4: It was pretty crazy and that took us like down 41 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:44,080 Speaker 4: and like to see how all the stage works. 42 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,559 Speaker 3: He's an amazing guy. Crazy how they put all that together? 43 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 4: And I heard he had to sign like seventy thousand 44 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 4: CDs because he was getting ready to release his album. 45 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 4: First time I met him in Brisbane, he gave us 46 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 4: like two minutes and I. 47 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 3: Was like two minutes. 48 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 4: There's a lot of time when you have to sign seventy. 49 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 3: His hand was cramped. He couldn't. Yeah, well we've got 50 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 3: fifty there outside. That'd be great. 51 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 5: But you're also you're about to go to la I think, 52 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 5: and then Paris. And what do you want to do 53 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,519 Speaker 5: in la Um? You want to go to Disneyland. 54 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 3: I'm going to go to Disneyland. Yeah, I blocked out. 55 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 4: I made sure last time I didn't get to go 56 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 4: to Disneyland, and I said, everyone, this time, I'm going 57 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 4: to Disney Saturday. 58 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 1: The Opera House. Man, congratulations, you're selling at the Opera House. 59 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,679 Speaker 1: When you get something like that, do you have friends, family? 60 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 1: They're like, we need tickets. How many tickets can you get? 61 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 4: I like tried to get as many tickets as I could. 62 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 4: I love my family that you know, like a lot 63 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 4: of them have seen missing already, so some of them 64 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 4: weren't quite They're like, are we seeing this? A hund 65 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 4: of times, like we rehearsing my grandfather's backyard. 66 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,519 Speaker 3: Do you know what we're putting you out? You're out 67 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 3: of your comfort? Sorry? Here are you? Because have you 68 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 3: wrapped before? 69 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 4: It's not really a skill that I put to practice 70 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 4: a lat but I went through a phase I was 71 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 4: like I'm just going to learn how to write raps. 72 00:02:58,480 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 4: But I'm still working on my delivery. 73 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:01,399 Speaker 3: I have a lot of practice today. I can teach 74 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,519 Speaker 3: you today. I can teach you. We're going to wipe 75 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 3: the floor with him. 76 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 4: Don't worry. 77 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 3: I'm good. 78 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 5: He's really, really good. Now you're the guest on the show. 79 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 5: So do you want to go first? Or John Meda 80 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:10,639 Speaker 5: rap first? 81 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 3: Go first? I'm a beast. 82 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 1: You got first, but versus whipper, do not go anywhere? 83 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: Wrap up of the week, his next His latest song, 84 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: Therapy is out everywhere right now. 85 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 3: But he's here for rap up the way When you 86 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 3: rap that on Friday, I don't know how much weather 87 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 3: ways later on a buffet. God, that's a deb I haven't 88 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 3: said that since Bill Short he is in the studio 89 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 3: dab in his career went down after that. You want whip? 90 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 3: You want him to rap first? Are you he can 91 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 3: go first? Okay? 92 00:03:52,640 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 5: We needed a beast to rap against, Butcherer well made. 93 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 5: I'm ready to face I'm the rap. Butcherer what my butcher? 94 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 4: He's already he. 95 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 3: Can do it. 96 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 5: We needed a beast to rap against, Butcherer well made. 97 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 3: You ready to face the rap? Butcherer. 98 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 5: Wait, I don't butcher my wraps. That'll be going downhill. 99 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 5: I meant to say I slaughtered a track with my skill. 100 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 3: Oh that was tough. That was tough. 101 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 5: We're not so different, kind of the same. You're chasing 102 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,159 Speaker 5: the big lights and I've seen some fame. If you 103 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 5: were named best Artists by Rolling Stone and I'm forty 104 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 5: three and are still sleep alone? You pat Sydney oppera 105 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 5: house lighting up vivid. I'm making jokes that leaves all 106 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,960 Speaker 5: of Sydney livin. But this rap was meant to burn you, 107 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 5: at least temporarily. But I think it'll be me that 108 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,039 Speaker 5: ends up in therapy. What you like to get a 109 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 5: call from Ed Sheeran? I bet your manager heard it. 110 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 3: He was cheering. 111 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 5: You jumped on two steps us Heaven sent while your 112 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 5: manager up He's rate to twenty percent. If you're doing duets, 113 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 5: I've got a suggestion. Do you want to singer with 114 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 5: a questionable digestion? So if you ever find ed is 115 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 5: under the weather, we can call it two steps to 116 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:18,240 Speaker 5: the fridge and perform together. 117 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:24,239 Speaker 3: Nice. 118 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 5: That's too kind? 119 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 3: Oh my god, how good was that? The whip dog 120 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 3: has landed? You've got this in the bag already. 121 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 4: It's I ride my best. That's gonna be hard. 122 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:51,919 Speaker 5: That was good, Hey, budgera two words good luck. 123 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 3: They see it. 124 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:53,479 Speaker 4: Well, it's not to see you go again. You only 125 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 4: got me in to talk about him. But I don't 126 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 4: mean no disrespect. But actually the ice from the Titanic set. 127 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 3: As a baby. 128 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 4: You really did set the bar because the first what 129 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 4: you said were European sports car. 130 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 3: Shut up school. 131 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 4: You weren't that bright. Didn't you get sixteen percent because 132 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 4: you spelled your name right? 133 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 3: The band field the bird? 134 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 4: Your IQ is low, your pretender. The only thing you 135 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 4: scored high was your blood pressure. Kate can't understand any 136 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 4: of your banter because she can't hear you while you're 137 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 4: slipping all of that phantom. 138 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:29,840 Speaker 3: Honestly, Whopper, go. 139 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 4: For a round perhaps upper cliff, go on, it'll be fun. 140 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,159 Speaker 4: Well into the ocean and make a big splash. You 141 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 4: shot help. I can only swim in cash. Some say 142 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 4: is a feeder walks into a restaurant, People shout mama 143 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 4: me every day your life is pies and fries. Someone 144 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 4: Caushakira because your chips don't live. 145 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 3: Why she did really well, like a drool. 146 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 2: It couldn't be further from a drawer a boer. 147 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 3: With this judge? When are you off to l a mate? 148 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 3: When are you leaving Saturday? Awesome over there. 149 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: Latest song Therapy is out everywhere now we really appreciate 150 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: you coming. 151 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 3: In and Wipper with Kate Richie is a Nova podcast. 152 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 4: For more great comedy shows like this, head to Nova 153 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 4: podcast dot com dot are you