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And now here they are, Nick and Sue on Chatterbox.

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When the stars talk, they talk to Nick and Sue.

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And welcome back to the Chatterbox Redux Podcast

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and today our special guest is Matthew Joseph.

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This is Nick and Sue with Chatterbox giving you

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all you need to know about musical entertainment.

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Oh yeah! Chatterbox! The best interviews with

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Nick and Sue. Chatterbox! The best news and reviews

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for you on Chatterbox! Chatterbox, we're just

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lucky enough to welcome Matthew Joseph. Matthew,

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welcome to Chatterbox. How are you, sir? I'm

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good, thank you. How are you? I'm good, thank

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you. Thank you. Thanks for coming on. So, I've

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got a very special record, a very special song.

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Tell you how old I am, I'm talking about records.

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I've got a very special song which we'll talk

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about and the story behind it in a moment. As

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it's your first time on Chatterbox, could you

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tell us a little bit about you? And I know you've

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done releases before, so tell us a bit about

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yourself. Give us an idea what you've been up

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to in the past. How you got here? That's good.

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So my name is Matthew Joseph. I am a pop artist

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from North Wales. And I've just been building

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my career slowly over the last few years doing

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like pride shows, new music, a lot of performances

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and trying to like build my next stage, which

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is an album. headline tour. But yeah, everything's

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just become quite busy recently. So yeah, I'm

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excited. Brilliant, brilliant. Now we've got

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this very special song called Psychic. And basically,

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there's the connection here. You make it clear

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in your press release, it's not a charity record,

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first of all, and your peak to highlight the

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issues of early onset dementia. Now, We've been

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hit with dementia in my own family as well, but

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not to the extent of yours. I mean, my father

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was diagnosed with vascular dementia about the

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age of 80, early 80s anyway. We did have him

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till he was 94. We were very lucky. So of course

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I can relate to that, but not to the extreme

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that you can. You're talking about at least six

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members of your family, including your... beloved

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mum Jill, who was your number one fan, was there

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for you, went to every concert, just did everything,

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she was there, she was loved in every capacity.

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So tell us a bit about how the dementia is affecting

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you and just give us a picture of how it is for

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you with six family members and where that's

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leaving you. I think because, I mean, this dementia

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genetic gene has just affected so many members

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of my family and it sort of brought me to this

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stage where I'm thinking you know what how much

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time do I have you know if I have this in the

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future and so many members have had it and it's

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you know it's because they've all passed so young

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with it with the early onset part of it it's

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it's really sad and I think it's really important

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to just do what you love so that's like being

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a big passion of mine now is just to you know

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push for my dreams and do things that really

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inspire me and just make me feel excited, really.

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I mean, none of us in any capacity know how long

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we've got. I mean, there's always the saying

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that you could step out and walk in front of

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a bus or something. Anything could happen on

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any day. We don't know. So it's always best to,

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you know, not hang on to your dreams to try and

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make them reality and do what you need to do

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and get that bucket just ticked off because you

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don't really know. But with this Early on in

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dementia, it wasn't until probably a couple of

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years ago when I started having friends, wives

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and partners who are in their 50s being diagnosed

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with it. And there was even one person, I was

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38, something really horrendously young. And

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of course, it's not an old person's disease in

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any capacity. I think in my father's case, fascicative

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dementia is more of an aging one, to be honest.

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So many different types. um but i mean can i

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ask you matthew what sort of age you'll be talking

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about with your family members when the diagnosis

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came um so yeah what you said is completely correct

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i mean you know it's not a old person's disease

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and there's so many different types and yeah

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my mum was 58 when she passed um yeah it's really

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young and i know it's no age is it it's not like

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it's you know you have so much time left at this

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age and 50, 60, 70 is, you know, to me, I think

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the way the world is anti -aging and with social

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media and stuff, it's no age, is it? So I just

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think, you know, that's such a young age and

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her mum died the same age and she was, my mum

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was diagnosed when she was 56, 57, I believe,

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and I started seeing the symptoms when she was

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like 55. Okay. And so hers was quite fast, the

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way it developed. um same as her mum exactly

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the same timing and everything um but her sister

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passed away i think she had um dementia for like

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eight years but it's just such a complex disease

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isn't it it is but in this terms against the

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sort of more age related ones this is very aggressive

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isn't it very aggressive yeah very aggressive

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yeah yeah What other family members, you're saying

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six family members, so you've got your mum and

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your auntie, so what other sort of close relatives

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should we be talking about here? So there's so

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many people that have been affected really, like

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my uncle, he's got it now, he's quite young,

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he's in his 50s, my other uncle passed away.

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you know there's so many cousins and my mum the

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number goes further back really because we've

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been trying to trace the family tree and to actually

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track it and see the you know the actual complexity

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of it all how big it is and and there's so many

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there's so many members of the family going further

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back and you know like cousins that I haven't

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met that are like you know Third cousins and

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it's been a long time. It's been around for so

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long that I Wasn't aware and this is this is

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an eye -opener for a lot of people probably I

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wasn't aware I think my partner Sue was was aware

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when we were talking about you coming on and

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Last night. I wasn't aware that it could actually

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be hereditary I wasn't even aware of that. I

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mean, I could understand the second generation

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getting it and it's just lifestyle, but it's

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not, is it, apparently? No. And again, it's just

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so tricky because I spoke to so many doctors

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and I didn't actually go through because when

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I was filming the ITV documentary, I was supposed

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to see the specialists and then things got changed

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last minute because I think the people in the

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docu -series were you know that was a very important

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fact that they needed to follow up on so we didn't

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actually get to see the specialist but um i did

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speak to them quickly on the phone and i remember

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speaking to my dad and um the the doctor was

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like well you know um because i was saying the

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women in my family have been affected worse and

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um more aggressively like with my mum you know

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really fast and then he was like well you know

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there's loads of factors um you know if she smoked

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or drank and things and My mum did smoke and

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drink but her mum didn't and her mum died the

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same age and they say environmental factors and

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things and I think same with life isn't it all

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these things do contribute but they're not going

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to be the main cause are they and my dad was

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very offended by that because I can see both

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sides and I can see that you know these things

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can attribute to certain factors and you know,

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make things worse. I suppose, you know, if you've

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got lung cancer in the family and you heavily

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smoke, then you're not going to help matters,

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are you? But, you know, like, it's just so complex.

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And they said that it's not hereditary in the

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specialist and officially to me on the phone.

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And as clearly it is. So there's members of my

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family that have been tested now. And I've had

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the question as to whether, you know, I want

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to be tested. And I'm still undecided at the

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moment. I do get the thing that you do say in

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your press release saying that, you know, what

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you're facing now is something that is something,

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of course, naturally that you are thinking about

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every day. And, you know, one part of you wants

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to know, and the other part is, of course, terrified

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of what the answer might mean in the future.

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And I totally get that. I can understand why

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you're sort of not sitting on a bench at all,

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aren't you? Really? Yeah. Yeah, because it can

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be powerful to have a diagnosis, can't it? Because

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if they said, I do have the gene and it's black

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and white, and you will definitely have it in

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20 years, like the other family members, then

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that could be something to, I don't know, that

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would be some sort of control, I suppose, and

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you can do things differently then. But on the

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other side, it could massively affect mental

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health, loads of things, and insurances. me and

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my partner want to adopt um children and you

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know that that would have a massive consequence

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on that so it's a it's a tricky one no absolutely

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and of course early onset dementia as i mentioned

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earlier i wasn't aware of it until uh friends

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wives and partners started getting diagnosed

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with it in the last couple of years And there

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are still going to be people, some of our member

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stations listening today to this, who aren't

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aware of it either. It could be a young person's

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disease as well. So it's a real eye -opener.

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I seem to recall when they tested my father,

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it was done through blood tests and things. But

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have you managed to research it enough to know

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how... a test could be done with you to find

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out if you've got this gene? I mean does it show

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in a blood test or how do they find out? Because

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there will be people there thinking oh wonder

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if we're affected and they'd be wanting to know

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of course. Yeah I mean that was one big question

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that I had which I didn't actually get the answer

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for but I have done more research on it since

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and it's an important question really and I think

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there is new research with blood tests for certain

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types and I think they do the overall, you know,

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when they do the psychology ones and all the

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different questions and that's what my mum did

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and then the scans as well that can show deterioration

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of, you know, the frontal lobe and depending

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on which type. So there's a various methods that

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they can find out through and I don't know which

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one would be the most specific for my mum's type,

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but I am looking into it this week and I'm going

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to be doing more awareness on it on my socials,

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I think, because people people want the answers

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after because everyone's got someone in the family

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that has something as well and i've had a lot

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of people come up to me in the street since the

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documentary you know being like how do i find

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out my mum had this or my dad had this or you

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know i want to know if i've got it how do i know

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and then i'm like i don't know right now because

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it's so complex per case it's i wish it was so

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much easier that i could be like come and check

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your arms you know if you have this love and

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everybody could It'd be an easy fix, but unfortunately,

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it's not. It's quite a in -depth process. But

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once I know more, I am going to be putting it

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on my socials to create awareness, I think, because

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there's a lot of people that would want answers,

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I think, like me. With your interviews, maybe

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it was unwittingly, you seem quite happy to talk

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about them. You are going to be a great ambassador,

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and when you're bringing your songs out, people

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can ask you questions like I am. Thank you. I

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think you want to get the message out because

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it is more important that it is important that

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people do get tested and find out, you know,

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oh no there's that option. That's what I was

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thinking about was my father for instance, I

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know we're talking about an old person against

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early onset dementia, but came back years like

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from the time he retired in his 60s and into

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his 70s and he was eating all, no he had all

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this Health specialist and the doctor surgery

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and some and he was eating all the healthy food

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now that was supposed to prevent stroke heart

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attack and Dementia and yet you still got it,

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but we don't have the situation. We're a very

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small family I'm an only child. My son is an

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only child. My dad despite being born in the

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1920s was an only child he father was killed

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unfortunately in an accident in the 1950s his

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dad died in 1913 due to a knockjaw you couldn't

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make all this stuff up so we're all very small

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family so we don't actually know if there is

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a dementia gene there or not because we were

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such a small family and nobody lived to old age

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till my father so we haven't got that so whether

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i just go and get tested anyway but we just don't

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have that to go by no incredible you know And

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that is very unique, isn't it? A very small family

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like that. My cousin said that you have to get

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it for free as well, which is important to know.

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If you wanted to check with the NHS, I think

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you have to have an immediate family member that

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has been diagnosed with it. And because of all

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my family members and my cousin now getting that

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official, apparently I would get it on the NHS

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and fast. but to get to pay I'm sure when I spoke

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to the specialist before it was a few thousand

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pounds and I think it was like three thousand

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I think for the first one and I was thinking

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you know some people don't have that many do

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they so it's a there's a lot of privilege with

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certain parts of being tested than health isn't

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there just for another day absolutely no I'd

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love to have you back on and chat some more about

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it. I know you've got your music side as well,

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but it'll always be tied up. You just seem so

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sort of clued up with it. That's very important

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to a lot of people. Before we move on to your

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new single, Psychic, tell us a bit more about

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ITV today, the documentary thing you were doing.

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Tell us a bit more about that. Was it February

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you did that? It was not long ago. No, it was...

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Well, to be fair, you are right. It was February

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that it was out, but we filmed it in November.

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and yeah the ITV documentary because it was it

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was my idea because there was a documentary that

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I was getting filmed for another TV show that

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I can't mention the name of for legal reasons

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probably, that we were filming it and I do not

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want them coming for me after this week and that's

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all I'll say. They were doing a documentary and

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they liked the idea of making a TV show about

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me making it as a pop star while my mum is ill

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because that was her one thing. She was like

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a stage mum from America. She was like... taking

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me to shows even when I was in my 20s and dancing

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front row telling everybody that it was amazing

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and she seen that I had star power she said and

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she wanted me to be a famous pop star so she

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was very active in my career as a stage mom and

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they you know they heard of the story and that

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she was sick and she was no longer remembering

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things and they were like while she still remembers

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you and is you know engaging with music and loving

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this it'd be nice to do a show um of us following

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you up in the race of trying to get into the

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charts and while you're going to vegas and maspalomas

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and see if you can get there before she passes

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away so quite sad of course yeah so that was

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the the whole purpose and then that got scrapped

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because she died um very rude very rude um and

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uh so when she passed and then I thought no this

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story needs to be told you know there's a lot

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of um it's not spoken about enough and I thought

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there was some things coming out in the media

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um you know a few presenters from this morning

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and you know there was a lot of celebrities like

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you know Chris Hemsworth had done a genetic testing

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and there was a lot of dementia with Bruce Willis

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and stuff excuse me so I was saying that it'd

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be really good to do a um documentary about this

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and you know to highlight a few of the key issues

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and um Yeah, so I contacted my friend who was

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a producer and she she loved the idea and then

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ITV came on board and yeah, we did it and then

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as you know with TV things always change in the

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end and Because I didn't really have an active

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family member with it. They needed to tell other

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people's stories Which is also super important.

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So the narrative sort of changed and I didn't

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have as much control as I thought but there was

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still very important topics in it. So I'm very

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proud of it. I'm very grateful. This is Nick

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and Sue with Cheddar Box, giving you all you

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need to know about musical entertainment. Cheddar

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Box! Cheddar Box! Cheddar Box! Cheddar Box! Cheddar

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Box! Cheddar Box! Right, let's talk about Psychic

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then, the story behind the single, so it's like...

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Yes, I'm part two of that question, thank you

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for that. So yeah, so then I was releasing music

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and the next single I was trying to think, right,

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which ones do I have? Because I've always got

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like a big box of my demos and which ones are

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going to work and which ones are new songs, which

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ones I need to revisit. There's always, every

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artist has like 50, 60 songs that. And Psychic

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was one that I showed my mum in 2021 after lockdown.

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I would actively go there every, every few weeks

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and be like, man, which ones are these? Do you

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like, do you like this? And then she'd be very

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critical in a good way. She'd just be like, right,

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that one's good. You sound good on that one.

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That's a, that's very dancy. And she loved the

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dance ones where it was like a bouncy pop song.

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And so I played a psychic and she was like, I

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love this one. And I was like, I don't know.

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It's not, it's not there yet. And she was like,

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no, it's, it's really happy and it's positive.

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And yeah. So she was really excited about it.

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And then I ended up going with another song and

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then obviously when she passed I thought it'd

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be really cute to revisit this song you know

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in her honor because she loved it and um yeah

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and it's just an empowering pop song you know

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just about trusting yourself and not listening

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to other people and it's it's just taken on a

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deeper meaning for me you know since she passed

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really. Sure and it's great that she's in the

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video as well you've done a really good video

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with it and I think it's lovely it's just really

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special so that's great yeah. we had to have

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her in it just little clips because it's really

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hard to find clips I was saying to someone the

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other day it's really hard to find clips of someone

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you know in if someone from like the 90s or 80s

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or 70s you know to try and find those videos

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from the attic and that that was a yeah that

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was a tricky thing to try and find so I had just

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lots of mini clips that I could have this together

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for the video bless her uh so what's next for

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you i mean you've been in the previous years

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you've been very active on the pride scene so

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is there more even in the usa so is there more

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of that because it's only weeks away really we're

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april already when you start adding it into weeks

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it's not long so um are you more of that around

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the place around the world yeah yeah definitely

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i think for me it always just comes back to to

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music and bigger performances taking things to

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the next level more music and I think I've got

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a few shows lined up that they haven't announced

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yet but there's a few prides and I'm hoping to

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release an album so that's that's pretty much

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all recorded really I just need to do some final

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touches so that will be in May and that is called

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On My Mind and it's got various pop empowering

00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:29.279
songs like this that are about like mental health

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and breakups anything that is challenged your

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you know your mental capacity somehow and the

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dementia stuff and all these things that I've

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been battling, you know, after a breaker, my

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mum passing away, thinking about this. So, yeah,

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it's all about the music and bigger performances.

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And I just love big stages. So I'm always looking

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for the next challenge. The bigger, the better

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for me, I think, every time. I have no doubt

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your mum's watching you. She's still your number

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one fan. To be honest with you, you've got the

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looks and you've got the sound to make it. You

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give a great interview and I'm sure you really

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will. I absolutely do think that. I'd like you

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to keep in touch with Chatterbox really because

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I think it probably was the podcast you heard,

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was it? Yes. I could easily be found there. So

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just leave a message. I mean, when you got something

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coming up, you know, I still want to find your

00:22:21.819 --> 00:22:23.460
face, but if not, you know, you can find me there

00:22:23.460 --> 00:22:25.900
anyway. So you always leave a message and work

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things out from there. So that'd be great. What

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about new releases? I know we've got this we're

00:22:31.220 --> 00:22:32.759
approaching this now, but and you mentioned an

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album. So, yeah, let's just ask you this question.

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If you were to come back in, say, six months

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time, what would you like to be telling me you've

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achieved? I love that question. My boyfriend

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told me that I'm not allowed to say I love that

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question, but I love interesting questions about

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my work. I'm hoping that the album would have

00:22:57.069 --> 00:22:59.630
been out, it would have been a success, there'd

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have been a few more TV, I'd have been on some

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TV shows and doing more interviews. all my Pride

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stuff and my performances will have been announced

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and it would be nice in six months if I could

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say that you know I've just started my headlining

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tour because that's the goal isn't it but I want

00:23:19.619 --> 00:23:21.859
it to be successful I want to have enough successful

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songs that people are gonna really enjoy the

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show because I've got my dancers and stuff and

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I really like to do a full production I'm like

00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:34.460
the Lady Gaga like I do want everything picked

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and grown. And I'm probably quite annoying. It'd

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be really good if I just got up there with a

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mic and a guitar and would do a show every week.

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But because I put 100 % into it, I I'm quite

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selective of what I do. And whether that's good

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or bad, it's just I have that just that moral

00:23:54.819 --> 00:23:57.460
capacity like that I want to do things to a high

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level. and yeah so it'd be really nice if I if

00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:02.559
all that stuff will have come true by that point

00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:07.720
successfully and yeah I have lots of music but

00:24:07.720 --> 00:24:10.599
I again I don't want to just release just this

00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:14.039
is a song every every other month I want to put

00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:17.500
my heart and soul into it and really know that

00:24:17.500 --> 00:24:21.180
it's gonna mean something you know so yeah the

00:24:21.180 --> 00:24:23.839
next song is ready as well so yeah. Perfect.

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Are you able to do festivals at all? Yes, but

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I always find like because I do everything on

00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:34.460
my own at the moment I am pretending to be my

00:24:34.460 --> 00:24:38.019
own manager and I do have some family and friends

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and I have like my my boyfriend is my fake security

00:24:42.779 --> 00:24:45.960
because he's like six foot six and my best friend

00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:49.660
yeah he comes and he's very supportive and he

00:24:49.660 --> 00:24:52.319
comes to my festivals and prides and stuff and

00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:54.000
it's been really helpful actually because before

00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:57.369
I was doing it all on my own but he's he comes

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and he tells people like you know if they've

00:24:59.849 --> 00:25:01.970
got my name wrong because I'm a smaller artist

00:25:01.970 --> 00:25:04.809
or if they've put me on the wrong time or and

00:25:04.809 --> 00:25:07.150
he will deal with that for me which takes a big

00:25:07.150 --> 00:25:09.750
stress off me and my friend who comes my best

00:25:09.750 --> 00:25:14.730
friend she's like my assistant and my my you

00:25:14.730 --> 00:25:18.029
know my friend who's marrying my brother she

00:25:18.029 --> 00:25:20.130
is like my manager and helps me with all the

00:25:20.130 --> 00:25:23.309
legal side and emails and stuff so yeah the the

00:25:23.309 --> 00:25:25.049
festivals and stuff they they're all helping

00:25:25.049 --> 00:25:27.779
me and trying to get on the biggest ones and

00:25:27.779 --> 00:25:30.220
there may be some surprises this summer so I'm

00:25:30.220 --> 00:25:33.160
excited about that. Can we expect to see you

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down at Brighton Pride this year? Are you able

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to make that one do you think? Brighton Pride

00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:39.880
would be amazing. I have been in talks with them.

00:25:40.440 --> 00:25:43.599
I haven't had the confirmation contract signed

00:25:43.599 --> 00:25:47.640
yet. How amazing would that one be? I would be

00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:51.299
honoured. Biggest cross, let's hope so. Manifest

00:25:51.299 --> 00:25:56.670
for me. That's our nearest large pride because

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we're not far from there, you know. It's big

00:25:59.269 --> 00:26:01.609
now. Absolutely. It's a great city to have up

00:26:01.609 --> 00:26:04.349
the road, isn't it? It really is. Absolutely.

00:26:05.490 --> 00:26:09.309
It really is. OK. I mean, I did say, you said,

00:26:09.349 --> 00:26:11.150
how long would this be? And I said, oh, 15, 20

00:26:11.150 --> 00:26:12.670
minutes. But you have been so interesting. That's

00:26:12.670 --> 00:26:15.069
nearly half hour. Sorry about that. I don't shut

00:26:15.069 --> 00:26:17.829
up this way. That's what we want. That's what

00:26:17.829 --> 00:26:19.769
we want. It's been so interesting. And we've

00:26:19.769 --> 00:26:22.470
learnt a lot. Absolutely. Before I let you go

00:26:22.470 --> 00:26:24.509
though, Matthew, let's do some social media.

00:26:24.589 --> 00:26:27.130
How can people find you and take a look at you?

00:26:28.150 --> 00:26:30.950
So people can find me on all platforms. It's

00:26:30.950 --> 00:26:33.809
Matthew Joseph or Matthew Joseph Official. My

00:26:33.809 --> 00:26:36.150
Instagram is Matthew Joseph Official and there's

00:26:36.150 --> 00:26:38.829
a link tree in my bio there that has all my links.

00:26:39.670 --> 00:26:41.950
So, you know, my Spotify, my TikTok, Twitter,

00:26:42.769 --> 00:26:45.349
there's about 12 of them. You know how it is.

00:26:48.369 --> 00:26:50.930
It's been great meeting you. It's been a fascinating

00:26:50.930 --> 00:26:55.150
interview and let's do it again. Thanks for coming

00:26:55.150 --> 00:26:57.430
on Chatterbox and we'll catch you again sometime.

00:26:58.289 --> 00:27:00.769
Thank you very much. I would be very grateful

00:27:00.769 --> 00:27:03.029
to come back. Thank you very much. Every success.

00:27:03.269 --> 00:27:34.900
Take care. Bye bye now. Bye. You've been listening

00:27:34.900 --> 00:27:37.599
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00:28:42.019 --> 00:28:44.339
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