Speaker 1: Loud and Quiet Presents Midnight Chats.
Speaker 2: That's right, everybody, it's close to one am and it's
Speaker 2: edging into the witching hour. So buckle down, you midnight campers,
Speaker 2: and open the windows and get ready, get ready.
Speaker 3: For Midnight to bring you a psychic gift.
Speaker 4: God bless Ryan Adams. He was our first guest on
Speaker 4: the podcast this year, and we just felt we had
Speaker 4: to play that again. This episode of the podcast is
Speaker 4: what some might consider a lazy one. I'm here with Greg,
Speaker 4: I'm Stuart And if you've listened to the podcast throughout
Speaker 4: the whole year, you'll know all the people that we've
Speaker 4: had on this year. But if you haven't, then you've
Speaker 4: missed some really good stuff. I feel and I don't
Speaker 4: know where you've been. Do you feel good about twenty seventeen? Greg,
Speaker 4: It's the year that Jemma Collins fell down a hole.
Speaker 5: Absolutely highlight, wasn't it. Yeah, That's what I'll probably remember
Speaker 5: twenty seventeen four. To be honest, Jimmer Collins falling down
Speaker 5: a hole. I'm taking the Yeah, I'm taking all the
Speaker 5: positives out of this year, feeling it wasn't as bad
Speaker 5: as twenty sixteen, was it?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: But in a way, I feel it lost a lot
Speaker 4: of the drama. I feel it lacked something this year.
Speaker 5: What we're going to do, as Student's already said, we've
Speaker 5: had the highly original idea of putting together some of
Speaker 5: our favorite moments from this year. So you're going to
Speaker 5: hear small parts of the conversations that we've recorded for
Speaker 5: Midnight Chats from the last twelve months. Hopefully, if you're
Speaker 5: listening for the first time, it will give you a
Speaker 5: bit of an idea about what we do. We publish
Speaker 5: a new podcast every fortnight on a Thursday at midnight,
Speaker 5: and the whole idea is that either stew or I
Speaker 5: sit down with an artist somebody who we think will
Speaker 5: have something interesting to say, and we have a conversation
Speaker 5: and generally it has a sort of late night feel.
Speaker 5: That's why it's called Midnight Chats.
Speaker 4: We've had some.
Speaker 5: Brilliant people on this year, and we're going to play
Speaker 5: out some of the best bits.
Speaker 4: As they say, yeah, so we've kind of because we
Speaker 4: know that there will be some people that subscribe to
Speaker 4: the podcast and maybe listen to the most recent ones
Speaker 4: quite recently, we've not chosen them. That's not to say
Speaker 4: they weren't great. I particularly loved talking to Wesley Gonzalez
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago for the podcast. Before that,
Speaker 4: Charlotte Gainsburg. They would have been in my highlights if
Speaker 4: they've been earlier in the year, but we feel we
Speaker 4: should kind of call back to the beginning of the year.
Speaker 4: Maybe people missed that Ryan Adams bit, so that's why
Speaker 4: that's in there. The first one I'm going to pick.
Speaker 4: So we've picked a couple about our own favorites, because,
Speaker 4: as Greg says, we take turns doing these interviews. The
Speaker 4: first one she goes straight for this. Now ready for this? Okay,
Speaker 4: So the first one that I picked. This is a
Speaker 4: short clip. This is the shortest clip I've picked, and
Speaker 4: this is Laura Marlin I spoke to in February for
Speaker 4: number nineteen, episode nineteen, So you can go back and
Speaker 4: listen to the whole thing if this grabs you. This
Speaker 4: is Laura talking about why she doesn't tour that much
Speaker 4: and the fact that she has recently got into making cheese.
Speaker 7: Well, right now, I've just got into making cheese.
Speaker 8: That's fun, Okay.
Speaker 7: I've been making Halloomi and we're trying to get Halluomi.
Speaker 4: Down Hallumy's my favorite cheese.
Speaker 7: It's it's the greatest cheese.
Speaker 4: It's the best cheese.
Speaker 7: So it's kind of not cheese.
Speaker 4: I think when people say halloo is the greatest cheese
Speaker 4: that I think that's quite You're not meant to say that,
Speaker 4: are you not?
Speaker 7: To the French.
Speaker 4: No, it's quite sacrilege just to say that is the
Speaker 4: best cheese, but it is. Would I be right in
Speaker 4: thinking that you don't tour that much?
Speaker 7: I don't in comparison to most people. I tour very
Speaker 7: very little. I like to be busy all the time,
Speaker 7: not necessarily doing work, but like I am either reading
Speaker 7: or knitting or you know, I'm not saying it's high
Speaker 7: brow shit. I'm always doing stuff. But what I find
Speaker 7: with tour is that it's a lot of empty time.
Speaker 7: It's a very inefficient use of a day, in my opinion.
Speaker 7: And so you know, one can do whatever one can,
Speaker 7: like go and see galleries or you know, get a
Speaker 7: sense of the local stuff. But I've done it, and
Speaker 7: so I've seen all the gallery you know, I can
Speaker 7: go back whatever. But yeah, so there's bits of it
Speaker 7: I find a little bit tough, and I like to
Speaker 7: be at home and I don't like to feel like
Speaker 7: I'm a slave to my career and some you know,
Speaker 7: a lot of more sensible people than I do go
Speaker 7: out and tool their bolocks off because that's how you
Speaker 7: sustain a career. And I'm just about managing to do
Speaker 7: that without doing all the touring.
Speaker 4: And you've got the cheese, Now, what is that?
Speaker 7: You know, there's a huge gap in the Halloomi market
Speaker 7: in London and I'm ready to step in.
Speaker 5: Did you come away from that episode of Midnight Chats
Speaker 5: with any of Laura Marlin's cheese?
Speaker 4: No, she didn't bring any of the cheese with her.
Speaker 4: That was a really fun one to do. I felt
Speaker 4: quite privileged that we got Laura Marlin because she doesn't
Speaker 4: do much as well as touring, she doesn't do much press,
Speaker 4: and she doesn't do many interviews, so it was it
Speaker 4: was nice that she that she came on and she's
Speaker 4: got one of those voices that you could as you
Speaker 4: can hear from that we're pretty much talking a load
Speaker 4: of bollocks for most of it about really, I mean,
Speaker 4: that's what this podcast essentially has become. That's when I
Speaker 4: feel it's that it's best Greg when we're talking about nonsense.
Speaker 4: We have chat about I mean, go back and listen
Speaker 4: to that. I recommend it to anyone if you missed it,
Speaker 4: because we also talk about Amazon and why I think
Speaker 4: it's evil. And Laura and Marlin also has a fixation
Speaker 4: with the year nineteen sixty nine, Yeah, and has collected
Speaker 4: she collects memorabilia from nineteen sixteen and I think she's
Speaker 4: stopped that now, but we talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 4: So there's loads in there, but no no cheese.
Speaker 5: Presumably if you're listening to this, it means you're a
Speaker 5: fan of podcasts. And Laura and Marlin has a really
Speaker 5: good podcast series that she made probably about eighteen months
Speaker 5: ago now, which is why we wanted to get her on.
Speaker 5: So that's called Reversal of the Muse. Yeah, and she
Speaker 5: went out and spoke to lots of other female artists,
Speaker 5: women working in the music industry to get their perspective
Speaker 5: on things. It was really inventive and really interesting.
Speaker 4: So if you.
Speaker 5: Are a fan of podcasts, which you obviously are because
Speaker 5: you're listening to this, then check out Laura Marlins as well.
Speaker 4: I think it's on her SoundCloud. Okay, okay, and get
Speaker 4: it all there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, A sign that we are starting to build a archive,
Speaker 5: a catalog of Midnight Chats for me came in this
Speaker 5: sort of early summer of this year when I went
Speaker 5: to go and meet Thundercat. You know that guy, the
Speaker 5: bass wielding California.
Speaker 4: Dude, the jazz man, jazzy boy.
Speaker 5: He's one of the is. You could definitely call him
Speaker 5: a dude. He's got an order about him and he's
Speaker 5: got an impressive selection of garments. I mean he looked
Speaker 5: on stage. He often wears what looks like a kind
Speaker 5: of really nice dressing gown. You know, he's a man
Speaker 5: who smells good and wears great clothes. Anyway, I was
Speaker 5: looking forward to meeting him, and the sign that we've
Speaker 5: made lots of these episodes of the podcast now came
Speaker 5: there because Thundercat's really good mates with Flying Lotus, and
Speaker 5: in the middle of last year we recorded an episode
Speaker 5: of Midnight Chats with Flying Lotus in an old cinema
Speaker 5: in central London because he was screening a film called Royal,
Speaker 5: which went on to form part of another bigger feature
Speaker 5: length film that Fly Notse made called Cuso, which came
Speaker 5: out this year twenty seventeen. Anyway, Flying Lotus and Thundercat.
Speaker 5: When they're back home in Los Angeles, they hang out,
Speaker 5: they play video games, they stroke Thundercat's cat called Tron,
Speaker 5: which he talked about in this podcast as well. And
Speaker 5: so when I caught up with Thundercat, I wanted to
Speaker 5: ask him what he made of that film Cuso, because
Speaker 5: to be honest, every time I think about it, we'll
Speaker 5: talk about it. I cannot begin to describe just how
Speaker 5: gross and dark and weird and warped. I've never seen
Speaker 5: anything like that movie. So I basically wanted Thundercat to
Speaker 5: do my job for me, and I asked him if
Speaker 5: he could describe it.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Yeah, I don't even know.
Speaker 8: I don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a figured one, man. I honestly, you know,
Speaker 3: kind of threw me off there. I don't know how
Speaker 3: to describe that movie. It's just really intense.
Speaker 5: He was saying that he's I mean so to feel
Speaker 5: people in and you've known each other probably about a
Speaker 5: decade or more, and that he's always wanted to make
Speaker 5: films as well as the Yeah, he's been kind of
Speaker 5: working on So how long have you, I mean, as
Speaker 5: sure as a kind of close native is have you
Speaker 5: been talking about the ideas and have been talking about
Speaker 5: this stuff that's coming to fruition now, but I bet
Speaker 5: it's gone back to conversations for years now.
Speaker 3: Right man. It's mind blowing to see it coming to fruition.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, there were moments where, of course,
Speaker 3: you know, I know, you know Lotus's history with you know,
Speaker 3: film and stuff like that, and everything from that to
Speaker 3: him rapping his Captain Murphy was always a shock to me.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: It was kind of like a little bit of a
Speaker 3: different facet of his character that he would never let on,
Speaker 3: you know, like you would never have known, You're like,
Speaker 3: no way, you know, And to see his first film,
Speaker 3: it's like it's fantastic. It honestly is. It's like, you know,
Speaker 3: we would talk every now and again about it, you know,
Speaker 3: and I feel like his uh, he influenced me in
Speaker 3: that manner a bit, because it's like I was a
Speaker 3: bit of a film buff, but not until I met Lotus,
Speaker 3: that dude. You know, he knows his film and to
Speaker 3: a major degree. It's like if it would affect me
Speaker 3: to you know, to to the way I would write
Speaker 3: music and stuff too. But at the same time, it's
Speaker 3: like I would have never thought that he would actually,
Speaker 3: you know, do it. And you know, the best way
Speaker 3: to describe it is, you know, don't underestimate Flying Lotus.
Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, that's all you can That's that's how
Speaker 3: I can sum it up. Man.
Speaker 5: I thought it was funny that when he was trying
Speaker 5: to describe the movie, because he had trouble himself, because
Speaker 5: it is a it's kind of it's dark, it's kind
Speaker 5: of full of dark humor, but it's also pretty much
Speaker 5: I mean, maybe maybe you've seen similar films, but I
Speaker 5: certainly haven't. If to me, it was something quite different
Speaker 5: and it's pretty gross. That's putting it very lightly. And
Speaker 5: he told me that his grandmother had been to see it,
Speaker 5: which I thought was just absolutely super.
Speaker 3: You got to take the family. You got to let
Speaker 3: them know how crazy you are.
Speaker 4: Exact.
Speaker 3: You always have to ever reminder like, don't forget I'm crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Oh, it's definitely that when you I mean with
Speaker 5: going back, you know you now notice for a number
Speaker 5: of years and you mentioned there that until you met him,
Speaker 5: he was a he was a guy that could kind
Speaker 5: of school you in movies.
Speaker 4: You never even heard of.
Speaker 5: What's the best recommendation you ever had from movie from
Speaker 5: from Flying Nights.
Speaker 3: Oh man, it was the day when he introduced me
Speaker 3: to old boy. Okay, yeah, he's the one that turned
Speaker 3: me on an old boy, you know. And it was
Speaker 3: just mind blowing. It was funny because it's like it's
Speaker 3: like guys of a certain cloth, you know. It's like
Speaker 3: he's like, hey, you know, you need to go see
Speaker 3: this movie. And I was like what, you know. I
Speaker 3: was like all right, sure, you know, and I watched
Speaker 3: it and I was like, oh my god. He was
Speaker 3: like right, and I was like yeah, and he was like,
Speaker 3: we just need more movies like that, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we need more movies like yeah.
Speaker 5: It's it's about opening for people that haven't seen it.
Speaker 3: It's a Korean film, it's a it's a it's an
Speaker 3: amazing film, you know.
Speaker 8: It's a it's a revenge story.
Speaker 3: That's I wouldn't want to ruin it for anybody that
Speaker 3: hasn't seen it yet. But it's one of those things
Speaker 3: where it the twists are so hard in this movie
Speaker 3: that it just may give you whiplash.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's it is intense, man, it's everything, it's violent,
Speaker 3: it's just everything you want to happen in a movie
Speaker 3: that you would be like, oh, that is cringe worthy.
Speaker 3: It's this is that movie, you know, and it's like,
Speaker 3: it's just got this amazing climactic moment in the movie
Speaker 3: that I just will just ruin your life.
Speaker 4: This is some recommendation. Thundercat sounded very relaxed. Shall we say, yeah, Greg,
Speaker 4: did you get the fear? He was a relaxed guy.
Speaker 4: Guy likes relaxing. He is very relaxed.
Speaker 5: He was backstage at a venue called Heaven in central
Speaker 5: London where we recorded that, and he was sat next
Speaker 5: to a throne that apparently Madonna and Britney Spears have
Speaker 5: both used on stage at that club. It's quite a
Speaker 5: famous gay club in the mid center of town. And yeah,
Speaker 5: he was. It was It was a relaxed scenario.
Speaker 4: I'm going to now push straight on into my second highlight,
Speaker 4: second choice. This is Samuel t Herring of Future Islands
Speaker 4: and this guy is almost the complete opposite to Thundercat
Speaker 4: in his approach to kind of maybe everything in life,
Speaker 4: certainly to speaking. He is a ball of energy as
Speaker 4: if you've seen Future Islands play or you've heard him speak,
Speaker 4: then you're you know, you'll know this. Like, Sam Herring
Speaker 4: is a man who likes to move around, and we
Speaker 4: didn't We didn't even speak about the new album that
Speaker 4: he was promoting when he was in town at all.
Speaker 4: We were just kind of talking one hundred miles an
Speaker 4: hour about all sorts of things from Baltimore and touring
Speaker 4: and all. This is a hard grafting band who basically
Speaker 4: work their asses off until a certain moment in time,
Speaker 4: which I'm sure everyone knows about by now, when they
Speaker 4: got their first TV performance and they performed Seasons on
Speaker 4: the David Letterman Show. And that's what we're talking about here.
Speaker 4: It's one of those things that I think Sam is
Speaker 4: probably sick of being asked about. God bless him. He
Speaker 4: didn't mind me talking about it because I was. I
Speaker 4: was still fascinated to hear from his point of view
Speaker 4: just exactly what had happened that night. If you know
Speaker 4: the clip, you'll know it. You'll you'll know exactly what
Speaker 4: he's talking about. If not, just check out on YouTube.
Speaker 4: It's probably had a billion views by now, Seasons on
Speaker 4: Let Them and you'll find it easily. And it was
Speaker 4: just this particular performance when Future Islands played that first
Speaker 4: TV show, and instead of adapting it to be on
Speaker 4: TV like most bands would, they just played it like
Speaker 4: they would any of their million gigs that they play
Speaker 4: every year. And this is Sam talking about that experience
Speaker 4: and exactly how it played out from his point of view.
Speaker 9: I mean, we were nervous, but we treated like any
Speaker 9: other gig. And the thing you don't see on camera
Speaker 9: is that that studio is smaller then.
Speaker 8: We thought it would be, which was good.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know it's like a theater, right, yeah, so
Speaker 9: maybe fit's like three or four hundred. So so the
Speaker 9: audience isn't Actually they are far away from you, but
Speaker 9: it's not too far. But if you watch, you know,
Speaker 9: I'm walking past the monitors out towards the people. I'm
Speaker 9: actually like looking at grandmas who are are like what's happening?
Speaker 9: You know, they have they're not scared, but they have
Speaker 9: like kindind of like really kind of amazed looks on
Speaker 9: like what's happening right now? And you know our friends
Speaker 9: in the audience. You know, I'm looking out to the people.
Speaker 9: And I think that's the big thing about that performance
Speaker 9: was that it wasn't it wasn't insular to a band
Speaker 9: like you're watching a band on TV on the stage, Like,
Speaker 9: but it's it's the connection that we've always had with
Speaker 9: people to try to connect with people and look at
Speaker 9: people in the eyes, like looking past the cameras, you know,
Speaker 9: because it's because it's not because there's something past behind
Speaker 9: the cameras.
Speaker 8: You know what I mean?
Speaker 9: Yeah, but yeah, you know that performance would have been
Speaker 9: very different if it had been three years prior. Not
Speaker 9: that it wouldn't have had the same impact. There's no telling,
Speaker 9: but the fact that you know, we had at that point,
Speaker 9: we'd played over seven hundred and fifty almost eight hundred
Speaker 9: shows like that shows and that performance, and also we
Speaker 9: aren't the band that was put together and played some
Speaker 9: shows and now is going to get their TV debut
Speaker 9: after putting out their first record.
Speaker 8: Like we were old road dogs who were.
Speaker 9: Getting a chance at uh at sharing what we what
Speaker 9: we do, and so you you know, I I mean
Speaker 9: I was reasoning with myself backstage, like am I going
Speaker 9: to do the things I do on stage? Are you
Speaker 9: going to go for the growl? Are you going to
Speaker 9: hit your chest? You know, like like how are you
Speaker 9: going to approach this?
Speaker 8: And and you know, so.
Speaker 9: There were there were nerves involved and not really being
Speaker 9: sure and even in the you know, I kind of
Speaker 9: blacked out on stage and just was in the performance.
Speaker 9: And that's where you want to be, you know, you
Speaker 9: want to be. You want to be in a place
Speaker 9: where you're not really thinking about if your zipper is
Speaker 9: up or not you're gonna fall over, and that that
Speaker 9: was the beauty of his response was that the song ended,
Speaker 9: and in my head, I said, we did it, like
Speaker 9: we got through it, nobody like and this and I
Speaker 9: heard that whoa from the side and that's when I
Speaker 9: was like, oh, like kind of snapped back into it,
Speaker 9: and and he had his great response, which like, like
Speaker 9: I said, like even after that performance, we walked off
Speaker 9: and we're like.
Speaker 4: I think we did good. I think we did good.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that felt pretty good and had no idea of
Speaker 9: the impact it would have because once again, we were
Speaker 9: just doing what we do every night. And that's been
Speaker 9: that's been the most the funniest thing to it about
Speaker 9: about how that performances has brought such a huge new
Speaker 9: audience to our band ash which is good because it's
Speaker 9: not like people people found out about us and then
Speaker 9: come to a show even still expecting that that's actually.
Speaker 8: Going to happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're like they come to a show like was
Speaker 4: that real?
Speaker 9: And then they come to show and see that it's
Speaker 9: actually even more intense and continues to be intense, you know,
Speaker 9: like like that three and a half minutes is only
Speaker 9: a small piece of a of a larger puzzle, of
Speaker 9: a bigger show and a range of more emotions, you know,
Speaker 9: and and.
Speaker 4: So so that was cool.
Speaker 9: We didn't because it took that long to get that moment.
Speaker 9: We didn't take any of the any of the accolades
Speaker 9: for granted.
Speaker 4: Or the the.
Speaker 9: The growth for you know. We were just like we
Speaker 9: felt like we earned it.
Speaker 5: Old road Dogs roll dug, We're old road Dogs. I
Speaker 5: love that Samuel t Herring podcast because I think when
Speaker 5: we record these episodes, they're quite often well, they've been
Speaker 5: a whole range of feelings and emotions, and some of
Speaker 5: them are quite silly and some of them are quite
Speaker 5: serious and reflective. And that one in particular is really
Speaker 5: uplifting because as you hear him saying, their Future Islands
Speaker 5: have been a band for a long time. It took
Speaker 5: him eight hundred old shows before their breakthrough moment, and
Speaker 5: it's just really nice to see isn't it. And he
Speaker 5: comes across. He came across really well.
Speaker 4: I like the guy. Yeah, he's one of those people.
Speaker 4: He's very good at making you feel at ease as
Speaker 4: soon as you meet him, like he's just a very
Speaker 4: friendly guy. I do Sam a little bit of an apology,
Speaker 4: because when I do the bits of artwork for each episode,
Speaker 4: we just do the same bit of artwork with slightly
Speaker 4: with different coloring. That's what we do. And Sam's he
Speaker 4: got the short straw. He's got such a shitty color combo.
Speaker 4: And I don't know what I was thinking. It's like
Speaker 4: a brown background and like orange lettering. I don't know
Speaker 4: what I was thinking with that one. And it's one
Speaker 4: of the ones that I look at and I think, well,
Speaker 4: that's that's the bad one. That's the worst one. I
Speaker 4: think it's not reflective of Sam. I just think I
Speaker 4: was having an off day with my colors.
Speaker 5: The next clip we're going to play is from an
Speaker 5: episode that I recorded just in autumn, Just Gone By,
Speaker 5: with an artist called Julienne Baker, who is sort of
Speaker 5: at the opposite end of her career. Two Future Islands,
Speaker 5: or rather, what are you just hearing Sam Herring talking
Speaker 5: about there as in the fact that they've played almost
Speaker 5: a thousand shows or whatever. She's still really just starting
Speaker 5: out in a way. She brought out her second album
Speaker 5: in October called turn Out the Lights. And she's a
Speaker 5: singer songwriter from Memphis in the Southern States. And we
Speaker 5: like to have a range of people on the podcast,
Speaker 5: some that have got some old world dougs with great
Speaker 5: stories and years gone by, and other people who are
Speaker 5: pretty much new on the block, the new kids on
Speaker 5: the block. And Julienne Is it's kind of that I
Speaker 5: didn't really know what to expect from her because the
Speaker 5: music she makes in that singer songwriter almost kind of
Speaker 5: folky tradition. It's a bit more maybe some people call
Speaker 5: it a bit more.
Speaker 4: Emo than that.
Speaker 5: But I thought she might be quite meek, maybe quite mild,
Speaker 5: and maybe softly spoken.
Speaker 4: Not that at all.
Speaker 5: She's one of the smartest young people I have ever met,
Speaker 5: and she was an amazing conversationalist, really really articulate, far
Speaker 5: more articulate than me, and I love chatting to her.
Speaker 5: And she came into the office. We had a very
Speaker 5: varied conversation. But I had recently been to America and
Speaker 5: traveled around where she's from, and so I was personally
Speaker 5: really excited to talk to her about that. Memphis specifically
Speaker 5: I found really fascinating, not just because of the landmarks
Speaker 5: that people know of, obviously Graceland and the Peabody Hotel.
Speaker 4: Ducks. Did you see the ducks?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 10: So that's like on my well, I'll let you finish. No,
Speaker 10: just to interject that, it's so funny to me that
Speaker 10: piece of Memphis lore, the ducks that you know, performed
Speaker 10: a little walk around. But I was in Germany playing
Speaker 10: each other the first time I ever came to Europe,
Speaker 10: and for me, the ducks are cool, but they're like
Speaker 10: a kitschy event. You know. The top sites to see
Speaker 10: that's probably fifth on the list. And someone in German
Speaker 10: and he was like, oh, you're from Memphis.
Speaker 1: Is that that place with the ducks?
Speaker 10: And I was like, yes, how.
Speaker 7: Did you know this? I know, but it's crazy.
Speaker 11: Did you see the ducks walk?
Speaker 5: We did? So for people that if this is making
Speaker 5: no sense of people, there's a hotel called the Peabody,
Speaker 5: famous place in Memphis, been there for a long time,
Speaker 5: and they have this very quirky tradition of they have
Speaker 5: some ducks in the hotel that live on the roof,
Speaker 5: and maybe once twice a day I can't quite remember.
Speaker 5: The ducks come down in the elevator in the lift
Speaker 5: to the ground floor. Hundreds of tourists gather around. The
Speaker 5: ducks walk from the lift to the fountain, go in
Speaker 5: the fountain for a bit, then they turn around and
Speaker 5: they reverse the journey and they go back upstairs.
Speaker 10: They're trained to do this, and they're walked out by
Speaker 10: the was the guy there with the duck master? The
Speaker 10: duck master different than duck commander.
Speaker 5: I actually don't know the different levels of the duck.
Speaker 8: No duck.
Speaker 10: I'm pretty sure duck commander is like a bass pro
Speaker 10: shop like hunting thing. Oh okay, But then there's duck Master.
Speaker 5: So it's done in this big ceremonial way. So the
Speaker 5: duck Master does a bit of a speech and talks
Speaker 5: about the history of the Peabody. Then the ducks as
Speaker 5: if they're walking, they actually walk on a red carpet,
Speaker 5: so celebrity ducks, and they make their way over to
Speaker 5: the fountain.
Speaker 4: Everybody applauds. It's such a surreal thing.
Speaker 5: I must admit I came away thinking, okay, like, did
Speaker 5: I enjoy that. I mean, I enjoyed the spectacle of it.
Speaker 7: I was about to say the spectacle.
Speaker 10: There's so many things in Memphis I think that are
Speaker 10: bizarre enough that you just want to witness the absurdity.
Speaker 1: Of the fact that it exists.
Speaker 10: But you were saying, so you saw many things in
Speaker 10: Memphis and one struck you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so there was so Obviously when people think of Memphis,
Speaker 5: they think Grace and they think of maybe the Peabody Hotel.
Speaker 5: Maybe I've only just learned about that, but maybe you
Speaker 5: want to go and check that out. Then obviously Bale
Speaker 5: Street and BB King's Blues Club, and maybe if you're
Speaker 5: more into music then like Sun Studio places like that.
Speaker 5: But it's a city that's really characterized by its huge
Speaker 5: kind of historic landmarks, those places. What was the actual
Speaker 5: reality like of growing up in that city.
Speaker 10: I think there's a duality to the city, but that
Speaker 10: those elements of the past, while they seem like kind
Speaker 10: of static fixtures of history, play into the locals conception
Speaker 10: of the city.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 10: So I had never been to Graceland ever, you know,
Speaker 10: like growing up, I never went a single time. There's
Speaker 10: a thing called Graceland two, which just small sidebar. The
Speaker 10: man who ran it was he actually passed a little
Speaker 10: while ago, but Graceland two spelled too as in.
Speaker 7: This is also grace Land.
Speaker 10: Was this bizarre little house owned by this man who
Speaker 10: just filled it with Elvis memorabilia, And it was like
Speaker 10: this informal kind of cult activity that we would all
Speaker 10: go to grace landtoon if you just knock on the door,
Speaker 10: and I think the thing was you showed up with
Speaker 10: a six pack of coca cola, or if you don't
Speaker 10: the man at any hour of the night. I had
Speaker 10: friends that would go at like two in the morning.
Speaker 10: We'll invite you in and he will just walk you
Speaker 10: around his home. It's just like a person's house, and
Speaker 10: he'll just show you all his crazy stuff there. But
Speaker 10: so there's a lot of like interesting dichotomy of Memphis
Speaker 10: where there's the normal thing and then the abnormal thing.
Speaker 4: I've got a question on that go on. I have
Speaker 4: listened to this episode obviously, but I can't remember the
Speaker 4: guy that lets kids come to his house if they
Speaker 4: bring him coca cola?
Speaker 5: Is that Okay, I've done any further research. He's passed
Speaker 5: away now, Okay. So, as she says in that clip,
Speaker 5: But I think I haven't looked too much into the
Speaker 5: history of Graceland.
Speaker 4: Two. Did you go to Graceland one?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the original, the real Graceland. Was that any good? Yeah? Fascinating.
Speaker 5: I'm not even a huge Elvis fan, but to get
Speaker 5: to walk around his home and in his gardens and
Speaker 5: there's like a squash caught out in the garden because.
Speaker 4: He likes squash. Is he buried there?
Speaker 8: He is?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's really well done. It's presented in a
Speaker 5: very American way. It's quite entertaining. It takes you on
Speaker 5: a bit of an emotional journey as you walk around.
Speaker 5: Even if you're not a fan of Elvis, it is
Speaker 5: quite amazing. He's got a lot of TVs in there.
Speaker 5: He loved TV. It's something like thirteen TVs in his house.
Speaker 4: Didn't Elvis used to shoot TV shoot the TVs or
Speaker 4: didn't like what was on the TV? I don't know,
Speaker 4: but that if I made that up, I think that's
Speaker 4: sort of story. I think that's true. If he was watching, say,
Speaker 4: X Factor, it'd shoots at or you know, the model
Speaker 4: the equivalent in the day.
Speaker 5: I don't know, but apparently he'd seen that the President
Speaker 5: had multiple TVs in their home, whichever president it was
Speaker 5: at the time, and that he thought, I want that.
Speaker 5: That seems pretty good.
Speaker 4: Why not when you're Elvis? I mean fair enough? Okay,
Speaker 4: This next clip has got some It's got quite a
Speaker 4: bit of background noise on it because it was recorded.
Speaker 4: This is the noisiest one I think I've ever recorded.
Speaker 4: It was recorded in essentially in the lobby of a
Speaker 4: hotel at Premium Vara Sound. We were actually a little
Speaker 4: bit above the lobby, but you could still hear everything.
Speaker 4: This is with Angel Olsen and she had literally just
Speaker 4: arrived from another festival in Switzerland, I think. And what
Speaker 4: we're talking about here is Angel's love for roller skating,
Speaker 4: which is something that she's obsessed with and has even
Speaker 4: put in a video, So the video for Shut Up
Speaker 4: and Kissed Me she refers to a little bit in
Speaker 4: this little clip. But this is me and Angel Olson
Speaker 4: in a very noisy lobby talking about roller skating. You
Speaker 4: roller skate, right.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I actually see that's the thing. I want to
Speaker 11: get some I want to get some rollies for glastow.
Speaker 11: You know, I'm trying to do that.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to get I'm trying to do do some
Speaker 6: some roller skates on the stage, but I don't want
Speaker 6: to hurt myself in front of people either.
Speaker 11: That could be a big risk. How long have you
Speaker 11: my ability?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 4: If they'd let me, I think they wouldn't be able
Speaker 4: to stop you.
Speaker 11: I showed them videos. Maybe look it's me.
Speaker 4: I'm good. I'm good skate outside. Do you skate? What's
Speaker 4: what kind of skates do you have? Do you go
Speaker 4: in line or do you go quads?
Speaker 11: I do? What do you mean like THEO?
Speaker 4: Did you like the two four two and two?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You don't do the inline rollerblades?
Speaker 6: I when I was a kid, I used to play
Speaker 6: street hockey as a kid, and then the change happened
Speaker 6: and I stopped. I was great at defense, and so
Speaker 6: I got good at skating because I played hockey outside
Speaker 6: with a bunch of boys, including family members and cousins
Speaker 6: and stuff, and girls too. But we got really good
Speaker 6: at it, and then, you know, then I became a girl,
Speaker 6: and then I gave it up, and then I would
Speaker 6: secretly skate still, but I didn't play hockey as much
Speaker 6: and developed interest in other things, obviously. But now I'm
Speaker 6: just kind of like, well, maybe I'll play street hockey again.
Speaker 11: Maybe I'll do that again.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because I put on a pair of roller skates
Speaker 6: and went to a roller rink just to do it
Speaker 6: one day, just to see.
Speaker 11: What it was like. And it was the best sober.
Speaker 6: Thing that I could have ever done in my whole life,
Speaker 6: like kids doing the socop and in Asheville especially, there
Speaker 6: was this one the one that I shot my videos
Speaker 6: at called Tar Wheels.
Speaker 11: And so, and it's just.
Speaker 6: Like stuck in time, like stuck in this The lights
Speaker 6: are have probably haven't been changed in years, like same
Speaker 6: signage and everything. And you see these all sorts of
Speaker 6: people and live in Asheville, you know, creatives, hicks, you know,
Speaker 6: just all kinds kinds of hipsters and scenesters, but then
Speaker 6: also retirees and you know, so it was an interesting scene.
Speaker 6: And when I would go, i'd go and listen to
Speaker 6: music on my headphones and just skate in circles. And
Speaker 6: one day I saw this guy in a wheelchair just
Speaker 6: sitting there and one of the employees came up behind
Speaker 6: him and rolled him around, and I thought it was
Speaker 6: the sweetest thing.
Speaker 11: I was like, this is why you skate because stuff
Speaker 11: like that.
Speaker 6: You know, It's just like simple, simple happiness and it
Speaker 6: doesn't require anything from anyone.
Speaker 11: You're just happy and everyone else is happy.
Speaker 4: Do you have a skates to the shops?
Speaker 11: It had to be a smooth gravel road, like a
Speaker 11: freshly paved road.
Speaker 6: That's what happened in my video. I found this like
Speaker 6: one street that had just been paved, and I was like,
Speaker 6: this could be amazing or I could really eat.
Speaker 4: I do like that.
Speaker 5: We ask all the really hard hitting questions on midnight chats.
Speaker 5: Do you skate to the shop?
Speaker 4: Do you ever skate to the shops? Tell me that
Speaker 4: the way that was edited is also sounded like I
Speaker 4: was being really impatient. Yeah, but yeah, but do you
Speaker 4: ever skate to the shops? I don't give a shit
Speaker 4: about any of this stuff that you're saying. What I
Speaker 4: really care about is how do you get to the shops?
Speaker 4: Do you skate there? I think I probably asked that
Speaker 4: because I used to skate in my day, Greg, did
Speaker 4: you Yeah? And I would skate to the shops.
Speaker 5: Fantastic. What would you want to go and get some sweets?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Like yeah, or milk from my mum whatever, But yeah.
Speaker 5: Great mode of transport.
Speaker 4: I used to love it. I can I see what
Speaker 4: she means, you know, when like when you can stand
Speaker 4: up on skates, because I mean if you can't, it's
Speaker 4: one of those things that if you can do it,
Speaker 4: it is great fun and very freeing and like being
Speaker 4: a kid again. And if you can't, it's the worst
Speaker 4: day out in the world, Isn't it like going around
Speaker 4: on the edge? You know, you see people like holding
Speaker 4: on to the edge, especially this time of year. I
Speaker 4: mean with ice skating, for example, the places around London,
Speaker 4: you just it's it's good entertainment for half an hour
Speaker 4: or so. Though if you just go and watch the
Speaker 4: people that skate, you don't need to pay and do it.
Speaker 4: Don't do it, just watch other people fail at it exactly.
Speaker 5: There was a sort of defining moment in the middle
Speaker 5: of the summer this year for Midnight Chats, because we
Speaker 5: make a new episode every fortnight and put it on
Speaker 5: nine on a Thursday night. But then some hoodlum broke
Speaker 5: into our office and took all of our kit and
Speaker 5: we'd recorded a few episodes of the podcast that went
Speaker 5: they got they got taken in that unfortunate incident. So
Speaker 5: we did stop in the middle of the summer if
Speaker 5: you're a regular listener, you'll have noticed that because we
Speaker 5: just disappeared. It kind of was an unintentional summer holiday
Speaker 5: for us.
Speaker 4: And we lost some really good things. Oh yeah, you
Speaker 4: had Tom Morello in the bag.
Speaker 5: I know. Tom Morello recorded on the day after the
Speaker 5: UK general election in the summer, which he was really
Speaker 5: good talking about, which is a bit of a shame.
Speaker 5: And you spoke to Adam from the War on Drugs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that was mainly me asking him about
Speaker 4: what movies he watches on planes. And if you've listened
Speaker 4: to previous podcasts I've done, you'll realize that's a recurring theme,
Speaker 4: is how I dig myself out of a hole. I
Speaker 4: just go for that. You can't do that anymore now, No,
Speaker 4: I think I think actually, in reality, I think it's
Speaker 4: only made the cut of one, The Billy Corgan one,
Speaker 4: I think is the one where it's actually in Okay,
Speaker 4: it's how I little tricks of the trade. Here, a
Speaker 4: little bit of small talk, you know, works wonders with
Speaker 4: the pop stars of today. Hey what did you watch
Speaker 4: on the plane on the way here? And now thinking
Speaker 4: this guy is no threat to me, this guy he's
Speaker 4: just shooting the breeze.
Speaker 5: Let's have some cinematic chit chat.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: This so the clip we're about to play it was
Speaker 5: basically our comeback episode, which was Benjamin Clementine, who won
Speaker 5: the Mercury Prize a couple of years ago. That was
Speaker 5: the moment when most people heard of him for the
Speaker 5: first time, I think, even though he've been making music
Speaker 5: for a little while. He's the guy from North London
Speaker 5: who left home in his late teens and moved to
Speaker 5: Paris and was homeless and was in Paris busking on
Speaker 5: the streets and eventually got spotted, made an album and
Speaker 5: which wound up his debut album wound up winning the
Speaker 5: Mercury Prize. So anyway, I went to go and meet
Speaker 5: Benjamin in a hotel room in West London. But we've
Speaker 5: been lucky a few times over the course of making
Speaker 5: midnight Chats where the timing of when we record these
Speaker 5: episodes is sometimes works out to be absolutely spot on.
Speaker 5: So for example, we had Mike Skinner back ages ago,
Speaker 5: who came in on the day that Trump was a left,
Speaker 5: wasn't it. We had back for Lashes, was with us
Speaker 5: when the Brexit result came and things like that, So
Speaker 5: really big historical moments. Anyway, it just so happened that
Speaker 5: Benjamin Clemens I was chatting to us just before this
Speaker 5: year's Mercury, and so I couldn't really not ask him
Speaker 5: about what he remembered from that night.
Speaker 13: It was a very emotional night, a week before that
Speaker 13: obvious the terrorist attack. I was, I was, I was
Speaker 13: torn and and I needed some sort of hope. I
Speaker 13: needed some some some sort of I I you know,
Speaker 13: I of course I am stronger. But music needed my music,
Speaker 13: you know. I think it just needed that sort of
Speaker 13: I feel that it was meant to be. And so
Speaker 13: when when when I wanted, I just felt that it
Speaker 13: was appropriate that I brought everyone on the stage too,
Speaker 13: to somehow stand in front of death and go, well
Speaker 13: we won, you know, or trauma or or fear, and
Speaker 13: say that you know, whatever happens now know that we'll
Speaker 13: always win. So it was it was a very very
Speaker 13: what's called.
Speaker 2: This?
Speaker 13: This is the time? I never forget. It's not it's
Speaker 13: the Americay Prize is smaller than than the occasion, you know,
Speaker 13: because you can never bring it back. The prize is here,
Speaker 13: you know, but that moment made by the program and
Speaker 13: then that you know the occasion, it's it's a bigger award.
Speaker 13: It's much of a bigger award for me. Me the
Speaker 13: award was standing on the stage with those people, those
Speaker 13: artists van that can out television or you know, thinking,
Speaker 13: you know, you can't re see a lot of people.
Speaker 13: Apparently there's a lot of people watching. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a really meaningful moment because I don't
Speaker 5: think that's been done in Mercury history before with an
Speaker 5: artist wh's one has basically invited the other nominees to
Speaker 5: eleven other nominees I think, up onto the stage to
Speaker 5: effectively kind of received the prize along with you, to
Speaker 5: celebrate that moment. And you're right, in the context of
Speaker 5: what happened the week before in Paris, it did feel
Speaker 5: like very emotional occasion. Clearly what happened in Paris was
Speaker 5: still a very painful thing. Still, it is when was
Speaker 5: the first time after winning the award that you returned
Speaker 5: to Paris and kind of felt the atmosphere in the
Speaker 5: city and what was that like? I mean I should
Speaker 5: probably explain as well that obviously you born in London,
Speaker 5: but you spent three years or so in Paris more
Speaker 5: than that, and then you spent time in New York recently,
Speaker 5: but Paris is still a city that I assume means
Speaker 5: a great deal toy. So yeah, that experience of going
Speaker 5: back to Paris after winning the prize to kind of
Speaker 5: witness how that city was in the aftermath, how was
Speaker 5: that experience?
Speaker 13: Well, funny you just asked that question if you knew
Speaker 13: what I was about to say next. And that was
Speaker 13: that before winning the Mercurys, the week before that, I
Speaker 13: was in Paris, I was living in the brothel, but
Speaker 13: a very very it's basically it was. It was not brothel,
Speaker 13: but it was. It was a hostel. I chose to live.
Speaker 13: It's a hostel. And you know every now that was
Speaker 13: you know, someone screaming or you know, you know, having sex.
Speaker 13: And the room was about the little work bigger.
Speaker 3: Than this room we're in.
Speaker 4: I should say that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's more of what kind of sixty's by sixty
Speaker 5: something like that.
Speaker 13: And and I was, I was, you know, I had
Speaker 13: my computer and I was composing my keyboard, my little keyboard,
Speaker 13: and I came here, came out to England for the occasion.
Speaker 13: I didn't think I win, of course I wanted The
Speaker 13: next day I went back to the room. The room
Speaker 13: that's a little woman was called what's it called a
Speaker 13: wardrobe like wall? You know those small things you can
Speaker 13: put that glass or.
Speaker 4: Whatever, oh, like a s a sideboard type thing.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, on the wall. I took the I took
Speaker 13: the prize and I just put it right there. I
Speaker 13: laid in my bed and looked out through the window
Speaker 13: and I just thought to myself, this is life. You know,
Speaker 13: this is life.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know. I don't know where to start
Speaker 4: with that.
Speaker 5: Greg speaking to Benjamin Clementine. First off, I really like
Speaker 5: the guy, but also that podcast has ended up staying
Speaker 5: with me to the extent that just the way he
Speaker 5: was speaking about his sort of philosophical moment post winning
Speaker 5: the Mercury Prize has become a bit of an office mantra,
Speaker 5: isn't it for us?
Speaker 4: The catchphrase of the year has.
Speaker 5: Become Benjamin Clementine talking about saying, this is life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just let.
Speaker 5: Go like they can't do anything about it. Life just happens.
Speaker 5: Absolutely fascinating person to have on the podcast. He was
Speaker 5: He was great, and.
Speaker 4: I would say that is one of that's the episode
Speaker 4: of the year that you'll either love it or hate
Speaker 4: Benjamin Clementine in his singing voice as well as his
Speaker 4: talking voice. People either love it and really get on
Speaker 4: with it, or they or they just don't. And it's
Speaker 4: not the easiest listen, is it. But at the same time,
Speaker 4: they're just little There's a bit in that clip then
Speaker 4: when he's talking about the wardrobe, like so intensely trying
Speaker 4: to like put a name on this on a wardrobe.
Speaker 4: He's talking about a wardrobe, for God's sake. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 4: he's in the current issue of the magazine if you've
Speaker 4: not picked that up yet. They go and he's got
Speaker 4: and he's a great interviewee and says some really interesting
Speaker 4: things and some really great photos of him. He's a
Speaker 4: striking guy. But yeah, go back and listen to that one.
Speaker 4: Unless you listened to that clip, I thought, no, thanks,
Speaker 4: not for me.
Speaker 5: So we're going to finish up with a bit of
Speaker 5: a laugh in a second one of our favorite guests
Speaker 5: from twenty seventeen. Thanks for listening to this one off
Speaker 5: that we've done this highlights package of twenty seventeen. We
Speaker 5: hope you've enjoyed listening to a bit of a flavor
Speaker 5: of some of our favorite moments or a few of
Speaker 5: our favorite picks from this year. If you are a
Speaker 5: regular listener to Midnight Chats, thanks for sitting through it again.
Speaker 5: You've probably heard a lot of that before, but cheers
Speaker 5: for sticking with us. If you are new to the podcast,
Speaker 5: new to the series, maybe that's given you sort of
Speaker 5: an idea of what we do and the types of
Speaker 5: people that we have on and encourage you to go
Speaker 5: back and listen to either those episodes or just check
Speaker 5: out some completely fresh ones.
Speaker 4: They're all there.
Speaker 5: You'll find all episodes we've done almost forty now, so
Speaker 5: there's plenty to dig into over the Christmas holidays. When
Speaker 5: you've got a bit of downtime. Just go and listen
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Speaker 5: friends family around the Christmas dinner table about Midnight Chats
Speaker 5: and tell them to check us out, because that would
Speaker 5: be really helpful. But, like I say, we're going to
Speaker 5: end on a bit of silliness out there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a hoot, I mean, this is this
Speaker 4: is fun, right, This is Mac DeMarco, who was the
Speaker 4: twenty fifth guest. We had episode twenty five earlier this
Speaker 4: year in April, and we ended the podcast playing a
Speaker 4: game actually, because Mac to Marco has been in the
Speaker 4: magazine a lot, he's been on our website a lot.
Speaker 4: We've done we've done pretty much everything you can do
Speaker 4: with an artist. Now. He's had a cover feature, and
Speaker 4: he's had a little New Bands feature really early on
Speaker 4: and all these things. And we have a feature called
Speaker 4: getting to Know You, and it's a it's a piece
Speaker 4: we do in the magazine where we send a survey
Speaker 4: of questions to an artist and they send them back
Speaker 4: and they're all very short, one word answers, and he
Speaker 4: took it in twenty fourteen, and I thought it would
Speaker 4: be fun to test him on the questions again, or
Speaker 4: some of the questions again and see if he can
Speaker 4: remember what he answered back then and what his answer
Speaker 4: would be now. So this is Mack and I playing
Speaker 4: the getting to Know You quiz and that's that. Really,
Speaker 4: that's the end of the podcast for twenty seventeen, the
Speaker 4: best year on record. Nothing bad has happened, Gemmacollins fell
Speaker 4: down a hole. We'll be back in the new year.
Speaker 4: I think we're going to put up the first one
Speaker 4: of twenty eighteen, and maybe even in the first week
Speaker 4: of January. We've already recorded one, and I must say
Speaker 4: it's quite a special. Guess they're already short answers.
Speaker 8: Okay, I'm going to ask you a couple of them
Speaker 8: and see then more comparing.
Speaker 4: We'll compare the answers to what your answer would be
Speaker 4: now and what it was then. So what's your favorite word?
Speaker 8: Probably butt cheeks. Butt cheeks is correct, single bang.
Speaker 4: You haven't changed a bit. So you say you're getting older,
Speaker 4: growing up. That's I don't believe that. Okay, the film
Speaker 4: you can quote the most.
Speaker 8: Of probably Star Wars. Maybe Amadeis.
Speaker 4: Back then you went for Austin Powers.
Speaker 8: Okay, it might have been fib and Meg then, okay,
Speaker 8: how about maybe Amadis. I don't know, who knows.
Speaker 4: How About what's your favorite place in the world? What
Speaker 4: is it right now?
Speaker 8: Right now? It's I love Tokyo. We got to go
Speaker 8: to Spinson's then, so I love it. But what was
Speaker 8: it then?
Speaker 4: It was Hooters?
Speaker 8: Then that's been a little jackass in this That's cute.
Speaker 4: This is the very first one of these two did
Speaker 4: this is? This is like our test run. It's probably
Speaker 4: still the best one. The most famous person you've met?
Speaker 8: I feel like I probably would have said something like
Speaker 8: Joe Mama or something. But m M, did I give
Speaker 8: me this? What did I give? Like a serious answer there.
Speaker 4: I couldn't cool that because there's a chance you would
Speaker 4: have met this person, but I don't. I wouldn't be
Speaker 4: surprised if you are kind of say that I've never met.
Speaker 8: Okay, well, let me say who is the most famous
Speaker 8: person I would have met? Now, I've met the dude
Speaker 8: from Twilight? What's his name?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I met him, dude. Yeah, I mean I was
Speaker 8: really drunk and I talked to him for like two
Speaker 8: seconds and have we met before? And I was like,
Speaker 8: I don't know. So he seemed nice. I don't know,
Speaker 8: we didn't really meet him. I guess who was who
Speaker 8: was the most famous? I met Jonah Hill, He's extreme.
Speaker 4: Back then, you said Lindsay.
Speaker 8: Lowan, Oh definitely have Oh no, yeah, I did meet
Speaker 8: Lindsay Lowan. I did.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's that's good.
Speaker 8: That's still you know why I don't remember those because
Speaker 8: I met her. I met I was getting introduced to
Speaker 8: these people on this couch and I was like, oh, hey,
Speaker 8: you know, hi, how you doing? You know? It was
Speaker 8: by my friend Sandy. And then when I got to Lindsay,
Speaker 8: I was like hey, and I couldn't really hear. There's
Speaker 8: a show going on, and like I was like, you know,
Speaker 8: Shirley or something like cool whatever, And I walked away
Speaker 8: and Kira was like, that's Lelo and I was like, no,
Speaker 8: it wasn't. I looked over. I was like, oh, yeah
Speaker 8: it was. So I just completely blanked on it, which is.
Speaker 4: You know, but I felt that that was cool.
Speaker 8: He's pretty famous though she's famous, pretty famous. Yeah, Jny
Speaker 8: Hill is pretty famous too, though.
Speaker 4: I think that niece now be your on some Yeah
Speaker 4: he's more famous than her now, right, I guess.
Speaker 8: So I be a nice guy, Yeah he was. It
Speaker 8: was kind of you know, he was. He was a
Speaker 8: big fan, but he was kind of like, oh my god,
Speaker 8: not but you know, him freaking out at me, being
Speaker 8: like I love you. And then I was kind of like,
Speaker 8: but you're like John. You know, I saw super Bad
Speaker 8: when I was like super young. I've seen a ton
Speaker 8: of his movies. It's like super Bad is still his
Speaker 8: best that movie's hilarious. I watch it last week. But
Speaker 8: but for to, you know, to have somebody that I
Speaker 8: should be freaking out on freak out at me preemptively.
Speaker 8: It was just like, oh, you know, it's like really weird,
Speaker 8: but he's a really nice guy.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's just do a couple more. You're guilty pleasure.
Speaker 8: I probably probably said you said cold play all the time,
Speaker 8: but I'm not guilty about cold play. Guilty pleasure just eating.
Speaker 8: I eat like ship. You know that's my guilty pleasure.
Speaker 8: Do you know?
Speaker 4: Do you know what you said in Sea thousand and
Speaker 4: full seme? What you said pissing in the bath?
Speaker 8: That that's true, that that's your was this over email?
Speaker 8: That I do this over emails? Must have been because
Speaker 8: I thought I must have thought these out. That's so sick.
Speaker 8: I love pissing in the bath. I do feel guilty
Speaker 8: about it, especially when my girlfriend's in there with me.
Speaker 4: Okay, this is we just did this last one. Your
Speaker 4: biggest disappointment this this question that you can you can
Speaker 4: find out a lot about people and how they how
Speaker 4: they answer it.
Speaker 8: So I don't have no idea what I would have said,
Speaker 8: but let me just say I'll say, now, the biggest disappointment,
Speaker 8: I don't know, I don't I don't really feel disappointed. Ever.
Speaker 8: I liked the new Star Wars movies. I'm trying to
Speaker 8: think movies. That's the only thing that really mm hmmm
Speaker 8: Star Wars. What other movies have even seen this year?
Speaker 8: Pretty much?
Speaker 13: None?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I didn't like the habit, but.
Speaker 4: Then your biggest disappointment was my penis.
Speaker 2: Fu.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
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