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Craig & Friends

148: Sam Sparro!

Craig & Friends

Craig And Friends

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4.93.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

The outrageously talented and extremely charming Sam Sparro joins me to talk VHS collecting, breaking free of addiction, polizioteschi, singing for Chaka Khan at 12 and Giorgio Moroder at 13, the homophobia gaslighting and abuse in the music industry, PAPER magazine, Grindr action, "New York, New York", PTSD, wedded bliss, Isaac Mizrahi, “Velvet Goldmine”, deep'n'niche obsessions, LGBTQIA representation, The New Beverly, showbiz beards, breakdance films, Sam’s child actor days, Focus Video, Jake Wesley Rogers, following the muse, terrible films, Liza Minnelli, and more!

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

There we go. There we go. There we are. Yes, and that beautiful voice you hear is the voice of none other than Sam Sparrow. Hello. We both kind of have these like baritone.

0:45.0

Lol, you just lean. Yes, relax you relax or let's say sexy voice. I think settle in. Yes, settle in. It's going to be a good time. Listen up. You might learn something. You may not. You may forget something. I know I will. I know I'm going to get confused.

1:06.0

Hi, Craig. It's so nice to see you. It's so nice to see you too. It's been so long. Crazy long. Almost two years. I remember chatting with you in London, sick in bed, on the phone, worried about whether they were going to close the borders and all that. Yeah, when was that February much?

1:24.0

Yeah, I remember you said it's a good thing you got out of there before they closed the borders and I was laying in London and I went what? Yeah, I didn't realize you was still there. No, I was departing. I think the day after or maybe two days after or something like that. Yeah, I may have moved my flight up. I think you did move your flight. I was like, girl, you better get away.

1:48.0

Quick. Yeah, you were. And then Jason had a similar thing. For some reason in my head, it was like, well, when I get home, everything will be okay. Do you know because you had these? Yeah, it was like two weeks to flatten the curve. How long ago was that? I think I was rapid cycling between knowing like, oh my God, we're in for a bad time. But you and Jason helped me sort of go over that because also I was in this weird. I think I had COVID, basically. That's what we figured out that I had some version of it that didn't affect my all the factory senses.

2:18.0

Okay, but did do a number on my stomach. It's all because I had a nice wet. I was so sick. Yeah, I know a few people that had early COVID kind of before it was like she established. Yeah, before, you know, before all the girls are getting it. And I don't think they knew at the time. Yeah, that it was that because there was reports and I was terrified of catching it.

2:43.0

But all the reports seem to be totally different. It was just basically like if you get this, you total shutdown. Yeah, you get total shutdown. Don't see anyone. Don't don't go nowhere. Don't touch nothing. And maybe don't go to the hospital because you'll just die there faster.

2:56.0

I went to the hospital so many times in 2020. I had a bicycle accident. Oh my God, that's right. I remember this also, Harkins back, you know, you'd see like or not see, but there would be an absence of presence.

3:11.0

For of your in your life from everyone, right? Right. And then something horrific happens. And then you suddenly remembered they existed. All it looks like is like there's just pain.

3:21.0

Do you know because no one was in the mood. We weren't posting. I mean, what's interesting about sitting in pajamas and watching terror watching CNN all day eating pines of ice cream. That's not that interesting. No, it's not. And plus you're like, I'm not taking a photo like this. What are you talking about? Yeah. Yeah. What ice cream did you get into?

3:39.0

Um, I'm a, okay, my favorite. There's this Hagen Doss that's got like caramel cone in it. Oh, yeah, I do. I do know what you're with deadly. It's deadly. Don't do it. Stay away.

3:54.0

Once you pop you, you can't stop. The lid never goes back on. Oh, no, because there's a whole activity that then you're activating the cone. Yeah, right.

4:04.0

And you're getting crunchy. You're getting sweet salty. It's a forget about it. Once you're, you're done. Yeah. And it's not even a layer. It's the middle.

4:12.0

Mm-hmm. The center. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Right. It's like a nuclear reactor. Really the center is huge. Uh-oh.

4:18.0

Yeah, just a lot of eating and sitting. Well, especially after your bike accident. What happened with that?

4:26.0

I so I, you know, I think it would have been in lockdown for a few months. And I was like, I need to get outside. I need to get some fresh air. I need to get moving. I need to just, you know, so I got a mountain bike.

4:39.0

And I live near kind of some mountain trails. I had no clue what I was doing. Just thought it's a bike you get on it. You go up, you go down. And you go up the mountain because it's a mountain bike. Yeah.

4:50.0

And when you go down the mountain, if you hit your brakes, yeah, you will fly off the bike. Oh, no. And so I went flying face-first. I broke my nose. I had stitches on my chin. Right.

5:05.0

Um, broke my elbow, which is like about a year recovery. That's in the top five of the hardest to heal bones, right? I would think so.

5:16.0

But it was because it was like in a cast and I wasn't moving it for a few months. Once that was over, I couldn't straighten it. It took like months to be able to even straighten my arm. It had been kind of like fused in a L shape.

5:30.0

Did you have the feeling like, well, that's that for guitar.

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