Speaker 1: He joined us. Now, Alex, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Hi.
Speaker 3: How are we?
Speaker 4: We're very good and how are you. We're excited to
Speaker 4: speak to you this morning.
Speaker 3: Heard I'm hanging. I can't complain.
Speaker 2: Hey, you're fresh from Stage Coach. Now I want to
Speaker 2: go to that.
Speaker 1: Lawren's obsessed.
Speaker 2: I'm obsessed with Stage Cold.
Speaker 1: You need to be to go to Stage Coach.
Speaker 4: It's funny you ask how cool you need to be
Speaker 4: because I saw on your Instagram you saying that all
Speaker 4: your high school bullies go to stage Coach every year,
Speaker 4: and this year Jelly Roll asked you to get up
Speaker 4: and perform with him.
Speaker 2: What a moment.
Speaker 1: That's a big yours.
Speaker 3: I posted like an hour ago. How did you see that?
Speaker 2: I'm on doing.
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was so cool and now I was so blessed. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's funny. Every year of my it tends to be
Speaker 5: the kids in the high school. I went to go
Speaker 5: to that and it was pretty crazy to get the
Speaker 5: text the next day saying.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I saw you.
Speaker 4: Well, bully.
Speaker 2: They reached out to you after that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a nice guy. I kind of I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't have any bad, bad blow with anyone. And
Speaker 3: also we were the kids.
Speaker 5: I don't mind, but no, it's always just a fun
Speaker 5: thing where it's like, you know, Jelly to say to
Speaker 5: bring me out, and.
Speaker 3: Jelly is such a sweetheart that he is. And I
Speaker 3: got to meet some really cool.
Speaker 5: People that night, and you know, I was blessed to
Speaker 5: be able to be on the stage with that many
Speaker 5: cool people.
Speaker 2: How amazing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that full circle thing is extraordinary. What's what's life
Speaker 6: like for you right now? That must have been a
Speaker 6: bit of a pinch me moment. You know you're slaying it.
Speaker 6: You're slaying it on socials. You know, everyone loves the music.
Speaker 6: It must have been a bit of a nice part truck.
Speaker 3: Now it's cool.
Speaker 5: I'm definitely like, you know, the one thing that kind
Speaker 5: of sucks about this it's like you start to see
Speaker 5: how many people don't like you now, which is always
Speaker 5: But it's definitely really cool and I've met some really
Speaker 5: amazing people and you know, being blessed with this position.
Speaker 3: And I think.
Speaker 5: It's more of just like trying to trying to make
Speaker 5: the most of it. And you know, I don't want
Speaker 5: to mess up.
Speaker 7: I know you performed ordinary with Ed Sheeran. Is it
Speaker 7: true you guys met just that day that you did
Speaker 7: the performance.
Speaker 3: Did Yeah, we met that day and it's so funny.
Speaker 5: As he asked me to go to a bar with
Speaker 5: him the next day, and so in Nashville. So I
Speaker 5: flew to Nashville and went to a bar and he
Speaker 5: got me drunk off two medellas and I had to.
Speaker 3: Have my wife drive me home.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well he's a bit, he's quite. He's a good drinker.
Speaker 4: He can he can settle in.
Speaker 1: For a wet spend the night on a party bus
Speaker 1: with him.
Speaker 7: And I had to deal with her doing the show
Speaker 7: the next morning, and she was shambles.
Speaker 1: How were you? How'd you pro?
Speaker 6: I was fine.
Speaker 3: I mean, two beers put me on my ass. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna lie.
Speaker 5: I drink once a year, and so I chose that
Speaker 5: once to be with Ed and it was a treat
Speaker 5: and we were at a beer only place and it
Speaker 5: takes just two modelas and I'm gone. So honestly, he
Speaker 5: probably loved it. I was a cheap drinker.
Speaker 4: It will be odd to say no if you drink
Speaker 4: once a year, and and she it's like, come on, bro,
Speaker 4: have a few beers with me.
Speaker 6: I mean, he'd has to say, can I ask you
Speaker 6: about the song ordinary? Because I bloody love it? Right,
Speaker 6: It's just such a It's such a beautiful song, is it?
Speaker 6: Is it like a story of transformation? Is that what
Speaker 6: it's what it's about? You know, why did you pin it?
Speaker 5: I wrote it because there's something that you know, I've
Speaker 5: noticed with this generation that I'm in, it's not a
Speaker 5: lot of people are getting married, I guess at a
Speaker 5: young age, which I don't know if it's not normal
Speaker 5: or not, but I'm twenty four. I got married at
Speaker 5: twenty three with my wife. I met at eighteen, and
Speaker 5: you know, when we met, I had nothing. I was
Speaker 5: sleeping in my car and she decided to sleep in
Speaker 5: it with me. And it was cool because it was
Speaker 5: like there was nothing that I had that she wanted except.
Speaker 3: For my love. And I think that was that's really
Speaker 3: rare to fine.
Speaker 5: I think today everyone kind of wants something from you
Speaker 5: and wants like other things, and no one's really getting married.
Speaker 5: And I wanted to write a song about what we
Speaker 5: found was out of the ordinary?
Speaker 1: What about devotion?
Speaker 7: Sweet?
Speaker 2: Does he think I didn't love you or not?
Speaker 7: Also, I'll tell you what the tourbous the scopping is
Speaker 7: from looks very different to the car and then missus
Speaker 7: would have lived in.
Speaker 2: Very true. Are you on the tour of us?
Speaker 3: I am on the tour bus.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 7: You didn't know you didn't have bunk bades in your
Speaker 7: own Yeah, we're back in the car.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 5: I would sneak into like I was speaking to open
Speaker 5: like pool like communities, like pool communities. You know when
Speaker 5: someone has like a gated community, I would sneak into
Speaker 5: that and showering there like a gated pool.
Speaker 4: You must be like so proud of yourself looking at
Speaker 4: this extraordinary life that you're living right now. Do you
Speaker 4: have pinched me moments and what's been the biggest one
Speaker 4: where you're like Ricky from from where I was years
Speaker 4: ago to now, what what's been the big thing?
Speaker 5: I walked in the sound check with Ed Shearon and
Speaker 5: he was learning Ordinary and hearing him just in the chorus,
Speaker 5: I was like this, I audibly was like, this is
Speaker 5: the coolest day of my life. And he just started
Speaker 5: looking at me laughing, and I was like, this is insane.
Speaker 5: And so we started singing it together and my wife
Speaker 5: is there with me, and she starts bawling her eyes
Speaker 5: out in front of Ed Shear and as him and
Speaker 5: I are just singing the song and he thought it
Speaker 5: was so funny and.
Speaker 3: He loved it. Was such a cool experience. You know,
Speaker 3: me where like that is the reason I got into music.
Speaker 3: So it was just such a cool opportunity.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, our.
Speaker 3: Nail pals and he helps me through a lot of
Speaker 3: this stuff. So it's been really cool.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you got that moment, Like that's your hero,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: They never meet your heroes, and when you do and
Speaker 2: they impress you. What an experience.
Speaker 7: And you know what, it doesn't love douchebags Like you're
Speaker 7: a good kid, Alex. You've got a great head on
Speaker 7: your shop. I've got three young boys and you're the
Speaker 7: sort of like you know, you didn't buy back of
Speaker 7: the bullies. You just kept doing your own thing. You know,
Speaker 7: you've got to perform there in the crowd. You know,
Speaker 7: you're the sort of lad that I get my three
Speaker 7: boys to look up to. Mate, So well done, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3: I really appreciate that. It means a lot.
Speaker 1: Let's talk Australia. You're coming.
Speaker 4: You're coming to Australia where it's very excited to have
Speaker 4: you out here in august I.
Speaker 3: Grew up surfing and a lot of my neighbors were Australian.
Speaker 5: Funny enough, so Josh Kerr, if you know that is
Speaker 5: the professional surfer. He lived down the street from us,
Speaker 5: and you know, I grew up idolizing him. And it's
Speaker 5: really cool, like now that I get to go to
Speaker 5: Australia and people want to see me, just.
Speaker 7: Be careful there shots, Well, there's shots. There's also a
Speaker 7: lot of pepparazzi for as an international guest coming to town,
Speaker 7: trying to catch a wave.
Speaker 4: Getting dumb by Yeah, yeah, did you ask it about
Speaker 4: the good beaches to go to? Because he loves Australia.
Speaker 4: He's here a lot.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm going to need that advice.
Speaker 5: Especially he's a fellow Ginger, so we need to watch
Speaker 5: ourselves with sunscreen.
Speaker 2: I love the Gingers.
Speaker 1: Should we take him out there? But it's here and
Speaker 1: Melbourn probably should.
Speaker 2: Get him out to a beach.
Speaker 4: Well, we're very excited for you to come out here
Speaker 4: to Australia. We love you out here, so we can't
Speaker 4: wait to meet you. We can't wait to see you
Speaker 4: when you come to town.
Speaker 1: Right, we'll have to get you in the studio.
Speaker 3: Please.
Speaker 5: I'd love to I'm said, I said this time. I'm
Speaker 5: obsessed with radio interviews. I'd love to come in. I
Speaker 5: grew up watching it, so please, any chance I get,
Speaker 5: I will pop in and say hey and hang out
Speaker 5: for the day.
Speaker 3: You're just gonna have trouble kicking me out.
Speaker 4: That's the thing we love that we can wait to
Speaker 4: meet Alex.
Speaker 2: You're such a delight. We can't wait to see you.
Speaker 1: Ronie, thank you so much, tsah on this morning, Thank
Speaker 1: you so much.
Speaker 3: Look forward to seeing you guys in person.
Speaker 5: And Lauren Lauren wake up feeling good.
Speaker 2: Follow socials
Speaker 6: Yahm