WEBVTT - What’s The Deal With Fred again? 🎶

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<v Speaker 1>Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms.

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<v Speaker 2>This is the Flex and Frooms catch up podcast.

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<v Speaker 3>So today's podcast is about Freadagan. Absolutely no shade. And

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<v Speaker 3>when I say no shade, we are both fans of

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<v Speaker 3>Fred again, would you agree? Yeah, I'm a fan of

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<v Speaker 3>what's occurring. I love a music moment and a music movement.

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<v Speaker 4>This is what I'm saying though, Like I don't want

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<v Speaker 4>to get into like critical territory with no fun. I'm

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<v Speaker 4>obsessed with it. We need this kind of hysteria for

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<v Speaker 4>more things. I want to see people enthusiastic and happy

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<v Speaker 4>and excited in a mass way.

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<v Speaker 1>We just had people like mass aggressing for the.

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<v Speaker 4>Last two years, mass abusing, like mass ruining the vibe,

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<v Speaker 4>and now like the tides are turning and I want

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<v Speaker 4>to know more about it so we can replicate it

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<v Speaker 4>in every part of our life.

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<v Speaker 3>That's the only anthropological exercise that we need to do

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<v Speaker 3>is zone in on the vibe, pull it out and

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<v Speaker 3>process it, throw it around in the blender all around

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<v Speaker 3>our lives. Rabid Enthusiasm is in for twenty twenty three.

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<v Speaker 2>Que to the podcast.

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<v Speaker 3>Keeter Flex and fromes Flex and fromes Flexie. If there's

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<v Speaker 3>two words that are stuck between my teeth.

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<v Speaker 2>They're in there. I can't get him out. It's Fred,

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<v Speaker 2>It's again.

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<v Speaker 4>I always have things stuck in my teeth, and I'm

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<v Speaker 4>constantly asking for a toothpick, toothpick, toothpick, twopick.

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<v Speaker 3>He needs him industrial strength philosophy.

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<v Speaker 1>Talk to me, Baby, Fred Again?

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<v Speaker 2>Is this dj? He became world famous?

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<v Speaker 1>Industry plant.

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<v Speaker 3>I believe is neo baby. His dad was Fred Fred Again?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh gosh, shut up. Fred Again is the music industry's

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<v Speaker 3>hottest DJ. At m He became famous through some boiler sets.

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<v Speaker 1>I think, I honestly aging yourself. Some boiler sets, I think.

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<v Speaker 3>No.

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<v Speaker 2>But what I'll say is Fred again.

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<v Speaker 3>Hysteria has taken over the world, or at least this continent.

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<v Speaker 3>I was at well, we were both at Laneway a

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<v Speaker 3>few weeks ago, and what do I see? I see

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<v Speaker 3>hordes of people running to the stage for Freddie And

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<v Speaker 3>at eight pm. When I say there were hordes, this

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<v Speaker 3>was like the plague. And the people were antibodies trying

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<v Speaker 3>to fight the virus.

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<v Speaker 1>That is to.

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<v Speaker 4>Call the punters of Laneway pests viruses, viruses, vermin.

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<v Speaker 1>You're Sicktitus. But it's the point.

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<v Speaker 4>The big question is what is with the hype with

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<v Speaker 4>Fred again? Is it valid absolutely? Is it justified absolutely?

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<v Speaker 4>Is it warranted completely? However, the timing odd very odd,

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<v Speaker 4>Like you said, how does hysteria bubble up in the

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<v Speaker 4>way that it's bubbling.

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<v Speaker 1>It is one thing to be like, oh my god,

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<v Speaker 1>I love this track.

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<v Speaker 4>I've been binging it right in the same way everyone

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<v Speaker 4>was obsessed with Flu, obsessed with Fisher, obsessed with Flex

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<v Speaker 4>and Frims and Fred again. Damn, some's off with that alliteration.

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<v Speaker 4>I get really like loving the song, loving the moment,

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<v Speaker 4>but again I'm seeing tiktoks of people looking for.

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<v Speaker 1>Whales and trying to figure out where secret.

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<v Speaker 4>Shows are and doing call outs on the app being like,

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<v Speaker 4>can anyone get me in with a free ticket, pretending

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<v Speaker 4>to be publicists to get into shows, making fake lanyards.

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<v Speaker 2>Wait, what's the whale? Because I just gotta yeah with.

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<v Speaker 4>The whales like this seek, I don't know what the

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<v Speaker 4>whale thing is, but there's been whale stamps and then

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<v Speaker 4>you go where the whale stamps are and it tells

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<v Speaker 4>you where Fred is. It's this whole thing and it's amazing.

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<v Speaker 4>It's giving Taylor Swift dropping Easter eggs. I'm obsessed and

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<v Speaker 4>everything makes sense on Fred's side. Fred is delivering what

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<v Speaker 4>he should be to warrant this type of success. But

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<v Speaker 4>I want to understand everyone's individual connection, because you're not

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<v Speaker 4>just casual fans. You're now super fans, missing work to

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<v Speaker 4>go to Darling Harbor and Centennial Park and wherever, to

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<v Speaker 4>look at the ground to see if the East eggs

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<v Speaker 4>are the same, so you can figure out where the

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<v Speaker 4>secret show is.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, is there actually Easter eggs?

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<v Speaker 1>No, that's a term.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, I was just thinking new weren't.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a lie.

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<v Speaker 3>As soon as that messina fucking hit my blood stream

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<v Speaker 3>this game over, I've never been the same again of

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<v Speaker 3>listen Fred again, I see the vision.

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<v Speaker 2>I watched his set at Laneway.

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<v Speaker 3>And there was a lot of reverbals almost like not mystical,

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<v Speaker 3>but in transing he had I heard that he takes

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<v Speaker 3>like the samples off his friends and off YouTube and

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<v Speaker 3>off Ted Talks.

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<v Speaker 1>And I feel like you saw it or you heard it.

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<v Speaker 1>You were there.

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<v Speaker 3>I saw it and I heard it, but I also

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<v Speaker 3>heard from other people and he also said this thing

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<v Speaker 3>while I was taking a shit in the toilet. I

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<v Speaker 3>wasn't actually shooting at laneway. I was doing a week Okay,

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<v Speaker 3>I did eat a hot dog wrapped in batter.

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<v Speaker 4>Quick caveat. I had my first one too. Why did

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<v Speaker 4>we decide to do that on the same day? What

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<v Speaker 4>a strange experience.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's just close our eyes. And then at the counter three.

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<v Speaker 4>When you first been into it and saw the stick,

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<v Speaker 4>I was freaking out, like, what is this?

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<v Speaker 1>What is this?

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<v Speaker 4>Did they put anything in the hot dogs these days

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<v Speaker 4>that was gross, severely odd?

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<v Speaker 2>Did you eat the whole thing?

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<v Speaker 4>Of course not, ah, I'm not stomaching things for fun delicious.

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<v Speaker 1>Back to the.

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<v Speaker 2>Point, back to the point.

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<v Speaker 3>So he's using these ted talks, He's using these little, tiny,

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<v Speaker 3>snippy snapperies. I'm in the toilet and he goes, oh,

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<v Speaker 3>dear or something like really funny and endearing, and I

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<v Speaker 3>was like, I see the.

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<v Speaker 1>The Jennifer lawrenceification. Fread again. I see exactly what you mean.

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<v Speaker 3>Let me let me finish, Let me let me finish

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<v Speaker 3>by saying this fred again, hysteria.

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<v Speaker 2>It's really fun.

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<v Speaker 3>And I think that he's very popular with the current

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<v Speaker 3>demographic because post lockdown, we need inspiration. Believe me, I

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<v Speaker 3>actually know where I'm going with this one with you.

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<v Speaker 3>We need inspirational. You know, they're talking about anxiety, and

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<v Speaker 3>like everyone.

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<v Speaker 5>They're talking about depression, anxiety, anxiety, the duality being I

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<v Speaker 5>just want to be feeling free shackled.

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<v Speaker 2>Anyway, no fucking hell, Okay.

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<v Speaker 3>In these songs that he's doing, it kind of reminds

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<v Speaker 3>me of where suns Green Basleermon nineteen ninety nine remix

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<v Speaker 3>In the US, there was a woman who did a

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<v Speaker 3>talk at a graduation to the class of ninety nine,

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<v Speaker 3>and it's this whole thing about have you heard of this?

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<v Speaker 1>All of this advice?

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<v Speaker 3>Right? And then Baz Lehrman took it and put a

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<v Speaker 3>beat under it and this like angelic music.

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<v Speaker 2>Bass did that, bas did that was Baz.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, my king Wow.

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<v Speaker 3>And he put Everybody's free underneath it, So is Everybody's

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<v Speaker 3>free to wear sunscreen, And it gives me that's very

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<v Speaker 3>much Fred.

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<v Speaker 4>Again repurposed inspirational videos with a electronic music.

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<v Speaker 3>I will say that reminds me of Everybody's Free to

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<v Speaker 3>Wear Sunscreen by bas Lemon, because it's a beat, it's

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<v Speaker 3>a track with with inspirational things over the top, and

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<v Speaker 3>it's like this generation including us coming out of lockdown

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<v Speaker 3>feeling a little bit uninspired. They want to go dance

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<v Speaker 3>with hard outs, but they also want to acknowledge their

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<v Speaker 3>anxiety and depression and see.

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