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Welcome to another episode of our couch where, no, start again. One,
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two <unk>. Hi. Welcome to another episode of our Couch.
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I'm your primary host, Scott Warren.
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Today we've invited another member of the Rex team down here into our living
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room, if you will. Yes. Ish. Ish. Room
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With me as well. The secondary host, Adam here,
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tj, that's for you. Thank you. That's your
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Our, our primary. Our primary guest. Primary
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Guest. So, tj, tell us a bit about you from a corporate sense. Uh,
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what do you do here at Rex?
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I'm a creative director here,
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so basically that means that I run on anything that is very hands-on creative
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and anything you see that is visual, exciting coming out from the brand.
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That's, that's pretty much down to me and my team.
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Hands-on. Creative. You are responsible for the Lego up in the back room?
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Ah, not the Lego. No. No. But it's quite inspiring to get the, uh, you know,
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get some ideas out on there. Yep.
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Noted. Tell me about your most memorable moment at Rex.
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Uh, I think it's gotta be launched in the new brand,
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which was a couple years ago now. Um,
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and just getting all the excitement and buzz around that. Um,
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it was a big party. It was fantastic. Sounds
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Fun.
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Was there a party? Have we had the party, the grand party?
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Was this for the brand relaunch? Yeah,
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So it was before time
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We,
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We, oh, we weren't there. Oh,
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Okay. Off.
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Alright. Okay. So picking up, picking up, uh, picking up on an accent there.
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Tge, um, where are you from when you grew up?
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I'm from, uh, Barnsley, so Tan, uh, as it is near Sheffield,
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Sorry, tan.
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Tan we're three Rs.
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Yip. Switch way. Okay.
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Nowhere near Swi.
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Nowhere near didn't switch at all. At all.
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Okay. Yep. Good.
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So when you were a kid, so just take yourself back to Yeah, no, when,
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when you were one or you are one. When you were one,
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what was it that you wanted to do when you grew up?
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I always wanted to do something sort of artsy. I thought,
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I think it'd be like a sculptor or something like that.
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Okay. So you're not too far away from that today?
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No, I just figured I couldn't make money with doing that,
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so I went into commercial design.
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Okay. Okay.
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Now he is the sculptor of the business brand. Yeah. Okay.
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Back from where you're from. Are there any traditions?
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What Christmas do you have? Christmas over there. There's a
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Lot of traditional things in Yorkshire. Okay. Yeah. Uh, one, one we,
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it's the highly densely populated folk capital of the world.
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So there is a lot of traditional dancing, like there's a lot of sword dancing,
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a lot of, uh, rapper, uh, clog, um, Morris dancing,
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all this sort of stuff.
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So we've, we've got that, that's a broad ream. So we've got rappers,
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clogs and sword dancing all in, in the same festival. Rapper
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Is a type of sword dance that is from Pit village. Okay. Uh,
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where they have flexible, uh, pit pony, um, swords. Yeah.
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And you do tight dancers inside a pop.
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So if you went down to the pub and you said, Hey look, I'm a rapper.
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It wouldn't be like
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Snoop. Yeah. So, yeah, I, I was part of a sword team for five years, um,
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which is the longest running sword team in the uk.
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What would be probably the highlight or the coolest thing in your sword dancing
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career?
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So,
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coolest thing would be in invited to Belgium to compete with other sword
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dancing teams from across the world. Um, and yeah, we,
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we went round that entire place. Uh,
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just did performances everywhere and we were doing it in front of a, uh,
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large audience in an auditorium.
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Who invited you?
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I'm the Belgian sword dancing or Swordman? Stren. I think he was
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Ah, the old
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Swordman Stren.
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I know him well. I know him well.
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Yeah. Uh, moving to another segment, rapid
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Fire.
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Um, would you rather hang on, I can't read that.
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Would you rather be around people that are irritating all day long
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or in a room where you can't put anything in order?
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Oh, um, I'm gonna have to go around irritable people.
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Would you rather be around people that brag or people that complain?
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Uh,
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Complain
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Picture entering an arena.
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I'm picturing it. Yeah. How big's the arena?
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It's a big, big arena. Lots of people are out there to see
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Nothing's in order.
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Is that It is about to take place between you and I?
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No. Lines of parallel the branding's off. Something's wrong. Mm
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Oh dear.
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You get to pick one event that you gotta challenge me to that you think you can
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beat him javelin so fast.
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It wasn't, it was just like, yeah.
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Jablin javelin. Okay.
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And that was another section of Rapid fire. Rapid
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Fire. There's gonna be a,
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Yeah, I just emphasize it further. Okay.
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Let's wrap it up. Uh, thanks everyone. Uh,
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I appreciate you tuning in for another episode of our couch.
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Thank you. This is Scott Warren, your primary host signing off. Adam,
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Your subordinate subsequent host signing off. Tj, thank you very much.
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Thank you. I'm honored to be the primary participant on this
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Couch. Yes. And we welcome that. Thank you very much. Goodbye. Goodbye.
