The Ed Sheeran Episode

Summary

Friends Keep Secrets – The Ed Sheeran Episode

Podcast: Friends Keep Secrets
Hosts: Benny Blanco, Lil Dicky (Dave Burd), Kristin Batalucco
Guest: Ed Sheeran
Date: March 10, 2026

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Episode Overview

This hybrid episode fuses the energy of a friendly hangout, free-ranging banter, and a live songwriting session, capturing Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran letting loose with Benny Blanco, Lil Dicky, and Kristin Batalucco. Set in Dave and Kristin’s LA home, the episode explores the nature of real friendship, family, music, fame, and creativity, ultimately culminating in the spontaneous birth of a new song. The mood is deeply relaxed, packed with inside jokes, unfiltered confessions, and a behind-the-scenes look at Ed’s life.

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Key Highlights & Discussion Points

The Origin and Spread of the “Chuck” Nickname

[00:00–01:12]

• Inside joke: Ed, Lil Dicky, and Dave debate the “Chuck” nickname—its exclusivity, origins, and how it spread among their friends and beyond, eventually leaking into pop culture.
  • Ed: “There’s three people that I call Chuck in the world. […] You, Blake, and David.” [00:43]
  • It became a catchphrase due to being mentioned in their TV show.

How Ed and Dave Met

[01:13–01:49]

• First meeting: On Skype, years ago—old school!—when Benny Blanco connected them for a possible song for the Lego Batman movie.
  • Dave: “We got on Skype and we wrote a song. Still the only song that we’ve written together.” [01:41]
• Fan connections: Ed’s wife Cherry was a fan of Dave’s music (“Save That Money”).

Daily Rituals & Personal Quirks

[03:03–04:43]

• Routines: Conversation about personal rituals, cleanliness, and the oddities of daily life.
  • Lil Dicky: “I can’t get out of bed unwet.” [03:31]
  • Ed: “Wait, you chuck, you have to be soaked to do anything?” [03:39]
• Hygiene talk: Hilarious detour into smells and belly button hygiene, including Kristen’s self-admitted “terrible” belly button smell and a group sniff test.
  • Dave (after smelling): “That’s like a bum hole. Jesus Christ.” [05:12]
  • Ed: “Mine smells just like... nothing.” [05:21]

Clumsiness, Ketchup, and Food Fails

[05:41–08:19]

• Lil Dicky and Ed Sheeran share mutual stories of clumsiness—Ed once crashed a scooter into Dave’s glass dining table.
• Everyone admits to a near-obsessive love of Heinz ketchup, with Ed notorious for carrying a bottle to fancy restaurants.
  • Ed: “I usually carry a bottle of Heinz ketchup in my bag… And then the advert is me going to a fancy restaurant... and I just [use my ketchup].” [07:10]
  • Kristen goes against the grain as a “mustard girl.” [08:39]

British vs. American Culture

[08:52–11:26]

• Condiments & chocolate: Comparing chocolate quality (UK/Europe vs US), British “Cadbury’s Dairy Milk,” and American “Hershey’s.”
  • Ed: “You have terrible gummy candies, but you have the best chocolate.” [08:55]
• Fish and chips skepticism: Kristin on not loving British staple foods, leading to a discussion of local authenticity (“you have to see the sea when eating fish and chips”). [09:45]
• Small town life: Dave and Ed describe life in a village of 200 people with no grocery store, no Uber Eats, and genuine community bonds.
  • Dave: “Everything in the market square is family owned and family run.” [11:34]

Building a Home and Forest

[11:42–14:15]

• Dave: Details planting 18,000 trees to create a forest, growing a vegetable garden, and transforming a property through years of effort.
  • “That house and property, everything on it... is your creation.” [13:35]
  • Ed: “I was there when he first planted the trees... and the trees were this big.” [12:44]

Parenting, Fame, and Handling Public Life

[15:07–19:42]

• Dave discusses raising two daughters, parenting challenges, and trying to give his children “some level of normality.”
  • Travel as a family, touring Europe by train, and taking a cruise across the Atlantic (with Titanic references and inside jokes).
  • Dave: “If I’m with [my kids]…I always say no to pictures. [...] I’m just being a dad today.” [20:11]
  • Balancing explaining fame to children with “this is just my job.” [18:42]
• Ed shares his anxiety in public spaces, worsened by fame, and how COVID (face masks) helped. [26:54–28:56]
• Conversations on the importance of kindness, recognizing that everyone, famous or not, struggles with something.
  • Dave: “As long as we recognize that all of us have shit that we’re struggling with, then it’s fine.” [28:31]

The Pressures and Paradoxes of Success

[21:32–25:54]

• Ed on getting famous at 19, and missing “normal” young adult experiences.
• The group debates the relativity of “coolness,” with Ed, Dave, and Lil Dicky casting themselves as “normal dudes” in a world of cooler, hotter music stars.
  • Ed: “We, like, shouldn’t have been [the cool ones].” [23:39]

Money, Headlines, and the Meaning of Success

[32:16–36:34]

• Dave reflects on the worst and best weeks of his life—Cherry’s cancer diagnosis, losing close friends, and a lengthy music copyright court battle.
  • Dave: “That was probably the worst week. [...] Jamal died that week. [...] Then we went straight into a court case.” [31:42–31:52]
• Ed explains why fighting (and winning) his copyright court cases was significant for him and for the music industry, setting legal precedent for peers like Dua Lipa.
  • “Now it’s not happening for other people, which is good.” [34:16]
• Aspirational headlines: The group jokes about their dream press coverage.
  • Lil Dicky: “He wanted unilateral respect. Guess what? He’s got it.” [35:29]

The Decline of Comedy Films and Changing Entertainment Industry

[38:41–40:18]

• Discussion of the disappearance of quality R-rated comedy films, the impact of streaming, and the economics of movie making.
  • Dave: “There are no movies really coming out anymore. I guess Good Boys was kind of like that. But there’s no movies coming out of like R rated comedies that are great.” [38:49]

Collecting Movie Memorabilia

[42:32–46:57]

• Ed and Dave share their fascination with film memorabilia (Edward Scissorhands’ hands, Dr. Evil’s suit, the teddy bear from A.I., knives from Goodfellas, etc.).
  • Dave: “I just bought the Edward Scissorhands hands.” [42:45]
  • Ed: “That’s the coolest thing.” [43:05]
• Discuss prop authenticity, auctions, prop websites, and the difference between collecting movie props and sports memorabilia.

Touring, Ticket Prices, and Legacy

[52:29–62:16]

• Ed breaks down how touring builds true global audiences—he’d play to 100 people in every city, then slowly scale up, explaining why he plays less profitable markets to nurture local fanbases.
  • Dave: “To be truly global, you have to be truly global.” [52:54]
• Family-friendly ticketing and ticket affordability: Dave wants whole families, not just pairs, to attend; he’d rather lose money than price out fans.
  • “At his shows, sometimes you see a whole person’s family tree… That’s how you get longevity.” [61:02]
• Conversation about being at the peak (“number one”) and how records are made to be broken.
  • Ed: “You’re just waiting for someone else to break [your record].” [61:34]
• Ed shares his doubts before releasing “Shivers” and “Bad Habits,” reminding everyone insecurity never truly disappears, no matter the level of success.

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Songwriting Session: Capturing Lightning in a Bottle

[65:11–92:40]

• The group creates a song from scratch live on the podcast, writing and recording in roughly 16 minutes.
  • Kristen suggests the theme: “Friendship in your 30s... the joy of hanging out with friends.” [70:08–70:29]
• Song Title/Hook: “It’s Been a Hard Ride and a Long Time Since You and I Both Smiled”
• Process:
  • Discuss beat, mood, and structure.
  • Dave and Ed collaborate on guitar, chords, melody; Lil Dicky and Kristen throw out lyrics and ideas.
  • They focus on reconnecting with old friends, overcoming hard times, and the bittersweetness of adult life.
  • Example development:
    • “Me and my friends driving around the road, summertime, we got the top down. Here we go. Live fast, we want to die slow, all we got is our time, I love and not know.” [74:46]
    • “Thank God you’re here today. Nothing. Life works in mysterious way.” [84:48]
• The energy is genuine, emotional, and infectious, with Kristen getting teary.
  • Kristen: “It makes my eyes cry...It’s my new favorite song.” [87:34]

Quotable Moments & Banter from Song Session

• Lil Dicky, on watching Ed and Dave write: “See, this is songwriting. You realize, like, you’re like watching, like, two, like, absolute…” [76:51]
• Ed: “He has to finish the song. Because if he doesn’t finish the song, then if it’s a bad one, some of the bad song could go into that. It’s the most annoying somewhere on the world.” [87:38]
• Dave, joking about how fast they wrote it: “By the way, that was about 16 minutes.” [91:00]

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Memorable Quotes

• On routine and hygiene:

  • Dave (to Lil Dicky): “You’ve got some really interesting kinks, man. I like it.” [03:37]

• On family and fame:

  • Dave: “It’s far more important that I’m being a dad to my daughter than me being a pop star to anyone else.” [20:22]
  • Ed (on fame's downside for kids): “That can only work for so long. She’s four. One day she’s gonna be like, ‘your job is way better than this other person’s job.’” [19:11]

• On global music careers and legacy:

  • Ed: “To be truly global, you have to be truly global.” [52:54]

• On success and happiness:

  • Dave: “When I was number one in all of those things, I was intensely unhappy because I didn’t have balance.” [64:55]
  • Ed: “No matter who you are, you always have those moments where you have doubts and stuff. And it doesn’t matter if you’re the biggest person in the world, there’s still that insecurity.” [63:06]

• On authenticity in songwriting:

  • Lil Dicky: “Songwriting at its core is what you do…The way he is writing a song is like, that is songwriting.” [65:26]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• “Chuck” nickname & friendship dynamics — [00:00–01:12]
• How Ed & Dave met, first collaboration — [01:13–01:49]
• Rituals, routines, and hygiene quirks — [03:03–06:12]
• Clumsy moments & food/ketchup obsession — [06:12–08:19]
• UK vs. US food, chocolate, small-town life — [08:52–11:42]
• Parenting, explaining fame, boundaries with fans — [15:07–22:11]
• Copyright lawsuits & music industry realities — [32:16–36:34]
• Songwriting session starts — [65:11]
• Songwriting magic: spontaneous song creation — [70:03–92:40]
• End, reflection, listens to finished demo — [91:02–92:40]

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Episode Tone & Style

• Warm, inside-jokey, confessional: Unfiltered discussion among close friends with frequent teasing, intimate admissions, and shared references.
• Free flowing, spontaneous: Skips formal structure for natural conversation, often pivoting between topics, jokes, and deep insights.
• Creativity on display: The songwriting session highlights collaborative inspiration and musical chemistry.

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For Listeners Who Missed It:

This episode is a true “fly on the wall” hangout with Ed Sheeran and friends—a testament to the power of genuine friendship, creative synergy, and embracing both vulnerability and hilarity in the public eye. Whether sharing belly button sniff tests or the secret anxieties behind chart-topping albums, the crew reminds us that even superstars are just “normal dudes” at their core—and that sometimes, the best music is made when you're not overthinking, but just having fun with your friends.

Transcript

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, Chuck. He looks just like him.

[Lil Dicky]

Well, I feel.

[Dave]

What's this Chuck stuff?

[Ed Sheeran]

Uh, you know. You never heard us say it.

[Lil Dicky]

I don't. Well, it's more him than me, wouldn't you say?

[Dave]

Say it.

[Lil Dicky]

It's basically a nickname. It's like, for example, I call her Mochi, and she calls me Mochi. So. But for whatever reason, I think with Chuck, it's. It's said more than Mochi.

[Kristen]

But you called everyone Chuck, I think.

[Ed Sheeran]

No, he. No.

[Lil Dicky]

So basically, it was our nickname for each other. He started calling all of his friends no, to my dismay. Like, so weird.

[Ed Sheeran]

That's not what happened.

[Lil Dicky]

Like, yesterday, he was on the phone with Blake, and Blake says Chuck just as much as we say Chuck.

[Ed Sheeran]

Okay, let me explain to you what happened.

[Lil Dicky]

Just think of a different name.

[Ed Sheeran]

No, there's three people in the world that are called. There's three people that I call Chuck in the world.

[Lil Dicky]

Okay.

[Ed Sheeran]

Okay. And who are they? You?

[Dave]

Yep.

[Ed Sheeran]

Blake and David.

[Lil Dicky]

Okay.

[Ed Sheeran]

And it was. And it was. And what happened? And my brother every once in a while says it to me. I don't ever say it back to him. So what happened is those people started saying it so much to me, I never said it to them. Well, and there's more people. The entire world says it to us in the street. It's because we put it in the TV show.

[Dave]

Right, right, right.

[Lil Dicky]

Still, I didn't think it was that. Anyways. Yeah. Did you know how I met Ed?

[Dave]

We met on Skype.

[Lil Dicky]

Like, Skype?

[Dave]

Yeah, Skype.

[Lil Dicky]

What are you. Right.

[Ed Sheeran]

It was Skype.

[Dave]

It wasn't even Zoom. It was Skype and Ben, like. So I'd listened to Save that Money. So Cherry was a fan. So your music was big at Duke University? I think so. Cherry was a fan. She played me Save that Money. And then Benny was like, I'm friends with Dickie, and we've been asked to do a song for the Lego Batman movie.

[Kristen]

Oh, yeah.

[Dave]

So we got on Skype and we wrote a song. Still the only song that we've written together. I know I was on the Chris Brown tune, but I obviously didn't write my bits.

[Kristen]

Yeah, you guys did it all over Skype.

[Ed Sheeran]

The best part is I had to go to the bathroom, and I just left Dave on Skype with Ed.

[Lil Dicky]

By the way, this is, like, from my perspective, I was, like, the biggest

[Kristen]

person you've ever met.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kristen]

There's a lot of air traffic today.

[Lil Dicky]

There's so much air traffic.

[Ed Sheeran]

Should we go inside?

[Lil Dicky]

We should go inside. Because of the Air traffic.

[Ed Sheeran]

I think it's all gone. Pete's tongue.

[Lil Dicky]

What's that?

[Ed Sheeran]

It's all gone. Pete tongue.

[Lil Dicky]

I don't know.

[Ed Sheeran]

What you're saying means it's all gone wrong.

[Lil Dicky]

Listen to the air traffic.

[Kristen]

I know there's so. Well, it's Friday.

[Dave]

How many times do you want to say air traffic?

[Lil Dicky]

Twice.

[Dave]

It's actually the third time.

[Kristen]

I wonder if it's because it's Friday and people are taking off for the weekend.

[Ed Sheeran]

Buddha, Magenta.

[Lil Dicky]

Anything to drink? A full fridge if you need.

[Dave]

I'm all right. It's quite cool in there.

[Kristen]

Do you have one guitar that you. Is your lucky guitar that you take everywhere?

[Dave]

I used to when I was, like, 21.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, you used to. I used to have one guitar. It was so beaten, so battered. Yeah. And he was so scared to get a new one. And then he finally did.

[Dave]

I set up my own guitar company. So now it's just, like, a constant stream of.

[Ed Sheeran]

But he used to, like, have a guitar, and it was like, it would have, like, so much stuff on it. He's also, like, a little collector of things. He used to, like, collect, like, every, like, wristband and, like.

[Lil Dicky]

Do you have, like, rituals or OCD about things where you get stuck in these patterns?

[Dave]

Nah. Nah.

[Lil Dicky]

Cool.

[Dave]

No, I'm trying to think.

[Ed Sheeran]

You were hoping you could be like, dude, me too.

[Dave]

I get, like. If I don't exercise. There's something out of whack in my day now.

[Kristen]

Yeah.

[Dave]

I really find I have to do something every morning.

[Kristen]

What do you do? Like, run.

[Ed Sheeran]

You don't have to.

[Dave]

Anything.

[Ed Sheeran]

You don't have to be like, anything, anything.

[Lil Dicky]

Do you have to shower before you have to get wet before you exercise?

[Ed Sheeran]

What?

[Lil Dicky]

I have to. I can't even do anything until I'm soaked once. I can't get out of bed unwet.

[Dave]

You've got some really interesting kinks, man. I like it.

[Ed Sheeran]

Wait, you chuck, you have to be soaked to do anything?

[Kristen]

Yeah. Starting soap.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah.

[Lil Dicky]

I can't. Like, when I have a workout, I will. I don't use soap. I'll just rinse.

[Dave]

Surely at the end you get in an ice bath and soak, and then he doesn't.

[Lil Dicky]

Oh, I get back in after.

[Ed Sheeran]

Clean myself.

[Kristen]

If he gets sweaty after the second shower, then he doesn't stop talking about

[Lil Dicky]

how there's nothing worse than sweating after a shower. I get so.

[Ed Sheeran]

You're really wasting.

[Dave]

Get your CBT down before you do that shower.

[Ed Sheeran]

Do you shower every day?

[Dave]

Yeah, sometimes twice a day. Mostly twice a day, actually.

[Ed Sheeran]

Really?

[Dave]

I feel like I'm like you, though. I look like I don't smell good. Yeah, but actually, you're the best smelling person I know.

[Ed Sheeran]

I smell good and I never like. Even if I don't shower.

[Kristen]

You smell your hands or something.

[Ed Sheeran]

Smell me. Come here. Smell. Smell me wherever you want.

[Lil Dicky]

He always smells good.

[Kristen]

No smell, no smell. No smell.

[Lil Dicky]

People used to say that I have a particular smell. They said it's not good or bad. You have a smell. I found that so unnerving.

[Ed Sheeran]

Sometimes you stink. I know I can stink his like,

[Lil Dicky]

but I don't smell bad. I've heard that. I still have a smell that's not good or bad.

[Kristen]

Well, by my belly button. Because that is my belly button.

[Ed Sheeran]

You want to smell his belly button?

[Dave]

No.

[Ed Sheeran]

Really crazy.

[Kristen]

You will never check.

[Ed Sheeran]

Get him to smell.

[Kristen]

Smell it. No, I don't know if he should. I don't know. It's really terrible.

[Ed Sheeran]

No, no, no.

[Lil Dicky]

Get him to smell.

[Kristen]

I feel bad.

[Lil Dicky]

It's okay.

[Kristen]

He might throw up.

[Lil Dicky]

It's not going to throw up. Let's not feel. Here you go.

[Kristen]

I can't even watch. I'm ashamed.

[Ed Sheeran]

Doesn't it smell? It's one of the worst smells I've ever smelled.

[Dave]

That's like a bum hole. Jesus Christ.

[Ed Sheeran]

I don't understand why.

[Lil Dicky]

Gotta wash the hands.

[Kristen]

You gotta stop doing it.

[Lil Dicky]

I broke his body down.

[Ed Sheeran]

I know. Mine smells just like. Nothing.

[Lil Dicky]

Do you wash your belly button? I don't wash inside of my belly button. I let the soap. Oh, you kind of have a narrow.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, I have a deep. Mine doesn't smell like.

[Lil Dicky]

Do you have a deep hole in your belly button? Is that.

[Dave]

Can I have something that's gonna take that smell away?

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Let me make some more coffee.

[Ed Sheeran]

You sure you don't want another whiff?

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah. Kill that coffee.

[Ed Sheeran]

Oh, I will tell you, Ed is one of the clumsiest people out there. Now.

[Lil Dicky]

This is a weird machine. No, no, no.

[Ed Sheeran]

He's one of the clumsiest people.

[Lil Dicky]

Oh, this lid doesn't work.

[Ed Sheeran]

One time, Ed was. And it was right when we got one of those, you know, those. Those, like, machines that, like. You go like this. And, like. It was like a scooter and you, like, roll forward on it. Okay. Right when I got one, he was like. He was, like, going like this. He was like. At my house, he was like. And he was, like, moving around on it, and he just. And I had a glass dining room table, and he just smashed into it and just exploded. Just like.

[Dave]

We have this friend Emil, who, like, spent close to 100 grand on a rug. And I went round there, and we were drinking, like, nice wine together. And I was like, I'm gonna spill this wine on your rug as a joke.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah.

[Dave]

And he was like, don't do that. And I was like, nah, all good. And then later on in the night, I tripped up and spilled it all over the rug. And he thought I'd done it on purpose. And I was like, that was.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah.

[Kristen]

What happens next? Was he upset?

[Dave]

Let's take spent 100 grand on a rug.

[Ed Sheeran]

One time we were at my house. We were literally at my house, and we were working. Cause we used to make all the songs, like, out of, like, my house, out of, like, a bus out of, you know, wherever. And Ed was like, I'm so hungry. And he's obsessed with ketchup. Okay, so same.

[Dave]

Same.

[Ed Sheeran]

What, are you that obsessed?

[Lil Dicky]

Oh, my gosh. I was so jealous that you had the ketchup commercial. Chuck, Are you.

[Dave]

That was my.

[Ed Sheeran]

Chuck. Are you that obsessed?

[Kristen]

No.

[Lil Dicky]

I reach out to them and ask. Before that commercial, I would constantly be like, hey, like, I love Heinz ketchup. If you ever. And they're like, we just don't really need to advertise.

[Dave]

They did say that to me. They said, we don't need to advertise. And then when I came with the advert. Because we did eggshell. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because what I do, I usually carry a bag. A bottle of Heinz ketchup in my bag. Because when you get to restaurants and they're like, sometimes really, really fancy restaurants, they're like, we don't do ketchup. And I'm like, but you do fries. Like, why wouldn't you do ketchup? So I carry it. And then the advert is that me going to a fancy restaurant. And then they bring the food. And then I just.

[Ed Sheeran]

So as for his advertising.

[Kristen]

You gotta call him back. You gave it to everyone.

[Lil Dicky]

They already did it. They already did it.

[Ed Sheeran]

Kristen. He's at my house, and I just got, like, this beautiful blanket. Like, I. Like, it was from, like, ABC home, and it's like this gorgeous blanket. And he's at my house, and he's like, oh, I gotta eat some food. And so he, like, gets the food. And, like, I'm about to say, like, maybe don't do it. Cause he's so clumsy. But, like, he didn't do it. And then he goes to get the ketchup, and he like. You know how sometimes you gotta shake it like this?

[Dave]

No.

[Ed Sheeran]

And the entire bottle exploded. All over the thing. And he just goes, like. And he was like, my bad. And he just, like, kind of crumpled the thing up and just put it to the side.

[Lil Dicky]

That's funny. I used to bring ketchup bottles to my, like, school. Eighth grade, high school. Cause they had a packet limit that they would give out as cafeteria staff. So I brought my own.

[Dave]

My guy. And also, man, school food, like, that was very much like, at school. Like, if you got like a shit sausage roll or a shit bit of pizza. Need some lubrication.

[Kristen]

Sausage roll.

[Ed Sheeran]

If you get a shit sausage roll,

[Kristen]

I gotta say, don't like ketchup.

[Ed Sheeran]

What?

[Kristen]

I don't like it.

[Lil Dicky]

You don't?

[Ed Sheeran]

I love mustard.

[Kristen]

I'm a mustard girl. Do you like mustard?

[Unidentified Singer]

Yeah.

[Dave]

But English mustard. I feel like American mustard. Honestly, some of the condiments here. And the chocolate.

[Lil Dicky]

Pray tell, tell us you hate the chocolate here.

[Ed Sheeran]

What's the chocolate in the uk?

[Dave]

Have you eaten Hershey's?

[Ed Sheeran]

But you guys have the worst Hershey's. You have terrible gummy candies, but you have the best chocolate.

[Dave]

Yeah, but our gummy candies are terrible because they don't have, like, 75 million ingredients.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, but I want the cancer ingredients.

[Kristen]

What's the good chocolate that you have that we can't get?

[Ed Sheeran]

Oh, my God. Milk.

[Dave]

Yeah. I mean, Cadbury's lint dairy milk is insane. Dairy milk. But European chocolate, Belgian chocolate, Swiss chocolate,

[Ed Sheeran]

like, is the best crumble is insane.

[Kristen]

Cadbury eggs. That's. That's you, right?

[Ed Sheeran]

Have you ever been to the uk?

[Kristen]

Yeah, once. That's.

[Ed Sheeran]

No. That's sad.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah.

[Ed Sheeran]

You went once.

[Kristen]

Yeah. Here's the thing I'm gonna say, which is maybe controversial. I didn't love. I don't love fish and chips.

[Dave]

Did you have it in London?

[Kristen]

I don't know.

[Dave]

Did you have it by the seaside? Could you see the sea when you were eating it?

[Kristen]

No.

[Dave]

That is why.

[Kristen]

Yeah. Maybe I just got the. I only had it, like, once, and I thought, this is everything, basically.

[Dave]

London. London is obviously the hub. It's all the tourists come. The UK is like, huge. It's like, if I was like, right. I had barbecue food in New York. And that's what I'm judging it on. And you're like, well, you have to go to, like, the best place. Austin Stubbs or something. Stubbs would be. What would be the best barbecue you could have?

[Ed Sheeran]

Not stuff.

[Lil Dicky]

Kansas City has good barbecue, I hear,

[Dave]

but you know what I mean, that would be controversial. But my view, because I grew up near the seaside Is you have to

[Ed Sheeran]

see the sea when you're in Europe. When I'm there, we'll go take a trip down to his town. It's amazing. He has a house, this town.

[Kristen]

He owns the town.

[Ed Sheeran]

Well, no, he grew up. He grew up. Okay, first of all, let me just explain this to you. He grew up in a town of like 2,000 people, and then he moved into a town and next to his town, where it's even less people.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah.

[Dave]

There's like 200 people in my village.

[Ed Sheeran]

In his village now.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Kristen]

200 people. One grocery store.

[Dave]

One no grocery store.

[Kristen]

So just no eating.

[Dave]

No, I mean, we do go to a grocery store in the town.

[Ed Sheeran]

But you have to imagine.

[Kristen]

I can't even imagine a town of.

[Dave]

There's no Uber Eats, there's no Uber, there's no postmates, nothing but everything.

[Kristen]

Amazon delivery.

[Dave]

But it would take, like, two, three days. Like, it wouldn't be, like, same day.

[Ed Sheeran]

But you also have to understand, like, in his town, there's also, like, somehow, like, everyone has the best taste in style. There'll be, like, bread that's, like, dressed up. No, no, no. They just like. Like some person's been making bread for, like, 100 years and it's the best sourdough you've had. There's like, somebody who.

[Dave]

This is true. Yeah.

[Ed Sheeran]

Who makes, like, smoked salmon. And every person has the best styled home you've ever been. Like, they're like. The architecture is insane.

[Dave]

I will say, because we haven't. We haven't really got, like, big chain business there. So it is all like, mom and pop.

[Ed Sheeran]

It's amazing.

[Dave]

Everything in the market square is all, like, family owned and family run.

[Kristen]

That sounds like a dream.

[Lil Dicky]

A real community.

[Ed Sheeran]

It's incredible.

[Kristen]

Let's move.

[Ed Sheeran]

And then, like, every time he just moved, every time I used to come to his house, there'd be, like, a new thing. Like, when I first came there, he was like, this house is older than America. And then. Well, really, he was like, this house is older than America. And then.

[Dave]

I mean, it is.

[Ed Sheeran]

And then.

[Dave]

Older than the.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So then, you know, so then I come back the next time and he's like, I have an underground movie theater. And it was, like, so cool because he kept building on this, like, property he had. Then the next time I came back and he had his favorite pub was just there. And then I came back again and he had a full lake. And then he had, like, a farm with, like, wildlife. And it was.

[Dave]

So I built a chapel. Now it's got A full church there.

[Ed Sheeran]

Like the city's gonna die.

[Dave]

Yeah, I wouldn't say it's like. I wouldn't say it's acreage in the same way that Americans have acreage.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah. But I'd say yours is like five acres. I'm four acres.

[Dave]

No, it's about 39, I think.

[Ed Sheeran]

Oh, it's 39.

[Kristen]

I was gonna say you have a lot going on there.

[Dave]

You have to have somewhere. Well, we planted about 18,000 trees.

[Ed Sheeran]

Oh, my God.

[Dave]

So it's just a big forest now.

[Ed Sheeran]

Wait, this is my favorite part. I was there when he first planted the trees. Chuck. And the trees didn't come just like, full of trees. Chuck, you were walking, like, miles and the trees were this big.

[Dave]

No, but they're fully grown now. They're huge.

[Ed Sheeran]

I know, but it was 2013.

[Dave]

I planted them. So it used to be just like a ploughed field with nothing in it. And then I got the field, and then it's now like very, very rich and diverse with we have snakes and shit live there.

[Kristen]

Now it feels like more of like a forest. Like a middle.

[Dave]

Totally a forest.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah.

[Dave]

And we get, like monk jacks, which are like mini deer. And then we get deer in the garden and badgers because we have infra security and we can see if people break in. We also see all the mad wildlife at night.

[Lil Dicky]

When you look at your trees, do you feel way more satisfaction than you ever would looking at any other tree?

[Dave]

Yeah, I mean, everything. I mean, that house and property, everything on it is pretty much apart from the actual cottage that's from the 1600s. Everything on it is your creation. Yeah. And we've got a big vegetable garden where we grow all the veg.

[Kristen]

Don't you worry about the trees getting, like. How do you make.

[Ed Sheeran]

Because a lot of initiatives, you just say you're sassing.

[Kristen]

No, I'm not gonna say the SAP thing, but maybe he would relate to the SAP thing. Just because you guys don't understand SAP.

[Dave]

At my house, I feel like to have a purely organic gaff and garden, you just kind of gotta let it be.

[Kristen]

But so you don't have disease. Cause, like, in my environment.

[Dave]

Yeah, I mean, we do, but if they die, they die. And that's like.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah. You know, when the trees get.

[Dave]

No, you don't.

[Kristen]

No, you don't. Sometimes you don't.

[Lil Dicky]

Unless you're like an arborist. I don't know, maybe you guys don't.

[Kristen]

Trees get, like, diseases that just completely take out an entire.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah. You know, there's like there's definitely like. And you can tell.

[Lil Dicky]

You think you can eyeball a dying tree?

[Ed Sheeran]

I eyeballed the two dying trees on my property.

[Lil Dicky]

Well, they're probably so obvious.

[Kristen]

Maybe he's an arborist.

[Ed Sheeran]

Well, no, it's not. It's. I think it's easier to tell when a tree's dying than not.

[Kristen]

Well, what I was getting wrong was it was not in season.

[Dave]

What's with this fucking creepy baby?

[Ed Sheeran]

Oh. Oh, Jeff.

[Lil Dicky]

You know, I don't know. I don't like to talk about its creepiness because I understand what you're saying. Don't touch it. Start. Please don't.

[Dave]

We got our youngest daughter a doll, and it was, like, so creepy that we kept calling it Creepy Baby. And then she thought its name was Creepy Baby, so she'd be like, looking at a creepy baby.

[Lil Dicky]

Aww.

[Ed Sheeran]

Really?

[Lil Dicky]

That's sweet.

[Kristen]

Do you have.

[Dave]

How many girls got two daughters? They are so fun. I mean, it's up and down when they're tantruming. It's real.

[Kristen]

Are they close in age?

[Dave]

Yeah, super close in age. Like, so much so that they are just best mates, locked in. They do everything together.

[Kristen]

That was my. That's a dream. Do you want a son close in age?

[Lil Dicky]

Do you want a son deep down? Don't care. Not thinking about it.

[Dave]

You know what? I don't know. I don't know. I think maybe I'd want another girl. I think. I don't know.

[Lil Dicky]

Is there a huge difference in one kid versus two kids? Like, is it a total paradigm shift?

[Dave]

Yeah, but I think if you have them close together, I mean, I'm just going based on my experience, but having them close together was, like, really chaotic to begin with. And then it's like, so good because they just play together, bath together, and sleep together and school together, and everything's like, locked in.

[Lil Dicky]

I think that's a good. I like that logic for our future.

[Kristen]

Me too. I just wish I was a tiny bit younger. It's hard. It seems so hard to do the whole. It does seem hard just back to back together.

[Lil Dicky]

So zero to one child was that.

[Dave]

That was. Yeah, but we did that in Covid, so it was. That was like. That was all we did.

[Kristen]

Did you have both of them during COVID No, no.

[Dave]

The second one, we had Covid Aftermath one week into my tour starting. So that was like an interesting.

[Kristen]

One week into your tour starts. Did they all go with you or no?

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Kristen]

Oh, they did.

[Dave]

Yeah. Yeah. But it was in Europe, so it was more saying to Benny, we do Europe on trains. So it was like a bit easier.

[Ed Sheeran]

His wife doesn't like flying anymore, like me.

[Kristen]

Oh, really?

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah. Do you know I made him take a boat across.

[Kristen]

I've heard this. I've heard that you guys, like took like a cruise ship. Did you get like a. Like a suite or were you guys just.

[Dave]

We had a suite. We watched Titanic together on the boat.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, we cuddled. It wasn't even like. No, it was like, barely. We had like a. Almost like a normal room.

[Dave]

It was cool. It was cool.

[Ed Sheeran]

I've done it like that.

[Kristen]

But would you guys just go and get like lunch and dinner and everything?

[Dave]

Yeah, I ate the same thing every single day. Do you remember? I just had fajitas, lunch and dinner. Every day. Every day. No, we. What I loved about it is like, midway through the trip, they like send out on the tannoy, they're like, right, everyone come to the top deck. We're about to see the place where the Titanic sunk and we're like, oh, cool. And then we go up there and then it's just everyone just taking pictures of the sea. Just water and just water.

[Ed Sheeran]

I have a question. Do your kids know you're Ed Sheeran yet?

[Dave]

Yeah, my eldest does, but that's because she started school.

[Lil Dicky]

Has she heard your music and does she like it?

[Dave]

Yeah, I mean, she comes to the shows. She. Yeah, she comes to the shows. She likes my.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah, she likes her music.

[Ed Sheeran]

But does she understand, like, when she comes to the shows and she sees you singing?

[Dave]

No, she doesn't. She doesn't clock it like that when she was in school and like these like, older kids who were like 11 and 12 were like giving her, like, notes to give to me at home. Which she's like four or. She was four at the time. It was a bit like much. Yeah, yeah.

[Kristen]

How do you explain it?

[Ed Sheeran]

What did the notes say?

[Lil Dicky]

We love you.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, we love you.

[Dave]

Yeah, but still, like, you know, it's.

[Kristen]

Was she confused? Was she like, hears from some.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Lil Dicky]

Kids show us the power of fame. It's got 11 year olds going up to 4 year olds and being like, please.

[Kristen]

But it's a hard thing to explain, I imagine.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, like, what do you, like, what

[Kristen]

are you gonna tell your kids?

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, well, I'm so scared of this whole thing because to me I'm like,

[Dave]

you should be telling me also the amount of shit that's on the Internet about you, they're gonna find it all.

[Ed Sheeran]

No, I'm scared because it's like, I went to a public school. I Did all these things and I just don't even know what you're supposed to do.

[Dave]

What I say to them is I try and normalize it as much as possible of everyone has a job, and this is my job. And I don't really work in the week, I work at weekends. So if I'm away, I'm doing those gigs. But that means that I get to be at home in the week and spend time with you and blah, blah, blah, blah. I would say that, like, no one's like, everyone in the world has jobs and my job is just a job. And it.

[Ed Sheeran]

That can only work for so long. She's four. One day she's gonna be like, your job is way better than this other person's job.

[Kristen]

Yeah, but it might be more normalized because she's like, growing up with it.

[Dave]

And still I talk a lot to musicians that I really love and admire. Like, I talk a lot to them and their kids about it and, like, trying to, like, understand where parts went wrong and where parts went right.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah.

[Ed Sheeran]

Like, what happens? Like, so, like, has she seen you? Like, does she understand when you meet a fan? Does she know what that is?

[Dave]

Yeah. Yeah. Because I usually will, like, if I'm with them. I always say no to pictures. Cause one time really, really, really early on, I was with Lai and we were out somewhere and someone asked for a selfie. And as I was taking it, she fell over and I was just like, I'm like, I'm not doing. I'm not being a dad here. So now it's just a blanket. No to anyone. But I'll explain.

[Ed Sheeran]

It makes sense.

[Dave]

Yeah, I'll explain to them. I'm like, I'm just being a dad today. Like, I'm not. I don't want to. And people usually get it. Sometimes people can be, like, quite rude, though. But she's good.

[Lil Dicky]

Excuse me?

[Dave]

Well, yeah, I mean, but. But it's true. It's far more important that I'm being a dad to my daughter than me being a pop star to anyone else. But I think that the. Yeah, so she sees me say, she now says no photos to people, though. So, like, someone comes up, she'll say it, like, instantly.

[Ed Sheeran]

That's crazy. It's such.

[Kristen]

Is she aware of, like, people looking at you? Like, when is she become, like, Is she self aware now that people are then looking at her?

[Dave]

No, because we don't really. We don't really go out like that. We don't really go out in spaces where that could be a thing. A Thing. Yeah. And I think because where we live, where we grew up, it's the same area. My wife grew up as well. And all of our schoolmates live there, all of our family lives there. So if we go out to a pub nearby, we know everyone. And actually, if there's anyone in there that does act weird because there's such a protective force field around it, like, people will kind of stick up for us without us even needing to do anything.

[Lil Dicky]

That's so sweet.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah. That's why he. That's why he lived there. I remember when he was living in London and he was just like, I gotta go. Like, I gotta go back to my roots.

[Kristen]

How old were you when you got big?

[Dave]

19 was when it went, like, stratospheric. But I was sort of, like, doing stuff at British.

[Ed Sheeran]

Everything sounds so important. When you said you could say anything,

[Kristen]

I'd be like, yeah, stratospheric. Yeah, totally.

[Ed Sheeran]

So when it went straight.

[Lil Dicky]

19 is so young for. I mean, I guess you could be younger, but not barely. Like, that's young.

[Dave]

Yeah. It's a weird one because I do look back on it and there are certain things that I didn't experience, but also, like, it's all I ever wanted to do. So, like, could I have deferred everything and done all the experience things till I was 22 and then done it? And would that have, like, been better? And I don't think it would have

[Lil Dicky]

done, like, what experience popping in your head? University.

[Dave]

I mean, that maybe. Yeah. I mean, but not universities in studying, but the experience of being at university with other kids.

[Lil Dicky]

See how I said that?

[Dave]

Not college, but, you know, learning how to. Learning how to cook and look after yourself and all this stuff. Or like, cheap backpacking, you know, staying in hostels with fucking whoever and going to Thailand and doing all.

[Kristen]

I haven't done that.

[Lil Dicky]

You don't want to do that.

[Dave]

No. Yeah. So maybe. But this thing. I don't cheat back. I don't mourn for any of that. The stuff I mourn for is, like, the normality stuff with my kids and, like, you know, like, suddenly being my daughter can be taken to the zoo by her godfather, but not me. And that. That's where I'm like. Yeah, that's where I get sad. It's not so much my childhood stuff, because it's. Whatever. I had a great time from 17 to 25 or whatever. I feel like we still. I mean, we basically were like college kids.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I felt like you were the most normal person, obviously. We're from different places, but there was like. It felt like.

[Ed Sheeran]

Well, we were all so young and like, Ed's like. I feel like me and Ed share the same thing where it's like, there's a lot of guys that get like, big. That like, you're like, oh, yeah. Like, that person should be like. So, like, you see like someone, they're like, doing the cool. Like, I feel like both, especially me, I don't like, I'm like the guy. I like, give. You're the same way. You, like, give. Like the normal guy. Hope, like, it's like we like you too. No, we do.

[Dave]

Me too.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah. Yeah, you are too.

[Kristen]

Just a bunch of normal dudes.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, we're like, we're like. Like there's some guys who are, like, so hot and can, like, do all this stuff and we're like, we, like, shouldn't have been.

[Kristen]

Who are you thinking about?

[Ed Sheeran]

I don't know, like, like, you know what I mean?

[Dave]

Like, there's definitely the popular kid in school who's super, super attractive, like Jacob Elordi or something.

[Kristen]

But they say those kids.

[Ed Sheeran]

Or like Chris Brown or like, there's so many guys who can, like, do like, crazy stuff.

[Kristen]

Benson Boon. A backflip.

[Ed Sheeran]

Benson Boon, I think is. I think Benson Boone is like, straddling, like.

[Dave]

Yeah, he's cool. He's got a little bit of no move.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, he's like.

[Kristen]

He could do backflips.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah. But he's like, funny looking. But he's like, hot funny looking.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah. I think he's almost hotter than funny looking.

[Kristen]

It's like I would say.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah, his outfit is so, like, designed to show up.

[Ed Sheeran]

I think his body screams like, hot guy and his face is like, oh, you can be one of the normal. Like, he has like a. Like.

[Lil Dicky]

I think he's right.

[Ed Sheeran]

Hey, Benson, you agree?

[Kristen]

I think he's considered.

[Ed Sheeran]

You know, this is the type of stuff we talk about.

[Dave]

I love it. This is such a lovely podcast.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, Benson's got it.

[Lil Dicky]

It's not a podcast. I think at the end of the day, all we have to do.

[Ed Sheeran]

Go. Welcome to the ads, guys. We're talking White claw.

[Kristen]

I thought it was a group thing because I want to talk about this one too.

[Ed Sheeran]

Okay. You talk about which one you like. Me? I'm stuck between peach and watermelon. Do want to say something? Has anybody ever combined like a half of one and a half of another? I think I'm going to. Will I be the first man ever to drink peach watermelon?

[Kristen]

Have a Pack of fruit punch.

[Ed Sheeran]

I don't know if it's as exciting for you as it is for me,

[Kristen]

but I'm excited for experience it.

[Lil Dicky]

Please drink responsibly. Hard seltzer with flavors. White ball seltzer. Work. Chicago, Illinois. That's what you want.

[Ed Sheeran]

All right, guys, get a room. Papa broth. Domino's.

[Dave]

Wow, that must be heavy.

[Kristen]

What do you got here?

[Ed Sheeran]

Heaviest thing in the world. I've been working out so much.

[Lil Dicky]

Oh, wow.

[Kristen]

Do we each get a few.

[Ed Sheeran]

No, these are for me.

[Lil Dicky]

We each get four. Pie?

[Ed Sheeran]

No, these are for me. What do you.

[Lil Dicky]

Done the math? 1, 2.

[Ed Sheeran]

Don't. Don't touch my pie.

[Lil Dicky]

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

[Kristen]

Can we share some of those pies?

[Ed Sheeran]

Tell me what your favorite pie is.

[Kristen]

Thin crust with pineapple. Do you have that?

[Ed Sheeran]

You bet your bottom dollar I do.

[Kristen]

Chuck, what's yours?

[Dave]

I'm a plain cheese.

[Kristen]

Ooh. I also want some of that, though. And I also might want some.

[Lil Dicky]

For a limited time. You can get any pizza with any toppings for just $9.99 at Domino's.

[Ed Sheeran]

Wait, I didn't say my pizza. That was the end of the ad. I guess they'll have to know on the next time.

[Kristen]

Do you always fly private?

[Dave]

No.

[Ed Sheeran]

Wait, why did you. Why did you.

[Dave]

No, I don't. I don't.

[Kristen]

How do you get on the plane?

[Dave]

It's British Airways, you know, just put a fucking hoodie up. If someone said to you, I'm gonna give you 150 grand to, like, sit in an airport lounge and maybe take two photos, you'd be like, okay.

[Lil Dicky]

He's saying that's the difference in the.

[Kristen]

That's how much it cost to fly private.

[Lil Dicky]

Kind of. Yeah, I agree with you completely. And they have a higher chance of crash.

[Dave]

I. Sometimes. There'll sometimes be pictures online that will come up of me, like, sleeping on a plane, that someone next to me is, like, taking an upload. It's a bit weird.

[Lil Dicky]

Violation.

[Ed Sheeran]

Do you have anxiety?

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Ed Sheeran]

What type?

[Dave]

I have it. Cherry. Works a lot on me because I have it in public spaces mostly, I think, because of who you are. Yeah. So she's always, like, pushing me to do things that I usually wouldn't do. And I think actually having kids has really helped me go out. When we were making divide, and then even after divide, I just never went out. I just was, like, always inside. And if I went out, it would be like, I'd shut the restaurant down and I'd go with my friends, and it'd be very like, curated. And then I think having kids, I was like, I have to give them some level of normality. Even if there's like, bits of it that aren't normal for me, that I have to give them some level of normality. And I think Covid helped because wearing face masks or ski masks or like some, you know, like a scarf or whatever, like, that's not frowned upon now. So I can still go out and do things and I'm like, hat.

[Ed Sheeran]

And it doesn't really help. It looks like, like a. Like colors exploded on your body.

[Dave]

No, but I like. So my. My months that I do it are like the autumn and fall months and winter. So I can like, really, like, wrap up summer. It's a. It's a wrap.

[Kristen]

When I ate the edible in Hawaii, and I was experiencing a little moment of paranoia and I thought everyone was looking at me. It turns out they were really. Well, they were looking at you, but for some reason I just thought they were looking at me and I would be like, I gotta get out of here. We can't be. We can't be anywhere. And I wonder if it's that feeling.

[Dave]

The thing is with it, with the public, is everyone will see the benefits of success and fame and blah, blah, blah. So it's a. It's about the way that I describe it with my friends is I have struggles in my life that they don't have, and they have struggles in their life that I don't have. And as long as we recognize that all of us have shit that we're struggling with, then it's fine.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Because I think a lot of the time people will just be like, ah, you're fine, because this, this, this and this. But they wouldn't take into account the other things. And I think that you just always have to, like, go through life being kind to people without. Because everyone's got something in their life that they're struggling with. So just recognize that.

[Kristen]

Yeah, that's why I don't honk at cars.

[Unidentified Singer]

Oh, man.

[Kristen]

I'm not a honker.

[Dave]

I say, fucking hell. I. Mate, I don't think I've ever honked cars.

[Ed Sheeran]

Me and Dave just were talking.

[Lil Dicky]

Oh, get a paper towel.

[Kristen]

I'm sorry. I killed it.

[Dave]

What is it crushed?

[Lil Dicky]

It's just a fly.

[Kristen]

No, I think it's a mosquito.

[Ed Sheeran]

I don't like that.

[Lil Dicky]

Well, it was bothering me.

[Kristen]

It was a mosquito.

[Ed Sheeran]

Me and I don't like that. Me and mosquitoes. I don't kill anything.

[Kristen]

Sorry.

[Lil Dicky]

It's all good.

[Dave]

Part from sick Beats, eh?

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah. You know, me and Dave just realized that neither one of us have ever honked.

[Kristen]

Well, that makes sense.

[Dave]

I honk by accident, like, sometimes. Like, if I'm driving.

[Ed Sheeran]

You're also a bad driver, just like we are.

[Dave]

I'm not that bad.

[Ed Sheeran]

No, you're not that bad. But I think, like, if there's a scale of, like, good and bad, you're more on the back.

[Dave]

I drove you just after I'd passed my test.

[Ed Sheeran]

You're definitely. If there's, like, good and bad, you're definitely, like, not on the good side, but you might not be, like, terrible.

[Kristen]

You used to drive us around. You didn't even have a license.

[Lil Dicky]

Oh, God. It's fucking brown.

[Ed Sheeran]

What?

[Lil Dicky]

Look at the remains of the thing.

[Kristen]

It's probably brown.

[Ed Sheeran]

All right.

[Lil Dicky]

It's just brown.

[Ed Sheeran]

Hey, what was.

[Dave]

I would be fascinated to be a fly on the wall of your life.

[Ed Sheeran]

No, you wouldn't, because you'd be dead like that.

[Lil Dicky]

Not my life.

[Dave]

Just like.

[Ed Sheeran]

I know they don't know how to.

[Dave]

My reaction to that was just like,

[Ed Sheeran]

they don't know how to do very normal.

[Lil Dicky]

What are you guys talking? This is a reasonable reaction.

[Kristen]

The thing is that he says that he has fun, this narrative.

[Ed Sheeran]

Do you cook?

[Kristen]

Yeah, I made curry.

[Lil Dicky]

No, she doesn't.

[Ed Sheeran]

You made curry. For the first time, she made curry. She does not cook.

[Kristen]

I can make a soup. And I'm sorry. And I can make new ones.

[Ed Sheeran]

Nope, you don't make curry. And you don't 69. We know that.

[Dave]

You guys talk about that shit on here?

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, sometimes.

[Kristen]

There seems to be a disconnect between Dave and I about what we do and what we do.

[Lil Dicky]

We have 69 once or twice the other day, she was talking. She was like, oh, yeah, we 69. And I said, no, we don't. And then we did it once or twice. I don't even want a 69. I don't like 69.

[Kristen]

We don't need to keep.

[Lil Dicky]

I don't like 69. Next time we do it, though, we should try it standing.

[Kristen]

He doesn't have a handstand.

[Ed Sheeran]

Check. You can't do standing. Your back.

[Lil Dicky]

She'll do a handstand. I can hold her legs.

[Ed Sheeran]

Chuck, you can't do that. You don't have enough.

[Kristen]

We are learning new things about each other every day.

[Ed Sheeran]

What was the best day of your life?

[Dave]

Uh, my wedding day.

[Ed Sheeran]

Really? I was there.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Kristen]

When did you get married?

[Dave]

2019.

[Ed Sheeran]

What's the worst day of your life?

[Dave]

Day that Cherry rung me up and said, she had cancer. That was probably like the worst day. Oh, yeah. That was like probably the worst week. Cause Jamal died that week.

[Ed Sheeran]

Oh, my God.

[Dave]

And then we went straight into a court case.

[Ed Sheeran]

Oh, and you had the court case? Yeah, check.

[Dave]

Oh, and then Shane died, first of the court case.

[Ed Sheeran]

Oh, yeah.

[Kristen]

How's your wife doing now?

[Dave]

She's fine. I mean, she had the operation. This was like she was pregnant at the time. That was why it was difficult.

[Kristen]

Oh, man.

[Dave]

She had the operation to remove the tumor after she'd given birth to our second child. And thankfully, touch wood, totally fine. But just, you know, like, I think it's. Yeah, it was fucking scary.

[Kristen]

That's. Yeah, that's a lot. That's a heavy week.

[Lil Dicky]

I can't imagine it gets heavier.

[Dave]

Well, I mean, being in the court case, though, which every. Like, everything was building to that for like eight years. And then suddenly when you're in the courtroom, it didn't really matter. So I built it up in my mind. And then because of all of those actual heavy life things happened, as soon as I was in the courtroom, I was like, I don't actually care about the outcome of this because it's like,

[Kristen]

is it a court case?

[Dave]

So small compared to what was the talk of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I won. So, yeah, it was for. It was for shape of you. And I did another cork. So I basically. I got. In the music industry, you get people that, like, make claims and most people settle behind the scenes and they'll, you know, be 10 grand here, 100 grand here. And I'd done it once, done settling once. But then it just kept coming. And I was like, this is fucking ridiculous. Like, I haven't done anything wrong. So there was one big one in America and one big one in the uk And I just said, I'm gonna do both of those cases and I'm gonna take it to court. And it's a big deal. It's like eight years and lawyers every day.

[Kristen]

What is it?

[Dave]

It's like a copyright infringement old song

[Lil Dicky]

sounded that they said like his.

[Unidentified Singer]

Oh, yeah.

[Dave]

And then. But I thought if I made a stand both sides of the Atlantic, then it would just stop. And it did. Cause it's like. Cause people do it. People claim because they know that you're not gonna wanna go to court. Cause it costs probably 30 times the amount that you'd be settling for. And, you know, eight years leading up to it. And then it's a month in court and court's really intense and it's all in the press and it's like the worst kind of headlines of Ed Sheeran. Steal songs and blah, blah. Cause that stuff never goes away. So I think people bank on you just settling and being like, yeah, yeah. And so I took both to court and. Yeah. Won both of them. And now it's.

[Kristen]

It's not happening anymore.

[Dave]

Yeah. But it's also not happening for other people, which is good. Like, Dua Lipper had a big case that has been thrown out because of the case that we did. They used the evidence that was in my case for her case.

[Lil Dicky]

So that must feel so satisfying.

[Ed Sheeran]

Chuck, what's your ideal headline?

[Lil Dicky]

My ideal headline?

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, like your ideal headline.

[Kristen]

Little Dickies back.

[Dave]

The little Dicky movie grosses a billion dollars at the International House. No.

[Ed Sheeran]

So it's gotta be realistic.

[Lil Dicky]

Ideal headline.

[Ed Sheeran]

Sorry, that's not realistic.

[Lil Dicky]

Oh, it's gotta be realistic. Yeah. Okay.

[Ed Sheeran]

Ideal realistic headline.

[Lil Dicky]

Okay.

[Ed Sheeran]

Not that your movie grosses a billion dollars.

[Dave]

Oh, wins album of the year at the Grammys or something.

[Lil Dicky]

No, I think it's more something like. And it's just a headline or is there a sub headline or is this just the main one?

[Ed Sheeran]

Let me hear, let me hear. Like how Bird got his mojo back.

[Lil Dicky]

No, I would say something like,

[Ed Sheeran]

whether

[Lil Dicky]

he's Lil Dicky or Dave Bird,

[Dave]

all

[Lil Dicky]

he wanted was unilateral respect. And now he has it. No, that's a bad. I think it's more like.

[Ed Sheeran]

Try again.

[Lil Dicky]

He wanted unilateral respect. Guess what? Question mark? He's got it.

[Ed Sheeran]

What do you think your best headline would be? Like, your ideal headline?

[Dave]

Oh, it just depends. I don't know. Career wise or. I don't know.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, it could be like Ed Sheeran, great dad,

[Dave]

probably. No, because then no one really knows that unless you're in the. Yeah, you gotta be like. That's the thing. There are so many people that live an online Persona that people think that they're great parents because of what they post online. But even that in itself I find weird that you would post that sort of stuff.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, like Ed Sheeran. Great album.

[Lil Dicky]

Great album.

[Ed Sheeran]

Great.

[Lil Dicky]

Greater dad.

[Ed Sheeran]

Greater dad. Pretty good at sex. For what? For the lack of penis he was given.

[Dave]

Yeah, I don't know, maybe something if. Maybe. Maybe something in something non musical.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah.

[Dave]

I think if I'd ever like. I really, really want to self fund a low budget horror film. Like a really fucking. Like not even be in it, but just make a really fucked up, low budget great idea horror film.

[Ed Sheeran]

The best horror film of the year. Can't believe Ed Sheeran funded It.

[Dave]

There you go.

[Ed Sheeran]

Spot on.

[Kristen]

Famous one that was like.

[Ed Sheeran]

Never mind.

[Lil Dicky]

Famous.

[Dave]

What?

[Kristen]

There's like a low budget movie that's.

[Dave]

Oh, Paranormal Activity. And then it follows Blair Witch Project. Yeah.

[Kristen]

And Blair Witch.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Kristen]

And then there was one right before that that was like from the 70s get out. And it was like really psycho gory.

[Ed Sheeran]

What do you think, Mochi? What do you think your headline would be? Best headline that could ever happen for you.

[Lil Dicky]

Oh, yeah.

[Kristen]

Like an article girl is sorry.

[Lil Dicky]

Girl. Girl.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Kristen]

Kristen Vetaluco. So intelligent.

[Lil Dicky]

Nice.

[Kristen]

What? The wisdom. The wisdom she spews.

[Lil Dicky]

What about whether we believe it or not, whether we realize it or not, we're living in Ed Sheeran's century.

[Dave]

In Ed Sheeran's battle. I had a lot of. There was a lot of articles like that around divide time saying that we were living in my alternate reality. Which.

[Kristen]

What does that even mean?

[Dave]

As in so many things were going right for me at that time that people thought that they were living in an alternate reality that I had created.

[Ed Sheeran]

But in your alternative reality, wouldn't you have like maybe like different color hair or something?

[Dave]

No.

[Lil Dicky]

It's so key to everything.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, I guess it is.

[Dave]

I think it is key.

[Ed Sheeran]

I guess it is so key, Mochi. Maybe yours would be like.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah, it's the first blank headline.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Kristen]

I don't really. I'm not looking for that.

[Lil Dicky]

That would be cool if you didn't even need a headline. We all just knew what it meant.

[Kristen]

I don't need any of that.

[Dave]

We spoke ages ago about you doing stand up. Are you.

[Lil Dicky]

I've never done it.

[Dave]

No.

[Lil Dicky]

Well, I always wanted to do. When I think of the things I want to do, I think stand up at some point in my career. Yeah. But I feel like it's is way later than like making movies perhaps. You know, I like that.

[Dave]

What's the first. Like, are you doing an extension of the TV show as a movie or doing something completely different?

[Lil Dicky]

Something completely different.

[Dave]

Cool.

[Kristen]

But if you're interested in funding movies.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah. If you want to fund, you know what.

[Dave]

So I was talking to Judd Apatow about this.

[Kristen]

Oh, wow.

[Dave]

And I said, where have the. You know the caliber of movies that he did? They were like, yes.

[Kristen]

Yeah.

[Dave]

And I was like, where have they gone? There are no movies really coming out anymore. I guess Good Boys was kind of like that. But there's no movies coming out of

[Lil Dicky]

like R rated comedies that are great. Yeah.

[Dave]

And what he said is like, because of streaming and no backend, now that a $30 million movie like Knocked up or whatever would then make $100 million on DVD sales. But because that doesn't exist anymore, that you can't justify it. So it's either low budget or Marvel. And so I think you need to bring back.

[Ed Sheeran]

Well, if you have 2 minutes and 45 seconds, Dave could give you a killer pitch and you could come in with one of the other guys.

[Lil Dicky]

I can mor exactly what I'm going through. I don't even know if I'll air any of this, but I really am kind of in the midst of this entire thing right now of funding a movie.

[Dave]

I basically wrote a movie.

[Kristen]

It's a horror rated comedy.

[Lil Dicky]

I wrote a movie. I've been asked, let me in, brother. I've been asking these questions, but I'm learning all about the grim realities of today and streaming. Like if you think music is different because of streaming and Spotify and what have you, like, comedy is. People aren't going to theaters.

[Dave]

And when they go, they go when it matters.

[Lil Dicky]

I know.

[Dave]

And if you make a movie that matters, it will work. And the reason it will work is cause there's a massive void in movies. And I think that it slowed down. This is my theory. I fucking love movies. It slowed down over time because of quality, quality control. And it was just pumping out, pumping out, pumping out, pumping out. And then people stopped watching those movies because they just weren't good.

[Lil Dicky]

Look, obviously I love movies. Obviously, I would love to be like the force that brings it back. I also cannot stand when people, like, every person's TV is on the wrong mode, you know what I mean? Where like they don't even fix the. And you're watching it and it's like, so. So they don't even have the right setting on their tv.

[Dave]

Seems like a logical thing to worry about.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah, no, they.

[Ed Sheeran]

No, it is true. I was killed.

[Lil Dicky]

And the other thing about going to the movies is you can't even lift up your phone. Like you have to. You're forced to watch. Now, there's no.

[Dave]

But that's my point. That's why people watch movies when they're in the theater. Yes, you're right. And why, if you guys are making this movie, why do you need to spend 30 on it? Could you make it?

[Kristen]

You don't. It's not even that. It's for more.

[Ed Sheeran]

Guys, I gotta be honest with you. I haven't pooped in like three days. And this strawberry vanilla with nine grams of fiber, it helps keep me regular. I don't like to talk about this stuff in Front of Ed. He doesn't like my potty humor. But I'm telling you, after like four more sips of this, it's gonna be Niagara Falls in the bathroom. Stay tuned, guys.

[Kristen]

I feel like for you it's just weighing the strategy of his first movie and what makes the most sense and what will allow him to have the freedom to make all the other movies

[Lil Dicky]

products do the same.

[Dave]

If it's an event, I promise you, if you eventize it and it matters and people care, they will go to the cinema.

[Lil Dicky]

If this movie became the next Superbad, for example, which I totally believe it can, it would be a true anomaly, one of one situation. For intim, which is so different post Covid for comedies and theaters. It would be a one of one situation. Like the only comedies that do well are IP like Barbie, like things that are sequelized or whatnot. Or like something like Elf or like that's like a Christmas movie or something. That's like a rom com or an action comedy. But like when it's just a straight up comedy, like coming of age comedy, it's hard for it to succeed. But I don't really believe in precedent. I believe in being a precedent shatterer.

[Ed Sheeran]

So what's the stupidest thing you ever bought in your whole life?

[Lil Dicky]

Do you ever. Just recklessly.

[Dave]

It doesn't even have to be expensive. Spend a lot of money on movie props that like movie like memorabilia? Yeah. I think's really cool, but I think in some aspects it might be.

[Kristen]

Wait, tell us something that you have.

[Dave]

Oh, I just bought the Edward Scissorhands hens.

[Ed Sheeran]

You did?

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Lil Dicky]

I fucking love this.

[Ed Sheeran]

No way. Let me see a picture right now. There's nothing cool. That's the coolest thing I've ever.

[Lil Dicky]

Memorabilia is so cute.

[Ed Sheeran]

Can I buy them off you? Where do you.

[Kristen]

Do you have like a room in your house that has it all?

[Dave]

I sort of like dot them about places.

[Ed Sheeran]

Edwin, you couldn't have hit something that I care about.

[Lil Dicky]

I say memorabilia.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, but Chuck, this is like a. This is memorabilia. This is Chuck. That's the coolest thing.

[Dave]

And then that's Dr. Evil's suit there, which I think is cool.

[Ed Sheeran]

You bought it.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Lil Dicky]

I respect this.

[Ed Sheeran]

What else did you buy?

[Dave]

Sports Rufio's sword and pan's costume from Hook and Hook's hook and hat.

[Lil Dicky]

I love hook.

[Ed Sheeran]

I don't care about that.

[Dave]

Batman's costume and Robin's costume from Batman and Robin, which no one wants because it don't care. Like the first C3PO.

[Ed Sheeran]

You're losing me.

[Lil Dicky]

Why does no one want it? Because of the Dark Knight. Success.

[Dave]

That Batman and Robin. The George Clooney one wasn't the Chris Connolly. I loved it. I was a six in the movie.

[Ed Sheeran]

Those three suck. Tell me some other.

[Dave]

I love the teddy bear from artificial Intelligence.

[Ed Sheeran]

I don't even know.

[Dave]

Have you seen that? Great movie.

[Ed Sheeran]

Keep going. Yeah, I was getting excited.

[Kristen]

Gladiator costume you like More sports. Superhero sports.

[Ed Sheeran]

Those don't excite me.

[Dave]

The first two I got the knife that Joe Pesci stabs the guy in the trunk of Goodfellas. You know, the beginning.

[Kristen]

That's cool. That's cool.

[Ed Sheeran]

Okay, Okay.

[Lil Dicky]

I have a question.

[Ed Sheeran]

How do you even find the. Where do you go?

[Dave]

There's a thing called prop store. And I just go on prop store a lot.

[Kristen]

You know, I used to work in the props department of TV shows. I have a few things if you would, like always. Did you ever watch Silicon Valley?

[Dave]

Do you know what? If you've got anything from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I'm in.

[Kristen]

Fortunately, I was too young.

[Ed Sheeran]

Prop store.

[Lil Dicky]

Would you ever be interested in this type of memorabilia? Like the gun that killed Abraham Lincoln?

[Ed Sheeran]

No.

[Dave]

I think all of that stuff's pretty dark. If there's stuff that's like, real life shit attached to it. I think if it's part of a movie that is part of my nostalgia in childhood.

[Ed Sheeran]

I have one real thing. So for Selina's birthday one year. So she watches Will and Grace every night before she goes to sleep. And my friend's brother made the show, so I got her, like, a painting and, like, easel that's from the actual show. And it was. Couldn't have been a better time. When I gave it to her on her birthday, I gave it to her. She was watching an episode. It was in.

[Dave]

It was in the episode right when

[Ed Sheeran]

I gave it to her. I walked in really early in the morning, and she sleeps with it all night. And I gave it to her. And as I gave it to her, I said, look on the screen. And it wasn't even planned. That was the. Cool.

[Dave]

That's cool.

[Ed Sheeran]

She tried to get the couch from friends when she was younger.

[Dave]

Wow.

[Ed Sheeran]

She lost someone. Bought it for $10 million.

[Dave]

Yeah. I have a. That is into collecting props as well. And they went to get Dorothy's slippers. Yeah. But they went for, like 25 mil.

[Lil Dicky]

What, are you just going to the same website?

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, it's right here. I'm looking right now.

[Lil Dicky]

I've only thought this way, like, could apply to sports I never really even thought about movies.

[Dave]

This website might be the end of you then.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, I'm looking at it right now.

[Kristen]

It probably has like a wider reaching

[Lil Dicky]

and it's honestly better than sports. There is something cool about like holding the bat, like big roof.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah.

[Dave]

I have the James Bond's gun from GoldenEye and that's kind of. Kind of rough.

[Kristen]

It's a prop gun.

[Ed Sheeran]

I haven't really come up by any.

[Dave]

I mean, it doesn't work. But like, if you've ever played the Nintendo 64 game, it's like the PP7.

[Lil Dicky]

You must have some guitarist from some local, legendary.

[Ed Sheeran]

Local.

[Lil Dicky]

I meant legendary. Legendary handlers.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah.

[Dave]

I guess I get given them every now and then by people that I love and admire. Like Eric Clapton gave me his acoustic guitar, which is like one of my prized possessions.

[Kristen]

Do you actually play on it or do you like, keep it locked away?

[Dave]

Yeah, I record it. It's a great guit. I think it's a real shame with instruments. I always write. If I sign a guitar, I'll always write, play this guitar. Because I think it's such a shame when they end up in just Perspex boxes and aren't played saying that. I have a few guitars in Perspex boxes, but they're all like fucked and broken. They're like my tour guitars. But yeah, I think that if anyone's ever given me a guitar, I'll play it a lot.

[Ed Sheeran]

How can you tell if this is even real, though?

[Dave]

It comes with an authentication thing.

[Ed Sheeran]

What if they made that for me?

[Kristen]

Lost Benny to the website.

[Lil Dicky]

Were you a part of the Starbucks cup thing?

[Dave]

What was the Starbucks cup thing?

[Kristen]

They accidentally left a Starbucks cup in the shot.

[Lil Dicky]

In one of the shots in Game of Thrones?

[Dave]

No. I feel like I definitely ruffled some feathers being in Game of Thrones. I think that.

[Lil Dicky]

I think that's bullshit. You had the right look for the vibe.

[Dave]

I think what I said is people love that show. If anyone gets asked to be in that show, it's an instant yes.

[Lil Dicky]

Yes.

[Dave]

I said yes. I enjoyed doing it.

[Kristen]

I've never seen it, but there's been other people that have been famous and in the show.

[Lil Dicky]

No, not like that. Not where. Took like a big cultural person who

[Dave]

was like, I don't know. Members of Coldplayer at the Red Wedding. Gary from Snow Patrol's in there. Are you upset? Chris Stapleton's in it as like a white walker.

[Kristen]

Always Sunny. Right? It wasn't one of the guys from Always Sunny.

[Dave]

Yeah, mate, They've got They did it a few times. I think at the time I was very omnipresent and just everywhere. So I think it was quite jarring.

[Kristen]

But it was fun for you?

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Ed Sheeran]

Oh, did people get. Do you get shit on for that?

[Dave]

Yeah. Really?

[Lil Dicky]

I think they were more shitted on Game of Thrones for, like.

[Dave]

No. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

[Kristen]

Why is backwards, though? They put you in it.

[Dave]

Yeah. I feel like that happens quite a lot in my career. I'll just get shit on for things that.

[Ed Sheeran]

What else did you get shit on?

[Dave]

What else did I get shit on for?

[Ed Sheeran]

I like this.

[Dave]

You know, a lot of it was in that year was in Divideu. And I think it was. Cause I was omnipresent and just everywhere.

[Ed Sheeran]

Tell me what you got. Shit on edge.

[Dave]

Yeah. What are the amount of times you gotta shit on? Have you ever. Have you ever shit in, like, not even a public place, but outdoors, like in the woods or something?

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah. Ooh, he's got a real. Chuck, why don't you explain your shit

[Lil Dicky]

story to add the whole story? Yeah, I guess I could.

[Ed Sheeran]

It's quick. You can do it quick.

[Lil Dicky]

Okay. So I was a, like, junior in high school, and I. My basketball team in my high school, I was not on the team. The team was one of the best teams in the state. We were, like, in, like, the state championship. The school rented buses for all to go and watch together. Like, to go arrive at the place together. I was sitting next to a girl that, like, I had a crush on. I was excited about the whole. I'm such a fan of basketball. What a great, fun, exciting night. As we're driving to this stadium where the game was, I have this feeling of having to shift that is just so beyond any version of the feeling that I've ever felt. Like, I can't even believe how fast it came and how dire it was. So I turned to the girl next to me, and she was, like, talking, and it happened. And I said, I'm so sorry, but I just. I need to focus. I'm having a little bit of stomach issues. I need to focus. And I just. Would you mind sitting somewhere else?

[Dave]

And you were just sweating?

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah. And she was like, okay. And then she gets up and sits next to her friends, who were two people in a seat. Now there's three people in the seat all of a sudden. And people are like, why are you. Why are there three people here? And she's like, I think Dave has to, like, shit or something. And then, you know, the seniors were in the back of the bus and word travels. All of a sudden, the entire bus is chanting, shit your pants. Shit your pants. And it couldn't matter less to me because I'm so locked in and hyper focused on not shitting. Because if I even give any inch, I will shit. So, like, I'm so, like, the degree at which I had to shit made everything so hyper focused that we get there. Everyone. I let everyone get off the bus first. Cause I'm not dealing with, like, people touching me, but, like, one by one on the way out, every single person would walk by me and be like, good luck, brother. Don't shit yourself. Like, they'd, like, leave a message to me. Everyone gets off the bus. I get off. I ask the bus driver, I said, do you have any paper towels or napkins? He's like, no. Okay. And then I walk. There's a line to get into the arena. And I go right up to the front of the arena to the cop at the door. I say, I'm having major, like, stomach issues. Can I just go in and use the bathroom and then come back out? And he said, the only way into this building is through the back of that. And as soon as he said that, I started sprinting and I run and I run to the shrub area, but on the way to the shrubs, I start shitting. And it's snowing. It's winter, so there's snow on the ground, and I start shitting in the snow. I get to the shrubs where I, like, assess the damage. I shit all over the outside of my jeans, and I wipe with my socks. I take some snow and I try to wipe the shit off, but it just coagulates and hardens the shit.

[Dave]

And also, you're miles away from home at this point.

[Lil Dicky]

Oh, my God. I put my jeans inside out, so the shit was. Was against my legs. And I just waited for that cycle of the line to go in. And then I just kind of casually walked to the new back of the line and I waited the entire time. And then I got into the arena. I went right to the bathroom. I got completely naked. I called my dad and I said, dad, I need you to pick me up. I just shit my pants. And it was like 9pm or like 8pm and he was like, I'm on the way. And he came with a bag of clothes, and it was like he had shit himself once. Yeah.

[Ed Sheeran]

Did you ever vomit on stage?

[Dave]

I've done. Yeah, I have. Yeah. When you have, like, proper food poisoning, yeah, I vomited. Not, like, on stage, but, like, I went off to the side of stage.

[Lil Dicky]

Have I ever showed you pictures of what his concerts look like? It's like a thing.

[Kristen]

It's really impressive.

[Lil Dicky]

Your concerts are. The selfies that you take at the end of the concerts are so mind blowing. That to me, like, when I would be dating women, I literally like. Because they would be like, you're a rapper. And we'd talk about the music industry and, like, who the biggest artists were, and I would be like, you don't even understand. Like, Ed Sheeran is like, like the biggest. I'm like, you don't even. And then I would show pictures and it looks like. It's like. It's like it's Ooze Benekast.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah. And it's like.

[Lil Dicky]

Looks like Woodstock.

[Kristen]

And it's like, exact. You did this together?

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, I've done it too.

[Kristen]

He went through, like, all of. He'd be like. And then look at this.

[Ed Sheeran]

It's the most impressive thing I've ever.

[Dave]

Nyburn Night 6 I do think that there is a. There is a thing. I think because it's so financially great touring the States, that when you get big in the States, people just tend to stay here. But I've always, like, whenever I've toured, if you go everywhere, you basically sow seeds everywhere in the world that you can go back to. So the first gigs I would have played would be like 100 people, and it'd be like 500 people, but everywhere. And then you build it up to a point where everywhere in the world, you're at a certain point. And I think that when we go places, a lot of the times we lose money, even if we sell out the shows just because it costs so much to get the stuff there. But you can always, like, balance it out with the other gigs. And I just. I think to be truly global, you have to be truly global.

[Kristen]

Chris, when you go on stage, do you ever. I've never been on stage, so in front of people or actually on any stage. But do you like. Can you even. Do you ever just fixate, like, on. Aren't you seeing, like one or two people, like, every time you like the same person every time you look out and does that not get distracting?

[Dave]

Depends. Really? I mean, yeah, you do sort of fixate. I fixate a lot on. What I found is my gigs have become. Cause we try and keep our tickets, like, affordable. So I really want families to come. So, like parents and kids or like grandparents and blah, blah. Like, people come as like a community rather than just. It's really Expensive and two friends go or something like that. So I love looking out and seeing like love in all its different forms. Cause they all come. People tend to come to the shows for perfect and thinking out loud and photograph and blah, blah, blah. On those moments, you just see the whole kind of crowd, like cuddle into them. It's really lovely. So I do fixate on that. Like, if you. Sometimes you'll see like an 80 year old couple in the audience and I'll know that when I go, I found a love. You just see them kind of like, it's really nice.

[Lil Dicky]

Have you ever experienced. I guess you probably don't because they're really paying to go. But like at a festival, for example, like, have you ever noticed an Ed Sheeran hater? And like when I'm on stage at festivals, sometimes for sure I walk out and people are just like, I can see they hate me instinctively. One time I was performing, I was on stage and I could just see through a crowd of people. One woman was like. And all I could do is look at her and like, I'm in the middle of a verse, like, so it's like. But you're like looking at her and I want to be like, why? Like, there's no. Like, I'm like, you know, this is like entertaining. Like, you know, I'm trying hard and being myself. Like, why? And I just like. But I. I can't. I wanna argue with this woman.

[Dave]

I don't know. I find. I think the hate for me comes from everything that isn't a show. And I think the people at a festival would be like, ah, fuck. I don't really like Ed Foggy. I'm not gonna go. But they'll kind of go out of curiosity anyway. And then I think once you're there, you're like, oh, I quite like that song. Oh yeah, I know that song. And then it. And I do think that that's kind of where. That's where coolness dissipates is like, if you're out and about, like, I'm not saying this now because Backstreet Boys are having like a fucking moment at the Sphere, but my go to song for a playlist is like, I want it that way. And I would say 15 years ago wouldn't be considered the coolest song, but for the last 15 years, anytime you put it on at any party, everyone loves it. They just would be like, oh, I don't like the Backstreet Boys, but actually you fucking do. And I think that there's a. There Is that with me? I feel like on the outside, people are like, that's quite uncool. But actually on the inside, if you have a couple of beers and you're with your friends at a festival, you want to sing to shit, you know? And I know that people know my music, so it's. I do think that there's less. I feel like when people are at shows before the show, they'd be like, ah, fuck that guy. But actually, we're in the moment. It's as long as you're playing shit that people know. If I went on stage and I just played loads of new songs, then, yeah, I reckon I'd get a few.

[Ed Sheeran]

Like, my favorite, Kristin, my favorite is. I was just thinking of you, like, having to, like. Like. Cause how you're like. You don't, like, like, pain. And, like, you. Like, when you get pain. Yeah, like, when you get sick. One time I was with Ed, and he was. It was his first time ever. I think it might have been his first time ever playing a stadium. I can't remember. But he was so sick. He was. And he was going. And he was like.

[Dave]

He was like, gillette.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, at Gillette. And he was like. And he couldn't sing. His voice was completely gone. His throat was gone. He had, like, the worst fever. They were, like, coming in and out. And I was like, oh, my God. I was like, are you, like, not gonna play the show? And he's like, I have to. And I said, what do you mean you have to? He's like, I can't. I've never missed a show unless it's something, like, out of my control. And I was like, what do you mean? How are you gonna sing? He's like, I might have to get the crowd to help. And then I was. I was like, oh, my God. And I remember Stuart, his manager, was there, and, like, Ed, like, walked out to go. They were like, what's he gonna do? How's he gonna do it? And then somehow it was, like, his best show of the tour. He was like, I found a dream, like. And he's like, singing. I was just trying to think of you doing, like, having to do it in that moment.

[Kristen]

I mean, I don't know, but I imagine that there has to be some, like, adrenaline that goes through your body.

[Dave]

100%. Yeah. Cause then after the gig, you're even more fucked than you were. Yeah.

[Kristen]

I feel like. I feel like, again, having not done. Not being a performer, I would have such a hard time. Cause I like highs. I'm A little bit of a high chaser. It'd be so hard to come down after a concert like that. Like, I don't know what I would have to take.

[Ed Sheeran]

Keep going.

[Kristen]

Some sort of drug.

[Dave]

It's massages. I, like, finish a show just. And it happened by accident. Cause I'd fucked my shoulder. So I was like, oh, I'll get like a sports massage after a gig. And after an hour and a half of that, you're like, yeah, I'm ready to go to bed.

[Kristen]

Cause it's so hard to turn off. I mean, you're just. You've gone through, like, such a.

[Dave]

It's a good, good life hack for me. It has replaced a bottle of wine. Yeah, yeah. And I'll finish it and be like, I can't drink. I'm going straight to bed.

[Kristen]

Yeah, you're relaxed.

[Dave]

Whereas before I would, like, have a bottle of wine, maybe watch a movie.

[Kristen]

And yeah, it's just needing to come down. And if you're playing in front of, I don't know, hundreds of. Is it hundreds of thousands?

[Dave]

Couple of times. It has been. It's about. It averages between like 60 and 80,000.

[Kristen]

And all for you.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Lil Dicky]

And do you. And I think you're gonna say yes, but, like, you attribute your ability to have like 80,000 people in. Like, I'm just making up, like in Manila or whatever. You attribute it to your commitment to. Obviously you have big global songs, but if you didn't tour, like, I always think to myself that I don't need to tour. I can make music that ends up being big enough that whenever I show up, they're there. But I think you're saying not necessarily the case. Like, thinking out loud, whatever, maybe they'll hear it in Manila. But for them. For me to get the 60,000 people in Manila or whatever it is.

[Dave]

Yeah, you have to go there. Yeah, Yeah. I really do believe that. And also, like, music isn't just memories and experiences of you hearing it. I really do think that being at concerts with friends are like. Or family or whatever. Like, it creates core fucking memories and connections with that song and that artist. So then if more songs come out or other songs, like, I do think touring is really important for being connected to people.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah.

[Dave]

And yeah. And also, like, not. You're right, mate. Yeah.

[Ed Sheeran]

Just have a little bath in my.

[Dave]

Let's go. Yeah. Being like, there have been so many times in my career where people are like, oh, people don't tour that country. You're going to lose money going there. And that in My mind makes me want to do it more. And you go. And it is mad. Selling out a show and losing money whilst doing it. But then kind of the reward versus loss actually is cooler. Like going to play places that other people haven't played.

[Lil Dicky]

Why are you losing money?

[Dave]

Because it costs so much. Yeah, it costs money to like freight shit there and then hiring people and flying people. Hotel. We fly with like 200 people. So that's 200 hotels. 200.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah. Chuck, you know, there's, you know, like. Like on his show, there's like hundreds of people.

[Kristen]

A hundred people.

[Lil Dicky]

And the problem is you won't price up the tickets.

[Dave]

Well, that's the other thing. I really, really want it to be a communal thing. And I do think if you start having $600 tickets, people will go to the show and people will enjoy the show. But if you're a couple, you're not gonna go, oh, we'll bring our kids to you. Oh, that'll be our special night. Whereas I think if you have $100 tickets, you can. Then you like. And that's still $400. That's still expensive.

[Ed Sheeran]

At his shows, sometimes you see a whole person's family tree. Like, it's so crazy. Like, you'll go to a show, you'll see the daughter knows the music, then the parents know the music, then the grandparents, then you see the great. And there's like. There's like old people just singing.

[Dave]

I think that's how you get longevity, though, because I think that those kids will grow up and then bring their kids.

[Ed Sheeran]

Do you know what else? One time, I was at his last show of his tour when he had the. He did the biggest tour of all time. He had like, the biggest tour.

[Lil Dicky]

He broke like, U2's record. Am I making that up?

[Ed Sheeran]

He broke everyone's record.

[Dave]

I sort of feel like when you're number one in anything, you're just waiting for someone else to break. I had the same. When Shape of youf was number one, most streamed on Spotify. You just see blinding lights creeping up and you're like, this will end very soon. But it's the same with tour. Like, my record got taken over by Elton with his tour. And then Elton's record got overtaken by Taylor with her tour.

[Lil Dicky]

Well, let that.

[Dave]

And then Coldplayer creeping up with that. So it's just. Just.

[Kristen]

Is right now Taylor holding the number?

[Dave]

Yeah. So she's highest grossing and I think Coldplay are highest attendance.

[Kristen]

Oh, I thought it was all like when you said biggest tour. I Thought it was.

[Dave]

No. So mine was grossing and attendance.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah.

[Dave]

And now it's like, it's. People hold different records and different things.

[Kristen]

Is there one for as many cities?

[Dave]

Coldplay would definitely have that. I think they've definitely pushed it.

[Ed Sheeran]

I remember we were sitting there, last show of the tour, and I said, where are we playing? He said, where are you playing? He said, ipswich. I remember we were drinking a beer. I don't even know if you remember this. And Louis Capaldi was opening up for you. And. And Ed said. He goes, well, I guess this is it. And I said, what?

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Ed Sheeran]

And he said, I can only go down from here. And I said, what do you mean?

[Dave]

Very weird feeling.

[Ed Sheeran]

He was like, I had the biggest album, like, ever. I had, like. Like the biggest tour ever. He goes, I can't get bigger.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah, but look at Elton John. He's still breaking your record. You could break your own record when you're 80.

[Dave]

Yeah, it's less of my drive now. I think then 2011, 2019, it was just bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger.

[Ed Sheeran]

I do remember a thing with you that I'll never forget that I used to tell artists all the time. He came back to play me his music when he was about to put new music out, and it was like shivers and what was the other one? Bad habits and bad habits. And he said, I'm so nervous. He's like, I just, like, don't know if anyone cares about me anymore. I don't think I have any records. And I always use it. And obviously those songs in that album were massive, massive success. But I always use it to people when I'm like, no matter who you are, you always have those moments where you have doubts and stuff. And it doesn't matter if you're the biggest person in the world, there's still that insecurity.

[Dave]

I still have it now. And I think you have to have different. My, like, measures of success are, like, completely different now. So I think when I was 27, my measure of success was my album is the biggest album in the world, my tour is the biggest tour in the world, and that was my measure of success. Whereas now I'm like, I get to. This sounds so cheesy and cliched, but I get to take my kids to school every day, I get to put them to bed, do all the bath time. I still get to do studio, and I still get to play stadiums every weekend. And what more do you want from that? Like, it's you. I still get to live in a peak of my career where I'm like, I can play big shows and, like, touch wood, they're, like, still selling out. I can put out music that, like, isn't the biggest in the world, but people still care about at least, Even if they're just like, that sucks. At least they're listening. But then I also get to, like, be a dad and a husband, and that hasn't, like. So I think that that is success, I think. As opposed to, like, being number one in this. Number one. Because actually, when I was number one in all of those things, I was intensely unhappy because I didn't have balance of.

[Kristen]

You hear that a lot. But I also think that now that you've achieved all of that, your brain starts to kind of get used to. Even if there was another ceiling, now that you have this new thing, which is your family and your kids, it's like, what more do you need?

[Lil Dicky]

One time I was in New York City, and I was just staying at his house, but you guys happened to have a session, and I was just so thrilled to be able to just sit in the back of the room and just watch you guys do it. And it was so fascinating.

[Dave]

What did we write? Can you remember?

[Lil Dicky]

I can't remember. I just remember the way you're just such a nat. There's like. I feel like songwriting at its core is what you do. That's what I remember thinking. The way he is writing a song is like, that is songwriting. And.

[Ed Sheeran]

And wait.

[Lil Dicky]

And then he was just chiming in everybody. You don't even need him.

[Kristen]

Did you guys. Right now. I'm not saying do this. This is just out of curiosity.

[Lil Dicky]

Like, yes, he could do anything.

[Kristen]

No, but I mean, you have an hour. I mean, I don't. This is probably how.

[Dave]

Yeah, we could do.

[Ed Sheeran]

We could literally. We could.

[Dave]

I think because we haven't written in a while, it would be super quick because it would just be.

[Kristen]

And you have no. You don't even know who it's for or what it is.

[Ed Sheeran]

No. We could do a thing. I have no idea if we even have time for this, but we could do a thing right now where, like, without using any, like, fake sounds, like, if we want to. For, like, two seconds. If me and you made, like, a beat. Wait. But we'll wait before we make a beat, and then, like, you, Kristen, you'll give us, like, a phrase, and then we'll, like, make a song over it.

[Dave]

I'm down.

[Kristen]

Really?

[Dave]

I got my guitar.

[Kristen]

It's not stressful.

[Ed Sheeran]

No, we'll do it this is actually fun. We haven't made music together.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah. And then you get to be a producer on the. You get a producer credit.

[Kristen]

Oh, my gosh.

[Ed Sheeran]

Wow.

[Kristen]

I mean.

[Ed Sheeran]

Okay. Okay. So we're going to watch this. Take it.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Lil Dicky]

Now.

[Ed Sheeran]

Now what?

[Lil Dicky]

Airbnb.

[Ed Sheeran]

Now.

[Lil Dicky]

Airbnb.

[Ed Sheeran]

What about Airbnb?

[Kristen]

Got any good stories?

[Ed Sheeran]

I think I do have a good story. I. Am I allowed to talk to you?

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah.

[Ed Sheeran]

Go, go, go. I booked a place on Airbnb and it was, like the most beautiful, like, Airstream overlooking all of Malibu. And it was, like, only one bathroom. I don't know. But it was. But it was so cute and quaint. And I had one of the best weekends of my life. Thanks to.

[Lil Dicky]

I wasn't there. I don't remember this. How could it have been one of the best weekends of your life?

[Ed Sheeran]

Thanks, Airbnb.

[Lil Dicky]

What's that? Wait, they're telling me it works.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah.

[Lil Dicky]

Thank you.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah. This show is sponsored by Liquid IV.

[Lil Dicky]

Did you know Liquid IV has 3x? That's triple the hydration. That's a typical sports drink.

[Dave]

I'm talking.

[Ed Sheeran]

Oh, do I.

[Dave]

Yes.

[Ed Sheeran]

No, I didn't know. I know now, though.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah.

[Ed Sheeran]

Are you a sports star?

[Lil Dicky]

I'm a great basketball player. I'm a great athlete in general. There's a lot of sports that I'm good at. You can just go to YouTube, Google, whatever, type in Little Dicky basketball. You'll understand why I'm uniquely qualified to be talking about this at all.

[Ed Sheeran]

Tear Pour. Live. More. Go to Liquid IV.com and get 20% off your first order with code FKS at checkout. That's 20% off your first. First order with code [e-mail]. we love you, Liquid IV. This is how me and Ed used to do every song.

[Lil Dicky]

Need any help, boss?

[Dave]

I think that's it.

[Kristen]

Let me see if it really is impressive. I mean, obviously.

[Ed Sheeran]

Oh, my God. Yeah. No, no, I'm just.

[Dave]

So do you want to do it on the SM7?

[Lil Dicky]

I'm gonna pee really quick.

[Ed Sheeran]

No worries. Okay.

[Lil Dicky]

Okay.

[Dave]

This is great.

[Kristen]

So what's my role? I just have to give you a sense of.

[Dave]

Well, you gotta think of what we're writing a song about. Give us work.

[Ed Sheeran]

So, like, right. Right now, we're gonna make a beat. Okay.

[Kristen]

I like. I like guitari stuff.

[Ed Sheeran]

Chuck, what type of. Type of beat do you guys want?

[Lil Dicky]

Slow shape of you.

[Ed Sheeran]

That's not slow.

[Lil Dicky]

Playing the drums right there.

[Ed Sheeran]

I like that.

[Dave]

Let's do. Let's do. I think.

[Ed Sheeran]

I think, like.

[Dave]

So if you do this.

[Ed Sheeran]

Okay. Yeah, of course. Okay, so now what I'm gonna do 88 bpm or what I'm gonna do.

[Lil Dicky]

You're thinking.

[Dave]

Because I only met Benny always says I either I'm either not 90 BPM or 110. Yeah.

[Kristen]

I don't even understand the BPMS.

[Lil Dicky]

You thinking C D? What can you think?

[Kristen]

I wanna see what the touches is.

[Ed Sheeran]

Okay. So right now I'm making this into a beat. So I'm gonna do. Here.

[Lil Dicky]

I'm just gonna.

[Ed Sheeran]

Okay. I'm putting this all in time. Okay.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah. See what he's doing? I mean, how he's looping it?

[Kristen]

Yeah. He's cutting it.

[Lil Dicky]

This is your dream. To slice and dice.

[Kristen]

I do like. Yeah, but I. He's. He moves so fast.

[Ed Sheeran]

Well, you gotta move so fast with that.

[Lil Dicky]

He's good at the software.

[Dave]

So do you want it to be like. Sound dark or light? Do you want it to be, like, lighter?

[Kristen]

Yeah, I think it should be like, light and like, just kind of like a.

[Dave]

Like, summary. Summary.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah.

[Kristen]

Summary, Summary, summary. Maybe about friends.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah. Friendship. Friendship.

[Kristen]

Yeah.

[Lil Dicky]

Or whatever he wants.

[Kristen]

Or friendship in your 30s.

[Lil Dicky]

Whatever you want, actually.

[Kristen]

Friendship in your life.

[Ed Sheeran]

No, like, party. Party.

[Lil Dicky]

No, I think friendship in your 30s is nice.

[Kristen]

I think just the joy of hanging out with friends.

[Lil Dicky]

I agree. I like what he's doing. It feels like that. I love that already.

[Kristen]

Like a. Tears for me.

[Lil Dicky]

I love it. Can we commit to that? I have goosebumps.

[Kristen]

I love it.

[Dave]

Joins for that and.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, we don't even need the headphones once.

[Dave]

Oh, you don't you.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, you can if you want.

[Dave]

You hold it up.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, yeah. I got you.

[Dave]

I think the first one.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah.

[Dave]

And then bridge. Oh, it's so out of tune. Yeah.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah. You want to redo it?

[Lil Dicky]

I love the.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Lil Dicky]

I'm so.

[Ed Sheeran]

Okay.

[Dave]

You ready?

[Lil Dicky]

I'm ready to write. Let me know if you need top line. Hold on. Sorry.

[Ed Sheeran]

Time.

[Dave]

Okay. And then I'll do the bridge. Try this.

[Lil Dicky]

Got it.

[Ed Sheeran]

You want to add some?

[Dave]

I think the first one's good.

[Ed Sheeran]

Gotcha.

[Kristen]

The great. I want to be listening. I love it when I'm driving down the road and the sun is out and I think it's time.

[Dave]

I got you. I got you.

[Kristen]

I already have tears forming.

[Unidentified Singer]

I love music.

[Lil Dicky]

Look, me and Kristen are the ones in the room in the concert going like this.

[Kristen]

Yeah. I have to pee, but I don't want to miss anything. I'm, like, holding me.

[Lil Dicky]

Now's the time. Now's the time.

[Kristen]

Okay.

[Dave]

Okay. Give me More subjects.

[Lil Dicky]

Oh, now's not the time.

[Kristen]

Okay, so it's a summer day. Friends. You're just thinking about, like, how good it feels to be laughing and smiling with your friends.

[Dave]

I'll come back in.

[Ed Sheeran]

My love. Okay. Do you like it already?

[Kristen]

I love it.

[Lil Dicky]

I love it.

[Kristen]

I'm, like, in the. I like was getting tears.

[Lil Dicky]

I love his melody.

[Ed Sheeran]

We just made the beat live.

[Dave]

Let me do. Let me just put this first bit in. Okay, the first bit.

[Ed Sheeran]

And then. And then we'll all freestyle together.

[Dave]

I mean, yeah, just lyrically, I don't

[Kristen]

know that I fit into that.

[Dave]

You ready?

[Ed Sheeran]

Ready.

[Unidentified Singer]

Me and my friends driving around the road summertime we got the top down, here we go Live fast, we want to die slow? All we got is, is our time I love and not know.

[Dave]

Okay, let me do another bit. Response c. I think they're permanent.

[Unidentified Singer]

No.

[Kristen]

No.

[Unidentified Singer]

It's been a hard ride Me and my friends driving around the road Summertime we got the top down, here we go Live fast, We want to die slow? All we got is our time I love and I know it's been a hard ride and I Long, long time

[Dave]

Let me put that.

[Unidentified Singer]

It's been a hard ride. It's been a hard ride in a long time with the burn my paternal seats? It's been a hard ride in a long time Got to see you smile. It's been a hard ride and a long time

[Dave]

since we? It's been a hard ride and a long?

[Unidentified Singer]

It's been a hard ride and a long time since you and I

[Ed Sheeran]

ride

[Unidentified Singer]

in a long time since you and I Since you it's been a hard ride and a long time since you and I?

[Dave]

You and I both smile One more time.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah.

[Lil Dicky]

Let's go.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Unidentified Singer]

It's been a hard ride and a

[Dave]

long time Time since And it's?

[Unidentified Singer]

It's been a hard ride and a long time since you and I, you and I? It's been a hard ride in a long time since you and I and

[Dave]

I both yeah, yeah. Go.

[Unidentified Singer]

In a long time since you and I, you and I both smile One

[Dave]

more time, you yeah, One more time.

[Unidentified Singer]

It's been a hard ride in a long time since you and I? You and I both smile? But then I want to pass around I'm obsessed. It's been a hard ride in a long time since you and I, you and I both smile

[Lil Dicky]

See, this is songwriting.

[Unidentified Singer]

Oh, wow.

[Lil Dicky]

You realize, like, you're, like, watching, like, two, like, absolute.

[Unidentified Singer]

It's been a hard ride and a long time since you and I, you and I both smile we gotta quit

[Dave]

passing the review well, we got yeah,

[Lil Dicky]

yeah, gotcha real for you how do you like that?

[Unidentified Singer]

Since you and I, you and I both smile? We gotta put the past in the

[Lil Dicky]

review

[Dave]

yeah,

[Unidentified Singer]

We gotta put the pass in the review. Sitting in silence, but I can hear you yeah, yeah.

[Dave]

One more time, yeah.

[Lil Dicky]

What about hear you loud?

[Dave]

I like oh, yeah. No, sing it' cause it's gotta be

[Ed Sheeran]

the next next thing.

[Lil Dicky]

Sitting in silence but I can hear

[Dave]

you loud yeah, I got you, yeah, yeah.

[Unidentified Singer]

Put the pass in the review Sitting in silence where I can hear you loud I hear you loud I see you, I see you now okay. Hear you loud I see you now we gotta put the past in the review Sitting in silence, but I can hear you loud I see you now Tipping the bottom and never being. Me and you now Me and you I didn't know that we got me and you it's been a hard ride and a long time Me and you, you got stress. I can hear you loud I see you now Me and you, we got stress in real life in our chest

[Dave]

at the bottom, all up, let's turn the bottom until it's now. Then let's so sip on the bottle until there's.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Okay, subject matter. Where are we going?

[Kristen]

Okay.

[Dave]

Okay.

[Lil Dicky]

So they just drank the bottle.

[Ed Sheeran]

Do you want to hear where we're at so far?

[Unidentified Singer]

Me and my friends driving around the road summertime we got the top down, Here we go. Live fast, we want to die slow all we got is our time I love and not know it's been a hard ride and a long time since you and I, you and I have both smile. We got to put the past in the review sitting inside us But I can hear you loud I see you now Me and you, we got stress in real life in our chest.

[Dave]

Let me do this. See?

[Unidentified Singer]

Hear you loud, yeah. Since you and I, you and I both smile we got to put the pain Passing the review Sitting in silence, but I can hear you now I see you now Me and you, we got stress in real life in our chest so sip on the bottle until there's nothing left.

[Kristen]

I love it.

[Lil Dicky]

And now we're at the hook. So it's.

[Kristen]

This is here, but the story is it's two friends. They're in their 30s. They've had life experience, maybe they've kind of fallen off and they've not talked a lot. And now they're back together and they broke through the quiet times. Now they're drinking and Laughing and bonding again and going over past memories as

[Lil Dicky]

if there's been no time has passed

[Kristen]

because they're old friends and they share a history.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Okay, play the chorus.

[Unidentified Singer]

Me and you, we got stress in real life in our chest, so sip on the bottle until there's nothing left. Ain't it funny how little life is Feel like Okay. And funny how Feels like no time has passed?

[Ed Sheeran]

Y okay. You want to get from there?

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Unidentified Singer]

Ain't it funny how Feels like no time has pass? It's been a long time, yeah. Ain't it funny how Feels like no time has passed?

[Dave]

I've not got long term.

[Unidentified Singer]

It's been years since I like that. Yeah, it's been years since you Ain't it funny? Feels like no time has passed. It's been years since you and I feel you and I You and I feeling that it's been years since.

[Dave]

Let me do a octave of that.

[Unidentified Singer]

Ain't it funny? There's nothing left. Ain't it funny how Feels like no time has passed and it's been years since

[Kristen]

maybe something really specific that they've done together.

[Unidentified Singer]

We don't do it like this since

[Dave]

it's been years since

[Unidentified Singer]

we have been like Ain't it funny how Feels like no time has passed past? It's been years since we have been like this now.

[Dave]

Okay. We.

[Unidentified Singer]

We have been like this. We have been like this mid 30 muffin outside mid mid 30 life in the mid mid 30 buildings and stay Ain't it funny how Feels like no time. We have been like this Myth is in a bad place. I'm so glad you came in my I'm so glad you came in my way. So, yeah, we have been like this myth Dirt is in a bad place. So thank God you're in my yeah.

[Ed Sheeran]

Thank goodness.

[Unidentified Singer]

Been like this. M's in a bad place. Thank God you're in my space. Space.

[Dave]

Thank God.

[Unidentified Singer]

No, thank God you hit it.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Ed Sheeran]

Thank God you heard it.

[Dave]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Unidentified Singer]

Thank God you're here today.

[Dave]

Okay.

[Unidentified Singer]

Let me do a mid-30s in a bad place.

[Kristen]

It's my new favorite song.

[Dave]

Great.

[Kristen]

Do you think it's a hit?

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah.

[Dave]

Yeah.

[Kristen]

I think it's an incredible I think you guys just made it.

[Unidentified Singer]

We have been like this. Myth 30's in a bad place. Thank God you're here today.

[Kristen]

I would love some motivation about how life works.

[Unidentified Singer]

Mysterious ways.

[Dave]

Oh, yeah.

[Unidentified Singer]

I think life. Thank God you're here today. Nothing life. I think life works. I think life. Thank God you're here today. Nothing life works in mysterious ways.

[Kristen]

Yeah.

[Ed Sheeran]

Okay. And then after that, we'll do. We'll do a post. Yeah, we'll do.

[Lil Dicky]

Okay.

[Ed Sheeran]

Get that.

[Dave]

Well,

[Unidentified Singer]

nothing life works.

[Dave]

I think life works. Yeah. Yeah.

[Unidentified Singer]

Thank God you're here today. Nothing life works in mysterious ways.

[Dave]

And then let me go.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah, I'll double that. Do the low one first, though. Yeah, do the low one.

[Unidentified Singer]

Do in mysterious ways.

[Dave]

Let me do a harmony.

[Unidentified Singer]

Thank God you're here today. Nothing life works in mysterious way.

[Dave]

Great.

[Ed Sheeran]

Oh, yeah.

[Dave]

I'm going to fire. Can we have a. Can we have a rap now? Oh, has to be.

[Unidentified Singer]

You don't like nothing like works.

[Dave]

Black from the top.

[Unidentified Singer]

No.

[Ed Sheeran]

Yeah. Okay.

[Unidentified Singer]

Me and my friends driving around the road Summertime we got the top down. Here we go. Live fast, we want to die slow all we got is our time I love. It's been a hard ride and a long time since you and I, you and I smile, we got. I can hear you now I see you now Me and you we got stress in our chest so sit in the bottle until there's nothing left. Ain't it funny how feels like no time has pass? It's been years since we have been like that mid-30s in a bad place. Thank God you're here today. Nothing life works in mysterious way.

[Ed Sheeran]

So good.

[Dave]

Let me do another verse.

[Ed Sheeran]

Like, oh, is that.

[Dave]

I'll do another verse.

[Kristen]

It makes my eyes cry. Makes me cry. And then I think, like, you know,

[Ed Sheeran]

Ed can't not finish a song.

[Dave]

We have to. We have to finish it.

[Ed Sheeran]

Because if he. If he doesn't finish the song, then it might get into the next one. If it's a bad one.

[Unidentified Singer]

We lost to.

[Kristen]

I like that. That's kind of.

[Dave]

Wait.

[Lil Dicky]

If he doesn't finish the song. What?

[Ed Sheeran]

He has to finish the song. Because if he doesn't finish the song, then if it's a bad one, some of the bad song could go into that. It's the most annoying somewhere on the world.

[Kristen]

I mean, this is true.

[Ed Sheeran]

No. He has no idea.

[Lil Dicky]

He doesn't know what's the best.

[Ed Sheeran]

Nope.

[Lil Dicky]

Yeah. Cause they're all so good no matter what. That was gonna be my question.

[Kristen]

So you really guys. You can do this at the drop of a hat?

[Lil Dicky]

Yes.

[Kristen]

It's crazy.

[Unidentified Singer]

In mysterious way.

[Ed Sheeran]

And we're working at such a fast pace, like the editing in the process. And then usually I have to finish the song when he goes on stage, and then by the time he comes back, it has to be finished.

[Kristen]

It's truly this. It's already beaten. It's Already beaten. The best moment of my life. Way better.

[Ed Sheeran]

Are you ready?

[Kristen]

No.

[Unidentified Singer]

When we lost you spend our twenties chasing work too

[Ed Sheeran]

Kristen just cried.

[Kristen]

Why does it make me cry?

[Unidentified Singer]

We lost touch when we lost you hit me hard when I saw you I remember chasing work too Hit me hard when I saw you I remember I remember all that we've been through. Heartbreak, Heartbreak, heartache and a. And a couple. And couple bumps.

[Dave]

Yeah. Cool. Yeah. Couple bumps.

[Unidentified Singer]

In the road I'm a feel out. Any. Any funny. And a couple bumps in the road it's funny looking back where we are now sitting in silence where I can hear you loud I see you now Great.

[Ed Sheeran]

You want to get some harmonies?

[Dave]

I think I. I think I got to go. Oh, Nicole.

[Ed Sheeran]

Check. He literally just goes. I think I got to go.

[Dave]

I finished it. Okay. I gotta go.

[Kristen]

Oh, my God. It was incredible.

[Ed Sheeran]

Play.

[Dave]

Yeah, play it once. Play it once.

[Kristen]

You beat my you beat my best moment.

[Unidentified Singer]

Me and my friends driving around the road summertime we got the top

[Ed Sheeran]

that

[Unidentified Singer]

slope got his time I love and I know it's been a hard ride and a long time since you and I you and I both smile we got to put the past in the r. Sit inside us.

[Dave]

By the way, that was. That was about 16 minutes.

[Unidentified Singer]

I think we got stress in real life in our chest.

[Dave]

It's unreal.

[Unidentified Singer]

S nothing. Ain't it funny how out feels like no time has pass it's been here since we have been like that my in a bad place thank God you're here today nothing life works in mysterious way.

[Ed Sheeran]

For the second verse. It takes you six years to make.

[Unidentified Singer]

We lost touch when we lost you hit me hard when I saw you I remember I remember all that we've been through heartbreak, heartache Couple bumps in a row it's funny looking back where we are now sitting in silence but I can hear you loud See you now me and you we got stress and real.

[Ed Sheeran]

You better do the best verse of your life.

[Unidentified Singer]

Ain't it funny how feels like no time has pass Love you.

[Dave]

That was great.

[Ed Sheeran]

Love you. I'll see you in a week.

[Kristen]

It was so nice. Nice to meet you then.

[Ed Sheeran]

Awesome.

[Kristen]

You beat the moment.

[Lil Dicky]

Great herring. Love it.

[Ed Sheeran]

Check out. We'll finish this up. Don't worry. Don't worry.

[Lil Dicky]

We'll take care of it. Bye. Love ya.

[Kristen]

This is the master.

[Ed Sheeran]

Bye.

[Lil Dicky]

Thank you for coming.

[Kristen]

Ooh, Would you like me to do a little melody? I could probably do some songwriting.

[Lil Dicky]

I think we should add a few Kristen runs.

[Ed Sheeran]

Okay. Come on, mochi.

[Kristen]

So when do I do it. I just do it my own.

[Ed Sheeran]

You start it. The whole song?

[Kristen]

Oh, yeah, Let me start the whole song.

[Unidentified Singer]

Me and my friends.

[Ed Sheeran]

Just.

[Unidentified Singer]

Until there's nothing.

[Ed Sheeran]

You're doing good. No, keep going.

[Unidentified Singer]

Thank God you're here. Today. Nothing. Life works in mysterious way.