00:00Hey bros. What's up dudes? I paid him to say that so I look cool on my on my interview
00:07for the record.
00:16Tentress, I hope you're dressed.
00:18Well I say I hope you're not.
00:21Teddy sweeps brother.
00:23What's up?
00:24How are you doing?
00:25Love your shirt.
00:26Oh you know just for you, I want to do it for the cool people.
00:29The people I'm a fan of, you know what I mean?
00:31You know what I mean?
00:32Well thanks for hanging out at the dressing with me.
00:34You gonna kick it today? For real kick it though.
00:36Yeah absolutely.
00:36Let's do it bro.
00:37We're pumped.
00:38So excited.
00:40The artist just follows him up with it.
00:41He's got great songwriting.
00:43For country music fans, I think that makes a lot of difference.
00:45That's Teddy Swims.
00:54So Teddy my man, we've known each other quite some time.
00:57Yeah, really long time now.
00:59So I want to talk about your journey, but we gotta start by going down memory lane, okay?
01:03Okay.
01:03I want to see if you're even going to recognize any of this.
01:06Nuh-uh.
01:08Like stop it.
01:08Dude we look like babies.
01:10That's so crazy.
01:12This was 2021.
01:14It looks, it's so weird because I feel like I'm done growing, but I look such like a little kid.
01:19We both look like little kids right there.
01:20Yeah.
01:20It looks like we go so far back.
01:22We're just like at happy hour.
01:23Dude.
01:23Getting to know each other.
01:24We are at happy hour.
01:26And like you have been a long way since happy hour my friend.
01:29Like such a long way.
01:30Still stuck there too, you know?
01:32We're still kind of at happy hour.
01:34I think me and you are just permanently at happy hour.
01:37That's our vibe.
01:37The happiest one.
01:39What else you got?
01:40And this one was actually the first time I ever officially interviewed you.
01:44Oh, sweet Megan.
01:46God, that was 30 pounds ago though.
01:48Good God.
01:51Megan had reached out to me and messaged me on Twitter and was like,
01:55Oh my God, this song is amazing.
01:57Who are you?
01:58Blah, blah.
01:58Who are you?
01:59We chatted for like, you know, a second.
02:02Well, actually I think about when I see that video is how you're always the best looking in shorts.
02:06Cause I remember that day you walked in and we were like Teddy in the shorts.
02:09Crazy.
02:10Cause I'm trying to keep up with it.
02:11And that's why I wore them today.
02:14I was like, Teddy's coming.
02:15I gotta have my shorts game on fleek.
02:17You know what I mean?
02:18Still Hoochie Daddy's on now.
02:20Hoochie, I love you so much.
02:21This was a few years later when we were at Grammy's.
02:25Aww.
02:26What's up?
02:28How are you?
02:30First of all, look at this.
02:31Oh, look at you.
02:33We gotta be fresh together.
02:34You look like that sexy Aladdin over here, ain't you?
02:36Wait.
02:37Teddy Swims is gonna be sexy.
02:38And I stand by that.
02:40Sexy Aladdin is on my tombstone.
02:42It's like Tetris Kelly, sexy Aladdin.
02:45I mean, that was like Grammy week.
02:47So just even how was Grammy week for you that week?
02:50It's beautiful, man.
02:51I, you know, the best new artist nom.
02:53And then this year, you know, get another nomination.
02:56This is probably my favorite one, actually, Teddy.
02:59From topping the Hot 100 to calling into our show.
03:01What's up, Teddy Swims?
03:03Man, I'll tell you exactly what's going on right now.
03:05We're celebrating.
03:06And look at this, look at this.
03:07I know you're, you're somewhere else.
03:09So I got two shots of tequila.
03:10Oh, snap!
03:12But one of them's for you and then one's for me.
03:14But we're gonna celebrate this together.
03:15But you're not here, so I'm gonna take both of these.
03:17You got two shots of tequila.
03:18You got two.
03:19You got two.
03:20I mean, but it's like incredible to me because it's like you were in Vegas, I think.
03:27Yeah.
03:27And you had just got the Hot 100 number one.
03:30No, what a, what a night too.
03:31And I, I mean, I woke up and God, I was, or I don't think we slept really, man.
03:36And we were trying to do the promo like the next morning.
03:39And we had to be there like eight.
03:40And I think I was up till seven, you know, just dragging through.
03:43They call it, um, the Vegas flu is what they told me.
03:47It was called.
03:47So I said, they said, don't worry.
03:48It happens all the time out here.
03:50It's fine.
03:50We get it.
03:51You know, I totally understand.
03:53Don't you know, I lose control.
04:01We were staying at Safari.
04:03And this morning we could hear him do soundcheck.
04:05And I hear, lose control.
04:08And he was like going in and I was like, yeah.
04:10I have a daughter that drove from San Diego today to see Teddy Swift.
04:14Yeah.
04:14I want to talk to you about like, when you started to understand that you had fans and you had
04:19these people that care so much about your music and so much about your career.
04:23So like, what was the first moment you were like, somebody came up to you and like, you're
04:26like, wait, I'm making a difference.
04:28Yeah.
04:28You know, I think I, it's, it's so funny because the, okay, I'll tell you like, it's, it's
04:34going to be a little TMI, but, um, the first time I'd ever heard myself on the radio.
04:38And I think God is so funny in this way because you know, when you're on a tour bus, you
04:43can't
04:43go number two.
04:44So I'm like, you know, holding, like I'm like clenching from my life, dude.
04:49And, and so I, we finally stopped at this loves truck stop and I run in there and I'm,
04:55I'm, as soon as I'm sitting down on the toilet and I'm like, just having this most violent
04:59episode of my bowels.
05:01I hear the door starts playing and I'm, I'm just laughing to myself.
05:05Cause I was like, you know, the people at loves will never understand that the guy singing
05:08this song right now is having the most violent diarrhea in this, in the middle of nowhere,
05:14you know, America, wherever we were.
05:21Okay.
05:22You had the number one song, the Grammy nominations.
05:25Like, do you have like Teddy swims goals that you're like, this is what I want to check
05:30mark.
05:30This is what I want to accomplish next.
05:32Yeah.
05:32But I feel like every time I meet one, I'm like in a grateful way, but I'm never like
05:38satisfied.
05:38As soon as I get one, like goal, it's like, you know, when you could, I guess like the
05:44human eye sees like 20 miles ahead.
05:46Right.
05:46You know, so as soon as you get that 20 miles, you're seeing 20 more miles and you're like,
05:50ah, there's still much further to go.
05:51So I, I always try to celebrate the wins, but, but I still have, I don't know if like,
05:56there's like a goal I'm trying to get to, but I want to be the best, you know, and I
05:59want to be the best ever.
06:00And I, and I, I try to just be where my feet are and know that again, with time and
06:05goodness,
06:05this is where I'm supposed to be.
06:06And this is why I'm supposed to be using my, and I just also want to, I want my son
06:09to think
06:10I'm cool.
06:10And that's, that's it for me, really, man.
06:12I was like, he's my A and R bro.
06:14If I see him start doing this when I'm playing a song, I'm like, that's a single.
06:17I don't care what anybody says.
06:21I just love his music.
06:23He's just so good.
06:24Mr. Know-It-All, his brand new song that he just came out.
06:26Oh, I love that one.
06:26Oh, it's so good.
06:27We heard it two weekends back to back at Coachella.
06:29So we're so excited that he's here at Stagecoach.
06:31We're like, this is why we're coming, just tennis courts.
06:34Yeah.
06:34What's up, sexy boy?
06:36We'll see you later.
06:37Love you, man.
06:38Your energy is so good with people.
06:40I love that.
06:41Like, I feel like that's a really important part of what you do.
06:43I'm happy to be, I'm happy to do what I do.
06:45It's my best favorite people, you know?
06:47It's a great day to be us.
06:49I mean, you said favorite people.
06:50You've had, like, such great support, I feel like.
06:52Yeah.
06:53You're one of those artists that, like, is other people's favorite artists, you know what I mean?
06:57Yeah.
06:57Oh, man.
06:58This guy.
06:59I was so honored, to be honest.
07:01Teddy joined us, and I was in heaven.
07:04How do you feel about Teddy?
07:06We have the same wabasabi voice.
07:09Do you know the term wabasabi?
07:11I know.
07:11Wasabi is something that comes with sushi.
07:14Mm-hmm.
07:14It's spicy, and in fact, it's an adjective.
07:18Ah, wasabi.
07:19Nice boots.
07:20Wasabi it is.
07:20Okay.
07:22Wabasabi, W-A-B-I dash S-A-B-I, means that which is perfect, because it's a little effed
07:29up.
07:30My voice, very wabasabi.
07:33Like this.
07:34And Teddy and I have that voice.
07:37It sounds like distance.
07:38It sounds like experience.
07:40What's insane to me is the David Lee Roth of it all.
07:47Can you talk about, like, how did that even happen to have him be a part of this?
07:52He happened to be rehearsing next to us in Burbank, like, a few weeks ago.
07:56And so, you know, we started chatting it up, and I asked him, I was like, would you come
08:01out and do Coachella with me?
08:03Would you just, you know, do it?
08:04Yeah.
08:04He's actually coming again today to do it.
08:07Again, he's like, he's like, it's so funny, though, because he's so old, like, that he
08:13doesn't learn how to use his phone, so he tries to get on the phone with me, and he calls
08:17his manager to call my manager to put us on a four-way call.
08:20Just to say the most random stuff, he was telling me this crazy story about he was in
08:25Taiwan doing this thousand-mile bike ride for, like, two months, and we were camping
08:29everywhere, and I had this JBL speaker under my balls, and he's like, I made this 13-hour
08:34playlist, and I want you to listen to it.
08:36Think about me on my jungle bike in Taiwan.
08:39And I was like, I was like, okay, bro, I'll listen to your 13-hour play.
08:43He's on and off stage, just, like.
08:45Yeah, still the biggest guy ever.
08:46Yeah, dude.
08:47Nothing but rum and coach.
08:48That's how he survived at 72 years old.
08:51I don't know that I've ever asked you this.
08:52I hate rum.
08:53What's your spirit of choice?
08:54Yeah, I'm a tequila girl, for sure.
08:56Okay, yeah.
08:56We're both tequila girls.
08:58Love that about us.
08:59100%.
08:59And then, also, Lady Wilson.
09:01Yeah, dude.
09:01Another great friend of yours.
09:03Hanging out with her on stage.
09:04What's that relationship about?
09:04Oh, she's so cool, man.
09:05Well, her boy, Dallas Wilson, our boy, Dallas Wilson.
09:10He's written so much with me.
09:11He's one of my first people I ever met.
09:12He'll be out here today, too.
09:14But he writes everything with Laney.
09:16And so, we've been really close for a while.
09:18I love Laney.
09:19She's so kind.
09:21She's getting married in a couple weeks, too.
09:22Do she told me?
09:23Yeah.
09:23So, she's like, boy, I get off stage at stagecoaching.
09:28I'm going right into my bachelorette party.
09:30I said, girl, I don't know how you're freaking doing it, girl.
09:32I'm lying.
09:33She's her little country ass.
09:35Who is your favorite vocalist?
09:37I'm like, dude, Otis Redding's my favorite of all time.
09:41He's like, he's who I want to be in channel as like a vocalist.
09:45Otis is the one.
09:46Sitting in the morning sun.
09:50We played the interview earlier of you and Megan.
09:52Like, that was like, that song, that moment was so early in your career.
09:56Yeah.
09:56So, how was it to have that support at that point?
09:57Dude, I mean, she's still been like, I talk to Daryl all the time.
10:01They just had their girl, too.
10:03Yeah, which is insane.
10:04Oh, man.
10:05She's like, I think she's the precipice of what like a musician and a mother and just the balance.
10:11The balance of it all.
10:13I think like she's been such a steady hand in my life and to watch somebody really have the balance
10:18and know it.
10:19Like her and Thomas Rhett, too.
10:21Yeah.
10:21He just finally had his first boy, too.
10:23Like five of them.
10:24And I'm like, got a beautiful family, five kids and still doing it at such a high level and staying
10:30so humble and kind to his family and being there and being everywhere all at once.
10:34Yeah.
10:34It's like, I can't say more about a person and a parent and a performer.
10:40And now you're doing it.
10:40Yeah, I try.
10:41I hope so.
10:43When we talk about your life and you're like in Vegas, you're at stagecoach, you're at the Grammys.
10:47Now that you're a dad, like what is life like?
10:49Like how is it to raise this beautiful?
10:51Dude, it's so cool.
10:53You know, the longest I've had to be and I FaceTime him every day, but long as I've had to
10:56go without him has been three weeks.
10:57And that's it's so hard when you're like when he's 10 months old, you know, like every day is such
11:02a new chapter of like new things that he's doing or figured out, you know, and it's such a wild
11:07thing to see.
11:08Like the other day, my buddy of mine bought his German Shepherd.
11:12And this was a couple of months ago.
11:13He brought a German Shepherd over and, you know, Rambo like looked at him and was like, what the hell
11:17is that?
11:18And I was like, oh, you haven't seen an animal before, son.
11:20You know, I forgot that like these small things that I take for granted every day.
11:24It's the first time.
11:25Yeah, it's every and every food that he bites and tries.
11:28And it's just like, what the hell?
11:29And then I kind of like that, you know, and it's and I took these small little things for granted.
11:33And he's like really taught me like the beauty of like watching him discover everything is so fascinating.
11:39And it's so like I take so much for granted that I just I have at all times, you know,
11:45and I don't know how beautiful things are until I see him like, you know, like I can't wait to
11:49watch him like try Coca-Cola or something, you know, be like, you know, and just be like, well, the
11:53limit.
11:53You have to do the limit.
11:55You know, I got a video of the limit.
11:56It's hilarious.
11:58Hilarious.
11:58And like, what was the first moment you share?
12:00I know your dad's here right today.
12:01So like, what was the first time you called your parents or your mom?
12:04It was like, hey, oh, my God, I can't believe this is happening.
12:06You know, that was the first thing when I first got the best new artist nomination.
12:10And we were in Spain at the time.
12:11And I called my dad and, you know, I heard on video, too, of him just being like, well, hot
12:17dog, son.
12:18Look what you've done, buddy.
12:19I'm so proud of you, baby.
12:21And he's my first call for everything.
12:24You know, he's having him out here.
12:25He's my hero.
12:26And I like, you know, getting to share these moments with him and thinking about how proud he is.
12:31He cries at every show, you know, and now having a son, too, I always think like, you know, whatever
12:37he does, if it's not this, whatever, you know, but whatever he does, I hope that I get that opportunity
12:42one day to be like, wow, look at him up there doing his damn thing, you know, doing his thing
12:48and whatever that is.
12:49You know, and I just, it's such a beautiful thing, man.
12:52Watching him be a granddad is the coolest thing ever, you know.
12:56My favorite relationship of yours, I gotta be real, Jelly.
12:59You and Jelly are just, are Jelly.
13:02You guys are in this, so like, what's it like to have him in your car?
13:04Well, you know, we've kind of both come up like together at the same time, you know, like, he's always
13:10been like him and Struggle Jennings, his dear friend.
13:13He's like, I remember when I was still just Jaden Dimmesdale on online, like, my first little covers on YouTube
13:19and stuff, they would always be like, this is the best singer in the world.
13:22Like, I had maybe a thousand followers, but Jelly was like, you are the greatest of all time.
13:26He's done that at heart.
13:28He's been, he's been by me through, so like, we both kind of done this together and I've just, every
13:33time we see each other, just so proud of each other.
13:36Hey, bros.
13:38What's up, dude?
13:39I paid him to say that, so I look cool on my, on my interview.
13:43For the record.
13:51So we've been talking about like the journey. Lessons. I want to know what's the biggest lesson you learned.
13:56Um, you know, I, I think that timing is, is such a viable thing that I've learned, you know, I,
14:04I, so much in my life I wanted to like have it right now, you know, and get it.
14:08And I'm so grateful. I, some kids can handle, you know, like Benson at 23 can handle this life and
14:14be just fine. And it's such a man about it. But if I would have gotten this at 23, I
14:19would have, I would have put that up my nose.
14:21You know, I would absolutely ruin that. I would have absolutely, and I, I'm so grateful that I have the,
14:25I don't know, the life lessons along the way and the, the, the person, I'm glad I got it at
14:3133 that I know how to handle this now.
14:33And I'm, I'm not, I would absolutely spun out. I think if I would have, but I wanted it so
14:37bad then, you know, and I'm so grateful it's the time it was.
14:40And, and I think timing has been the biggest lesson in my life for that.
14:43You know, timing is extremely important.
14:45We just saw him backstage talking to you guys earlier, actually.
14:49Yes.
14:50I wanted to say hi so bad.
14:52I love those guys that were just like, Teddy.
14:54Yeah.
14:54What do you think about like how you've grown in that way with the fans and like that vibe?
14:57Like what's your relationship like with them?
14:59Uh, dude, I, I, I, I'm, I'm constantly consistently grateful.
15:03I think, you know, I, I, I, I found too, the biggest thing for me is sometimes it's like the
15:077 AM and you're at the airport and you've slept three hours and, and, and somebody's like, hey, can I
15:13get a picture?
15:14And you got to like, I, I, I, I now, instead of like trying to put on the face and
15:17be like, you know, I used to try it, but if I don't got it now, I, I just started
15:21to like try to meet them where I'm at.
15:23Just take, be honest with like, Hey man, I'm so excited to see you.
15:26Sorry for my lack of enthusiasm.
15:27I'm at like 30% right now, girlfriend.
15:30And, and I just, but I do love you and I want you to know I'm here, but my enthusiasm,
15:34I'm two right now, girl.
15:36So I do love you and I appreciate you.
15:37And I'm happy to take a picture.
15:39And you know, but if you just tell them you're at 30, they're, you know, people are more kind.
15:42And cause I used to like exhaust myself with, Hey, you know, even about, yeah.
15:46Yeah.
15:46And it's, it's unrealistic.
15:48And so I just try to be grateful and prioritize my gratefulness regardless of the, you know, and not try
15:54to be too Chuck E. Cheese all the time.
15:57You know?
15:58Yeah.
16:00Thank you so much.
16:02Cheers.
16:02Cheers.
16:02Cheers.
16:02Cheers.
16:06I mean, you're talking about the single or what's next and playing new music.
16:09Tell me something.
16:10You got to give me some, what are you working on?
16:12Where's the vibe going?
16:13So we're, we're working on a lot of stuff.
16:15Um, I've, I've been like super, super into like, I don't know, like, you know, Bill Collins
16:20and like, like, you know, like stinging the police lately.
16:23It's kind of, it's our stuff is a little more like that way.
16:27And still with the soul, nor be elements in it.
16:30But I've been really kind of in that, that world, I think.
16:32And, and so I'm, I'm, I'm looking forward to what we're putting out.
16:35And, you know, I'm having a lot of baby mama drama right now.
16:37So there's a lot of, uh, there's a lot of that that's going on in the music too.
16:41And so.
16:41You're telling the stories.
16:42Yeah.
16:42That's what you did at being a storyteller.
16:44Yeah.
16:44I hate it for her though.
16:45Cause she's, she's not gonna like these songs.
16:49We will like them.
16:50We will reminisce them.
16:51Thank you so much, man.
16:52Thank you, bro.
16:52I can't wait to see you tonight.
16:54And thanks for letting me be a fan of yours and hanging out today.
16:56I love you, man.
16:57I love you more.
16:57Thank you for wearing my t-shirt, my mom.
16:59I got you, man.
17:00All right.
17:00One, two, three.
17:02Taxi.
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