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Speaker 1: Hello, It's Jason and I'm so excited to talk to

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Speaker 1: the artist I have with me today. He is one

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Speaker 1: of Denmark's and the world's most successful DJs. Two hundred

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Speaker 1: million streams, two hundred thousand down lows sold. I'm talking,

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Speaker 1: He's got UK gold certified records. Cato, How are you today?

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Speaker 1: What's going on?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I'm amazing? How are you? Man?

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Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome to the Welcome to the Friend Show podcast.

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Speaker 1: I am so excited to talk to you because you

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Speaker 1: have a song that is just going completely viral right now,

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Speaker 1: and your life must be absolutely insane. I'm sure by

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Speaker 1: now everyone has seen the John Ham meme video going

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Speaker 1: viral all over TikTok alliver reels to your song turn

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Speaker 1: the Lights Off right What is life like right now?

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Speaker 1: And what was it like when you started realizing that

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Speaker 1: it was going viral and seeing all these people using

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Speaker 1: your song.

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Speaker 2: Obviously my life just changed in a split second a

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago. Right now, it's just crazy, you know.

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Speaker 2: I'm just trying to hold on and and just enjoy

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Speaker 2: this roller coaster right now. But obviously, obviously a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks ago everything started to really gain all these

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Speaker 2: Tiktoks and reels. It was just, yeah, it was just

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Speaker 2: going crazy. And in the beginning, actually it was a

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Speaker 2: couple of videos in Ukraine and after and after that,

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Speaker 2: a couple of some videos, uh and some uses on

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Speaker 2: Instagram from Russia attacked me. And then obviously I started

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Speaker 2: worrying a little bit about if this was something maybe

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Speaker 2: with the war going.

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Speaker 1: Where people are misusing it or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, especially because the caption is like in in

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Speaker 2: their type of letters in Russia and Ukraine, and it's

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Speaker 2: a whole different letter system they use over there, so

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Speaker 2: I didn't understand anything about it. But yeah, I'm really

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Speaker 2: grateful that it's actually a positive message. Yeah, and then

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Speaker 2: Tiktoks are using the song fall, so obviously I'm I'm excited.

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Speaker 2: I'm a little bit exhausted because I'm not used to

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Speaker 2: I'm not used to living in this pace right now,

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Speaker 2: with all these interviews and a lot of really really

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Speaker 2: interesting people reaching out who want to collact with me

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Speaker 2: music and stuff. So yeah, I'm just trying to so

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Speaker 2: hang hang in there, right.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's so interesting how you sort of talked about,

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Speaker 1: you know, the first uses of the of the song

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Speaker 1: that you saw in it being those specific countries, and

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Speaker 1: especially with everything going on right now. That's that's so

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Speaker 1: interesting that though that was the first two that you

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Speaker 1: sort of noticed that it was, they're using it in

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Speaker 1: a positive way, Like I don't know that there's something

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Speaker 1: so cool about that, right, Like I don't know. That

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Speaker 1: just really shocked me. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It's the same thing here, and it fits perfectly what

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Speaker 2: I'm doing with my small career here in Denmark, you know,

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Speaker 2: because I'm a touring artist and I've been playing festivals

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Speaker 2: for fifteen years now, actually since I released this song

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Speaker 2: the first time. And all I want to do when

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Speaker 2: I'm out there doing my shows is actually just provide

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Speaker 2: seventy five minutes of a break to people from everyday life,

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Speaker 2: from all the stress, from all the bad vibes and

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Speaker 2: all the things going on in their lives. That's what

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Speaker 2: it's all about in my shows, just giving the people

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Speaker 1: Yeah, which I mean, it's so needed right now, no

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Speaker 1: matter where you are in the world, everyone needs an

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Speaker 1: escape and a release, and you are doing that for people,

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Speaker 1: which is awesome. When I first heard what obviously I

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Speaker 1: Like how did I not have this on repeat? Like

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Speaker 1: fun I don't know, just whenever you want to have

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Speaker 1: good vibes? What sort of made you collab with John

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Speaker 1: and even make this song in the first place?

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Speaker 2: Me and John go way back with friends, And actually

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Speaker 2: it was his idea because this song is actually not

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Speaker 2: our original song. We didn't write this song. This is

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Speaker 2: actually a cover version we did of the song. The

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Speaker 2: song was originally made in two thousand and seven by

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Speaker 2: a Dutch DJ called DJ Jose, but it wasn't released

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Speaker 2: we agreed that it was a shame that this song

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Speaker 2: the cover version, the our version of the song back

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Speaker 2: in twenty ten because we wanted to salute the original

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Speaker 2: writers on it and just help them trying to like

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Speaker 2: It's definitely life changing me. But all these things going

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And I want to talk a little

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Speaker 1: bit about other stuff that you let out this year,

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Speaker 1: because as I was going through your discography, I was like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, like this is so interesting. I want

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Speaker 1: to touchdown on the Bob Marley Remax, right. You have

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Speaker 1: a Bob Marley Remax sun Shining right, Like, how did

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Speaker 2: Obviously Bob Marley was a one of the greatest, you know,

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Speaker 2: he's a legend even though he's not here anymore. But

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Speaker 2: this song got remixed like twenty twenty five years ago

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Speaker 2: by another Danish producer called funk Study Looks, and it

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Speaker 2: came out exactly when I was just a kid and

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Speaker 2: I had a lot of dreams of being a DJ

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Speaker 2: for many, many years. And then earlier this year, I

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Speaker 2: just trying to combine everything into a twenty twenty five

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Speaker 2: and it's you know, to do a song to remix

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Speaker 2: a pop Mali song is like, you know, next really

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean, and it's so good too, like

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Speaker 1: your your sort of take on it is, it's so good,

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Speaker 1: and it just I don't know, you're such like a

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Speaker 1: I don't know, you're such a happy dude. Like the

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Speaker 1: vibes are so good, Like the vibes are high, Like

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Speaker 1: I don't know that You're just you're so good at

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Speaker 2: Obviously, A Vic has also been a huge inspiration for

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Speaker 2: He he took me on a couple of pop crawls

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Speaker 1: How was that? How was going on a pub crawl

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Speaker 2: It was fun while we were doing the pop crawl.

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Speaker 2: Only problem was I was supposed to play a really

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Speaker 2: you know, you were not feeling good. I actually had

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Speaker 2: This is the only time in my career I actually

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Speaker 2: had to cancel a show because all these Jega master

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Speaker 2: that Tim, that Tim brought to the you know, every

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Speaker 2: He wanted I think he bought like one hundred Yeaga

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Speaker 2: just made his song Seek Romance and he was a

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Speaker 2: worldwide hit, so obviously he had something to celebrate them. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So actually I'm a little bit how can you say that,

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Speaker 2: I'm not really proud of that story, but anyway.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's iconic. You're allowed to do that if

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Speaker 1: you're out with a legend like that, So it's okay exactly.

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Speaker 2: So that's you know, that's that's one of the main

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Speaker 2: called Salute, because Tim obviously he wasn't a close friend

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Speaker 2: do a song that had that which you feel, and

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Speaker 2: I didn't know what to call it, so I just

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely fitting. I mean, I don't know, your

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Speaker 1: are there plans to meet John Ham? Because I need

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Speaker 2: You know what, I didn't know that. This is what's

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Speaker 2: know it, he you know, he's the reason obviously why

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, we need that, We need you behind the

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Speaker 1: it out in the universe. It has to happen. You

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Speaker 1: talked about shows. What are the plans for twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: You said you're getting a hit up with Buy some

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Speaker 1: People to do collabse what do we have coming up

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Speaker 2: To be one hundred percent honest, Jason, I don't have

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Speaker 2: an international agent, Okay, so right now, obviously my manager

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Speaker 2: back home here in Denmark is using every hour awake

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Speaker 1: Right now, are busy. I'm sure your team is busy,

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Speaker 1: right they are.

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Speaker 2: And obviously I want to get out there because you know,

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Speaker 2: I've been doing for many years, but the last five

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Speaker 2: years I've been focusing more on my main markets back

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Speaker 2: home here in Denmark, the festival, So obviously I would

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Speaker 2: love to have another run just around the world, and

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Speaker 2: especially now because I've never had a song like this before,

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Speaker 2: to see how this works out when you're actually playing it.

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Speaker 2: So obviously we're doing everything we can to set up

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well yeah, I'm gonna manifest. Also, besides you

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Speaker 2: Okay, Hey, that means more than you know, Jason, because

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'm so happy. It couldn't happen to a

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Speaker 1: song the tribute to Avichi. It's called Salute. Make sure

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Speaker 1: then big things come in where you are manifesting it

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Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six, big things coming for Kato. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining me today and good luck

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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you so much. Thank you,