May 14, 2025 • 25 mins
Alex talks to Elvis and the morning show about how he's handling his newfound fame, touring, possibly coming to Jingle Ball and much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Fly from the Mercedes fins inund calmed down.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
We're this close to talking Alex Warren into coming to
jingle Ball.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
What are the possibilities? You don't have to convince me.
I'm there. There's no convincing. It requires.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I do have a question, though, what do you require
in your backstage area, like in your dressing.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Room, your rider's what's on your rider? What's on the
Alex Warren rider?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Puppies?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Puppies, darn puppies would be.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Cool alive were cooked? My gods, you have jump straight
into it. I don't know. I don't know if you
eat dogs or not.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Alex has a lot of allergies. You might have to
be careful. What's back there?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Well, I mean, who cares? Honestly? If I go, we
have enough zerotec to kill a horse. So we're kind
of just we're kind of ripping out.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Are you saying that one of our paid sponsors, Zero
Tech kills horses where you could buy and target? All right,
let's just start over. Hey, welcome, Welcome to the show, Alex.
Pleasure of sheer, pleasure to have.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
You, and that one clap meant everything.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Golf, it's a golf game.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I love to think.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
So, so okay, let's start with ordinary. Start there.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I was looking at the list, but where this song
is hitting high? Yeah? Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
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
ten of the charts in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland,
Portugal and Sweden.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Oh my goodness, all for.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
You do have a wonderful face.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm not even a mother.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
So it's hitting, it's hitting hard. It's cool.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I mean, are you feeling it? Are you taking the
time to like go, okay, this is good?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I mean, honestly, it's been. It's it happened really quickly.
Everyone's like, oh, like, what's when, what's the moment it happened,
And it's like it kind of like slowly. One day
I woke up and people were like I was like,
oh wow, this song's actually kind of doing pretty well.
So it's been really cool to kind of watch. There's
a lot of uh, just a noise. I guess where
I'm just trying to. I just like making music, and
my wife love loves to remind me that that song
(02:22):
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 3 (02:31):
So she's taking credit for your song. Oh, of course,
pretty much. My success is her success. So okay, oh wow,
say that again.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
My success is her success.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Wow? Do you mean that though?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah? I think my wife and I, if you know
the story, like we we kind of went through all
this together. So it's been cool.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
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.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Sure, and then when.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You have a tour going on and your your set
lists are getting longer and longer, you've got vocal cords,
you have, you have a throat that has to be
working at all times. 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 restraining you and then maybe
(03:18):
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 4 (03:29):
I mean I wasn't always like a good singer like I.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
You're just saying you're a good singer. Now, I would
say I'm somewhat decent, I would hope.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
So he came on to be insulted today.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I've been doing vocal lessons like three times a week
for a very long time. And but to answer your thing, yeah,
it's it's an instrument, but it's also a muscle. I
think with you know, if you work out every single
day consistently straining yourself, eventually you're gonna wake up in
your arms feel like jello. So yeah, when you do
shows every day, like sometimes we'll do a five shows
in a row, seven shows in a row, and at
(04:05):
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 5 (04:10):
But your wife loves that, she actually hates.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
It with a passion. Yeah, because it could 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 3 (04:23):
Well, you've come to the right place.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, but but truly, Yeah, it's been. It's it's definitely interesting.
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 3 (04:44):
As in the acids like tomatoes and things like that.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, acidic foods like you think, like a lot
of I just eat chicken and corn when I sing no.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Jock, it's all eight.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Get bored of it.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
No, I don't care about food really that much.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Oh my god, get out of here. Yeah, a bunch
of goombabs. We love our Battalian food, you know. I'm
just I just had a thought. I don't have any
artist names, but people artist vocal artists who train constantly.
I wonder how their voices evolve 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.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
They perfected it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I mean, Eddie Swims is one of those people. Why
what a perfect voice he already has right.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Right, but he used to not be that great apparently,
Like that's what he says a lot. Like he's always like,
oh well, I had to work really hard, and it's interesting,
like a lot of you have to put your voice
through a lot of trauma to get it to like
really cooperate, I guess, like comparative to where I am
now a year ago. Like it's a fully different vocal,
which is really really cool, and it just comes down
(05:54):
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 when you
you kind of want to think of a singers like
just a naturally gifted, bored and singer. But a lot
of times a lot of it's learned.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Wow, why WoT everyone who is listening, who you've been
following an artist for a while, go back to their
earlier stuff and listen to their stuff now and see
if you can tell the difference.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yeah, I mean, LUs Capaldi's always sound the same.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Though. I love that.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Batman is so talented.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
He's back in the seat.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Again right, performed somewhere recently. So we're hoping that is
that real?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yes, that it seems to be like it's just random
old performances and people just go back.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And he's shown up somewhere the other day. He actually
stuck around and like really, And then I have.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yet to meet that man. I want to meet him. Guy.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We've had him on a few times. He's a nice sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Just turning us on. Alex Warren is here. We're gonna
play ordinary for you in a minute. We're going to
talk about the tour. We're gona talk about a lot
of stuff. Going to talk about jingle Ball, yes, because
I've already offered sexual favors to.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Alex and I politely accepted. But a nice guy.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
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.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
You guys.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
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 4 (07:13):
Downhill?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
No?
Speaker 4 (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 with.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
The toilet blew up.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Very well.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Chicken side effect.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Of ozampic is absolutely killing your Okay, So I'm sorry,
yeah yeah, but I the video got like ten million views.
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.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
This would be really cool.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I put out a song I wrote about the loss
of my father and it did really well, and the
rest is history.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Let me ask you this.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
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 4 (08:11):
Whatever this is, it must be nice.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Do you Okay, probably pretty much to answer my question, Yeah, no,
but I mean, do you I don't want to get
too crazy, but you find yourself chasing them and your dreams,
going hey, look what I'm doing here, and hoping that
if they were still here it would change the dynamic
(08:35):
of that relationship.
Speaker 4 (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 4 (08:58):
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 for 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,
(09:19):
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 (09:36):
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 it stabbed me in the.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Heart in a great way.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Stephen Colbert said, you must be just as grateful and
thankful for the awful, devastating things that happened to you
in life as you should be for all the worl wonderful, wonderful,
brightly colored things happened to you in life. And I
think unless we stop, unless we unless we just totally
forget to stop and think about that, and it's all
(10:10):
for naught. But you're saying, and you're acknowledging right here
in front of all seven of our listeners, that that.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You know going to laws. You gotta you gotta, you
gotta be thankful for it too.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yeah, And don't get me wrong, there's still parts of me.
I mean, I've write songs about this all the time
and I cry about it all the time. And it's
been it's been years. I've lost my dad when I
was nine, and my mom drank herself to death right after.
And I think that's something where it's it's definitely hard
knowing that, like you know, I don't have that support
system in my life. But also, like you know, my
kids are going to grow up without the grandparents, and
(10:41):
I think that's always always a difficult thing. But at
least I am going to play jingle Ball.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Okay, let's talk about that. Okay I was talking about
and let me give you some reasons why we have
to have Alex Warren at jingle Ball.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
That was everyone number one.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
He's festive as f on stage. You had just have
a great presence on stage. Thanks and you know you
carry the audience with you kind of ups and downs
and tell stories. I don't know if if you know
you do this, probably you're not even conscious about what
you do on stage.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I don't know. You're great on stage, your music is great.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
People like your spirit and that we need you because
otherwise it's going to fail miserably.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
This. Oh god, that's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Okay, well you carry jingle Ball basically?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I will. I will.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I will carry jingle Ball on my back. I got
you don't know. I will always carry Elvis's balls.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It's gonna as long as they're dangling.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Wait, text message is not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I'm crying tears of joy listening. Do you guys interview
Alex Warren. He's definitely my favorite artist. I'm freaking out.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Oh my gosh, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Don't look at this because sometimes they're bad.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Really? Yeah? Yeah, I look my name up on Twitter
all the time, don't.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
It is horrid?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Hey, Alex, do you have anyone you'd like us to
invite to jingle Ball as well?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Like to be on the stage, you know, with you
or something? You know, maybe we can make it happen
like a mascot.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
No, like it?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Maybe another artist?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Is there a mascot?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
This is good.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I'm glad you brought this up.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Jet Yeah, what mascot would you want? I say, you're
a team and you need a mascot?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
What do you want?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I don't know? You think this through like, man, I've
gotten compared a lot to the Michelin man that could.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Marshmallow.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, is mister Matt here today?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I have I have this, I have the pigment of
a marshmallow. That's Rickety Ricket.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
I'm saying, like this maybe another artist you'd like.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Oh oh, 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 be like, oh my god, you're on this
You're on this bill too. Also, we're like five months
into the year. I feel like there's gonna be some
really cool artists. Somber actually, that guy, that guy's doing
really well.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I love Sober.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Yeah, and he's nineteen years old.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
He is.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, he's a young one. Yeah, it makes me feel old.
I look, I know I look thirty five, but I'm
twenty four.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
What does that same name? Yeah, we love Alex. We're
keeping you. What is happening? He called me daddy and
asked if we could keep you?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
He did yes, Oh, okay, cool, I'm not gonna Gentri
kink that's your thing.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Speaking of following the Didty trial at all. No, I'm
not don't. Really, it's sad.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
It's sad, is it. It's so sad.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It is sad. Okay, let's go down down the road.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
It's just sad 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 Diddy trial.
My apartment is one block from that. It's a circus.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Every time. Every time you go to the news, if
ever you.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Do, you see a big, huge, crazy trial going on
in New York City, it's right behind my apartment.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Oh wow, Oh when when President think about it? President
Trump on trial? I mean, just name him.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And it's a carnival atmosphere right right now. It's it's
pretty big. The d Any thing.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Oh my god. Yeah, I have not been following it.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I don't go down.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
That way, stay off of Twitter, don't google your song anymore.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Well, I don't follow the news anymore.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It's really depressive, it really is.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Start it's so I would just if my eggs are expensive,
I'll just figure it out. I don't don't tell me.
Don't tell me they're expensive. Let me figure it out.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Are they coming down yet, eggs.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I don't think no idea. No, I don't think so
cheaper than therapy tour. You're adding dates? I just said
you are you adding more dates? Yeah, including Jacksonville.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Our friend, our friend Froggy. That that screen up there,
that's that's Froggy in Jacksonville. Oh look he's chair, he's
not there.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
That's to show you how well I'm doing here.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, he ran out to buy tickets to your show Jacksonville.
That's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
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 4 (14:58):
Well, one day people are going to stop buying the tickets.
So I'm hoping hoping that's not this tour because that
would be really horrifying.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
There was such a good attitude about all of this.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Really, if I had a therapist, I feel like they'd say,
it's self deprecating.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
But that's healthy, is it?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, first I've ever heard that's self defecating. Self defecating,
that's deprecating. Do you just crap all over yourself? So yeah,
I was about to say I was about to say,
I don't know you came in today.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
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. No I know.
I mean we're talking about bowel movements, the Diddy trial.
I can't imagine where where this is going to turn.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
It does. So let me ask you this, what do
you think about New York City? Do you like visiting New.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
York I like it a lot. I'm usually here to
do stuff though, so it's definitely kind of like starting
to I had a few days off where I just
didn't do anything, and I get so lost in the
city and the maps don't work.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I don't know if you guys realized this.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Like I'll be on like fifty six and then I'll say,
I'm like on fifty ninth, and I walk in the
circle for like a week. It's insane.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Ye, And I'm asking your work and they accidentally send you.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
The wrong way.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yeah, no one really knows where they're going.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Everyone's just figuring it out.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Are you still are you West Coast where I live
in Tennessee? Oh god, yeah, that seems like to be
the place that's the gold like.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, I've I've been there for two weeks. I tore
eleven months out of the air.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
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 ish. Yeah,
and then my least is up in December. So I
don't know why I did.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
That, but it's a lot of good ideas.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
We've got work to do here, and we're here. I'll
be your calls here. We'll figure this out.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I love it. So are you going to stay in Tennessee?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I think so?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
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 3 (16:51):
Like looks after our house. It's pretty rad.
Speaker 4 (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 texts and be like, hey, your your gas
lanterns out? Can we can we fix it?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I was like, yeah, get back up a gas lantern.
He's got a gash lantern.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah, what can I say? Things have gone well since.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
When people were figuring out where you were living, were
showing up at your house and being weird.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Were they sending things to people?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Are breaking into my hand?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
There lighting cigarettes? People, they're lighting cigarettes on his gas lantern?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Wait, hold on, people were breaking into your house. Yeah,
it's like, what's going on? Welcome to La.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Wait no while you were home though.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
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 3 (17:32):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
What's it like to have gas lantern money?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I see the Mercedes sponsor logo. Don't even don't even
do that in the Elvis your apartments next to the
Diddy trail, we know the penthouse, you know the phouse.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
He's got his elevator that opens up.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I got a question for you, Alex. Alex Warren is here.
If you're just wondering who this is, why are you
doing this?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Why do you do? What is it about the music.
What I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Maybe it's a question that cannot be answered, but what
is it you really? Truly I wanted to lantern.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
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 what it means to
get through that. I think with when I lost my parents,
(18:31):
it was something interesting where there were so many people
surrounded and so many people came to see us and
offer condolences and things like that. But in a room
full of people, I felt so alone, and no one
would talk about these things. No one would talk about trauma,
no one would talk about stuff. In the music space,
I think it was always just like break up songs
and hyper pop and things like that. And I'm really
(18:51):
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 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 nice.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Side the gas lanterns what it's about, and it's just
trying to get the sponsor. Mental health is the bonus
mental health have so many years was just swept under
the rug.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
And we're talking about this the other day.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
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 4 (19:33):
It's cool to have mommy issues, is it. I think so?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I think I think mommy issues are good too.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Hell yeah, the issue is I don't have my mommy.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
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 4 (19:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
And some people like to say, well, my mom, she
was not the greatest lady. It was this and that
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?
Were you actually roll your eyes and go, oh my god,
that was my mom.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
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 addiction,
(20:36):
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 3 (20:44):
She had to raise four kids by herself.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
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 to
that that standard and realize that she's a human too.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
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.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
It's never too late. I really didn't get to know
them until they were gone.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
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 asking questions about him.
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 dad were passed away, get to
know them now. If for a mom is still alive
but run over with a car today, let's get to
know her.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I'm kidding.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
I mean I 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.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
With You just realized 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 an ego thing, just saying.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I didn't pay for it. You paid for your gas.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
You have a very solid point there.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
This is a gift. This is a gift.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Maybe I get my gas gifted by the tenants and
state of Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
You don't know me, by the way, Can you do
flips like Benson Boone?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I can do whatever you want? Okay, do you want
me to do one? No?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
God, you you 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.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I gotta keep I gotta keep you healthy until December,
until dingle b and then you do whatever you want
to do.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
You can bend a boot across the street. I'll try
to flip.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I'll shake your hand until you I'll do a backflip
on the stage once the last time.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
I don't think you should do that.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I don't wait.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Can you really do it?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Though?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
I mean can you? Are you going to practice until then?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
We'll find out? Okay, oh my god, you want to
see a boy this size move. I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I'm not talking about like harnesses like pink has. I'm
talking about like free I.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Will I will do a back handspring backflip before you.
I will call me, call me? When is that the
Gabby I think her name? What's the professional.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Gabby Douglas?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Call me Gabby Douglas. I often get mistaken for Gabby.
Funny enough, that's what I thought.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I'll call you Gabby Douglas if you call me Debbie.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
So we'll work on him.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
This is the most interesting interview we've done in a while.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Back Froggy froggy fy, what do you eat?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
We're here with Alex Warren. What are you eating? Alex?
Pop tart? All right? What flavor? Blueberry? Strawberry? Cherry strawberry.
That's what these with Daniel last Wenesday?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Don't have my pop?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
There you go pop tarts. We were just talking about.
He just added to Jacksonville to his tour. And the reason,
the reason you were in there because you're out buying tickets? Yes,
are you which? Which venue are you coming to?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Well, you would have known if you bought the ticket.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Chuck E Cheese. He's performing at Chuck E Cheese and Jacksonville.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Maybe we just got a new venue called the Five,
we got a new venue called deck Out.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
And if he was coming to one of our new
venues or somewhere we've been.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
They're looking it up. Yeah, they're looking at you. Have
fifteen people here, maybe one of them literally all of
them are he's actually say daily.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Oh no, Daily is big. That's a big venue.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
All that's awesome. Yeah, it is great. You can see
a whopping three hundred people there in a few months.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
It's gonna be big, Alex. True stop, well you got
to play ordinary please. I love that. My producer's yelling
at me.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Yell sternly looking.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Yeah, all right, we'll play ordinary, Alex. It's a pleasure
meeting you.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I'll give him a standing ovation, right the f Now.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
You know what else standing?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
You can't tell.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
She's so sure, we don't know if she's standing.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Jesus, thank you so much having me. This is right.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Thanks for being had.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
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.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I mean, you're you're a great guy.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
You seem like a nice guy.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
I don't know if you go deeper, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
It's it's all press training.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Then you come back next time, it will we'll go
a little deeper.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Amazing, all right, Alex Warren, thanks for having
Fly from the Mercedes fins inund calmed down.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
We're this close to talking Alex Warren into coming to
jingle Ball.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
What are the possibilities? You don't have to convince me.
I'm there. There's no convincing. It requires.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I do have a question, though, what do you require
in your backstage area, like in your dressing.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Room, your rider's what's on your rider? What's on the
Alex Warren rider?
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Puppies?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Puppies, darn puppies would be.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Cool alive were cooked? My gods, you have jump straight
into it. I don't know. I don't know if you
eat dogs or not.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Alex has a lot of allergies. You might have to
be careful. What's back there?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Well, I mean, who cares? Honestly? If I go, we
have enough zerotec to kill a horse. So we're kind
of just we're kind of ripping out.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Are you saying that one of our paid sponsors, Zero
Tech kills horses where you could buy and target? All right,
let's just start over. Hey, welcome, Welcome to the show, Alex.
Pleasure of sheer, pleasure to have.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
You, and that one clap meant everything.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Golf, it's a golf game.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I love to think.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
So, so okay, let's start with ordinary. Start there.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I was looking at the list, but where this song
is hitting high? Yeah? Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
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
ten of the charts in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland,
Portugal and Sweden.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Oh my goodness, all for.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
You do have a wonderful face.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I'm not even a mother.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
So it's hitting, it's hitting hard. It's cool.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
I mean, are you feeling it? Are you taking the
time to like go, okay, this is good?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I mean, honestly, it's been. It's it happened really quickly.
Everyone's like, oh, like, what's when, what's the moment it happened,
And it's like it kind of like slowly. One day
I woke up and people were like I was like,
oh wow, this song's actually kind of doing pretty well.
So it's been really cool to kind of watch. There's
a lot of uh, just a noise. I guess where
I'm just trying to. I just like making music, and
my wife love loves to remind me that that song
(02:22):
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 3 (02:31):
So she's taking credit for your song. Oh, of course,
pretty much. My success is her success. So okay, oh wow,
say that again.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
My success is her success.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Wow? Do you mean that though?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah? I think my wife and I, if you know
the story, like we we kind of went through all
this together. So it's been cool.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
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.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Sure, and then when.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You have a tour going on and your your set
lists are getting longer and longer, you've got vocal cords,
you have, you have a throat that has to be
working at all times. 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 restraining you and then maybe
(03:18):
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 4 (03:29):
I mean I wasn't always like a good singer like I.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
You're just saying you're a good singer. Now, I would
say I'm somewhat decent, I would hope.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
So he came on to be insulted today.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I've been doing vocal lessons like three times a week
for a very long time. And but to answer your thing, yeah,
it's it's an instrument, but it's also a muscle. I
think with you know, if you work out every single
day consistently straining yourself, eventually you're gonna wake up in
your arms feel like jello. So yeah, when you do
shows every day, like sometimes we'll do a five shows
in a row, seven shows in a row, and at
(04:05):
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 5 (04:10):
But your wife loves that, she actually hates.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
It with a passion. Yeah, because it could 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 3 (04:23):
Well, you've come to the right place.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, but but truly, Yeah, it's been. It's it's definitely interesting.
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 3 (04:44):
As in the acids like tomatoes and things like that.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, acidic foods like you think, like a lot
of I just eat chicken and corn when I sing no.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Jock, it's all eight.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Get bored of it.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
No, I don't care about food really that much.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Oh my god, get out of here. Yeah, a bunch
of goombabs. We love our Battalian food, you know. I'm
just I just had a thought. I don't have any
artist names, but people artist vocal artists who train constantly.
I wonder how their voices evolve 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.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
They perfected it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I mean, Eddie Swims is one of those people. Why
what a perfect voice he already has right.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Right, but he used to not be that great apparently,
Like that's what he says a lot. Like he's always like,
oh well, I had to work really hard, and it's interesting,
like a lot of you have to put your voice
through a lot of trauma to get it to like
really cooperate, I guess, like comparative to where I am
now a year ago. Like it's a fully different vocal,
which is really really cool, and it just comes down
(05:54):
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 when you
you kind of want to think of a singers like
just a naturally gifted, bored and singer. But a lot
of times a lot of it's learned.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Wow, why WoT everyone who is listening, who you've been
following an artist for a while, go back to their
earlier stuff and listen to their stuff now and see
if you can tell the difference.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yeah, I mean, LUs Capaldi's always sound the same.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Though. I love that.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Batman is so talented.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
He's back in the seat.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Again right, performed somewhere recently. So we're hoping that is
that real?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yes, that it seems to be like it's just random
old performances and people just go back.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And he's shown up somewhere the other day. He actually
stuck around and like really, And then I have.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yet to meet that man. I want to meet him. Guy.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
We've had him on a few times. He's a nice sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Just turning us on. Alex Warren is here. We're gonna
play ordinary for you in a minute. We're going to
talk about the tour. We're gona talk about a lot
of stuff. Going to talk about jingle Ball, yes, because
I've already offered sexual favors to.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Alex and I politely accepted. But a nice guy.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
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.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
You guys.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
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 4 (07:13):
Downhill?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
No?
Speaker 4 (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 with.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
The toilet blew up.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Very well.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Chicken side effect.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Of ozampic is absolutely killing your Okay, So I'm sorry,
yeah yeah, but I the video got like ten million views.
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.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
This would be really cool.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I put out a song I wrote about the loss
of my father and it did really well, and the
rest is history.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Let me ask you this.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
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 4 (08:11):
Whatever this is, it must be nice.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Do you Okay, probably pretty much to answer my question, Yeah, no,
but I mean, do you I don't want to get
too crazy, but you find yourself chasing them and your dreams,
going hey, look what I'm doing here, and hoping that
if they were still here it would change the dynamic
(08:35):
of that relationship.
Speaker 4 (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 4 (08:58):
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 for 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,
(09:19):
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 (09:36):
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 it stabbed me in the.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Heart in a great way.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Stephen Colbert said, you must be just as grateful and
thankful for the awful, devastating things that happened to you
in life as you should be for all the worl wonderful, wonderful,
brightly colored things happened to you in life. And I
think unless we stop, unless we unless we just totally
forget to stop and think about that, and it's all
(10:10):
for naught. But you're saying, and you're acknowledging right here
in front of all seven of our listeners, that that.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You know going to laws. You gotta you gotta, you
gotta be thankful for it too.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yeah, And don't get me wrong, there's still parts of me.
I mean, I've write songs about this all the time
and I cry about it all the time. And it's
been it's been years. I've lost my dad when I
was nine, and my mom drank herself to death right after.
And I think that's something where it's it's definitely hard
knowing that, like you know, I don't have that support
system in my life. But also, like you know, my
kids are going to grow up without the grandparents, and
(10:41):
I think that's always always a difficult thing. But at
least I am going to play jingle Ball.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Okay, let's talk about that. Okay I was talking about
and let me give you some reasons why we have
to have Alex Warren at jingle Ball.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
That was everyone number one.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
He's festive as f on stage. You had just have
a great presence on stage. Thanks and you know you
carry the audience with you kind of ups and downs
and tell stories. I don't know if if you know
you do this, probably you're not even conscious about what
you do on stage.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I don't know. You're great on stage, your music is great.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
People like your spirit and that we need you because
otherwise it's going to fail miserably.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
This. Oh god, that's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Okay, well you carry jingle Ball basically?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I will. I will.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I will carry jingle Ball on my back. I got
you don't know. I will always carry Elvis's balls.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It's gonna as long as they're dangling.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Wait, text message is not gonna lie.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I'm crying tears of joy listening. Do you guys interview
Alex Warren. He's definitely my favorite artist. I'm freaking out.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Oh my gosh, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Don't look at this because sometimes they're bad.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Really? Yeah? Yeah, I look my name up on Twitter
all the time, don't.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
It is horrid?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Hey, Alex, do you have anyone you'd like us to
invite to jingle Ball as well?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Like to be on the stage, you know, with you
or something? You know, maybe we can make it happen
like a mascot.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
No, like it?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Maybe another artist?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Is there a mascot?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
This is good.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I'm glad you brought this up.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Jet Yeah, what mascot would you want? I say, you're
a team and you need a mascot?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
What do you want?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I don't know? You think this through like, man, I've
gotten compared a lot to the Michelin man that could.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Marshmallow.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, is mister Matt here today?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I have I have this, I have the pigment of
a marshmallow. That's Rickety Ricket.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
I'm saying, like this maybe another artist you'd like.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Oh oh, 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 be like, oh my god, you're on this
You're on this bill too. Also, we're like five months
into the year. I feel like there's gonna be some
really cool artists. Somber actually, that guy, that guy's doing
really well.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I love Sober.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Yeah, and he's nineteen years old.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
He is.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah, he's a young one. Yeah, it makes me feel old.
I look, I know I look thirty five, but I'm
twenty four.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
What does that same name? Yeah, we love Alex. We're
keeping you. What is happening? He called me daddy and
asked if we could keep you?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
He did yes, Oh, okay, cool, I'm not gonna Gentri
kink that's your thing.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Speaking of following the Didty trial at all. No, I'm
not don't. Really, it's sad.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
It's sad, is it. It's so sad.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It is sad. Okay, let's go down down the road.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
It's just sad 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 Diddy trial.
My apartment is one block from that. It's a circus.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Every time. Every time you go to the news, if
ever you.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Do, you see a big, huge, crazy trial going on
in New York City, it's right behind my apartment.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Oh wow, Oh when when President think about it? President
Trump on trial? I mean, just name him.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And it's a carnival atmosphere right right now. It's it's
pretty big. The d Any thing.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Oh my god. Yeah, I have not been following it.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
I don't go down.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
That way, stay off of Twitter, don't google your song anymore.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Well, I don't follow the news anymore.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It's really depressive, it really is.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Start it's so I would just if my eggs are expensive,
I'll just figure it out. I don't don't tell me.
Don't tell me they're expensive. Let me figure it out.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Are they coming down yet, eggs.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I don't think no idea. No, I don't think so
cheaper than therapy tour. You're adding dates? I just said
you are you adding more dates? Yeah, including Jacksonville.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Our friend, our friend Froggy. That that screen up there,
that's that's Froggy in Jacksonville. Oh look he's chair, he's
not there.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
That's to show you how well I'm doing here.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, he ran out to buy tickets to your show Jacksonville.
That's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
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 4 (14:58):
Well, one day people are going to stop buying the tickets.
So I'm hoping hoping that's not this tour because that
would be really horrifying.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
There was such a good attitude about all of this.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Really, if I had a therapist, I feel like they'd say,
it's self deprecating.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
But that's healthy, is it?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Yeah, first I've ever heard that's self defecating. Self defecating,
that's deprecating. Do you just crap all over yourself? So yeah,
I was about to say I was about to say,
I don't know you came in today.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
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. No I know.
I mean we're talking about bowel movements, the Diddy trial.
I can't imagine where where this is going to turn.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
It does. So let me ask you this, what do
you think about New York City? Do you like visiting New.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
York I like it a lot. I'm usually here to
do stuff though, so it's definitely kind of like starting
to I had a few days off where I just
didn't do anything, and I get so lost in the
city and the maps don't work.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I don't know if you guys realized this.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Like I'll be on like fifty six and then I'll say,
I'm like on fifty ninth, and I walk in the
circle for like a week. It's insane.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Ye, And I'm asking your work and they accidentally send you.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
The wrong way.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yeah, no one really knows where they're going.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Everyone's just figuring it out.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Are you still are you West Coast where I live
in Tennessee? Oh god, yeah, that seems like to be
the place that's the gold like.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, I've I've been there for two weeks. I tore
eleven months out of the air.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
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 ish. Yeah,
and then my least is up in December. So I
don't know why I did.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
That, but it's a lot of good ideas.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
We've got work to do here, and we're here. I'll
be your calls here. We'll figure this out.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I love it. So are you going to stay in Tennessee?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I think so?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
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 3 (16:51):
Like looks after our house. It's pretty rad.
Speaker 4 (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 texts and be like, hey, your your gas
lanterns out? Can we can we fix it?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I was like, yeah, get back up a gas lantern.
He's got a gash lantern.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah, what can I say? Things have gone well since.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
When people were figuring out where you were living, were
showing up at your house and being weird.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Were they sending things to people?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Are breaking into my hand?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
There lighting cigarettes? People, they're lighting cigarettes on his gas lantern?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Wait, hold on, people were breaking into your house. Yeah,
it's like, what's going on? Welcome to La.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Wait no while you were home though.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
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 3 (17:32):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
What's it like to have gas lantern money?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
I see the Mercedes sponsor logo. Don't even don't even
do that in the Elvis your apartments next to the
Diddy trail, we know the penthouse, you know the phouse.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
He's got his elevator that opens up.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I got a question for you, Alex. Alex Warren is here.
If you're just wondering who this is, why are you
doing this?
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Why do you do? What is it about the music.
What I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Maybe it's a question that cannot be answered, but what
is it you really? Truly I wanted to lantern.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
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 what it means to
get through that. I think with when I lost my parents,
(18:31):
it was something interesting where there were so many people
surrounded and so many people came to see us and
offer condolences and things like that. But in a room
full of people, I felt so alone, and no one
would talk about these things. No one would talk about trauma,
no one would talk about stuff. In the music space,
I think it was always just like break up songs
and hyper pop and things like that. And I'm really
(18:51):
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 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 nice.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Side the gas lanterns what it's about, and it's just
trying to get the sponsor. Mental health is the bonus
mental health have so many years was just swept under
the rug.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
And we're talking about this the other day.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
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 4 (19:33):
It's cool to have mommy issues, is it. I think so?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I think I think mommy issues are good too.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Hell yeah, the issue is I don't have my mommy.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
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 4 (19:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
And some people like to say, well, my mom, she
was not the greatest lady. It was this and that
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?
Were you actually roll your eyes and go, oh my god,
that was my mom.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
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 addiction,
(20:36):
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 3 (20:44):
She had to raise four kids by herself.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
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 to
that that standard and realize that she's a human too.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
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.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
It's never too late. I really didn't get to know
them until they were gone.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
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 asking questions about him.
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 dad were passed away, get to
know them now. If for a mom is still alive
but run over with a car today, let's get to
know her.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I'm kidding.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
I mean I 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.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
With You just realized 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 an ego thing, just saying.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I didn't pay for it. You paid for your gas.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
You have a very solid point there.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
This is a gift. This is a gift.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Maybe I get my gas gifted by the tenants and
state of Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
You don't know me, by the way, Can you do
flips like Benson Boone?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I can do whatever you want? Okay, do you want
me to do one? No?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
God, you you 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.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I gotta keep I gotta keep you healthy until December,
until dingle b and then you do whatever you want
to do.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
You can bend a boot across the street. I'll try
to flip.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I'll shake your hand until you I'll do a backflip
on the stage once the last time.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
I don't think you should do that.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I don't wait.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Can you really do it?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Though?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
I mean can you? Are you going to practice until then?
Speaker 4 (22:58):
We'll find out? Okay, oh my god, you want to
see a boy this size move. I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I'm not talking about like harnesses like pink has. I'm
talking about like free I.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Will I will do a back handspring backflip before you.
I will call me, call me? When is that the
Gabby I think her name? What's the professional.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Gabby Douglas?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Call me Gabby Douglas. I often get mistaken for Gabby.
Funny enough, that's what I thought.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I'll call you Gabby Douglas if you call me Debbie.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
So we'll work on him.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
This is the most interesting interview we've done in a while.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Back Froggy froggy fy, what do you eat?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
We're here with Alex Warren. What are you eating? Alex?
Pop tart? All right? What flavor? Blueberry? Strawberry? Cherry strawberry.
That's what these with Daniel last Wenesday?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Don't have my pop?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
There you go pop tarts. We were just talking about.
He just added to Jacksonville to his tour. And the reason,
the reason you were in there because you're out buying tickets? Yes,
are you which? Which venue are you coming to?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Well, you would have known if you bought the ticket.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Chuck E Cheese. He's performing at Chuck E Cheese and Jacksonville.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Maybe we just got a new venue called the Five,
we got a new venue called deck Out.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
And if he was coming to one of our new
venues or somewhere we've been.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
They're looking it up. Yeah, they're looking at you. Have
fifteen people here, maybe one of them literally all of
them are he's actually say daily.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Oh no, Daily is big. That's a big venue.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
All that's awesome. Yeah, it is great. You can see
a whopping three hundred people there in a few months.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
It's gonna be big, Alex. True stop, well you got
to play ordinary please. I love that. My producer's yelling
at me.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Yell sternly looking.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Yeah, all right, we'll play ordinary, Alex. It's a pleasure
meeting you.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
I'll give him a standing ovation, right the f Now.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
You know what else standing?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
You can't tell.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
She's so sure, we don't know if she's standing.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Jesus, thank you so much having me. This is right.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Thanks for being had.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
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.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I mean, you're you're a great guy.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
You seem like a nice guy.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
I don't know if you go deeper, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
It's it's all press training.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Then you come back next time, it will we'll go
a little deeper.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Amazing, all right, Alex Warren, thanks for having
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