 The intimacy ban was lifted in France. People can have sex now at the Summer Olympics, and they've issued over 300,000 condoms to the 14,500 different athletes and staff people at the Olympics in France. So what the fuck are you talking about? The intimacy ban was lifted at the Olympics. Not a joke. Because of COVID? Yeah. And they have 300,000 condoms for the 14,500 people that are there, which all that tells me is that the competition is going to be very stiff this year. Josh! For more juicy content, thank you for your support. Patreon, follow us through the accounts for the public button. Here we've got a video, and this is about Ed Sheeran. Ed Sheeran. Ed Sheeran. Did you hear about Ed Sheeran? Ed Sheeran. Of course. We didn't hear about Ed Sheeran. I love it. Yeah. No, he obviously had a concert in India. He was with Diljit. He was with Shahrukh. Yeah. Shahrukh Khan taught him the arm spread. Yeah. I love how more and more we're seeing celebrities visit for the first time. Anyways, this is happening a lot. A little interview with him. Great. Ed Sheeran on wanting to collaborate with Shahrukh Khan in other stuff, India, basically. Great. So here we go. Great. I love Ed Sheeran. I do too. And no, we don't look alike just because we have red hair. All redheads look alike. There's only like five redheads in all of Hollywood. That's not even a lie. What? Redheaded male actors. They're just going to recycle about five. Name them. You look them up. You've done this search. Yeah, oh yeah. Yeah, you're probably right. I'm a redhead. Name five redhead actors besides your friend because he's not like a name. But he is an actor with red hair who's been working consistently for a lot of years. I'm talking about the names. Give me the names. Oh, you mean A-listers? Maybe. A redheaded A-lister? Yeah. Does Ed Sheeran count because he was in Game of Thrones? No, he doesn't. He's a musician. Male? Yeah, male. Yeah, that's the catch. I can name redheaded women immediately. But men? He's either gray or he's dyed it. Benedict Cumberbatch technically is red hair. He's technically, is he really? He's not dark brown? He's dyed it since then or he's gone gray and he's dyed it. Yeah, I thought he was brown. Another one is Michael Fassbender but once again, has dyed it. Died it. The one that hasn't dyed it that is a fucking phenomenal actor and underrated in Hollywood is Alan Tudyk. Alan Tudyk. You'll know him from Dodgeball as the pirate. Oh, okay, yeah. He's been in it. Got it. He's a great dramatic actor, great comedy actor and he's probably one of the best, most iconic voice actors of all time and you just don't know it. Just look up everything he's done voice-wise. It's incredible what that man has done. There's not a lot of redheads. There's actually a theory that they won't ever, they don't cast redheads as leads in films. Well, that's understandable. Until me. Hey, welcome back to our Steeper Direct. Wait, did I already do that? Yeah, okay, right. Let's get into this. Okay. This is in, is in India. Hey, stop it. My biggest fan base is in India. The film by has some incredible red. Just by the numbers. So I'm going to be surprised. I ate a lot of food and that was my way. You sing romance songs and they love romantic songs. I love trusting the chef and just being like just bring out whatever you think I'm going to like. Feels great being back. This is the longest time that I've spent in India this week so I'm really excited to explore the city. I guess childhood is like the biggest, right? So probably childhood. Shadow is the best. Yeah, there really is like a really vibrant positive energy around Bollywood. I definitely lost my privacy. I think that that comes with the territory. Baby, I'm dancing in the dark. Of course they made them sing. Welcome back to Mumbai and welcome to Bangalore in Zoom. Thank you. So how does it feel to be back in the city after such a long time and how do you plan to make it, make the wait worthwhile for your Indian fans? It feels great being back. This is the longest time that I've spent in India this week so I'm really excited to explore the city. I want to try and get out of the city as well. It doesn't make sense to put it in the video. I know. I just wanted to eat some stuff but yeah. My trip is always sort of based around food so I eat a lot when I come to... And he brings ketchup with him everywhere he goes apparently. Mumbai has some incredible food so I don't know if he still does it. Last time I ate a lot of food and that was my way of exploring and this way will be... So would you like to tell us some of your favourite dishes from Mumbai? I kind of... Do you know when you go to a restaurant where you know it's a good chef and you just go... You bring me small dishes of your favourite dishes and then you try everything. Sometimes I've been in countries where you end up eating some quite wild stuff but yeah. I love putting my trust in a chef and just being like just bring out... You got the money for it. I would agree. Your fan following in India has grown significantly ever since your last visit. So how do you feel that your fan following... here is such a great fan following in this part of the world? So this is... My biggest fan base is in India and that for me is super exciting being someone that... I come from England I come from a really small town in England and I never actually thought I would have success outside of England so to be able to come to a country that isn't my home country and it be the country that likes me the most is pretty cool man. It's pretty cool. I'm really like excited. So yeah I personally do believe that social media has played a very significant role in connecting you to your fans and how do you navigate your life and balance yourself between connecting to your audience as well as keeping your privacy in check? Well I think I never really had the balance right? I think like from for my first like four years of my career I was just on... I was on social media 24 seven it was Twitter it was Instagram it was YouTube I was just on everything and then I sort of retracted and stopped and did nothing and I think both of those two extremes are the wrong thing to do so I I tend to like I get to a city and I sort of like I always have like one thing that I want to do that will be the thing for social media so like in in Philippines we got a portable karaoke machine and some karaoke there in Thailand I got a tattoo and you know here I went to go and visit a school this morning like I'm really I really like doing stuff with music education in schools just because the I don't know what it's like in in India in England the arts are generally really underfunded and the government just don't really care about it anymore which is weird considering all the export that comes out of England that we're proud of is it's films and music so I like going into schools and doing music stuff because no one's really doing that in England I remember that one of your friends Jamie Lawson he once put up a social media joking about that he has to buy your first album just to support you but then he realized that he doesn't you don't really need a support now that you've completed nearly over a decade actually over a decade in the mainstream music how do you what do you think you have learnt and what do you think you've lost I definitely lost my privacy I think that comes with the territory territory whatever happens I have to be on which I think is fine I think that's a fine trade to have and I think what I've learnt is that like nothing is nothing is that important in the moment like I used to put so much importance on how things did instantly and a career is such a like long period of time and it fluctuates and some songs that I put out that I think no one liked in years to come their favourites and the songs that people like most of the shows so I've just learnt to just trust my gut instinct make music put it out the audience will be there at some point like if it's not there instantly it might be there in five years it might be there in ten years but as long as I like the music and I feel good about it I'm just going to keep releasing it and not to like live too much in the intensity I want to know that how did this hiatus help you change your perspective towards life and the music you create I think what was interesting about being off social media is everyone thought that like I wasn't doing anything I'd sort of meet people and they'd be like well yeah like what have you done and I'm like just because I've not been posting about it doesn't mean that life doesn't exist I think that's what's quite interesting no life out of social media is not on social media did it happen that's what's going on whereas there's so many experiences that you can have in your life day to day there can be really important experiences that you don't need to post about if you don't post about them then did they happen it's a weird like it's weird so yeah now that we are coming to an end let's just play a small rapid fire game cool you know I actually named this game after egg cool thank you so my first question to you is an Indian artist that you would like to collaborate with someday do you know what I said earlier I've been listening to a lot of King recently so I think King's great King and an Indian actor that you would like to feature in your music video I thought I really I mean there's there's I think I guess Shah Rukh's like the biggest right so Shah Rukh is the best yeah so yeah I'm really sorry about that so my third question would you like to make a cameo in Bollywood movie someday or would you like to 100% 100% sign me up sign me up I'd love to I'd love to be involved musically as well it's like it's something that I just the energy I keep saying energy but there really is like a really vibrant positive energy around around Bollywood and I I experienced it the first time I came here it was like it's not something I'd ever really like looked into pre 2015 and coming coming here to do the show in 2015 it was like opening my eyes set of like music it was really cool a song that you wrote for your contemporary that you wished you could have kept for yourself I think well I think all things happen for a reason so actually I wouldn't take any of them back but I really love this song I did with this girl Tori Kelly cool that I was made for loving you but I think it works beautifully as a duet but I don't I don't ever take anything back really it all adds strings to your bow I think that the reason that people know me as a singer-songwriter rather than just a singer is because they might have heard a Justin Bieber song or a One Direction song or whatever and being like oh it had something to do with that so I think it's I think it's important to be a multifaceted songwriter and be able to not just stay in your lane basically a rap song that you would like to recreate in your own style someday and the first minute of Stan not Stan of Lose Yourself when I played with Eminem in Detroit and I'd never covered that before so yeah doing a full version of that would be fun that was that was really nice I was actually kind of expecting you to sing Stan because I well I think Stan I think there's a difficult part of Chris Farley on SNL interviewing Paul McCurray Lose Yourself has just an energy to sing any ten second of your songs just look at it look at it baby I they might dancing in the dark with you between my arms barefoot on the grass listening to our favorite song when I saw you in that dress looking so beautiful I don't deserve this darling you look perfect tonight that was really good and thank you very much Ed for doing this thanks for having me I really look forward to your concert nice to meet you thank you so much that was very sweet you could tell it's a press junket right and so people are coming in he came in for his ten minutes and then left press chat we've only ever done one in terms of us interviewing and it wasn't a full press junket style because we weren't moving correct they were coming to us and we got about 10 to 15 this shawl interview was a little press junkety because people came in and out but we were last because he knew us and I wanted to be last so we could talk to him so I got to set up and all that kind of stuff but these people like if you're not used to it it's kind of nerve-wracking because there is somebody behind the camera saying five minutes we're done wrap it up wrap it up yeah and so it's not I don't like doing them I did them because there was people that we wanted to talk to and I was like okay if that's all we can have time for then whatever we got to talk to Rahul Bose which was an incredible conversation as is always the case if you've seen any of our interviews our interviews last 45 to an hour and that's what we typically like to do is just be able to sit and ruminate and have a nice long conversation by the way if you're unfamiliar with Tori Kelly familiarize yourself that girl is a beast of a singer and her song with him is fantastic I knew her before you um huh? she was on Vine oh Alexis just met her oh really? yeah at Disneyland very nice and that is Tori Kelly is a a big vocal hero of Alexis and so she has a picture of her with with Tori Kelly she said she was really really good the reason she blew up was because one of her songs blew up on Vine and that's when she started to be able to talk to labels one of the very rare times when Simon made a mistake on American Idol oh I don't know how and told her you're never gonna nothing's gonna ever happen Tori Kelly the two two of my favorite singers that the world just doesn't celebrate enough for me are Tori Kelly and Jessie J those ladies can sing like there's no I adore their vocals they're just they're just off the charts great and I love Ed Sheeran I think he's a great singer all I've ever seen or heard is that he's a good guy yeah he's a he's great I hope that he and I know he's watched R.R.R. he had talked to him had he? yeah he's like I saw R.R.R. it was incredible yes it is let me see I'll watch him in my mites have you he's he's an interesting I don't know I'm not skilled enough to like if I hear an English accent I know exactly what part it is I can tell that they're English that I can usually pinpoint it by who else I know as a celebrity that has that similar voice he sounds like where Conor McGregor would be from or like that's Ireland obviously right yeah there's there's two English accents that I can pretty much get my head wrapped around when I hear it only two and there's what 30 yeah Liverpool yeah Cockney because of the Beatles Cockney the Cockney one is I can kind of hear what that one is and basically the Queens English when it's just central London royal family type English but other than that yeah it's hard I can't pinpoint where I like our Scouts Birmingham is shit interview English people on Tiktok saying what English accent don't you like a lot of people don't like Birmingham no I like Birmingham but our Scouts is shit yeah yeah there was he said our Scouts Birmingham is shit what's the game that was all the rage for a hot minute we were watching it where everybody's naked naked naked no no no not naked and afraid yeah that was funny to watch because often times when they were getting to the point where you hear the person's voice very strong opinions about what part of England the contestant was from and people being disqualified because of what part of England they're from what happened to you over there attention span King I hope he on the actual video itself I hope he does collaborate with like a Bollywood movie I don't that kind of stuff I don't if you put if you want one of your songs to be the most watched music video of yours at all time just collaborate with Shahrukh Khan yeah I promise you it will be your most viewed video in the fastest amount of time ever that's why we want him on the channel to come say hi has nothing just reviews it's just we don't care about the artistry really someone's typing I knew it I have some orange Jameson he is somebody that I would love to drink with Ed Sheeran oh yeah he'd be a good drink yeah he just seems like a really just down to earth what you see is what you get kind of guy which is with people that it took a minute yes for them to make it yes Steve Carell's of the world like they've been in the industry but not that he's old I think he's probably 36 maybe yeah mid 30s yeah but he came up and he never like he said I never expected to really take off outside of maybe England not all the time but usually like if you've taken your lumps and it's been a while you appreciate what happened to you is exactly and he also does things like I don't know if you've seen the footage of him in an interview where he actually has a recording of when he first started writing and he wants to dispel the myth that talent is simply God given that it has to be because when anyone says he has God given talent he'll pull up the recording of himself when he was like 14 and it's brutal he's terrible I mean he's pitchy but he saves it and plays it just to let everybody y'all this is this was a lot of practice and work for me to be able to even sing in tune yeah I like him I've seen that you're gonna be a good collaboro Arjit singing him yeah that'd be a great collaboration Shreya Ghoshel his similar style of music they sing with a guitar in their romantic songs or that of the guy Louis Capaldi right he's another British guy that's very similar to Ed Sheeran he and Taylor have a song that's everything lyrically, melodically everything is just court he's a beautiful songwriter yeah he is he's a beautiful everything lyrically melodically he's just a very very gifted songwriter anyways that was great let's just talk about the video and who should he collaborate with and come on should we have Ed Sheeran or interview Ed Sheeran no maybe maybe maybe