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A replay of Peaches Pit Party which you can hear on KBEAR 101 weekday afternoons 2pm - 7pm MST
The Artist Interrogations podcast. Hello. Hey, Chris. How are you doing? I'm good, man.
Just getting everything organized here. Yeah. I'm good. How are you? Doing fantastic.
It's an honor to talk to you because I've been a fan for so many years. It's crazy. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you.
Of course. I've been on the stream of Chris's as of late for some reason. I had Chris Daughtry, Chris Motionless, Chris Kale of 5 Finger Death Punch. Now, you, a guy who I've been watching since I was, like, 8 years old, used to rent the movies, the pay per views at Movie Town back in the day, and with my dad watched you as a kid. And now being 26 years later, have you had a lot of fans grow up with you, of course?
First of all, this is gonna be the best, Chris. I guarantee that. It's better. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's it is really cool when you have the longevity that I've had, and you see kind of the different generations, you know, of of of people that you influenced, you know, one generation in their forties, their thirties, their twenties, their teens, and that's kind of the cool thing about doing this, like I said, for as long as I have.
You're constantly evolving and getting a new, fan base involved. And I always say it doesn't matter what, floor you got on the Chris Jericho elevator, if it was the 1st floor, if it's now at the, you know, 32nd floor. I appreciate every one of them, and, every era and every person's ever enjoyed my work. I I get great take great pride in that. Absolutely.
I I was funny because I was thinking about it. I know back in, like, elementary school when teachers used to say, like, what do you wanna be when you grow up? And kids would say a wrestler, a rock star, but you've been both. And it's crazy to me. Like, you've done 2 dream careers.
How did you know that you would flourish with wrestling overall? I mean, do you ever really know? You know what I mean? Like, I think it's more of just having a goal and a dream and just going for it. You You know?
When I was a kid, I wanted to be in a rock and roll band, and I wanted to be a wrestler. Those are kind of the 2 goals that I set for myself, and I never really worried about what anybody else thought about that. There was always a lot of people with opinions of, oh, you can never do this or you can never do that. And to me, it was always like, well, what do you care? What I can and can't do?
I think I can do it, and I'm gonna give it my best try. And, here we are 32 years later, and I've I've done both at at very high levels and been very successful and still successful. So I think the moral of the story is is if you wanna do something, just go for it. Don't listen to what everybody else has to say about it. Just follow your heart and and do it.
And that's what I've done, and and I've been, you know, been very vindicated, as a result. And how do you rest up your voice for all this? Like wrestling, of course, you're cutting promos with the being in Fozzy, the lead singer. You're singing all the time, going on tours, and then also doing your podcast Talk as Jericho. Well, I mean, there's you know, it's not that hard.
I mean, there's certain things that you do. It's it's not kind of what what you're doing when you're performing. It's what you do afterwards. You know, especially when you're on tour, you know, you don't go out to a club afterwards and talk over loud music and hang around in a smoky environment. And you you kinda know you know your limits as you get more and more of a professional.
And you know, okay. It's time to back off a bit, or tonight I'm just gonna do nothing, or I've really gotta rest my voice tonight and not talk a lot on the phone or whatever it may be. So it's more just experience and learning your limits as a singer, you know, talking on a on a podcast or a radio interview, all that sort of thing, unless you're really sick or something along those lines, it's really never an issue. And if if you are sick, if you have a sore throat or some kind of a cold or something, you might just have to take that day off. Absolutely.
Yeah. I was it was funny because I was watching your interview with Lou Brutus prior to this. He does hard drive XL for on nights for us as well. And you were talking about the single, I Still Burn off of, from Fozzy to the latest record, of course. And then, you you said a really cool thing about it being a powerful song, a very uplifting song, and I wanna discuss more about that with you.
Well, I mean, it is. It's it's kind of what we discussed earlier, you know, based on on, you know, never giving up no matter what kind of adverb adversity you you face. And I think Judas was a big hit for us, but it also had kind of, a little bit of a everybody can relate to it, but kind of from a from a negative standpoint. Everything I've ever loved that pushed them all away, that sort of thing. We all know what that feels feels like.
I think I still burn with you know, every time I reach my end, I get up again. It's more uplifting and positive and and follow your heart, follow your dreams type of a message behind it. So I I think that's one of the reasons why it has potential to be bigger than Judas because it has that message, which is much more of an uplifting one. Not that Judas wasn't uplifting, but there is a little bit more of a damn it type of a of a of a message to it. You know?
I knew I was gonna let let people down, and I did, and we can all empathize with that. But I think this one, like I said, more of just follow your hopes and dreams and and and, the fire that still burns inside of you lives forever if you let it. And I think that's a great message as well. So both of them are big songs for us for for the same reason because you can relate to them just on opposite ends of the spectrum. Absolutely.
I know I saw that entrance you had when you had Judas play and the whole entire audience was singing along to the song. And then we've been playing Sane as well. We've been playing Nowhere to Run. And one in particular that I played specifically for my feature, I have my name is Peaches on the radio. My last name is Peaches and so Peaches baby.
Yeah. Of course. So I do Peaches Powerballad and I played Army of 1 off the latest record and I wanna discuss that more with you as well. I mean, it's obviously an emotional song. Well, yeah.
I mean, you know, it's one of those ones as soon as you hear it, you think, okay. Yeah. That's that's gonna be a single at some point. And, you know, I I think that's the idea is is is you know, it takes a long time to build a single unless you're, you know, Shinedown or something like that where you release the single and and 2 weeks later it's number 1 for Fozzy. I mean, I Still Burn is number 8 on the charts now, and that's after, I think, 4 or 5 months, and it's still growing.
It still has a bullet. So I think once I Still Burn reaches its peak, then we can look at the next single. And I think army of 1 is definitely one of the candidates for it because once again, it's very accessible, it's very catchy, and and, you know, has the same type of message. You have to believe in yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?
So, you are an army of 1. And, I just think it's one of those songs as as soon as as I heard it and as soon as we kind of went through it, it's like, well, that's that's gonna be a big one for us. That's awesome. And one personal question of mine because I, of course, I've known I've watched you since I was, like, 8, and I've saw I've seen so many of your great insults over the years, especially, like, Stephanie McMahon. Do you kind of, like, talk with her about that beforehand?
Like, hey, I'm about to roast you in front of all these people, or what is that approach, like, for when it comes to just these great insults that you've had when it comes to wrestling? Well, I mean, we're all playing characters on a show, so nobody really takes anything personal. I mean, you know, you can get personal with it, and those never really work as much because you don't wanna ever get too inside baseball, as we say, where, you know, oh, 10% of the fan base knows it, 90% are wondering what you're talking about. But when it comes to, you know, insulting when you are a a good guy, a babyface, and you have a great heel like Stephanie was or or, you know, MJF and AW or whoever it may be, It's kind of open season and just go out there. And like I said, we're playing characters.
This is not, you know, Chris and Max getting into a verbal argument in front of a 1000000 people. It's, you know, it's Le Champion and and MJF having a verbal sparring duel where, you know, there's a lot of oohs and ahs, and that's kind of the idea. It's like watching your favorite movie where the good guy gets some great lines in on the on the high school bully, and that's kind of the idea. So, you know, that's one thing about wrestling is it's it's it's neither fish nor foul. You know, it's it's not a complete sport, and it's not a complete, you know, entertainment spectacle.
It's kind of a combination of the 2. So there is a little bit of of a different mind space about it mindset about it, but still, I mean, it's bottom line is it is entertainment. You have to connect with the audience. And when you're doing those types of insults and jokes and and one liners, that's a great way to connect for sure. And with all these years of basically going out there, wearing your wrestling attire, talking to the crowd, being charismatic as you are, what advice would you give me?
Because I'm about to go on stage in front of, like, 10,000 people for a concert with that's Rockzilla, falling in reverse, Bad Wolves, Papa Roach, Hollywood Undead. They're coming to Pocatello this Friday, and I have to go on stage to do an announcement. Like, what's what was your approach when you first started to basically go out and be who you are and just say, what's going on everybody? That sort of thing. Well, it's the same approach that I have with Fozzy.
I mean, you just have to connect with the audience, and you're the party host. You know, if you're introduced to the show, then you have to have energy and you have to have, you know, you have to have some excitement in in in what you're doing because it's people are excited to be there. So, that's like I said, when you when you are in that position, you have to connect and, let people know that you are there to make sure that they have a great time. That's the most important job of any front man. It's like I said, to be the party host.
Especially if you're kicking off the show, then you have to have energy. You know? Your energy has to match the show that's about to come and know that everybody's there to have a great time, and that kinda makes things a little bit easier. Well, thank you so much, Chris. It's been an honor to get the chance to talk to you.
I mean, watching you on TV all these years and then all of a sudden seeing you face to face with me is crazy. Thanks, dude. Yeah. Appreciate it, brother. Appreciate you.
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