October 2, 2024 • 19 mins
Andy Grammer joins us to talk about his new album, "Monster", out October 4th!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lounge.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Remember that year it's my birthday. I showed up and
Andy Grammer's and they're singing.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
It was so cool.
Speaker 4 (00:06):
What hell is he doing? He got long? Where's the
Andy Grammer button? There is Andy Grammer's.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
How many years ago?
Speaker 4 (00:16):
How many years ago was that? Do you remember? Seventy
five years ago?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
It was that.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
It feels like and the balloons are still floating. Hey,
it's so good to have you here. I love you, dude,
It's so good to see you.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
You know what, There's something about you, And I'm sure
you've been told this many times. When you walk into
a room, it does light up. And I know there's
like an old and it's an old line, but it's true.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
That is really sweet of you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So let's forget he's here. Let's just talk about him. Okay,
why do you think Gandhi? Yes, why do you think
Andy Grammer makes a smile when he walks into a room.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
What is it about him? Let's talk about it.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
Well, I know that the performance is going to be amazing,
and I see him with a guitar, and he's always smiling,
and he's positive and happy. At least that's what he
presents on the outside.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yes, it's about take a big turn here, Danielle. Yes,
pretend he's not here.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's the same thing, like he's always happy. He comes
in and he just like lights up the room. It's
this special energy he brings with him and it's.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Just okay, all right, even if you're.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
In a crappy mood, when you come in, we get
in a good mood.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
That makes me happy. Yeah, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
After Nate, Nate just hit me a text, talk to him.
Pretend I met your show and oh, okay, all right here, okay,
So when you go to an Andy Grammer show, when
you go to an Andy Grammar show, they have you
filled out a little little questionnaire.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
As you walk in, right, there's a card you Oh
yeah this, I'm doing a one man show right now.
It's just wild. So okay. What is written on the
card is I enter the Okay, So.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, we're in a mini break and I'm going back
out for another month of this one man show.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
It's called Greater Than.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
So if you come to my show, you get a
card in the pen and you'd have to answer, and
I'm gonna forced to do it right now. Write the
name of someone who saved your life mentally physically or spiritually.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Oh wow, okay, someone who saved my life mentally, spiritually
or physically any more physically? Oh god. I mean, here's
the issue with that. And I shouldn't have an issue
because you got to get on with the shows. The
list is so long, I don't even know where to
start exactly.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
But you you would write someone, I.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Would say, I would say, my dad, your dad, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
So I have telephones in the audience and I take
everybody's cards and then I pick them out on stage
live and I will read I would read your dad,
and then you would stand up in the audience and
go to a phone and me would have a conversation
about it before I played a song called save my Life.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Ah wild, no way. If I'm in the audience, why
do I have to use a phone?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I'm sorry because then nobody can hear you phones, Like, yeah,
you stand up, everybody applauds you for being brave. You go,
you pick them a phone, and then me and you
have a conversation about how this how your dad saved
your life, So how do you save your life?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
He saved my life? By example? Like just yeah, you
always had the line that saved the day.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah, he knew, he was like on it.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Simple things, okay, ask Goudie. Another question, asked Daniel.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Okay, so the next one is write down an active
service you've done for someone else.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Doesn't have to be huge or could be or small whatever.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Okay, an active service. I'm going to take this very literally. Yeah,
and say, I volunteer to do a community cook food
for people who don't have enough food.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Thanks, And I'm currently writing postcards that threaten people to vote, all.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Right, Daniel.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Daniel gives Okay, name someone that you deeply loved that
has passed my dad?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Your dad did, Yeah, he died almost five years ago.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Oh wow, Okay, can I go actually in with you
right now?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Sure? So then you would stand up every re apply
to you, go to a phone, you pick it up,
and I would say, finish the statement for me.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I hope you're proud of me for.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Oh gosh, please for just always trying to be honest
and caring and a nice person.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yes, and I want to thank you for for instilling
those things in me and always being somebody that I
look up to.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
One thing I always admired about you was.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
How strong you were and how much you always did
for your family.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
And then I feel your presence most when.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
All the time you send me signs all the time
like yeah, wow.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
What a Burmer show is? The show shows so sweet.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
You do this with like a thousand and more people
every night, and different people show up and sometimes like
little kids show up to the phone, and it's just
like you leave the night and everybody's like.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Whoa, that is awesome cool and you know what, And
as she was about to break out and down into
his ears, I so were we because we understand what
her dad still means to her. It's really funny. We'll
she'll see a butterfly or a crow and there's dad.
But we asked a question, how come is it all?
It's always like a cute animal, but if you see
a cockroach, you're like to kill it with your shoe?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
You kill I don't know anyway, but I love.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I love that because you know what, it's more than
just going to a show where someone has great music.
And by and by the way every song you perform
and sing is I can see how it can be
extremely monumental and meaningful to each person.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I mean in between all this stuff that's happening, we're
playing songs and everybody's singing and they're dancing and having
a good time, and they're not that that like you know,
some people will get on the phone and be like.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I thought I was going up on the second, like,
what the hell is there?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
This is the worst thing I ever Yeah, but at
the end of the night, I think we're just in
a time where we're a lot of us are lonely,
just straight up where it's like a lonely time. And
when you get when you get everybody together and you
drop the layer like you just did. I really appreciate
you doing that. We're all super connected by the end
of it, and there's a we need more of that.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, I think then article just came out recently about
how this is like the loneliest time for a lot
of people.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Right, yeah, it people are lonely. You know, we're talking
about you know, the only fans craze. I'm sure you
have an only fans Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Well you come to mind and cry, hear me.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So people assume only fans is, oh well, it's all
sex driven, it's all naked, you know, people doing things.
But Gandhi is a friend who does it and she
finds out they make a lot of money because of loneliness.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Yes, he said, there's you know, some of the stuff
that we all know only fans is about. But the
majority of his money comes from communicating with people directly
and just messaging people who are lonely and being a
friend that they need. That is where he made millions
of dollars talking to people because people are so lonely.
We have all this technology and we're so connected, but
none of the connections are really that meaningful anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Totally. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I actually I had a zoom with the Surgeon General
on this topic. He heard one of my poems. Anyone
like talk to me about it? And so we did
like an hour zoom together. And he's awesome. His name's
Evic Murphy. Oh he's got a book called Together.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
That everybody should read.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Okay, Well, here come the text. Andy Grammer is here.
The album is Monster that comes up Friday. We'll get
into that and there's music coming up. I'm crying in
my car. Thank you, Andy Grammer text. I'm crying.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I just parked at work. Why do you do this
to me? Another one.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Why does Eddie Grammar me cry every time I hear
him talk? And here's what it's just simply and and
he really is on a light up a room here
knows how to light up an electric chair. Wait, hold on,
I just went to Andy's show on Long Island last week.
My teenage daughters were with me. It will be a
(07:36):
core memory for all of us forevermore. Okay, Andy Grammer
is here. Let's talk about the album. The album is
called Monster. Yeah, comes out Friday. So the Monster is I,
uh just.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Was in some patterns and then in some relationships that
were like not serving me. And uh, I also don't
like to be angry, so I'm someone who just pretends
that not. I've had different employees be like he's like
fifty two flavors of happy, which is actually disconcerting, you
know what I mean. And it was forced out of
me at this period of my life where I'm like, oh,
(08:11):
I'm losing authenticity if I don't actually deal with some
of the anger that I have.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Good, I'm glad you're doing that.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yes, And so then the song Monster is just kind
of like dealing with that. Some of these songs don't
have like a little bow at the end that like
it's everything, everything's fine.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
You know, if you keep walking across this planet being
in a great mood and try to ignite great moods
in other people. Yeah, people expect it all the time, totally,
and they don't realize that you do have other channels
on your tuner, Yes, channels of anngs, channels of loneliness.
And so I'm assuming that's a little bit about it.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
And I was really worried that if I sang about it,
it might bum people out or take him down.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
And I found its exact opposite.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
People like, oh yeah, me as well, and notine like
a destructive way, just like honesty.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
There's truth in it. You know. I feel better about
my because Andy Grammer is miserable. Misery miserable.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Okay, I got a couple of songs, one of I
do want to I think we're gonna play Monster. We're
gonna play the cut from the album Oh Magic, Thank you, Nate.
But also so Jeremy's here with you, Yes, and Jeremy
was with you last time. Yeah, you know, dude, right here,
he's following you everywhere you go. Welcome back, Jeremy. Do
we get all the guitars. Things ironed out. We were
(09:26):
having we're having testical difficulties, So you want to do
a song, I.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Want to say that for the rest of my life
test difficulties.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
If you steal that for me, you steal that from me,
you're stolen. Several times I was that not an original?
What song are you and Jeremy doing?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Okay, so we're gonna We're gonna play a song called
save a Spot in the Back for me. I was
going through an intense time and I could feel like
cynicism coming into my blood and I don't do that. Well,
I'm like, I've been told I have golden retriever energy
and cynicism and that don't work to get And I
went into my studio and I sat by myself and
I wrote a song where I envisioned like blasting.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
It out of out of my myself.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Okay, so here we go, all right, Well that is
so strong, that is so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's one of those lines where like, I haven't had
one like this before, where when I just say the line,
then the audience like cheers, oh of course, and then
everybody by the end usually seen it together. We wanted
cheer oh, guys. You guys didn't by everybody they usually do. Yeah,
we wanted to, but we wanted to be nice. And yes,
if you meant the smartest man in the world Mark Adams.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Yeah, of course many times, like how's it going.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
He's so smart he flew all the way across the
country just to be here with you.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
That is that makes me really happy.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
He is the smartest man in the world.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Smartest.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
It's frightening. Hey, so this month means a lot for you.
It's it's a breast camp start wearing a month. You've
done a lot of work with Susan G. Colemane, talk
about it. What is your connection with this month? And
Susan G.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Colemen So, I lost my mom when I was twenty
five to breast cancer, and uh man, I feel like
everybody has some connection to it. So it's been there,
one of the best in the world at raising funds
and raising awareness around it is a no brainer to
partner with them.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Right, you know, and cancer itself, I mean, be it
breast cancer or testicular cancer which we had in my family.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
And you know next month is November.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Are you gonna grow at your Oh you already did,
I mean, yeah, you already at your most I tried, it.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Gets really itchy.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Do you ever have a beard?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
But you have one now?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I mean yeah, but like this is scrutting on and no,
have you ever done like a full beard thing?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I look like burl ives.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I would actually really enjoy like a like a really
like well manicured, like full thing for me.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
That would be really interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But the cancer is such such a little it's just
a bitch. We hate it all, you know. And whatever
you can do as you have done this month, Yeah,
whatever we're gonna do next month and every month. Yeah,
I love that.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I think my mom, we caught it pretty late, so
that's always just kind of in.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
The back of your brain.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah, that's what we were saying yesterday. Make your appointments
for mammograms.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Don't wait.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I've had I was telling them. I've had friends who said, yeah,
I just I'm not gonna make my appointment because I
don't want to know. You don't want to know. You
have to know.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
You got to know, right exactly, go figure go find out.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yes, yes, hey, you know what I think the show
should make a contribution to Susan gi common in all yes,
the honor of your mother. Oh is it possible? Oh man, no, no, no,
can they do that? Is there like a line we
can fill out?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Yes, figured that out. Yeah, you're gonna make me cry.
So this one man show.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
A big idea of it is that acts of service
done in the name of someone who's passed on actually
reaches them in some way.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
There's like a quote that I talked about.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
With it, and uh so there's the whole beginning of
the show is like a poem where I talk about
how I got my start when my mom passed. I
would just like offer songs to cheer people up because
I didn't have any money or anything else to like
to like do of service to people. And so that
you're bringing a full circle that is that makes me
really happy.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
All Right, I wrote down a number. Okay, I'm holding
it up to my for her.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
He's not a mentalist.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
This is what our show I'll be having our show.
This is going to Susan gi coming. That really means
a lot to your mom.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So after the show, we'll get your mom's name and okay, clear,
they'll send you a postcards whatever they do.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And then she's gonna get a little something in heaven.
I don't know how it works, but that's how that.
Thank you so much. This is a big good deal
to me. Now you got me crying. I didn't known
do this.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
No wait a minute, no hold on, what does she
get in heaven? I want to know. Let's let's make
some let's make assumptions.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Uh yeah, I don't know because we can't know where
they're at, but I do think that. So the quote
I'll say it is, oh man, you got me on
the spot.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Uh, I can't think of it right now because I'm
so flustered by this number that.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
What's the gesting, the gist of it is just.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Is that good deeds done in the good deeds done
in the name of those who have passed on are
most helpful to the development of their souls in the
realms beyond.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I've never heard that is beautiful.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
That is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And so when I would write songs for people like uh,
I would just start open mic saying like, I'll write
you a song. I'm gonna call it Kathy Grahams, and
this is what I'm gonna do. And then everybody started
hitting me through email and stuff. About like my dad,
this just happened to my dad, and I would write
like a quick little pick me up song, and then
that's how I got started. And I would imagine my
(14:22):
mom like whatever getting the angel post man like.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Okay, Andy Grammer just said, the brown work.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
We have to dump It's so fitting pick it up there.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Okay, So you asked Daniel those three questions about her
dad who would pass away? Do you answer those questions
in your show Your Mom? Do you have those same answers?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, it's a big poem at the end that's pretty
brutal and sweet and lovely.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
What do you think she'd be most proud of me for?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Ooh, I think she'd be proud of me for consistently
trying to take things deeper than they are.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
That's what what she was all about.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
And what are you most thankful to her for?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
For uh being a buzzkill about a lot of stuff?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yeah, you know, because he did it because she loves you.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, like when you get really excited about things that
don't matter, she just didn't.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Care, Andy Gremer question, Yeah, if your mother could speak directly,
she had one of those phones that you have yes, yes, yes,
And she would say, Andy, you need to let yourself
off the hook about this.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
What would that be, Oh, we're crushing me right now?
This is good.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Uh, there's a lot of weight to.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Being the one that's like seen as positive all the time,
so you get you get worried that you're going to
like let people down.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I think she'd probably.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Said that I have one more. My father's favorite word
was wonderful, like I wear it like I have it
on bracelets and stuff, because everything was wonderful, like you
give them a present. Oh, Danny, this is waderful like everything.
Did your mom have a favorite word?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Favorite word? You know?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
What's coming to my brain is so stupid because like
now that all the slang is changing, so there's like skiddy,
I don't even know what that means. But like for
at that time, I remember she would just like make
fun of me for using the word dude all the time, like, oh.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
You're so cool, dude. She had a point. Okay, last one.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
And which way does she come to you the most?
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Man, I genuinely think that I don't know how songwriting works,
but she was a great songwriter, So I would say
I might lose some people in this way, but I
think we write songs together.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Awesome, so cool.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I have a call from Hope, High Hope and beautiful,
Oh beautiful Burlington, Vermont.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
How's it going up.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
There, Hope?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
It's good? Are you good?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Well, we're great.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Because Andy Grammer's here. We're not to play another song
from his album Monster in a couple of seconds. What
do you want to say to and.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
We saw you last year in October, And since we're
talking about parents, it was right after my dad died,
about six months and it was a gift for my
husband and it was the greatest show we have ever seen.
You're incredible and Andy seems to be the real deal.
His show was awesome. He was just kinness exuded and
had the most incredible energy for like two hours. I
don't think he stopped moving.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
It was amazing, stamina. You are a sweetheart, lovely. Thank
you so much.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
I really appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
It was. Yeah, it was great, Hope.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
If you go online Monsters waiting for you, you can pre
order it right now, So please.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Do we already did.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Thank you for listening to us.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Thank you very much, Hope. The text messages, oh don't
even get me started. I feel like we're just sitting
here just talking about how wonderful you are. There's got
to be a down or for you.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Instructions Forandy's show Sing, Dance, Laugh, contemplate life, saab uncontrollably rise, and.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
All right, we're gonna I'm gonna play the Magic. This
is another another cut from your album Monster. It's Magic
from Monster, and uh, I I don't like to ask
artists what's this song about, because a lot of times
artists go, will you know, that's what you will, what
you want it to be about, That's not what I
want to hear from you, Bubbled when.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
You play in these spaces, then like what you're saying,
you said, wonder wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Uh, there's a lot going on in this life that
I don't fully understand. And so when things line up
in ways that are just like kind of unexplainable, they
make it for the good. Then it makes me feel
something really special. And that's one of my favorite parts
of life. And so it happens a lot.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
In my life. And I wrote a song about how
I want more of that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Uh, Monster is out Friday, but order it today. Just
get it over with, Just get it over with, Get
it over with, band aid off? Where are we seeing
you next? Where are you on the road?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Now are you I'm on the road.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
You can go to my anti gram dot com. Got
a lot of a lot of like West Coast and
middle of the country. I think we're coming back around
here too, to go check it out.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
All right, one main.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Show greater than come do those five steps at my show.
So forget to wrench and repeat Andy Grammar It
Lounge.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Remember that year it's my birthday. I showed up and
Andy Grammer's and they're singing.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
It was so cool.
Speaker 4 (00:06):
What hell is he doing? He got long? Where's the
Andy Grammer button? There is Andy Grammer's.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
How many years ago?
Speaker 4 (00:16):
How many years ago was that? Do you remember? Seventy
five years ago?
Speaker 5 (00:22):
It was that.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
It feels like and the balloons are still floating. Hey,
it's so good to have you here. I love you, dude,
It's so good to see you.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
You know what, There's something about you, And I'm sure
you've been told this many times. When you walk into
a room, it does light up. And I know there's
like an old and it's an old line, but it's true.
Speaker 5 (00:38):
That is really sweet of you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So let's forget he's here. Let's just talk about him. Okay,
why do you think Gandhi? Yes, why do you think
Andy Grammer makes a smile when he walks into a room.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
What is it about him? Let's talk about it.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
Well, I know that the performance is going to be amazing,
and I see him with a guitar, and he's always smiling,
and he's positive and happy. At least that's what he
presents on the outside.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yes, it's about take a big turn here, Danielle. Yes,
pretend he's not here.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's the same thing, like he's always happy. He comes
in and he just like lights up the room. It's
this special energy he brings with him and it's.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Just okay, all right, even if you're.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
In a crappy mood, when you come in, we get
in a good mood.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
That makes me happy. Yeah, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
After Nate, Nate just hit me a text, talk to him.
Pretend I met your show and oh, okay, all right here, okay,
So when you go to an Andy Grammer show, when
you go to an Andy Grammar show, they have you
filled out a little little questionnaire.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
As you walk in, right, there's a card you Oh
yeah this, I'm doing a one man show right now.
It's just wild. So okay. What is written on the
card is I enter the Okay, So.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, we're in a mini break and I'm going back
out for another month of this one man show.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
It's called Greater Than.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
So if you come to my show, you get a
card in the pen and you'd have to answer, and
I'm gonna forced to do it right now. Write the
name of someone who saved your life mentally physically or spiritually.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Oh wow, okay, someone who saved my life mentally, spiritually
or physically any more physically? Oh god. I mean, here's
the issue with that. And I shouldn't have an issue
because you got to get on with the shows. The
list is so long, I don't even know where to
start exactly.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
But you you would write someone, I.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Would say, I would say, my dad, your dad, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
So I have telephones in the audience and I take
everybody's cards and then I pick them out on stage
live and I will read I would read your dad,
and then you would stand up in the audience and
go to a phone and me would have a conversation
about it before I played a song called save my Life.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Ah wild, no way. If I'm in the audience, why
do I have to use a phone?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I'm sorry because then nobody can hear you phones, Like, yeah,
you stand up, everybody applauds you for being brave. You go,
you pick them a phone, and then me and you
have a conversation about how this how your dad saved
your life, So how do you save your life?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
He saved my life? By example? Like just yeah, you
always had the line that saved the day.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah, he knew, he was like on it.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Simple things, okay, ask Goudie. Another question, asked Daniel.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Okay, so the next one is write down an active
service you've done for someone else.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Doesn't have to be huge or could be or small whatever.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Okay, an active service. I'm going to take this very literally. Yeah,
and say, I volunteer to do a community cook food
for people who don't have enough food.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Thanks, And I'm currently writing postcards that threaten people to vote, all.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Right, Daniel.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Daniel gives Okay, name someone that you deeply loved that
has passed my dad?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Your dad did, Yeah, he died almost five years ago.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Oh wow, Okay, can I go actually in with you
right now?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Sure? So then you would stand up every re apply
to you, go to a phone, you pick it up,
and I would say, finish the statement for me.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I hope you're proud of me for.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Oh gosh, please for just always trying to be honest
and caring and a nice person.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yes, and I want to thank you for for instilling
those things in me and always being somebody that I
look up to.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
One thing I always admired about you was.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
How strong you were and how much you always did
for your family.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
And then I feel your presence most when.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
All the time you send me signs all the time
like yeah, wow.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
What a Burmer show is? The show shows so sweet.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
You do this with like a thousand and more people
every night, and different people show up and sometimes like
little kids show up to the phone, and it's just
like you leave the night and everybody's like.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Whoa, that is awesome cool and you know what, And
as she was about to break out and down into
his ears, I so were we because we understand what
her dad still means to her. It's really funny. We'll
she'll see a butterfly or a crow and there's dad.
But we asked a question, how come is it all?
It's always like a cute animal, but if you see
a cockroach, you're like to kill it with your shoe?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
You kill I don't know anyway, but I love.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I love that because you know what, it's more than
just going to a show where someone has great music.
And by and by the way every song you perform
and sing is I can see how it can be
extremely monumental and meaningful to each person.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I mean in between all this stuff that's happening, we're
playing songs and everybody's singing and they're dancing and having
a good time, and they're not that that like you know,
some people will get on the phone and be like.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I thought I was going up on the second, like,
what the hell is there?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
This is the worst thing I ever Yeah, but at
the end of the night, I think we're just in
a time where we're a lot of us are lonely,
just straight up where it's like a lonely time. And
when you get when you get everybody together and you
drop the layer like you just did. I really appreciate
you doing that. We're all super connected by the end
of it, and there's a we need more of that.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, I think then article just came out recently about
how this is like the loneliest time for a lot
of people.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Right, yeah, it people are lonely. You know, we're talking
about you know, the only fans craze. I'm sure you
have an only fans Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Well you come to mind and cry, hear me.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So people assume only fans is, oh well, it's all
sex driven, it's all naked, you know, people doing things.
But Gandhi is a friend who does it and she
finds out they make a lot of money because of loneliness.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Yes, he said, there's you know, some of the stuff
that we all know only fans is about. But the
majority of his money comes from communicating with people directly
and just messaging people who are lonely and being a
friend that they need. That is where he made millions
of dollars talking to people because people are so lonely.
We have all this technology and we're so connected, but
none of the connections are really that meaningful anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Totally. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I actually I had a zoom with the Surgeon General
on this topic. He heard one of my poems. Anyone
like talk to me about it? And so we did
like an hour zoom together. And he's awesome. His name's
Evic Murphy. Oh he's got a book called Together.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
That everybody should read.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Okay, Well, here come the text. Andy Grammer is here.
The album is Monster that comes up Friday. We'll get
into that and there's music coming up. I'm crying in
my car. Thank you, Andy Grammer text. I'm crying.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I just parked at work. Why do you do this
to me? Another one.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Why does Eddie Grammar me cry every time I hear
him talk? And here's what it's just simply and and
he really is on a light up a room here
knows how to light up an electric chair. Wait, hold on,
I just went to Andy's show on Long Island last week.
My teenage daughters were with me. It will be a
(07:36):
core memory for all of us forevermore. Okay, Andy Grammer
is here. Let's talk about the album. The album is
called Monster. Yeah, comes out Friday. So the Monster is I,
uh just.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Was in some patterns and then in some relationships that
were like not serving me. And uh, I also don't
like to be angry, so I'm someone who just pretends
that not. I've had different employees be like he's like
fifty two flavors of happy, which is actually disconcerting, you
know what I mean. And it was forced out of
me at this period of my life where I'm like, oh,
(08:11):
I'm losing authenticity if I don't actually deal with some
of the anger that I have.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Good, I'm glad you're doing that.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yes, And so then the song Monster is just kind
of like dealing with that. Some of these songs don't
have like a little bow at the end that like
it's everything, everything's fine.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
You know, if you keep walking across this planet being
in a great mood and try to ignite great moods
in other people. Yeah, people expect it all the time, totally,
and they don't realize that you do have other channels
on your tuner, Yes, channels of anngs, channels of loneliness.
And so I'm assuming that's a little bit about it.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
And I was really worried that if I sang about it,
it might bum people out or take him down.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
And I found its exact opposite.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
People like, oh yeah, me as well, and notine like
a destructive way, just like honesty.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
There's truth in it. You know. I feel better about
my because Andy Grammer is miserable. Misery miserable.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Okay, I got a couple of songs, one of I
do want to I think we're gonna play Monster. We're
gonna play the cut from the album Oh Magic, Thank you, Nate.
But also so Jeremy's here with you, Yes, and Jeremy
was with you last time. Yeah, you know, dude, right here,
he's following you everywhere you go. Welcome back, Jeremy. Do
we get all the guitars. Things ironed out. We were
(09:26):
having we're having testical difficulties, So you want to do
a song, I.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Want to say that for the rest of my life
test difficulties.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
If you steal that for me, you steal that from me,
you're stolen. Several times I was that not an original?
What song are you and Jeremy doing?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Okay, so we're gonna We're gonna play a song called
save a Spot in the Back for me. I was
going through an intense time and I could feel like
cynicism coming into my blood and I don't do that. Well,
I'm like, I've been told I have golden retriever energy
and cynicism and that don't work to get And I
went into my studio and I sat by myself and
I wrote a song where I envisioned like blasting.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
It out of out of my myself.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Okay, so here we go, all right, Well that is
so strong, that is so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's one of those lines where like, I haven't had
one like this before, where when I just say the line,
then the audience like cheers, oh of course, and then
everybody by the end usually seen it together. We wanted
cheer oh, guys. You guys didn't by everybody they usually do. Yeah,
we wanted to, but we wanted to be nice. And yes,
if you meant the smartest man in the world Mark Adams.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Yeah, of course many times, like how's it going.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
He's so smart he flew all the way across the
country just to be here with you.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
That is that makes me really happy.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
He is the smartest man in the world.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Smartest.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
It's frightening. Hey, so this month means a lot for you.
It's it's a breast camp start wearing a month. You've
done a lot of work with Susan G. Colemane, talk
about it. What is your connection with this month? And
Susan G.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Colemen So, I lost my mom when I was twenty
five to breast cancer, and uh man, I feel like
everybody has some connection to it. So it's been there,
one of the best in the world at raising funds
and raising awareness around it is a no brainer to
partner with them.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Right, you know, and cancer itself, I mean, be it
breast cancer or testicular cancer which we had in my family.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
And you know next month is November.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Are you gonna grow at your Oh you already did,
I mean, yeah, you already at your most I tried, it.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Gets really itchy.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Do you ever have a beard?
Speaker 4 (11:28):
But you have one now?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I mean yeah, but like this is scrutting on and no,
have you ever done like a full beard thing?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I look like burl ives.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I would actually really enjoy like a like a really
like well manicured, like full thing for me.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
That would be really interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But the cancer is such such a little it's just
a bitch. We hate it all, you know. And whatever
you can do as you have done this month, Yeah,
whatever we're gonna do next month and every month. Yeah,
I love that.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I think my mom, we caught it pretty late, so
that's always just kind of in.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
The back of your brain.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yeah, that's what we were saying yesterday. Make your appointments
for mammograms.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Don't wait.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I've had I was telling them. I've had friends who said, yeah,
I just I'm not gonna make my appointment because I
don't want to know. You don't want to know. You
have to know.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
You got to know, right exactly, go figure go find out.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yes, yes, hey, you know what I think the show
should make a contribution to Susan gi common in all yes,
the honor of your mother. Oh is it possible? Oh man, no, no, no,
can they do that? Is there like a line we
can fill out?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Yes, figured that out. Yeah, you're gonna make me cry.
So this one man show.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
A big idea of it is that acts of service
done in the name of someone who's passed on actually
reaches them in some way.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
There's like a quote that I talked about.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
With it, and uh so there's the whole beginning of
the show is like a poem where I talk about
how I got my start when my mom passed. I
would just like offer songs to cheer people up because
I didn't have any money or anything else to like
to like do of service to people. And so that
you're bringing a full circle that is that makes me
really happy.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
All Right, I wrote down a number. Okay, I'm holding
it up to my for her.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
He's not a mentalist.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
This is what our show I'll be having our show.
This is going to Susan gi coming. That really means
a lot to your mom.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So after the show, we'll get your mom's name and okay, clear,
they'll send you a postcards whatever they do.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And then she's gonna get a little something in heaven.
I don't know how it works, but that's how that.
Thank you so much. This is a big good deal
to me. Now you got me crying. I didn't known
do this.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
No wait a minute, no hold on, what does she
get in heaven? I want to know. Let's let's make
some let's make assumptions.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Uh yeah, I don't know because we can't know where
they're at, but I do think that. So the quote
I'll say it is, oh man, you got me on
the spot.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Uh, I can't think of it right now because I'm
so flustered by this number that.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
What's the gesting, the gist of it is just.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Is that good deeds done in the good deeds done
in the name of those who have passed on are
most helpful to the development of their souls in the
realms beyond.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I've never heard that is beautiful.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
That is beautiful.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And so when I would write songs for people like uh,
I would just start open mic saying like, I'll write
you a song. I'm gonna call it Kathy Grahams, and
this is what I'm gonna do. And then everybody started
hitting me through email and stuff. About like my dad,
this just happened to my dad, and I would write
like a quick little pick me up song, and then
that's how I got started. And I would imagine my
(14:22):
mom like whatever getting the angel post man like.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Okay, Andy Grammer just said, the brown work.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
We have to dump It's so fitting pick it up there.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Okay, So you asked Daniel those three questions about her
dad who would pass away? Do you answer those questions
in your show Your Mom? Do you have those same answers?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, it's a big poem at the end that's pretty
brutal and sweet and lovely.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
What do you think she'd be most proud of me for?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Ooh, I think she'd be proud of me for consistently
trying to take things deeper than they are.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
That's what what she was all about.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
And what are you most thankful to her for?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
For uh being a buzzkill about a lot of stuff?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yeah, you know, because he did it because she loves you.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, like when you get really excited about things that
don't matter, she just didn't.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Care, Andy Gremer question, Yeah, if your mother could speak directly,
she had one of those phones that you have yes, yes, yes,
And she would say, Andy, you need to let yourself
off the hook about this.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
What would that be, Oh, we're crushing me right now?
This is good.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Uh, there's a lot of weight to.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Being the one that's like seen as positive all the time,
so you get you get worried that you're going to
like let people down.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
I think she'd probably.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Said that I have one more. My father's favorite word
was wonderful, like I wear it like I have it
on bracelets and stuff, because everything was wonderful, like you
give them a present. Oh, Danny, this is waderful like everything.
Did your mom have a favorite word?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Favorite word? You know?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
What's coming to my brain is so stupid because like
now that all the slang is changing, so there's like skiddy,
I don't even know what that means. But like for
at that time, I remember she would just like make
fun of me for using the word dude all the time, like, oh.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
You're so cool, dude. She had a point. Okay, last one.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
And which way does she come to you the most?
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Man, I genuinely think that I don't know how songwriting works,
but she was a great songwriter, So I would say
I might lose some people in this way, but I
think we write songs together.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Awesome, so cool.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I have a call from Hope, High Hope and beautiful,
Oh beautiful Burlington, Vermont.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
How's it going up.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
There, Hope?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
It's good? Are you good?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Well, we're great.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Because Andy Grammer's here. We're not to play another song
from his album Monster in a couple of seconds. What
do you want to say to and.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
We saw you last year in October, And since we're
talking about parents, it was right after my dad died,
about six months and it was a gift for my
husband and it was the greatest show we have ever seen.
You're incredible and Andy seems to be the real deal.
His show was awesome. He was just kinness exuded and
had the most incredible energy for like two hours. I
don't think he stopped moving.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
It was amazing, stamina. You are a sweetheart, lovely. Thank
you so much.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
I really appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
It was. Yeah, it was great, Hope.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
If you go online Monsters waiting for you, you can pre
order it right now, So please.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Do we already did.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Thank you for listening to us.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Thank you very much, Hope. The text messages, oh don't
even get me started. I feel like we're just sitting
here just talking about how wonderful you are. There's got
to be a down or for you.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Instructions Forandy's show Sing, Dance, Laugh, contemplate life, saab uncontrollably rise, and.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
All right, we're gonna I'm gonna play the Magic. This
is another another cut from your album Monster. It's Magic
from Monster, and uh, I I don't like to ask
artists what's this song about, because a lot of times
artists go, will you know, that's what you will, what
you want it to be about, That's not what I
want to hear from you, Bubbled when.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
You play in these spaces, then like what you're saying,
you said, wonder wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Uh, there's a lot going on in this life that
I don't fully understand. And so when things line up
in ways that are just like kind of unexplainable, they
make it for the good. Then it makes me feel
something really special. And that's one of my favorite parts
of life. And so it happens a lot.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
In my life. And I wrote a song about how
I want more of that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Uh, Monster is out Friday, but order it today. Just
get it over with, Just get it over with, Get
it over with, band aid off? Where are we seeing
you next? Where are you on the road?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Now are you I'm on the road.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
You can go to my anti gram dot com. Got
a lot of a lot of like West Coast and
middle of the country. I think we're coming back around
here too, to go check it out.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
All right, one main.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Show greater than come do those five steps at my show.
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