Ep 44 - "Am I an asshole for wanting them back in school..?" | Back to School & an Interview with Danny from The Script

You didn't tell me.

What happened? Did you interview Danny from the script last night? I didn't interview Danny from the script last night.

Boo.

Well, I think I might be interviewing him tonight.

I've no idea.

So half of me thinks it's a scam.

Why a scam? It feels like such a random scam.

To fill in our siblings.

Basically, the script, their new album is out now.

It's absolutely fabulous.

They're doing another

tour.

I thought you were going to tell the listeners who the script are.

It's like Circa.

Oh, no.

I think they're aware.

No, no, no.

Everybody knows who the script is.

They were on an episode of The Hills.

Duh.

Ah, were they? Yeah.

Aw.

Yeah.

But

yes, anyway, their new album is out, The User's Guide to Being Human.

And they're doing all these different UGC content, all this kind of content, building up to getting them to be the number one album in the UK.

So they're number two at the moment here and the number one at home.

We would have it no other way.

No other way.

So the girls and I, like we're all, all of us really, really love the script.

So at our girls' Christmas dinner, we love the script.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was one of the first concerts we all went to together.

They were actually my first concert.

Yeah.

Science and faith.

It was an orange ticket that you had to print off.

from

Ticketmaster.

Yeah.

Back in the day, you had to queue to get a ticket.

You probably didn't have

to queue, did you? No, I remember me and Rachel queued for Justin Timberlake, but you could do, it was one of the first, it was the first kind of batches of online, but you had to physically print the ticket.

Yeah.

So I had the girls give me that for my birthday.

And at our girls' Christmas dinner this year gone, we just ended up singing their entire, like their first album, their title album, the script from start to finish.

And every time we'd finish a song, we'd be like...

Maybe just like we haven't sung break even yet though.

And we just go through the entire thing.

So then some of the girls got tickets to see them at the launch of their tour on the 30th at the Three Arena in Dublin.

But all the standing tickets are gone.

And I really, really want to go with all the girls.

So I was like, right, I'm going to do like a petition on my radio show.

I'll be like day one of playing the script until they invite me along to interview them at the Three Arena in Dublin on the 30th.

Yeah.

Love it.

So I was literally like recording a link and like recording a little TikTok of me being like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And then I got an email from this guy, Dan, not Danny from the script, but another guy called

Dan.

And he was like, oh hey like so I saw this content we're doing like UGC stuff for the script would you be interested and I was like oh yeah that would be great you know the song that they sent me I was like I actually auditioned for the music video for that and I didn't get it so finally so then I replied saying absolutely this sounds like fate and then I got an email then again from this other chick being like look Danny's actually going to do a live tonight and we'd love for you to interview him and I was like yes

yes

this feels

so this is where I came in this is I know from here like then she messaged me he's like is this a scam I was like hang on rewind why what

yes well I think because because I googled because it's a it's a new kind of media company who are running this with the script the scripts team and a lot like I get a lot of stuff I get so much stuff in my inbox that's what I mean to do UGC content

but

yeah you get some of their I was going to say like

Even our podcast inbox is full of lots of...

There are so many companies out there.

Just click through this link and fill out the form.

You do have to watch your back, obviously.

You have to have your wits about you.

Yeah, so I was

just a bit like, are they saying...

Because originally...

I thought they were kind of saying like, oh, I have this brilliant opportunity.

Like, send this through now.

And I was like, look, guys, I actually, like, I found a different company on Trustpilot.

And I was like, I don't think I can, I can pursue this.

Sorry.

And she was like, no, that's not our company.

She was like, that's not us.

We want you to interview him.

We want you, like, he's on live.

You'll interview him.

She was like, I totally get it.

Like, we're real.

We don't have to talk on WhatsApp.

You don't have to give me any of your details.

Like, we can talk all through here and just... passed on all the info so then I was like okay but it was all super last minute so I was like normally with this sort of stuff you know you have a certain amount of time you have a certain amount of questions all these questions have to be pre-approved so that was also a little flag yeah anyway i got a message to be like oh look i don't he's going live tonight i don't know what the story is so your interview might be tomorrow so watch the live it was really great but the his team were like we'll chat tomorrow when there's a bit more time like thanks for your understanding because i'm aware it was so last minute um but hopefully

i'll get to interview him tomorrow

Today? Tonight?

Hopefully.

Yeah,

it would be tonight.

Have you heard from them now?

I haven't heard from them today.

It is early though.

It's early days.

It is.

Yeah.

If I don't hear anything by like probably two or three, I might send them a message.

Yeah.

Just to be like, What

the...

Is that

an interesting story?

I think so, yeah.

Okay.

Also, I feel like it's a good one to add to your pile of...

Okay.

So, Dani, from the script, if you do happen to come across this video and Sarika hasn't interviewed you, get on to her.

She'll ask you any questions you want asked.

Exactly.

She will throw you a

curveball.

She's desperate.

exactly because I was like it was such an interesting one because he talks a lot about like I think the script are really well known for you know their kind of storytelling in their songs and all their it's such emotionally charged music And he talks a lot in interviews about how positive thinking and how, especially with this album, he's like, I actually do just think we're all stardust.

And, you know, like if you just believe something, it will happen and all that kind of jazz.

And because I didn't know that himself and Mark were like 28, 29 when they started the script.

Really? Yeah.

So they had been signed and stuff before and tried stuff in America.

So it was not like they were they were starting from scratch.

But in music industry terms, that's pretty old.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So because he because I know he's always said like, you know, this shouldn't have happened.

And it did.

I was like, why shouldn't it have happened? So I see what he means now.

But I'm like, this is exactly it, Dani.

That's why we're having this interview because it shouldn't have happened.

This random TikTok that didn't do very well.

I got like maybe 600 views.

That shouldn't have put us in touch with this team that made us have this interview right now.

And then obviously he's going to invite me to the three arena on the 30th because apparently the stage, they're going to kind of do a bit of a reenactment of the short film music video.

And I was like, then I can finally play the role.

of young Ruby no offence to the actress that played her Meg she was absolutely fantastic but then I can go and we can bring up the girls on stage yay come on Dani it's all for this love it