Celebrity Interview: Alex Warren is Anything But "The Ordinary"

Alex Warren joins us to discuss his recent rise to fame with his smash hit "The Ordinary"! 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Fly from the Mercedes fins.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
And rewound calmed down. We're this close to talking Alex
Warren into coming to jingle Ball.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Yeah, thank you. What are the possibilities? You don't have
to convince me. I'm there. There's no convincing. It requires.

Speaker 4 (00:17):
I do have a question, though, what do you require
in your backstage area, like in your dressing room, your.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Rider's what's on your rider? What's on the Alex Warren rider?

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Puppies? Puppies, darn puppies would.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Be cool alive were cooked?

Speaker 3 (00:32):
My god, you have just jump straight into it.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
I don't know. I don't know if you eat dogs
or not.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Alex has a lot of allergies. You might have to
be careful. What's back there?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, I mean, who cares? Honestly? If I go, we
have enough zerotech to kill a horse. So we're kind
of just we're kind of ripping out, are you saying?
One of our paid sponsors, zero Tech kills horses where
you could buy and target? All right, but to start over, Hey, welcome,
Welcome to the show, Alex.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Pleasure of sheer, pleasure to have.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
You, and that one clap meant everything.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Golf.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's a golf game.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
I love to think, so.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
So okay, let's start with ordinary. I was looking at
the list 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,
South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom. Peaked within the top

(01:39):
ten of the charts in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland,
Portugal and Sweden.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh my goodness, you do have a wonderful face. Thank
you so much.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
I'm not even a mother.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
So it's hitting, it's hitting hard.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
It's cool.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
I mean, are you feeling it? Are you taking the
time to like, go, okay, this is good?

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, I mean, and 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,

(02:19):
and my wife love loves to remind me that song
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 (02:30):
So she's taking credit for your song? Oh of course,
pretty much.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
My success is her success.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
So okay, oh wow, to say that again.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
My success is her success?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well do you mean that though?

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah? I think my wife and if you know the story,
like we we kind of went through all this together.
It's it's been cool.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
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 you're your set list are getting
longer and longer, you've got vocal cords, you have, you
have a throat that has to be working at all times.

(03:08):
Don't answer that. I didn't ask a question. Being a
vocalist can be can be rough. I mean if you're
on the road and then you hit some notes that
were are 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 (03:28):
I mean I wasn't always like a good singer like
I you're just.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Saying you're a good singer.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Now, I would say I'm somewhat decent.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Hope, So.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
He came on to be insulted today.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
No, I 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,
you do shows every day, Like sometimes we'll go with

(04:02):
five shows in a row, seven shows in a row,
and at 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 1 (04:10):
I bet your wife loves that.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
She actually hates it with a passion. Yeah, communicating 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 (04:22):
Well you've come to the right place.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, but but truly, Yeah, it's been. It's it's definitely
interesting because 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 (04:43):
As in the acids like tomatoes and things like that.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yes, yeah, acidic foods like you think, like a lot
of I just eat chicken and corn when I sing,
no joke, it's all eight.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Get bored it.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
No, I don't care about food really that much.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Oh my god, get out of here. Yeah yeah, yeah,
bunch of goombabs. We like Italian food. Yeah, you know,
I'm just I just had a thought. I don't have
any artist names, but people artists, vocal artists who train constantly.
I wonder how their voices evolve over the course of

(05:18):
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 5 (05:27):
I mean, Eddy 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.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
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 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 singer as like just naturally gifted,

(06:02):
bored and singer. But a lot of times, a lot
of it's learned.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Wow, why want 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 differently.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, I mean lous Capaldi's always sound the same, though.
I love Batman is so talented.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
He's he's back in the seat again right, performed somewhere recently.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
So we're hoping that's real.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yes, that it seems to be like it's just random
old performances and people just go back.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
I mean he's shown up somewhere the other day. He
actually stuck around and like really, and then I had
yet to meet that man.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
I want to meet him.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
This guy, we've had him on a few times. He's nicety,
a sweetheart, just turning as on. Alex Warren is here.
We're gonna play ordinary for you in a minute. We're
going to talk about the too. Were gonna talk about
a lot of suff going to talk about jingle Ball, yes,
because I've already offered sexual favors to Alex and I
politely accepted a nice guy.

Speaker 6 (06:55):
So for people who don't know your life, Storry, 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 high 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 3 (07:13):
Downhill?

Speaker 2 (07:14):
No?

Speaker 3 (07:17):
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.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
The toilet blew up very well.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Could the chicken side effect of oziampic is absolutely killing
your Okay, so I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, But the video
got like timbion used. 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 musician.
This would be really cool. I put out a song
I wrote about the loss of my father and it

(07:59):
did really well, and the rest is history.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
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 3 (08:11):
Whatever this is must be nice, do you? Okay?

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Probably pretty much? To answer my question, yeah, No, but
I mean, do you I don't want to get too crazy,
but do you find yourself chasing them in your dreams,
going hey, look what I'm doing here and hoping that
if they were still here it would change the dynamic
of that relationship.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
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 (08:50):
Well, this is what I'm thinking about, and I want
people to understand that through grief and through loss, you
have to recognize what you gain.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah. 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 to 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.

(09:18):
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 have 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 (09:35):
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

(09:56):
things that happened to you in life as you should
be for all the wonderful, wonderful, brightly colored things happened
to you in life. And I think unless we stop,
unless we unless we totally forget to stop and think
about that, and 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 to lass

(10:18):
you gotta you gotta, you gotta be thankful for it too.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Yeah, And don't get me wrong, there's still parts of me.
I mean, I 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

(10:40):
think that's always always a difficult thing. But at least
I am gonna play jingle Ball.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Okay, let's talk about that. Okay, I was talking to
about it, And let me give you several reasons why
we have to have Alex Warren at jingle Ball. That
number one number one. He's festive as f on stage.
You had to have a great as it's 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 you're not
even conscious about what you do on stage. I don't know.

(11:08):
You're great on stage. Thank you, music's great.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
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 6 (11:17):
Okay, well you carry jingle Ball basically, I will, I will,
I will, I.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Will carry jingle Ball on my back. I got you
don't know. I will always carry Elvis's ball.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
So it's gonna as long as they're dangling. Wait, text
message is not gonna lie. I'm crying tears of joy
listening to you guys. Interview Alex Warren. He's definitely my
favorite artist. I'm freaking out.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh my gosh, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Don't look at this because sometimes they're bad. Really.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, yeah, I look my name up on Twitter all
the time.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
It is horrid.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
Hey, Alex, do you have anyone you'd like us to
invite to jingle Ball as well?

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Like to be on the stage, you know, with you
or something? You know, maybe we can make it happen
like a mascot?

Speaker 2 (11:56):
No, like it?

Speaker 4 (11:56):
Maybe another artist is there you would like?

Speaker 5 (12:03):
This is good.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
I'm glad you brought this upject mat 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? No,
did you think this through?

Speaker 6 (12:14):
Like?

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Man, I've gotten compared a lot to the Michelin man like.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Marshmallow.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah, is mister Matt here today? I have I had this,
I have the pigment of a marshmallow. Let's rick it ript.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
I'm saying, like, maybe another artist you'd like.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Oh oh, I was just thinking.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
I think 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, right.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I love Somber guy.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, and he's nineteen years old.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
He is.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Yeah, he's a young one. Yeah. It makes me feel old. Look,
I know I look thirty five, but I'm twenty four.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
What is that saying to Daddy?

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Could we keep them?

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah? We love Alex. We're keeping you.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
What is happening?

Speaker 2 (13:06):
He called me daddy and asked if we could keep you?

Speaker 3 (13:08):
He did yes, Okay, cool, I'm not gonna judge your king,
that's your thing.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Speaking of following the Didty trial at all, No, I'm
not don't. Really it's sad.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
It's sad, is it. It's so sad.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
It is sad. Okay, let's not go down down there
roads around me anything.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
It's just said that a human being could treat other
human beings the way he did that.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Oh gosh. Any political 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 you think about it?
President Trump on trial? I mean, just name him. Sure,

(13:54):
there's it's a carnival atmosphere right right now. It's it's
pretty big, the d anything.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Oh my goodness, I've been following it.

Speaker 6 (14:00):
I don't go off that way, stay off of Twitter,
don't google yourself anymore.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Well, I don't follow the news anymore.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
It's really depressive, it really is.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Start it's so I would just if my eggs are expensive,
I'll just figure it out. Don't tell me. Don't tell
me they're expensive.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Let me figure it out. Are they coming down yet, eggs.
I don't think.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
No, I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
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 that screen of that's that's
Froggy in Jacksonville. Oh look he's chair, he's not down.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
That's to show you how well I'm doing here.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
No, 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 you get excited when they
add more dates or just like, okay, more dates?

Speaker 3 (14:57):
One day people are going to stop buying the tickets.
So I'm hoping that's not this tour because that would
be really horrifying.

Speaker 6 (15:03):
There was such a good attitude about all of this.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Really, if I had a therapist, I feel like they'd say,
it's self deprecating.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
But that's healthy, is it? Yeah, first I've ever heard
that that's self defecating. Self defecating, that's deprecating. Do you
just crap all over yourself?

Speaker 3 (15:16):
So yeah, I was about to say I was about
to say I don't know it came in today. 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 back, we are getting somewhere now. I know
I'm we're talking about Bowel movements, the Didy trial. I
can't imagine where this is going to turn.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
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 (15:41):
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 this city and the maps don't work.
I don't know if you guys realized this. Like I'll
be on like fifty six and then it'll say I'm
like on fifty ninth and I walk in the circle
for like a week.

Speaker 6 (15:57):
It's insane, and asking New Yorker in the accident at
least send you the wrong way.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah, no one really knows where they're going.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
I think everyone's just figuring it out. Are you still
are you West Coast? Where do I live in Tennessee?

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Oh? God?

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, that seems like to be the place that's the
gold well.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
I've been there for two weeks. I tore eleven months
out of the year. I still have boxes everywhere, but
hopefully I'll be able to unbox things. Probably. I think
I have like two weeks in November to be to
like unbox things Nashville issue. Yeah, and then my least
is up in December. So I don't know why I.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Did that, but it's a lot of good ideas. Why
we've got work to do here, and we're here. I'll
be your calls heres. We'll please fgure this out. I
love it. So are you going to stay in Tennessee? Maybe?

Speaker 3 (16:35):
I think so? Yeah. 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.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Like looks after our house. It's pretty rad.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
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 your gas
lanterns out? Can we can we fix it?

Speaker 2 (16:59):
And I was like, get back up a gas lantern.
He's got a gash lantern.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
What can I say? Things have gone Wilsons or there?

Speaker 6 (17:09):
When people were figuring out where you were living, were
you showing up at your house and being weird? Were
they sending things to.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
People were breaking into my house?

Speaker 2 (17:16):
They're lighting cigarettes there we were. They're lighting cigarettes on
his gas lantern?

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Wait hold on, people were breaking into your house? Yeah,
what's going on now? Come to la Wait?

Speaker 1 (17:25):
No no you were home though?

Speaker 3 (17:26):
No, no, no, no, god, no, no, that's scary. I would say, hey,
don't do that, and then hopefully they wouldn't do it.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
I can't. What's it like to have gas lantern money?

Speaker 3 (17:37):
I see the Mercedes sponsor logo.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Don't even Tony even do that?

Speaker 3 (17:41):
In the Alvis your apartments next to the Diddy trial,
we know the penthouse, you know.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
The house he's got his own elevator that opens up.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
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.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
I wanted an no, I truly. 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 like

(18:27):
what it means to go through that. 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.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
No one.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
No one would talk about trauma, 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 to be able
to write music about my real 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

(19:03):
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 lanterns.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Nice side note.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
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 so many years has just swept under
the rug. And we're talking about this the other day
and 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 it's getting better.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
It's cool to have mommy issues, is it. I think so.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
I think mommy issues are good too.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
Hell yeah, this issue is I don't have my mommy.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
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?

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Right?

Speaker 2 (19:53):
And some people like to say, well, my mom, she
was not the greatest lady. She was this and she's
gone now. But then, you know, I'm happy to say
as many fault as my mom had I still remember
all the wonderful, glorious things that she brought into my life. Yeah,
what about you? Is your mom? Well you actually roll
in your eyes and go, oh my god, that was
my mom.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
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 what my dad thought
with cancer for four years. So she developed an alcohol

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addiction 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.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
She had to raise four kids by herself.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
And I remember after I was like, you know what,
I judged you for becoming an alcoholic, but you had
the world stacked against you. And so I think that
was the biggest thing for me, is like, you know,
I realized that like she was human. It was her
first time living and I shouldn't have held her that
that standard and realize that she's a human too.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
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, that'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 them. They're always my family's always telling
stories about him, and it's been really really important to
be able to tell my kids who their grandparents were
and when they come around good.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
So your mom and dads were passed away, get to
know them now. If for a mom is still alive,
run over with a car today, get to know where
I'm kidding.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
I'm kind of into it, all right, Okay.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Bottom line, Alex Warren, I think we're this close to
getting getting your signed up with You just.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Realized, but you were giving me a lot of slack
for my gas lantern. You have a gold engraved microphone.
Your microphone has your name on it. I'm just saying,
it's just saying.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
I didn't pay for it. You paid for your gas.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
You have a very solid point there.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
So this is a gift. This is a gift.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
Maybe I get my gas gifted by the tenants and
state of Tennessee.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
You don't know me, by the way, Can you do
flips like Benson Boone?

Speaker 3 (22:26):
I can do whatever you want? Okay, you want me
to do one?

Speaker 2 (22:29):
No, God, no, no, no, you just you just got
your voice back. Let me, 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, until dingle Bow,
and then you do whatever you want to do.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
You can bend a boot across the street. 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 6 (22:52):
I don't think we should do that.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Wait, can you really do it?

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Though?

Speaker 1 (22:55):
I mean, are you going to practice until then?

Speaker 3 (22:57):
We'll find out?

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Okay, my 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.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
I will do a back handspring back foot before you.
I will call me, call me. When is that the Gabby.
I think her name, what's the professional Gabby Douglas. Yeah,
call me Gabby Douglas. I didn't get mistaken for Gabby.
Funny enough, that's what I thought.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
I'll call you Gabby Douglas if you call me Debbie.
So we'll work on it.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
This is the most interesting interview we've done in a while.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Back Froggy, froggy, froggy, What do you mean we're here
with Alex Warren? What are you eating, Alex? Pop tart?

Speaker 6 (23:46):
All right?

Speaker 2 (23:48):
What flavor? Blueberry strawberry? Cherry strawberry' what these with Daniel
last Wednesday? Don't have my pop? There you go pop tarts?
We were just talking about he just added a Jacksonville
to his tour. And the reasonally, the reason you weren't
there because you're out buying tickets? Yes, are you go? Which?
Which venue are you coming to?

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Well you would have known if you about the ticket, I.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Would have 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 booked. They're looking it up. Yeah,
you have fifteen people here. Maybe one of them tell
you where you're going to be.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
Literally all of them are.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
He's actually what do I say? Daily? Oh? No, daily
is big. That's a big venue.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
All that's awesome. Yeah, it's great. It's you can see
walking three hundred people there in a few months.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
It's gonna be big, Alex. True, Well, you got to
play ordinary, please.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
My producer's yelling at me.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yelling, sternly looking, Yeah, all.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Right, we'll play ordinary, Alex. It's a pleasure meeting you.
Thank you for having me. I'll give him a standing ovation,
right the f Now you know what else? Are you standing?

Speaker 6 (25:03):
You can't tell.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
She's so sure, we don't know if she's standing or no.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Jesus, thank you so much having me.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
This is right. Thanks for being had. It was good
to have you here, and all the best to you
because you're so much just on the surface, because that's
all we know you through. I mean, you're you're a
great guy.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
You seem like a nice guy.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
I don't know if you go deeper, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
It's it's all press training.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Then you come back next time a little bit we'll
go a little deeper.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Amazing all right, Alex Warreant. Thanks