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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our next guest in fifteen minutes time is a famous
Hollywood actor I think where yeah, you know, okay, we
think this is the famous Hollywood actor kJ Appa.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Who is the star of Riverdale plays Archie.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Huge start. This is a scene from that film. You
don't need to have seen this to have heard about him.
He's a he's very a fit guy, and this scene
here you can see how fit he is.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Gabby.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
But how about you and me make a little site
back that pound for pound, I'm stronger than you are.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Unless you're too scared.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Waiting.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And so a strength challenge very quickly turns into a
shirtless montage.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I'm really happy you chose the scene to show, right, and.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
There's really no more to it. He's doing sit ups here.
He was just doing some push ups. What's he doing now, Gabby?
More push ups again? His guy he's challenging has fallen down.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
He's up a shirtless Archie.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Okay, I'll admit it, you've got more endurance.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
But when it comes to brute power, we'll see who's strong.
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Now they're in a steam room and I've noticed Gabe,
he's gone son. So we'll wearing nothing but towels. These
actors they get into a character and sometimes they don't
leave it.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And I'm not going to pretend when I'm a little worried.
This is going to be a live interview.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And so the speculation around the world, unconfirmed, is that
the new viral sensation, Yeah, the music artist mister Fantasy
is in fact kJ Apple wearing a wig, yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
And fake teeth. Now, he's got the exact same tattoos
as kJ Appa.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
That is a big giveaway, yes now, and also he's
in pretty good nick like kJ Appen. The last time
this happened on this type of scale was when the
fantastic actor Joaquin Phoenix turned up on The Letterman Show
in character, and it is regarded as the greatest train
wreck in Letterman Tonight Show history.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Late show that's we're having fun is.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Seriously, I'll come to your house and shoegum.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I don't have to know.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I want And Joaquin, I'm sorry you couldn't be here tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Anyway, We're gonna try.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I have had an email come through from mister Fantasy's manager,
by the way, all right, and it does say we're
all set for the interview. I just wanted to mention
and have it be agreed upon that there is to
be no mention of that TJ. Apple actor boy from
that CW TV show. He gets really agitated about that.
He only wants to talk mister Fantasy and his music.
(02:39):
Can we please agree upon that on behalf of mister
Fantasy have a splendid Day.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We're sure that is him, it.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Has to be him, but he signed it off as John.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Okay, yeah, it's We've been dealing with a manager called
John who has never been seen.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
There's no official account of this character. John. You've been
with us for the last ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We've been speaking about an artist we've been following for
a few weeks after they turned up with a viral videos,
the selfie video that their manager had filmed with them
overlooking the Hollywood Hills. And we were intrigued, to say
the least, when all of a sudden, hundreds of thousands
of people, millions of people around the world started following
(03:22):
them inexplicably. They released a song only a couple of
days ago, and it has gone straight to number one
on the Spotify viral fifty Mister Fantasy and this is
(03:44):
a thrill we can cross to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Now we've got the zoom up here. Come in, mister Fantasy.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
My name is mister Fantasy. Welcome to my world.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Well cappen outside?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Well, I was waiting wait for my turn to speak.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I wasn't sure when to talk.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You were, You're very patient.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
This is the most mysterious arrival on a global scale
of any artist we've ever seen. The reaction has been
incredible to go to number one within days. What has
happened over the last couple of weeks since you posted
that first selfie video with the Hollywood sign there in
the background.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Well, that's a good question, Rod, I'll answer that very simply.
Not much has actually changed because I do the same thing.
I drink my Guinness at night, I go for my
general walk up the hills and the beautiful Los Angeles,
and I go into my little nook studio and I
record music. That's what I do and that's never going
to change as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
You're trying to make it big in Hollywood as a singer,
which is happening as we speak. But what's that accent?
Are you British?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I am.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Where about you?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
From Harrogate by Leeds you've ever been there? Now we don't.
We have? Have you spoken?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Because I can imagine your Your countrymen and women are
very excited to see one of their locals having this
sort of success. Obviously you've done just a couple of
interviews in Australia. The Americans are fascinated by you. Have
you spoken with anyone in the UK yet? Have you
got a vibe check from your hometown?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Not really. I haven't really yet.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I should get my managers John onto that. So that's good.
That's a good little thing for me to get to
do because I am paying him to do things like that.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
That's his job, that's not my job. But I will
say this before you go on, Before you go.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
On, I love Australians and Australia, and I just think
the response from your native land has been so amazing
that I'm obsessed with it. I'm looking at TikTok all
night and I see lots of Australian people, beautiful ones too.
You're all so great over there, and you have a
great sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I just love it.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Have you ever been here?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I've never been to.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Australia, and I'd love to come over there and enjoy
it with absolutely. We'd love to see you here. Speaking
of your manager, John, we hear him all the time,
like he's filming all of your videos and he's behind
the scenes. When are we going to get to see John?
Because I love John and I haven't even seen.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Him yees staring his own right on the manager is
John's sort of a recluse if you were sort of
a shy possum, which I'm sure you have a lot
of possums over there, so just imagine that behind the camera,
a very little possing.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
He doesn't like his face being shown because she's He's
just that kind of guy, do you.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
He's a sick man.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Your Australian knowledge for a brick in America who's never
been here before is unusually impressive. With the passing knowledge there,
there was so much speculation and guess work around you
know where you were going to go, what you were
going to do when we first saw you. And so
you've released the song that's gone straight to number one?
That is mind blowing. Is there anything else in the works?
We're hoping for a documentary or something.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Like this, Yes, well documentary I don't know, but all
I can really see is what's right in front of me,
and I have some very groovy tunes. People are asking me,
when's the new song coming, and I'm saying, listen, there's
a lot more that is coming, and listen. In terms
of future collaborations, yeah, I love James Franco. If I
(07:17):
could ever work with James Franco, I'd love that. But
right now I'm focusing on the music and talking to fans.
That's really my favorite thing to do is to go
on TikTok and go into my inbox and talk to
fans and sort of answer comments, watch videos.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I'm always watching. That's the thing about me from the
corner of my does Jans Franco even know? Is that
a clue?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Are you giving us a clue? Or is James Franco
going to hear about this for the first time?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's the beauty of it. Listen.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I just loved him, and I'm very attracted to everything
he's done and him as a man. I'm obsessed with
him and I think he's great. I think he's very
much the renaissance man of the modern world.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We're going to watch you from a far Congratulations. This
is straight to number one, and well.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Is it done?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Is it finish? Is it finished? Now finish? We're had
to go to the go to the ads. Yes, we're
still live.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
All right, you're gonna play the song.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You can play the song on the radioyea.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
We're gonna play the song after they had such a
cool song number one on the on the viral fifty.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And of course Adam was with us last week.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Can Barren from the last number one on the viral
fifty you knocked him off, so we'll we'll play your
song next.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
All right, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well, thank you so much, and Adam, I love you too,
and I love you Gabby, and I love you Rod,
and the lover is everywhere with.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
We love you.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Fantastic, I love you guys, I love you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Well that was wild, mister Fantasy, bye, mister Fantasy, and
from what we can make of it, and the character
mister Fantasy joining us there a moment ago from Los Angeles, uh,
the actor kJ from Riverdale the TV series.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Obviously again we'll just.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Make with hey, he's making someone's making something up, and
our observation is that he's gone to launch a song.
They've gone, how are you going to do this, and
so he's created a character, created a social media profile.
It's got a lot of attention because the actor himself
hasn't acknowledged that it's him. He's denied that it's him completely.
And then if you ask the character about the actor,
(09:26):
he gets upperty and he hangs up, which we respected
and didn't.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Do just that. Well, we didn't wanthim to hang up
on us, did we know.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And then so he releases this song number one and
it's a good song, yeah, but a great song.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Like it's a very different song if it were a
kJ Appa because he's like that sex symbol. He's a serious,
like smoldering kind of guy. But as mister Fantasy has
taken the pretty Wow, it can be energetic and a
bit crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Love these actors that just get into it and then
they just live the character.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
If they terrify me.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I was nervous going into that and it was the
most insane interview that I've ever been part of.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Absolutely, and we did filma. We did get a full
video of the interview. So we'll have that up.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Like Rod and Gabby on Instagram, let's go to baby Wears.
When will we get that up? Baby Wears covering for
producer Chelsea at the moment.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Hopefully soon. Yeah, i'd say in like an hour or two.
Solid timeline, hopefully soon, hour or two.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Let's keep checking back, Okay, we'll let you know when
that gets up.
Our next guest in fifteen minutes time is a famous
Hollywood actor I think where yeah, you know, okay, we
think this is the famous Hollywood actor kJ Appa.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Who is the star of Riverdale plays Archie.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Huge start. This is a scene from that film. You
don't need to have seen this to have heard about him.
He's a he's very a fit guy, and this scene
here you can see how fit he is.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Gabby.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
But how about you and me make a little site
back that pound for pound, I'm stronger than you are.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Unless you're too scared.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Waiting.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And so a strength challenge very quickly turns into a
shirtless montage.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I'm really happy you chose the scene to show, right, and.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
There's really no more to it. He's doing sit ups here.
He was just doing some push ups. What's he doing now, Gabby?
More push ups again? His guy he's challenging has fallen down.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
He's up a shirtless Archie.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Okay, I'll admit it, you've got more endurance.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
But when it comes to brute power, we'll see who's strong.
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Now they're in a steam room and I've noticed Gabe,
he's gone son. So we'll wearing nothing but towels. These
actors they get into a character and sometimes they don't
leave it.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
And I'm not going to pretend when I'm a little worried.
This is going to be a live interview.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
And so the speculation around the world, unconfirmed, is that
the new viral sensation, Yeah, the music artist mister Fantasy
is in fact kJ Apple wearing a wig, yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
And fake teeth. Now, he's got the exact same tattoos
as kJ Appa.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
That is a big giveaway, yes now, and also he's
in pretty good nick like kJ Appen. The last time
this happened on this type of scale was when the
fantastic actor Joaquin Phoenix turned up on The Letterman Show
in character, and it is regarded as the greatest train
wreck in Letterman Tonight Show history.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Late show that's we're having fun is.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Seriously, I'll come to your house and shoegum.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I don't have to know.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I want And Joaquin, I'm sorry you couldn't be here tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Anyway, We're gonna try.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I have had an email come through from mister Fantasy's manager,
by the way, all right, and it does say we're
all set for the interview. I just wanted to mention
and have it be agreed upon that there is to
be no mention of that TJ. Apple actor boy from
that CW TV show. He gets really agitated about that.
He only wants to talk mister Fantasy and his music.
(02:39):
Can we please agree upon that on behalf of mister
Fantasy have a splendid Day.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
We're sure that is him, it.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Has to be him, but he signed it off as John.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Okay, yeah, it's We've been dealing with a manager called
John who has never been seen.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
There's no official account of this character. John. You've been
with us for the last ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We've been speaking about an artist we've been following for
a few weeks after they turned up with a viral videos,
the selfie video that their manager had filmed with them
overlooking the Hollywood Hills. And we were intrigued, to say
the least, when all of a sudden, hundreds of thousands
of people, millions of people around the world started following
(03:22):
them inexplicably. They released a song only a couple of
days ago, and it has gone straight to number one
on the Spotify viral fifty Mister Fantasy and this is
(03:44):
a thrill we can cross to Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Now we've got the zoom up here. Come in, mister Fantasy.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
My name is mister Fantasy. Welcome to my world.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Well cappen outside?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Well, I was waiting wait for my turn to speak.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I wasn't sure when to talk.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You were, You're very patient.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
This is the most mysterious arrival on a global scale
of any artist we've ever seen. The reaction has been
incredible to go to number one within days. What has
happened over the last couple of weeks since you posted
that first selfie video with the Hollywood sign there in
the background.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Well, that's a good question, Rod, I'll answer that very simply.
Not much has actually changed because I do the same thing.
I drink my Guinness at night, I go for my
general walk up the hills and the beautiful Los Angeles,
and I go into my little nook studio and I
record music. That's what I do and that's never going
to change as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
You're trying to make it big in Hollywood as a singer,
which is happening as we speak. But what's that accent?
Are you British?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
I am.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Where about you?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
From Harrogate by Leeds you've ever been there? Now we don't.
We have? Have you spoken?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Because I can imagine your Your countrymen and women are
very excited to see one of their locals having this
sort of success. Obviously you've done just a couple of
interviews in Australia. The Americans are fascinated by you. Have
you spoken with anyone in the UK yet? Have you
got a vibe check from your hometown?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Not really. I haven't really yet.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I should get my managers John onto that. So that's good.
That's a good little thing for me to get to
do because I am paying him to do things like that.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
That's his job, that's not my job. But I will
say this before you go on, Before you go.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
On, I love Australians and Australia, and I just think
the response from your native land has been so amazing
that I'm obsessed with it. I'm looking at TikTok all
night and I see lots of Australian people, beautiful ones too.
You're all so great over there, and you have a
great sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I just love it.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Have you ever been here?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I've never been to.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Australia, and I'd love to come over there and enjoy
it with absolutely. We'd love to see you here. Speaking
of your manager, John, we hear him all the time,
like he's filming all of your videos and he's behind
the scenes. When are we going to get to see John?
Because I love John and I haven't even seen.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Him yees staring his own right on the manager is
John's sort of a recluse if you were sort of
a shy possum, which I'm sure you have a lot
of possums over there, so just imagine that behind the camera,
a very little possing.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
He doesn't like his face being shown because she's He's
just that kind of guy, do you.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
He's a sick man.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Your Australian knowledge for a brick in America who's never
been here before is unusually impressive. With the passing knowledge there,
there was so much speculation and guess work around you
know where you were going to go, what you were
going to do when we first saw you. And so
you've released the song that's gone straight to number one?
That is mind blowing. Is there anything else in the works?
We're hoping for a documentary or something.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Like this, Yes, well documentary I don't know, but all
I can really see is what's right in front of me,
and I have some very groovy tunes. People are asking me,
when's the new song coming, and I'm saying, listen, there's
a lot more that is coming, and listen. In terms
of future collaborations, yeah, I love James Franco. If I
(07:17):
could ever work with James Franco, I'd love that. But
right now I'm focusing on the music and talking to fans.
That's really my favorite thing to do is to go
on TikTok and go into my inbox and talk to
fans and sort of answer comments, watch videos.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I'm always watching. That's the thing about me from the
corner of my does Jans Franco even know? Is that
a clue?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Are you giving us a clue? Or is James Franco
going to hear about this for the first time?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's the beauty of it. Listen.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I just loved him, and I'm very attracted to everything
he's done and him as a man. I'm obsessed with
him and I think he's great. I think he's very
much the renaissance man of the modern world.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We're going to watch you from a far Congratulations. This
is straight to number one, and well.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Is it done?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Is it finish? Is it finished? Now finish? We're had
to go to the go to the ads. Yes, we're
still live.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
All right, you're gonna play the song.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
You can play the song on the radioyea.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
We're gonna play the song after they had such a
cool song number one on the on the viral fifty.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
And of course Adam was with us last week.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Can Barren from the last number one on the viral
fifty you knocked him off, so we'll we'll play your
song next.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
All right, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well, thank you so much, and Adam, I love you too,
and I love you Gabby, and I love you Rod,
and the lover is everywhere with.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
We love you.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Fantastic, I love you guys, I love you guys.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Well that was wild, mister Fantasy, bye, mister Fantasy, and
from what we can make of it, and the character
mister Fantasy joining us there a moment ago from Los Angeles, uh,
the actor kJ from Riverdale the TV series.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Obviously again we'll just.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Make with hey, he's making someone's making something up, and
our observation is that he's gone to launch a song.
They've gone, how are you going to do this, and
so he's created a character, created a social media profile.
It's got a lot of attention because the actor himself
hasn't acknowledged that it's him. He's denied that it's him completely.
And then if you ask the character about the actor,
(09:26):
he gets upperty and he hangs up, which we respected
and didn't.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Do just that. Well, we didn't wanthim to hang up
on us, did we know.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And then so he releases this song number one and
it's a good song, yeah, but a great song.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Like it's a very different song if it were a
kJ Appa because he's like that sex symbol. He's a serious,
like smoldering kind of guy. But as mister Fantasy has
taken the pretty Wow, it can be energetic and a
bit crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Love these actors that just get into it and then
they just live the character.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
If they terrify me.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I was nervous going into that and it was the
most insane interview that I've ever been part of.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Absolutely, and we did filma. We did get a full
video of the interview. So we'll have that up.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Like Rod and Gabby on Instagram, let's go to baby Wears.
When will we get that up? Baby Wears covering for
producer Chelsea at the moment.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Hopefully soon. Yeah, i'd say in like an hour or two.
Solid timeline, hopefully soon, hour or two.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Let's keep checking back, Okay, we'll let you know when
that gets up.
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