Life Uncut - From Small Town Dreams to Over 2 Billion Streams! Uncut with Teddy Swims

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

Hey Lifers! Today’s guest is someone that Britt is completely convinced she manifested on to the podcast!Teddy’s voice has been the sound track to her relationship hard launch, her engagement and also her wedding first dance! Teddy is the superstar singer songwriter behind hits like ‘Lose Control’ which has over 2 billion streams on Spotify, ‘Bad Dreams’ and ‘The Door’. He also has a brand new song out with our friend Tones and I and David Guetta!  He’s currently touring around Australia, playing sold-out arena shows! But behind the tattoos and the big voice is just a salt of the earth guy who really hustled his way into the music industry.  We chat about: The first time Teddy ever heard his song ‘Lose Control’ on the radio from a service station bathroom where he had in fact ‘lost control’ Teddy’s upbringing with Christian pastor grandparents and great male influences Teddy’s mum crying when he said he wanted to stop playing football and do musical theatre Whether he was ever pressured by record labels to ‘be’ a certain way or change the music he was making The hustle and not being an overnight success Writing from heartbreak v writing from a place of happiness Teddy experiencing his first ‘slow burn’ love  Becoming a father and it changing his purpose in life Teddy being into manifestation Teddy’s ‘made it moment’ being quite unusual and it involves spy kids What it was like performing at the NRL grand final What Teddy thought of Britt's wedding dance You can find tickets for his AUS/NZ show  Follow Teddy on Instagram and Youtube You can watch us on Youtube Find us on Instagram Join us on tiktok Or join the Facebook Discussion Group Hosted by Britt Hockley & Keeshia Pettit  Produced by Keeshia Pettit Video Produced by Vanessa Beckford Recorded on Cammeraygal Land Tell your mum, tell your dad, tell your dog, tell your friend and share the love because WE LOVE LOVE! Xx  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode was recorded on Camaragal land. Hi guys, and welcome back to another episode of Lifeline Cut. I'm Brittany. And I'm Keisha, and I'm very excited. And today's guest is a man that is very special to me. He was at my relationship hard launch, he was at my engagement, and he was at my wedding first dance. He just doesn't know he was there, And that is because if you listened to the podcast last week, you'll know I spoke about all of these moments and that there was one particular artist that has featured the whole way through my relationship.

And that is the man, the myth, the legend, Teddy Swims. So I am so excited to welcome Teddy here today. Yeah, what an honor. Teddy, welcome to the podcast. Yeah, thanks for letting me be a part of your, you know, love story. Yeah, I appreciate that. You're the core part of it. It's like, I don't want to say you're what I think about when I'm with my husband.

It's going a bit far. I appreciate it. Speaking of Life Uncut, I think that my son would be a really good guest for your podcast because he's also going through Life Uncut. Do you know the best comment we ever got on an Apple review was, I thought this was a podcast for uncircumcised men. Yeah, that's what I thought too at first. I was like, okay, sick.

Yeah, my son is great for this. Well, now we know that you're circumcised. Yeah, because unlike my mother, I didn't chop off the best bit of him, you know what I'm saying? Which I'm still a little bit hurt about it. No, we're absolutely not going to feature that. But 2 billion streams on Spotify, which is absolutely insane. You've just released a new song with David Guetta and Tones and I.

Tones and I is a friend of ours. She's been on the podcast before. She's the best. And she's also the first female to hit the Billion Club, which is pretty incredible. No, I didn't know that. Yeah, she's a dance monkey. I think it's currently at 3 billion, Tones and I.

God. Yeah. She's unreal. She's so cool, man. She's the best. I love her so much. we the first time we met i think a couple years ago when i came here um a dear friend of mine volley was doing like background vocals for her and we met and she told us about yeah yeah

volley's the best guy ever too and then i just got so close with tones and you know when and david and i wanted to work on something for so long so when they sent me that record i was like yeah no brainer man tones getta like how how could this not be good you know thank god it's good it would be bad if it was bad you know uh well teddy you are such a special guest to be here but all of our guests we ask the exact same question too and that is that we ask for your most embarrassing story we call it an accidentally unfiltered okay what's yours so there was a time okay it's the first time i ever heard my uh voice on the radio you know and and this is how i think god has like a real sense of humor we're on the bus traveling through america and you can't do

number two on the bus because it's this bad so you have to pull over well i've been on a bit of a bender um far for the course you know i mean it comes with the territory and and i was i was getting ready to pass some some bubbles you know and i was really like really hurt and i mean like you know like we got to pull over anywhere like somewhere fast you know it's getting bad and And so I'm running into the bathroom, and this love's truck stop. And as I'm sitting there passing this violent diarrhea, lo and behold, lose control, comes over the radio. And I just start like, I'm just mortified, you know?

But I'm also laughing. I'm just like, God, what are you doing? It's divine intervention. Yeah, yeah, at this time in my life, I feel like I should be celebrating this moment hearing my voice on the radio for the first time, but instead I'm passing the worst diarrhea of my life. I had lost control. Yeah, exactly.

How ironic, right? And so I'm sitting in there listening to this and just like, man, if the guy behind the counter right now knew that the person that sings this song is literally passing severe diarrhea in the stall, the nastiest, dirtiest bathroom too. It's just like not my greatest moment, but also one of my greatest moments, you know? Anything that's like the universe being like,

you're like, show me a sign. They're like, I got you. It's also though that would be something that I'm sure you would have dreamt of for so long. Oh, yeah, and it would have been done that way, you know? And I was like, are you even up there, dude? What are you doing? I was keeping you humble.

Thanks, I guess. You can't have it all. I've got to keep you humble. I'm going to let you shit yourself for the first time. That's one of the best accidentally unfiltered I've ever heard. This is a choice that I have to share this. I know that you're not supposed to poo on a bus because I've done it before.

I was on like a, I was like nine. Oh, God bless you. Yeah, I clogged the whole bus on a Contiki tour when I was like 19. No one told me. They didn't have a sign. Anyway, that's enough about that. Is it?

Like you just know? It's a courtesy to the rest of the people on the bus. Well, you've never had IBS, Keisha. Yeah, there you go. Teddy, you've said that Australia is your favorite country to visit. It is. Is this fact? Why is that?

Yeah, well, you know, there's here in New Zealand, the first people that ever really gravitated on us and loved us. And, you know, when I was first doing covers on YouTube, it was just that was like, you know, they were, I guess I think when we were like, you're supposed to be in bed and we were online trying to, like, comment and reach out to every person, I think you guys were just awake or something. We're in the future, yeah.

And so we were just, like, engaging with so many Australian folks and got so much love from here first. And so first time we came out here, I mean, the people are just so kind. And I think I always will say I think there's people, like, in Australia that just believe in the inherent goodness of people. And in turn, I think everybody's just a little bit better, you know, and happier and nicer and not so, like, jaded by, I guess, like, you know, bad things, you know.

At least to me it seems like people are very kind and hospitable in so many ways here, and they're just good people. It's a very different culture to America for sure. Do you find the celebrity culture here differently? Do you find that you're maybe, I don't want to say hassled, but people are a bit more respectful with when they approach you? Oh, absolutely, yeah, yeah. I find that also people are, are more so like, kind of just say like, hi, I love you.

And you know, can I have a picture? And I'm like, I love you back. Versus I think some people, especially, especially men in America, I find they don't want to ever tell you that they like your stuff, but they want the picture too. Like there's one particular guy I still think about all the time that really bugged me. We were, we're in an airport. I can't remember what city we're going to, but this guy comes up to me and he's like, hey man uh dude so my my foreman at my work she's like a 70 year old lady man she loves your stuff

and like no offense like I don't really fuck with your stuff at all like I don't really fuck with you but like I listen to like Chief Keef and like like you know like Kendrick Lamar and stuff so I don't really fuck with your stuff at all but like can I take a picture with you for for her and I was like no I guess but you just like literally like I don't fuck with you you want to take a picture with me I was like well I don't fuck with you yeah I don't I don't need to be like told that you know it's like so sometimes i think people in america are just like too proud to be like i like you you know it's just weird to me because i'm like well you don't have to like you're a good man though yeah yeah good man for taking the photo though yeah of course you have to say less

you know you can say yeah i'm like of course man well send her my love please look teddy you grew up in a pretty conservative pentecostal yeah church environment i also grew up in a pentecostal church environment and i'm curious about like what was that like for you you know what were the influences that your upbringing kind of had on you that have lasted the rest of your life? You know, I'm very grateful for, my grandfather was a pastor and he was always very, very stern and by the thing, you know what I mean? Even to the point that he was, he was like not willing to take like money from the church, like super, like I'm a carpenter, had a woodshop at his house, was building houses, you know, it was just always like very, very stern and there was no give or

take with him and i think there's so much like now like i i remember the first time i was playing piano at his house i was like play a piano and he's like man son i you know i want you to come sing at the church one day but you know you got to make sure you're doing it right man he said all these people out here now break dancing and hip-hopping and carrying on for the lord and and i wanted to be like pop nobody's like broke dance since my mom's been a kid but also if they want to break dance for the lord let them break dance for the lord man break dancing at my youth every friday lord man you know but still so he was just so by it but i one thing i will say like so many of the principles that i learned of like how to love people and how to care about people

but also like if you believe in something like believe in it in the way you believe in it and like believe in it and not be moved at all like we wouldn't even be able to go to a restaurant if there was a bar in it you know and i think like i wouldn't say that that's like the correct way to be a christian or i wouldn't you know say anyways the correct way to be it but i always respected the way that he was just so firm in his like what he felt and what he knew was right and no matter what nobody could shake that foundation and and so i think i got so much from first off the principles of loving people and and caring and and you know but also the sternness of like if i believe in something and i have my heart set to do something then there's no talking me out of it you know i

mean if you you can't shift anything that i have you know like i'm always of course open-minded but there's like, as far as like what I believe I'm supposed to be doing on this planet, there's nobody you're going to talk me out of it. Like that conviction and integrity. Yeah, yeah. There's, yeah, exactly. Conviction and integrity. I think I took a lot from that.

I think something that stands out about you to me in your music, the interviews I've listened to, your socials, the way you come across is that you're, you seem like a very salt of the earth, very normal person. You don't feel like a lot of famous influenced you. And I think that that's a really cool place to be because we see a lot of people go the other way, but I've heard you speak about it. And you just mentioned your grandfather. I've heard you speak about the fact that you had so many amazing male influences in your life.

Yeah. Do you think that that has played the part? Because most people would say they're this kind of a person because of the female influences. But I think it's really cool that you're like, no, actually, like my whole life was surrounded by amazing emotionally in touch men. Well, you know, and those very same men are the men that worship women, you know, like I do. You know, I mean, it's like I'm a firm believer that God is a woman, man. And I mean, my baby mama is a superhero, you know, that like. Like, so I, my mother is a superhero.

So I, you know, yeah, I had a very, very well brought up, you know, by wonderful men like my father and my grandfather, but they also, you know, worship women and so do I, you know, I think. So we, we, we know what the, you know, the, who's really in charge here, you know what I'm saying? Like, we don't play no games about our ladies, man. We know our place. That's our social ground.

That's it. Yeah. If more men knew their place, then I think we'd be better off in society. so when you were coming up into the music industry initially you were playing football you transitioned into kind of turning that into wanting to focus a lot more on music how was that transition well you know my my best pal jesse who still plays with me to this day and my band plays guitar and his dad was always like in you know bands and like playing guitar and singing and stuff like that and his sister was in theater so she kind of got us involved in it and

And we were always jamming and trying to figure out, but once I fell in love with theater and singing, it was a no-brainer because being 5'7", football really wasn't going to take off for me on defensive tackle. Those guys are like 6'4", 300-something pounds. I was never going anywhere with that. I still remember when I told my mom, I'm not playing football anymore. I want to pursue this.

I remember her crying and crying because we'd been playing football since i was six and she's like pulled out all my trophies and all the little all little pictures and like all the little things she had made over the years you know the jerseys like we're a football family why would you do this to us you know like sobbing and i was like mom please like just like but she came to my first theater performance and i think i had like all of two lines for the show called damn yankees and soon as i got done that her tune had changed and she was like never mind baby you're a star this is where you belong you know and i was like oh okay so Since then, we've been all music, you know, all gas, all that.

And she's just like my biggest fan. Even when I was in metal band, she was coming to every show just like, I don't understand the music you make in it, but you sound good though, I guess. That's something I do love about you, Teddy. I feel as though there's not a genre that you can't touch. You know, you've done the metal, you've done like now you're, I guess, would you call it pop music now?

Yeah, I suppose so. I'm kind of like, what genre does it fit into? Did you ever feel as though you had to change the music that you were making in order to fit what you thought people wanted to hear? No, I think, because my biggest thing is I think pop music in itself is just meant to be popular music, you know, and I think the most authentic thing you could do is the thing that's going to work.

I think, like, intrinsically people, like, when they hear a good song, they hear a good song and that's all there is to it, you know, and I think certain songs want to go certain ways and, I don't know, I just love this instrument so much that, like, I've been so influenced by so many people who use this instrument that I think it's always been a thing that if somebody knows how to do something with their voice that like i can't i'm like i gotta figure out that thing you know it like in the right competitive sense drives me crazy like i

gotta figure out how to do that i want to do that i want to sound like that i want to i want to learn that technique i want to be that you know and and i just love the thing and i think there's so many ways to like portray an emotion and certain emotions are just like better portrayed i think in certain avenues you know there's sadness in way better and there's sex way better in certain genre you know what i mean there's certain ways to like tell that story better in certain places and sometimes writing about home only really fits right in like country music you know like this or that you know so i i wanted to be able to have authentically have the way to tell that story in whichever way that feels right and if we are writing a song i just i i always hate when people

get in the way of creativity because that happened so much in my life like when I was first starting or you know maybe the label or maybe this writer person with me would say like oh this is too country let's not do that or this is too rock and roll let's not go there let's but if it feels that way just go all the way there lean in you know but that's the hard thing and I'm going to assume I've never been a global superstar but when you're in the early days of success you have to do as you're advised because you don't really have your platform yet but when you get to a point where it's you're at the level that you're on you can switch you can be like you know well actually i don't care what you think i'm going to release this song because i want to but i feel like in

those early days for so many people yeah some days you gotta you know you gotta like at the early days i had to play the game yeah you know there's some songs that over the years too that maybe like if i wanted to like you know they would say like well let's let's do this song you know and i might have to cut a song i don't like that somebody wrote but then also in that same time i'd be like well if that's the case i'm putting this song out too you know and they're like okay that's cool that's like that's reasonable you know and so sometimes you got to play that game and you got to like and you got to trust that your partner also like does want what's best for you and works and so hopefully in that regard like kids are signed to the right person that also believes

in them instead of just like trying to mold them into something they're not and i don't think my label or anybody was ever trying to mold me in anything i wasn't i think they were trying to develop me and we threw a bunch of stuff at the wall until something stuck and then now i think we like over that year those years of us like developing and finding our groove and our partnership you know like I can say that my label has been so wonderful to me and we've really made this happen and it's it's great they are in the room with us now blink twice if you need help they have been wonderful okay yeah they're the best we love you Thomas uh no I think um a lot of people might be confused to think that you and I hate the term but we're an overnight success I

you you launched onto the scene with lose control and the whole world fell in love with you but I think part of your story that's so incredible is the fact that you hustled for so long you shook hands you played the venues talk to us about that time of your life and i guess the lessons you've learned from that the beautiful thing is about i would say even with the journey of lose control is that there was not like just a tiktok moment that really happened that blew that song up there was not like a trend going around around that song that made that happen i think it was truly us going to every city in the world every place that would let us sing that song whether it was on the side of the street whether it was a karaoke bar or a station toilet yeah yeah whatever

whatever it was man I wanted like no matter what I mean I wanted I wanted to be to the point that like if if your mom was in the kitchen cooking and singing that song I was knocking on the door like yo can I sing that with you you know like we were we were just pushing that song and shaking every hand and meeting every person and loving on every person and I I feel like the old way of doing things still works because when you go out and you like meet the person and love on the people i think people are more inclined and not the song i mean the song is great but also they're more inclined to be like that's my friend and i want my friend to win and they you know and that goes a lot further they're just like this this thing that is a flash in the pan that's an amazing

song that everybody can agree on and then it plays for a while and drops off you know when you're making the time and you're making the effort to love on someone and and care about your music and be like you know you gotta you gotta push it you gotta believe in it for everyone else to believe in it and and you gotta believe in people too for them to believe in you and i think it's like I think that journey of creating those relationships has been way more rewarding and, I mean, in my heart as well, but, you know, as for the songs, you know, it's been way more rewarding because people care about the human you are and then they hear the song for the human you are and those experiences versus just a great song. Teddy I've heard a lot of artists say that you know sometimes they write their best almost creative art from the places that are actually quite sad and kind of hard to be in do you feel like that or do you feel as though you know you're able to write from I guess any

stage of life that you're at yeah you know I but I do feel that and in my life you know prior to therapy so you have been to therapy because the album's called I tried everything but therapy but prior to like you know a lot of self-love and healing journey I'd I feel like in my life I'd kind of put myself in harm's way a lot of time to just like even if it like blew up in my face there was like some fuel for the record you know what I mean which is like kind of masochistic in a way and that not okay you know and and now it's a lot easier to be in a happy place and know that i can access that pain and right from that place and feel it again but like come out of it instead of living in that dark place all the time you know and i think that's the beauty of like when

i'm able to perform some of those songs you know i there's like there's like a three minute period where i can just dive right back into that heartbreak and fully feel it again and then be done with a song and on the other side of it say like wow it's good to be on the other side of that and it's good to like acknowledge that part of me and be grateful for that part of me And almost take that trauma and like take ownership of it and make it into a celebratory moment amongst a lot of other people who have also felt that kind of trauma, you know? And so to answer the question, I think I'm learning as I go, like how it's easier to access that pain and that emotion and right from that place rather than try to always be in it, you know? I remember when we started this podcast where one of us was married, not me, and one of us is single going on all the horrific dates. And that's how it started.

You know, this is 800 episodes ago and six years ago. And I remember feeling like every time I'd meet somebody that could be my partner, I wouldn't, like a relationship, I canned it because I was like, I need to keep dating the shit people so I have stories for the podcast. I was like, I need the content. I was like, I need the red flags whipping me in the face. I was like, what am I going to do if I'm happy?

And I remember thinking the same thing. Yeah, it's easy to fall in that too. And it's also just familiar too, you know. There's like, there's something so scary about things being good or also like a slow burn in love is such a wonderful thing for it to be like not like these high highs and these low lows it's like that's not that's not the thing that's toxic you know like love can be like but you haven't you haven't really been a slow burn lover from what i hear have you yeah i mean i used to jump straight in you know what i

mean i definitely but i now i'm with rage who i'm with now we're like we're in an adult relationship you know what i mean which is great it's like it's not this like codependent thing that was like i've always thrown myself right into this thing you know like like this headfirst love bombing thing you know we we took time to to be together and i mean of course we had a baby so we had to get to know each other pretty quickly but yeah you know and we still are you know but almost a couple years but like we're doing great and he's great can i ask you and i might be projecting a little bit of myself into this going from being the type of person who was just so intense in relationships and like almost monkey branching from one to the next and totally having

those high highs and with it come the low lows did it take a little bit of you actually having to coach yourself into what a healthy relationship is going to feel like and what it's you know what it's meant to feel like I think to me it was it wasn't coaching for relationship as much it was like learning that I was running from certain things within myself you know and like learning to like love myself genuinely and like taking small efforts to like even look at myself and the eyes in the mirror and just say like I love you like you're like you're you're pretty man you know stuff like that like little small thank you all right but was it like you know that kind of um that validation I guess like I know that because I am someone who was like that and I would

really chase those high highs in a in a relationship and I think that when I got into one that was actually healthy I really had to kind of I had to soften the edges at times because I was like oh I'm not feeling the things that I used to feel you know and I can only imagine that would be exacerbated if you're an artist yeah well yeah you know and as someone who gets paid to be validated by other people you know and and like songs only work if people validate my pain or happiness or whatever have you that I'm writing it's like yeah definitely gets to a point where I felt like when I was first like I always told myself like these problems would go away if I was able to do music for a living right you know like all these things like not just financial problems

but all these things if I just felt like I was okay and as soon as I got this feeling like I got this this ability to just perform music live with my best friends all the time I was like in the lowest place I've ever been where I just felt like I was either lying to everyone or everyone was lying to me you know and I just felt like I was like I don't feel validated still I feel like empty and and and I was more nervous about doing anything when I was so delusional before before anybody cared I was like this is me I'm going to be the biggest of all time and now all of a sudden people started caring and I was like oh shit I'm terrified you know so I mean you know again I'm grateful for that time during COVID and like my second dad DDP for really like you know doing

helping me with that self-work and like you know learning to love myself and learning to take care of what I felt about myself and because I hated me I guess you know and that was tough I heard you say that you have more anxiety and more insecurities now, uh, with all your success than before. Yeah. Have the insecurities changed or, and why do you think that is? I think a lot of people from the outset might think, oh, you know what? You've, you've got the fame now, the validation, the money.

You think that it would dissipate, but yours is actually intensified. That's what I, that's what you would think. But I think, I think there's just so much, you know, especially with now having a kid, there's so much of like, I want to do the right thing and say the right thing. And I think sometimes there's a lot of overthinking that goes into it. When, if I just like, just followed my gut, you know, like I, I think the overthinking just started getting into it. And if I, you know, I always ask myself, like, if I could ever ask my, my buddy Jamil asked

me this one time, he was like, dude, if you can ever tell me one time that your gut told you something and you just like gave somebody the benefit of that, or you just kept like, you just kept telling that no. And then by the end of it, it blew up in your face. Was your gut right? Is your gut always been right? And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It always asks it.

He's like, so follow that and don't listen to, like, any of the other things that are. And I feel like I just sometimes get to that insecure overthinking. Am I doing the right thing? Am I doing it? And sometimes taking that long to make any decision is like a decision in itself. And then you've missed the window. And now you're just blown up and you're overthinking everything. And so I try my best now to just go for it.

Cut out the noise. Yeah, just go for it. You know, I'm just reassuring myself that I have good intentions. I have a good heart. I'm a good person. You're not going to hurt anybody, man. Just you got this. people trust you you got to trust yourself you know how did that level of I guess in I think

what you're referring to can be like kind of intrusive thoughts or like anxiety yeah how did that change when you became a dad um it was such it's such a weird thing because I the first time I remember holding him and by the way Rachel like did this at our house you know like we bought this house in Nashville and right in our bed like a damn superhero man like absolutely accidentally like no no that was a plan I saw a video that she posted about like women and it used to be like such an experience that we shared stories about it was a really good video actually it was incredible and but I remember holding him for the first time and being like you know like I've always been his dad you know like I did nothing changed right really you know

it was just like I've always been this I've always been his dad my whole life I've been everything's led up to that you know and and i think there's so much more i guess like surety of my steps you know clarity in my steps the things i'm doing because there's there's like nothing else can everything i do affects him and his life and so now like so many people with their opinions and their ideas i i immediately like no i think i know what's best for my life through my son now you know i know what's best for my son so don't tell me shit i got this you You know, and I take a lot less, like, I take a lot more risk and a lot less help, you know, which is, like, in the right way, though. You know what I mean?

In the right way. What's a big lesson that being a new dad has taught you? Man, I think being more present, you know. I feel like in so much time in my life, I spent just, like, on go, go, go, go and wanting to, like, I got to do this. I got to, like, I'm falling behind. I got to go, go, go. And now there's, like, so many times when I'm with him that, like, I know even if I'm just sitting watching TV and he's on my lap, like, that is the most productive thing I could be doing, you know. And that's, like, the most thing I can do is just give him, like, my presence and be there.

And that is the most productive thing I could possibly do. And so now it's, like, again, like, I made my steps a little bit more clear that, like, there's not this, like, feeling of, like, falling behind or I'm not doing enough or this, like, you know, everybody can do what they're doing. And I got, like, there's plenty of time, I guess, now. you know, which is like there wasn't before. I felt like I was always running out of time. And now there's like downtime just feels like I need more of that, you know. Yeah, like you're being more intentional with it. Yeah.

How is it going having like a – is he about three months old now? Yeah, a three-month-old baby touring around. Oh, it's cool, man. It's cool. What a cool experience, right? Yeah, he's got a little passport. He's just sleeping in his little passport. Well, I hope you're not illegally smuggling him in all the country.

Yeah, it's so sweet, though. I mean, I love it. He got his first stamp in Auckland and came here. So he's like, you know, traveling the world at three months. He's so lucky. Nothing cool in my life happened until I was like 29. Imagine telling younger Teddy, hey, in the future, you're going to be taking a three-month-old baby traveling the world.

He was like Gandhi in a past life or something. You know what I mean? Yeah, he's got it fucking made, you know? Hey, something I find really interesting, I am a huge universe manifestation kind of person. We have this debate on the podcast all the time because not everyone agrees with me and things like it's a bit woo-woo but I'm about it I believe I've manifested so many things in life I believe I manifested this chat with you you know when I when I think yeah thank

you yeah thank you appreciation um I'm like I have to bow down you all right but how do you feel about it yeah you I mean you know you claim what you want out of life and I think everything you know there's so many moments in my life that like I wouldn't these things happen that are like damn right about time you know like and versus like the nerves or anything or i mean everything like i i people always like did you ever imagine your life like yeah fuck yeah i did man this is all i ever saw for my life you know and everything if everything is like so to detail you know like this is what's gonna happen this is gonna be like you know like i i like what we just played at the nrl when we get back here that place will be sold out where teddy swims like we were playing at the

nrl and they were like you gotta sign the board while you're here and i said i'm not gonna sign that board i'm gonna wait till i sell this place out for teddy swims that's when i'm gonna sign that board and that's the next time i come back to sydney yeah and i guarantee you this place will be that stadium will be sold out when teddy swims comes back that's that's the plan when would you say you you made it i guess and because i i know that it was a bit later in life you you hustled for a long time and i guess off the back of that was there ever a time in that period where you were hustling where you thought maybe it's not for me no never it's always for me every time it's always been for me that's the only thing i ever had in my mind that i was like i was so delusionally

just like this is i am going to be this there's no other way there's nothing else i could be doing so i but i think my made it moment i will always uh attribute to my my dear friend megan trainer and and daryl sabar there uh he just turned 30 and it was right after i did the song with megan and we went to his birthday party and uh he like rented out the solo house in la in the theater and i got to spend his 30th birthday with him and a bunch of their friends and watching spy kids too with him and you know alexa vega and i was like i remember calling my mom being like mom i'm watching spy kids with the spy kids right now this is the coolest moment of my life like because i've made her take me to the we'll see all of them at the end you know so like so i was

like now i'm like i get to call that dude my brother like that's my that's one of my dear friends right there and i get to sit next to him and watch spy kids on his 30th birthday with him And I was like, this is the most amazing moment that I, and he's like sitting there spitting all the words and still loves it, you know? And I'm like, dude, I just, I want that so bad, you know? And I can't wait for, that's such a cool thing to be able to do. And that was my made it moment. I think for me is sitting with Daryl and like nerding out about Spy Kids and he was on the

screen as a little kid, you know? I bet you no one thinks that that would have been your made it moment. I love that. I was thinking like, it wasn't when you were in that toilet listening to yourself on the radio for the first time. I was just happy I made it to the toilet. I'm happy you made it out. That's very true.

How was it performing at the NRL grand final? It was so cool, man. It was very nerve-wracking. I think I had it all together until TNT came on, and that's when I was like, all right, this is the part that you don't blow in front of Sydney. Two Australians. Yeah, but it went well, and that was a big ask.

It was fantastic. You absolutely killed it. I'm a massive rugby league fan, and I think you are by far the best entertainment we've ever been able to get to the game. I just, I love having these amazing international acts, you know, and I'm all about, we spoke about last week on the podcast about getting people like you over just elevates, you know, the whole sporting culture of Australia.

I was so excited. I actually got leaked on this podcast by two guys who were like in their sixties that you were going to be coming over and doing it. I don't know how they got the word, but it got out to the NRL community so quickly. And I was very, very thrilled. Oh, I mean, I only got sucked into it. And this is what I think happened with a lot of Aussies. I hate football.

I hate rugby. I'm happy to say it, don't come for me, because you were playing. And I think there will be a lot of Australians that you were the drawcard. Well, yeah, it apparently was the biggest one yet. So, like, hopefully, yeah. Yeah, it was the most streamed thing on Australian TV. It was such a cool environment to be in. I don't really quite know what's going on in rugby.

I could kind of follow a little bit. But, I mean, it's a huge time to be Brisbane right now, though. You know, they're like the men's and the women's and they won the AFL. Like, that town's probably still doing backflips over there. So I can't wait to get over there and wear my little Broncos hat. Well, you've got your Broncos hat on now. I know I wanted to give you a jersey from where I'm from, but we got the wooden spoon this year.

So I was like, you probably – look, maybe it's a green flag to still support a team when they're at the bottom. It is. It is. That's who I am, and I think that's who you are. I'm still a Falcons fan, you know. This is where it comes from, like, love me at my worst. You've got to be around at the bottom.

But if anyone wants to go see Teddy, you're on your Australian tour right now. Please go and get amongst it. Gone, Gone, Gone, the new single with David Guetta, Tones and I, absolutely brilliant. So make sure you go and listen to that. Teddy, I cannot thank you enough for coming in today. I know you're on a time crunch, but before you go, I have to ask you, what would you rate my wedding dance

out of 10 to your song? Oh, it's amazing. I saw it. Thomas showed me earlier too. I think it was amazing. I will say that I was expecting like pyro, you know. That did come later. At the very end.

Oh, what pyro, really? But they only let me play 90 seconds of your reels of your song. Pyro? No, I did. We had, oh, my God, we had fireworks worthy of, like, music. It was in Bali, so, like, they were far too close. Because I was expecting to hear the, like, the kind of acoustical version of it, you know,

but it was, like, the whole drop and everything. I was, like, sick. I was expecting the, like, dirty dancing, like, hold up, you know, the big thing. It was sick. I was honored. My husband lives in Italy. We learned that long distance.

Is that more impressive? That's an 11, right, out of 10? Oh, absolutely. That's huge, yeah. I was very honored to be a part of that. I mean, that was really sick to watch on my way over here. I loved it. Thank you so much, Teddy.

Thank you. We've loved having you.