The Edge Breakfast - EXCLUSIVE: ALEX WARREN UNCUT

Episode Date: August 20, 2025

We caught up with Alex Warren while he was on tour in New Zealand!Check out this unfiltered chat where each of us had two minutes with him to ask whatever we wanted.

This is a podcast from Rover. Hello, Alex Warren, and welcome to The Edge, my love. Heck yeah. So behind me are my two co-hosts, and we have a limited amount of time and three of us. So what I wanted to do was, instead of the three of us try and do one great interview, we're going to try and do three great interviews. They cannot hear what we're talking about. We get two minutes each.

We're all going to try our best, and at the end, you can decide who did the best job. How does that sound? Yes, can I hear what they're listening to? What are you listening to? What are you listening to? I'm not sure. What is this? Can he have a quick listen?

Also, is my microphone, okay? Yes. The loophole. The loophole? Wait, can I get a gander? It's not one of yours. It's definitely not one of yours. We could have chosen an Alex Warren.

Nice. Or he's got Alex Warren. I've got Alex Warren. Which song? Oh, that's depressing. I'm liking it. Honestly, wait, all the more. Yeah.

Sometimes you need some depressing music to get you relaxed before you nail an interview, but he's not going to nail it. because I'm going to nail it. I'm going to do the music thing first. Okay. I want to show you some respect as an artist before these clowns come in and try and be funny,

you know what I'm saying? But I'm thinking of the end of my chat. We'd all pretend laugh. Okay. So they just see it and they're like, oh my God, they're getting along so well. Tell me when. Okay.

So on my mind is your best song ever discuss. Discuss? Discuss. Do you agree? Oh, um. Can you? No, it's, no, I'm telling you, it's so great. Oh, oh, okay.

I was confused by discuss. Do you want me to debate you? I don't really want to discuss. I just want you agree with you. Thank you. I don't agree. Really? I don't.

I think that Rosee definitely sounds better on that song than I do. And I think that it would have been a better song with just Rosey, funny enough. I think our voices match very well, though. They do. Yeah. But the actual song and the production on it is so beautiful. Thank you so much. It's so funny.

It's so funny because I write a lot of songs to me that are very personal. And I think that was one of those songs that it was kind of just a fun love song. and we kind of just had some fun with a different perspective. I love for the world needs more fun love songs. Yeah. Do you don't worry because you're so prolific that you're going to, because you're so busy working, you're a round of life experience and then you'll have nothing to write about, but like, the tour bus is amazing and I'm doing more promo, and that'll be the whole song.

I think that would be a fun song. I think that would be a fun song to write. But I do think that, I don't think that we've hit the cap on bad shit that could happen to me. So I think there's always more bad shit that could happen to us. There's always more. There's always more. Especially in 2020. when the world is imploding on us.

But also my two biggest songs are about my wife. And so, like, that's the thing. I'm with my wife all the time. She's on the row with me all the time. And especially when we try to have kids in the future, I think that's going to be something really interesting to write about, too. That's, do you know, when we got pregnant, my husband said, as he was delivering the goods to me,

here comes the baby maker as it happens. Really? Did he say it in song? No, he just said it. No. He was like, here comes a baby, and I was like, you can't say that? Can I just say I love New Zealand's humor? Because I feel like it is exactly mine, and I'm so not used to.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. You're amazing. This is a fun way. This is awesome. I've never done this before. Is that dude? I think she, I think the laugh was fake. I think it was fake.

I think she had wrecked it. I don't say banger after banger. Which one is now? Trouble waters. It turned off. My time hasn't started. Okay, shut up, Dan. Okay.

Alex, you have one of the biggest songs in the world with Ordinary. Yeah. So we're going to play Raid It or Ordinary? Okay. Okay. Getting recognized in public. Oh, I love that. Oh, you rate it?

Yeah, I would rate it. Really? It's all, like, I feel like you can't get into this job and not love that. Okay, cool. Living in your car. I did love that. I did love that. That was one of the hardest times in my life, but I remember it was the lowest time in my life. And when a small wind would happen, it felt like the biggest thing ever. And so I was funny enough, it was like whenever those things were happening and whenever like, you know, we made enough money to get food or we were able to, you know, find a really cool. I got it. It was just, it was awesome. Wow. How many years were you in your car? Not even a year. It was six months. Like it's so, it's so interesting for me. It's six months. Two months of it was by myself and the last it was with my wife. So five months. Wow, so yeah, that's right, you started dating your wife in your car.

Yeah. Wow, that's man, you must have some ris. Okay, matching tattoos. No, I, ordinary. Ordinary. Ordinary. I don't think it's that great. Okay, um, partying until 2 a.m.

I don't party, ordinary. Yeah, I don't party. I'm really not that fun. I like going to the bar with my band and watching them drink, though. That's fun. Playing guitar shirtless? Until I get ripped ordinary. Yeah, I hired a train.

and a chef, so hopefully I'll get ripped, and then it won't be ordinary. Fans asking for selfies in the bathroom. Oh, I love it. I rate it. I don't care where I am, what I'm doing, if I'm eating or anything, ask to take a picture with me. My favorite one is when I'm literally in the bathroom, this guy follows him behind me, and goes, that's Alex.

And as I'm piss in the urinal, they go in the urinal next to me, they go, can we take a picture? I was like, yes. That's awesome. It's the best. Okay, free gift bags and fancy award ceremonies. Can I answer that? Yeah, yeah, sit down, sit down.

Two minutes is it, what was it? Taking the goodie bags at award ceremonies. I've never done it. Oh, ordinary. Okay, I'd have one last one. The Edge Breakfast Radio show. I can't answer that. Oh, no.

We needed a grateful for him saying he rates the show. Put it in your phone phone. Please tell me, it's not one. I can't hear you, darling. Hey, that's how I could. Now, just so you know, we're about to prank these two. Okay. Okay, so what's going to happen is you're going to pretend

that I've just said the most offensive thing I've ever, anyone's ever said, okay? Okay. And you're just going to stand up and walk out, okay? Okay. Angry look on your face. All right. Like you were offended by me, you don't like me, whatever, okay? And then I've said something, and then you just walk out and come back in in like a minute or so.

Okay. Okay. Wait, wait, wait, we need, we need Joel to play in on it, though, so Joel, you're going to have to, like, tell him, like... Okay. Maybe he can come in, and then you... Yeah, I'll look at Joel, and then Joel will shake his head and then... Okay, yeah, yeah. So, tell me, Australia or New Zealand, who's your favorite? Thank you, thank you guys, son.

What happened? What happened? He didn't even use the whole two minutes, I don't think. I knew. What happened? What did you do? Nothing. I asked him, I thought. Is he joking? What did you do? What happened?

I asked him if he liked Australia or New Zealand better and he was like walked out. No, you didn't. No, you didn't. Is this a bit? No, I swear. I don't believe it's a bit. Oh, Lily, I'm not here. Bring him back. Bring him back. Yeah.

Calvin. I swear. I don't believe you. He's so full of shit. He was having such a great time. Hey, yeah, hello? Yeah. You're a great actor

Did I do it? Yeah You did well He overrated Whatever it was No what's so funny My security thought it was real Oh really

He thought it was real And we literally I walk over and we go Okay let's go And then starts leading me down I'm like wait wait we're just kidding He's like he starts gagging It was awesome

One of them was like right I'm gonna bash that guy afterwards You guys were right through it It was your acting was brilliant That's why he's got 35, 40 million more followers and you've got 8,000. It's also the face. So now you need to make the judgment. Who was the better interviewer?

I'm probably out of the question, so it's between these two. But you committed to a big bit, and I respect that in a manner. Yeah, like if we're a wrestling team and we're all tag partners, who made, who did the put in the most damage, do you think? I think the most fun, I think the most, I think the most fun one was what? Ash. Oh, I think the most fun was you. like you were definitely funny where the like when we were interviewing you shocked me like I was genuinely like that's fucking awesome like that's hilarious you are someone where if my PR team said who do you want to go interview I think I would pick you because I think you would have you talked more about the music

oh yeah but fun wise you and that was you you sold he reached to the stars no that was a fun that was a fun That was fun, though. It's been so awesome meeting you. Dude, I feel like we know each other already from the interview and stuff, but like it's been such a blast. We've done the two of us. We've done the town hall.

I know. Can we do it? Space like Katie Perry. Space. Someone called Bay, do you know Bezos? Jeff? I know, I've met Jeff once. Oh, I don't know Jeff that well.

No, no, no. If I walked up to Jeff Bezos, he would probably go, who are you? No, he'd say, ordinary. What a smash loved it. Alex Warren, we adore you. so happy here now Teiro, thank you for hanging out. Thanks for having me. This was a great.