“We Won 3 Grammys and Still Felt Like Failures” - Dan + Shay (Live Performance) - #1176

Chris Williamson (0:00)

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Shay Mooney (0:54)

Thank you so much. Here on the show today, we're gonna be talking. That's how we gotta start it.

Chris Williamson (0:59)

What an introduction. Well, you think that you were trying to throw me a curveball.

SPEAKER_3 (1:02)

Whoa.

Chris Williamson (1:03)

Can you tell me about Domino's, please?

SPEAKER_3 (1:06)

Domino's, dude.

Dan Smyers (1:07)

Domino's, the Italian pizzeria.

Chris Williamson (1:09)

What is Domino's?

Dan Smyers (1:10)

Dude, we have an inside joke with Megan Maroney, who's a fellow country artist, just badass, but we were hanging. We had a big crew down in a 30A in Florida. I was like, should we order some Domino's? Like we'd all been at the bar all night. She's like, what the hell is Domino's? Not until it got there. She's like, Domino's. So yeah, Domino's fine side pizzeria.

Shay Mooney (1:29)

Dan told me like when I first met him at that house party for like the probably four years, honestly, before I figured out what you guys were talking about, they would always be like, man, we got to get some Domino's.

It's like the Italian pizzeria. And I was like, I just thought it was an Italian place. Four years later, you're talking about it in conversation. And that's when I realized Domino's.

Dan Smyers (1:47)

That's an amazing reveal right there.

Chris Williamson (1:49)

That's great. I love that. I love that it's written Domino's on here. I saw that.

Shay Mooney (1:54)

That's how it would be written.

Dan Smyers (1:55)

Y'all taped that on there. I thought it was legit on there. I was like, is it actually called Domino's?

Chris Williamson (1:59)

It might be. Custom cut. It would have been brilliant if you'd reverse engineered them into giving them your name.

Well, originally we were called Domino's, but then we heard this Dan guy, and actually we think that the branding's improved. It has. It has. We've got some za in here too. There's a little something if we get hungry.

Dan Smyers (2:15)

Bro, I might have to march a little piece of Domino's right there.

Chris Williamson (2:18)

So I got a question, I guess. You used to be pizza tester, right? Pizza taste tester? That was me. Oh, you were tasting pizza.

Dan Smyers (2:25)

Dude, I would do about anything to get money. I was like, it was like, yeah, not quite anything. But like research groups and stuff was like, you could try on a Haynes t-shirt for 20 bucks, say your feelings about it. There were some good ones, like trying, it was like a, my buddy and I went, it was like a hard cider tasting or something like that. And you needed a designated driver. I shouldn't be saying this publicly, but you needed a DD to like sign up and show up. And we were each other's DD. So we showed up and we were just, it was like, we have a little taste, what do you feel about this hard cider? Is it like crisp enough? Is it sparkling enough? And we just, we pounded them all, got hammered and got like 40 bucks.

Pretty sick, dude.

Shay Mooney (2:59)

Our rent and made it back home, which is pretty impressive.

Dan Smyers (3:01)

Our rent in Nashville was like 150 bucks a month. I mean, the house was falling apart. There was no heat, no AC, no locks on the doors. That's where we met.

Shay Mooney (3:08)

When I met him, dude, I had to like perform a B&E. I was breaking and entering the very first time we met. Cause we got invited to this thing. We were both like broke. I'll stand on, you know, buddy's couches and stuff. And we were going around and we got invited to this party. And the only premise was these guys are having a party. They have a keg. And I was like, cool, I'll go there. I'd love to do that.

Dan Smyers (3:28)

The keg was a gift.

Shay Mooney (3:29)

It was a gift. It was also seven months old. But I arrived at the house, pulled up, wouldn't like a hundred percent sure that it was the right house. 507 Morton Avenue, we'll never forget. Walked up to the front door and they had kind of a glass pane on the front. The door wouldn't work. So I had to reach inside of the door, open it from the inside. And I went in there and he had these sheets draped over the living room to keep heat in. And I'm like, literally like, this was the first time I met Dan, dude, it was this, this was the reveal.