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Alex Lake

Alex Lake

Writer

Aug 31, 2026

18:34
What what happens there?
18:36
So they they take me from the holding apartment to the building where they tape the show.
18:42
They blindfold you and put on noise-canceling headphones.
18:46
So I'm in a blindfold.
18:48
They walk me into this building.
18:50
They go through all my luggage to make sure I didn't have anything that was contraband or not allowed.
18:56
they'd be like, well, what do you want to wear? And you show them like three options and they would pick the option that they'd want you to wear.
22:23
You just have a big screen in your room where these things are popping up.
14:30
And that
14:31
doesn't work.
14:32
No, and it's not even just the quality factor.
14:35
So the other thing I mentioned that I think is important to touch on is...
14:40
The edit is king.
14:43
So, you know, in a 30-second spot, in a 30-second spot where, like, let me back up.
14:52
At the very beginning of a project, there is some form of creative material that we have, whether it is storyboards or a pitch deck or very specific.

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27:47
That was just used over time.
3:25
a lot of these songs,
3:27
in fact, all of them were written in that format.
3:30
So we would get together and have either an acoustic guitar or no instrument whatsoever and challenge each other in the room to try and think of something compelling and something that's really moving and something that you can immediately grab as being like a great story or a great melody or like... an idea that, that can move someone.
3:51
And then obviously once we had decided that we'd achieved something approximating that, then we'd move forward and wrap it in big guitars and pedal steel.
6:54
Yeah, it's a totally
6:55
circular stage.
6:57
But I think... now that we've learned we'll arrange i think we'll arrange differently and then so we go from lefties to the factory theater in sydney cool and then full throttle ranch hunter valley uh on this what day are we on that'll be the sunday is that the sunday

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