Sam Thompson

Yeah, that was the big moment.

One billion streams on Spotify?

Over one billion?

It's mental, isn't it?

Did you ever think, you know, when you gave up management consultancy, that you would be a guy that had a billion streams off of Spotify?

There's a big one for me as well because you did Drive Safe with Niall Horan and obviously Sam's a big One Direction fan.

So how was that?

What's he like, Niall Horan?

I've interviewed Niall before.

i mean like the way you're too obviously obviously when people kind of look at people like you nile hall and ed sheeran like superstars yeah so like you were saying people wouldn't understand that you're kind of normal people but is there anyone that you have worked with or you have met where you kind of still go hell

We've done this podcast for three years and you tell us every story, including when you have a shit.

But suddenly, suddenly he's dropped about a hundred names and suddenly it's me and Justin, the great mates.

So Stargazing, am I right in thinking you wrote that in 15 minutes?

That's a billion streams and it's just like... That's fucking mental.

Do you specifically go with writing a song as a whole or do you write verses and different kind of bits and then pull them all together?

Or is it like, I'm going to write a song, this is the song?

Or do you just write good verses, good kind of melody, little bits and then pull it together?

It's not even a lie.

Dad had gone.

I hadn't even told him.