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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is kind of a fun thing.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I saw a Denver Post article about a guy named
Andrew Young who started a Broncos fan club called the
Bronco Gang. He grew up a Denver Broncos fan even
though he's not from Colorado, and is a very interesting story.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Anyway, this guy came to.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Denver for the Packers game on Sunday and I got
in contact with him and he told me, oh, yeah,
I'm going to be in Denver, and I said, all right,
I'd like to have a conversation with you, because it
seems like you are an interesting guy with an interesting story.
He goes by the name the Mad Fanatic, and he
is a musician and a rapper who does music about
(00:46):
football and about the Broncos. And I caught up with
him in the parking lot at Mile High on Sunday
and actually interviewed the dude while standing in the parking lot,
which is not a thing I.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Do a lot of. It's more of a thing that
Gina does.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
But I actually did this, and here is that conversation.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I'm standing in the parking lot here at in power
Field at Mile High with Andrew Young, the Mad Fanatic,
and dude I just saw a remarkable article about you
in the Denver Post and first welcome back to Denver.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
And why are you such a mad fanatic about the
Broncos Man?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I just love this team. It started with just the
color being orange, my favorite color being orange, like in
a jersey. But then once I started watching, I fell
in love. I started watching in that season when LA
got his first championship against the Packers went I went to.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
High school, actually middle school, wearing.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
The Terrell Davis jersey. My friend was a chief fan.
He started heckling me. I didn't know anything about the
jersey or the team yet. So I went back and
started watching the games. And you remember that team, They
were amaze and then they.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Went on and won. The team I won the super Bowl, And.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
When they won, I was so invested by that point,
I'm like crying with them, like, man, now I finally
did it, even though didn't watched not another one. So
you start off you're your fandom like that winning a
Super Bowl. Then turn around winning another one. You can
deal with the seventeen year drought. And then I got
to go to Super Bowl fifty.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
So all right, I got a quick story for you.
So back when all this was going on with the Broncos.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
That you're talking about, I didn't live in Denver. I've
been here about twenty years by okay, so I've only
seen Elway play in person two times, and they were
both Super Bowls and he.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Lost them both. Wow, that was that was a little run.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
And now I come here and I met Elway and like, man,
I wish i'd seen him win one off. So are
you you live in Connecticut?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Are you from there?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I live in connecticutm from Connetic Connecticut originally.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
So you not a Patriots fan or a New York
fani where Connecticut?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
You're kind of you pick what you want.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Some people pick the Giants, some people picked the Gets,
some people picked the New England Patriots. But back when
I was a fan, yeah, Patriots weren't really like on
the radar.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Nobody cared about the Patriots at all.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
So I don't want to dwell on negative much. And
when I've turned this positive. But in that article about.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You, do you talk to quite a bit about how
it's almost like getting involved with the Broncos and the
fan club that.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
You created kind of saved your life.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Can you talk about that a little yeah, Well, making
the songs in general kind of brought me back to
life because I used to be wildly addicted to weed
and it just wasn't good for me after a certain point.
I smoked like every day for years and years and years,
but at a certain point they diagnosed me with like
cannabis use disorder, and first they thought I was bipolar.
So I went to the psych ward because I just
(03:29):
completely lost such with a reality. But I was under
the impression that my creativity came from smoking weed, like
I thought that's where I got all my inspiration, like
a lot of artists thing.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
And when they.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Told me I can't smoke anymore, I try to make
music and I couldn't. So then they also give me
this medicine and anti psychotic and I just became super depressed,
like everything was blab or. When I started watching football,
I felt like me again. But I tried to write
a song and I couldn't, and I was like, I
guess I'm done making music, which is what I wanted
to do my whole life. Since I was as young
as I can remember, I was singing and rapping. So
(03:58):
when I heard Lil Wayne make a song about football,
Green and Yellow, the remix ironically against the Packers. For
his Packers Super Bowl against the Steelers, I was like.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You can make music about football. I was like, let
me try this.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
So I remixed the song he remixed, which was black
and Yellow, made it called Blue and Orange, and I
thought like a few, maybe thirty people on the Bronco
Country message boards would listen, and I just wanted them
to be more positive because they were so negative. We
were coming off of our worst year ever, getting ready.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
To pick von Miller number two.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Overall, everybody was so pessimistic, and I was.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Like, man, I want to encourage them, just these thirty people.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
But when I posted it on Twitter, I added.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
A couple of players, thinking it's a long shot, but
they ended up reposting it. Brian Dawkins, Julius Thomas, you know,
Eric Decker, and all of a sudden, players started listening
to the music. And then the next thing I know,
it's got a couple hundred thousand views. And then people
wanted me to make more songs, and then I started
doing songs with CBS and it just kind of took off.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Your music was intro to Thursday night football. Yeah, like
thirty seven times thirty. So all right, this is have
personal half business question. Now, are you making a living
doing this?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I do it full time. Wow, yeah, so I'm a
business guy. Do you make a living?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Is it like followers on social media? Or do you
get paid directly for the music or how does that?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
There's multiple streams of income as an artist in today's
day and age.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
When you make you.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Know music, you put it out on these streaming platforms,
and they pay you fractions of a penny for every
time somebody listens.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
To your music.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Right, and if you make niche music, like you have
a niche audience, you're not gonna get a lot of
money from streaming.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I probably got like twenty.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Thousand total from streaming people listening to my music. But
I design my own clothes for Brocco fans that love
my music that's not on their trademarks and stuff like
that Broco Gang clothing that only people that are in
this fan club can buy. So you know, I make
some profits off of that. And then also I make
a lot of money from licensing music. So like I said,
(05:54):
I made those songs with Thursday Night Football. You know,
they pay you a big upfront fee and then you
get royalties. I did an uber each k pain. You know,
they're giving you twenty five thousand and fifty thousand dollars checks.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
So wow.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
You know, there's a lot of different ways to make
money making music, but for me, it's about building the
community and kind of creating a lane for people that
love music and love sports. I want to be like
a pioneer for making sports music its own thing, Like
you know what, every team needs.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Some ad fanatic.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You know, why can't I beat.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
A blueprint for that?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
So I'm in some talks with you know, scaling this
thing and trying to find the other people to do
it in other markets. But the hard thing is finding
people that are both good at music really love the team,
like even through the ups and downs, because you will
have them, like wrapping through a nine year drought of
not making the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Most people aren't going to do that.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
But also people that love people, because that's what this
is really about. It's about connecting people with each other,
connecting with them being there for each other, you know, like,
like you read about the article, these are real relationships
and friendships, Like we're family, so many of us, Like
there's a guy here today he flew out from Germany, right,
and he's like, I haven't seen you in a while
since you came to Germany and did that wh party
(07:00):
for the German Broncical Gang members out there, we have
over hundred members in Germany.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Come like that.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So we connect each other with each other.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
But you have to have somebody that really cares about
the people because you're gonna have years like well, you're
not making no money doing this, You're.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Doing it purely for the love.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And I'm pattying on a golf.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Course, you know what I mean to get by sometimes
when you're doing well, just a little easy.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
We're talking with Andrew Young, the Mad Fanatic.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Last thing for people who don't know about the gang,
don't know where to find you. Where do they go
online to find your music, your fan club and your
awesome clothes.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Broncogang dot com for the gang for the fan club
for the music or anything related to me social media
wide and stuff like that. Just type the Mad Fanatic
one word, just like it sounds thg M A d
f A n ahti s the Mad Fanatic and you'll
find me.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Great to meet you in person, meet you, Welcome back,
to Denver. Congratulations and all your success.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Enjoyed the game. Thank you. I say, I was really
impressed with that guy. I had no idea what to expect.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Very very interesting, well spoken, business savvy. The fact that
he was willing to open up like that and discuss
about revenue streams and how.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
He makes a living, that was really cool.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
What'd you think, Gina, because you do a lot more
of that kind of interviewing than than I and I do.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Job first off, he was he was very well spoken,
and I think we need to join the broncogang dot com.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
It's a twenty dollars initiation fee you have to apply
to join this fans.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
In all, Honestly, I don't think I'm a long time
long enough fan because it literally says the history of like,
let us know how long you've been a fan, and
I've go while I moved here three years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
He'd be like, oh, we got bigger fans.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Well, I know the boss now, so I can put
in a word for you good broncogang dot com if
you want to check out his stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I hope you enjoyed that conversation.
This is kind of a fun thing.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I saw a Denver Post article about a guy named
Andrew Young who started a Broncos fan club called the
Bronco Gang. He grew up a Denver Broncos fan even
though he's not from Colorado, and is a very interesting story.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Anyway, this guy came to.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Denver for the Packers game on Sunday and I got
in contact with him and he told me, oh, yeah,
I'm going to be in Denver, and I said, all right,
I'd like to have a conversation with you, because it
seems like you are an interesting guy with an interesting story.
He goes by the name the Mad Fanatic, and he
is a musician and a rapper who does music about
(00:46):
football and about the Broncos. And I caught up with
him in the parking lot at Mile High on Sunday
and actually interviewed the dude while standing in the parking lot,
which is not a thing I.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Do a lot of. It's more of a thing that
Gina does.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
But I actually did this, and here is that conversation.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I'm standing in the parking lot here at in power
Field at Mile High with Andrew Young, the Mad Fanatic,
and dude I just saw a remarkable article about you
in the Denver Post and first welcome back to Denver.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
And why are you such a mad fanatic about the
Broncos Man?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I just love this team. It started with just the
color being orange, my favorite color being orange, like in
a jersey. But then once I started watching, I fell
in love. I started watching in that season when LA
got his first championship against the Packers went I went to.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
High school, actually middle school, wearing.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
The Terrell Davis jersey. My friend was a chief fan.
He started heckling me. I didn't know anything about the
jersey or the team yet. So I went back and
started watching the games. And you remember that team, They
were amaze and then they.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Went on and won. The team I won the super Bowl, And.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
When they won, I was so invested by that point,
I'm like crying with them, like, man, now I finally
did it, even though didn't watched not another one. So
you start off you're your fandom like that winning a
Super Bowl. Then turn around winning another one. You can
deal with the seventeen year drought. And then I got
to go to Super Bowl fifty.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
So all right, I got a quick story for you.
So back when all this was going on with the Broncos.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
That you're talking about, I didn't live in Denver. I've
been here about twenty years by okay, so I've only
seen Elway play in person two times, and they were
both Super Bowls and he.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Lost them both. Wow, that was that was a little run.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
And now I come here and I met Elway and like, man,
I wish i'd seen him win one off. So are
you you live in Connecticut?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Are you from there?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I live in connecticutm from Connetic Connecticut originally.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
So you not a Patriots fan or a New York
fani where Connecticut?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
You're kind of you pick what you want.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Some people pick the Giants, some people picked the Gets,
some people picked the New England Patriots. But back when
I was a fan, yeah, Patriots weren't really like on
the radar.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Nobody cared about the Patriots at all.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
So I don't want to dwell on negative much. And
when I've turned this positive. But in that article about.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You, do you talk to quite a bit about how
it's almost like getting involved with the Broncos and the
fan club that.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
You created kind of saved your life.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Can you talk about that a little yeah, Well, making
the songs in general kind of brought me back to
life because I used to be wildly addicted to weed
and it just wasn't good for me after a certain point.
I smoked like every day for years and years and years,
but at a certain point they diagnosed me with like
cannabis use disorder, and first they thought I was bipolar.
So I went to the psych ward because I just
(03:29):
completely lost such with a reality. But I was under
the impression that my creativity came from smoking weed, like
I thought that's where I got all my inspiration, like
a lot of artists thing.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
And when they.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Told me I can't smoke anymore, I try to make
music and I couldn't. So then they also give me
this medicine and anti psychotic and I just became super depressed,
like everything was blab or. When I started watching football,
I felt like me again. But I tried to write
a song and I couldn't, and I was like, I
guess I'm done making music, which is what I wanted
to do my whole life. Since I was as young
as I can remember, I was singing and rapping. So
(03:58):
when I heard Lil Wayne make a song about football,
Green and Yellow, the remix ironically against the Packers. For
his Packers Super Bowl against the Steelers, I was like.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
You can make music about football. I was like, let
me try this.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
So I remixed the song he remixed, which was black
and Yellow, made it called Blue and Orange, and I
thought like a few, maybe thirty people on the Bronco
Country message boards would listen, and I just wanted them
to be more positive because they were so negative. We
were coming off of our worst year ever, getting ready.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
To pick von Miller number two.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Overall, everybody was so pessimistic, and I was.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Like, man, I want to encourage them, just these thirty people.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
But when I posted it on Twitter, I added.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
A couple of players, thinking it's a long shot, but
they ended up reposting it. Brian Dawkins, Julius Thomas, you know,
Eric Decker, and all of a sudden, players started listening
to the music. And then the next thing I know,
it's got a couple hundred thousand views. And then people
wanted me to make more songs, and then I started
doing songs with CBS and it just kind of took off.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Your music was intro to Thursday night football. Yeah, like
thirty seven times thirty. So all right, this is have
personal half business question. Now, are you making a living
doing this?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I do it full time. Wow, yeah, so I'm a
business guy. Do you make a living?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Is it like followers on social media? Or do you
get paid directly for the music or how does that?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
There's multiple streams of income as an artist in today's
day and age.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
When you make you.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Know music, you put it out on these streaming platforms,
and they pay you fractions of a penny for every
time somebody listens.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
To your music.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Right, and if you make niche music, like you have
a niche audience, you're not gonna get a lot of
money from streaming.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I probably got like twenty.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Thousand total from streaming people listening to my music. But
I design my own clothes for Brocco fans that love
my music that's not on their trademarks and stuff like
that Broco Gang clothing that only people that are in
this fan club can buy. So you know, I make
some profits off of that. And then also I make
a lot of money from licensing music. So like I said,
(05:54):
I made those songs with Thursday Night Football. You know,
they pay you a big upfront fee and then you
get royalties. I did an uber each k pain. You know,
they're giving you twenty five thousand and fifty thousand dollars checks.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
So wow.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
You know, there's a lot of different ways to make
money making music, but for me, it's about building the
community and kind of creating a lane for people that
love music and love sports. I want to be like
a pioneer for making sports music its own thing, Like
you know what, every team needs.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Some ad fanatic.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
You know, why can't I beat.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
A blueprint for that?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
So I'm in some talks with you know, scaling this
thing and trying to find the other people to do
it in other markets. But the hard thing is finding
people that are both good at music really love the team,
like even through the ups and downs, because you will
have them, like wrapping through a nine year drought of
not making the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Most people aren't going to do that.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
But also people that love people, because that's what this
is really about. It's about connecting people with each other,
connecting with them being there for each other, you know, like,
like you read about the article, these are real relationships
and friendships, Like we're family, so many of us, Like
there's a guy here today he flew out from Germany, right,
and he's like, I haven't seen you in a while
since you came to Germany and did that wh party
(07:00):
for the German Broncical Gang members out there, we have
over hundred members in Germany.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Come like that.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So we connect each other with each other.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
But you have to have somebody that really cares about
the people because you're gonna have years like well, you're
not making no money doing this, You're.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Doing it purely for the love.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
And I'm pattying on a golf.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Course, you know what I mean to get by sometimes
when you're doing well, just a little easy.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
We're talking with Andrew Young, the Mad Fanatic.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Last thing for people who don't know about the gang,
don't know where to find you. Where do they go
online to find your music, your fan club and your
awesome clothes.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Broncogang dot com for the gang for the fan club
for the music or anything related to me social media
wide and stuff like that. Just type the Mad Fanatic
one word, just like it sounds thg M A d
f A n ahti s the Mad Fanatic and you'll
find me.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Great to meet you in person, meet you, Welcome back,
to Denver. Congratulations and all your success.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Enjoyed the game. Thank you. I say, I was really
impressed with that guy. I had no idea what to expect.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Very very interesting, well spoken, business savvy. The fact that
he was willing to open up like that and discuss
about revenue streams and how.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
He makes a living, that was really cool.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
What'd you think, Gina, because you do a lot more
of that kind of interviewing than than I and I do.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Job first off, he was he was very well spoken,
and I think we need to join the broncogang dot com.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
It's a twenty dollars initiation fee you have to apply
to join this fans.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
In all, Honestly, I don't think I'm a long time
long enough fan because it literally says the history of like,
let us know how long you've been a fan, and
I've go while I moved here three years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
He'd be like, oh, we got bigger fans.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Well, I know the boss now, so I can put
in a word for you good broncogang dot com if
you want to check out his stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I hope you enjoyed that conversation.
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