December 23, 2025 • 25 mins
In 2025 we had so many amazing people stop by Elvis Duran and the Morning Show. Here's one of our favorites!
Alex Warren joins us to discuss his recent rise to fame with his smash hit "The Ordinary"!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to one of our favorite celebrity interviews from
twenty twenty five, Elvis Duran in the Morning Show Live
from the Mercedes Fins interview wound.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Calm down, We're this close to talking Alex Warren into
coming to jingle Ball. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
What are the possibilities? You don't have to convince me.
I'm there. There's no convincing it requires.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
I do have a question, though, what do you require
in your backstage area, like in your dressing room, your rider?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
What's what's on your rider? What's on the Alex Warren Ryder?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Puppies? Puppies?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Darn puppies would be cool alive? We're cooked? My god,
my god, you have never just jumping straight into it.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I don't know if you eat dogs or not.
Speaker 6 (00:46):
Alex has a lot of allergies. You might have to
be careful. What's back there?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well, I mean, who cares? Honestly, if I go, we
have enough Zertec to kill a horse. So we're kind
of just we're kind of ripping out.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Are you saying that one of our paid sponsors, Zero
Tech kills horses? Where target? All right, let's just start over, Hey, welcome,
Welcome to the show, Alex, pleasure of sheer, pleasure to
have you.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
And that one clap meant everything.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Golf. It's a it's a golf game, I love to think. So,
so okay, let's start with ordinary. There. I was looking
at the list, but where this song is hitting high? Yeah? Okay?
United States, Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia. They
love Alex Warren. Luxembourg is into you, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,
(01:42):
South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom. Peaked within the top
ten of the charts in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland,
Portugal and Sweden. Oh my goodness, you do have a
wonderful face. Thank you so much. I'm not even a mother.
There you go. So it's hitten, it's hitting hard.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
It's cool.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I mean, are you feeling it? Are you taking the
time to like, go, okay, this is good? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I mean, honestly, it's been. It's it happened really quickly.
Everyone's like, oh, like, what's what's the moment it happened?
And it's like it kind of like slowly. One day
I woke up and people were like, I was like,
oh wow, this song's actually kind of doing pretty well.
So it's been really cool to kind of watch there's
a lot of uh, just a noise, I guess where
I'm just trying to. I just like making music, and
my wife love loves to remind me that that song
(02:28):
is about her. Yeah, Yeah, it's been it's been really cool,
and it's been nice to kind of be like, well,
every argument I get into with my wife, just remember
I wrote this song.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
So she's taking credit for your song. Oh of course,
pretty much, my success is her success. So okay, oh
wow to say that again, my success is her success.
Well do you mean that though? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I think my wife and I, if you know the story,
like we we kind of went through all this together.
So it's been cool.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Let's talk about your job. Yeah, being a vocalist. A
lot of fans of artists don't understand what it's like
being a vocalist. Sure, and then when you have a
tour going on and your your set lists are getting
longer and longer, you've got vocal cords, you have, you
have a throat that has to be working at all times.
(03:14):
Don't answer that. I didn't ask a question. Being a
vocalist can be rough. I mean if you're on the
road and then you hit some notes that were restraining
you and then maybe you have to like take a
day off and you're like, well, yeah, people don't understand that.
Explain to you the science. To explain to me the
science of what you do for a living and how
you have to keep an eye on sure.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I mean I wasn't always like a good singer, like
I you're just saying you're a good singer. Now, I
would say I'm somewhat decent.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I hope.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
So he came on to be insulted today.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I've been doing vocal lessons like three times a week
for a very long time. And but to answer your thing, yeah,
it's it's an instrument, but it's also a muscle. I
think with you know, if you work out every single
day consistently straining yourself, eventually you're gonna wake up in
your arms feel like jello. So yeah, when you do
shows every day, like sometimes we'll do with five shows
in a row, seven shows in a row, and at
(04:11):
the end of it, you're like, oh my gosh, I
need to not talk, and so I'll spend days not
talking just to get my voice back.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
About your wife loves that, she actually hates it with
a passion.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, because it could communicating.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Is really that I have a phone app on my
phone that I talk and I love vocal resting. I
am so obsessed with it. Not talking is my favorite
thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well, you've come to the right place.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, but but truly, Yeah, it's been.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's it's definitely interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I growing up, I was like, oh, like, these people
can sing their hearts off all these things, and it's like, no,
there's so much like resting and lessons to sing correctly
so you don't lose your voice. There's a lot that
goes into it that I did not realize. And what
you eat heavily affects how you sound.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
As in the acids like tomatoes and things like that.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yes, yeah, acidic foods like you think like a lot
of I just eat chicken and corn when I sing
no job, it's always.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
No. I don't care about food really that much. Oh
my god, get out of here. A bunch of Goodenbobs
Italian food. You know. I'm just I just had a thought.
I don't have any artist names, but people artist vocal
artists who train constantly. I wonder how their voices evolve
(05:23):
over the course of their careers. Like I wonder how
many artists you can listen to from the beginning of
their career and then maybe, let's say, ten years later,
they have this new richness to their voice they perfected it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I mean, Teddy Swims is one of those people. Why
what a perfect voice? He already has right, right, But
he used to not be that great apparently, Like that's
what he says a lot. Like he's always like, oh, well,
I had to work really hard, and it's interesting, like
a lot of you have to put your voice through
a lot of trauma to get it to like really cooperate,
I guess, like comparative to where I am now a
(05:55):
year ago. Like it's a fully different vocal, which is
really really cool, and it just comes down with raps
and your voice gets used to it and then everything
gets easier and you get a lot of flexibility in
your voice, which is kind of boring when you you
kind of want to think of a singers like just
naturally gifted, bored and singer. But a lot of times
a lot of it's learned.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Wow, why WoT everyone who is listening, who even following
an artist for a while, go back to their earlier
stuff and listen to their stuff. Now, see if you
can tell the different.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, I mean lous Capaldi's always sound the same, though.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Batman is so talented.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
He's he's back in the seat again, performed somewhere recently.
So we're hoping that's real.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yes, that it seems to be like it's just random
old performances and people just go back.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I mean he's shown up somewhere the other day. He
actually stuck around and like really, and then.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I have yet to meet that man. I want to
meet him. This guy, we've had him a few times.
He's nice stuff, a sweetheart, just turning as on. Alex
Warren is here. We're gonna play ordinary for you in
a minute. We're gonna talk about the tour. We're going
to talk about a lot of stuff's going to talk
about jingle Ball, yes, because I've already offered sexual favors.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
To Alex, and I politely accepted.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
A nice guy.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
So, for people who don't know your life story, you
were sort of talking. You mentioned it quickly earlier, the
story of you and your wife. Yeah, It's a fascinating story.
You guys, you started a hype house, right, I was
part of it, you're part of it. You were there
for a while creating music, and then the two of
you decided to leave. Yeah, and where did you go
from there?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Downhill?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I yeah, I know we I created it with my
friend and it was just a fun time. But like
growing up, I always wanted to be a musician and
everyone just told me it was impossible. I wasn't that
amazing of a singer. And one day I posted a
singing video on the toilet and it blew up, and
with the.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Toilet blew up very well, chicken side.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Effect of ozampic is absolutely killing you. Okay, so I'm sorry.
Yeah yeah, but I the video got like timbly abused.
The next day it was on some random side account,
and I finally was like, oh my gosh, I could actually,
you know, possibly be a music This would.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Be really cool.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I put out a song I wrote about the loss
of my father, and it did really well, and the
rest is history.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Let me ask you this. Look, I'm much older than you, obviously,
and both of my parents are gone. Okay, they were
around long enough to see me do pretty well in
my chosen field.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Whatever this is, it must be nice, do you Okay,
probably pretty much to answer my question, Yeah, no, but
I mean, do you I don't want to get too crazy,
but you do.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You find yourself chasing them in your dreams, going hey,
look what I'm doing here all the time, and hoping
that if they were still here it would change the
dynamic of that relationship.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yes, And it's something I struggle with a lot, because truthfully,
I have everything I have today because I lost them.
So it's crazy to think that I have the perfect
wife and the perfect life and the trade off was
giving up the two most important people in my life.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, this is what I'm thinking about, and I want
people to understand that grief and for loss, you have
to recognize what you gain. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I don't think you get to pick. I don't think
you get to pick the things you lose in life,
and I think that's the reason why you appreciate the
things you have. That's the hardest part about it is
really like, I'm very grateful to be alive. I'm very
grateful of the career I have. I'm very grateful for
the wins I've been able to accomplish. But I've also
had to give up a lot of things to be here.
(09:25):
And that's the trade off I guess you have in
life and how you can. I don't think I would
appreciate anything I have in my life right now if
I didn't lose them. I also don't think i'd be
the human I am today, nor would I've met my
wife or had a career. And so those are things that, sadly,
you have to live with when you go through life.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Was it Stephen Colbert who was being interviewed by CNN
Anderson Cooper. They were talking about grief, right and he
said this line when it really stabbed me in the
heart in a great way. Stephen Colbert said, you must
be just as grateful and thankful for the awful, devastating
(10:03):
things that happened to you in life as you should
be for all the wonderful, wonderful, brightly colored things that
happened to you in life. And I think unless we stop,
unless we unless we totally forget to stop and think
about that, it's all for naught. But you're saying, and
you're acknowledging right here in front of all seven of
our listeners, that that, you know, going through laws, you
(10:24):
gotta you gotta, you gotta be thankful for it too.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, And don't get me wrong, there's still parts of me.
I mean, I've write songs about this all the time
and I cry about it all the time. And it's
been it's been years. I've lost my dad when I
was nine, and my mom drank herself to death right after.
And I think that's something where it's it's definitely hard
knowing that, like you know, I don't have that supports
in my life. But also, like you know, my kids
are going to grow up without the grandparents, and I
(10:47):
think that's always always a difficult thing. But at least
I am going to play dingle ball.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Okay, let's talk about that. Okay, I was talking about it.
Let me give you someveral reasons why we have to
have Alex Warren at jingle Ball.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Everyone.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Number one, he's festive as f on stage. You just
have a great presence on stage. Thanks, and you know,
you carry the audience with you kind of ups and
downs and tell stories. I don't know if you know
you do this, probably that you're not even conscious about
what you do on stage. I don't know. You're great
on stage, music's great. Thank you. People like your spirit
and that's we need you because otherwise it's going to
fail miserably this year. God, that's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Okay, Well, you carry jingle Ball basically, I will, I.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Will, I will, I will carry jingle Ball on my back.
I got you, don't know. I will always carry Elvis's ball.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So it's gonna as long as they're dangling. Wait, text
message is not gonna lie. I'm crying tears of joy listening.
Do you guys interview Alex Warren. He's definitely my favorite artist.
I'm freaking out. Oh my gosh, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Don't look at this because sometimes they're bad. Really Yeah, yeah,
I look my name up on Twitter all the time,
don't you know? It is horrid?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Hey, Alex, do you have anyone you'd like us to
invite to jingle Ball as well? Like to be on
the stage, you know, with you or something, you know,
maybe we can make it happen.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Like a mascot?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
No, like maybe another artist.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Is there a mascot you would like him?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
This is good.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'm glad you brought this ubject. Yeah, what mascot would
you want? I say, you're a team and you need
a mascot. What do you want? I don't know. Would
you think this through?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Like, Man, I've gotten compared a lot to the Michelin
man to stay Marshmallow.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, is mister Matt here today? I have I have this.
I have the pigment of a marshmallow. That's rick it okay, Ripe.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I'm saying, like, maybe another artist you'd.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Like, Oh, oh, I think I think.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I kind of like how jingle Ball like exposes me
to new artist though, so I'd rather not do that
and kind of just like listen and like like, oh
my god, you're on this You're on this bill too. Also,
we're like five months into the year. I feel like
there's gonna be some really cool artists. Somber Actually, that guy,
that guy's doing really well.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I love Sober. Yeah, and he's nineteen years old. He is. Yeah,
he's a young one. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
It makes me feel old. I look, I know I
look thirty five, but I'm twenty four.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
What is that saying?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Name?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, we love Alex. We're keeping you. What is happening?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
What?
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Daddy?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
He called me daddy and asked if we could keep you.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
He did yes, Oh okay, cool, Yeah, I'm not gonna
judge your king, that's your thing.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Speaking of following the Didty trial at all, No, I'm not, don't. Really.
It's sad.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
It's sad, is it? It's so sad.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
It is sad. Okay, let's not go down down there
road around me anything.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
He's just said that a human being could treat other
human beings the way he did that.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Oh gosh, or any political not too well, it's not
even political. It's just kind of here's my thing about
the Didty trial. My apartment is one block from that.
It's a circus every time. Every time you go to
the news, if ever you do, you see a big, huge,
crazy trial going on to New York City. It's right
behind my apartment. Oh wow, oh when when president there?
You think about it? President Trump on trial? I me
(13:59):
just name it. Sure there's it's a carnival atmosphere. Wow,
right now, it's pretty big. Did anything? Oh my goodness, Yeah,
I've not been following it.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Don't go down off that way, stay off of Twitter,
don't google yourself anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Well, I don't follow the news anymore.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
It's really depressive, it really is.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Start it's so I would just if my eggs are expensive,
I'll just figure it out.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Don't tell me they're expensive. Let me figure it out.
Are they coming down yet? Eggs? I don't think. No,
I don't think so cheaper than therapy tour. You're adding dates.
I just said you. Are you adding more dates? Yeah,
including Jacksonville. Our friend, our friend Froggy. That that screen
of the that's that's Froggy in Jacksonville. Oh. Look he's
(14:40):
in that empty chair. He's not the that's to show
you how well I'm doing here. No, he ran out
to buy tickets to your show Jacksonville. That's hilarious. So
do you I mean, you already have a long list
of venues you're traveling from every every day almost Do
(15:00):
you get excited when they had more dates or it's like, okay,
more dates.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
One day, people are gonna stop buying the tickets. So
I'm hoping, hoping that's not this tour, because that would
be really horrifying.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
It was such a good attitude about all of this.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Really, if I had a therapist, I feel like they'd
say it's self deprecating.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
But that's healthy, is it.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I've never heard that defecating, self defecating. That's deprecating. Do
you just crap all over yourself? So, yeah, I was
about to say, I was about to say, I don't know. Yes, honestly,
this is very fun. It's really going nowhere. I feel
like we're going somewhere. This is a healthy relationship. We
are getting backed, we are getting somewhere. No I know.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I mean we're talking about bowel movements, the Diddy trial.
I can't imagine where where this.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Is going to turn. Hope it does. So let me
ask you this, what do you think about New York City?
Do you like visiting New York I like it a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I'm usually here to do stuff though, so it's definitely
kind of like starting to I had a few days
off where I just didn't do anything, and I get
so lost in the city and the maps don't work.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I don't know if you guys realize this.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Like I'll be on like fifty and then it'll say
I'm like on fifty ninth and I walk in a
circle for like a week.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
And then to ask New Yorker and they accidentally send
you the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, no one really knows where they're going. Everyone's just
figuring it out. Are you still are you West Coast
where I live in Tennessee? Oh god, yeah, that seems
like to be the place that's the gold well.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I've been there for two weeks. I tore eleven months
out of the air. I still have boxes everywhere, but
hopefully I'll be able to unbox things.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Probably.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I think I have like two weeks in November to
be to like unbox things. Nashville isuh yeah, and then
my least is up in December. So I don't know
why I did that, but it's a lot of good ideas.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Why we've got work to do here, and we're here.
I'll be your calls heres. We'll figure this out. I
love it. So are you gonna stay in Tennessee? Maybe?
I think so? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I really like my wife. My wife isn't on tour
with me all the time, and it was getting kind
of bad in LA where people were figuring out where
I lived, and I like how Tennessee is massive, but
also I have a We live in a gated community.
It's really cool, and our neighbors are super like. It's
very Truman Show like, everyone like looks after our house
it's pretty rad and they all know what I do,
and so it's been kind of cool to kind of like,
you know, we get text and be like, hey, your
(17:03):
your gas lanterns out?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Can we can we fix it? And I was like, yeah,
get back up a gas lantern. He's got a gash lantern. Yeah, well,
what can I say?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Things have gone well since ordinary.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
When people were figuring out where you were living, what
you're showing up at your house and being weird? Were
they sending these people were breaking into my hand, They're
lighting cigarettes?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Were they're lighting cigarettes on his gas lantern?
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Wait? Hold on, people were breaking into your house? Yeah,
what's going on? Welcome to La Wait no while you
were home though, No, no, no, no, god, no, no no,
that's scary.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I would say, hey, don't do that, and then hopefully
they wouldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I can't. What's it like to have gas lantern money? Ye?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I see the Mercedes sponsor love, But don't even Tony
even do that? In the office, your our apartments next
to the Diddy trial, we know the penthouse, you know
the phouse.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
He's got his elevator that opens up.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah. I got a question for you, Alex Alex Warren
is here. If you're just wondering who this is, why
are you doing this? Why do you do? What is
it about the music? What I mean? I don't know.
Maybe it's a question that cannot be answered, but what
is it you really? Truly? I want to No, I truly.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I write about what I think is really cool, and
I write about my real life, and so I feel
like in a world where a lot of people are
just trying to make a hit record, it's been really
cool to write songs about losing my parents, falling in love,
and just.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Like what it means to get through that.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I think with when I lost my parents, it was
something interesting where there were so many people surrounded and
so many people came to see us and offer condolences
and things like that. But in a room full of people,
I felt so alone, and no one would talk about
these things. No one would talk about trauma, and no
one would talk about stuff. In the music space, I
think it was always just like breakup songs and hyper
pop and things like that. And I'm really really blessed
(18:57):
to be able to write music about my life and
help a lot of people who might be going through
the same thing. And so it's been really cool. And
when I play live shows, it's been really really it's
been healing from me too to be able to see
that people actually enjoy the records, but they also it's
also helping them in some way. And the gas lantern
is nice.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Side note the gas lanterns what it's about, and it's
just trying to get a sponsor. Yeah, mental health is
the bonus mental health have for so many years has
just swept under the rug. And we're talking about this
the other day. Yeah, we're talking about it all the time,
and you know, and bring it out in the opening
into the light is not a new thing. I mean
we've been doing it for several years now. But yeah,
it's getting better. It's cool to have mommy issues, is it?
(19:42):
I think so? I think I think mommy issues are
good too. Hell yeah, the issue is I don't have
my mommy. It's kind of weird. No, No, we were
talking about mommy issues this past weekend. Really, I don't
think that term came up. We were talking about mom's
relationships with moms and after you lose them, what are
you left with? Yeah? Right, And some people like to say,
(20:03):
well my mom she was not the greatest lady. She
was this and that, and she's gone down. But then,
you know, I'm happy to say has been your fault
as my mom had. I still remember all the wonderful,
glorious things that she brought into my life. What about
you is your mom? Were you actually rolling your eyes
and go, oh my god? That was my mom?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I always thought my mom like I always like held
my mom to a perfect pedestal, and so when she
ever messed up, I was like, you're my mom. You're
supposed to be a perfect role model. And as I
got older and after I lost her, I realized that
my mom for ten years straight, my dad thought with
cancer for four years. So she developed an alcol addiction,
(20:42):
and I think when she was left with crippling debt.
He died right when the recession hit, and you know,
we had nothing to our name, and she had to
raise four kids by herself. And I remember after I
was like, you know what, I judged you for becoming
an alcoholic, but you had the world stacked against do
and so I think that was the biggest thing for me,
is like, you know, I realized that like she was human.
(21:04):
It was her first time living and I shouldn't have
held her to that standard and realize that she's a
human too.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I love the fact that I could admit, yeah, I
got to know my mom and dad after they passed away,
and someone said, well, le's way too late. No, it's
never too late. I really didn't get to know them
until they were gone. I firmly believe you die twice.
I think you die when you die, and then you
die when someone stops telling your story. And I think
it's really really important to always be learning. Like for me,
I didn't know my dad very well, but I'm always
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asking questions about him. They're always my family's always telling
stories about them, and it's been really really important to
be able to tell my kids who their grandparents were
and when they come around good. I like that. So
your mom and dads were passed away, get to know
them now. If three for a mom as still alive
but run over with a car today, get to know
where I'm kidding. I'm kind of into it all, right, Okay.
(22:00):
Bottom line, Alex Warren, I think we're this close to
get getting your signed up with Les realized.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
But you were giving me a lot of slack for
my gas lantern you have a gold engraved microphone.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Your microphone has your name on it.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I'm just saying it's a thing, just saying.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I didn't pay for it. You paid for your gas.
You have a very solid point there. So this is
a gift. This is a gift.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Maybe I get my gas gifted by the tenants and
state of Tennessee.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
You don't know me, by the way, can you do
flips like Benson Boone?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I can do whatever you want? Okay, you want me
to do one?
Speaker 6 (22:36):
No, God, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
You just got you just got you. You just got
your voice back. Let's let's keep back. Let's keep you,
Let's keep you healthy. I'll do a flip. I gotta
keep I gotta keep you healthy till December, till dingle Bow,
and then you do whatever you want to do.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
You can bend a boot across the streen. I'll try
to flip. I'll shake your hand until you I'll do
a backflip on the stage once the last time.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
I don't think we should do that.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Wait, can you really do it?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Though?
Speaker 6 (23:02):
I mean, are you going to practice until then?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
We'll find out?
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Okay, oh my.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
God, you want to see a boy this size move
I'll do it. I'm not talking about like harnesses like
pink has. I'm talking about like free I will I
will do a back handspring back flip before you. I
will call me. Call me?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
When is that the Gabby? I think her name? What's
the professional.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Gab? Gabby Douglas. H call me Gabby Douglas. I often
get mistaken for Gabby. Funny enough, that's what I thought.
I'll call you Gabby Douglas if you call me Debbie.
So we'll work on it.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
This is the most interesting interview we've done in a while.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Back Froggy, Froggy, What do you mean we're here with
Alex Warren. What are you eating? Alex? Pop tart? All right?
What flavor? Blueberry, strawberry, cherry strawberry? I spot these with
Daniel last Wenesday. Don't have my poplar? There you go?
Pop tarts? We were just talking about. He just added
(24:04):
to Jacksonville to his tour. And the reason, yeah, the
reason you weren't in there because you're out buying tickets? Yes,
are you which? Which venue are you coming to?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Well you would have known if you about the ticket.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Chuck E Cheese. He's performing at Chuck E Cheese and Jacksonville.
Maybe we just got a new venue called the Five.
We got a new venue called deck Out. And if
he was coming to one of our new venues or
somewhere we've been, they're looking it up. You have fifteen
people here. Maybe one of them will tell you where
you're going to be. Literally all of them are. He's
actually what do I say? Daily?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
No, daily? Just big. That's a big venue. All that's awesome. Yeah,
it's great.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
It's to see whopping three hundred people there in a
few months, it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Big, Alex. True, we got to play ordinary. Please. I
love that. My producer's yelling at me, yelling, sternly looking, Yeah,
all right, we'll play ordinary, Alex. It's a pleasure meeting you.
Thank you for having me, Alex. I'll I'll give him
a standing ovation, right the f Now what are you standing?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
You can't tell.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
She's so sure, we don't know if she's standing with Jesus.
Thank you so much having me. This is right, Thanks
for being had. It was good to have you here,
and all the best to you because you're just so
much just on the surface, because that's all we know
you through. I mean you're you're a great guy.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
You seem like a nice guy.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I don't know if you go deeper, I don't know.
It's it's all press training. Then you come back next
time a little we'll go a little deeper. Amazing, all right,
Alex Warren. Thanks
You're listening to one of our favorite celebrity interviews from
twenty twenty five, Elvis Duran in the Morning Show Live
from the Mercedes Fins interview wound.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Calm down, We're this close to talking Alex Warren into
coming to jingle Ball. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
What are the possibilities? You don't have to convince me.
I'm there. There's no convincing it requires.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
I do have a question, though, what do you require
in your backstage area, like in your dressing room, your rider?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
What's what's on your rider? What's on the Alex Warren Ryder?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Puppies? Puppies?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Darn puppies would be cool alive? We're cooked? My god,
my god, you have never just jumping straight into it.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I don't know if you eat dogs or not.
Speaker 6 (00:46):
Alex has a lot of allergies. You might have to
be careful. What's back there?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well, I mean, who cares? Honestly, if I go, we
have enough Zertec to kill a horse. So we're kind
of just we're kind of ripping out.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Are you saying that one of our paid sponsors, Zero
Tech kills horses? Where target? All right, let's just start over, Hey, welcome,
Welcome to the show, Alex, pleasure of sheer, pleasure to
have you.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
And that one clap meant everything.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Golf. It's a it's a golf game, I love to think. So,
so okay, let's start with ordinary. There. I was looking
at the list, but where this song is hitting high? Yeah? Okay?
United States, Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia. They
love Alex Warren. Luxembourg is into you, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,
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South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom. Peaked within the top
ten of the charts in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland,
Portugal and Sweden. Oh my goodness, you do have a
wonderful face. Thank you so much. I'm not even a mother.
There you go. So it's hitten, it's hitting hard.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
It's cool.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I mean, are you feeling it? Are you taking the
time to like, go, okay, this is good? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I mean, honestly, it's been. It's it happened really quickly.
Everyone's like, oh, like, what's what's the moment it happened?
And it's like it kind of like slowly. One day
I woke up and people were like, I was like,
oh wow, this song's actually kind of doing pretty well.
So it's been really cool to kind of watch there's
a lot of uh, just a noise, I guess where
I'm just trying to. I just like making music, and
my wife love loves to remind me that that song
(02:28):
is about her. Yeah, Yeah, it's been it's been really cool,
and it's been nice to kind of be like, well,
every argument I get into with my wife, just remember
I wrote this song.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
So she's taking credit for your song. Oh of course,
pretty much, my success is her success. So okay, oh
wow to say that again, my success is her success.
Well do you mean that though? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I think my wife and I, if you know the story,
like we we kind of went through all this together.
So it's been cool.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Let's talk about your job. Yeah, being a vocalist. A
lot of fans of artists don't understand what it's like
being a vocalist. Sure, and then when you have a
tour going on and your your set lists are getting
longer and longer, you've got vocal cords, you have, you
have a throat that has to be working at all times.
(03:14):
Don't answer that. I didn't ask a question. Being a
vocalist can be rough. I mean if you're on the
road and then you hit some notes that were restraining
you and then maybe you have to like take a
day off and you're like, well, yeah, people don't understand that.
Explain to you the science. To explain to me the
science of what you do for a living and how
you have to keep an eye on sure.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I mean I wasn't always like a good singer, like
I you're just saying you're a good singer. Now, I
would say I'm somewhat decent.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I hope.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
So he came on to be insulted today.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I've been doing vocal lessons like three times a week
for a very long time. And but to answer your thing, yeah,
it's it's an instrument, but it's also a muscle. I
think with you know, if you work out every single
day consistently straining yourself, eventually you're gonna wake up in
your arms feel like jello. So yeah, when you do
shows every day, like sometimes we'll do with five shows
in a row, seven shows in a row, and at
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the end of it, you're like, oh my gosh, I
need to not talk, and so I'll spend days not
talking just to get my voice back.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
About your wife loves that, she actually hates it with
a passion.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, because it could communicating.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Is really that I have a phone app on my
phone that I talk and I love vocal resting. I
am so obsessed with it. Not talking is my favorite
thing in the world.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well, you've come to the right place.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, but but truly, Yeah, it's been.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It's it's definitely interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I growing up, I was like, oh, like, these people
can sing their hearts off all these things, and it's like, no,
there's so much like resting and lessons to sing correctly
so you don't lose your voice. There's a lot that
goes into it that I did not realize. And what
you eat heavily affects how you sound.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
As in the acids like tomatoes and things like that.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yes, yeah, acidic foods like you think like a lot
of I just eat chicken and corn when I sing
no job, it's always.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
No. I don't care about food really that much. Oh
my god, get out of here. A bunch of Goodenbobs
Italian food. You know. I'm just I just had a thought.
I don't have any artist names, but people artist vocal
artists who train constantly. I wonder how their voices evolve
(05:23):
over the course of their careers. Like I wonder how
many artists you can listen to from the beginning of
their career and then maybe, let's say, ten years later,
they have this new richness to their voice they perfected it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I mean, Teddy Swims is one of those people. Why
what a perfect voice? He already has right, right, But
he used to not be that great apparently, Like that's
what he says a lot. Like he's always like, oh, well,
I had to work really hard, and it's interesting, like
a lot of you have to put your voice through
a lot of trauma to get it to like really cooperate,
I guess, like comparative to where I am now a
(05:55):
year ago. Like it's a fully different vocal, which is
really really cool, and it just comes down with raps
and your voice gets used to it and then everything
gets easier and you get a lot of flexibility in
your voice, which is kind of boring when you you
kind of want to think of a singers like just
naturally gifted, bored and singer. But a lot of times
a lot of it's learned.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Wow, why WoT everyone who is listening, who even following
an artist for a while, go back to their earlier
stuff and listen to their stuff. Now, see if you
can tell the different.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, I mean lous Capaldi's always sound the same, though.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Batman is so talented.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
He's he's back in the seat again, performed somewhere recently.
So we're hoping that's real.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yes, that it seems to be like it's just random
old performances and people just go back.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I mean he's shown up somewhere the other day. He
actually stuck around and like really, and then.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I have yet to meet that man. I want to
meet him. This guy, we've had him a few times.
He's nice stuff, a sweetheart, just turning as on. Alex
Warren is here. We're gonna play ordinary for you in
a minute. We're gonna talk about the tour. We're going
to talk about a lot of stuff's going to talk
about jingle Ball, yes, because I've already offered sexual favors.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
To Alex, and I politely accepted.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
A nice guy.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
So, for people who don't know your life story, you
were sort of talking. You mentioned it quickly earlier, the
story of you and your wife. Yeah, It's a fascinating story.
You guys, you started a hype house, right, I was
part of it, you're part of it. You were there
for a while creating music, and then the two of
you decided to leave. Yeah, and where did you go
from there?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Downhill?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I yeah, I know we I created it with my
friend and it was just a fun time. But like
growing up, I always wanted to be a musician and
everyone just told me it was impossible. I wasn't that
amazing of a singer. And one day I posted a
singing video on the toilet and it blew up, and
with the.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Toilet blew up very well, chicken side.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Effect of ozampic is absolutely killing you. Okay, so I'm sorry.
Yeah yeah, but I the video got like timbly abused.
The next day it was on some random side account,
and I finally was like, oh my gosh, I could actually,
you know, possibly be a music This would.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Be really cool.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I put out a song I wrote about the loss
of my father, and it did really well, and the
rest is history.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Let me ask you this. Look, I'm much older than you, obviously,
and both of my parents are gone. Okay, they were
around long enough to see me do pretty well in
my chosen field.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Whatever this is, it must be nice, do you Okay,
probably pretty much to answer my question, Yeah, no, but
I mean, do you I don't want to get too crazy,
but you do.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You find yourself chasing them in your dreams, going hey,
look what I'm doing here all the time, and hoping
that if they were still here it would change the
dynamic of that relationship.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yes, And it's something I struggle with a lot, because truthfully,
I have everything I have today because I lost them.
So it's crazy to think that I have the perfect
wife and the perfect life and the trade off was
giving up the two most important people in my life.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, this is what I'm thinking about, and I want
people to understand that grief and for loss, you have
to recognize what you gain. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I don't think you get to pick. I don't think
you get to pick the things you lose in life,
and I think that's the reason why you appreciate the
things you have. That's the hardest part about it is
really like, I'm very grateful to be alive. I'm very
grateful of the career I have. I'm very grateful for
the wins I've been able to accomplish. But I've also
had to give up a lot of things to be here.
(09:25):
And that's the trade off I guess you have in
life and how you can. I don't think I would
appreciate anything I have in my life right now if
I didn't lose them. I also don't think i'd be
the human I am today, nor would I've met my
wife or had a career. And so those are things that, sadly,
you have to live with when you go through life.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Was it Stephen Colbert who was being interviewed by CNN
Anderson Cooper. They were talking about grief, right and he
said this line when it really stabbed me in the
heart in a great way. Stephen Colbert said, you must
be just as grateful and thankful for the awful, devastating
(10:03):
things that happened to you in life as you should
be for all the wonderful, wonderful, brightly colored things that
happened to you in life. And I think unless we stop,
unless we unless we totally forget to stop and think
about that, it's all for naught. But you're saying, and
you're acknowledging right here in front of all seven of
our listeners, that that, you know, going through laws, you
(10:24):
gotta you gotta, you gotta be thankful for it too.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, And don't get me wrong, there's still parts of me.
I mean, I've write songs about this all the time
and I cry about it all the time. And it's
been it's been years. I've lost my dad when I
was nine, and my mom drank herself to death right after.
And I think that's something where it's it's definitely hard
knowing that, like you know, I don't have that supports
in my life. But also, like you know, my kids
are going to grow up without the grandparents, and I
(10:47):
think that's always always a difficult thing. But at least
I am going to play dingle ball.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Okay, let's talk about that. Okay, I was talking about it.
Let me give you someveral reasons why we have to
have Alex Warren at jingle Ball.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Everyone.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Number one, he's festive as f on stage. You just
have a great presence on stage. Thanks, and you know,
you carry the audience with you kind of ups and
downs and tell stories. I don't know if you know
you do this, probably that you're not even conscious about
what you do on stage. I don't know. You're great
on stage, music's great. Thank you. People like your spirit
and that's we need you because otherwise it's going to
fail miserably this year. God, that's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Okay, Well, you carry jingle Ball basically, I will, I.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Will, I will, I will carry jingle Ball on my back.
I got you, don't know. I will always carry Elvis's ball.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So it's gonna as long as they're dangling. Wait, text
message is not gonna lie. I'm crying tears of joy listening.
Do you guys interview Alex Warren. He's definitely my favorite artist.
I'm freaking out. Oh my gosh, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Don't look at this because sometimes they're bad. Really Yeah, yeah,
I look my name up on Twitter all the time,
don't you know? It is horrid?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Hey, Alex, do you have anyone you'd like us to
invite to jingle Ball as well? Like to be on
the stage, you know, with you or something, you know,
maybe we can make it happen.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Like a mascot?
Speaker 4 (12:02):
No, like maybe another artist.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Is there a mascot you would like him?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
This is good.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'm glad you brought this ubject. Yeah, what mascot would
you want? I say, you're a team and you need
a mascot. What do you want? I don't know. Would
you think this through?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Like, Man, I've gotten compared a lot to the Michelin
man to stay Marshmallow.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, is mister Matt here today? I have I have this.
I have the pigment of a marshmallow. That's rick it okay, Ripe.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I'm saying, like, maybe another artist you'd.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Like, Oh, oh, I think I think.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I kind of like how jingle Ball like exposes me
to new artist though, so I'd rather not do that
and kind of just like listen and like like, oh
my god, you're on this You're on this bill too. Also,
we're like five months into the year. I feel like
there's gonna be some really cool artists. Somber Actually, that guy,
that guy's doing really well.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
I love Sober. Yeah, and he's nineteen years old. He is. Yeah,
he's a young one. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
It makes me feel old. I look, I know I
look thirty five, but I'm twenty four.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
What is that saying?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Name?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah, we love Alex. We're keeping you. What is happening?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
What?
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Daddy?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
He called me daddy and asked if we could keep you.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
He did yes, Oh okay, cool, Yeah, I'm not gonna
judge your king, that's your thing.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Speaking of following the Didty trial at all, No, I'm not, don't. Really.
It's sad.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
It's sad, is it? It's so sad.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
It is sad. Okay, let's not go down down there
road around me anything.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
He's just said that a human being could treat other
human beings the way he did that.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Oh gosh, or any political not too well, it's not
even political. It's just kind of here's my thing about
the Didty trial. My apartment is one block from that.
It's a circus every time. Every time you go to
the news, if ever you do, you see a big, huge,
crazy trial going on to New York City. It's right
behind my apartment. Oh wow, oh when when president there?
You think about it? President Trump on trial? I me
(13:59):
just name it. Sure there's it's a carnival atmosphere. Wow,
right now, it's pretty big. Did anything? Oh my goodness, Yeah,
I've not been following it.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Don't go down off that way, stay off of Twitter,
don't google yourself anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Well, I don't follow the news anymore.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
It's really depressive, it really is.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Start it's so I would just if my eggs are expensive,
I'll just figure it out.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Don't tell me they're expensive. Let me figure it out.
Are they coming down yet? Eggs? I don't think. No,
I don't think so cheaper than therapy tour. You're adding dates.
I just said you. Are you adding more dates? Yeah,
including Jacksonville. Our friend, our friend Froggy. That that screen
of the that's that's Froggy in Jacksonville. Oh. Look he's
(14:40):
in that empty chair. He's not the that's to show
you how well I'm doing here. No, he ran out
to buy tickets to your show Jacksonville. That's hilarious. So
do you I mean, you already have a long list
of venues you're traveling from every every day almost Do
(15:00):
you get excited when they had more dates or it's like, okay,
more dates.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
One day, people are gonna stop buying the tickets. So
I'm hoping, hoping that's not this tour, because that would
be really horrifying.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
It was such a good attitude about all of this.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Really, if I had a therapist, I feel like they'd
say it's self deprecating.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
But that's healthy, is it.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I've never heard that defecating, self defecating. That's deprecating. Do
you just crap all over yourself? So, yeah, I was
about to say, I was about to say, I don't know. Yes, honestly,
this is very fun. It's really going nowhere. I feel
like we're going somewhere. This is a healthy relationship. We
are getting backed, we are getting somewhere. No I know.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I mean we're talking about bowel movements, the Diddy trial.
I can't imagine where where this.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Is going to turn. Hope it does. So let me
ask you this, what do you think about New York City?
Do you like visiting New York I like it a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I'm usually here to do stuff though, so it's definitely
kind of like starting to I had a few days
off where I just didn't do anything, and I get
so lost in the city and the maps don't work.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I don't know if you guys realize this.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Like I'll be on like fifty and then it'll say
I'm like on fifty ninth and I walk in a
circle for like a week.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
And then to ask New Yorker and they accidentally send
you the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, no one really knows where they're going. Everyone's just
figuring it out. Are you still are you West Coast
where I live in Tennessee? Oh god, yeah, that seems
like to be the place that's the gold well.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I've been there for two weeks. I tore eleven months
out of the air. I still have boxes everywhere, but
hopefully I'll be able to unbox things.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Probably.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I think I have like two weeks in November to
be to like unbox things. Nashville isuh yeah, and then
my least is up in December. So I don't know
why I did that, but it's a lot of good ideas.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Why we've got work to do here, and we're here.
I'll be your calls heres. We'll figure this out. I
love it. So are you gonna stay in Tennessee? Maybe?
I think so? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I really like my wife. My wife isn't on tour
with me all the time, and it was getting kind
of bad in LA where people were figuring out where
I lived, and I like how Tennessee is massive, but
also I have a We live in a gated community.
It's really cool, and our neighbors are super like. It's
very Truman Show like, everyone like looks after our house
it's pretty rad and they all know what I do,
and so it's been kind of cool to kind of like,
you know, we get text and be like, hey, your
(17:03):
your gas lanterns out?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Can we can we fix it? And I was like, yeah,
get back up a gas lantern. He's got a gash lantern. Yeah, well,
what can I say?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Things have gone well since ordinary.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
When people were figuring out where you were living, what
you're showing up at your house and being weird? Were
they sending these people were breaking into my hand, They're
lighting cigarettes?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Were they're lighting cigarettes on his gas lantern?
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Wait? Hold on, people were breaking into your house? Yeah,
what's going on? Welcome to La Wait no while you
were home though, No, no, no, no, god, no, no no,
that's scary.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I would say, hey, don't do that, and then hopefully
they wouldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I can't. What's it like to have gas lantern money? Ye?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I see the Mercedes sponsor love, But don't even Tony
even do that? In the office, your our apartments next
to the Diddy trial, we know the penthouse, you know
the phouse.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
He's got his elevator that opens up.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah. I got a question for you, Alex Alex Warren
is here. If you're just wondering who this is, why
are you doing this? Why do you do? What is
it about the music? What I mean? I don't know.
Maybe it's a question that cannot be answered, but what
is it you really? Truly? I want to No, I truly.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I write about what I think is really cool, and
I write about my real life, and so I feel
like in a world where a lot of people are
just trying to make a hit record, it's been really
cool to write songs about losing my parents, falling in love,
and just.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Like what it means to get through that.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I think with when I lost my parents, it was
something interesting where there were so many people surrounded and
so many people came to see us and offer condolences
and things like that. But in a room full of people,
I felt so alone, and no one would talk about
these things. No one would talk about trauma, and no
one would talk about stuff. In the music space, I
think it was always just like breakup songs and hyper
pop and things like that. And I'm really really blessed
(18:57):
to be able to write music about my life and
help a lot of people who might be going through
the same thing. And so it's been really cool. And
when I play live shows, it's been really really it's
been healing from me too to be able to see
that people actually enjoy the records, but they also it's
also helping them in some way. And the gas lantern
is nice.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Side note the gas lanterns what it's about, and it's
just trying to get a sponsor. Yeah, mental health is
the bonus mental health have for so many years has
just swept under the rug. And we're talking about this
the other day. Yeah, we're talking about it all the time,
and you know, and bring it out in the opening
into the light is not a new thing. I mean
we've been doing it for several years now. But yeah,
it's getting better. It's cool to have mommy issues, is it?
(19:42):
I think so? I think I think mommy issues are
good too. Hell yeah, the issue is I don't have
my mommy. It's kind of weird. No, No, we were
talking about mommy issues this past weekend. Really, I don't
think that term came up. We were talking about mom's
relationships with moms and after you lose them, what are
you left with? Yeah? Right, And some people like to say,
(20:03):
well my mom she was not the greatest lady. She
was this and that, and she's gone down. But then,
you know, I'm happy to say has been your fault
as my mom had. I still remember all the wonderful,
glorious things that she brought into my life. What about
you is your mom? Were you actually rolling your eyes
and go, oh my god? That was my mom?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I always thought my mom like I always like held
my mom to a perfect pedestal, and so when she
ever messed up, I was like, you're my mom. You're
supposed to be a perfect role model. And as I
got older and after I lost her, I realized that
my mom for ten years straight, my dad thought with
cancer for four years. So she developed an alcol addiction,
(20:42):
and I think when she was left with crippling debt.
He died right when the recession hit, and you know,
we had nothing to our name, and she had to
raise four kids by herself. And I remember after I
was like, you know what, I judged you for becoming
an alcoholic, but you had the world stacked against do
and so I think that was the biggest thing for me,
is like, you know, I realized that like she was human.
(21:04):
It was her first time living and I shouldn't have
held her to that standard and realize that she's a
human too.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I love the fact that I could admit, yeah, I
got to know my mom and dad after they passed away,
and someone said, well, le's way too late. No, it's
never too late. I really didn't get to know them
until they were gone. I firmly believe you die twice.
I think you die when you die, and then you
die when someone stops telling your story. And I think
it's really really important to always be learning. Like for me,
I didn't know my dad very well, but I'm always
(21:33):
asking questions about him. They're always my family's always telling
stories about them, and it's been really really important to
be able to tell my kids who their grandparents were
and when they come around good. I like that. So
your mom and dads were passed away, get to know
them now. If three for a mom as still alive
but run over with a car today, get to know
where I'm kidding. I'm kind of into it all, right, Okay.
(22:00):
Bottom line, Alex Warren, I think we're this close to
get getting your signed up with Les realized.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
But you were giving me a lot of slack for
my gas lantern you have a gold engraved microphone.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Your microphone has your name on it.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I'm just saying it's a thing, just saying.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I didn't pay for it. You paid for your gas.
You have a very solid point there. So this is
a gift. This is a gift.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Maybe I get my gas gifted by the tenants and
state of Tennessee.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
You don't know me, by the way, can you do
flips like Benson Boone?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I can do whatever you want? Okay, you want me
to do one?
Speaker 6 (22:36):
No, God, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
You just got you just got you. You just got
your voice back. Let's let's keep back. Let's keep you,
Let's keep you healthy. I'll do a flip. I gotta
keep I gotta keep you healthy till December, till dingle Bow,
and then you do whatever you want to do.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
You can bend a boot across the streen. I'll try
to flip. I'll shake your hand until you I'll do
a backflip on the stage once the last time.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
I don't think we should do that.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Wait, can you really do it?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Though?
Speaker 6 (23:02):
I mean, are you going to practice until then?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
We'll find out?
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Okay, oh my.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
God, you want to see a boy this size move
I'll do it. I'm not talking about like harnesses like
pink has. I'm talking about like free I will I
will do a back handspring back flip before you. I
will call me. Call me?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
When is that the Gabby? I think her name? What's
the professional.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Gab? Gabby Douglas. H call me Gabby Douglas. I often
get mistaken for Gabby. Funny enough, that's what I thought.
I'll call you Gabby Douglas if you call me Debbie.
So we'll work on it.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
This is the most interesting interview we've done in a while.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Back Froggy, Froggy, What do you mean we're here with
Alex Warren. What are you eating? Alex? Pop tart? All right?
What flavor? Blueberry, strawberry, cherry strawberry? I spot these with
Daniel last Wenesday. Don't have my poplar? There you go?
Pop tarts? We were just talking about. He just added
(24:04):
to Jacksonville to his tour. And the reason, yeah, the
reason you weren't in there because you're out buying tickets? Yes,
are you which? Which venue are you coming to?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Well you would have known if you about the ticket.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Chuck E Cheese. He's performing at Chuck E Cheese and Jacksonville.
Maybe we just got a new venue called the Five.
We got a new venue called deck Out. And if
he was coming to one of our new venues or
somewhere we've been, they're looking it up. You have fifteen
people here. Maybe one of them will tell you where
you're going to be. Literally all of them are. He's
actually what do I say? Daily?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
No, daily? Just big. That's a big venue. All that's awesome. Yeah,
it's great.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
It's to see whopping three hundred people there in a
few months, it's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Big, Alex. True, we got to play ordinary. Please. I
love that. My producer's yelling at me, yelling, sternly looking, Yeah,
all right, we'll play ordinary, Alex. It's a pleasure meeting you.
Thank you for having me, Alex. I'll I'll give him
a standing ovation, right the f Now what are you standing?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
You can't tell.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
She's so sure, we don't know if she's standing with Jesus.
Thank you so much having me. This is right, Thanks
for being had. It was good to have you here,
and all the best to you because you're just so
much just on the surface, because that's all we know
you through. I mean you're you're a great guy.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
You seem like a nice guy.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I don't know if you go deeper, I don't know.
It's it's all press training. Then you come back next
time a little we'll go a little deeper. Amazing, all right,
Alex Warren. Thanks
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