October 22, 2024 • 35 mins
Charlie Puth stops by the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge to talk about being a TV star, performing with Stevie Wonder, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge. Hello, oh my, wow.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Wow, sorry about that strike one.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm hear. Charlie Pooth is here. Everybody?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hi Charlie, Hi, take your headphones off.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I know we were just talking about how your every
every guest your voice sounds different.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, if you have headphones on while you're speaking through
the microphone, it makes you sound differently to us.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, can change your voice. Does it look weird if
I just wear it? You know, weird at all?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Just you didn't take them off if you want, just
be mic aware, okay, because sometimes if they take them off,
they they sit like fifteen feet away and no one
can hear what they have to say.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Right, welcome to my hell? Why is this your hell?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
But look, we all have occupational hazards. Mind is guests
that cannot be heard through the microphone? What is yours?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
What? Really?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
What occupational hazard do you have in your occupation?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Maybe working with an artist that doesn't want to be there,
working with an artist that can't sing, working with it
that wasn't shade.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I mean, I don't have anyone in mind. I love
how you're casting blame on others and not yourself.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, or no, I'm I'm pretty much happy to be
anywhere where there's music involved in this is technically iHeart here,
not technically it is.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
There's a question for you, though, I mean, and I
don't want to bring up the perfect pitch thing and
you're so tired of talking about that. But in sickness,
in pandemic time, do you lose it for a minute
because your nasal passages.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I don't know, no, but I can. I can. I've
learned ways with meditation and other things to turn it off.
But sometimes it's hard to sleep at night because like
the music, we'll just like play over and over and
over again. What does it look like? Isn't we pretty
(02:09):
much not seen that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
No, but I mean, thank god it's warm out in
New York in your head? What does music look like?
Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh? Does it? Does it have a form of shape?
That's a good question. It's kind of like this desk
is what color is this desk?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Well, it's a to me, it's a shade of white.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's it's white. That was yeah, it's it's white. And
and that's gray. And I guess the best way for
me to describe is that a c sharp is a
sea sharp. It's it's like you, I hear the note
and it's very literal, like these headphones are black. I
just equate everything to color because if you were color blind,
(02:48):
then you can't see the color. But I'm you know,
most people are not color blind, but I actually don't
know if that's true.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I have My family's colorblind, So.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Now I feel bad poking colored people. Yeah, so I
love how to you if you have a matte gold microphone?
Why does elves have a shiny gold It's an ego thing?
Is that like a promise of like this it's matt
right now, but one day you'll have a golden microphone.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I think that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Okay, keep working hard yet there to you, it's a
sea sharp. I think of it as a D flat.
Isn't an Is my glass half full? In your half?
Did you look that up for something? Because the D
flat is a C sharp? No, I know that, I know,
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
The trouble Cleff Cleff, Well so you know. So, by
the way, when Charlie Pooth walked in, he says, he
asked if you had any sparkling water.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I said, we usually do. I didn't. That makes me
sound so bougie. I was, you need something fizzy in
the morning, You're you know what? You you had nine
cans of Coca Cola in the dressing room. It's like, who,
yes that in the.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Morning, who's our last guest?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And I thought it was a little so surprising that you,
Charlie Pooth wanted effrofessment water because you were you carry
effrofessens with you already. But we went down to Ernest
Klein and bought three San Pellegrinos at a total of
fourteen forty nine. If you would turn that into your people,
have them reimburse it.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That's pricey water, is Charlie poos?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
That seems a little over priced.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Earnest, you're in New York City?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You're going to Dwayne Read or something? I like Ernest Clein.
But that's a lot of money the times we live in,
I know, can you imagine? Do you actually want me
to pay this? You have your people pay it. Maybe
the label can pay that. They all just raise their
hands at once.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Let's talk about everything. Let's talk about all the above. Okay,
how's it being a big TV star?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Now?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I I don't know if I'm the big TV star,
but I'm happy to be. I'm happy to have a
TV show that is uh number one on Roku second
week in a row. I'm told, wow, I I really
had no expectations going into it because I am a musician.
But I've always wanted to make a TV show, and
(05:09):
I got some of my friends and we just made
a TV show. It looks like a lot of fun.
It's really stupid, but.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
That's promoting it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
There you go. It's not stupid, No, it's it's it's
good stupid. It's like smart stupid.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It has a good name, The Charlie Pooth Show.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah, that's because we couldn't think of a but okay,
I love this which scene that's just my voice sped up.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's your your theme song. Yeah, but I originally sang
it like.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
She was saying it a little bit slower, and then
we put it through the tape machine and then speed
it up like it sounds like album the check Yeah,
let me go.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
And like another thing I love about the show, the
transitional song that the transitional little music. For instance, we're
talking to Charlie about his new show. But now we're
going to talk about something else. Let's talk about to
be saying those transitional things.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So it's interesting is I didn't make those transitional things.
I heard a rumor that those were the same transitional
music things used in Glee.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I don't know if that was just it sounded like that,
but it sounds like they sound like.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Here's another one. That's me and junk cook. That's that's
not Glee.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It does not like Glee.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I never watched Glee, but I saw that somewhere. Someone
said that, Wow, you.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Blatantly ripped them off, but never watched the show, you
should support.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
No, I've never I really have never watched the show,
but I'm familiar with the concept. And someone said that
like it might. I mean, it's stock music, and I
guess the show is made by the people who made Glee.
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Can I say something and I want you to take
this as an insult because I don't mean it that way,
but marriage looks really good on you. And here why
your skin's glowing? You close the beautiful, You smell awesome,
your hair's gray.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I mean, I'm not saying you didn't look great before,
but I'm saying you got this something about you.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Oh, I think it's a little confidence confidence boost. I
have a very cool wife, and she's cool and she's sleeping.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Is sleeping because I want to bring something up here,
and I think it's bestially not hear this. Okay, yeah,
won't That was supposed to be me marching down that
aisle was here. That was supposed to be me.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I mean, that was never going to be you. But
I'm supposed to be me. We've had We've had some
really interesting times. I know.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Sorry to tell you.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
The aisle we ever walked down with Charlie Pooth was
in the middle of an airplane.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Elvis and I took a flight one time and it
was so bumpy. We just happened to be on the
same flight, wink, and it was so bumpy. It was
so bumpy that I really thought it was going to
be the end. Like it was really like what if
it was? And you were so unseerious when it comes
to flying, you're I'm like shaking and you're just like,
isn't this But I knew it'd be fine. Everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Look at the percentage of flights that make it, it's
a high number.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
We did.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Okay, we We were fine. We always are fine. But
in the in the moments it was it was put
me at ease. Oddly was the fact that he was
so calm.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Oh wow, what a headline that would have been.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
No, he would have been the headline. I don't I
don't want to die on a plane with Charlie Pooth.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I know we weren't dying. We weren't dying.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And god, he wasn't there when the bird thing happened,
when the birds went in the.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
End, almost died. Yeah, I think I told you that
story during this flight. It made you more nervous.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Oh nine, you were on that flight.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
No, no, no, diff different, different flight. We were on
a flight from here to way.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
For everybody who's doing their morning commuting.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Love, so listen to this. We were flying on.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Their way to JFK. Right now, you're gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
He we heard this bumpy, bumpy sound and then the
air and the plane smelled like roasted chicken.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Oh, that would make sense.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
It was geese that flew into our engines and we
had to come back to Newark Airport and land safely, slowly,
But it smelled like Thanksgiving morning on the plane. It
was kind of great, Oh my god. But what if
we had Paris that day? If we had what the parish?
If we had passed away? We didn't, so it doesn't matter.
Would we go to heaven together? Where would we be?
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Where do you? But where would we go after that?
We wouldn't have made it to jingle Miami's Heart Radio
jingle in twenty twenty two. But would we still be
friends in the afterlife? I think so? After life's a
real thing. I do believe that. Now do you believe
in reincarnation? Absolutely? Welcome back. Thanks, I'm still here, you know,
(09:55):
But no, absolutely, I think we go into different things.
That's why. That's why like sometimes when I play a
certain chord on the piano, like the sun will kind
of like peek out, and maybe that's like someone trying
to like say hi, not to get all sad, and
that's actually happening. It's really like it's reminiscent, like they're
like that. That's why music affects people so viscerally, because
(10:17):
it's just tones and in shapes that like when they
penetrate us, that's not supposed to sound gross, but when
that when they go through us, that's not also supposed
to sound gross. They they they can it drastically changes
like a mood, like music, like like one chorus of
something can just alter like any group of people's mood.
(10:38):
It's pretty amazing, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Charlie and I get a little choked up when I
talk about this, and maybe we've talked about this in
the past. My mother had Alzheimer's. She was near the
end of her life and she just didn't really know
where she was. She was rarely loocid at all. But
when we turned on music from her past, she remembered it,
all of it right, you know. And it's and it's
(11:01):
just the easiest example.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Though?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Yeah, one part of your brain is always always like,
no matter your situation, one part of your brain is
always working right. It's like, that's why I think it's
so important for any musician and any entertainer to put
their best foot forward because you never know, Like even
if there have been days where I've walked into the
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studio and I've thought, I really just don't want to
be here right now, but I just still go forward
with it because you never know what you can you
never know how you're going to complete somebody's sentence that day,
and that's happened to me a couple of times where
you just like push through and then I, I don't
know if your mom was a fan of my music,
(11:45):
but you'd play It's amazing that you would play her
favorite music. And absolutely that's that's really cool.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
So you know, try to You're a genius at explaining
the science of music and it explaining not at six
what feels like six. You're doing You're doing, You're doing
just fine, You're doing great. But you're you're you're so
so well spoken when it comes to music and theory
and this and that, and now you're talking about how
it affects other people?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
What about you? Like?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
How deep and slicing can you go into your heart
right now to talk about what music does for you
in your most personal sense?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I mean, I'm sure I could get there. I before
I got married to Brooke, before we got married, I
remember driving to this restaurant, the Great Lodging Connecticut Great.
I don't know if I'm messing the name up, but
it took an hour and a half to get there,
and I was dating Brooke and I played Jersey Girl
(12:43):
the Bruce Springsteen version live in the Medolins, and Brooke
doesn't really listen to lyrics. She actually like she likes
two songs Latched by Sam Smith and like something by
Rufus Desoul. She doesn't know a whole lot of music.
That's great music right there. But it's a good dichotomy
because I almost like Will know too much sometimes, so
(13:04):
it's it's we're a good couple for that reason. But
I played her Jersey Girl and I was like, like,
you like those lyrics, Like he's saying I'm in love
with the Jersey Girl, and I'm thinking to myself, pick
up on the fact that that is you. And she
was like, what's this guy screaming about? But if I
(13:25):
I'll cry if I hear that song. I mean we
got We had Kanye's Sunday service choir UH singing I
don't want to miss a Thing by Er Smith. We
wrote the UH arrangement for when she walked down the
aisle UH for just picture a choir singing that was
Diane Warren at your wedding. No, Diane Warren was not
(13:46):
her song? Was her song? Was? I told her that uh,
that that her song wasn't. Then she immediately followed it with, well,
let's let's write a new song. I'm like, Diane, I'm
not working on my wedding day a good songwriter. I
I bet you thought about I was. I had a moment,
momentary thought, and then I was like, I should probably
(14:07):
focus on getting married. But no, music is such an
important part of a wedding, such an important part of
like anyone's life.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I agree, Charlie Pooth is here, and no one speaks
about music like Charlie, and we probably don't give you
enough credit for that. But no, you know, my favorite
interview you ever did was Howard Stern. Oh yeah, yeah,
because I could see you interview it was somebody else
I have. I've told you this before. I have a
difficult time interviewing you because we're such good friends.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
But we have things to talk. Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
But when you were sitting on Stern's show and you
had your keyboard in front of you, I could see that.
I could see in your I could see in your eyes.
You're like, holy crap, this is a guy I grew
listening to absolutely and idolizing, and now I'm on his
show and he's curious about how I feel about music.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
He's want he wants me to talk about well, I
feel I feel that about most people. Like I got
a call from uh from Stevie Wonder one time, asking
to finish the lyrics to an idea that he had.
One thing. I'm I grew up listening to talking book
and songs in the Key of Life. And now he's
calling me on the phone asking me to finish an
(15:24):
idea that he might think is good. Of course it's good.
It's Stevie Wonder. The fact that I've worked with James Taylor,
the fact that like Elton John facetimed me the other
day asking how I was doing. I mean he said
you were crap one day. Yeah, but that I mean
that was like six years ago, Okay, and that might
have been exaggerated, but he he. I don't do this
(15:47):
to like to be like a Flexosaurus rex. I I
it's it's it's it's more just like I can't believe
that I get to be in contact with all these
these creatives who have kind of shaped me as a creator.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
But they are in contact with you as well. Give
them a little credit for their excitement.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I still get I geek out that I get to
be here with all of you. I grew up listening
to you too, shoving a dunkin donut sestame big well
and hot medium hot chocolate coffee down my throat before
high school. And here I am here in this famous
laugh by and now you're now, you're now, you're all
about bougie. Ef proves drinks a relax It's a Pellegrino
(16:28):
from like the what is it the Italian?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
But they do ask you when you go to dinner
flat or bubbly all the time, so you know, anybody
can happen.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I get both.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
I have so many questions. Okay, first of all, Stevie
Wonder called you.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Have you ever met him in person? Yeah, we've we've
performed together at the American Music Awards.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Do you believe he's really blind?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
He's definitely blind.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Okay, there's a conspiracy theory that he's not blind, and
it's just nacked.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
And I'll tell you a story. He is definitely blind,
but it's because he is blind. His hearing is better
than mine. It's better than all of our hearing in
this room combined. But you have an incredible hearing. Oh,
he is way better. Maybe you're partially blind. His perfect
pitch is insane. Maybe I am partially blind. But I
(17:20):
was sitting down in a room like this, and they're like,
just sit here and Stevie will be He'll meet you
on stage. His handler said, he's gonna meet you on stage.
Stevie walked in with his chromatic harmonica. I think it's CHROMATICA.
That's a Lady Gaga album. It's a walked in with
his chromatic chromatic harmonica and just started playing Isn't She Lovely?
(17:40):
I bleep you not. It's he just started playing Isn't
She Lovely? It's more of a trumpet, sounds like a trombone.
But I was just I just was bawling, crying, And
he knew I was there the entire time, but he
made it seem like he thought he was alone this Charlie,
(18:03):
do you read all these celebrities?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
He had more questions on the way, but wait your turn,
but follow up with Stevie Wonder. Do the Stevie Wonders
of the world understand how impactful they have been and
continue to be or do they not take it as
seriously as we would hope they would, or.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Think they do. No, they know he might he must
know do you know? Do you know.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
What what what deep footprint you're leaving on the music world?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Do you understand it? Yeah? Or is it too right?
I mean, I mean no, but you're blushing. You're blushing. Yes, yes,
in a way on a much much smaller, uh scale.
I'd hope to reach that status one day where I
can know that I had a big impact. But I
feel like I'm just starting to in a way and
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the most humbly way that I can say that. But
I also feel like it's a it's a being in
the music industry as a never end in case to
just learn things. So I feel like I've learned a
lot more things since the I can only equate to
our first interview when I was like, just sign my
deal and they're like, you're going on the Elvis Duran
Morning Show. And I think in ten years, I've learned
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a lot since that time, and so much more to learn,
so much more to give yourself a lot of credit though.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Anyway, Okay, another question, now you can continue conspiracy theories.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Can you know this is not a conspiracy theory, but
can you play the transition music? Because it's totally off
key or off topic, do you have it.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Still and now.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
New topic, new topic.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
So you we talked about how you have perfect pitch,
which is like a gift and a curse because everybody
wants to talk to you about it all the time.
I was in a yoga class yesterday and I thought
of you, because everybody.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
That's where we get. You were in a yoga class
and you me, okay, because I'm hanging in there. Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Everybody did the home at the same time, and everyone
came in on a different note. And I thought, oh
my god, that would probably make Charlie poos butthole poker.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
That would be terrible.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
And then I think it was like the dream.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Wow, you just said full circle.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I think, oh, that is the shape of a butthole.
Then I think the birthday that's going to be that's
the sound bite that they use. We're talking about all
this great stuff here right there. What I just sound say,
And there's no problem, I know, but.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Back to you, No but stuff with that or the
birthday song. When you are present with a bunch of
amateurs just singing, does that make you so uncomfortable or
you just.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Like know because people sing in the key of which
they're comfortable and that's why. That's why in your yoga,
hot yoga, No, it was the yoga. Oh it was great.
Excuse me, zen yoga. Everybody will sing usually the U
is an A because the A is one of the
most centering, like four forty one hurts. It's one of
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the If you go on TikTok and scroll for a
little bit, someone will be like, why is this? Why
is this sound?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
So?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Why why do I feel relaxed when I hear? The
reason is because it's an A and when you it's
very grounding. That's why when you get a massage sometimes
or something something therapeutic like that, they'll lose to they'll
ring the bell and it'll vibrate of an A. I'm
not really speaking of it like in the correct way,
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but I am, and I'm just not like being like
super scientific with it. It's early and I don't have
all the words of my brain yet, but it's it's grounding.
But for people will sing the first note that comes
to mind that feels grounding to them, which is why
you get a bunch of different notes. But on a
Devil's Advocate, when you have fifty people singing the wrong
(21:44):
note at once, it starts to sound good. What yeah,
Like when you bet you hear chords in that, yeah,
you could hear. I kind of approach it from like
what makes the human feel the best? What makes the
person feel the best. Like if a hunch people sing
off key, it suddenly starts to sound good, which is
why they used to before auto tune. And we can
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really rewind it in the early nineties, if there was
a singer with like a really great look but didn't
have like the best voice, they would just double his
or her voice and stack it and then it would
sound like a group of people rather than one singer,
and it would just So some of your favorite singers
(22:27):
have done that, including myself, because I sing off key
all the time. Little did you know. But it's it's
a tactic that if like multiple out of tune frequencies
are together, they'll start to sound in tune.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Wait, have you ever worked with someone who is so
off key that you were like, how the hell did
this person make it?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I won't say who, but yes, now tell us you
knew the answer. But it's it's sometimes it's not about
being an artist. It's not just I mean it is
about singing, but like it's they have something different to
come to the table, with something different to offer.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Some of times these artists are on stage performing and
if they can't hear, if they can't hear the notes
coming out of the instruments, that's gonna be a frightening thing.
When you know, you know you're out on stage, you're
about to sing, and you have what they call your
ears right, you have the thing if they go out,
you're f't Sometimes you can't hear the music right, and well,
(23:25):
have you ever been in that situation?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
You're like, oh, dear God, well, I'm lucky where that
I'm I'm not in a bad situation if that happens
to me because I can still kind of hear it
in my head. You can find it okay, but it's annoying.
That's why you have to make sure you have a good,
good team with you. I have a good team with you.
(23:48):
You have a good team. Charlie Pooth is here. What
are you dressing up as for Halloween? Oh? I'm dressing
up as somebody recording their their album by their self.
I was talking about that. I won't I won't be
going out for all of Wait, this.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Next album is going to be happy, Charlie, not Charlie.
The last one when I had to beat somebody up, Charlie.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
It's kind of it's good. Damn it's Yeah. Looking back
on the last album, it was a very like Daniel
might have to beat someone up kind of thing. But
it is kind of a mixture of It's like half
and half now, which is nice, sounds a lot better.
I think I think I've gotten better. Everything you do
is great, it's from the heart and it sounds great.
(24:32):
But I think this one I've gotten I really I'm biased,
but I really think it's better. I don't I don't
know why, but I was listening to it on the
little demos on the plane right over here. I'm like, Wow,
this is like so much better. Or maybe I'm just
like critical myself.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I remember one time we were I think flying somewhere.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Together, I don't think so. I think we're flying right now.
Baby you play you played a demo that you had
done with Dan and Shay, Dan and Shay yeah, and
Sabrina had the carpenter had done a version of the
song too. That's so crazy. The years just fly by. Yeah,
that was like a couple of years ago, right, and
(25:13):
the older you believe me, the oldest guy in the room,
the older you get, the faster he goes, Charlie, So
savor every month.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Oh, I'm starting to feel like weeks move a lot quicker. Well,
just you wait, lightning speed. Yeah, certain.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
In fact, you walked in and I hugged you hello
less than one second ago. That's how fast is going
for me. No, I'm serious though, Like life is very precious.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
It's like it's incredible, like how fast things can like change.
Do you slow down ever? Because you seem like you're
always thinking. I'm always thinking, but I always watch interviews
back in my eyes are always going like everyone's like,
and it's okay, there's nothing wrong with the robot.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
There's nothing wrong with that energy, nothing at all. And
that energy is why you're here right now. But when's
the last time you actually said, Wow, I'm not thinking
of one thing right now.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I can't recall honestly. Yeah, it's not a cool answer.
I just I honestly curious. Even on my honeymoon, I
was thinking of music, okay, that like I was still
like like basking in like my love of Brook and
being there, but I was still writing songs. Good.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
You know what, the universe of God, some entity gave
us the gift of you and so unfortunately, unfortunately, with
that gift, come.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Come sacrifice, and we appreciate you doing that for us. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Sure, we have a big party to host later on.
As a matter of fact, I'm gonna invite someone to
come to.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
This party of me.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I just bring Elena. You've been on hold for so long.
Are you still there?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Yes, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Have you heard of Charlie Pooth?
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Of course I've heard of Charlie. Hello, Elena, Hi Charlie,
good morning.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Where are you calling from, Elena?
Speaker 4 (26:56):
I'm calling from now Cisco. I'm parked outside the gym
and just happened to call in. I call every day.
My son makes fun of me. And I heard Elvis
say that you were having a concert tonight, and I
called probably about twenty five times.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Oh my goodness. Well it's not like a big concert,
I hope you know. It's just gathering around the piano
and he sings a couple of songs. Yeah, it's not
like for ten thousand people. It was like this low
key kind of thing that we're brought to budget out
to millions of people low budget. Well, thanks to our.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Friends, we've already been to a concert.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
So which one did you go to?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I went to the Radio City. I think it was June.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, last year, me too. That was a great one.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
That was a good one. I'm very very talented.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yes, you are nailed it. Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Well listen closely here, Lena. Thanks to our friends at
BICK and I'll explain. Let Charlie explain what they're up
to as far as music goes and education. We're having
this party here at iHeartRadio's world headquarters this afternoon and tonight.
Are you able to bring a friend and join us?
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Absolutely? I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yay, it's gonna be good. It won't suck because again
it's me.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Awesome. I'm so excited.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Well, it's gonna be an honor to have you here.
Maybe to be the best workout ever. Now. Yeah, waiting
outside the gym for an hour, she's like, I'm going,
I'm leaving. Where'd you say we were coming from Mount
vernon Kisco, Mount Kisco.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Westchester County, west Chester.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Oh my god, it's iHeart Better send the iHeart van
or something very damn.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
We had to sell that, right. We'll see you tonight. Alina,
thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
I'll see you tonight. Elena, thank you tonight. It's gonna
be great.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
We're talking about life, music and of course your partnership
with Big and celebration of the Where's my favorite?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I grew up with this, the Big four color pan.
They haven't changed the design the four colors. Go damn
putting me a red, orange, yellow, green.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
They actually do have different versions of them now, they
do different colors.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
They feel like I use that exact same pen and
like fourth grade.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Yeah, but they do have other ones.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
I think the green gets under used. Does peopleon't use
green nearly enough?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
It's my favorite color. There you go, he's the one,
But it's it's it's nice partnering with like a company
that supports music education. Talk about that, well, I mean
it's music education in the United States, for some reason,
is always the last thing to be funded. Well, I
guess not for some reason. Maybe people just don't see
the see I'm taking the headphones off of this because
(29:38):
I'm hearing my voice. They don't see the point of
it sometimes, but it really can like make every other
aspect of your life so much better if you start
your day with music. And the arts are just like
criminally underfunded. So it's just nice being with Bick who
is shining a light on that. And we did this
(29:59):
music work shop class with kids from New Jersey. They
all made their they all made their own song in
front of me, they made the artwork for it. It
was really really incredible to be and it was and
talk about time moving fast. They did it in an hour.
You must have loved being there for that. Yeah. Yeah,
I love that because I got to hear four songs
(30:21):
made in front of me. I wish more people saw that.
That was really it was like a private thing, but
it was really really wonderful.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Well, look, you know, we all grew up with Bick
in our lives, going to school, and I think of school,
I think of big But you know, I'm from the
day we used hieroglyphics on cave walls, I.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Mean, and then came in with etching stone. Oh yeah,
it looked as buffalo papyrus. Look.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
So thanks to Bick, we're celebrating all things music and
the arts and schools.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah, and thanks for being a part of that. Yeah.
And so they will be here tonight too. So let's
let's wear something nice. Yeah, one of the four colors. Well,
but now she says, eighteen colors.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
They have other colors.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I do know that they have other colors. But yeah,
if if only, uh, most most companies could be like this.
They care so much about music education. So it's my
pleasure and I will sing in tune tonight for big
don't start that now. So green is your favorite color? Yes,
(31:23):
it's uh. In my apartment, that's still not done. That's
what Most of the walls are right going to be
still not done because it's New York. Apartments are never
done in New York.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
My dad used to when he would visit, he would go,
I love New York. I can't wait till they finish it.
Never will that happen?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Where did she say she was coming from Mount Kisky?
Is that near like Katona? Yes? Yes? How did I
just pull that out of my ass? You just did?
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (31:49):
What else came out? Clean up? On all four? You
want to know?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
So?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Can you? Does green? Does does green have a sound?
Does green? Can you seeing green? Told me that he's synesthetic.
I'm not synesthetic, So I was trying to have him
explain that to me. One time, but I didn't really
it kind of went over my head. But apparently when
Pharrell makes a beat, he sees like the color green
(32:15):
in color purple. I don't see any colors when I
make music. I'm more like, can like feel how people
are gonna feel. It's it's it's really it's you know,
I have ever seen those you know, the Long Island Medium.
Oh yeah, absolutely. I can't communicate with people who are
no longer living, but like I feel like if I,
like when I made See You Again, I just could
(32:38):
feel something like it's gonna affect a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
You know, you may be tapping into something and you're
not aware of it. You may be talking to the dead,
you may be talking to spirits you don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Maybe I I I like to think that I'm what
I'm doing is not like anything super serious, but like
I just love doing it and I love it. People
love it.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Did you have another conspiracy question before might have to
be off the air?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah, god, oh god, So we'll see you here.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I know a lot. I've been in the industry for
ten whole years. Wow, I've seen a lot. Yeah you have,
I have, especially on this show.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Yet you definitely have.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
We don't have to talk about any of that. Okay,
So you're working on this album, when is there a
how tons have changed?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Just a thought, there's a thought about when some music's
coming out. I would love next year. I would love
to go on a nice little well we're going to
we're touring Asia at the end of this year. But
that's not obviously of like the new music. That's just
because we love our Asian fans so much and we're
(33:45):
going to go back there and we get off on
December twenty second, so that's that's good. It's a nice
long time in Asia. And I think I'm like halfway
done with this record right now. When I make a
I don't have a team of people with me, so
it's just me mixing and and well Manny too, and
(34:06):
I got a little team, but it's not like fifteen
people in the room at once on these songs being made.
You have fifteen people in your head. I actually do,
so it takes me a little bit longer, but I
promise it will be done early next year.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Charnie, thank you for coming in today. My pleasure, and
you know what, see the bill this and Voice for
the fifteen dollars water I bought you.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Watch this. Oh you're not even going to write that off?
Who's your daddy? Not no, not at all? That is
on me. Okay, then daddy, daddy. Thank you. It's that
department store. Thank you, Juanne Reid, We thank you everywhere
you go. It's all about Charlie Poof And you know
it's not a sponsor you. Thank you expensive.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Thank you for talking about your partnership with BCK because
I think that's very important. Absolutely, And we'll see you
later at iHeartRadio headquarters.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
I'll see you later. I'm going to s weep. Now,
go to sleep. He's sleeping down the hallway. All right,
we're gonna take a
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge. Hello, oh my, wow.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Wow, sorry about that strike one.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm hear. Charlie Pooth is here. Everybody?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hi Charlie, Hi, take your headphones off.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I know we were just talking about how your every
every guest your voice sounds different.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah, if you have headphones on while you're speaking through
the microphone, it makes you sound differently to us.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, can change your voice. Does it look weird if
I just wear it? You know, weird at all?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Just you didn't take them off if you want, just
be mic aware, okay, because sometimes if they take them off,
they they sit like fifteen feet away and no one
can hear what they have to say.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Right, welcome to my hell? Why is this your hell?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
But look, we all have occupational hazards. Mind is guests
that cannot be heard through the microphone? What is yours?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
What? Really?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
What occupational hazard do you have in your occupation?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Maybe working with an artist that doesn't want to be there,
working with an artist that can't sing, working with it
that wasn't shade.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I mean, I don't have anyone in mind. I love
how you're casting blame on others and not yourself.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, or no, I'm I'm pretty much happy to be
anywhere where there's music involved in this is technically iHeart here,
not technically it is.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
There's a question for you, though, I mean, and I
don't want to bring up the perfect pitch thing and
you're so tired of talking about that. But in sickness,
in pandemic time, do you lose it for a minute
because your nasal passages.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I don't know, no, but I can. I can. I've
learned ways with meditation and other things to turn it off.
But sometimes it's hard to sleep at night because like
the music, we'll just like play over and over and
over again. What does it look like? Isn't we pretty
(02:09):
much not seen that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
No, but I mean, thank god it's warm out in
New York in your head? What does music look like?
Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh? Does it? Does it have a form of shape?
That's a good question. It's kind of like this desk
is what color is this desk?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Well, it's a to me, it's a shade of white.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's it's white. That was yeah, it's it's white. And
and that's gray. And I guess the best way for
me to describe is that a c sharp is a
sea sharp. It's it's like you, I hear the note
and it's very literal, like these headphones are black. I
just equate everything to color because if you were color blind,
(02:48):
then you can't see the color. But I'm you know,
most people are not color blind, but I actually don't
know if that's true.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I have My family's colorblind, So.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Now I feel bad poking colored people. Yeah, so I
love how to you if you have a matte gold microphone?
Why does elves have a shiny gold It's an ego thing?
Is that like a promise of like this it's matt
right now, but one day you'll have a golden microphone.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I think that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Okay, keep working hard yet there to you, it's a
sea sharp. I think of it as a D flat.
Isn't an Is my glass half full? In your half?
Did you look that up for something? Because the D
flat is a C sharp? No, I know that, I know,
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
The trouble Cleff Cleff, Well so you know. So, by
the way, when Charlie Pooth walked in, he says, he
asked if you had any sparkling water.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I said, we usually do. I didn't. That makes me
sound so bougie. I was, you need something fizzy in
the morning, You're you know what? You you had nine
cans of Coca Cola in the dressing room. It's like, who,
yes that in the.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Morning, who's our last guest?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And I thought it was a little so surprising that you,
Charlie Pooth wanted effrofessment water because you were you carry
effrofessens with you already. But we went down to Ernest
Klein and bought three San Pellegrinos at a total of
fourteen forty nine. If you would turn that into your people,
have them reimburse it.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
That's pricey water, is Charlie poos?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
That seems a little over priced.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Earnest, you're in New York City?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You're going to Dwayne Read or something? I like Ernest Clein.
But that's a lot of money the times we live in,
I know, can you imagine? Do you actually want me
to pay this? You have your people pay it. Maybe
the label can pay that. They all just raise their
hands at once.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Let's talk about everything. Let's talk about all the above. Okay,
how's it being a big TV star?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Now?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I I don't know if I'm the big TV star,
but I'm happy to be. I'm happy to have a
TV show that is uh number one on Roku second
week in a row. I'm told, wow, I I really
had no expectations going into it because I am a musician.
But I've always wanted to make a TV show, and
(05:09):
I got some of my friends and we just made
a TV show. It looks like a lot of fun.
It's really stupid, but.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
That's promoting it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
There you go. It's not stupid, No, it's it's it's
good stupid. It's like smart stupid.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It has a good name, The Charlie Pooth Show.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah, that's because we couldn't think of a but okay,
I love this which scene that's just my voice sped up.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's your your theme song. Yeah, but I originally sang
it like.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
She was saying it a little bit slower, and then
we put it through the tape machine and then speed
it up like it sounds like album the check Yeah,
let me go.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
And like another thing I love about the show, the
transitional song that the transitional little music. For instance, we're
talking to Charlie about his new show. But now we're
going to talk about something else. Let's talk about to
be saying those transitional things.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
So it's interesting is I didn't make those transitional things.
I heard a rumor that those were the same transitional
music things used in Glee.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I don't know if that was just it sounded like that,
but it sounds like they sound like.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Here's another one. That's me and junk cook. That's that's
not Glee.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It does not like Glee.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I never watched Glee, but I saw that somewhere. Someone
said that, Wow, you.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Blatantly ripped them off, but never watched the show, you
should support.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
No, I've never I really have never watched the show,
but I'm familiar with the concept. And someone said that
like it might. I mean, it's stock music, and I
guess the show is made by the people who made Glee.
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Can I say something and I want you to take
this as an insult because I don't mean it that way,
but marriage looks really good on you. And here why
your skin's glowing? You close the beautiful, You smell awesome,
your hair's gray.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I mean, I'm not saying you didn't look great before,
but I'm saying you got this something about you.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Oh, I think it's a little confidence confidence boost. I
have a very cool wife, and she's cool and she's sleeping.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Is sleeping because I want to bring something up here,
and I think it's bestially not hear this. Okay, yeah,
won't That was supposed to be me marching down that
aisle was here. That was supposed to be me.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I mean, that was never going to be you. But
I'm supposed to be me. We've had We've had some
really interesting times. I know.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Sorry to tell you.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
The aisle we ever walked down with Charlie Pooth was
in the middle of an airplane.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Elvis and I took a flight one time and it
was so bumpy. We just happened to be on the
same flight, wink, and it was so bumpy. It was
so bumpy that I really thought it was going to
be the end. Like it was really like what if
it was? And you were so unseerious when it comes
to flying, you're I'm like shaking and you're just like,
isn't this But I knew it'd be fine. Everywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Look at the percentage of flights that make it, it's
a high number.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
We did.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Okay, we We were fine. We always are fine. But
in the in the moments it was it was put
me at ease. Oddly was the fact that he was
so calm.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Oh wow, what a headline that would have been.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
No, he would have been the headline. I don't I
don't want to die on a plane with Charlie Pooth.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I know we weren't dying. We weren't dying.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And god, he wasn't there when the bird thing happened,
when the birds went in the.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
End, almost died. Yeah, I think I told you that
story during this flight. It made you more nervous.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Oh nine, you were on that flight.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
No, no, no, diff different, different flight. We were on
a flight from here to way.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
For everybody who's doing their morning commuting.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Love, so listen to this. We were flying on.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Their way to JFK. Right now, you're gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
He we heard this bumpy, bumpy sound and then the
air and the plane smelled like roasted chicken.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Oh, that would make sense.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
It was geese that flew into our engines and we
had to come back to Newark Airport and land safely, slowly,
But it smelled like Thanksgiving morning on the plane. It
was kind of great, Oh my god. But what if
we had Paris that day? If we had what the parish?
If we had passed away? We didn't, so it doesn't matter.
Would we go to heaven together? Where would we be?
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Where do you? But where would we go after that?
We wouldn't have made it to jingle Miami's Heart Radio
jingle in twenty twenty two. But would we still be
friends in the afterlife? I think so? After life's a
real thing. I do believe that. Now do you believe
in reincarnation? Absolutely? Welcome back. Thanks, I'm still here, you know,
(09:55):
But no, absolutely, I think we go into different things.
That's why. That's why like sometimes when I play a
certain chord on the piano, like the sun will kind
of like peek out, and maybe that's like someone trying
to like say hi, not to get all sad, and
that's actually happening. It's really like it's reminiscent, like they're
like that. That's why music affects people so viscerally, because
(10:17):
it's just tones and in shapes that like when they
penetrate us, that's not supposed to sound gross, but when
that when they go through us, that's not also supposed
to sound gross. They they they can it drastically changes
like a mood, like music, like like one chorus of
something can just alter like any group of people's mood.
(10:38):
It's pretty amazing, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Charlie and I get a little choked up when I
talk about this, and maybe we've talked about this in
the past. My mother had Alzheimer's. She was near the
end of her life and she just didn't really know
where she was. She was rarely loocid at all. But
when we turned on music from her past, she remembered it,
all of it right, you know. And it's and it's
(11:01):
just the easiest example.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Though?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Yeah, one part of your brain is always always like,
no matter your situation, one part of your brain is
always working right. It's like, that's why I think it's
so important for any musician and any entertainer to put
their best foot forward because you never know, Like even
if there have been days where I've walked into the
(11:23):
studio and I've thought, I really just don't want to
be here right now, but I just still go forward
with it because you never know what you can you
never know how you're going to complete somebody's sentence that day,
and that's happened to me a couple of times where
you just like push through and then I, I don't
know if your mom was a fan of my music,
(11:45):
but you'd play It's amazing that you would play her
favorite music. And absolutely that's that's really cool.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
So you know, try to You're a genius at explaining
the science of music and it explaining not at six
what feels like six. You're doing You're doing, You're doing
just fine, You're doing great. But you're you're you're so
so well spoken when it comes to music and theory
and this and that, and now you're talking about how
it affects other people?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
What about you? Like?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
How deep and slicing can you go into your heart
right now to talk about what music does for you
in your most personal sense?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I mean, I'm sure I could get there. I before
I got married to Brooke, before we got married, I
remember driving to this restaurant, the Great Lodging Connecticut Great.
I don't know if I'm messing the name up, but
it took an hour and a half to get there,
and I was dating Brooke and I played Jersey Girl
(12:43):
the Bruce Springsteen version live in the Medolins, and Brooke
doesn't really listen to lyrics. She actually like she likes
two songs Latched by Sam Smith and like something by
Rufus Desoul. She doesn't know a whole lot of music.
That's great music right there. But it's a good dichotomy
because I almost like Will know too much sometimes, so
(13:04):
it's it's we're a good couple for that reason. But
I played her Jersey Girl and I was like, like,
you like those lyrics, Like he's saying I'm in love
with the Jersey Girl, and I'm thinking to myself, pick
up on the fact that that is you. And she
was like, what's this guy screaming about? But if I
(13:25):
I'll cry if I hear that song. I mean we
got We had Kanye's Sunday service choir UH singing I
don't want to miss a Thing by Er Smith. We
wrote the UH arrangement for when she walked down the
aisle UH for just picture a choir singing that was
Diane Warren at your wedding. No, Diane Warren was not
(13:46):
her song? Was her song? Was? I told her that uh,
that that her song wasn't. Then she immediately followed it with, well,
let's let's write a new song. I'm like, Diane, I'm
not working on my wedding day a good songwriter. I
I bet you thought about I was. I had a moment,
momentary thought, and then I was like, I should probably
(14:07):
focus on getting married. But no, music is such an
important part of a wedding, such an important part of
like anyone's life.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I agree, Charlie Pooth is here, and no one speaks
about music like Charlie, and we probably don't give you
enough credit for that. But no, you know, my favorite
interview you ever did was Howard Stern. Oh yeah, yeah,
because I could see you interview it was somebody else
I have. I've told you this before. I have a
difficult time interviewing you because we're such good friends.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
But we have things to talk. Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
But when you were sitting on Stern's show and you
had your keyboard in front of you, I could see that.
I could see in your I could see in your eyes.
You're like, holy crap, this is a guy I grew
listening to absolutely and idolizing, and now I'm on his
show and he's curious about how I feel about music.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
He's want he wants me to talk about well, I
feel I feel that about most people. Like I got
a call from uh from Stevie Wonder one time, asking
to finish the lyrics to an idea that he had.
One thing. I'm I grew up listening to talking book
and songs in the Key of Life. And now he's
calling me on the phone asking me to finish an
(15:24):
idea that he might think is good. Of course it's good.
It's Stevie Wonder. The fact that I've worked with James Taylor,
the fact that like Elton John facetimed me the other
day asking how I was doing. I mean he said
you were crap one day. Yeah, but that I mean
that was like six years ago, Okay, and that might
have been exaggerated, but he he. I don't do this
(15:47):
to like to be like a Flexosaurus rex. I I
it's it's it's it's more just like I can't believe
that I get to be in contact with all these
these creatives who have kind of shaped me as a creator.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
But they are in contact with you as well. Give
them a little credit for their excitement.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I still get I geek out that I get to
be here with all of you. I grew up listening
to you too, shoving a dunkin donut sestame big well
and hot medium hot chocolate coffee down my throat before
high school. And here I am here in this famous
laugh by and now you're now, you're now, you're all
about bougie. Ef proves drinks a relax It's a Pellegrino
(16:28):
from like the what is it the Italian?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
But they do ask you when you go to dinner
flat or bubbly all the time, so you know, anybody
can happen.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I get both.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
I have so many questions. Okay, first of all, Stevie
Wonder called you.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Have you ever met him in person? Yeah, we've we've
performed together at the American Music Awards.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Do you believe he's really blind?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
He's definitely blind.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Okay, there's a conspiracy theory that he's not blind, and
it's just nacked.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
And I'll tell you a story. He is definitely blind,
but it's because he is blind. His hearing is better
than mine. It's better than all of our hearing in
this room combined. But you have an incredible hearing. Oh,
he is way better. Maybe you're partially blind. His perfect
pitch is insane. Maybe I am partially blind. But I
(17:20):
was sitting down in a room like this, and they're like,
just sit here and Stevie will be He'll meet you
on stage. His handler said, he's gonna meet you on stage.
Stevie walked in with his chromatic harmonica. I think it's CHROMATICA.
That's a Lady Gaga album. It's a walked in with
his chromatic chromatic harmonica and just started playing Isn't She Lovely?
(17:40):
I bleep you not. It's he just started playing Isn't
She Lovely? It's more of a trumpet, sounds like a trombone.
But I was just I just was bawling, crying, And
he knew I was there the entire time, but he
made it seem like he thought he was alone this Charlie,
(18:03):
do you read all these celebrities?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
He had more questions on the way, but wait your turn,
but follow up with Stevie Wonder. Do the Stevie Wonders
of the world understand how impactful they have been and
continue to be or do they not take it as
seriously as we would hope they would, or.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Think they do. No, they know he might he must
know do you know? Do you know.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
What what what deep footprint you're leaving on the music world?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Do you understand it? Yeah? Or is it too right?
I mean, I mean no, but you're blushing. You're blushing. Yes, yes,
in a way on a much much smaller, uh scale.
I'd hope to reach that status one day where I
can know that I had a big impact. But I
feel like I'm just starting to in a way and
(18:52):
the most humbly way that I can say that. But
I also feel like it's a it's a being in
the music industry as a never end in case to
just learn things. So I feel like I've learned a
lot more things since the I can only equate to
our first interview when I was like, just sign my
deal and they're like, you're going on the Elvis Duran
Morning Show. And I think in ten years, I've learned
(19:14):
a lot since that time, and so much more to learn,
so much more to give yourself a lot of credit though.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Anyway, Okay, another question, now you can continue conspiracy theories.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Can you know this is not a conspiracy theory, but
can you play the transition music? Because it's totally off
key or off topic, do you have it.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Still and now.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
New topic, new topic.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
So you we talked about how you have perfect pitch,
which is like a gift and a curse because everybody
wants to talk to you about it all the time.
I was in a yoga class yesterday and I thought
of you, because everybody.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
That's where we get. You were in a yoga class
and you me, okay, because I'm hanging in there. Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Everybody did the home at the same time, and everyone
came in on a different note. And I thought, oh
my god, that would probably make Charlie poos butthole poker.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
That would be terrible.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
And then I think it was like the dream.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Wow, you just said full circle.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I think, oh, that is the shape of a butthole.
Then I think the birthday that's going to be that's
the sound bite that they use. We're talking about all
this great stuff here right there. What I just sound say,
And there's no problem, I know, but.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Back to you, No but stuff with that or the
birthday song. When you are present with a bunch of
amateurs just singing, does that make you so uncomfortable or
you just.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Like know because people sing in the key of which
they're comfortable and that's why. That's why in your yoga,
hot yoga, No, it was the yoga. Oh it was great.
Excuse me, zen yoga. Everybody will sing usually the U
is an A because the A is one of the
most centering, like four forty one hurts. It's one of
(20:53):
the If you go on TikTok and scroll for a
little bit, someone will be like, why is this? Why
is this sound?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
So?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Why why do I feel relaxed when I hear? The
reason is because it's an A and when you it's
very grounding. That's why when you get a massage sometimes
or something something therapeutic like that, they'll lose to they'll
ring the bell and it'll vibrate of an A. I'm
not really speaking of it like in the correct way,
(21:21):
but I am, and I'm just not like being like
super scientific with it. It's early and I don't have
all the words of my brain yet, but it's it's grounding.
But for people will sing the first note that comes
to mind that feels grounding to them, which is why
you get a bunch of different notes. But on a
Devil's Advocate, when you have fifty people singing the wrong
(21:44):
note at once, it starts to sound good. What yeah,
Like when you bet you hear chords in that, yeah,
you could hear. I kind of approach it from like
what makes the human feel the best? What makes the
person feel the best. Like if a hunch people sing
off key, it suddenly starts to sound good, which is
why they used to before auto tune. And we can
(22:07):
really rewind it in the early nineties, if there was
a singer with like a really great look but didn't
have like the best voice, they would just double his
or her voice and stack it and then it would
sound like a group of people rather than one singer,
and it would just So some of your favorite singers
(22:27):
have done that, including myself, because I sing off key
all the time. Little did you know. But it's it's
a tactic that if like multiple out of tune frequencies
are together, they'll start to sound in tune.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Wait, have you ever worked with someone who is so
off key that you were like, how the hell did
this person make it?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I won't say who, but yes, now tell us you
knew the answer. But it's it's sometimes it's not about
being an artist. It's not just I mean it is
about singing, but like it's they have something different to
come to the table, with something different to offer.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Some of times these artists are on stage performing and
if they can't hear, if they can't hear the notes
coming out of the instruments, that's gonna be a frightening thing.
When you know, you know you're out on stage, you're
about to sing, and you have what they call your
ears right, you have the thing if they go out,
you're f't Sometimes you can't hear the music right, and well,
(23:25):
have you ever been in that situation?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
You're like, oh, dear God, well, I'm lucky where that
I'm I'm not in a bad situation if that happens
to me because I can still kind of hear it
in my head. You can find it okay, but it's annoying.
That's why you have to make sure you have a good,
good team with you. I have a good team with you.
(23:48):
You have a good team. Charlie Pooth is here. What
are you dressing up as for Halloween? Oh? I'm dressing
up as somebody recording their their album by their self.
I was talking about that. I won't I won't be
going out for all of Wait, this.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Next album is going to be happy, Charlie, not Charlie.
The last one when I had to beat somebody up, Charlie.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
It's kind of it's good. Damn it's Yeah. Looking back
on the last album, it was a very like Daniel
might have to beat someone up kind of thing. But
it is kind of a mixture of It's like half
and half now, which is nice, sounds a lot better.
I think I think I've gotten better. Everything you do
is great, it's from the heart and it sounds great.
(24:32):
But I think this one I've gotten I really I'm biased,
but I really think it's better. I don't I don't
know why, but I was listening to it on the
little demos on the plane right over here. I'm like, Wow,
this is like so much better. Or maybe I'm just
like critical myself.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I remember one time we were I think flying somewhere.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Together, I don't think so. I think we're flying right now.
Baby you play you played a demo that you had
done with Dan and Shay, Dan and Shay yeah, and
Sabrina had the carpenter had done a version of the
song too. That's so crazy. The years just fly by. Yeah,
that was like a couple of years ago, right, and
(25:13):
the older you believe me, the oldest guy in the room,
the older you get, the faster he goes, Charlie, So
savor every month.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Oh, I'm starting to feel like weeks move a lot quicker. Well,
just you wait, lightning speed. Yeah, certain.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
In fact, you walked in and I hugged you hello
less than one second ago. That's how fast is going
for me. No, I'm serious though, Like life is very precious.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
It's like it's incredible, like how fast things can like change.
Do you slow down ever? Because you seem like you're
always thinking. I'm always thinking, but I always watch interviews
back in my eyes are always going like everyone's like,
and it's okay, there's nothing wrong with the robot.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
There's nothing wrong with that energy, nothing at all. And
that energy is why you're here right now. But when's
the last time you actually said, Wow, I'm not thinking
of one thing right now.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I can't recall honestly. Yeah, it's not a cool answer.
I just I honestly curious. Even on my honeymoon, I
was thinking of music, okay, that like I was still
like like basking in like my love of Brook and
being there, but I was still writing songs. Good.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
You know what, the universe of God, some entity gave
us the gift of you and so unfortunately, unfortunately, with
that gift, come.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Come sacrifice, and we appreciate you doing that for us. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Sure, we have a big party to host later on.
As a matter of fact, I'm gonna invite someone to
come to.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
This party of me.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I just bring Elena. You've been on hold for so long.
Are you still there?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Yes, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Have you heard of Charlie Pooth?
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Of course I've heard of Charlie. Hello, Elena, Hi Charlie,
good morning.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Where are you calling from, Elena?
Speaker 4 (26:56):
I'm calling from now Cisco. I'm parked outside the gym
and just happened to call in. I call every day.
My son makes fun of me. And I heard Elvis
say that you were having a concert tonight, and I
called probably about twenty five times.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Oh my goodness. Well it's not like a big concert,
I hope you know. It's just gathering around the piano
and he sings a couple of songs. Yeah, it's not
like for ten thousand people. It was like this low
key kind of thing that we're brought to budget out
to millions of people low budget. Well, thanks to our.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Friends, we've already been to a concert.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
So which one did you go to?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I went to the Radio City. I think it was June.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, last year, me too. That was a great one.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
That was a good one. I'm very very talented.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yes, you are nailed it. Wow.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Well listen closely here, Lena. Thanks to our friends at
BICK and I'll explain. Let Charlie explain what they're up
to as far as music goes and education. We're having
this party here at iHeartRadio's world headquarters this afternoon and tonight.
Are you able to bring a friend and join us?
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Absolutely? I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yay, it's gonna be good. It won't suck because again
it's me.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Awesome. I'm so excited.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Well, it's gonna be an honor to have you here.
Maybe to be the best workout ever. Now. Yeah, waiting
outside the gym for an hour, she's like, I'm going,
I'm leaving. Where'd you say we were coming from Mount
vernon Kisco, Mount Kisco.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Westchester County, west Chester.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Oh my god, it's iHeart Better send the iHeart van
or something very damn.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
We had to sell that, right. We'll see you tonight. Alina,
thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
I'll see you tonight. Elena, thank you tonight. It's gonna
be great.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
We're talking about life, music and of course your partnership
with Big and celebration of the Where's my favorite?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I grew up with this, the Big four color pan.
They haven't changed the design the four colors. Go damn
putting me a red, orange, yellow, green.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
They actually do have different versions of them now, they
do different colors.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
They feel like I use that exact same pen and
like fourth grade.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Yeah, but they do have other ones.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
I think the green gets under used. Does peopleon't use
green nearly enough?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
It's my favorite color. There you go, he's the one,
But it's it's it's nice partnering with like a company
that supports music education. Talk about that, well, I mean
it's music education in the United States, for some reason,
is always the last thing to be funded. Well, I
guess not for some reason. Maybe people just don't see
the see I'm taking the headphones off of this because
(29:38):
I'm hearing my voice. They don't see the point of
it sometimes, but it really can like make every other
aspect of your life so much better if you start
your day with music. And the arts are just like
criminally underfunded. So it's just nice being with Bick who
is shining a light on that. And we did this
(29:59):
music work shop class with kids from New Jersey. They
all made their they all made their own song in
front of me, they made the artwork for it. It
was really really incredible to be and it was and
talk about time moving fast. They did it in an hour.
You must have loved being there for that. Yeah. Yeah,
I love that because I got to hear four songs
(30:21):
made in front of me. I wish more people saw that.
That was really it was like a private thing, but
it was really really wonderful.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Well, look, you know, we all grew up with Bick
in our lives, going to school, and I think of school,
I think of big But you know, I'm from the
day we used hieroglyphics on cave walls, I.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Mean, and then came in with etching stone. Oh yeah,
it looked as buffalo papyrus. Look.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
So thanks to Bick, we're celebrating all things music and
the arts and schools.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah, and thanks for being a part of that. Yeah.
And so they will be here tonight too. So let's
let's wear something nice. Yeah, one of the four colors. Well,
but now she says, eighteen colors.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
They have other colors.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I do know that they have other colors. But yeah,
if if only, uh, most most companies could be like this.
They care so much about music education. So it's my
pleasure and I will sing in tune tonight for big
don't start that now. So green is your favorite color? Yes,
(31:23):
it's uh. In my apartment, that's still not done. That's
what Most of the walls are right going to be
still not done because it's New York. Apartments are never
done in New York.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
My dad used to when he would visit, he would go,
I love New York. I can't wait till they finish it.
Never will that happen?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Where did she say she was coming from Mount Kisky?
Is that near like Katona? Yes? Yes? How did I
just pull that out of my ass? You just did?
Speaker 5 (31:49):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (31:49):
What else came out? Clean up? On all four? You
want to know?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
So?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Can you? Does green? Does does green have a sound?
Does green? Can you seeing green? Told me that he's synesthetic.
I'm not synesthetic, So I was trying to have him
explain that to me. One time, but I didn't really
it kind of went over my head. But apparently when
Pharrell makes a beat, he sees like the color green
(32:15):
in color purple. I don't see any colors when I
make music. I'm more like, can like feel how people
are gonna feel. It's it's it's really it's you know,
I have ever seen those you know, the Long Island Medium.
Oh yeah, absolutely. I can't communicate with people who are
no longer living, but like I feel like if I,
like when I made See You Again, I just could
(32:38):
feel something like it's gonna affect a lot of people.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
You know, you may be tapping into something and you're
not aware of it. You may be talking to the dead,
you may be talking to spirits you don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Maybe I I I like to think that I'm what
I'm doing is not like anything super serious, but like
I just love doing it and I love it. People
love it.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Did you have another conspiracy question before might have to
be off the air?
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah, god, oh god, So we'll see you here.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I know a lot. I've been in the industry for
ten whole years. Wow, I've seen a lot. Yeah you have,
I have, especially on this show.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Yet you definitely have.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
We don't have to talk about any of that. Okay,
So you're working on this album, when is there a
how tons have changed?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Just a thought, there's a thought about when some music's
coming out. I would love next year. I would love
to go on a nice little well we're going to
we're touring Asia at the end of this year. But
that's not obviously of like the new music. That's just
because we love our Asian fans so much and we're
(33:45):
going to go back there and we get off on
December twenty second, so that's that's good. It's a nice
long time in Asia. And I think I'm like halfway
done with this record right now. When I make a
I don't have a team of people with me, so
it's just me mixing and and well Manny too, and
(34:06):
I got a little team, but it's not like fifteen
people in the room at once on these songs being made.
You have fifteen people in your head. I actually do,
so it takes me a little bit longer, but I
promise it will be done early next year.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Charnie, thank you for coming in today. My pleasure, and
you know what, see the bill this and Voice for
the fifteen dollars water I bought you.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Watch this. Oh you're not even going to write that off?
Who's your daddy? Not no, not at all? That is
on me. Okay, then daddy, daddy. Thank you. It's that
department store. Thank you, Juanne Reid, We thank you everywhere
you go. It's all about Charlie Poof And you know
it's not a sponsor you. Thank you expensive.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Thank you for talking about your partnership with BCK because
I think that's very important. Absolutely, And we'll see you
later at iHeartRadio headquarters.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
I'll see you later. I'm going to s weep. Now,
go to sleep. He's sleeping down the hallway. All right,
we're gonna take a
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