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Speaker 1: Fly from the Mercedes Benz interview Lounge. We're about to

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Speaker 1: talk to Max George. He's zooming in from the UK.

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Speaker 1: Hope this thing works anyway. It's been over ten years

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Speaker 1: since we've seen Max and The Wanted. They're all in

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Speaker 1: our studios and I can't believe it's been that long.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy. How old does that make me? Now? God? Okay,

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Speaker 1: moving on?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, can we move on from that? There is?

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Speaker 1: Hey, Max, welcome to the show. It's good to see

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Speaker 1: you at long last. I mean, it's been ten over

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Speaker 1: ten years.

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Speaker 2: Over ten years, guys. Yeah, and I'm delighted to be

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Speaker 2: on the show. Thanks so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, So Max and Siva from The Wanted back together.

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Speaker 1: They're doing The Wanted two point zero, which I think

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Speaker 1: is a brilliant idea. Yeah, and you're traveling around the

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Speaker 1: world and you're you're coming to New York. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about that show in a second.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna be.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be to like pop back on the road

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Speaker 1: and do this. You must be just beside yourself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'll be honest, obvious. I've been I've

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Speaker 2: been asking the band to get back together from about

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Speaker 2: a week after we split up the first time in

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Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, so a few years ago. It almost happened,

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Speaker 2: but then COVID hit and then unfortunately Tom got ill,

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Speaker 2: and then since then myself and Seva have been plugging

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Speaker 2: away and had a lot of conversations with everyone, and

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Speaker 2: the best thing for everyone was that me and sever

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Speaker 2: take the one two point oh forward. And what better

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Speaker 2: place to start than, you know, the greatest city on

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Speaker 2: earth in my opinion.

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Speaker 1: I love that. Well, thank you, Honored to have you back. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know when Tom got ill, you all came together

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Speaker 1: and I remember seeing you guys on stage singing with him,

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Speaker 1: and I was we were all touched. We've been watching you,

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Speaker 1: We've been stalking you.

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Speaker 2: I've been watching you too. Rate you look amazing by

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Speaker 2: the way.

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Speaker 1: Oh come on, you know what you want a piece

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Speaker 1: of Big Daddy, doesn't you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah to be Yeah, I did like the bear about you.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, we of course are dog Max. We

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Speaker 1: named Max after Max. Yeah, that's how we got the

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Speaker 1: name because my husband Alex wants to have sex with Max.

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Speaker 2: Joe listening, I mean, I was going to say, the

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Speaker 2: greatest accolade of mine is the fact that you name

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Speaker 2: your dog after me, other than your husband wanted to

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Speaker 2: have sex with me, I think that might be number one.

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Speaker 1: Now what a wonder? Yeah, So what was that conversation? Like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Wanted was such a huge part of

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Speaker 1: our lives those many years ago, and now you're coming

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Speaker 1: back as two point zero. What was that interaction like

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Speaker 1: between the two of you?

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Speaker 2: The word thing was is that when the first time

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Speaker 2: around myself Inceiver, weren't you know, the closest We were

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Speaker 2: close in terms of being together and as work colleagues,

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Speaker 2: and we got on really well, but we weren't like

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Speaker 2: really close. But then I think the last couple of years,

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Speaker 2: with certain things happening in our lives, I think maybe

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Speaker 2: changed perspective on certain things. And our passion for the

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Speaker 2: band and the music and celebrating all the hits that

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Speaker 2: we had with the fan base that we still have,

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Speaker 2: I think that we both just connected with it and

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Speaker 2: was like, we're going to do this, we need to

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Speaker 2: do this, and yeah, to be going on the road

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Speaker 2: and experiencing this with someone that is so passionate about

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Speaker 2: the wanted two point h and the wanted for what

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Speaker 2: we stood for is Yeah, I mean it's a mega

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Speaker 2: feeling man. And like I said, opening in New York

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Speaker 2: for me personally, it's like that's the dream man because

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Speaker 2: New York to me is my favorite city in the world.

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Speaker 1: Well, we're going to sell some tickets, I know, because

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Speaker 1: the information for Sony Hall and the performance is coming

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Speaker 1: up in a second. Did you want to ask Max something? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So you know, it's been ten years, so people's musical, taste, musical,

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Speaker 1: you know, everything changes. So what will be different now

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Speaker 1: from you know, from ten years ago.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think, first of all, I think we just

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Speaker 2: get better looking with age. I think that's one thing. Okay, Well,

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Speaker 2: I think when we sort of wrote the songs and

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Speaker 2: recorded the songs, our aim was to do timeless song.

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Speaker 2: Luckily for us, they've stood the test of time in

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Speaker 2: terms of Spotify and everything. Our numbers are really really good.

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Speaker 2: So I think all of that energy that's built up

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Speaker 2: over ten years, we're going to do all of the

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Speaker 2: hits that we had all over the world. In the UK,

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Speaker 2: I know, obviously in the US we GLADU Came was

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Speaker 2: our biggest tit. So Glad you came, we'll definitely be

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Speaker 2: in there. So we're just going to put a new

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Speaker 2: twist on all of our biggest songs, and just all

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Speaker 2: all of that built up energy over ten years, we're

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Speaker 2: just going to absolutely explode it in Sony Hall.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it has. But you guys have already toured before,

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Speaker 1: so you know each other well enough and you know

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Speaker 1: each other's road habits. Do you have rules for the

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Speaker 1: road while you're traveling together, rules for the road, tour bus,

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Speaker 1: stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: Na, that was more of a Tom thing that, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Tom Tom was he was the naughty boy out of everyone,

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Speaker 2: So yeah, he had tending to do that. And I remember, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean a few there's a few stories of the

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Speaker 2: tour bus, but toilet story is the best one. I

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Speaker 2: think was when we were absolutely hammered one night and

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Speaker 2: started Jay started having a week against the curtain where

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Speaker 2: the driver was thinking it was the toilet, and needless

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Speaker 2: to say, the driver wasn't very happy when he saw

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Speaker 2: it coming down the stairs. Still no, So yeah, none

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Speaker 2: of that, And to be honest, I think that it's

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Speaker 2: probably going to be a lot smoother this time in

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Speaker 2: terms of, you know, rules and stuff, because I haven't

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Speaker 2: had a drink in four years now, so I feel

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Speaker 2: like I'll not only be a lot calmer, but I

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Speaker 2: think I'll be able to enjoy it more and at

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Speaker 2: least remember where I've been.

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Speaker 1: And now you were here today, now you're Max George

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Speaker 1: two point oh. You know, it's it's all making sense.

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Speaker 1: And I love the fact that you sort of admitted

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Speaker 1: it when you guys were together back in the day.

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Speaker 1: You and see if I hate at each other, Oh

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Speaker 1: my god.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean I mean Siba probably hated me

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Speaker 2: more than hate Yeah, let's be hon I was. I

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Speaker 2: was a pain in the ass, let's say. But no,

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Speaker 2: we it was just that we had our own lives.

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Speaker 2: I think back then in terms of within the band,

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Speaker 2: you know, Civa was with Narisha and like me and

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Speaker 2: Tom were very close and sort of partying all the time.

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Speaker 2: So but I think like it's just gone full circle,

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Speaker 2: which to me is such a nice feeling.

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Speaker 1: Well, Max, it's great to have you on, it's great

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Speaker 1: to see you, and you look great and I can't

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Speaker 1: wait for the energy that you're going to bring into

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Speaker 1: town because there's a huge, huge mountain of the wanted

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Speaker 1: fans here in town. So they wanted two point Oh.

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Speaker 1: It's Max Georgie and Siva. They will be at Sony

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Speaker 1: Hall October sixth, So if you go to Sony Hall

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Speaker 1: dot com for October sixth with the Wanted two point

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Speaker 1: zero with Max and Siva, excellent. Should we make a request?

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Speaker 1: What should we play? Don't want it? Gladuc Yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Max,