Dan + Shay are hitting all of the high notes as they drop in with Cody Alan on the Cody Cast podcast. Listen in to hear Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney laugh as Dan reveals the odd birthday wish that he recently requested from his friends on Facebook. And, it’s not just birthdays that we are celebrating! Dan + Shay also share which songs are the most fun to perform, which Hollywood actor Shay is crushing on, and the “Glad You Exist” singers list off their favorite things.
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This is Cody Ellen's podcast. This is Cody Cast. Gentlemen,
It's it's Shane. I mean, what a day. I mean
to be talking to you on Dan's birthday? What is
going on about that? Man? What a birthday gift? How
are you? Man? Happy? Happy birthday? Happy happy. I used
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to work at Olive Garden. That's how we did it. Happy.
So yeah, how are you? How's the birthday so far?
What do you expect from well from from the day.
Fantastic so far, man. A lot of good things happening
to us, no pun intended. We got the number one
song in the country right now, the album sending a
number one, and may we got a new single going
to country radio, so hopefully most Saturday country radio. That's
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the goal. I put it out there, you know, on
Facebook this morning. You know that's where I'm preds with
a lot of country radio folks. I was like, Hey,
it's my birthday. You know you want to give me
a gift. Maybe an ad would be great, so that
that would be a wonderful, wonderful President. We'll tell us
about still My Love because I feel like it's going
to be one of those songs. It's fun to perform live.
Am I right, yeah, man, that's you know, that's one
of the reasons we picked it as a single. We're
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going back on the road, you know, things are opening
back up, the arena, tours happening, and you know, it
was just one of those ones that we would listen to,
we would feel good, everybody would smile and listening to it,
and just you know, we knew it would pop off
at the show, and we did it for the first
time and naturally the other night, and the song had
been out for like eighteen hours, and as soon as
we jumped into that first note, people were singing along
and and dancing, and uh, you know, it was exactly
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kind of what we'd expected and more. And uh, man,
I heard it on the radio the other day for
the first time, and it's like nothing quite like that
feeling to hearing your song on the radio for the
first time. But this one, there's just something different about it. Man,
It's got I don't know, I feel like it was
made for the radio. And man, we're we're pumped that
it's out there now. When it comes to doing these
shows coming up soon, Um, what part of the show,
Shaw do you look forward to most and maybe least
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least meaning oh my god, I've got to sing that song,
gotta hit that note. When it comes to the live shows,
we're honestly yeah, it might be the same song like
right now, it kind of eds and flows. It changes
for me. Um, just because I'm probably a d D anyway,
and I like, you know, I look forward to things,
and I think, right now I should probably go to bed.
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It's probably what I look forward to the most. Um.
After the first time we played it, it was just
absolutely electric. It was a tribal this thing along. It
reminded me of when Tequila was at its peak, you know,
it really just they were singing it so out, and
I think I look forward to that the most. Uh.
But it's also the hardest song to sing because it's
got that massive high note in there. But uh in
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Good Things is also a hard one to sing. But
it's also one of my favorite to do a live
so you know, you can't have one without the other.
I feel like I like a challenge. But for me,
you know, what I look forward to the most is
probably the most challenging. This is miserable, but oh well,
congratulations and good Things is already gold, which is like
a record for you know, in the streaming era. So
tell me about tell about this this album, because it
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sounds like you ex in with some new sounds. It
was it was that sort of the goal to go
some more different. Man. Listen, like, we owe its country
radio to our fans to keep raising the bar, to
keep pushing ourselves. And you know, having all the extra
time on our hands during the pandemic, you know, away
from the road, allow us to to leave no stone
less unturned. You know, we tried everything, would finish the
song or finish the mix, and then slip it on
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its head and try something completely different. And I feel like,
I don't know that yielded some good results for us,
and I feel like it's got a lot of diversity
on the album. And you know, obviously we didn't alienate
what got us here in the first place, you know,
our harmonies and our vocals. But we tried some different
sounds and we mixed it up, and I think that
really bodes well for for making a you know, a
great show, you know, our arena tour. We're able to
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twitch some things up to change it up right, some
different fields if you need, you know, moments in the
set moments in the album and and we're super proud
of it. We feel like there's no two songs on
the album that are the same. And I don't know,
I just think, you know, it's a it's a new
chapter for us. It's fresh and uh and it feels
good if finally get it out there. The response has
been amazing so far. And I think it's not good
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things itself. It's kind of just like a representative of
the rest of the album. You know. It's got a
little bit of those elements. It's got the big, bombastic drums,
but it's still got the tender shave, local vocal performance
and um man, it's you know, we're excited about all
of it. Glad You Exist is already number one. So
telling about some things you could not live without, things
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you're glad that exists, like a technology or a modern
convenience maybe that you couldn't live without. What would that be?
Oh man? I obviously you know, let's side from our
families and our pets. I would say for me and
my golf clubs, it's not necessarily technology. I guess it
is technology to be but I have found great solace
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in peace in playing golf, and if I lost those
golf clubs, it would be pretty dark. And golf clubs
are expensive, so I really wouldn't want to have to
buy anymore. An article of clothing you're glad that exists,
something you couldn't live without. Oh, an article of clothing.
Let's see, I've got these like old man pair of
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like Nike sweatshorts that I wear literally every day, especially
during the pandemic, where I like, you know, didn't try
on jeans. I honestly didn't know if they still fit
after you know, months and months off the road. But yeah,
I was just like, wake up four or thirty am,
brother sweatshorts on, go to the studio and work until
two am, and then repeat. Yeah, And how about it
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a favorite actor, actress, someone you couldn't live without it
that you're glad exists. And don't say the Rock because
I know that's your go to and that's my Well,
now you're taking away my answer, Cody, that's very It's
funny that you mentioned the Rock because Dan and I
actually have a favorite video of his and I literally
just I literally haven't pulled up on my phone right
now because that was lausing a video of the Rock
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and um, yeah, I don't know the favorite actor. That's
a tough one for me. Maybe maybe right now maybe
Reese with Uston just continuing on, doubling down if you will.
You're still trying to get in that barbecue, aren't you? Yeah,
still kind of getting that barbecu you after I after
I was embarrassing, embarrassingly admitted my crush. But I really
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like the guy from Chris Pratt. It's probably one of
my favorite actors as well. Hard not to love that
guy a real quick. Let's talk about the boys, Astro
and aims a little bit shay, Um, what's new in
their world? Any obsessions are kind of into at this moment.
Besides the ball in the living room. We know about that, yeah,
you know. And Astle just got a job as a
professor at a college, so it's pretty exciting. Um, he's
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teaching a magic school about history. It's pretty good. It's
a pretty good class. Um man. He's uh, act is
getting so big and it's very crazy to me, you
know how He's just they get bigger every single day
and time just goes by so quick. And honestly having songs,
you know, like one direction. I've really been listening to
a lot lately. He kind of makes me tear up
every time I think about it, because, you know, I
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look at him and it's just every single day it's
something new, and it's just it's it's a crazy thing
watching them grow up. But man, so thankful to have
the time that we've had, you know, with me and
Hannah and the boys. Just being able to be home
and actually get up with them every morning, and which
is not my favorite part because I'm not a morning person,
but when they wake up, but you know what I'm
seeing names at like four thirty in the morning, it's
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it's all worth it. But he, you know, he looks
up at me and I'm like, man, this is this
is the greatest. But it's after Actually it's visiting her
mom for the first time. He just went home a
couple of days ago, and it's visiting the farm. So
he is not home right now, and it is very quiet,
and it reminds me of what what life would be
like without him, and it's it's very quiet, but it's
not near as exciting. Yeah, Dan, real quick, I know
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with the dogs. We love to see the dogs. By
the way, you're always postingly you know, adoptions and so on.
You and your wife? Will the dogs be dressing for
Halloween this year? Have you even thought about that yet?
We have like two massive, massive containers in our garage
with dog costumes. Um, and I have like literally no
human costumes. I don't know. It's always a scramble to
dress up on Halloween. UM. I don't know. But my
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wife just came home from the story the other day
and already had Halloween Andy. He got like, rees is
like the ghosts little guys, And I was like, wow,
it is August and Halloween. Danny is out. That is
bad news for me and my body. Listen, love you
guys so much. Dan, enjoy the Olive Garden a gift
card I'm sending over right now. UM, I'm here for
the bread sticks, Cody. I'll be still on that sure,
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