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November 7, 2025 12 mins

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Audrey Hobert is in here and she just said something.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm gonna tell you in a second what she said.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
But Sue is one of her big songs off her
album Who's the Clown, and the lyrics of that song,
which I recite as as poetry here at least some
of the words. I can't say all of the words,
but I do like the one that rhys rhymes with iconic. Yes, yes, sonic,
And there's just a spirit. There's a spirit to that,

(00:26):
a spirit when you say to that song.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, oh, I mean it was a very early song.
You can I can.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
I hear that song and I hear this sort of
like rushing excitement. These were like sort of the first
songs I had written, so it felt like every line
was a huge triumph. And yeah, there's like this like
there's this some incubatory kind of energy, and I'm excited
that you guys are playing it. It's like a dream

(00:54):
come true.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Thank you, You're very welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
We're excited that you are here.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
This is always a really fun part for us in
this role because we get to meet new artists and
then they become massive artists, and we certainly feel that
for you and we think that people are going to
go nuts when they see you at our jingle Ball stage.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
But when you walked in, Audrey, I heard you.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Say to Sisany, you're a massive fan of Sisney and
she said, no, you're not, and I said, yes, I am,
And then I knew we authenticated that that is you.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
They're real Audrey Hober.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yes, yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
I mean I can't emphasize enough. Basically, I mean, I
grew up with you guys on the radio. Yeah, it
was what I always listened to. It's still what I
listened to. And specifically, I've been waiting to tell the story.
On my whole middle school career. I would drive my
dad would drive me to school and we would listen
to Ryan's Roses and oftentimes I would have to get

(01:51):
out of the car to go to school before we
could find out what happened. And so my dad would
text me on my flip phone and let me know
what happen.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
It is incredible.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
Yeah, And when I told my parents that I was
coming on here, I mean, my dad flipped out because
it's it's just so it's such a it's a it's
not even a relic. It's like even it's it's presently. Uh,
the impact of what you guys do in this station,
it's like it's incredible.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, you're so sweet.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Thank you And it is music like yours that makes
this work here every day. So we're grateful for that.
And by the way, I can give you all the
ryans roses from the years pass. Oh really, do you
want to be your jingle ball holiday gift?

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
You know I go backstage and give everybody a holiday gift.
I can make this one.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
You are please, because whether you do, I don't know
if you do on like cassette or well we can
get vinyl.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, I can get some.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yl.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Please please please. I'm almost crying.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Talk about we talk about you.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
You mentioned growing up and going to school, but talk
about how your life transitioned into what we get to
know today.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
You started writing very early, didn't you.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
I was always I mean I never was a songwriter really,
but I always had such an interest in pop music,
and I was a writer. I went to college for screenwriting.
I was on track to work in television, and I
briefly did before I got into songwriting, and the music
came from I was living with my friend Gracie Abrams,
and she's my childhood friend and she always wrote music
and I always admired her so much. And then her

(03:27):
and I moved in together. And it was about like
six months into living with each other.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Where'd y'all live? Where's y'all?

Speaker 4 (03:32):
We lived in Venice, in Venice in La Yeah, and
it just sort of was complete happenstance. We started writing
together songs and then we didn't stop for I don't know,
like six or eight months or something. And then born
out of that was like a few great songs that
her and I wrote for her second album, and it's

(03:53):
like it.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Was my foray into this world.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
And I couldn't be more lucky because she was such
a trusted friend and so good at what she did
and kind of like I, every step of the way
have felt this confidence to just, you know, go full
force and do it.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
And she's so you felt that confidence because of what
she was relying in you to help with.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well, not even really, It's just I was so green.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
I had never done it, and she knew that and
I knew that, and I never was made to feel
like I was an amateur or not good. It's sure
you were less than or anything like that. No, she
just trusted me and had this like innate respect for me.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
That's cool. Yeah, oh my god. It was the coolest
thing ever and still does.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
And I obviously, like you know, I was just like,
in addition to being her friend, I was her fan
and so it was just a very cool experience.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
And yeah, it's led me here.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
I can tell by your vocabulary and the way that
you say words that you are a writer that you
studied some writing. Yeah, you also write and reference pop
culture as well in some of your music, like that
obviously had a big influence on you.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Oh yeah, I mean I'm just like a again, I
would describe myself as like a respectful fan girl like
and I don't I try not to make it my
person anality, but I if I like a show like
Friends or you know, Gilmore Girls, Yeah, like it penetrates
my brain at all hours of the day, and like
it's sort of subconscious the way it affects my writing.
And yeah, I did find myself writing about like sex

(05:13):
and the City and friends and I just love TV.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
I can so relate to that.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, is there something now that we should be putting
on our watch list.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
That you love, Well, not really a what did I
just watch? I mean, I just watched the Lives of
Manelli documentary that was amazing.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
What's the Girlfriend?

Speaker 4 (05:32):
No?

Speaker 3 (05:33):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Tanya? It's what Never?

Speaker 4 (05:36):
It's so it's on Amazon, and it's basically like a
girlfriend and her boyfriend and the mom and that relationship.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
And it's like, basically like a soap opera if you.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Think you've been in a crazy relationship, and maybe you
think you have been Audrey Hober Yeah, this one basically.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
And the girlfriend don't really get along. It's a documentary. No,
it's scripted.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
It's ramatically scripted.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh wow, Okay, I'll watch it.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
But it makes you feel like if you've been in
a relationship that was a little off or weird or
crazy or I don't want to say that some of
the words you were not oh my god.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah. But it's more campy. It's not like so I
love Mark.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, well I love What did you write for TV?

Speaker 3 (06:14):
I wrote?

Speaker 4 (06:15):
I wrote on a Nickelodeon show for two seasons and
then it got canceled kind of like right as I
signed a publishing deal for music.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
So I've been really worked out. Yeah, but it was
such a cool.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Experience, and it really that being in a writer's room,
it really kind of set me up well to go
into record labels and like pitch myself as an artist.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
I knew from watching all of these writers who had
been doing.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
It like much longer than I have and were much
better than me pitch all day stories and plot and lines,
and it made me able to go into all of
these labels, which at the time I didn't have a manager,
so I was like going to all these labels, I
didn't think it was abnormal to like not have someone
representing me, and I just was like, here's the album,
here's what it's called, here's the cover, here's the first single.

(06:58):
Here's what I'm gonna address, Like, here's how I'm gonna
move on stage. You're like, I just knew how to
present it.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yes, I love how you.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Move on stage. It's so cute. Yeah, it's new to me.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
I mean that, like I just did Jimmy Fallon and
that was the first time I'd ever performed like that really.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
So really yeah, oh yeah first time.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well then wait, let's get an idea of what you're
gonna do on the stage for a jingle ball coming
up in a second, Audrey Harvard, we'll come back with her.
Here one second. Here Kiss FM, and we got DJ
tribble XL in the mix. Next you're on kiss L Oh,
that daft punk one More Time gets me every time.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
I love that so much.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Then that song it's iconic, that's all Daft punk.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Every time that comes on. That song, here, I turn
it up. Then I do moves like not like moves
you will make on our jingle Bowl stage.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Well you never know.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
I don't. And if you make those moves that I
can do them with you. That's fine.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Now, I just so you said, Jimmy Fallon was the
first time you really did a performance all in performance,
even though you are wearing all the hats in your music.
I mean, you're directing music videos and you're writing and
you're performing and doing that.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
But to put it all together on a stage, that
was a first.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
Oh yeah, and I I felt kind of cool about it.
I have this like, you know, to be on that
kind of big stage, like don't know how many people
are watching you. It's an intimate crowd in there, but
obviously you know it's like late night.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
So the studio feels small. Yeah, New York studio.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, it's sort of a fake out.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
It's like, no, actually, there's a potential of like million millions.
But I have this sort of like I don't know,
I'm gonna be performing a lot in that way, like
for the next year, and I'm I'm sort of excited
by the fact that I'm so new at it because
it'll be interesting to see how I've gotten better over
the course of the next year. And I just don't

(08:41):
really have this stress about needing to be like perfect
or polished yet because it's just not the reality. And like,
I have not performed in this way a lot, so
I think it'll be cool that there will be this
like time that exists where I'm not uh, you know, perfected.
And that's why like getting up and doing it on
Jimmy Fallon, I was like, okay, like I'm just gonna

(09:01):
rip it. You know.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
It sounds like very free like it, and I was like, damn, yeah, yeah,
it's totally real.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
It's like I just And also I was really excited
because I had I did that bit where it cut
to me and I was on my phone and pretended
to like not know that it was my time to perform,
and I it was I felt like a risk to
try that because you know, most people just like usually
go right into the performance and it's very nerve wracking.
But I got a laugh and it was so surprising

(09:29):
to me.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Encourage you.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Yeah, I was like, let's doing.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
If you're hearing her voice speaking right now, this is
the song you're hearing on Kiss that we played Exhausted.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Earlier. When you hear it's like a lifetime ago issue.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Kind of do you so are?

Speaker 1 (09:52):
I'm just curious now thinking about all the the writing
skills to talk about.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Are you really good at text messaging?

Speaker 4 (09:59):
Then?

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Like, are you the kind of part thinking respond so
quickly and cleverly that I'd have to go chat, GPT
something to get.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Back to you.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Oh no, No, that's actually something I'm needing to get
much better at because it's part of business as being
available on the phone, and I'm you know, it's like
I'll oft and have my phone on me, I'll get
a text and instead of just responding right away, I'll
just you know, I'll start thinking about something else.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
And I need to get better. I really do.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
So you are so meaning You're not so diligent on
a reply.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
No, no, but I will when I do reply. Yeah,
I'm I'm hoping to make you laugh, even if it's business.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Got it.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, it's pressure on everybody else on the other end, then, yeah, exactly.
Kiss's jingle Ball tickets are on sale. Now, who's the
clown that is out? How exciting is that to release
your debut album?

Speaker 4 (10:47):
Oh my gosh, so exciting. I'm always like, all right, well,
you only get your debut once. I remember people telling
me all that a lot, and I'm I'm definitely like,
even though it's been out for three or four months now,
I'm like, I'm still kind of just got on vinyl.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, I'm relishing.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
I just got on vinyl and I put it in
my room and I look at all the time and
it makes me really happy.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
And what are your parents? I mean, they must be
super proud and excited.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh my god, are you kidding me? Like they?

Speaker 4 (11:11):
I mean, I have kind of a rule where I
try not to look myself up too much, and they
just look me up all the time. It's like parents too, Yeah,
I know, it's like their favorite pastime and they'll tell
me stuff. And my dad specifically who's like not very
tech savvy. He he knows everything that everyone's ever said
about me.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Are they coming to jingle bole?

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yes, definitely.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
I can't wait. Because I'm tech savvy. I can teach
them some things.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, they would freak out of Ran loves parents too,
Oh okay good Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
My strong lane are people's parents Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Okay, okay, well me too. Sometimes I could never keep Yeah,
parents are right up my eye.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah awesome, great to meet you. Super psyched to have
you con graduates and everything.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
I know.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
We're gonna be talking out lots over the months and years,
and we'll see you December.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Fold Yeah, wish me lucky.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
You're gonna be amazing.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Thank you guys.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
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