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Hey, what's going on everybody?
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For First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones.
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It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.
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And today we're joined by Niall Horan.
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You can catch him as a first-time coach on NBC's hit show The Voice, which returns for season 23 March 7th.
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And more exciting news, we have brand new music.
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The single, which is lovely by the way, is called Heaven, as well as his newly announced album The Show, which is set to drop on June 8th, but available for pre-order now.
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Niall Horan, welcome to the show. Thank you. It's great to be here.
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Um I'm very nervous, Sean.
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Well, I feel like this has been kind of years in the making, you know, finally we're pushed in the room together.
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What's going through your head as you prepare to take on the wings of death?
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Oh, well, I love watching the show.
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I'll let you know how I feel doing it. I'm I'm a huge fan. I love what you've done.
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Um it's a it's just a genius concept and I've always wanted to do it and everyone was like blown away when I told them that I was doing it.
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And I'm I'm seeing it in front of me and it's making me scared.
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And people were walking around with gloves on bringing in milk and water. I'm like, ah.
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I've already started sweating. Well, let's go. Okay. Right, here we go. Mhm. Mhm. Classic. You're teasing me.
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So, as you mentioned in your intro, it's your first time releasing new solo music in nearly 3 years, announcing the name for your third album, The Show, and then just days ago dropping a music video for the lead single, Heaven.
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I'm always curious how an artist decides on a lead single, especially after a prolonged hiatus.
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Like, what was it about Heaven that screamed to you that this is the song that fans should hear first?
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I think it's one of those songs that the concept sums up what you're going to hear from the record.
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It's a It's a life big thought song.
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Um and it also gives like everything sonically um you know, production-wise, everything is kind of all in in Heaven.
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So, when you It's a good tee up for what you're going to get from the rest of the record. It's a good singalong.
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When we wrote the song, we were having a great time.
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Anyone I've played it to since kind of sings along with sing sings along with the melody.
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And um yeah, so it's just kind of a everyone agreed that this should be the first single. Right. Let's do it. What's that flavor?
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Maybe you're picking up like the ranch. Mhm.
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Could be just straight ranch that you're picking up. Yeah.
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It's got like a pickley Oh, yeah, yeah. pickley flavor to it.
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pickle vibe to it, maybe? Yeah. I like that one. There we go.
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Do I get to keep all of these?
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Actually, you totally do. Do I do I?
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Yeah, we'll pack them all up for you and give them to you on your way out. Amazing. All right.
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I I do tend to lean for a hot sauce with most dinners I have or lunches or whatever. Oh, okay, cool.
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But I don't want to be that guy.
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I've seen too many people come on here and be like I'm going to nail this, and then they're crying spitting in the buckets and Yeah, that was that one was nice. There we go.
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Your lead single, Heaven, it has these gear shifts that are so dynamic, so sublime within them.
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From a songwriting perspective, what's the key to an effective bridge in your opinion? Ooh.
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Um do you know what I've been doing a lot recently? Doing the pre again.
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Doing the Doing Doing the pre-chorus again.
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Um But yeah, bridges is just like sometimes it's like a tension and release kind of thing.
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You've got You've got a lot of information in verse, chorus, verse, chorus.
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And then it's just a complete departure to to get away to the bridge and give them some new information in the story.
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I'm always trying to find If you can't find a good bridge, the trick is to go back to do the pre again. Do the pre-chorus again. That's the hack. Yeah.
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If you If you can't get a good bridge and you you get to a certain point at the end of the second chorus and you go for a new thing, new chords, new melody and it doesn't work, get the old pre back up.
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Yeah, he looks dangerous, this guy. Yeah, for sure. All right, here we go. Here we go. Mhm. Tasty.
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What's What's got It's got a kick. Yeah.
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It's got a little after kick. You know, yeah, exactly. Mhm.
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I think sometimes these sauces, they hear you compliment them and then bang, they hit. Slap in the face. Slap in the face.
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get for underestimating me. Um Wow. Okay.
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Now it's starting to heat up. I get what you mean. Okay. I'm still okay.
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I can see you three, the fact that it hit me at number three. Me, too, though.
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If it makes you feel any better. All right.
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We're in the same boat here. We're in the same boat.
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So, your new role as a coach on NBC's The Voice is a true full circle moment, going from the audition stage where your career began to now your role of coach and mentor from your spinning chair throne. Mhm.
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You strike me as a really nice guy.
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How do you navigate the role that rejection plays in a music competition show like The Voice?
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Yeah, I'll be honest, but that's the part I've struggled with.
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Um cuz I know what it's like to be 16 and stood on a stage and looking at some famous dude that's got um your future in his hands.
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The easy part is pressing the red button, spinning the chair, saying how you like someone.
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But when you spin it, the chair turns around and you're not with them, how do you give them that rejection feedback?
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Um and that's where that's where I've I've struggled with it, but it is it's full circle stuff and it's um got to say I really I really enjoyed it, apart from the rejection. I really enjoyed it.
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How would Niall, the coach of today, judge his own 2010 audition? I wouldn't have turned. Not for that guy.
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I was right place, right time.
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Um no, I've I've I don't think I would have turned for myself, put it that way. I'd turn for me now. I've learned a lot.
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I've been around the block a couple of times, uh which is a lot can be said for someone who's 29, but um yeah, I'd I'd I'd turn now. I wouldn't have turned. That's the truth. Okay, here we go.
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And I think it almost goes down a shift, you know?
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we're going down a gear here. Mhm.
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Don't speak too soon, though. Don't speak too soon.
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We're going back to the pre-chorus. Exactly. No bridge just yet. Yeah.
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Don't need that complete departure until the bomb.
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It looks so scary, the bomb.
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Don't take yourself out yet.
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Don't take yourself out yet. I'm good. I'm good so far.
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I've made it to four and I haven't puked or anything, so Yeah, they can't take that away from you now.
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Can't take that away from you. Yeah. How did it go?
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Well, I got past four without snot running down my face, so they can't take that away from me, all right? Mhm.
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So, um music is your first love.
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I know that you have a passion for golf that began as a kid in childhood, staying up late so you could watch the Masters from Ireland and then here you are all these years later playing some of the best golf courses in the world with a single digit handicap.
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When you think back on all the pro-ams and celebrity tournaments you've played to date, what has been your crowning golf achievement?
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Wow, that's a that's a good question.
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I made I played Riviera in the Genesis Open with my good friend Justin Rose about 5 years ago.
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And I wasn't very good at the time, but somehow I made five real life birdies on the back nine.
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Uh which is I've never done ever since and I probably never do again to make five birdies in nine holes.
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I don't know where it came from and we ended up winning the pro-am.
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So it was a that was that was a good golfing achievement.
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Do you have a go-to swing thought?
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Um I've I've about five or six. Tempo is my number one. Yeah, Tempo? like keep it slow.
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I always hear it like my friend Justin always says that pretend you're like winding up a like a jack in the box.
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Slow back, quick through.
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Kinetic energy, apparently.
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And then do you have a 19th hole tradition?
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Uh about six pints of Guinness. There we go. That's the way to do it. That'll do it. That's the way to do it.
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Six pints of Guinness and an Uber home.
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Leave the car in the parking lot, guys. All right, good advice.
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Are you ready to move on here to the halfway point?
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You're doing great, by the way. go.
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So this next one is the Brooklyn Deli Ghost Pepper Sauce.
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Brooklyn Oh, I've seen this one before. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. I like that. Oh, here it comes. Yeah. Slow burn.
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Leaves kind of a trail behind, you know? It's long, too.
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It's It's not one of those quick snappy Oh. Holy moly. Wasn't expecting that.
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All right, now we have a re-crane segment on our show called Explain That Gram where we do a deep dive on our guest's Instagram, pull interesting pictures that need more context.
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So we'll pull the picture up over here on the monitor.
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You just tell us the bigger story. All right. Uh there he is.
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What's the most Scottish thing about Lewis Capaldi and what would he say is the most Irish thing about you?
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Everything is Scottish about Lewis.
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There's nothing else about him.
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Uh he's the most Scottish man I've ever met.
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Um his ability to hold his accent, no matter where he goes, no matter who he's speaking to, and not give two flying F's uh as to if they can understand him or not.
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That's the most Scottish thing ever.
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Well, I'm I've kind of spent so much time in America that over the years I've realized maybe I should slow down.
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Um cuz they actually don't understand what I'm saying.
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Like people will look at me with like like I've got 10 heads.
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Um Lewis's ability to not care is the most his most Scottish thing.
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And he would he I think he's actually talking faster to Americans to see how much he can annoy.
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First time uh myself and Lewis met Shawn, we were in we were in a bar and like it was a club kind of vibe in LA. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
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And uh West Hollywood nightclub vibe yeah, through and through.
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know why we were there, but we were there anyway.
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And um Shawn, you come over and uh to say hello.
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And I was like I just tapped Lewis.
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I was like, "Lewis, look who it is."
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And Lewis goes to you, "I don't give a [ __ ] what anyone says, man.
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This is the most starstruck I've ever been."
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And he was deadly serious.
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I'm like, "Can I take your number?"
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"I want to come on the show." He was cracking me up.
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He was like, "Well, two of us."
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I was like, "This is sick."
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Cracking me up, too, but you know what?
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It's nice to get that kind of a hero's welcome.
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You're walking into a dark, cavernous nightclub like that, you know? we're there. Going around.
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It's all sorts going on in there. And then we see you.
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Like it's uh yeah, we're we're both huge fans. Oh, well, what a night. And you know what?
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We've gotten you in here now.
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Now we just have to get Lewis.
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Now we just have to get Lewis. on, Capaldi. It's easy. All right, here we go.
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No after burn, we're good. You think you're good? Yeah. Oh, do I think I'm good? Hopefully we're good. Hopefully we're good. Do I think I'm good?
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Or are you telling me that I'm expect should be expecting something?
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You know, sometimes this one hits a little bit later.
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I was nervous coming in here.
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And I should still be nervous, but I don't want to be that guy that like I want I want to see myself perspire and like snot rolling everywhere.
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Yeah, it's better it's better TV.
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Do you have a most thrilling memory from the pitch reflecting back on your multiple Soccer Aid appearances?
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I remember one time I played a game at Old Trafford, Manchester United stadium.
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The first time I ever played it.
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And I've got bad knees, so I was only going to play like 15-20 minutes anyway, but I remember walking onto the pitch and the first person to pass me the ball was Ronaldinho.
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And the second person to pass me the ball was Cafu, who's And both of those guys have won a World Cup.
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And I'm just looking around the pitch and it's just like legend, legend, World Cup winner, Champions League winner, Premier League winner, and me with the book with the skinny legs and the the buckety knees.
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Um, Soccer Aid is just like it's the best.
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It's like our dream and we get to play with legends like that. It's such a cool thing.
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I can't stop staring at the the bomb. Right.
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It like it it telltale hearts you a little bit, right? All right.
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Haven't touched the milk yet. I've noticed that.
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I've noticed that, by the way. Clocked that.
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All right, are you ready to move on here to sauce number seven? I guess I am.
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So, this next one, Dreams of Calypso. Okay. Mhm. All right, here we go. It's kicking in. Yep.
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Feeling my way around here.
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I'm afraid to like go and get the little bits in case they're spicy. Right.
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Yeah, unless like it activates something. Kicks something loose. All right.
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Oh, that's got a little kick. It's a prolonged one.
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It took a while to get there and then it just goes boom. Exactly.
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We have a little bit of like a cumulative effect, I think, you know.
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Yeah, I feel like after seven We're going on seven.
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We're just layering one onto the next over here, you know. Mhm.
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So, I've heard you talk about the influence that the '70s has on you, bands like The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac.
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But, I'm curious, how much of your songwriting instincts do you simply attribute to growing up in Ireland and being steeped in such a rich tradition of words?
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Yeah, I oh, I've always kind of grown up on that and grown up on singer-songwriters like Damien Rice and things like that.
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So, he's obviously played a big part in what I do. Excuse me. Kicking in now.
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Excuse my That's really rude, isn't it?
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But, I'm sure I you've seen I'm sure you've seen a lot worse.
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Yeah, you have a real long leash.
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Real long leash over here.
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But, um how I naturally write would have a Celtic influence.
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And then lyrics, yeah, lead into that kind of storytelling that we are kind of known for.
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I'm no James Joyce, but, you know.
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If you were to walk into a country pub and somebody gave you an acoustic guitar, is there a go-to song that you'd go to first to win the room over? Oh. That's a great question.
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You can't go wrong with The Fields of Athenry.
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That's a big Irish kind of like uh big Irish pub anthem.
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Um anywhere that's anywhere that's heard uh in Ireland, it gets sung along to.
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Usually, when I go into a bar unless it were handed to me in the first drink or two.
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Don't come near me after a few.
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Everyone is like, "Oh, sing us is I'm like, "No, I can't. I can't. I shouldn't."
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Because it'd be a disaster and people have phones these days. Right. Right.
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I don't want to be seen all over the Self-containment. Yeah. Yeah.
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Is there an Irish slang, maybe specifically County Westmeath, that you can't shake no matter how many spins around the world you take?
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That's such a good question.
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I need a second on that one. Oh god. Go away out of that. What? Go away out of that.
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Is that Go away out of that?
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Like if if you said something that was like really shocking to me, I could go away out of that.
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I said like that's a lie. Go away out of that. Um go on.
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Like I'm cheering you on. It's like, "Go on. Go on."
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Well, on that topic this next wing is the bomb beyond insanity. My message, Niall. Go on. Go on. Oh, you did it.
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You took that one off very honestly.
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I can't believe Look at the color of it compared to the rest of them.
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I mean All right, I'm trying to find my side. Oh, there's no place.
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I'm actually got the shakes. Right.
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I've been nervous about this for about 7 years. Uh-oh. I know. Here it comes.
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And this is just Here's the the perspiration that Bryan Cranston was talking about.
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Nothing can prepare you for it.
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And that you were talking about, you know.
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You're like, "I want this to kick in." Let's get it going.
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That good TV you were asking for.
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But like it was just in the mouth before and now it's everywhere. Yeah.
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Yeah, I don't think this was a good material to wear on this show. Holy moly. Here we go. I know. I'm going in, too. Sean. I know.
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This is a dangerous society, this.
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I I to see myself perspire and like snot rolling everywhere.
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I'm Yeah, it's better TV. Wow. I know.
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Please tell me it's downhill from here, please.
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So, it'll probably continue to grow on us just a little bit. Really? Right.
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Once this kind of mushroom cloud of the bomb clears, Mhm.
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on the other side of it, it's all downhill. It's all downhill.
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But, the next, I don't know, 45 seconds to a minute and a half, we're in the storm.
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We're in the storm, Niall. Careful. Careful. Yeah, there you go. There you go. I nearly made a mistake. There. Almost. Almost.
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So, when we had your One Direction bandmate Liam Payne on the show, he told this story about how he playfully trashed your car, then took a picture of Yeah.
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and then posted it to the internet, but never blurred out the license plate.
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What do you remember about the fallout of having your car tracked by fans for a time?
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I remember just going, "Why did you do that?"
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Um It's outside the studio.
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I was in recording a vocal. Holy moly. I know. I know. No comment, your honor.
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Um It's got me shaking, that one. Mhm.
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It was outside the studio.
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I was inside doing a vocal.
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And I came back out and him and Louis had like put garden chairs all over the car.
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It was like mops, buckets, about 10 rolls of toilet roll.
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And he just took a picture and put it on the internet.
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And there was my license plate all over the internet.
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No No even a fear of blurring it out. Mhm. I know. I really get it now.
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Folks, this is not as easy as it looks.
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I've always You know You know those people that's like I'm like it. I've seen it before.
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I've watched the show a thousand times.
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You kind of There is an element of Oh, that's spicy, but also is it? Right. Are they acting? Are they doing it? Right. It's natural, right?
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When you're watching the show, you're like, "Oh, well, how would I handle that?"
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Yeah, I could Where Yeah.
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And then you end up in the seat, different story.
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It's just that it's the the edges of my lips and the tip of my tongue are just on fire now for the rest of the day, I hope. I hope not.
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Okay, please say this is easy. Right. Yep. But No, nowhere near. Not like the last one. Not like the last one.
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It's just adding to what the bomb did.
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Yeah, sometimes like it can kind of like wake the bomb up again, you know? Yeah.
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Yeah, when the bomb starts go to sleep.
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Undertaker in the coffin coming up.
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Taco vibes comes in and goes gagging up.
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I've heard you gush about playing the kind of outdoor amphitheaters that you find in the United States.
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What makes a place like Red Rocks your favorite stage to perform on?
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Yeah, I love the amphitheaters.
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Um nothing better than going on stage when the sun's setting and and on the last tour we sold them out and I was like blown away.
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One of the best nights of my life and you've got all you can see is all these beautiful rocks and an ocean of people.
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Just a really really really cool experience.
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I do I enjoy the amphitheaters in general.
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You feel like you're on tour when you're playing the amphitheaters. All right, Niall. I made it.
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I need to do it with two hands in case I drop it. Yeah, there you go. Get a bit aggressive. Slow hands. Not much left. There you go. That's perfect. That's perfect. Yeah? Happy with that? I'm happy with that. I can't believe it.
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I can't believe we're at number 10.
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I never thought it was Right. Cheers. Cheers. Thanks for having me. Of course. Thanks for coming in. Body in the wings. Long overdue. Mhm. Woah. I know. The dab. Yeah.
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Kind of fell off the wing and hit the back of my throat straight away. That happens. Oh, I've been there. I know. You what?
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That's not far off the bomb.
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Maybe it's because of the accumulation, but And I think it might have been just the way in which it attacked you. Mhm. You know?
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Plus, it was just a bull's-eye landing. Yeah, it was. Nothing fun about that. Nothing fun about that. But, the worst is over. We're in the clear.
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And before we get to this final question, I have to give you some context, all right?
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So, back in 2017, Liam said in his interview that you were his favorite person to grab a cheeky beer with, okay?
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And back in 2017, when that episode was being worked on by one of our editors, Mari, okay?
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She was pregnant at the time.
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Thinking about baby names, lots of things bouncing around in her head, and no joke, just the way that he said cheeky beer with Niall, that's what inspired her to actually name her firstborn son Niall. All right?
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That I thought you were going to say she was going to call the the baby the baby cheeky beer. Also a good name. Also a good name.
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That baby, though, is now 4 and 1/2 years old, okay?
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And we're going to go to the monitor because Niall and Mari Hello.
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have a final wing 10 question for you.
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That is crazy, by the way.
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So, I want you to meet Niall. Oh my god. Hello.
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Um and his favorite song is uh here, can you tell him what your favorite song is?
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Um I like "What Makes You Beautiful" Um yeah, his "What Makes You Beautiful" song is what makes you beautiful.
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And while I do love that song, um we heard it quite a few times now.
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So, I was just wondering if you can recommend another song for a mom in a car um and that would be played many times over and over again for a 5-year-old. Okay. Love you. Thanks. Bye.
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Niall needs a new Niall song. I can't believe that. That's amazing.
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I knew that Niall became a popular name at one point, but um You didn't see the way that yeah, it coalesced with Hot Ones to actually, you know, in real life. Yeah. Um Okay, great question.
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Um he likes "What Makes You Beautiful".
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Uh "Heaven" by Niall Horan. YOU CAN STREAM IT NOW. YOU HEARD THAT, NIALL? Go check it out.
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Grab your mom's credit card. Get that on iTunes. And look at you.
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Yeah, I caught that right there. Yeah, go again. Do that again. All right. You know what?
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I got to nail the dismount.
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And look at you, Niall Horan, taking on the wings of death, living to tell the tale.
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Now, there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you.
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This camera, this camera, this camera, let the people know what you have going on in your life. Thank you for watching.
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I've got my new song "Heaven" that's out right now.
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I've got my album called "The Show" that's coming out June 9th.
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And uh I hope you enjoy it.
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And I'll see you SOMETIME SOON. YOU DID IT. YOU DID IT. I BELIEVE IT. HOLY CRAP. I'll deliver you this. Where we going?
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Just You know what's so good?
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I like I I didn't it wasn't even looking at you and I knew what to do cuz I've watched it that many times. Wow.
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