December 27, 2024 • 19 mins
In 2024 we had so many amazing people stop by Elvis Duran and the Morning Show. Here's one of our favorites!
Andy Grammer joins us to talk about his album, "Monster", out October 4th!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lounge that year. It's my birthday. I showed up and
Andy Grammer's and they're singing.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It was so cool.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Hell is he doing?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
He got long? Where's Andy Grammer button? There is Andy Grammer's.
How many years ago?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
How many years ago was that? Do you remember? Seventy
five years ago?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
It was that.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It feels like and the balloons are still floating. Hey,
it's so good to have you here.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I love you, dude, It's so good to see you.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
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 it's an old line, but it's true.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
That is really sweet of you.
Speaker 1 (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 walked into a room.
What is it about him? Let's talk about it.
Speaker 5 (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, make a big turn here, Danielle. Yes, pretend he's
not here.
Speaker 6 (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 3 (01:14):
Just okay, all right, even if you're.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
In a crappy mood, when you come in, we get
in a good mood.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
That makes me happy. Yeah, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (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 as you walk in, right,
there's a card.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You Oh yeah this, I'm doing a one man show
right now. It's just wild. So okay.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
What is written on the card is I enter the
okay seven?
Speaker 7 (01:49):
So yeah, we're in a mini break and I'm going
back out for another month of this one man show.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
It's called Greater Than.
Speaker 7 (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 where you'd do it right now, write the
name of someone who saved your life.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Mentally physically or spiritually.
Speaker 1 (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 3 (02:21):
But you you would write someone.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I would say, I would say, my dad, your dad, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (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 then me would have a
conversation about it before I played a song called save
my life.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Ah wild, no way.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
If I'm in the audience, why do I have to
use a phone?
Speaker 7 (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 he save your life?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
He saved my life? By example? Like just yeah, you
always had the line that saved the day.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yeah, he knew, he was like on it.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Simple things, okay, ask Goudie. Another question, asked Daniel.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Okay, so the next one is write down an active
service you've done for someone else.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Doesn't have to be huge or could be or small whatever.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Okay, an active service. I'm going to take this very
literally and say, I volunteer to do a community cook
food for people who don't have enough food.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Thanks, And I'm currently writing postcards that threaten people to vote, all.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Right, Daniel.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Daniel gives Okay, uh, name someone that you deeply loved
that has passed my dad?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Your dad did, Yeah, he died almost five years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh wow, Okay, can I go actually in with you
right now? Sure?
Speaker 7 (03:40):
So then you would stand up every apply to you,
go to a phone, you pick it up, and I
would say, finish the statement for me.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I hope you're proud of me for.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Oh gosh, please for just always trying to be honest
and caring and a nice person.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Yes, and I want to thank you for.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
For instilling those things in me and always being somebody
that I look up to.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
One thing I always admired about you was how.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Strong you were and how much you always did for
your family.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
And then I feel your presence most when.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
All the time you send me signs all the time
like yeah, wow.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
What a Burmer show is? The show shows am so sweet.
Speaker 7 (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 1 (04:38):
Whoa, that is awesome cool and you know what, And
as she was about to break out and down into
his ears, so are 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 heel it with your shoe.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
You I don't know anyway, but I love I.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
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 3 (05:17):
Thank you. I mean, in between all this stuff that's happening.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
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 I thought I was going.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Up on the second, like, what.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
The hell is there?
Speaker 7 (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.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And when you.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
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 6 (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 1 (05:59):
Right, Yeah, people are lonely. You know, we're talking about
you know, the only fans craze. I'm sure you haven't
only fans, Yeah, totally.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Well you come to mind and cry hear me out.
Speaker 1 (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 5 (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 3 (06:45):
Totally. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (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 that
everybody should read.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (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. Thanks, I'm crying. I
just parked at work. Why do you do this to me?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Another one?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Why does Eddie Grammar me cry every time I hear
him talk. And here's one it's just simply 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.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
So the Monster is I, uh just 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 I'm 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.
(08:07):
And it was forced out of me at this period
of my life where I'm like, oh, I'm losing authenticity
if I don't actually deal with some of the anger
that I have.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Good, I'm glad you're doing that.
Speaker 7 (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 1 (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 7 (08:46):
And I was really worried that if I sang about it,
it might bum people out or take him down.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And I found its exact opposite.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
People like, oh yeah, me as well, and nine like
a destructive way, just like honesty, there's truth in it.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I feel better about my because Andy Krammer is miserable.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Misery miserable.
Speaker 1 (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 Alba Oh Magic, Thank you, Nate.
But also so Jeremy's here with you, yes, and Jeremy was.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
With you last time.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
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 having we're having testical difficulties.
So you want to do a song I.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Want to say that for the rest of my life difficulties.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
If you steal that for me, you steal that from me,
you're stolen. Several times I was telling that's not an original.
What song are you and Jeremy doing?
Speaker 7 (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 together there. And I
went into my studio and I sat by myself and
I wrote a song where I envisioned like blasting.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
It out of out of my myself.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Okay, so here we go, all right, Well that is
so strong, that is so beautiful.
Speaker 7 (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.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
We wanted cheer oh, guys.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
You guys didn't by everybody they usually do.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Ye wanted to, but we wanted to be nice and yes,
t if you meant the smartest man in the world
Mark Adams.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, of course many times, like how's it going?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
He's so smart he flew all the way across the
country just to be here with you.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
That is that makes me really happy.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
He is the smartest man in the world.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Smartest.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It's frightening. Hey, so this month means a lot for you.
It's it's a brast camp. Start wearing this month. You've
done a lot of work with Susan G.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Colemane.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Talk about it. What is your connection with this month?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
And Susan G.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Comen So I lost my mom when I was twenty
five to breast answer 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's a no brainer to partner with.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Them, right, you know, and cancer itself, I mean, be
it breast cancer or testiicular cancer which we had in
my family. And you know next month is November.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Are you gonna grow at your Oh you already did.
I mean, yeah, you already at your most I tried, it.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Gets really itchy. Do you ever have a beard?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
But you have one now?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I mean yeah, but like this is scrutt No, have
you ever done like a full beard?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I look like burl Ives.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
I would actually really enjoy like a like a really
like well manicured, like full thing for me.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
That would be really interesting.
Speaker 1 (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 7 (11:53):
I think my mom, we caught it pretty late, so
that's always just kind of in the.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Back of your brain.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Yeah, that's what we were saying yesterday. Your appointments for mammograms,
don't wait. 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.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You don't want to know. You have to know, you
got right exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Go figure go find out.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yes, yes, hey, you know what I think the show
should make a contribution to Susan gi Common and 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 3 (12:26):
Yes? Figured that out. Yeah, you're gonna make me cry.
So this one man show.
Speaker 7 (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 3 (12:37):
There's like a quote that I talked about with.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
It, and 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 1 (12:56):
All Right, I wrote down a number.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Okay, I'm holding it.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Up to my head.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
He's not a mentalist.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (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 be on your mom.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (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 7 (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, big deal
to me. Now you got me crying. I didn't know
that we're going to do this.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
No, wait a minute, now, hold on, what does she
get in heaven?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I want to know.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Let's let's make some let's make assumptions.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
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 3 (13:38):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Uh, I can't think of it right now because I'm
so flustered by this number that.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
What's the gesting, the gist of it.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Is just 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 1 (13:58):
I've never heard that. That is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That is beautiful.
Speaker 7 (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 I.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Don't know what.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Okay, Andy Grammer just said, the brown work.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
We have to dump.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
It's so fitting.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Pick it up there.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Okay, So you asked Daniel those three questions about her
dad who had pass away. Do you answer those questions
in your show Your Mom? Do you have those same answers?
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Yeah, it's a big poem at the end that's pretty
brutal and sweet and lovely.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
What do you think she'd be most proud of you for?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Ooh, I think she'd be proud of me for consistently
trying to take things deeper than they are.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
That's what what she was all about.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
And what are you most thankful to her.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
For for.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Uh being a buzzkill about a lot of stuff?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah, because he did it because she loves you.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Yeah, like when you get really excited about things that
don't matter. She just didn't care.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Andy Gremer question, Yeah, if your mother could speak directly,
she had one of those phones that you have.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yes, Yes, and.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
She would say, Andy, you need to let yourself off
the hook about this.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
What would that be, Oh, we're crushing me right now.
This is good. Uh, there's a lot of weight to
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 3 (15:50):
I think she'd probably said that I have one more.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
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 beautiful like everything. Did your mom have a
favorite word?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Favorite word? You know?
Speaker 7 (16:08):
What's coming to my brain is so stupid because like
now that all the slang is changing, so there's like skibdity,
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.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
All the time, like, oh, you're so cool, dude. She
had a point.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Okay, last one.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
And which way does she come to you the most?
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (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 2 (16:45):
It's awesome, so cool.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I would call from Hope, High Hope and beautiful, Oh beautiful, Burlington, Vermont.
How's it going up there, Hope?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
It's good.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, we're great 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 Andy?
Speaker 4 (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 3 (17:23):
It was amazing, stamina. You are a sweetheart, lovely. Thank
you so much. I really appreciate that. It was. Yeah,
it was great, Hope.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
If you go online Monsters waiting for you, you can pre
order it right now, So please.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Do we already did.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Thank you for listening to us.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
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 downer for you.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Instructions for Handy's show, Sing, Dance, laugh, contemplate life, saab
uncontrollably rise, and.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
All right, we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I'm gonna play Magic. This is another another cup 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.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
That's not what I want to hear from you.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Bub when you play in these spaces, then like what
you're saying, you said, wonder wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 7 (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 in my life.
And I wrote a song about how I want more
of that.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (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? Now are
you I'm on the road. You can go to my
anti Gramm 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. All right, one man show greater than come.
Do those five steps at my show. Don't forget to
(19:12):
wrench and repeat Andy Grammar
Lounge that year. It's my birthday. I showed up and
Andy Grammer's and they're singing.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It was so cool.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Hell is he doing?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
He got long? Where's Andy Grammer button? There is Andy Grammer's.
How many years ago?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
How many years ago was that? Do you remember? Seventy
five years ago?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
It was that.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It feels like and the balloons are still floating. Hey,
it's so good to have you here.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I love you, dude, It's so good to see you.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
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 it's an old line, but it's true.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
That is really sweet of you.
Speaker 1 (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 walked into a room.
What is it about him? Let's talk about it.
Speaker 5 (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, make a big turn here, Danielle. Yes, pretend he's
not here.
Speaker 6 (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 3 (01:14):
Just okay, all right, even if you're.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
In a crappy mood, when you come in, we get
in a good mood.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
That makes me happy. Yeah, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (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 as you walk in, right,
there's a card.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You Oh yeah this, I'm doing a one man show
right now. It's just wild. So okay.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
What is written on the card is I enter the
okay seven?
Speaker 7 (01:49):
So yeah, we're in a mini break and I'm going
back out for another month of this one man show.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
It's called Greater Than.
Speaker 7 (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 where you'd do it right now, write the
name of someone who saved your life.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Mentally physically or spiritually.
Speaker 1 (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 3 (02:21):
But you you would write someone.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I would say, I would say, my dad, your dad, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (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 then me would have a
conversation about it before I played a song called save
my life.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Ah wild, no way.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
If I'm in the audience, why do I have to
use a phone?
Speaker 7 (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 he save your life?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
He saved my life? By example? Like just yeah, you
always had the line that saved the day.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yeah, he knew, he was like on it.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Simple things, okay, ask Goudie. Another question, asked Daniel.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Okay, so the next one is write down an active
service you've done for someone else.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Doesn't have to be huge or could be or small whatever.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Okay, an active service. I'm going to take this very
literally and say, I volunteer to do a community cook
food for people who don't have enough food.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Thanks, And I'm currently writing postcards that threaten people to vote, all.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Right, Daniel.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Daniel gives Okay, uh, name someone that you deeply loved
that has passed my dad?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Your dad did, Yeah, he died almost five years ago.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh wow, Okay, can I go actually in with you
right now? Sure?
Speaker 7 (03:40):
So then you would stand up every apply to you,
go to a phone, you pick it up, and I
would say, finish the statement for me.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I hope you're proud of me for.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Oh gosh, please for just always trying to be honest
and caring and a nice person.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Yes, and I want to thank you for.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
For instilling those things in me and always being somebody
that I look up to.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
One thing I always admired about you was how.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Strong you were and how much you always did for
your family.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
And then I feel your presence most when.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
All the time you send me signs all the time
like yeah, wow.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
What a Burmer show is? The show shows am so sweet.
Speaker 7 (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 1 (04:38):
Whoa, that is awesome cool and you know what, And
as she was about to break out and down into
his ears, so are 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 heel it with your shoe.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
You I don't know anyway, but I love I.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
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 3 (05:17):
Thank you. I mean, in between all this stuff that's happening.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
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 I thought I was going.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Up on the second, like, what.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
The hell is there?
Speaker 7 (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.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And when you.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
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 6 (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 1 (05:59):
Right, Yeah, people are lonely. You know, we're talking about
you know, the only fans craze. I'm sure you haven't
only fans, Yeah, totally.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Well you come to mind and cry hear me out.
Speaker 1 (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 5 (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 3 (06:45):
Totally. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (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 that
everybody should read.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (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. Thanks, I'm crying. I
just parked at work. Why do you do this to me?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Another one?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Why does Eddie Grammar me cry every time I hear
him talk. And here's one it's just simply 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.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
So the Monster is I, uh just 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 I'm 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.
(08:07):
And it was forced out of me at this period
of my life where I'm like, oh, I'm losing authenticity
if I don't actually deal with some of the anger
that I have.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Good, I'm glad you're doing that.
Speaker 7 (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 1 (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 7 (08:46):
And I was really worried that if I sang about it,
it might bum people out or take him down.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And I found its exact opposite.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
People like, oh yeah, me as well, and nine like
a destructive way, just like honesty, there's truth in it.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I feel better about my because Andy Krammer is miserable.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Misery miserable.
Speaker 1 (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 Alba Oh Magic, Thank you, Nate.
But also so Jeremy's here with you, yes, and Jeremy was.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
With you last time.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
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 having we're having testical difficulties.
So you want to do a song I.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Want to say that for the rest of my life difficulties.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
If you steal that for me, you steal that from me,
you're stolen. Several times I was telling that's not an original.
What song are you and Jeremy doing?
Speaker 7 (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 together there. And I
went into my studio and I sat by myself and
I wrote a song where I envisioned like blasting.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
It out of out of my myself.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Okay, so here we go, all right, Well that is
so strong, that is so beautiful.
Speaker 7 (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.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
We wanted cheer oh, guys.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
You guys didn't by everybody they usually do.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Ye wanted to, but we wanted to be nice and yes,
t if you meant the smartest man in the world
Mark Adams.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, of course many times, like how's it going?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
He's so smart he flew all the way across the
country just to be here with you.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
That is that makes me really happy.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
He is the smartest man in the world.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Smartest.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It's frightening. Hey, so this month means a lot for you.
It's it's a brast camp. Start wearing this month. You've
done a lot of work with Susan G.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Colemane.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Talk about it. What is your connection with this month?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
And Susan G.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Comen So I lost my mom when I was twenty
five to breast answer 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's a no brainer to partner with.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Them, right, you know, and cancer itself, I mean, be
it breast cancer or testiicular cancer which we had in
my family. And you know next month is November.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Are you gonna grow at your Oh you already did.
I mean, yeah, you already at your most I tried, it.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Gets really itchy. Do you ever have a beard?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
But you have one now?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I mean yeah, but like this is scrutt No, have
you ever done like a full beard?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I look like burl Ives.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
I would actually really enjoy like a like a really
like well manicured, like full thing for me.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
That would be really interesting.
Speaker 1 (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 7 (11:53):
I think my mom, we caught it pretty late, so
that's always just kind of in the.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Back of your brain.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Yeah, that's what we were saying yesterday. Your appointments for mammograms,
don't wait. 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.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You don't want to know. You have to know, you
got right exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Go figure go find out.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yes, yes, hey, you know what I think the show
should make a contribution to Susan gi Common and 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 3 (12:26):
Yes? Figured that out. Yeah, you're gonna make me cry.
So this one man show.
Speaker 7 (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 3 (12:37):
There's like a quote that I talked about with.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
It, and 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 1 (12:56):
All Right, I wrote down a number.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Okay, I'm holding it.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Up to my head.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
He's not a mentalist.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (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 be on your mom.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (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 7 (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, big deal
to me. Now you got me crying. I didn't know
that we're going to do this.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
No, wait a minute, now, hold on, what does she
get in heaven?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I want to know.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Let's let's make some let's make assumptions.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
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 3 (13:38):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Uh, I can't think of it right now because I'm
so flustered by this number that.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
What's the gesting, the gist of it.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Is just 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 1 (13:58):
I've never heard that. That is beautiful.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That is beautiful.
Speaker 7 (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 I.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Don't know what.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Okay, Andy Grammer just said, the brown work.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
We have to dump.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
It's so fitting.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Pick it up there.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Okay, So you asked Daniel those three questions about her
dad who had pass away. Do you answer those questions
in your show Your Mom? Do you have those same answers?
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Yeah, it's a big poem at the end that's pretty
brutal and sweet and lovely.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
What do you think she'd be most proud of you for?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Ooh, I think she'd be proud of me for consistently
trying to take things deeper than they are.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
That's what what she was all about.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
And what are you most thankful to her.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
For for.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Uh being a buzzkill about a lot of stuff?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah, because he did it because she loves you.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Yeah, like when you get really excited about things that
don't matter. She just didn't care.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Andy Gremer question, Yeah, if your mother could speak directly,
she had one of those phones that you have.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yes, Yes, and.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
She would say, Andy, you need to let yourself off
the hook about this.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
What would that be, Oh, we're crushing me right now.
This is good. Uh, there's a lot of weight to
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 3 (15:50):
I think she'd probably said that I have one more.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
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 beautiful like everything. Did your mom have a
favorite word?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Favorite word? You know?
Speaker 7 (16:08):
What's coming to my brain is so stupid because like
now that all the slang is changing, so there's like skibdity,
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.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
All the time, like, oh, you're so cool, dude. She
had a point.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Okay, last one.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
And which way does she come to you the most?
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (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 2 (16:45):
It's awesome, so cool.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I would call from Hope, High Hope and beautiful, Oh beautiful, Burlington, Vermont.
How's it going up there, Hope?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
It's good.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, we're great 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 Andy?
Speaker 4 (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 3 (17:23):
It was amazing, stamina. You are a sweetheart, lovely. Thank
you so much. I really appreciate that. It was. Yeah,
it was great, Hope.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
If you go online Monsters waiting for you, you can pre
order it right now, So please.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Do we already did.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Thank you for listening to us.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
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 downer for you.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Instructions for Handy's show, Sing, Dance, laugh, contemplate life, saab
uncontrollably rise, and.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
All right, we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I'm gonna play Magic. This is another another cup 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.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
That's not what I want to hear from you.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Bub when you play in these spaces, then like what
you're saying, you said, wonder wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 7 (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 in my life.
And I wrote a song about how I want more
of that.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (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? Now are
you I'm on the road. You can go to my
anti Gramm 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. All right, one man show greater than come.
Do those five steps at my show. Don't forget to
(19:12):
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