1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:07,560 Are you lonesome tonight? Do you miss me tonight? 2 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:18,040 Are you sorry? Hi, everybody. 3 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,680 Hi, Kelly. Hi Mel, my cousin how are? 4 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:23,960 You. I'm good. 5 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,520 How are you doing? I'm great. 6 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,800 I'm. So happy to be talking with you 7 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:34,800 tonight for the next hour or so about love. 8 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,600 Me too. This is a true love podcast, so 9 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,920 we are your hosts. We are two cousins. 10 00:00:41,480 --> 00:00:45,120 My name is Mel and this is my cousin Kel. 11 00:00:45,480 --> 00:00:50,280 Yep. We are Mel and Kel, and we love 12 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,320 talking about other people's love lives. 13 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:54,880 We do. There's always something to 14 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,080 learn, you know? Always. 15 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,000 And you might think it's none of your business. 16 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:08,880 Don't be nosy, but guys. We are social creatures and it 17 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:15,680 is a natural instinct as human beings to understand ourselves 18 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:20,360 by talking about other humans. I agree. 19 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:25,600 And this podcast, it's honestly made me grow as a person because 20 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:30,360 you really realize just how complicated life and 21 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,720 relationships are when you look at other people and go. 22 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:37,040 Especially it's the most beautiful famous people who seem 23 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,640 to have it all together. But even they have gone through 24 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:44,360 some crazy heartbreaking stuff. They do, I know. 25 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:49,360 I thought about that for today's couple, actually, that no matter 26 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,920 how beautiful or successful somebody is, they are still 27 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:54,760 insecure and they don't know what they're doing. 28 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,920 And we can all relate. And you know what? 29 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,680 Yeah, I mean, yeah, talking about real people has its 30 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,840 difficulties, but it's better than us just talking about like 31 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:07,840 fairy tales or something. I mean, we did have a Twilight 32 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:09,280 podcast. Oh, yeah. 33 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,280 But, you know, we're trying to learn from, like, real 34 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,720 relationships, you know? And I think we both think love 35 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,280 is real. But it's also not this fantasy 36 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,720 that gets fed to you in the movies, you know? 37 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:26,160 So it's not. Yeah. 38 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:31,680 Today I think, Mel, I think that we might be the first people to 39 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:36,920 do a podcast about this couple on an English speaking podcast 40 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:40,040 because I saw a Spanish one about them. 41 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,160 But I searched, I searched the podcast, I didn't see anything 42 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,720 out there. So this might be the only Alex 43 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:51,120 Turner and Alexa Chung Timeline podcast out there. 44 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:54,960 I. Know absolutely nothing about 45 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:58,400 this couple so I am so excited. OK. 46 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:02,560 Learn about them. Yeah, this is kind of a passion 47 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:06,960 project episode for me. I really exciting to really 48 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,640 excited to be doing it. But it's the it's the kind of 49 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,760 the reason I'm nervous now is I told you I was nervous because I 50 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:16,120 am so excited that I don't want to let myself down. 51 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:20,880 You know, is this going to be as great as I thought it would be? 52 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:25,480 You know, like how I felt about the Bahama McCartney one, but. 53 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,880 That's how I felt about the JFK Junior one. 54 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,800 Oh yeah, I really felt I was. I remember I was very sick 55 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,720 during that episode 2 and I felt like, Oh my God, I totally 56 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,600 botched it now with our most listened to episodes. 57 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:39,680 So you must feel good about that. 58 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,520 That's our number one podcast. Feel free to promote that one 59 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:45,560 more. Honestly, like, that's our top 60 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,920 episode. But anyway, yeah, this was, I've 61 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:51,160 been wanting to do this for a while. 62 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:54,000 I was. I I am a big fan of Arctic 63 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:59,680 Monkeys and I was a big fan of this couple back in my Tumblr 64 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,720 days. They were all over Tumblr. 65 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,640 And yeah, this episode we're going back to like indie rock 66 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:11,400 cigarettes, riptides, black combat boots, you know, that 67 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:15,440 whole vibe of the 2000s, early 20 tens, which was really 68 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:19,360 prevalent on Tumblr. You know, just imagine beer 69 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,280 spilled on the ground, like that kind of vibe. 70 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,240 What? Time it was, yes. 71 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,720 And. So this is about Alex Turner. 72 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,880 He is the lead singer of the band Arctic Monkeys and also 73 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:37,360 part of The Last Shadow Puppets, his other band with Miles Kane 74 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,280 who we have mentioned before he dated Suki Waterhouse in the 75 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:47,480 past, and then Alexa Chung. She is a model TV presenter, 76 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:54,800 fashion designer and IT girl, if you know what that means, just 77 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,240 kind of a girl that's. I love the concept of the IT 78 00:04:58,240 --> 00:04:59,920 girl. It's very interesting to me, a 79 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:05,600 girl that's just known for being an individual, basically being 80 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:09,680 seen out and about just being an interesting person, being at 81 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,960 parties, I don't know, but. I there's something sad to me 82 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,720 about the IT girl because I feel like it's a temporary status. 83 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:20,680 Yes, because I mean, it's it, girl. 84 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,280 It's not it, woman, you know. It doesn't last forever. 85 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,360 It's fleeting. It's like you are the IT girl of 86 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,480 the moment, yes, but it will quickly pass. 87 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,320 Yeah, there's always an IT girl of A Moment. 88 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:38,520 She definitely was an IT girl of her moment who's who's like an 89 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:43,120 IT girl right now. I feel like Sidney Sweeney was 90 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,040 the IT girl at least of last year. 91 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,680 But now she's like, pretty big. I feel like one thing about it, 92 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:53,760 girls, is they're usually like, not that famous too. 93 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,120 You're so right. You know, like Sophia Richie, 94 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,400 she was an IT girl. And they're usually affiliated 95 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:03,880 with a specific place, too. Yes, so true. 96 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,200 Yeah, everybody is copying their fashion style. 97 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:08,800 Yes, Yes. Everybody wants to be like 98 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:13,080 Caroline Kennedy did an episode. She Caroline Kennedy. 99 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:15,920 Just kidding. But yeah, Caroline Kennedy, she 100 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:21,080 definitely was an IT girl. Yes, and both Alex. 101 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:24,480 OK, Alex and Alexa first, we didn't even know this yet. 102 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:26,560 Their names are basically the same. 103 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:28,720 It's so cute. That is adorable. 104 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:33,400 And they're both English. And this was definitely a time 105 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:38,960 of like one of the peaks of my Anglophile phase, like just 106 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:44,120 loving Arctic Monkeys and like British TV shows like Skins and 107 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:48,400 Keep Calm and Carry On and Keep Calm. 108 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,880 Harry's still single, like all this stuff. 109 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,200 So that's that's what we're talking about today. 110 00:06:55,400 --> 00:07:01,680 And one reason Alex and Alexa are so known and so popular, I 111 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:07,040 think is because of this love letter that was written by Alex. 112 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:11,360 Apparently that was circulated around the Internet, but mostly 113 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,840 Tumblr. And it's a bit weird. 114 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,800 It was. It's on a piece of paper, and 115 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:22,160 it's written in cursive by someone who's clearly not Alex, 116 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,200 because at the bottom at the bottom it also says Alex 117 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,440 Turner's love letter to Alexa Chung. 118 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:33,360 And I saw I saw this love letter back when I was a teenager and I 119 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,200 never forgot it. I still think about it all the 120 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,120 time. Is it like fan fiction? 121 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,520 Well, that's what. You know what? 122 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,640 I in recent years, thought about this letter again. 123 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:45,760 And I wondered, was that even real? 124 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,960 Like that was probably fake. But I'm going to get more into 125 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,320 it later. But I'm going to read the the 126 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:53,680 letter right now just to kick us off. 127 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,800 Oh, I love. That, and this was my first, I 128 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:58,000 didn't know much about them at all. 129 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:59,720 I never really looked into their relationship. 130 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:03,840 All I really knew was this letter from Tumblr, and I think 131 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,360 a lot of people only knew this letter from Tumblr, so I'm going 132 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,480 to read it. It says my mouth hasn't shut up 133 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,840 about you since you kissed it. The idea that you may kiss it 134 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:18,040 again is stuck in my brain, which hasn't stopped thinking 135 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:20,840 about you since well, before any kiss. 136 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:24,440 And now the prospect of those kisses seems to wind me up, like 137 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:27,880 when you slip on the stairs and one of the steps hits you in the 138 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:29,920 middle of the back. And the notion of them 139 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:33,159 continuing for what is traditionally terrifying forever 140 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:35,679 excites me to an unfamiliar degree. 141 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,360 That's the letter. Oh, that's it. 142 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:42,679 Yep, that's it. It's not really a letter, you 143 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:44,640 know, it's it's like a paragraph. 144 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:48,560 But we'll we'll investigate this later where this came from. 145 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,520 They sound like lyrics. I know it does his it sounds a 146 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:56,440 lot like his lyrics because he is the lyricist for Arctic 147 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,720 Monkeys, but we'll investigate that later. 148 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:02,160 OK. Yes. 149 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:09,160 So Alex Turner and Alexa Chung, I think that they were much, 150 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:12,640 much, much more famous in England than in America. 151 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,880 But there were definitely some of us on on Tumblr and, you 152 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:21,320 know, watching Skins and stuff that somehow found out about 153 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:23,040 them. And we're obsessed with them 154 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:23,960 too. But. 155 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:26,720 Yeah, I feel like that time period too. 156 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,160 US Americans were really obsessed with England. 157 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:33,960 Yes, we really were. It was like a new British 158 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:35,880 invasion. Yeah. 159 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:40,440 I mean, like Harry Potter two, there was just so much in our 160 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:43,760 pop culture that made it seem like England was way better. 161 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:48,080 Robert Pattinson, Yes, even like Ed Sheeran. 162 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,760 Like all of those British people, they Lily. 163 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:52,600 Allen. Oh my God. 164 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:54,920 We were. We wanted to beat you guys. 165 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:56,000 Yes. And like we did. 166 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,080 We would wear, yeah, like British flags on our shirts, 167 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:02,040 even though we had never been there before. 168 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,160 You're obsessed. Take it as a compliment, guys. 169 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:09,320 I did. I did wear a Union Jack sweater 170 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:13,280 and I remember when I worked at Urban, I remember this English 171 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:20,080 guy was like, I like a jumper. But that is weird because at 172 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,160 that point I had not been to England yet. 173 00:10:22,680 --> 00:10:26,000 I know, yeah. And our our Irish grandmother 174 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,960 was probably rolling over in her green. 175 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,040 My mom still always says that to me. 176 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:34,840 She's like my mother would be so upset yeah. 177 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:42,360 Anyway, 3 words I would use to describe Alex Turner and Alexa 178 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:51,880 Chung would be stylish festivals and young oh. 179 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:53,960 Sweet. Yes, OK. 180 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:56,320 No, no. That's an ominous. 181 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,520 There No dark one. I know festivals is not an 182 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,440 adjective, but it's just so them. 183 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,280 But it fits. Yeah, they would go on with 184 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,800 Vanessa Hudgens in that way. Oh, yes. 185 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:12,880 They love the music festivals. So, OK, who are they? 186 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,600 Just some quick back stories. Who's Alex Turner? 187 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,080 Alex Turner, You know, he's the lead singer of Arctic Monkeys. 188 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:25,920 He has these big brown eyes. He's changed his look a lot over 189 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:28,520 the years. I feel like back in the 190 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:31,960 beginning of Arctic Monkeys, he had kind of a Beatles type of 191 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:36,600 haircut, a little shaggy but not too long, but longish. 192 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:42,200 And then he had like long hair. And then later on he started 193 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:47,320 having this kind of like greaser 50s look with like a pompadour. 194 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:53,760 So now he's now he's weirdly doing a almost like Italian 195 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:58,400 mobster look. So he's had a lot of different 196 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:00,680 looks. But I would say, you know, just 197 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:04,280 from observing him over the years, he seems pretty quiet and 198 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,480 private. He seems polite but sometimes 199 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,040 serious. But he can still be like silly 200 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,960 and a jokester and seems like he always has friends and you know, 201 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:16,720 he parties and stuff. But he also seems kind of quiet, 202 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,040 some people say intimidating, and I can kind of see that Maybe 203 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:24,760 because he is quiet and he has a thick Northern English accent, 204 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:28,720 sort of like a Liverpool accent, but it's it's kind of faded a 205 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:32,280 little bit in recent years, kind of like how Robert Pattinson's 206 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:35,200 has faded. Yeah, a little sad. 207 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,880 Oh, actually Rob is going to tie back into this later. 208 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:40,040 Oh my God. OK. 209 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:41,360 Yep. Wait, wait, wait. 210 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,720 Like at the end. OK, well, let's hang on, yeah. 211 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:48,200 But his full name? Alexander David Turner. 212 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:53,200 He was born January 6th, 1986. So he's a Capricorn born in 213 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:56,480 Sheffield, England, which is where Arctic Monkeys formed. 214 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,760 His parents were both secondary school teachers and he grew up 215 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:03,080 an only child. So is that why he wanted to be a 216 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:07,120 star? I don't know. 217 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,280 He grew up next door to, or near and very close to at least Matt 218 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,640 Helders, who is another founding member of Arctic Monkeys. 219 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,000 And they were really into music with their friends as kids, 220 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,920 just, you know, messing around having fun. 221 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:23,280 Seems like they really hung out in the neighbourhood. 222 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,240 There's a lot of talk about, oh, he lived in the neighbourhood 223 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:30,160 too, so that's cute. He was a bright and popular but 224 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:33,000 reserved kid. He was into English photography 225 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:34,840 and psychology when he was older. 226 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:38,360 He did writing, but he didn't show anybody, apparently, and 227 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:40,840 apparently Alex was always the quiet one in the group. 228 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:45,240 Tim and Matt Helders and Andy Nicholson decided to start 229 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:50,760 Arctic Monkeys in mid 2002, when Alex was 16 and then Jamie Cook, 230 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:54,200 a neighbor A10, who went to a different school, was invited to 231 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,440 join the band too. And I guess Helders considered 232 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:02,640 Alex the obvious candidate to write the lyrics, because I knew 233 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:06,680 he had a thing for words. And Alex slowly began to share 234 00:14:06,680 --> 00:14:09,960 songs with his bandmates. I have always wondered, how do 235 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,320 bands decide who's going to write lyrics? 236 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:15,680 That's a big deal, you know. I feel like probably. 237 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:17,920 I mean, sometimes they split that responsibility. 238 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:19,160 Right. Yeah, sometimes they do. 239 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:20,920 But I feel like sometimes they don't. 240 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,560 Often comes down to, I bet, just who's best at it. 241 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,840 Yeah, I guess that's what happened here too. 242 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:31,800 I feel like I would want, maybe I'm just, I would be a control 243 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:33,040 freak. I was like, I I want to 244 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:35,280 contribute to the lyrics. I know. 245 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:38,040 That's like, I mean, I don't know how to do the other stuff. 246 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,360 So, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all I can do. 247 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,440 That would be awesome. I've always wanted to be like 248 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:49,520 Bernie to Elton John. I'll just write the words. 249 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:51,680 Yeah, exactly. I won't perform. 250 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:56,080 I won't write any music. Yeah, I'll just give you the 251 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:58,040 material. That would be awesome. 252 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,600 So Arctic Monkeys in the early days, they were playing at local 253 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:03,560 pubs. They played some original songs 254 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:07,280 and and covers. Over the summer after they first 255 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,960 started, Alex played as a rhythm guitarist for a funk band. 256 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:14,880 And then through that he met a record producer and he asked him 257 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:19,400 if he would produce Arctic Monkey's music and they did. 258 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,600 I read that they had one demo album that like nobody ever 259 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:24,560 really heard. And then they had another one, I 260 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,520 don't know, not important. But the guy liked their sound 261 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:30,400 and they recorded demo CD and they handed out free copies 262 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,840 after their shows in northern England. 263 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:34,960 And then they were playing in Manchester. 264 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:40,200 Alex was working at a bar. It was very, you know, DIY, not 265 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:44,120 that glamorous or anything. But by the end of 2004, crowds 266 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:46,960 like going to their local shows were starting to sing along to 267 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:49,000 their songs. I don't think they had that many 268 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,360 songs. I think they had like 1020 maybe 269 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:54,680 original songs and they were just playing the same ones over 270 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:57,160 and over. And their song I Bet You Look 271 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:01,480 Good on the Dance Floor was played on BBC Radio 1 and the 272 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:05,400 rest is history basically. It became really popular on 273 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:09,880 Myspace and sites like that and I bet you look good on the dance 274 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:13,080 floor. I love that song was #1 on the 275 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,480 singles chart in England. Their album Whatever they Say I 276 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:19,480 Am I'm Not was #1 on the charts in England. 277 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:21,800 They were huge, huge band in England. 278 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:26,000 Not as much here, but I think people still know them. 279 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,400 Like, if you're into alternative rock, like you know who they 280 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:32,560 are. Their second album, Favorite 281 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:37,320 Worst Nightmare, came out in 2007, has the song Fluorescent 282 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:39,240 Adolescent, which was a big hit for them. 283 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:42,880 And that was in my Twitter bio for years back when I had 284 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:47,560 Twitter, that was my little bio. It just said fluorescent 285 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,880 adolescent. God about that, yeah. 286 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:57,400 Before Alexa, he dated Johanna Bennett, the front woman of a 287 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:59,880 band. I'm sorry I didn't write what 288 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:02,120 band, but. She. 289 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,160 Later went on to marry one of the guys from Kings Of Leon, 290 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:08,960 which is just funny. Just seems like a small world. 291 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:11,319 Yeah, it's like similar bands. I don't know. 292 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:13,319 I know he. I'm sure he dated other girls 293 00:17:13,319 --> 00:17:16,920 too, but I I'm not sure who. OK, but the lady of the hour. 294 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:21,880 Alexa Chung, So she's apparently the same height as Alex. 295 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:25,160 They're both about 5/8, so it's kind of like. 296 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:27,960 For some reason I thought she was taller. 297 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,120 Me too. A model. 298 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:31,880 I know. I thought she was going to be 299 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,080 like 6 feet tall, but I guess she has. 300 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:38,200 Very long legs. She does very, very long legs, 301 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:42,880 very thin arms and legs. Yeah, she's a model. 302 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:44,760 Or she was. Still is. 303 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:48,200 I think she still is. Alexa, from my observation, 304 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:54,560 seems like a very creative, fun, witty, down to earth person. 305 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:58,240 Even though she, you know, works with all these extremely high 306 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:03,120 fashion brands, she still seems pretty humble. 307 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:05,840 And, I don't know, pretty normal too. 308 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,760 I don't think she's very pretentious about it, she said. 309 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:10,360 When she was younger, she was a tomboy. 310 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:13,600 I feel like a lot of models say that, but I kind of do believe 311 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:14,480 it. For her. 312 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:18,760 She's into a lot of things, photography, fashion, and she 313 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:21,800 has said that she spends her life pretending she's in a band. 314 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:27,760 I love that. Yes, and she was born November 315 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:33,760 5th, 1983, another Scorpio. Her mother is English, her 316 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:37,480 father is 3/4 Chinese. So that's where the Chung last 317 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,400 name comes from. I was a graphic designer. 318 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:44,640 She grew up in Privet, Hampshire, England, and she's 319 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,880 the youngest of four kids. I I thought she was going to be 320 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:50,640 more like Cara Delevingne. I thought she was going to be 321 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:54,320 kind of a almost nobility type of person. 322 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,360 Yeah, but she isn't. But I still think that they 323 00:18:57,360 --> 00:19:00,720 probably were sort of well to do because she did have a pony 324 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:04,200 named Pippi, so. Oh yeah, she's rich. 325 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:12,200 She became a model at age 16 when take a drink. 326 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,160 She was spotted by a modeling scout at. 327 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:19,680 Oh my God, was it at a mall? No, it was actually at Reading 328 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:24,400 Festival, but I'm guessing maybe. 329 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,520 These modeling scouts, like I know, coming to you. 330 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:30,360 Guys I know. It's crazy. 331 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:32,920 They're like seeking people out. Yeah. 332 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,440 You'd imagine, like, everyone sending their headshots in. 333 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:40,040 Why it's like almost creepy that they're just like, going up to 334 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:43,320 people. I know there have been times 335 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:48,080 when when I was in New York, like, I would see some girl or 336 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,200 even guy that looked really tall and thin and beautiful. 337 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,880 And I would wonder to myself, are they a model? 338 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,400 So I wonder if scouts, when they see somebody like that, they're 339 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:00,000 just like, oh, OK, I'm going to go, yeah. 340 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:02,680 I don't know that's. So funny. 341 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:04,520 What a compliment that. Is. 342 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:08,320 I know. So she became a model, age 16. 343 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:12,560 And when she was in her late teens as a model, she started 344 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:17,000 dating the fashion photographer David Titlow, who was 20 years 345 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,720 her senior. Oh wow, she's kind of crazy. 346 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:25,440 In 2006, she became a presenter for the T4 show Pop World and 347 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:28,880 then Co hosted the music and comedy program on BBC called The 348 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,120 Wall. And she kind of pretty early on, 349 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:35,760 like in her early 20s, retired from modeling, but she kind of 350 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,600 kept doing it. But she was able to do these 351 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:42,440 presenter jobs and I don't think she liked modeling that much. 352 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:46,160 So Alexa, if you've never seen, I feel like I was just going to 353 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,240 activate the speaker. We don't even have an Alexa, 354 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,600 but. I know probably if someone's 355 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,640 listening to this live like or on speaker in their house, it 356 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,320 might have triggered it. She apparently gets kind of 357 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,640 annoyed. I mean, she wasn't rude about 358 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:06,480 it, but she gets asked a lot about the speaker and how it 359 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:10,080 feels having. I think it's terrible. 360 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:11,920 I think it's terrible that Amazon. 361 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,760 They should have never given. The speaker. 362 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,320 A real person's name and that name. 363 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:22,840 Now nobody can address. If they have a friend named 364 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:27,760 Alexa and they have an Alexa in their house, they cannot address 365 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,600 that person. I know it's terrible. 366 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:34,440 They should have never. I think Alexa is a beautiful 367 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,840 name too. It just I it stinks what they 368 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,120 did with that. They should have just, I don't 369 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:43,440 know, they could have used some kind of noun or made-up word or 370 00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:47,080 medieval name or something that nobody uses anymore, like they 371 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,320 could have done anything. It's. 372 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,760 So crazy. But yeah, Alexa, I was going to 373 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:59,480 say, if you guys don't know, has very tall, long legs, messy Bob 374 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:03,520 hair. She often has had and known for 375 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:06,320 her style. She's a fashion girl. 376 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:12,200 She's done so many, so many collaborations with fashion 377 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:13,880 labels. And then later in the story, she 378 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:18,760 has her own fashion line. But she somehow became very 379 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,320 affiliated with that world. And it's kind of funny because 380 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,720 she also was ATV presenter and she kind of talked about her, 381 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:30,160 how all the fashion people don't seem to really pay attention to 382 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,400 that, or they don't really know what she's doing with that. 383 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,920 But that's kind of like her, or at least was her day job. 384 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:40,160 Because yeah, you don't get paid to go to parties and look. 385 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,480 Cute, you know? I knew she was a model, but 386 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:46,120 like, I thought of her as, like, being funny too. 387 00:22:46,120 --> 00:22:48,760 Like she seemed like she was like a personality. 388 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,760 She is, she is funny. And I I was watching some videos 389 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:55,400 of her to prepare for this and it actually did crack me up a 390 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,160 couple of times. So she's very charming. 391 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:02,200 In 2008, just about her, you know, a girl status. 392 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,640 She was asked by the Guardian how many events she gets invited 393 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,600 to a night and she said there's three tonight and it's a wide 394 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,240 range ones like an art gallery thing, once a Mulberry party and 395 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,240 the other ones a friends birthday, a party party. 396 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,680 But you know what, recently, recently I've been staying in 397 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,120 because I'm working so much I can't do my job properly and be 398 00:23:21,120 --> 00:23:22,800 hungover. So I'm sorry. 399 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,640 And then she said. I don't want to be famous for 400 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,480 going out. That would be so exhausting. 401 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,440 I'd have to go to three things in one night. 402 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:35,280 That's crazy. My social calendar is not that. 403 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,200 No, but we've talked about this like when we did our Lindsay 404 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:40,960 Lohan episode. Like, Oh yeah. 405 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:45,040 Celebrities do just have an endless amount of opportunities 406 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:49,440 to party and go out, so it makes sense why they get addicted to 407 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,280 it. Yeah, totally. 408 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,960 Oh, my gosh. And if you're you're kind of 409 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,160 nervous, if you're getting invited to things every single 410 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,200 night, you're probably drinking every single night, maybe doing 411 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,360 drugs every single night. Like, that's a lot. 412 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,080 So crazy. But she did have this TV job 413 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:10,520 during the day, so she couldn't be that crazy. 2008, Well, this 414 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,280 is actually going kind of beyond the timelines. 415 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,520 Maybe I shouldn't share this, but she did become the host of 416 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:20,720 the Morning Show morning music show for Channel 4 called 417 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:25,280 Freshly Squeezed, and also the face of Rimmel, London. 418 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,640 Some kind of like London's A Girl. 419 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:32,080 And before dating Alex, she apparently briefly dated Albert 420 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:36,720 Hammond Junior from The Strokes, which I read a book called Meet 421 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:41,120 Me in the Bathroom, which is all about rock music in so specific 422 00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:43,880 rock music in New York City from 2001 to 2011. 423 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:49,280 And Hilbraham and Junior, I just remember in that book seemed 424 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:53,640 like kind of bad news, like on drugs and fighting people and 425 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:57,920 stuff. So Alexa and she also dated 426 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:03,120 British actor Douglas Booth, possibly Jared Leto, The Horrors 427 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:08,400 frontman Ferris Badman and lead singer Ian Watkins. 428 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:17,200 So she has a thing for lead singers and she will talk about 429 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,640 this later in the story. But I feel like this is a good 430 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:23,240 time to talk about this because I asked you guys on our Patreon 431 00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:27,200 for the poll. I said would you say you have 432 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:33,560 romantic type And so far we. I'm going to refresh the page 433 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,600 because sometimes more come in so far. 434 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:43,280 OK, 70% of you said yes, you do have a type and 30% of you said 435 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,400 no. And our listener, Kate said, I 436 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:47,560 hope you don't mind I'm sharing this. 437 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,080 I don't have as much a physical type as a personality type. 438 00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:53,840 I do find as well I can be pretty attracted to many 439 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,760 different personalities, but it comes down to more 440 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,600 comparability. I think that's a narrow, 441 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,080 narrower set of people than just my type. 442 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,240 I think. I think the same for Alexa 443 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:09,000 actually. She loves guys and bands and 444 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,320 lead singers specifically, but I think that they don't all look. 445 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:20,440 I mean, a lot of them are like thin, lanky white guys, but but 446 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:21,600 they don't all look exactly the same. 447 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:26,880 But Maggie Licious also commented and said, yeah, ugly 448 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,240 and mean to me. Sad face? 449 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:34,280 Sad. I hope that's a type that you, 450 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,320 you know, eventually lose interest in. 451 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,040 Yeah, sometimes just recognizing it is the first step. 452 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,960 Exactly. What do you think about all of 453 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,400 that, Mel? Well, yeah, I mean, my type used 454 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,440 to be, I guess, emotionally unavailable. 455 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:53,120 I've definitely grown out of that. 456 00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:55,960 I would say, yeah. My type used to be like very 457 00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:03,480 stoic and yeah, unemotional and kind of cold, but. 458 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:05,080 So. Now I don't. 459 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,440 I know Now. I don't think I I've I don't 460 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,000 think I have a type. Nice, I think. 461 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:13,560 I don't know. I think that there is something 462 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:18,240 kind of embarrassing about having a type, but I think it's 463 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,640 kind of helpful too. I think so as well. 464 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:25,720 I mean, for a long time I wished I had one so I could more easily 465 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:30,000 identify attraction right away. Because dating just felt so 466 00:27:30,120 --> 00:27:33,800 daunting. Having to go on a couple dates 467 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,560 with someone to determine if I liked them because I just didn't 468 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,680 have like any initial feelings one way or the other. 469 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:45,560 But I definitely have things that are not my type, like I 470 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,440 definitely have automatic non attraction. 471 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,320 Me too. If that's a word for like 472 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:56,280 distaste for some, but. I mean, we're both in 473 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,720 relationships now. So I guess it's we're all 474 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,560 talking about the past here, But yeah, I mean. 475 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:03,520 Forgot I've been. Mean I've been. 476 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,360 I've been in the trenches like I definitely have thought long 477 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:09,040 about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 478 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:14,360 I definitely have always liked artsy type of guys. 479 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:16,760 And I have dated several guys with glasses, but it wasn't on 480 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,400 purpose. It wasn't on purpose. 481 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,840 I feel like a lot of you guys have had like light brown hair. 482 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,840 Not all, but some. The thing is. 483 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:31,240 I have been attracted to some people that weren't that type, 484 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:32,920 but it just didn't work out with them. 485 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:38,920 Yeah, so, but honestly that type is probably also the type that 486 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:43,600 is attracted to you. Yeah, you know what? 487 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,920 OK, I feel kind of weird. I hope no one's listening that 488 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:51,280 knows me, but I have noticed that even my current boyfriend 489 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,400 or like my ex boyfriend's, like, I feel like some of the ex 490 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,280 girlfriends look a little similar to me. 491 00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:03,320 Like we're all kind of in a similar world, so whatever. 492 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,800 But I think both Alex and Alexa have a type and she, you know, 493 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,400 he also seems to like models, so it's not just her. 494 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,200 But let's get into it. But before we get into the 495 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,600 episode, you know, on the podcast we've talked a lot about 496 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:24,800 how mental health can affect relationships and we recently 497 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,560 learned of an organization that is doing a lot of important work 498 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:33,880 to combat OCD in relationships. Yeah, it's called no CD. 499 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:38,240 And you know, OCD is more than what you see on TV and in the 500 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,080 movies. If you imagine having unwanted 501 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,960 thoughts about your relationship stuck in your head all day, no 502 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,920 matter how hard you try to make them go away, that's 503 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:51,240 relationship OCD, which I feel like is a less known about type 504 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,920 of OCD, but it comes with unrelenting intrusive images, 505 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,400 thoughts and urges about your partner, a loved one. 506 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,480 And breaking the OCD cycle takes effective treatment. 507 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:07,480 You can go to no CD, so that's NOCD dot com to get evidence 508 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:11,480 based treatment. And on no CD you can book a call 509 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,160 with a face to face licensed therapist. 510 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,440 And no CD is sponsored by most insurance companies. 511 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,200 So yeah, it's a really cool organization that I feel like is 512 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,120 pretty relevant to our show and anybody that's struggling with a 513 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,480 breakup. If you know someone, a loved one 514 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:32,680 that is maybe having issues with relationship OCD, then you 515 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:38,400 should tell them about no CD. The couple today, how did they 516 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:39,480 meet? How did they meet? 517 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:45,760 They first met at T in the Park, which is a Scottish music 518 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:50,440 festival. Oh my gosh, this was July 2007. 519 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:56,440 Alexa was 23, Alex 21. So they're pretty young. 520 00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,080 Yeah, I mean, that's one of your adjectives. 521 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,960 Yeah, well, yeah, It's funny, like when I was younger, I 522 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,640 thought that they were older, obviously. 523 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,920 Yeah. But now, now that I look at the 524 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:13,600 story, you know, it sadly kind of makes sense. 525 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,920 Why? Spoiler they didn't end up 526 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,160 together. Are you serious? 527 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,640 Mel. I had a feeling you actually did 528 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,880 spoil it because you said you said earlier in episode this is 529 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,960 past the timeline. Oh, yes, yes, yes, according to 530 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,960 Digital Spy. Now, I don't know if this was at 531 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,040 the festival, I think it was, but I don't really get it. 532 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:41,120 But it says Alex met Alexa at a backstage karaoke party that the 533 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,200 group held on Friday night to celebrate guitarist Jamie 534 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,920 Cooke's birthday. Alex and Alexa were all over 535 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,960 each other backstage. He was pulling out all the stops 536 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,440 to impress her. She was lapping it up and 537 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:57,080 giggling at his jokes. Alex whisked her off to a quiet 538 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,160 corner on a bench and cuddled her as he taught her some 539 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:01,960 chords. So. 540 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,880 We know this is for sure. When they met, they weren't. 541 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,600 This is not like when the world found out about them dating. 542 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,160 Yeah, you know what? I don't know. 543 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,480 This might be just when the world found out, but. 544 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,080 Yeah, this is. And and that's just according to 545 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:17,600 a source, so who knows, but. Because they just sound like 546 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,720 they're already cozy. But I guess sometimes when 547 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:23,640 you're at an event like that, it doesn't take too long. 548 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:28,080 Yeah, yeah, it does sound a little bit cliche, like, oh, 549 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,240 he's going to go teach her how to play guitar. 550 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,320 And it says after a while they disappeared off to his tour bus 551 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,880 with the promise of a more of more lessons on his acoustic 552 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,960 guitar with some peace and quiet. 553 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,080 She's only too happy to accept the offer and they walked off 554 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:48,040 into the night together. So Classic went off to the tour 555 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:55,160 bus type of meeting. A couple months later it seems 556 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,440 like they are still together. There's a Daily Mail article 557 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:06,320 titled When Alex Met Alexa. So in theme it is Arctic Monkey 558 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,200 singer hand in hand with Channel 4 star. 559 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:13,240 And then also in October, apparently Arctic Monkeys was 560 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:18,080 accepting Best Band in the World award at the Q Awards. 561 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:24,600 And apparently Alex left the other lads to meet Alexa at the 562 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,880 Met bar, and a source said no sooner had they bought a round 563 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:33,120 of vodkas, meaning him, him and Alexa, they were snogging in the 564 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,400 dance floor right in the middle of the club. 565 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,160 She seemed totally smitten by him and was laughing at his 566 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,320 jokes and stroking his hair. They looked, they looked like 567 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,360 they really care for each other. Oh. 568 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,280 Yeah, so they're bopping around London. 569 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:51,680 They go into shows, bars together, nightlife, you know, 570 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,400 being young. And then not too long after that 571 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,880 they, I mean. So they met in the summer 2007. 572 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:03,960 Now it's 2008. It's pretty official because 573 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:09,679 she's in his music video for his other band, The Last Shadow 574 00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:11,880 Puppets. The song's called My Mistakes 575 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,360 Are Made for You and it's very mysterious. 576 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:20,600 It's like a night shot retro 70s film vibe. 577 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:24,000 And in the video it's him and Alexa. 578 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,280 It looks like they're in a car crash and it looks like she's 579 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:31,760 dead and he leaves the car and is playing guitar with Miles 580 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:35,239 Kane and the gazebo. And then it appears that she 581 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:40,400 also walks away from the accident and is alive and she 582 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,000 just walks into the darkness of the woods. 583 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,320 Yes. I don't know what that's 584 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,000 supposed to mean. I don't know if we should read 585 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,320 into it. Probably not. 586 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:55,480 But I feel like that's pretty serious to, you know, only be 587 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,360 together for, you know, less than a year and you're already 588 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,520 like being in my music video, you know, And she's, she's right 589 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,800 there, front and center. It's not like she's just in the 590 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,840 background or something. This is a random thought I just 591 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,360 put in. I don't know why I put it here 592 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,920 in the timeline, but I guess because she's in this music 593 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:16,520 video. When I was younger, I was 594 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:21,520 interested in Alexa Chung, but I was also kind of annoyed by her 595 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,680 because I used. I used to be kind of annoyed by 596 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:28,120 a lot of people who were models slash DJ slash fashion designers 597 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,200 slash photographer, you know what I mean? 598 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,520 I don't know why. I know exactly what you mean. 599 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,840 I felt like, what's your job like? 600 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:35,400 What the heck? Yeah, it. 601 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:36,840 Seems like they have an easy life. 602 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,760 And like, a lot of it, I mean, a lot of it comes from privilege, 603 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,040 too. Like, yeah, like you said, she 604 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,840 probably was well to do. She had a pony. 605 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:45,600 And also she just happened to be born beautiful. 606 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,480 It's like easy to kind of be a hater because you're like, yeah, 607 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,080 God, you're not working your retail job like in the summers 608 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,200 paying your student debt like. I was. 609 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,680 It was it was so weird. Like I I was interested in her. 610 00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,920 But I was somewhat A hater too, for that reason. 611 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,560 I think I was just jealous because, yeah, honestly, I want 612 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,080 that. Like I want to just be involved 613 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,240 in a ton of different creative projects. 614 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,000 Yeah, I mean it's good to be like self aware of that. 615 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,160 It's natural to be jealous. I guess so. 616 00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:19,080 OK. Then February 2008, first of 617 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:26,080 all, 2008, what a time. What a twilight February. 2008 618 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:30,840 The letter OK, this is when the letter happened people. 619 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:36,640 And apparently, according to my research, the letter is real. 620 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:43,160 OK, but how did who wrote it? OK, so Alexa actually talked to 621 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:48,840 the Guardian and said there was a really upsetting tabloid story 622 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,440 when Alex had written me a Valentine's card and I had 623 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:56,640 accidentally left it in a bar and someone sold it to the Sun 624 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,640 and they printed it and they changed it so it didn't look 625 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,080 like a Valentine card and they just said it was a love letter. 626 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,120 They slated him for being really soppy. 627 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,320 And then she said look, it's my boyfriend and it's Alex, of 628 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,280 course it's going to be written like a story. 629 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:14,080 And the Guardian asked was he peeved and she said he was 630 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,120 really cool with it and he said I'm not upset that everyone saw 631 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,720 it because that's the truth and I couldn't give a shit. 632 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,240 And then he went on and said. But at least you have a copy of 633 00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:26,200 it now, I mean. Hey, I mean it is super 634 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:31,360 personal, but it's better to be exposed for writing something 635 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:35,840 sweet to your girlfriend then something terrible and nasty. 636 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,720 I know, like there are worse things than being revealed to be 637 00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:43,280 like a softy and a romantic and. It looks really sweet. 638 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,480 I mean, yeah, some people think it's cheesy, but the weird thing 639 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,640 is you can't. At least I couldn't. 640 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,800 I couldn't find anywhere a picture of the original. 641 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:57,160 I think maybe the sun just typed it up and then some girl wrote 642 00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,240 it in cursive and put it on Tumblr. 643 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,680 I think that's how that happened. 644 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,600 Some people do wonder, or they did wonder back in the day. 645 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,240 Did Alexa leave it behind on purpose? 646 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:17,360 Oh, yeah, maybe. Yo, why would you, huh. 647 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,640 Like. How could you leave it? 648 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,520 Yeah, honestly, it makes her look bad that, like, I know I 649 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,480 would write you a really romantic down. 650 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,760 Take hard and you forget about it. 651 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,720 Leave it at the bar. That's pretty bad. 652 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:36,680 It was a really sweet, well written card and to just leave 653 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:40,400 it there, I can't believe that. But she drunk maybe. 654 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,920 Had to be, yeah. That's honestly, like, 655 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:49,480 regrettable on her fire, I know. Yeah, accidents happen, but. 656 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,640 I would be heartbroken if I wrote someone like AI know sweet 657 00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,520 letter and they just like lost. It. 658 00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:56,200 I know I can. I can just picture him being 659 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,840 like, oh, where's your card? Oh, oh. 660 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,120 Shit. And I feel like I would try to 661 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:03,920 go back and get it. I don't know. 662 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:07,160 I just like that's especially like. 663 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,600 Say they ended up together. Obviously they didn't, but like, 664 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,640 that's a relic from the early stages of dating. 665 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:17,440 I know, So special. And it's Alex Turner. 666 00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:22,600 I know, gosh, sorry. But at least hey, someone did 667 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,320 her a favor like you saw some other. 668 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,880 It's like OK now I can look back and I can see what it what he 669 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,200 wrote. Now it's memorialized forever 670 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:35,360 online on this podcast that worked out. 671 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:40,040 Yeah. And then also February 2008, 672 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:44,640 there were the Enemy Shock Waves awards and I guess they have 673 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:49,240 fashion categories. And Alexa won best Dressed and 674 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,360 Alex was actually in that category too. 675 00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,880 He was also in the best dressed category, but she won. 676 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,520 And there was a news story that after that enemy awards, Alexa 677 00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,120 puked on Alex. The. 678 00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:04,280 Story said Alex and Alexa were having a cheeky snog by the 679 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:08,520 lifts shortly before he was due to go on stage. 680 00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:13,080 Was all getting pretty heated. Hang on, this is like, what? 681 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:16,560 Why would they be getting heated when all of a sudden Alexa began 682 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,880 to heave and was suddenly violently sick? 683 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,240 After filming her show all day, it appears she'd developed a 684 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:26,920 severe bout of food poisoning. Alex was a knight in shining 685 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,360 armor, though he insisted on accompanying her to the toilets 686 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,080 and holding her hair back as she hurled in the loo. 687 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:36,840 And that's sweet. Yeah, I I did at first think it 688 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,680 was because I read about it a couple places. 689 00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:43,200 I thought at first is from being drunk, but OK, maybe it was food 690 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,880 poisoning. That's worse, honestly. 691 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,160 I know food poisoning is the worst. 692 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,400 That can come out either end that stuff I. 693 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:53,960 Know. I feel like stuff like that 694 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,960 happens eventually to every couple though. 695 00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,960 Every That's what I really like about my boyfriend now. 696 00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:05,240 It's like we're now at a stage where like we both get stomach 697 00:41:05,240 --> 00:41:08,320 aches around each other and it's like it's just comfortable. 698 00:41:09,720 --> 00:41:13,160 No, that's awesome. You need that. 699 00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:18,680 I do need. Lord knows I get stomach aches a 700 00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,800 lot, but guess what? So does he match made enough? 701 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:28,560 That's perfect, I know. OK, so back on the timeline 702 00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:33,000 2009, they're still together. Arctic Monkeys release their 703 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:39,120 third album called Humbug, and this album has my favorite song 704 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,120 of there is Cornerstone. Love it, but I'm not going to 705 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,880 talk about that song, but I am going to look at one song 706 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:46,880 lyrics. You could look at a couple of 707 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,080 them, probably, But just for the sake of time, I'm just going to 708 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:53,080 do this one because, you know, Alex writes the lyrics so you 709 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:56,280 can assume some of them are inspired by Alexa Chung. 710 00:41:56,720 --> 00:42:01,240 And there's this song called The Fire and the Thud, and there's 711 00:42:01,240 --> 00:42:04,560 some cute lyrics. It says, The day after you stole 712 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,360 my heart. Everything I touched told me it 713 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,560 would be better shared with you, with you. 714 00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,760 And now you're hiding in my soup. 715 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,520 And this book reveals your face. And there's a splashing in my 716 00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:19,040 eyelids as this concentration continually breaks. 717 00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:22,960 I did request the mark you cast didn't heal as fast. 718 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:27,440 I hear your voice in silences. So is that about Alexa? 719 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:34,040 Maybe, probably. But then also in 2009, Alexa 720 00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,840 reveals that she's moving to New York City. 721 00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:41,680 Oh no, to host. It's on with Alexa Chung on MTV. 722 00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:47,120 And I actually used to watch this show randomly at lunchtime 723 00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,400 in the summertime. Back in the day, it only ran for 724 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:50,960 two. Seasons. 725 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:52,280 This is how I know we're actually. 726 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:57,760 Yeah, it's on with Alexa Chung, and Alex agreed to move with her 727 00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,160 to New York. Yeah, yeah. 728 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:05,040 And I'm not sure if it's true, but an Enemy magazine article 729 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:09,760 claimed it caused tension with the band, but they didn't break 730 00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:14,000 up or anything. So I don't know how serious that 731 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,800 was. But you know, now that she has 732 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:21,160 this American show, people are over here learning who she is. 733 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,240 People magazine had an article about her. 734 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:26,680 They said her boyfriend is in a band. 735 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,640 While her love life is a hot topic back home, Chung admits 736 00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,480 her relationship with Alex Turner, lead singer, British 737 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,320 rock band Arctic Monkeys is a lot more low key than people 738 00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:38,160 think. It's not like we're always 739 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,800 breaking up and getting back together or cheating on each 740 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,280 other, she says. We're quite boring really. 741 00:43:46,720 --> 00:43:50,760 I mean, I wouldn't assume that they were cheating on each other 742 00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:52,000 like she kind of put that thought. 743 00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:57,440 There, I know, right? Always. 744 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:02,600 Always. I don't know. 745 00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:06,080 And so now they're living in New York together. 746 00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:11,600 And I think Alex seemed to enjoy it just based on pictures and 747 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:12,600 times. He talked about it and 748 00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,280 everything, and she's doing her show. 749 00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:19,240 And she talked about their life together again in an article 750 00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,240 about A Day in the Life of Alexa Chung. 751 00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:24,040 And she mentioned Alex. She said if we're out, I'm 752 00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:27,160 always the party pooper. I like to be in by 10. 753 00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:31,360 I like to be in bed by 10:00 PM. Sometimes I take my computer, 754 00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:34,640 which isn't very sexy, is it? I'm obsessed with Facebook. 755 00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,920 Alex and I like to chill out to a record and we fall asleep with 756 00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:41,880 our arms around each other. He's really little and so am I. 757 00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:45,120 So no one gets a dead arm. Sometimes we wake up in the same 758 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,200 position. It's the best thing ever. 759 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:52,320 It's very cute, very cute. There's really not a lot known 760 00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:56,160 about what's going on with them. This is in 2010, but then June 761 00:44:56,160 --> 00:45:00,640 2010, there's this article in the Mirror British tabloid that 762 00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:04,360 said that they had a row at Glastonbury Festival. 763 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,640 But who knows if that's really true. 764 00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:15,960 I don't know 2011 March 2011 Alex releases an EP for the 765 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:19,080 movie Submarine. It's a soundtrack that he wrote 766 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:22,800 for this movie, which is a movie that I really like. 767 00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,480 It's really cute. It's just like a coming of age 768 00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:29,400 British teenager breaks being wallflower type of movie. 769 00:45:29,720 --> 00:45:33,120 And the soundtrack is so sweet and soft. 770 00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:37,640 It's like this little acoustic album and it's actually my top 771 00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:41,000 played songs of all time. It's still the soundtrack 772 00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,560 because. Yeah, because it's just, you 773 00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:46,280 know, like on rainy days, I don't know. 774 00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,920 I like to listen to kind of soft music. 775 00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:53,680 But but this record is really good because it's not 776 00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,160 depressing. It's like it's great for rainy 777 00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:57,840 days, but it doesn't get you too down. 778 00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,240 Like I don't know, Bunny there or. 779 00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,440 It's. Really good, yeah. 780 00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,680 Even if you haven't seen the movie, the submarine soundtrack, 781 00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:08,240 it's really good. And Arctic Monkeys, they've 782 00:46:08,240 --> 00:46:11,360 never had any music like this. And Alex has never released 783 00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:15,880 music like this ever again. I mean, they have some more slow 784 00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,920 acoustic songs, but nothing really like this. 785 00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:22,680 And you know, he's with Alexa during this time, so you have to 786 00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:26,880 wonder if it could be inspired by her or feelings from her. 787 00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,800 And I'm just going to read some lyrics from one song stuck on 788 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,320 the puzzle. It's called It's Cute. 789 00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:39,720 It says that something in your magnetism hadn't just made him 790 00:46:39,720 --> 00:46:43,080 drop whoever his hand it was that he was holding. 791 00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,600 I've been searching from the bottom to the top for such a 792 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:50,200 sight as the one I caught when I saw your fingers dimming the 793 00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,160 lights, like you're used to being told that you're trouble. 794 00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:57,560 And I spent all night stuck on the puzzle and I don't know why. 795 00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,600 I can just picture like sichung. I don't know. 796 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:04,080 I can picture him thinking of her like dimming the lights and 797 00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:09,080 being sneaky and I don't know, so I thought that was cute. 798 00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:15,080 But Alex was interviewed by Vanity Fair May 2011, and in a 799 00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:19,400 very carefree way, he mentioned his girlfriend Alexa and moving 800 00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:23,640 to New York for her job. And I don't think I put any 801 00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,840 quotes from that, but it just seems like he felt very 802 00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:30,000 comfortable to mention her and wasn't guarded about it or 803 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,040 anything. And then I read a quote from 804 00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:35,560 Alexa about Alex, and I actually couldn't figure out when this 805 00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,120 was from, So I just put it in this place in the timeline. 806 00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:41,200 But I don't know if this actually happened here, but to 807 00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:44,440 Vogue, she said about Alex. He's the sort of person who 808 00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:48,080 reads the dictionary at night. I'm like, dude, you're 25, let's 809 00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,200 go to the pub. I thought she goes to bed at. 810 00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,240 I know, right? In bed by 1030, though. 811 00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:54,600 I know. And she doesn't. 812 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:56,400 She bring her laptop to the pub. Too. 813 00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:59,240 No. She brings her laptop to bed. 814 00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:01,960 Oh, I thought. OK, that's better. 815 00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:05,840 But there's no way she goes. She went to bed at 10 I. 816 00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,200 No, I don't have to be, she said in bed by 10:30. 817 00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:13,400 I know that means you have to be home by like at least 945 like. 818 00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:15,960 And if she's going to all these events, I just think there's no 819 00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:17,360 way. No. 820 00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:18,960 Girl. No, no, no. 821 00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:22,080 I thought it was funny, too. Where she in that day? 822 00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:23,160 In the life. She said. 823 00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:27,920 I get up really early. 9:00 AM Yeah. 824 00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:32,960 I mean, I get it. I don't get up that early 825 00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,160 because I work remotely, but that's not early. 826 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:41,800 That's so funny. Yeah, I go really early, 9:00 AM 827 00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:46,080 any later than nine. I do feel like, Oh my God, 828 00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:50,320 sometimes you need to sleep in later, but like later, I'm like, 829 00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:52,000 I slept. In I know. 830 00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,720 These days, I mean that's late. That's so. 831 00:48:54,800 --> 00:49:00,040 Funny. So June 2011, Alex was 832 00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:04,960 interviewed by the Taipei Times, apparently random interviewed by 833 00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:08,760 the Taipei Times. And he talked about music but 834 00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:12,360 also about Alexa and was asked, do you think that the 835 00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,600 relationship magnifies, magnifies attention that the 836 00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:19,640 band guest gets? And he said, I suppose it does, 837 00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,120 yeah. And then they said following 838 00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:26,400 your girlfriend to New York for her work is quite new man for a 839 00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:30,440 Sheffield lad. I get that means but I guess 840 00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:33,880 just saying that's a big deal. And he said I was glad she asked 841 00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:36,040 me to go with her. And then the interviewer said, 842 00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:40,560 but moving to the US for someone is pretty special, rather really 843 00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:42,960 rather lovely. And he said I didn't think of it 844 00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:44,480 like that. I thought the pleasure is all 845 00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,720 mine. And then he said the first time 846 00:49:46,720 --> 00:49:49,320 I went to New York it was really exciting and I thought given 847 00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:51,200 half the chance it would be nice to live there. 848 00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,560 The same with London. So if you get something to give 849 00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:55,720 you the IMP impetus, that's great. 850 00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:57,320 Yeah. I mean, that makes sense. 851 00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,480 Yeah. I mean, I have a friend that 852 00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,920 just moved to San Francisco because her boyfriend was moving 853 00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,280 there and they, like, weren't dating super long, but she was 854 00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:09,120 like, I was ready for a change. So it was nice to have, like, a 855 00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:11,400 reason to move there. Cool. 856 00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:16,120 But yeah, it's like sometimes it's nice to have that thing. 857 00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:20,680 That is the reason to do it. But also, he was a musician. 858 00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,200 Like, it makes sense for him to go to New York. 859 00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:26,040 It's not like he's moving to. I don't know. 860 00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:31,600 Like Fort Lauderdale. I know, Yeah, he's. 861 00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:33,720 Dallas, TX. He seemed uncomfortable with 862 00:50:33,720 --> 00:50:36,240 him, implying like that was really nice of you. 863 00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:39,440 Yeah. Does he still live in New York 864 00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:41,560 or is he back in England now, you know? 865 00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:46,520 I think he's back in England, but I also think he then lived 866 00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:48,600 in LA. For a bit, yeah. 867 00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:52,000 I mean, I feel like I kind of assume that anyone who's famous 868 00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,080 spends a lot of time in New York and LA. 869 00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:58,160 Yeah, it's true. It's true, there's more music 870 00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:00,840 Arctic Monkeys. So that last thing was just a 871 00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,720 solo project. But then Arctic Monkeys this is 872 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,440 2011. They released the album Suck It 873 00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:11,680 and See. Your love is light custodied 874 00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:20,120 leather headlock. You kiss it cold, put creases in 875 00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:35,600 the room, and those are the girls that just post snakes. 876 00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:42,360 Which sounds really vulgar, but apparently it's a British saying 877 00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:45,480 that just means like just try something and see if it works or 878 00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:48,840 like, give it a try. So OK, I'm sure there's like a 879 00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,280 double entendre, but suck It and See. 880 00:51:51,680 --> 00:52:00,520 And yeah, the the title track Suck It and See It is pretty 881 00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:04,680 romantic and Arctic Monkeys at this time hadn't been known for 882 00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:06,560 having very romantic songs, I would say. 883 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:12,040 So I do think it could be inspired by Alexa, as well as a 884 00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,200 couple other songs like She's Thunderstorms. 885 00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:16,960 But I'm just going to read a couple lyrics for any fans 886 00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:20,680 listening, He writes. Your Love is like a studded 887 00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,560 leather headlock. Your kiss. 888 00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:25,560 It could put creases in the rain. 889 00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:30,680 You're rarer than a can of dandelion and boredock, which is 890 00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:34,840 a old fashioned British drink. I didn't know that you're rarer 891 00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,720 than a can of dandelion and burdock and the other. 892 00:52:37,720 --> 00:52:40,520 Those other girls are just post mixed lemonade. 893 00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,080 Suck it and see. You never know. 894 00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:47,840 Sit next to me before I go. Be cruel to me because I'm a 895 00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:50,920 fool for you. And then he also says I poured 896 00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:54,280 my aching heart into a pop song. I couldn't get the hang of 897 00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:56,760 poetry. That's not a skirt girl. 898 00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:00,400 That's a son off shotgun. And I can only hope you've got 899 00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:04,080 it aimed at me. Blue Moon girls from Once Upon A 900 00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:07,120 Shangri-La. How often I wonder where you 901 00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:08,600 are. You have that face that just 902 00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:11,040 says baby, I was made to break your heart. 903 00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:15,000 Oh. And maybe she did, because then 904 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:18,800 in early July, it's reported that after four years together, 905 00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:25,520 Alex and Alexa have broken up. Is there any? 906 00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:27,480 Do you have any sense of what happened? 907 00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:33,480 Or, well, you know, there's all these, yeah, there's all these 908 00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:37,280 talks from sources, 1 Insider told The Mirror. 909 00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:40,080 Things haven't been going well and they haven't seemed like a 910 00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:45,720 couple for the past few weeks at Glastonbury Festival, like it 911 00:53:45,720 --> 00:53:48,480 always comes out in the festivals, they barely said a 912 00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:51,400 word to each other. Alexa was out seeing bands with 913 00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:55,360 all her buddies like Pixie Geldof and Fifi Brown while Alex 914 00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:57,480 was on his tour bus chilling with his band. 915 00:53:57,720 --> 00:54:00,080 They really wanted to give it a go and hold it together and 916 00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,680 seemed to be getting back on track when things got bad again. 917 00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:04,640 And they both decided enough was enough. 918 00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:09,120 And then a spokesman for the couple said it's completely 919 00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:11,160 amicable. But yes, it's true, they have 920 00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:13,720 split. Alexa has moved all her stuff 921 00:54:13,720 --> 00:54:17,240 out and is concentrating on getting her American TV career 922 00:54:17,240 --> 00:54:22,200 back on track because, Oh yeah, it's almost Alexa Chung was 923 00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:26,400 canceled after two seasons. The source also went on to say 924 00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,280 Alex has gigs in America next month but none of them are on 925 00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:32,080 the East Coast. Then he's planning UK tour. 926 00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:34,760 They are very busy and have grown apart, but they want to 927 00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:38,760 keep the news quiet. Should add that to the drinking 928 00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:42,560 game, people being too busy. I know I hate. 929 00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:45,160 It. It stinks. 930 00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:48,920 But you know what? Like I feel like if it was meant 931 00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,400 to be, you'd still be able to make it. 932 00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,200 Work. Yes, I've always felt that way. 933 00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,760 I've always felt like when someone tells you they're too 934 00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:59,960 busy to date or something, I mean, I don't want to hurt 935 00:54:59,960 --> 00:55:02,600 feelings if you've heard that before, but I feel like people 936 00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:04,680 can always make time, You know what I mean? 937 00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:07,480 Yeah, for the ones that matter most. 938 00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:13,200 And if someone can't or won't, then you're better off without 939 00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:14,800 them. And you know. 940 00:55:15,240 --> 00:55:19,080 But I think it's just at the end of the day, in those situations 941 00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:22,520 it's not a match because some people might need more from a 942 00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:25,280 relationship than other people are able to give. 943 00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:29,840 Like some people might might be really busy but they're OK not 944 00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:31,920 speaking every day or they're OK like. 945 00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:34,640 But I feel like that's a very stable person. 946 00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:39,240 And like if they're used to like talking 24/7 and seeing each 947 00:55:39,240 --> 00:55:42,280 other every day, then it's probably too hard to maintain 948 00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:45,360 that connection. Yeah, it's just interesting 949 00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:49,480 though, because, you know, they've been together for years. 950 00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:52,560 They've had pretty much the same job this whole time. 951 00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:54,680 You know, why could they do it in the beginning and why can't 952 00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,600 they do it anymore? You know, maybe they just got 953 00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:00,160 tired and. Yeah, that's true. 954 00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:05,240 I mean, those like what? They started dating 23 and 21. 955 00:56:05,240 --> 00:56:08,960 Yeah, those years. Like people drastically change 956 00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:11,360 in that time. They do, they do. 957 00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:15,840 And I'm going to talk about that in a minute, But Alex reportedly 958 00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:18,120 moved on very quickly after this. 959 00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:22,440 Like, I would say maybe maybe I I should have gotten the actual 960 00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:25,760 time stamps, guys. So I'm sorry, but maybe within 961 00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:29,840 like a month or two, I don't know, was dating this girl, 962 00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:34,160 Ariel Vandenberg. She's also ATV host and model, 963 00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:35,560 which is weird. Oh. 964 00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:40,320 That hasn't hurt. Like in a perfect world, your ex 965 00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:43,840 would take a while to move on as well. 966 00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:48,280 So that way, by the time you accept that, you're no longer 967 00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:51,720 together, like you don't care if they're with somebody else. 968 00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:56,320 Yes, in their perfect world, but that doesn't always happen. 969 00:56:56,880 --> 00:57:00,560 No, because for him, people who who do that, he probably wasn't 970 00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:02,640 really over it because he needed to replace her. 971 00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:09,000 Alexa was linked to a lot of guys in like the following year 972 00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,640 and they were, I think, all musicians. 973 00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:16,320 Once again returns to have a fling with Albert Hammond Junior 974 00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:18,680 from The Strokes, which is crazy. 975 00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:22,200 I just got to say it's crazy that she had this fling with a 976 00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:25,320 guy from The Strokes, because Alex has said that Arctic 977 00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:29,240 Monkeys was inspired to become a band because of The Strokes, and 978 00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:31,920 they even have a song where he says in the opening lines he 979 00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:33,560 says. I just wanted to be one of The 980 00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:36,960 Strokes. So just crazy that she would 981 00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:39,760 rebound from this with one of the guys from the Strokes. 982 00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:42,560 That's legendary. That's so. 983 00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:46,280 Funny. Also the musician Theo 984 00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:50,440 Hutchcraft and Rob Aykroyd, who's a guitarist from Florence 985 00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:54,840 and Machine. And OK, that's it. 986 00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:56,120 That's it for now. That's it for now. 987 00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:59,160 There's going to be more. But in the October issue that 988 00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:01,640 your harp is bizarre, she actually talked about all these 989 00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:05,360 lead singers and musicians. She's drawn to you and she said 990 00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:07,520 it's the groupie vibe that I'm attracted to. 991 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,800 They had these amazing love affairs and both the men and 992 00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:14,440 women made amazing by them. The girls in the 60s were never 993 00:58:14,440 --> 00:58:16,120 overshadowed by the men they dated. 994 00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:18,840 You can talk about Jane Shrimpton without having to 995 00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:21,440 mention Bailey or Terence Stamp first. 996 00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:24,440 I fell out of love with the 60s for a while, I think because I 997 00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:27,640 was so identified with it. It's like Sienna Miller when she 998 00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:31,080 did Boho then suddenly stopped because she was like, fuck, what 999 00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:32,520 else can I do? Because I've done it. 1000 00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:35,360 Everyone copied my sodden coat for a while too. 1001 00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:38,040 It was my Harrods kids vintage one. 1002 00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:41,400 Every girl suddenly had one and I was like, I got really bored 1003 00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:43,320 of smock dresses and loafers for a while. 1004 00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:46,680 But I feel like I'm ready to fall in love over. 1005 00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:49,280 I'm ready to fall in love all over again. 1006 00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:55,240 So that was about fashion, but I just included it because I, you 1007 00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:57,400 know, I feel like she was ready to change after this 1008 00:58:57,400 --> 00:59:00,760 relationship. And I also think her and Alex 1009 00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:02,840 were kind of into this like 60s thing. 1010 00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:06,640 So she's kind of saying she's ready to change. 1011 00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:12,000 And then she actually, in 2013 she released a book called it 1012 00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:17,000 Meaning It Girl. And I remember we sold this book 1013 00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:20,040 at Urban Outfitters when I worked there, and I used to look 1014 00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:24,480 at it when I had nothing to do. It's not exactly a memoir. 1015 00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:27,480 It's more of a fashion book with lots of pictures, kind of like a 1016 00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:29,520 scrapbook. But there's some writing in 1017 00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:31,520 there, too. And there's a chapter in the 1018 00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:34,640 book called Heartbreak, which many people assume is about Alex 1019 00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:37,240 Turner. And I'm just going to read a 1020 00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:40,640 paragraph from it. It says the problem with 1021 00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:42,760 Heartbreak is that nobody can help you when you're 1022 00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:44,280 heartbroken. Nobody. 1023 00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:46,600 And nothing. Not the films you watch alone, 1024 00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:49,000 desperately searching for a character who feels the way you 1025 00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:52,640 do, not the glasses or bottles of whiskey you keep by your bed. 1026 00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:55,640 And certainly not Instagram. Wait, I'm gonna pause. 1027 00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:59,440 I I've never kept whiskey by my bed. 1028 00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:04,520 Have you? No, I think I have had wine by 1029 01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:07,920 my bed just coincidentally, but like, I didn't keep it there on 1030 01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:10,840 purpose. I just think it's one of the 1031 01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:13,920 ways she says that, like as if everybody does that, like, oh. 1032 01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:19,040 Yeah, wait. Not the whiskey you keep handy 1033 01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:23,840 by your bill. Yeah, Alexa girl, check it on 1034 01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:27,800 that. And then she goes on to say, and 1035 01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:30,560 certainly not Instagram. Instagram will not mend your 1036 01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,920 broken heart despite your best efforts to post pictures of 1037 01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:36,640 yourself looking happy. Every time you post a picture of 1038 01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:40,760 yourself to Instagram looking fake happy, a fairy dies fact. 1039 01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:44,080 Also, scrolling through photos of girls your ex may or may not 1040 01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:48,480 be shagging won't help you. You need to you need to remind 1041 01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:51,600 yourself that the right filter can be dramatically, can be 1042 01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:54,680 fantastically flattering, and she probably doesn't even look 1043 01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:57,640 that good in real life. Which I'm also going to pause 1044 01:00:57,640 --> 01:01:00,840 again, because it's crazy that she literally was a model. 1045 01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:05,320 And she is. Self-conscious about that. 1046 01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:07,840 And he's even comparing herself to other girls and saying, like, 1047 01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:11,720 oh, she has filters on, you know, she doesn't look better. 1048 01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:14,200 It's crazy. That, I mean that just goes to 1049 01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:17,360 show that even comparing yourself, it's useless. 1050 01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:22,560 It's violence against yourself. It is, it is. 1051 01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:25,160 And she also goes on to write in one part. 1052 01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:29,640 I am a self confessed groupie. I have never dated a man who is 1053 01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:36,080 not lead singer. And then she says, boys say they 1054 01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:39,520 don't mind how you get your hair done, but then they leave you 1055 01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:43,240 for someone with really great standard girl hair and the next 1056 01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:46,680 thing you know, you're alone with a masculine crop cut crying 1057 01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:51,760 into your granola. I will say that's one thing when 1058 01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:53,280 it comes to like, beauty standards. 1059 01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:56,080 Sorry, I'm like coughing, boys will say. 1060 01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:59,600 They will say stuff like that, of like, because for me, like 1061 01:01:59,960 --> 01:02:02,840 boys will say, oh, I don't care when you wear makeup or I don't 1062 01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:06,520 care when you get your eyebrows done or, you know, do this, do 1063 01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:08,560 that. But like, actually, 1064 01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:12,960 subconsciously you do like when you notice. 1065 01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:16,080 I hate to say this, I don't want to, like, reinforce beauty 1066 01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:21,920 standards, but like just guys aren't aware of what goes into, 1067 01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:25,400 that's true, the appearance that they're attracted to. 1068 01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:27,840 And so, like, when they say all that stuff, it's like they they 1069 01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:30,400 think they want someone who's just like completely all 1070 01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:33,160 natural. Like they don't put any effort 1071 01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:37,560 into it, but they don't realize what it means. 1072 01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:40,040 I would agree. I would agree with that. 1073 01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:44,960 And it's too bad she felt that way because OK, I like Alex 1074 01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:48,520 Turner. I had a crush on him but I don't 1075 01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:52,680 think he looked the best at the end of their relationship to be 1076 01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:55,040 honest. No, I'm looking at him right 1077 01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:55,720 now. He's. 1078 01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:59,440 But at the end of their relationship is kind of when he 1079 01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:02,560 has a little makeover. I mean after their relationship. 1080 01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:07,360 Oh. So it's frustrating that she 1081 01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:09,520 feels that way because, I don't know, I don't think the long 1082 01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:10,840 hair suited him. But that's just me. 1083 01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:13,880 Yes. She was interviewed by the 1084 01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:18,280 Guardian, by the journalist Hadley Freeman about this book 1085 01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:20,520 and asked about the heartbreak section. 1086 01:03:21,040 --> 01:03:25,480 And Freeman asked who caused the heartbreak and she said it was 1087 01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:27,720 various people. There was one big thing and then 1088 01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:29,720 there were various ill advised flings. 1089 01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:33,760 I had to get over him. So yeah, oh that's funny, she 1090 01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:37,800 acknowledges Ill advised. Because even I was like, girl, 1091 01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:40,360 what were you doing with Albert Hammond junior Get away from 1092 01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:44,840 him. And then the journalist Freeman 1093 01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:46,720 says. I tell her my theory about 1094 01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:49,160 heartbreak, that it takes half the amount of time you were with 1095 01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:52,400 someone to get over them. She nods a little sadly. 1096 01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:54,600 And she says, yeah, I agree with that. 1097 01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:57,080 But is this gross to talk about? I feel like he wouldn't talk 1098 01:03:57,080 --> 01:03:59,080 about it. I don't know how relevant it is 1099 01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:02,520 now, whereas if you asked me at the time how you doing, no one 1100 01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:05,040 asked me. I don't know whether to be open 1101 01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:08,160 and vulnerable about open and vulnerable about it and say I 1102 01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:11,440 had a shit time or to be quiet. What do you think? 1103 01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:13,720 And then Freeman says it's up to you. 1104 01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:16,840 I say, but I guess it might be healthy for your younger fans to 1105 01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:19,680 know that your life is not always perfect, despite what 1106 01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:22,680 photos suggests. She laughs at the suggestion 1107 01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:25,920 that her life might be perfect, and she says, but I don't want 1108 01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:28,800 to imply he broke my heart. I was grieving for the loss of 1109 01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:32,240 for the loss of something. And she says I know how the 1110 01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:34,400 media does that whole poor her thing. 1111 01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:36,280 Like they did it with Jennifer Aniston. 1112 01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:38,000 Not that I'm compared to. Thinking. 1113 01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:42,520 No way. Not that I'm comparing myself to 1114 01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:44,760 her, of course, but do you see what I mean? 1115 01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:49,000 And then Hadley Freeman writes. Yet typically, Chung can't help 1116 01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:52,800 herself and carries on. And she says I'm grateful for 1117 01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:55,440 the experience of that shit time and for being on my own. 1118 01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:57,720 I'd never really been on my own. I'd always gone from one 1119 01:04:57,720 --> 01:05:00,200 relationship to the next, so I had to learn all this stupid 1120 01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:02,360 stuff. Like how do you work my how do I 1121 01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:05,040 work my fucking TV? And now there isn't a dude to 1122 01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:06,440 tell me how to put up the blinds. 1123 01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:09,040 But it's good to learn how to work your way around a drill. 1124 01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:12,000 She called. She and Al, as she calls him, 1125 01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:14,640 are still friends. Oh yeah, he's my best friend, 1126 01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:17,240 she says quietly, and she's currently single. 1127 01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:20,880 And she says, she says proudly and feels much calmer for it. 1128 01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:22,240 For how long? I ask. 1129 01:05:22,680 --> 01:05:25,680 About a month, she replies, and looks a little confused when I 1130 01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:30,120 laugh. So yeah, life. 1131 01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:33,520 Life went on. She dated other guys. 1132 01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:40,440 Alexander Skarsgard actually, and Matt Hits, and he dated that 1133 01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:42,200 girl, Arielle Vandenberg for a while. 1134 01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:45,520 And then Louise Verneux. They both had a lot of 1135 01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:49,240 professional success. After this she launched her own 1136 01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:53,440 fashion label and she had a Netflix show called Next in 1137 01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:58,360 Fashion with Tan France and he's released bunch more albums with 1138 01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:00,480 Arctic Monkeys and The Last Shadow Puppets. 1139 01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:05,240 In September 2013, Arctic Monkeys released their AM album, 1140 01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:08,920 which is very iconic. I feel like it was super, super 1141 01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:13,600 popular in the US has songs like Do I Want to know Are You Mine? 1142 01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:16,040 Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? 1143 01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:20,480 But you know, I would like to look into these songs and wonder 1144 01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:22,400 if they're about her. They're a lot. 1145 01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:26,000 They're really like sexy songs, like very different vibe than 1146 01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:30,400 the other albums. But he had been dating somebody 1147 01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:32,800 else, so. Yeah. 1148 01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:35,160 I don't know. I don't think he can say that 1149 01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:38,920 it's about her or anything so sadly. 1150 01:06:39,240 --> 01:06:42,080 We've talked about this like music you can only interpret so 1151 01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:45,320 much, like even songs that are, like, widely believed to be 1152 01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:47,360 about. Someone, yeah, yeah, yeah, you 1153 01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:50,320 can't know. And I will say like, during 1154 01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:54,400 starting in 2012, which would be, I guess like a year, they 1155 01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:57,480 broke up in 2011. OK, they broke up like summer 1156 01:06:57,480 --> 01:07:01,880 2011, at least publicly 2012, but maybe it started 2011, I 1157 01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:04,440 don't know. But I would say that's when Alex 1158 01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:07,360 changed. Like he had a new persona. 1159 01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:12,680 He used to be. He seemed like so shy, quiet. 1160 01:07:12,920 --> 01:07:17,560 And then with this AM album, suddenly he's wearing like a 1161 01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:22,680 leather jacket, this greaser hairdo, sunglasses, even at 1162 01:07:22,680 --> 01:07:28,040 night, and he just seems like so much more confident and sexier 1163 01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:31,920 and even more intimidating. And it is just interesting. 1164 01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:35,200 It's like post breakup. He suddenly is totally 1165 01:07:35,200 --> 01:07:37,240 different. Breakup will do that. 1166 01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:38,800 It will. It will. 1167 01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:40,400 Quite the time to reinvent yourself. 1168 01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:42,560 It is. So you know what? 1169 01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:46,000 They're not together anymore, but to the shock and delight of 1170 01:07:46,080 --> 01:07:49,840 Alex and Alexa shippers worldwide, they were spotted 1171 01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:54,280 together in New York in June 2014, three years after their 1172 01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:57,160 split. They were photographed during 1173 01:07:57,160 --> 01:07:59,920 the daytime, standing on the sidewalk talking and smoking 1174 01:07:59,920 --> 01:08:03,120 cigarettes together. And there were rumors flying 1175 01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:05,480 around that they were getting back together, and some people 1176 01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:07,720 even say they saw them at Heathrow Airport. 1177 01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:11,840 But I don't think it was true. And he was actually dating a 1178 01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:14,760 model named Taylor Badgley at the time. 1179 01:08:15,200 --> 01:08:17,840 So I don't know. I think that I don't even know 1180 01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:19,479 if they really were at the airport together. 1181 01:08:19,479 --> 01:08:21,920 And I think maybe they were just catching up. 1182 01:08:22,640 --> 01:08:24,800 Yeah, that happens. Yeah. 1183 01:08:25,319 --> 01:08:26,720 And. The odds that people spotted 1184 01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:27,439 them at that. Time. 1185 01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:31,720 There's a bunch of pictures. And she was 30 when that 1186 01:08:31,720 --> 01:08:35,720 happened and he was 28. So, you know, I'm a bit older, 1187 01:08:36,359 --> 01:08:37,760 OK? And I have just like a weird 1188 01:08:37,760 --> 01:08:41,520 Side Story to tell about his girlfriend at the time. 1189 01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:46,520 In 2014 he was dating this model, Taylor Badgley, and 1190 01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:49,479 apparently they got tattoos of each other's names. 1191 01:08:50,040 --> 01:08:55,840 But then they broke up in 2018 and she changed her tattoo of 1192 01:08:55,840 --> 01:09:00,520 his name to be a gravestone that says RIP Alex. 1193 01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:04,479 Oh, that's tacky. Isn't that crazy? 1194 01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:07,880 That is crazy. That's honestly worse, though. 1195 01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:11,120 I think that is worse because that's like a bigger tattoo now. 1196 01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:13,880 I know. I think there's a lot of other 1197 01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:16,720 things like you could just like, fill it, like have a solid thing 1198 01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:20,600 around it. I know like just get hurt around 1199 01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:21,359 it. Fill it in. 1200 01:09:21,359 --> 01:09:23,560 It's a short. It's only. 4 letters I know, 1201 01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:25,960 unless it was a really big tag. It was kind, it was just on the 1202 01:09:25,960 --> 01:09:28,520 arm, but the letters were pretty spread out. 1203 01:09:29,319 --> 01:09:30,439 Oh. No, you got to. 1204 01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:34,040 You got to do that. Yeah. close spacing for. 1205 01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:37,479 I don't. Know what he did with his guys? 1206 01:09:37,479 --> 01:09:40,640 Be careful about getting be really tattoo careful. 1207 01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:45,880 We've talked about like. A common name. 1208 01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:49,760 And you know somebody else with that name and you could like, 1209 01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:51,080 play it off like that's who it was. 1210 01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:53,880 But like, what if that suck to be dating someone and they have 1211 01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:55,800 a tattoo of their ex's name on them? 1212 01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:58,880 That would be horrible. God I. 1213 01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:03,000 Would be don't. Set your yeah, don't set your 1214 01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:08,200 future significant other up for that type of jealousy. 1215 01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:12,760 Wait till you're married. A couple years, yes. 1216 01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:20,560 So then there's there's one more instance in this story in 2017. 1217 01:10:20,560 --> 01:10:22,320 So this is 6 years after their breakup. 1218 01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:25,720 Apparently. There's a story that Alexa was 1219 01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:30,920 at Paris Fashion Week at the Shay Away Hotel when apparently 1220 01:10:30,920 --> 01:10:34,720 Alex's song from Arty Monkey's fluorescent adolescent was 1221 01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:37,520 playing. And I guess she went up and 1222 01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:40,680 requested that the DJ change it. And he did. 1223 01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:47,360 Oh, I mean, hey, it's only a couple minutes go to the 1224 01:10:47,440 --> 01:10:51,360 bathroom. It's kind of worse that's. 1225 01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:53,000 But you know when you're a few drinks and. 1226 01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:55,840 Can't stand and listen to this right now. 1227 01:10:56,560 --> 01:10:59,680 Yeah. Today, Alex. 1228 01:10:59,720 --> 01:11:02,640 Oh, I mentioned her earlier. Alex is dating French musician 1229 01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:06,880 Louise Renu. Happy for you guys. 1230 01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:10,600 And Alexa is actually apparently I didn't know about this as 1231 01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:15,080 dating Tom Sturridge. Who's Robert Pattinson's friend? 1232 01:11:15,600 --> 01:11:19,440 I was thinking about him earlier because you mentioned Sienna 1233 01:11:19,440 --> 01:11:22,560 Miller. Yes, Who he has a baby with. 1234 01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:25,760 Yes. So she definitely knows Robert 1235 01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:27,440 Pattinson. She must. 1236 01:11:28,480 --> 01:11:30,640 Is that how is that what you said? 1237 01:11:30,640 --> 01:11:32,120 Robert Pattinson will come up? Yep. 1238 01:11:32,600 --> 01:11:36,720 Yep. And Tom Sturge is an actor. 1239 01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:42,000 I feel like he's maybe dabbled in music, but he's not a lead 1240 01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:45,920 singer. He's not, you know, in a touring 1241 01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:46,800 band. Super famous. 1242 01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:49,000 No, he's not. He's not. 1243 01:11:49,480 --> 01:11:52,200 So that's a little different from her. 1244 01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:56,720 And yeah, I wish them the. Best I wish them the best. 1245 01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:01,520 I actually saw. I've never seen this before. 1246 01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:04,840 I'm sure people have done this, but I saw somebody photoshopped 1247 01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:10,040 a picture of Alex and Alexa what they look like now together and 1248 01:12:10,080 --> 01:12:13,400 captioned it how Alex and Alexa would look if they were together 1249 01:12:13,400 --> 01:12:17,760 now and made me feel so sad. Yeah. 1250 01:12:18,480 --> 01:12:20,760 Oh, someone should do that for Robin, Kristen. 1251 01:12:21,320 --> 01:12:24,200 It made me. Feel really sad. 1252 01:12:25,320 --> 01:12:28,880 But you know what? We always have these memories. 1253 01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:39,080 Odd they get back together. Not nothing, but I would say 8%. 1254 01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:42,000 That's a good guess. That's maybe I'll just be 1255 01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:45,480 optimistic and I'll say 10% to be different, but. 1256 01:12:45,480 --> 01:12:47,400 I like we've said 5 for some people. 1257 01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:50,200 I for some reason don't think it's that low because neither of 1258 01:12:50,200 --> 01:12:52,280 them are married. No, they're not. 1259 01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:54,640 Either of them have kids like it's. 1260 01:12:54,640 --> 01:13:01,160 Yeah, but it has been a while, so it's it's sometimes hard to 1261 01:13:01,160 --> 01:13:04,000 open the door again. Yeah. 1262 01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:08,280 So that much time passes. We don't really know each other 1263 01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:11,640 anymore. Yeah, it ended. 1264 01:13:11,960 --> 01:13:14,720 It ended for a reason. It did. 1265 01:13:15,440 --> 01:13:19,200 And it seems like they're OK, hopefully. 1266 01:13:19,880 --> 01:13:24,360 But yeah, that is Alex Turner and Alexa Chung. 1267 01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:28,440 That was so fun. Thanks. 1268 01:13:28,440 --> 01:13:30,520 Mel. I like learning about these 1269 01:13:30,520 --> 01:13:32,680 couples. I know absolutely nothing about 1270 01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:33,840 SO. Yeah, me too. 1271 01:13:34,280 --> 01:13:36,440 It keeps. It keeps me on my toes, 'cause I 1272 01:13:36,440 --> 01:13:40,560 don't know how it will end. And I'm, I forget. 1273 01:13:40,560 --> 01:13:42,560 I don't even know if you've told me, probably. 1274 01:13:42,600 --> 01:13:45,160 I did, I did. But I think this will spark your 1275 01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:49,000 memory next week. I said that we we feel loud next 1276 01:13:49,000 --> 01:13:56,040 week on Patreon bonus episode. This will be about two 1277 01:13:56,040 --> 01:13:58,840 directors. Oh, I know. 1278 01:13:59,600 --> 01:14:01,240 And that could be a couple of couples. 1279 01:14:01,240 --> 01:14:04,920 It could be there's there's actually a few couples that fit 1280 01:14:04,920 --> 01:14:08,680 that description, but you'll just have to find out. 1281 01:14:10,040 --> 01:14:12,200 All right. Well, all right. 1282 01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:15,040 Thank you guys for listening. We love you. 1283 01:14:15,440 --> 01:14:17,920 And we'll get back together next week. 1284 01:14:21,280 --> 01:14:33,840 Is your heart filled with pain? Shall I come back again? 1285 01:14:34,440 --> 01:14:40,200 Tell me dear, how are you lonesome?