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Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.

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Speaker 2: And Kevin An iHeartRadio podcast.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to You, and that's what you're really miss this podcast,

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Speaker 1: No No No Exclusive Exclusive Part two Part two, Part two.

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Speaker 2: We had Adamanders, the music producer extraordinary, talking about his

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Speaker 2: new movie and all things Glee, and I mean, you

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Speaker 2: couldn't shut us up.

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Speaker 1: There's so much to talk about still, so there was

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Speaker 1: too much to put in one episode. It's really the truth.

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Speaker 2: We might even have to have him back again, I know.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 1: Well he wants to turn the tables on us, so

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Speaker 1: maybe he can interview us instead.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, Okay, get into it. This is part

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Speaker 2: two with Adamanders.

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Speaker 1: Talk to me about the mashup?

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Speaker 3: Oh the pain of my existence?

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Speaker 2: Really?

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Speaker 3: So I think Bill. I didn't interview with Bill when

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Speaker 3: they asked me once because that was like a thing

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Speaker 3: we came up with it. Yeah, yeah, but it was

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Speaker 3: a lyric thing, right, because they were trying to tell

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Speaker 3: a story in the scripts, Well what if we take

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Speaker 3: the verse of this song in the chorus of this song.

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Speaker 3: So Bill Magazine was like, so what is a mashup?

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Speaker 3: And I said, well, you take two perfectly good songs

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Speaker 3: and you put them together to make one bad songs.

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Speaker 3: How I described the mashup, that's funny, and usually it

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Speaker 3: was true. There were some good ones, so, like singing

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Speaker 3: in the rain Umbrella was really cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the coolest.

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Speaker 4: My favorite was the Adele mashup.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's the best.

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Speaker 3: That was the best. That was probably my favorite moment

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Speaker 3: on the show. Yeah, so the cool thing. So behind

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Speaker 3: the scenes thing there was Adele did not approve us

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Speaker 3: smashing those two songs up. And it was someone like

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Speaker 3: you and rumor has it, and she said no, she

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Speaker 3: denied us. So then I said, well, crap, let's just

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Speaker 3: do it and hopefully she'll like it and she'll change

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Speaker 3: her mind. So we produced it without approval. So we

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Speaker 3: did this version and I sent her the demo and

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Speaker 3: or wrote to rock Stream a rough stringer because she

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Speaker 3: signed it. She was signing from it. Yeah, and she

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Speaker 3: came back said, I freaking love this. It's approved, and

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Speaker 3: only that then she started tweeting about it. Remember she's

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Speaker 3: got it like eighty million views on it before the

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Speaker 3: show even the episode came out.

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Speaker 4: Wow, she loved it so much.

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Speaker 3: So that was really one of those moments you're like Okay,

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Speaker 3: that's cool, Like what we did enough to change her

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Speaker 3: mind and improve it.

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Speaker 2: So I mean that was undeniable. That was taking two

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Speaker 2: brilliant songs and also making a brilliant matter. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was really really good.

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Speaker 4: Some of them are awful, let's be honest.

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Speaker 2: Some of them didn't work as well.

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Speaker 3: Now you know who I ran into the other day

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Speaker 3: with croudy Mouth chord or I was golfing and he

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Speaker 3: was just there. I'm like, what are you doing here?

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Speaker 3: Sounds right? Yeah, were some of the reason I thought

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Speaker 3: of that when you said that, because that those songs, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Those of those weird those those okay, those like funny

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Speaker 2: original songs that you'd be given lyrics to, like Trouty.

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Speaker 3: The know, like I'm supposed to make a song?

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Speaker 2: What Ian? What we were talking like Ian would normally

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Speaker 2: sort of write these insane lyrics and then you like,

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Speaker 2: good luck to you figure out I got some lyrics

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Speaker 2: that were so awful.

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Speaker 3: And then and then Ryan with the song was like,

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Speaker 3: the song's not good. I'm like, yeah, it's terrible, terrible, like,

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Speaker 3: but the lyrics like what am I supposed to do

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Speaker 4: And then what was like a my my Cup.

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Speaker 2: And then my Cup was a jam?

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Speaker 3: You guys, what was the big ass something?

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Speaker 1: Held to the know?

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Speaker 3: There was something.

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Speaker 5: My big ass heart, My big ass heart. That's the

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Speaker 5: one foor song I've ever written. I can't I can't

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Speaker 5: win them all. Hell to the and My Cup are jams.

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Speaker 1: They're jams, They're classics. Now I feel pretty pretty. That

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Speaker 1: was a great mashup.

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Speaker 3: Oh that was so good. I love that.

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Speaker 2: I think the original mashups were also brilliant. Halo Walking

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Speaker 2: in Sunshine it's, oh my god, so good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys liked them more than I did because

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Speaker 3: Aaron I had to figure those out and vocals together.

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Speaker 6: Trouble were two songs together, that's like twice the work

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Speaker 6: for one song, and then a cappella that takes days

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Speaker 3: Turn around one song. I'd be up all night all

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Speaker 1: The MASHs were pretty crazy, and they just threw two

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, no regard for if ones three four

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Speaker 3: It was just complete chaos.

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Speaker 2: You can also tell there were some of those who're like, oh,

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Speaker 2: two songs have nothing to do with each other. Yeah

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Speaker 2: that's right, yeah, music lyrically nothing.

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Speaker 3: So then we had to we'd have to pick a horse. Okay,

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Speaker 3: who's the boss like of these two songs? Yeah, destroyed

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Speaker 3: it was fun too. It was they were good challenges.

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Speaker 3: I like a challenge, so I would never say no,

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Speaker 3: like because there was a something I don't know button

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Speaker 3: for punishment, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Yah, I mean you're creative, like Okay, how do we

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Speaker 3: This? Actually was fun on the standpoint, like we have,

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Speaker 2: Speaking of challenges, did you when you first started we

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Speaker 2: met you, like when Jenna Amber, Chris and I or

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Speaker 2: hadn't worked with anybody yet because you're also asking Brad

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Speaker 1: Been in the auditions at least and kind of around us,

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Speaker 2: How did you go about from then and out?

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Speaker 2: Was that something to consider this? I mean, because you

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: On in addition to figuring out how to turn around

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Speaker 3: I mean, and you're tired and you pull up the

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Speaker 3: I got five of you that have to be able

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Speaker 3: how do I split this up? And then the script

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Speaker 3: and you're trying to make it work with the story too.

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Speaker 3: You know, he's singing, yeah, but that doesn't work the

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Speaker 2: And who would end up most of the time singing

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I decided all that. Yeah. Wow, So that was

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Speaker 3: always the mind meld, Like that was so hard and

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Speaker 3: knowing you obviously, I got to know your voices really

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Speaker 3: stuff that was a complete like, well that didn't work

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Speaker 3: you learn, okay, I'm not doing that again. You keep

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Speaker 3: notes and yeah, but it was hard, man, when you

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Speaker 3: eight hundred times, what's the rule? Seven thousand hours?

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Speaker 1: Yeah one, so expert expert? What about those original songs,

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Speaker 1: like original original, like the good ones like Loser like

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Speaker 3: That was fun? I remember Ryan call then you wanted

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Speaker 3: Actually pair of called him in Sweden and we got

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Speaker 3: I had to write melody lyrics.

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Speaker 2: And no pressure. Just that's the biggest Max.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and this idea of the loser like me hit

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Speaker 3: me and I wrote this whole lyric for the chorus.

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Speaker 3: I sent it to Max, whose name is actually Martin

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Speaker 3: by the way, Martin to the Max crazy, So I, uh,

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Speaker 3: that's so Swedish. By the way, if you know Swedes,

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Speaker 3: Max Martin, it's the most Swedish thing ever. But anyway,

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Speaker 3: I sent him this lyric and he's like, I don't

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Speaker 3: get it. Why would anyone want to be a loser?

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, dude, have you watched the show?

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Speaker 3: No? And I'm like, watch the show and call me back.

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Speaker 3: So he watched the show and he calls me back. Okay,

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Speaker 3: it's brilliant.

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Speaker 2: This is key here. It's very important for TV.

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Speaker 4: And uh yeah. So that was the number one. That

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Speaker 3: I love that song. And that same episode, the number

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Speaker 3: two song was get It Right, which was a song

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Speaker 3: Nikki and Parre and I wrote. It was just really

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Speaker 2: When we would get to do those types of songs,

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Speaker 4: So that's where the Swedish factory came in.

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Speaker 3: When we had an army of people doing that too

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Speaker 3: seven patch. You know. That was you know it's hard

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Speaker 2: But which Ryan also lucked out by hiring you guys,

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Speaker 3: always looking at the bottom line. They're like, how do

441
00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:58,000
Speaker 3: we get rid of this guy?

442
00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,919
Speaker 2: Yeah, because teams no idea how music works.

443
00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:02,520
Speaker 3: You don't get it. They had no idea what we

444
00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,720
Speaker 3: were doing. They thought I was pocketing all the money.

445
00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,640
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, I've got like freaking armies on two

446
00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:08,480
Speaker 3: sides of the world.

447
00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:14,240
Speaker 2: You running the entirety of Challice Studios, not cheap, cheap.

448
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:18,040
Speaker 3: It was a huge operation, and so I felt at

449
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:19,399
Speaker 3: the same time I was looking on my shoulder.

450
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,360
Speaker 4: I felt very secure because.

451
00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:24,240
Speaker 3: I knew Ryan would have my back number one. Yeah

452
00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:28,600
Speaker 3: and extreme. Yeah. Ryan's extremely loyal, That's the enough thing.

453
00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:30,919
Speaker 3: He's so loyal, and he liked what I do, so

454
00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:33,399
Speaker 3: he's not going to let them replace me. But they tried,

455
00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:35,159
Speaker 3: and so I looked on my shoulder. I was like,

456
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:36,639
Speaker 3: never really that nervous because I'm.

457
00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 4: Like, you can't.

458
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, nobody can do this is bonkers.

459
00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:42,639
Speaker 4: So yeah they tried.

460
00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 3: But yeah, there were times I did walk away.

461
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:46,160
Speaker 4: At one point.

462
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,720
Speaker 3: I can't remember which season it was, because I think

463
00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,119
Speaker 3: it was around there when I said when things up

464
00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,520
Speaker 3: changed and they stopped gunning for me, I just said,

465
00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,119
Speaker 3: I'm done. I'm just going to walk away. And in

466
00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:57,240
Speaker 3: the off season I quit.

467
00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:00,040
Speaker 4: And that lasted a day.

468
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:04,280
Speaker 3: Right right, Yeah, he fixed it.

469
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 4: You know, so, uh yeah, it was overall them.

470
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,480
Speaker 3: You know. Dana Walden was such a supporter, Jen Sulky,

471
00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:16,920
Speaker 3: huge champions mine, and they were so great and they

472
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:17,400
Speaker 3: still are.

473
00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,000
Speaker 4: I mean now they've gone on to run the world.

474
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,480
Speaker 1: Yeah literally, Box Disney.

475
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,800
Speaker 3: It's crazy what they're doing. But they were huge supporters

476
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 3: of mine and always took care of me.

477
00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,120
Speaker 4: So in the end it worked out.

478
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,480
Speaker 3: But it's weird, man, when you're doing something well and

479
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 3: they're still want to get rid of you. That's a

480
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:32,280
Speaker 3: weird feeling.

481
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure it is. And it's like I have

482
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,440
Speaker 2: no time to sleep, and you also, this is how

483
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:39,160
Speaker 2: this is what I'm getting so I have to deal

484
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:40,160
Speaker 2: with on top of this cool.

485
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was yeah, that's that's that's life.

486
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, the phenomenon it is. It was

487
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 1: like and you know, the way everybody was looking at

488
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 1: the baseline. There's so many of us in the Cats

489
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:54,679
Speaker 1: that like, at times like I felt expendable. You know,

490
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 1: it's just like, how do we get rid of characters?

491
00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,439
Speaker 1: How do we make this cheaper? How do we you know?

492
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,159
Speaker 1: And it just felt like I think it was just

493
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 1: the juggernaut of it all, like you know, them trying

494
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: to kind of, I don't know, manage the empire.

495
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 3: So you know what I did though, And I'm I

496
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 3: think it happened late enough in my career, like still

497
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,119
Speaker 3: at pretty early. I was young, but I had been

498
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 3: around enough that I recognized what a special moment this

499
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,679
Speaker 3: was and how unusual this success was and that this

500
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 3: was like the Beatles, And I did appreciate it while

501
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 3: we were doing it as far as it was you

502
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,159
Speaker 3: were you both of you were two of the cast

503
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,479
Speaker 3: members that I felt like appreciated what was going on,

504
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 3: and not everybody did. You guys know, that and kind

505
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:38,400
Speaker 3: of want it out right away, And I'm like, why

506
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,879
Speaker 3: would you want out something that's lightning in a bottle?

507
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,160
Speaker 3: Like this is never going to happen in our lives again,

508
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,879
Speaker 3: Like that will literally still be the most successful musical

509
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:47,520
Speaker 3: on TV. Ever.

510
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 4: It's never going to be topped.

511
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, no chance. And we're part of that and that's

512
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 3: special and that happens once in a career. Really, Frankly,

513
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 3: I was kept trying to remind people, my son, you

514
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 3: know how special this is, Like I know it's hard,

515
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 3: I know it sucks, but hang in, you know, because

516
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 3: it's Yeah, it's really an amazing ride.

517
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 1: That' wrong.

518
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 3: That's hard for young really young people starting their career.

519
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 3: Most of you, I don't know most of you had

520
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:14,159
Speaker 3: it was like your first thing.

521
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 2: Almost, yeah, all of us.

522
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's hard to have any perspective. You have

523
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:19,720
Speaker 3: nothing to compare it to totally.

524
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 1: You had a lot of the adult guy you know,

525
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 1: actors come in and they would kind of give their peace,

526
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,679
Speaker 1: but they would always say, you know, like this is

527
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 1: really special, you guys, and you know, we're lucky to

528
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 1: have jobs, and you know, as simple as that, like

529
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 1: you're just really lucky to have a really amazing job

530
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 1: with good people, and then you know, take it to

531
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,479
Speaker 1: another level. This is a one Ryan said to us

532
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 1: a lot. This will never happen again in your real life,

533
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 1: so really try to you know, take that perspective. And

534
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 1: you know, he's try.

535
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:49,680
Speaker 3: It's not that easy just to go do something else.

536
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not. It's just easy.

537
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 2: It is because when you're surrounded by success and you're

538
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 2: during that time, everybody's getting asked to do a billion things,

539
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,800
Speaker 2: and it feels like that's just how it's always going

540
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 2: to be. It's like, well, no, people want you because

541
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,679
Speaker 2: you're a part of this thing that is very successful,

542
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 2: so once you're not.

543
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:13,920
Speaker 3: Not so much. Yeah, it's one hundred percent. But I'm

544
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,639
Speaker 3: very proud of what we did and I'm proud of

545
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 3: you know you guys and so many that have gone

546
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 3: on to do things and are still doing things. And

547
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 3: which is it's hard because we all have like this.

548
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:30,639
Speaker 3: When it ended, there's like there's a deflating feeling to it,

549
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 3: like we peaked. It's over now and then yeah, and

550
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 3: it's a weird thing. And I remember telling Perr when

551
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,720
Speaker 3: Glee was ending, he was like, oh, you know, we're

552
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 3: going to go do a bunch of things now, I said,

553
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:48,640
Speaker 3: we're not going to get hired for a while. What

554
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 3: what you talked about? We just did the biggest thing ever.

555
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 3: I said, yeah, but everybody wants to do musical, but

556
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 3: nobody wants it to sound like Glee. Yeah, don't want

557
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,120
Speaker 3: something different. So we were like a pariah for a while.

558
00:25:58,600 --> 00:25:59,199
Speaker 2: We want to.

559
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 3: So the reason I got into creating my own content

560
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 3: was because I had to create my own work.

561
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 2: You had some foresight, Yeah, so I.

562
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 3: Started selling shows. I knew it was coming, and I

563
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 3: started selling my shows before so I could give.

564
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,879
Speaker 4: Myself work basically, keep my team working.

565
00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: We're walking into them like we're here.

566
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 2: You could have just sent that out to all of it.

567
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 3: It was just a memo, ya, and you know what,

568
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 3: We're back.

569
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 2: Right, It's been enough time.

570
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 3: No, it was definitely sad. It's like, you know, even

571
00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 3: like doing this movie. You know, you work so closely

572
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,200
Speaker 3: together and then just gone everything.

573
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: It's like summer camp.

574
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a huge hole. But then we get back

575
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 4: together like this is like we never.

576
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 2: Left exactly, did Alex? Your whole everything you do is

577
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 2: I feel like such a wonderful like family, affair. Your wife,

578
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 2: Nikki is an incredible singer and songwriter and like the

579
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:58,080
Speaker 2: loveliest person. Alex is extremely talented. I mean the vocals

580
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 2: he would get out of us. We would go back

581
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,879
Speaker 2: to set and say his little mannerisms. He became like

582
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 2: a part of the glee club to us. He probably

583
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 2: didn't even know it because.

584
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 1: He'd be like scoop to the new would always do

585
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 1: that make.

586
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,239
Speaker 2: Us laugh so frustrated at us. Court had a very

587
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:16,160
Speaker 2: good Alex impression.

588
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:16,880
Speaker 1: He really did.

589
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,919
Speaker 2: How was that, you know, being able to just you know,

590
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 2: you have this base to rely on people you trust

591
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 2: inherently to pull from, to be like, okay, I have

592
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:28,679
Speaker 2: to stay in the studio to arrange all these things.

593
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 2: Let me pull on you know, my brother for example,

594
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 2: to come and sort of run this well.

595
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 3: Season one was the hardest season because I had no team.

596
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 3: It was Parana both.

597
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 2: You were doing everything literally every session.

598
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 3: And I got it was so hard that I don't

599
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 3: know how many people know. I got very ill after

600
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 3: season one. I actually got a tumor in my spinal

601
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 3: cord that they said was probably stress replated and I

602
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 3: had like spinal cord surgeony and it was on my

603
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,880
Speaker 3: brain stem. I always died between season one and two.

604
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 3: It was so bad, and I'm like, I can't do this.

605
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 3: I need clone myself. And I'm like, wait a minute,

606
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 3: he's on the East coast. Hey, bro, what are you doing.

607
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 3: We grew up together in the studio making records. That's

608
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 3: how we grew up. And you know, we mixed together,

609
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 3: we wrote together, we were in a band together. Like

610
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 3: we literally had the exact same musical upbringing. How much

611
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 3: closer can I get? He's a singer like me. He's

612
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 3: probably even more anal than me, because there's not many

613
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 3: people that have the level of perfectionism a parent I

614
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 3: have worse than me.

615
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 4: Yes, I tried to calm him down.

616
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,919
Speaker 3: Leah like we did her Christmas album and she was

617
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 3: so relieved it was me and not him. We didn't

618
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 3: hear this.

619
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 4: Oh, it's so much easier. He's so tough.

620
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: He is really tough, tough. You're tough too, but he's

621
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: really tough.

622
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 2: But what you go do vocals with anybody else after

623
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 2: the two of you, and it's a braz no, but

624
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 2: like no is good. Nobody gets the vocals that it's

625
00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 2: so true, it's so true, you know.

626
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 3: What's funny is the reason he is more difficult to

627
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 3: work with than me is because at the end of

628
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 3: the day, I can say that's good enough, right, and

629
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 3: I can say, yeah, you can change that, or no,

630
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 3: you know, I like that's better. Whatever. Since he wasn't,

631
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 3: the buck didn't stop with him, so he was His

632
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 3: job was to get what I had arranged on tape

633
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 3: with you. Period. He wouldn't stop till he had it.

634
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 3: But he wasn't authorized in a way.

635
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 4: To go, that'll do.

636
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can go, I'm sick of this crap, moving on,

637
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 3: moving on, like my whole doll said. So that's why

638
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 3: it's probably easier with me, but we're both just as anal.

639
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 3: So he moved out to work on Glee season two,

640
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 3: and yeah, it stayed from that point on, and it

641
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 3: was like having a clone and then freed me up

642
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 3: to just doing all of it. Was just impossible do

643
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 3: this and who else. There's nobody else that I know

644
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,760
Speaker 3: that can do this like I do. Right, So that

645
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 3: was a huge blessing to have him come out and

646
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 3: everybody took to him and loved him and.

647
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 4: Did an amazing job. He worked his butt off.

648
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 2: He sure did.

649
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, So yeah, the team and Alex and Pair and

650
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 3: everybody in Sweden, that whole team. They were amazing Nicki.

651
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 3: You know all the duets for Nicki and I together

652
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 3: ranging those together, Which that's why it has a magic

653
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 3: when you know the Corey and Leah duets.

654
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 4: That was.

655
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 3: Having written songs and sung together for a decade at

656
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:28,959
Speaker 3: that point and having a band Toget we had.

657
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 4: We were artists together duo, so we had.

658
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 3: A chemistry in our heart and get that transferred right

659
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 3: to Corey and Leah and to other duets in the show.

660
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 3: So there's all these little magic things that happened just

661
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 3: because of who the team was behind the scenes, and

662
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 3: it was very special.

663
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 4: Nicki.

664
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 3: I remember she was giving birth to our second child

665
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 3: and she was so pregnant. I propped her up in

666
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 3: a chair, but I need her to keep singing, So

667
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 3: I popped her legs up above her head and hung

668
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 3: a mic over her face so she could keep singing

669
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 3: because her ankles were so swollen. The show must go on. Yeah,

670
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 3: but we loved it. You remember that, which is that childish.

671
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 3: She was so pregnant.

672
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 2: I was like, what are you doing here? She was

673
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 2: always like smiling, so nice.

674
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 4: And then she did Glee Project Pregnant too.

675
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right.

676
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 3: It was crazy.

677
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 4: We all worked hard, but we loved it.

678
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 3: You know. It was fun and you get so much joy.

679
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 3: You know, that's the view of musicals, right, If you

680
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 3: just do a show with only dialogue day and night,

681
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 3: there's something you long for, that that break you get

682
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 3: in musical. Okay, it's time to do the music and

683
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 3: then everything unfer a minute. You cut loose and you're

684
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 3: dancing and you're singing, and it's such a great release

685
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 3: for everyone. I found that making the movie. It was like, okay,

686
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 3: we got through the dialogue, let's do a song.

687
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it is.

688
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 3: It gives you. And it's the same working on music

689
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 3: all the time because it's so fun and it's so

690
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 3: life giving.

691
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes you feel in a completely different way.

692
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 4: It really does.

693
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 3: And they were amazing songs, and you guys were amazing

694
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 3: and it was just fun. If everybody sucked and was

695
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 3: difficult and had no talent, I would have quit.

696
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 2: Right, I remember it. There was one time where you

697
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 2: came you're coming in and out. I think it might've

698
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 2: been one of my first sessions with Alex and I

699
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 2: was recording the hair mashup? Is that what it was?

700
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 2: And I wasn't originally supposed to sing it, but like

701
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 2: none of us could do it. We all sounded terrible,

702
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 2: Mark Corey, myself. And then you come in to like

703
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 2: check up and you're like, no, I had to finished

704
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 2: the entire song and you go, do this line like this,

705
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 2: and I do it and you go, that's it. Start over,

706
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 2: and I was like, you've got You've got to be

707
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 2: kidding me. But it was those things that taught me

708
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 2: so much, and then I knew. I'm like, oh god,

709
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 2: now they know I can do it right, and so

710
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 2: now there's like certain things that I we're gonna have

711
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 2: to do. And I absolutely did the rest of the series.

712
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 3: And if you show me something you're good at, oh

713
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 3: it's god. Like Amber with her ad libs, She's like,

714
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 3: please don't make me do Atlism and you're doing the

715
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 3: ad lit.

716
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: Every ad list.

717
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 2: A lot of times Amber and I would pass each

718
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 2: other in the hallways at Challice and she'll have just

719
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 2: come out looking so deflated, defeated, and she's like, I

720
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 2: can't do this.

721
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 3: She's like in a closet, I'm out of the closet,

722
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 3: I'm like begging her to come out. I'm bribing her,

723
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 3: please come out.

724
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 6: The cars outside waiting to take you back to Seth

725
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 6: They're calling, you haven't started singing. You have to come

726
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 6: out of the closet. She's like, go away, Like Amber, please,

727
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 6: what do you want? I'll call him massus food, Like

728
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 6: what do you want? She's like, oh, hey, I'm napping.

729
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 2: She and I would really connect over the music and

730
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 2: we'd lose our minds because she came out. She's like,

731
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 2: I said, angels, we have heard on high into another

732
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 2: song she did back to back, She's like, I'm never

733
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 2: gonna be able to again. I'm like, you're gonna be

734
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 2: fined in two hours. You're going to be.

735
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 3: Really I spent all you guys. I mean, if you

736
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 3: go down the list, there were so many good singers.

737
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 3: Both of you were awesome. I mean Leah is great,

738
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 3: Nia was amazing. I mean Corey was the one probably

739
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 3: had sung the least coming in.

740
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 2: But you got that out of him.

741
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, don't believe it was the first time

742
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 3: he's sung in this dude, like, what are we doing?

743
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,479
Speaker 3: And he couldn't breathe. He almost passed out. He didn't

744
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 3: want to breathe and sing at the same time. He

745
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 3: turned blue and he's like getting dizzy, Like what are

746
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 3: you doing? He's like what, I'm like, you have to breathe, man,

747
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 3: pretty amazing scene where he started, where he ended up,

748
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 3: and Matt Morrison was made.

749
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 4: It was just it was a juggernaut of talent.

750
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 3: It really was.

751
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 2: You also got to work with all of our guest stars.

752
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 2: We had so many insanely like famous and people just

753
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 2: wanted to be on the show. Right, what was your experience,

754
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 2: you know, when you have Gwenn coming in and Chris

755
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 2: and Ricky Martin, all these people.

756
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 3: It was awesome. It was fun.

757
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,280
Speaker 4: John Stamos, who bought my house.

758
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, when he came to.

759
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 3: Look at my house, I heard he was coming. I

760
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 3: put his songs on in the house. These songs were

761
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 3: playing when he looked at the house. Pretty funny. Gwyneth.

762
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:18,720
Speaker 4: I remember working with Gwyneth.

763
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 3: We we became pretty good friends and and but I

764
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 3: always reminded her I was just trying to get to Chris,

765
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 3: you know, I'm really.

766
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,720
Speaker 4: Just using you to get to your husband.

767
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 3: And sure enough, one day I get a phone call, Hey, Adam,

768
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,840
Speaker 3: it's Chris Mot Like what he's like, I got tickets

769
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 3: to you for you Hollywood Bow for a show tonight

770
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 3: in the after par what so Gwyneth had set it up.

771
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: Oh my god.

772
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 3: Uh So things like that were really special. And Kate

773
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 3: Hudson was awesome. Yeah, they were amazing guest stars. So

774
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 3: those are the things you remember and you kind of

775
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 3: pinch yourself. Oscar winners, you know, and Tony Award winners

776
00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 3: and just just phenomenal people. And they were all there

777
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 3: was fun to work with, you know. It's like the

778
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 3: bigger the star, the more fun they work with.

779
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they always surprised us all too, because you'd

780
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,879
Speaker 1: be like, oh my god, and like everybody stand up straight, but.

781
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:20,800
Speaker 7: They're like, hey, guys, what's going on. It's really nice.

782
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 1: I just want to know if there's any any songs

783
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: that you worked at well obviously that didn't get approved

784
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,399
Speaker 1: by the artist, like after doing it.

785
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, yeah, well not after doing it. A lot

786
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 3: of songs didn't get approved to begin with. It was

787
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 3: never supposed to be don't stop believing it was supposed

788
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 3: to be Viva LaVita by speaking of Chris Martin, right,

789
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 3: that's right, and we were denied and that's how we

790
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 3: fell into Don't Step Believing, which, by the way, what

791
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 3: a great thing that was, because I don't think the

792
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 3: show it was Don't Stop Believing. Like everybody still thinks

793
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 3: that's a Glee song. You know, I have no idea

794
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 3: Journey existed. That's pretty amazing. You are the original artists,

795
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 3: and I don't know if you knew.

796
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: That's right, Ye, take all the credit.

797
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 3: There were a lot of I don't remember the Food

798
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 3: Fighters debacle with Ryan. Yeah, in kings Lan, we got

799
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 3: denied by rock bands all the time, and Ryan would

800
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 3: get pissed and didn't come out and say like food

801
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 3: fighters hate children or something.

802
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: It was to kings of Lean or something like that,

803
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 1: and that's right.

804
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 3: And then food Fighters came to their defense, and I

805
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 3: was like, never getting any of our songs. And I

806
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 3: was in I was in Ryan's office when that happened,

807
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 3: and he kind of looks at me, and one of

808
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 3: the funniest Ryan moments, He's like, so maybe I should

809
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,799
Speaker 3: have said that I probably went too far. I'm like,

810
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 3: he went too far. Oh my gosh, Like we're never

811
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 3: gonna get a rock music. So yeah, not much rock

812
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 3: music made it onto the show thanks to the Kings

813
00:37:59,040 --> 00:37:59,760
Speaker 3: of Leon incident.

814
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 2: We might have a couple songs were not supposed to have,

815
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:08,919
Speaker 2: like the unreleased version of tell Him, Oh Oh.

816
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 1: We have I Love the Way You Lie.

817
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got probably one hundred songs in my hard

818
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 3: drive that didn't come out.

819
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 2: So how should you have now? Should we you have that?

820
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 2: There have them?

821
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 3: I don't know. If it's so long now don't have

822
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 3: The hard drive will spin up, but they are somewhere.

823
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 2: If you have a couple of minutes one day and

824
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:37,439
Speaker 2: are board after promoting your movie, if the hard drive

825
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 2: still works, you drop a pin and we'll be there.

826
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,720
Speaker 4: That is not like gold playing those songs.

827
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 2: There's this mashup. I got to hear it. I never

828
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 2: got to hear it.

829
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 4: You know what's crazy.

830
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 3: I couldn't tell you which songs came out and which

831
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 3: ones didn't.

832
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 4: Fair It is all a blur.

833
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 3: I'm sure after I can remember there.

834
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 4: Was did you do a song on Gleam like I'm

835
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 4: sure we did.

836
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 3: I can't tell you. People go this song you did?

837
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 3: I did that song? I don't remember. I mean when

838
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 3: you're doing eight ten songs a week for seven years happening,

839
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 3: and it's remarkable how many things we did, so I

840
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:13,800
Speaker 3: don't even know. You guys have to tell me. You

841
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 3: have to come over and go. We did not want

842
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 3: came out that one. Didn't that Kevin, I have no clue.

843
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 3: There's an episode of your podcast exactly.

844
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: All the fans are dying.

845
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:31,800
Speaker 2: They're like, there's a billion lawsuits. Yes everyone, right before

846
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 2: we go? Is there a song that we didn't do

847
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 2: that you wish we could have done?

848
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 4: He's like, you know, parent aways want to do.

849
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 3: The show must go on in the last episode.

850
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 4: I thought that would have been awesome.

851
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 1: Yeah.

852
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 3: One, we're big queen fans, so yeah, that would have

853
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,880
Speaker 3: been fun. And then we should have done more Rabba.

854
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 3: I just got to say, we didn't do enough Abba.

855
00:39:58,239 --> 00:39:59,919
Speaker 2: I can never do enough Abba.

856
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:04,359
Speaker 3: Winner Takes It All would have been amazing to do. Yeah,

857
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 3: so I'm a little bitter about that. But okay, none

858
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 3: of Swedish. We did a lot of Swedish music, a

859
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 3: lot of pop songs, right, a lot of them. So

860
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 3: that's but look, we did almost everything. There wasn't much

861
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:19,359
Speaker 3: that was left untouched. We did West Side Story, which

862
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 3: is my favorite. We didn't do any sound of music,

863
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 3: which is you know, a sound of music that would

864
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 3: have been fun. But I'm pretty pretty uh fulfilled with

865
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 3: the catalog we have from Glee.

866
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: I think i'd say audio work.

867
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 3: Did I say my career ended there? It would have

868
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 3: been like, Wow, that was cool. Okay, now cleaning pools

869
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 3: for a living or whatever. But yeah, it was pretty remarkable,

870
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,439
Speaker 3: that whole that whole thing.

871
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: Okay, Before we let you go, we asked one question

872
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: to the people who are involved with Glee. What is

873
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: the feeling like Lee left you with?

874
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 3: Gratitude?

875
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 4: I think a lot gratitude and some sadness.

876
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 3: I think, you know, I miss some people obviously, so

877
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 3: I miss Corey and and Naya of course, but a

878
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Speaker 3: lot of gratitude. It's just I think back and it

879
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 3: just I smile, you know, I really do. It was

880
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 3: a special time, what an amazingly rewarding experience with amazing people.

881
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 3: And I'm so fortunate that I knew when I was

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00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 3: doing it. Yeah, that's key, and I feel really grateful

883
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 3: for that.

884
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 4: As hard as it was, that sustained us. And yeah,

885
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 4: just grateful.

886
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,879
Speaker 3: That's the where that comes to mind, and really fun

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00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 3: to catch up with you guys again. We have to

888
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 3: actually come on, we have to see what are we doing.

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00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's here, let's do that.

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Speaker 1: Congrats everybody, go see Adam's movie and November tenth, and

891
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 1: thank you for like just coming back. It's just so

892
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: nice to see you.

893
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 2: And nice to congrats on Journey about the him, Like

894
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 2: what a crazy you did after seventeen yours like this,

895
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:02,760
Speaker 2: absolutely incredible.

896
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:04,800
Speaker 3: I may never work again, but I did it.

897
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 2: I mean you did it. You've done a lot. You've

898
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 2: done a lot.

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00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, I may not want to work again.

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00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 2: You need to just take a nap. Sit down, take

901
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 2: a nap. You've heard it. Thank you for spending so

902
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 2: much time with us today and that. Yeah, let's hang

903
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 2: out and we can talk forever.

904
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Speaker 3: So how about we do it. We'll spend a whole

905
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:22,320
Speaker 3: day together.

906
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 2: Great, say hi to the fan for us.

907
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: I will thank you. Okay. I hope you guys really

908
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 1: enjoyed Adam as much as we did, because that was awesome.

909
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Speaker 1: Thank you Adam for joining us for so much time.

910
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Speaker 1: Congratulations on your movie. Go see it, you guys, Journey

911
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: to Bethlehem. It's a musical movie. This is a key audience.

912
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is.

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00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: We learned so much. I'm sorry in shock, I just

915
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 2: didn't Yeah, the music department, that whole world was literally

916
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 2: a different world from our every day of spending like

917
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Speaker 2: sixteen hours fifteen hours on set m HM, and the

918
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:07,320
Speaker 2: whole thing. They had to do the entirety for seven years. Also,

919
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 2: you know, producing eight hundred and was seventeen songs, but

920
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 2: only seven hundred and something came out, and so he

921
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 2: still did over eight hundred numbers, damn. And that's just

922
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 2: you also don't even the amount of time and care

923
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Speaker 2: it took to do these things. Like when we wish

924
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 2: up to record, they would even come in and figure

925
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 2: out which mike was best for our voice on that

926
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Speaker 2: style of song. So all these little things added up

927
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:35,919
Speaker 2: to so much time and care and six seasons, seven

928
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:39,320
Speaker 2: years that never let up. And so it was really

929
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Speaker 2: a feat. And I don't think anyone's ever going to

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Speaker 2: be able to match what they did, just the amount

931
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Speaker 2: of work that they did ever. Yep, thank you Adam again.

932
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Speaker 2: It's so special to get to catch up and sharing

933
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Speaker 2: it with all of you who are listening. We'll see

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Speaker 2: you next week.

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Speaker 1: That's why you're really missed.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening and follow us on Instagram at and

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00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 2: that's what you really miss pod make sure to write

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Speaker 2: us a review and leave us five stars. See you

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Speaker 2: next time.