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3 2 oh we're back. Loose Cast and Felix Lighter to my right is Dean Saunders, and we're missing a person who's got an important project that he's working on, so we're going two-handed. And in the fourth seat, we've got MC Impulse.
MC Impulse shares his journey from early music influences to becoming a top rave MC on LooseCast Ep. 40 with Rossi Impulse.
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Key Takeaways
- MC Impulse's passion for music started young, influenced by family and local scenes.
- Rave culture and venue tapes played a crucial role in his discovery of MCing.
- Hands-on experience and community support helped him develop as a DJ and MC.
- The transition from DJ to MC was natural as he engaged more with the hardcore scene.
- Personal stories highlight the importance of local events and friendships in his career.
What the video covers
- MC Impulse discusses his early music influences including Madchester bands and Euro dance.
- He discovered MC culture through venue tapes and started attending raves at age 14.
- Initially interested in DJing, he learned turntables by watching DJs at local events.
- Started DJing under the name DJ MC Rossy, performing first at school parties.
- Transitioned from DJing to MCing, influenced by the hardcore and happy hardcore scenes.
- He shares anecdotes about collecting rare records and connecting with other DJs.
- The episode includes discussions about the rave culture and the evolution of MCing.
- MC Impulse reflects on the difference between audio recordings and live rave experiences.
- The conversation touches on personal life moments and upcoming plans.
- The episode also hints at future topics like 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' and community connections.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Guest Welcome
- 02:28Personal Life and Upcoming Plans
- 04:39Early Music Influences and Discovery of MCing
- 06:50First Rave Experiences and DJ Inspiration
- 09:02Starting DJ Career as DJ MC Rossy
- 11:01Transition from DJ to MC and Music Collection
- 13:01Rave Culture and Community Stories
- 15:01Reflections and Future Topics
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Got Lou, 'cause of one shot.
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Yes mate, how are you doing?
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I'm good, thanks. What have you been up to today? What have you been doing?
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Uh, well, I've just been out for me breakfast. I had a tea off,
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Be smoking here for a little bit of breakfast with our last eye.
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Um, pick me boy up from school, kids come home from school, and uh, I'll just come over to see you too. And this is, and this is going to
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go out in bang on half term.
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Yeah, so have you got any plans?
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Uh, yeah, so next week is, um, it's ours birthday, so we're going to London for a couple of days, um, seeing the sights and like that, but do
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the tourist vibes.
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Yeah, well, we did it last year, but we'll probably just end up in BS.
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Yeah, but London bars still kind of tourism.
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Yes, yeah, so yeah, we're looking forward to that. Just a little break, change of
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scenery. The world of God doesn't. I wanted to get into, 'cause you're the fourth MC we've had on Loose Cast. Started off with Tazo, went stomping Nat, Finny, now oh Finny, sorry, Foret Fin.
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Yeah, so but I wanted to
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go for you 'cause people love these stories. It's not often, I think, you guys end up in this kind of environment, so give us kind of like, give us the Impulse origin story. Like, how did it all start
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for you?
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Right, uh, depends how far you want us to go back really, but, um, yeah, so when I was sort of like, when I was a kid, uh, I've always loved music, um, but I was, I was influenced actually by me two
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older cousins who were sort of into, um, all the sort of Madchester stuff, Stone Roses, Smiths, um, all that kind of thing. And I, I also liked hip hop and a little bit of Euro dance and things like that. And then
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uh, probably when I got to about 11-ish, um, me mate who I, who I used to knock around with, he got a hold of some venue tapes, um, which the first, they just had music on which were like the kind of
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Italian Euro dance type music and stuff like that, hip hop and then like the, um, we started getting some with MCs on and then that's when I started like noticing, oh this isn't just like music, it's like someone's like talking over the top of
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it. Or you can, you remember who those first MCs? I can't, you know, I can't but I'm guessing it would have been like techno, um, people like that. MC Westwood, he was good. Um, Danny Stomt, he would have
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been one of them, hip hop, but I didn't, I didn't know who they were. It's 'cause these tapes you got them and sometimes they didn't even have a sticker on or any writing on. It was just a tape. So the only reason he
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knew it was a venue tape was make it the venue, do you know what I mean? Make Some Noise venue or something like that. So yeah, so that's where it started. And then, uh, and then the color same tape started
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coming out, which was a couple of years later when I was maybe about 13, 14, something like that. And, uh, obviously that was like the faster music bit, bit more, bit more relatable to what like MCka now is. It was like the Bounty
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techno hardcore stuff. Um, and that was where the MCs, that was where you kind of, you noticed the MCs a lot more because were kicking like fast lyrics over the top of this music. Um, so yeah, I, I just went from there and I started
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going to raves, um, when I was like 14. Uh, went to the Judgment Day, um, which Newcastle uni. Newcastle uni, that's right.
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Yeah, so I was about 14 and you could get in, it was like for all ages.
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Yeah, um, and I just, I couldn't believe it to be honest when I, when I actually, 'cause when you listen to the audio you imagine what it's going to be like, but when you actually see for real, it's completely
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different. Sounds a bit like what you thought about the podcast studio when you came. I thought it would be bigger. It just doesn't look like the same place honestly, but, but I, it's, which we'll put a pin in that 'cause we're going to talk
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about Who Wants To Be A Millionaire later on that I'll bring that back up. Was your first inspiration to become the MC or did you kind of like double with the DJ side of things?
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It was I always wanted to be a DJ.
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Right, right. So, um, what I did was, um, when I started going at the Judgment Day and they had on the main stage you had, you could see the DJ but you couldn't really see what he was
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doing. And, and obviously the MC was in front of the DJ. Um, but then they started opening up other rooms where you could actually go in and you could get dead close, like just as close as what I am to
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you now. You could get close to the DJ and watch them. So I used to go into the old school room which was like playing, um, this was in the late 90s but they were playing stuff from like the mid 90s,
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hip hop. It was class's old school room and, and I was just watching DJs like Daack, uh, Energy, um, DJ Charlie, I think Select C, people like that who probably heard of. And did you have a DJ name at that point?
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DJ MC Rossy at the time.
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Right, but the MC thing was literally just having a laugh, you know what I mean?
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Yeah, um, so yeah, when I watched, H, when I watched them I was like right, I want to, like, I want to
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do this, looks fun. And I managed to blog me mate to get us a set of decks nice and, uh, and, and just went from there really. Started having a little. Did you start straight off with MCka or did you kind
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of start 990s kind of?
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Yeah, well it was Happy Hardcore at the time. There wasn't really much MCka around then, so it was like I think the first ever record was Shooting Star by Bang.
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Yeah, um, it's not a bad tune. I used to love the Bonkers stuff. I've talked about this one before. Bonkers 2 is like my favorite compilation.
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Brilliant.
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Well, yeah, I used to listen all them as well. They were brilliant.
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Yeah, so it was like Happy Hardcore you could buy them from HMV at the time.
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Yeah, and, uh, yeah, just started collecting them. And then friend of mine Cliffy, he started like important tunes and stuff like that, so I could literally like ring him and say like play him a
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tune off a tape and I'd say like, oh, can you get this? And I don't know how he used to do it but he would have like this record from Italy within a couple of weeks and he used to like, he used to
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sell them to everyone really but I was like one of the first people to get tunes off him. So yeah, just went from them started getting MC German trance, um, like the Italian stuff. So did you start DJing
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out as DJ Rossy?
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Uh, yes, because me first gig was, um, my school party.
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Yes, so, um, yeah, so people who went to Kings Medal will probably like remember this. We used to get like, um, like a disco DJ to come in and do
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like the Christmas party or the leaving party or the end of the year party or whatever. And no one liked the tunes 'cause it was all like sort of, um, escl 7 and, uh, do I make myself sound uncool?
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Why did no one like them?
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Yeah, it was all stuff like that and like most people didn't like it, you know what I mean? And, uh, and obviously people got wind like me a couple of the lads like DJ, um, like there was me, a lad
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called Davey Brown, um, Chrissy G who obviously everyone knows and me John. I used to go on the mic and basically like the whole year, H, blogged the teacher to, to let us, to let us DJ class.
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Um, so that was actually my first gig. So there's, there's a photo kicking about somewhere.
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Um, would made like a little, so I had like a table, uh, with the decks on and would made like a little banner to go on
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the front, H, with like DJ MC Rossy and all this sort of stuff. So yeah, so that was my original name and then, H, progressed to, to Impulse eventually. So what, so what changed the path of you being because
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you obviously were a record collector, you'd obviously been, you know, you learned the skills of the turntables which is hard.
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Yeah, what was then the change to picking up that microphone full-time and moving in?
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Yeah, I get what you're saying. So like, um, so really what, what it was was I, I started ding, um, and then like I, I got a, um, I had a couple of DJ competitions hang of 13 and I started getting gigs there, um, which was, which
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was brilliant but, um, I was like kind of one of these like impatient youn...
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going to say so I'm either going to like go to bed and sit in Al larm and wake up at that time or I'm probably going to be awake anyway see if you're anyway might as well I was
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going to say you messaged me this morning at like quite a lot of messages at 10 2 a.m. I was having a brainstorm I love it honestly I just get so excited that's the business man going isn't it
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honestly at that time of night I just come alive because obviously at that point every normal person in the world is asleep and I'm like so you aren't doing that thing where you reply to someone and then they do that weird
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thing where they reply you so the notifications back and I'm like oh more notifications so I'm like I like it at that time cuz everyone normals was asleep so I can just crack on with all these ideas but yeah I was throwing
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stuff at you at that time but I have also said obviously we were talking before I know you're going to ask a good question on this later so I don't know if I'm going too early or setting you up
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but obviously we are finally it was delayed a couple of weeks but we are finally recording with um Stomp and Tazo next week and obviously again the reason I know you're such a big Eminem fan as because me and Danny were on about it
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but I've said we're recording on the Friday and I was like that Eminem album comes out at 4:5 in the morning so I was like I will know every single word to every song by then so I was like you
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might want to take listen to a couple of the songs well you can you can answer this question because this was one that um we got sent in for Tazo and Shaq kind of asked him about it as well so how how
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do you go about like writing and I'll come to you about memorizing but how do you go about writing and memorizing your Rhymes yeah so um back in the day right it was really easy for us to do it you know when I was
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like when I was young and I was like I was Bang into it and like I had the sort of the buzz the the buzz that you get when you first start doing something you know what I mean um it was really easy
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and I just used to things used to just pop into my head all the time now if I want to write something new I've got to sit down and I just need a bit of Peace which it's hard to get when you get a
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bit older um hence the 2 3:00 in the morning thing perfect yeah so like H just a bit of piece I'll play I'll play some tunes h on me little speaker and I'll just sit with my notepad and I'll
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just I'll just try try and get a feel for the music and just see if I can come up with some words but also when I'm sort of like if I'm if I'm sort of walking around or I'm driving or
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something like that if something pops into my head I'll put it in my phone to memorize it and then what I can do is when I'm sitting writing I can go back and go actually have to go hook that do
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you know what I mean it's like and then I can do something with that I can use that as a start I can use that as an end to a lyric and so so I'll just do it like that basically would there be a
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spec you just said there which I loved like would you would there be a specific track that you put on you know if you're like I'm trying to write something new that's my go-to it always gets the juic
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FL no not at all I just put a DJ set on someone's it doesn't have to be Rave it could be something slower could be like house house music yeah could be anything and just just try and get like just try
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and get a FLW do you know what I mean just try and just try and rate something I try and Rite sort of like um songy stuff as well but it's like when I'm writing that I don't know if I've just
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got the idea from a song that already EX you know what I mean so it's oh that's that sounds all right but sometimes you can make that into like a hook or a lyric do you know what I mean so I just
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I do like sitting down and writing but it I I'll be honest it's like it's not as it's not as frequent as what it used to be back in the day you know so well well here's one for you as well so if
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you can think of one of the best lyrics you've ever came up with yeah go backwards where were you when you were coming up with that is there any good stories of oh well the best lyric I've ever I mean it's the whole Eminem came
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up with his name slim [ __ ] D when he was on the toilet I mean it's not the same as Elvis on his but um like the best lyric you've ever came up with can you remember where you were can you remember
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how you came up you know do you know the only lyric story I've really got is probably one of the most popular lyrics it start off born in Newcastle brought up in geed um and that was like I still
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say that now but I actually made that up when I was like 14 or something like that so that that was like I don't know if anyone still got these tapes but I'm more H back in the day when when we used
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to do like bedroom sets and stuff we used to make a tape and like I'm from Dunston so we used to sort of pass it around or me in dunon and people used to listen to them like like the same as
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like the monkey tapes and the after tapes and stuff um but that lyric will Beyond those tapes if anyone still got one line around anywhere so yeah that's like a that's that's probably like me only decent lyrics story well you were
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telling us before weren you obviously just before you came in he had some of your lyrics done it yet other day didn't you when you popped in every time we get an MC on they get they get recognized
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and get some lyrics thrown at them before they arrive yeah it was in the bank some loud behind USU LSC stop looking P you make a good point about the tapes don't we touched on like the Bonkers hardcore stuff before and I think it's
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it's hard to to not sound like a bitter old bastard here but because there's just so much now like everyone's got a SoundCloud you can hear mixes everywhere the Spotify the thing before was was like you were so excited to get get that
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new tape that new mixtape you had it memorized the tunes you were searching for the tunes you were try to get them for yourself you know in the MC's cases people were learning the lyrics I think it's harder now to have that kind of
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like impact because there's just so much so much content out there now it's massive competition man it's it's it's really hard and there's like these young guys who are coming through H and girls as well do you know what I mean that the
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who are writing brilliant stuff uh and they're really pushing themselves through social media and everything like that so it's it's in a way like they they may be trying to catch up to the liks of me and stomp and all the other
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guys but like it's um like the they their difficult competition at the same time aren't they you know because of so much so I want you to after you this before I'm going to throw in a curve ball as well I want you to shout out a
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couple of upand coming MC's yeah so um some of the um I don't want to call these guys up and coming because some of them have been around a while but they're not um they're not as well known
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as Maybe like your Stomp and tazos and people like that but the guys coming through H are the likes of um connect John Boy um DAV blast you maybe put him in that category whereas I think he's he
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does like rap stuff in that as well um so there's um there's all sorts of guys like I coming through who are brilliant you know um I'm probably missing someone off here so I don't want to I don't want
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to upset anyone what as to me again this is another one that like everyone loved when we asked Tazo especially what are some of your favorite Tunes to MC actually MC so so if you can it obviously there it's not like it's
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planned or anything with the DJ and then the DJ drops them and you're just like yes yeah yeah um so my favorite is called Capital Rhythm Of Happiness um it's like an old Spanish makina tune uh breaks down it's got a nice little sort
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of technical piano on the breakdown and then it just starts winding up with the with the sort of classic mackina sound and then it drops in uh and then it's got like a sort of changing phase halfway through the melody where it gets
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faster so they're the kind of tunes that I like do you know what I mean so the where where they kind of change a little bit as well they're the ones where you can you can sort of do something with
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your lyrics you maybe start with a with a slower lyric and then hit hit them with a faster one it gives you a change of energy yeah yeah you've nailed it there it's like a change of energy you're right um I also like it's from a
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Northeast producer actually um antistatic um static Sonic a prop a cool tune honestly it's um it's like he's like sampled like the H the Sega you know the old school Sega thing Sega he's sampled that in it and it's got like a
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Sonic the Hedgehog kind of Melody to it nice like bit kind of like yeah yeah it's honestly it's class give it a listen honestly it's it's absolute work of art it's brilliant H and the melody when it kicks in with a bouncy beats
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just unbelievable so you can tell I like that one Ian it's class ey class what what you looking at me what I'm what about I can't even speak what am I about to get asked no no I was just trying to
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work out how we were going to get onto the game show chat though oh the game show chat oh yeah cuz we have want to cuz we wanted to talk about them we like no everyone stop tell us about oh yeah well it's
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because obviously I I feel like as well we need to give Rosy a shout out because I think he's the first time someone's came and then beat both of us here I mean every person's beat me here the
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first time someone beat know well he rang is and I was saying like we were chatting yesterday and he was like is anything I need to know before I was like well there's nothing you need to know but there's something that I need
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know that I need to get a haircut and and a trim in before we record and I was literally in the barber chair and he he rang as he was here I was like oh my God you 10 minutes early I was like we're
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going to have to wrap this up q a JW CU that why your haircuts not finished yet nice before anyone gets us but then obviously we got it here obviously a thank you that you moved it a week
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because it was meant to be last week wasn't it but obviously I forgot that I was at a wedding on the Friday but I went it was amazing and then um when we were having a bit of crack obviously he came in he
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was like is this where we're recording I was like yeah why and you were like it doesn't look like it honestly doesn't when you walk in I thought I really thought it was going to be like much bigger just good camera work good camera
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what he's doing to which Felix said to which Felix said oh it was the same for you when you went on Who Wants to be yeah went and was in the audience for who Wants To Be A Millionaire was there
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a Reason by the way was it someone you knew no we just decided we were going to go um it's filmed down like uh down London where it's kind of just um not brenwood I forget the name of it but
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it's filmed just sort of like North London I think and um you just you went up my memory of it was going into the studio and just thinking are you kidding this looks like it's being made out of
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tin foil and cardboard and the other thing was it was when Taran was producing it T's [ __ ] massive like he's just a massive guy oh he's huge and um so the studio like I thought looked weird um and the other thing that I
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remember which you only I guess know if you go to these films is they have like warm-up guys like comedians who come on like Dan do it D night and used to do it so they these comedians will go in cuz
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all the audience get stuck in and then like the will come out and try and warm everyone up before they get come out and film the show it sense really when you think yeah but I just thought I remember
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thinking how awful that that looked and I was like you must have applied who said about the chase was it you were saying about the Chas I love the chers you but you've never been on you never you going to try get tickets right would
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you go on do you know what I probably would you know I'm not bad at it I'm always it's probably 5050 whether I would get back if I took the middle offer yeah it's probably 50/50 whether I'd get back are you good in a pub quiz
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yeah what's your like special special I know a little bit of everything and I'm an expert of nothing can I can I come clean right so you know during C when everyone was doing the weekly quizzes I imagine
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you're awful at a pup quiz no because I'm really [ __ ] subtle at cheating right so if any of me family are watching this I'm about it out myself here but we like had all sorts of rounds
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I used to say Shazam music I used to like really like Google so you are awful at quizzes you're just good at cheating it depends how you look at it but I used to cheat in a way well do you know what
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it is you rather you'd rather be on his team than against him wouldn't you soct it up but but I used to do it in a way where like I tried to do it properly at first and I was coming near the end
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anything to do with geography I'm terrible at geography I am so I used to like do the first few and I was like com and bottom half I was like I'm not having this I'm looking I'm mugging myself off of here so I used to cheat to
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finish like third consistently going to go on you cheated you still K third purposely cuz I didn't want I'm not a scumbag steal a prize yeah I'm not a scumbag I didn't want to cheat and win I just wanted to cheat and look
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responsible if you did completely cheat the you're going to go on a TV quiz show but where I can't cheat yeah but what would it be well the 1% Club this is what we were saying before so so I need
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to know what this is oh so I only got into it recently cuz my family are all obsessed with it and it's like it's on a Saturday night and H is it Lee ma who does it I think yeah and and it's like
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it's not knowledge I mean I am clever with general knowledge but just like I say geography and stuff like that throws off but this is all about wit and like and you've got you've got like 60 30 seconds I think it is and you got to
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figure it out with like little patterns and that there's there's loads of little things so there'll be like loads of words anagrams and you have to kind of figure it out with that or they'll be like so so the the idea of it I believe
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is the first question they asked loads of people around the the UK and 90% of the public got that question right 80 70 50 25 10 five and then 1% of the country got that question right and I swear
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without cheating cuz I would admit it I'm admitting I cheat it without cheating I get the 1% question every single time what's the capital of Australia melbour no yes can we edit that but I did see it to be fair Sydney
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or Melbourne's like probably the standard answer that don't know geography in school I so in school I got like A's and B's in school graphy D like I I got nothing l i was clever just geography just geography just coloring
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in maps in it really let's be honest do you know what geography I'm good at though Game of Thrones you ask me where anything is in Wester Ross I'm great at that actual real life anything that isn't actual
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Rel so you mentioned before we've got Tazo and ston coming on yes uh have you got any like you remember meeting like Danny Stopman for the first time or Tazo is there anything like that brings to mind is like a memory of those two was
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was stomping would have been doing it a little bit before you kind of started he was he was around like probably 10 years before I started mcing I think um I've got a good memory of Danny actually um cuz I didn't really know him
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but I mced with him but I didn't really know him but um when the when the um the monkey stuff started getting played up in Glasgow well Scotland but Glasgow specifically yeah um there was like quite a bit of um there was quite a bit
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of Buzz about getting some like U monkey MC's up to to up there to sort of MC for them and and things like that so I think me and Danny were probably the first two to do it cuz I remember I'm ringing us
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and saying look I've got a gig in Glasgow uh are you going to do it with us and I was like [ __ ] joking aren't you Glasgow why and he was like oh no it's like B like they love the Mon oh
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they love it hard and faster do this was like 2005 sort of time I think maybe six anyway uh and at first I wasn't I was like a little bit apprehensive like thinking I don't know about this but he said no not
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it's legit like the the the genuinely want what to do it and I was like all right I'll come up so maybe he just wanted someone to drive him to beig I don't think I don't think he drove at
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the time but any anyway we both went up and H it was the first time I'd sort of spent prop a time with him do you know what I mean and had a bit crack because you know what it's like when you're in
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an a club you kind of have these two-minute conversations where you can't really hear what the other person's saying you know shouting each other as he has spitting in each other as he has you haven't seen me and him in an night
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club we do the same thing still can't hear what we say but it's not 2 minutes it's a it's an hour and we're like do you remember that nope tenus has got me like I have to like stick my finger in
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my ear just it just seems to tune out that 2K voice range and I just can't hear anyone sorry I've interrupted but it's one of them as well where it's like it's you you'll say some of it you're
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like what was that you'll say some of it again you're like I really can't you'll say it again you can't ask again can you you can't to late the limit I and then it's worse when like oh so we're doing
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it and I'm like I don't know what I've agreed to dangerous for you pretty dangerous yeah sorry I interrupted that yeah so like really um yeah I hadn't really I hadn't really spoken to him properly but H I was just like fascinated with these
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stories from the venue and like obviously you have done these on the podcast and stuff now but like he was telling me all this stuff and I was like amazed you know know I mean so yeah that was like I say it wasn't the first time
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I met Danny but it was the first time you had a good chat with was the first time to nor him do you know what I mean and we did the same thing he came to do that gig for for me and VI Peter Lee we
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hardly spoke in there cuz he got there did his thing you I mean usual fist bump blah blah blah left got a quick photo then when he got home we both got back and we were watching the boxing and and
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the MMA so we were just texting for about two hours all about the fights he loves he loves his fights he loves his boxing and MMA and stuff like that doesn't he we said it I mean I haven't
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I'm going to get wrong cuz I haven't actually replied him yet cuz I've sent out a a well actually I'll tell you what we'll use this we'll use this opportunity he' said Do we have any contacts to get some uh some tickets to
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the UFC in Manchester cuz him and sha are up for it and obviously we said we'd go whenever I don't know if you want to come as well so if anyone can help us with some what a Shameless plug but
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Manchester UFC can you help the boys is it the co-op or is it the is it the other one I don't know you Google it and I've got another question was so was Tazo like was Tazo a little bit after
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you or very similar kind of time he he was before um when I started mcing T was kind of in the stages of really establishing himself um so there was like a sort of group of MC's at the
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monkey um when I when I first start them saying it was at the hang of 13 yeah um so the sort of monkey lot were like really sort of like um getting people's attention so this was 2003 when I
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started so by that point they would have been quite big by then so Tazo a TNT H trans um all that lot they were like uh turbo day they were all kind of um really established by that point
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probably only took them about a year or something like that to to get their names big you know so yeah they he he started before me tazu definitely so you've been doing it a while now right yeah what's the best thing about being a
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rave MC um other than free UFC tickets someone's going to it it is the court by the way so again if anyone's watching this and they want to look after stomp impulse sha and Felix ler and by default
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I'm coming as well then d d don't know white sha he does sha yeah so we need we need them sorted yeah what's what's the best thing like I mean looking back over your whole kind of career yeah what's the best thing about
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it if I could see one thing it would probably be you're in the middle of the party if that makes sense so I know people think oh like the might say is just turn up for a gig and then I leave
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straight away but while I'm there and while I'm on stage I'm loving the party just as much as what the rard you know what I mean I love the music I get right into it when I do it so for me that 45
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minutes or an hour whatever it happens to be I'm like center of it I'm I'm having just as much fun as what as what they are do you know what I mean so H so yeah I would say that you're kind of
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like you're kind of like the epy center of the of the party and how how has it changed over the year so you're saying there like occasionally now you might just turn up do the do the the set and
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leave yeah but like back in the day I imagine you were there like for the whole night yeah I was right involved I was into everything do you know I'd be there like I'd be on the drink beforehand when we meet there'd be a lot
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of us like turn up that's the main thing these days you not as many AES actually go with you which is a little bit sad but well it changes from being like I mean it's sad thing to admit really but
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it changes from being it's still a party but it changes from being a party with your mates to being work like I've noticed that over the years would be a point where there'd be like 10 of you going to do a DJ set and you make would
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all be with you and then youd have you got your own little f you have a pre party you have an after party you have everything else and then it gets to the point when you're a bit older and you're just like I'm just
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going to do a gig you're like who you going with in the car in the taxi by yourself the taxi driver like where you going mate just do what I just gig on me when I've got no PS well just don't accept it
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and age backwards like me Benjamin Saunders I but that that's probably the main thing like um you've you've got all your mates going with you and you're there probably near the start of the gig and then you do your set and then you're
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there afterwards like you see you'll have an after party you'll go back back to someone's house you're on the drink for however long do you know what I mean and then that's probably the main difference I would say would you all
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like MC at the After parties and stuff as well sometimes yeah people put decks on and stuff sometimes you would just be sitting with some music on and just getting a daily drink if you remember that daily drink I've got a lyric with
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daily drink in I've got a lyric with da drink and this is my protocol we go da drink if D drink doesn't work I walk over at the spot white and I beg them for some can I can I buy a bottle I'm a
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party I'm gonna I'm G to slightly change a question that I told you about before and you were like oh that could be tricky to answer yes so I'm going to slightly modify it in your memory right and it's not one answer as many as you
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like who have you had some of your best MC backto backs with that you can kind of remember that like memories of them I it's I mean I don't want to upset anyone yet so um no but what I would say is
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I've got like there's probably a group of about 10 MC's possibly more possibly a bit less who I've worked with for years who when I'm when I'm sort of paired up with them I know it's going to be easy do you know
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what I mean it's like you don't have to think about bounce off each other I know when he's going to stop he knows when I'm I'm going to stop I can jump in certain bits cuz I know what he's going
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to say and things like that um so there's like a group of about 10 so obviously me me two guys stretching Scotty G um who I started off with who basically inspired us to to get on the mate in the first place definitely them
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too then you've got yeah s Ace uh I do do good back Tob backs with him H hoggy uh I haven't done a bad set with him um done it with done done it with him for years um stomt um rones H TNT TR God who
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am I forgetting TBO day so basically if you went back like say I don't know 15 years and looked at like um if a typical rear flyer from then and you looked at the M the the MC lineup you could
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probably like see everyone on that lineup because you worked with them for so long yeah I've been really diplomatic there obviously um well I'm going I'm going I'm going to force you into something here again we mentioned it
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like a dream you call it a fantasy like Rave so it's like a dream lineup right it can be at any venue at any time you like so it could be back in hang of 1 it could be you know venue it could be
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whatever so a venue that you've you've performed that that you have a memory of could be old on you and I'd like just a couple of names of DJs and MC's that if you could have this fantasy gig what
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would a set do you mean yeah well no I mean it would be like you'd almost Cate the whole night do you know what I mean so you you You' you've got the venue that you want to do it in and you've
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maybe booked like three or four DJs that you just love and maybe book three or four so an example not that I'm assing anyone but mine would be Empress with Felix ler DJ and an MC impulse there we go hey be good that
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would it should we do it you know what it is when I said that was a hard question I have actually thought about this in the past and like I've always had this weird thing where I thought if
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I retire yeah and I was going to do a last like gig MH I would do a set with like all me mates on the decks and all me mats on the mic you know what I mean so on the deck later Chrissy G uh DJ
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quest uh olle B um like there there's loads of them really do you know what I mean like so maybe just like each dayj playing a tun or doing a mix each and then probably all those guys you've just
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I've just mentioned like obviously doing like um doing like 5 minutes back if you ever known this to happen like if no be incredible you need to get that I mean I'm not you definitely don't need to retire but you should definitely
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organize that well um we have to the G have done like a sort of mini version of it so um so the last the last gig I did at Rave to the Grave we had um like three DJs back to back on six decks
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right so it was like a like a threee DJ battle two mixers or have been three mixers would have been two yeah two mixers six decks three mixers would have been would have been three mixers wouldn't it yeah it could have been yeah
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I think it was three mixers six decks three DJs and so they were battling out on the decks for now and a half and we what we had was like four MC's going back to back but then swapping over so
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the combinations kept changing every 15 minutes yeah so that's a similar similar it was brilliant I he's he's doing another one um I'm trying to it might be the same night as pet leg gig funny enough you said to me don't ask me about dates cuz
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I won't know them yeah when I was when I looked in me phone and I was like I've got two on that night I said you don't ask me about geography and what did you do good good question I think people
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might find really interesting so you mentioned obviously the the 10 guys that you've probably worked with a lot over the years yeah outside of of the club and them seeing together he all Pals is it a Clos net group yeah I've got I mean
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um some of the some of the lads um like I'm godfa that children and and you know things like that um and yeah we socialize together we'll keep in touch things like that obviously some people you know keep themselves to themselves
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and which is fair enough but yeah I mean most of them h i I keep in touch with or I'm in group chats with um with some who's go fire a paint or watch a football and things like that so yeah
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that's class I know loads of the DJs in town do it every year don't every Christmas all the DJs get together I think that's how we again we ask Tazo this Newcastle fan or Gates head fan Newcastle really Newcastle all way I
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like GED I like GED obviously I've lived in GED most of me life so I like GED but um Newcastle through and through I was good because a date that we had booked for um for Tazo and stomping was right
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after Tazo had been down know for that incredible like Gat said win and I was I was like buzzing to talk I I still will talk to him about it but I was buzzing to get like a couple of day after
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reaction on the after Glo I think that we're about there mate if you got anything else you want to you want to bring up before we call it no but that is flown by isn't it to be honest that is flown by no I
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loved it I mean I'm I'm speaking for you but I think you'll definitely come back I think we we enjoyed that for a bit of fun cuz we said I was like I guarantee cuz every time we speak we're on the
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phone for bloody ages I guarantee you'll come on you'll enjoy it and we'll do more of these but no I loved it I think it it was a little bit com one but it was all right we got an exclusive cuz
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youve done a podcast for but You' never done podcast but on an audio one haven't done visual so and assuming as we talked about before the cameras haven't gone off which we look good and you're going to air brushes as well on don't worry I
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him do it get rid of this well thank you very much mate I'll See You Again Saturday the 29th of June Vibe and we'll get you back on here at some point hopefully with some of those other top 10 guys
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that you were mentioning so thank you very much 2 1
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