August 10, 2023 • 17 mins
Kevin and Jenna GLEEK out over Grammy Award-winning artist Jason Mraz joining them on the show!! No really - Kevin confesses Jason's music has been the soundtrack to his life.
Meanwhile, Jenna and Jason reminisce about their time on the Broadway hit show, "Waitress," and Jason shares how he felt about having his songs featured on Glee.
Plus, Jason chats about his latest album and why this might be his last tour ever!!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to and that's what you really miss Kevin.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yes, Yes, today's the day.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We get to speak to the mythical magical. I said
it wrong, mystical magical Jason Moraz Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm not ready.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We're such big fans.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Jason raz is the sweetest human with the sweetest voice.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I met him backstage at Waitress. I went to go
visit and he was doing doctor Pometer at that point, to.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Which I'm so mad I'm going to see him do.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
That, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
To watch him sing you Matter to Me with Sarah
Brellis was such a treat.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I mean truly such a treat.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
And he's featured on Sarah's twenty fifteen album What's Inside
the Songs from Waitress, so you should go listen to
that too. So it was like projecting him coming to
do it.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Those two singing together should not be allowed.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
No, I know, I know, it was really something else.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I think they both have perfect pitch.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That would make sense.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
What oh I I love to ask you more about that.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well you guys imagine we have
the wonderful, Jason raz enjoy.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Coming to you from a motel room on the side
of the one oh one freeway.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Santa Barbara, Oh, Santa Barbara is fancy.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Well, Santa Barbara's fancy, But a hotel.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Room on the side of the freeway maybe not so much.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Not so much. But that's okay, Jason.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I don't if you remember I came backstage when you
were doing waitress and met you. Oh, because I also
did waitress, like two were you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, that's so cool. I think I saw you is done?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Really it did.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, that's so cool. Yeah, what a great show.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Truly, what a joy, what a joy.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I would do that job forever and ever.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
No, right, I sing that music, hang out with those people,
the nicest people, and one of the funnest experiences I
ever had.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, mine too. Wow, small world. You know, if we
live long enough, maybe everyone in the world will get
to be in waitress.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I believe it. I will one day be in waitress.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yes, you could be old Joe at some point, Kevin,
try to give you some suff like that.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I would love that.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, we know you're on tour, so thank you for
chatting the best and taking the time.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Also, by the way, please look up Jason's tour because
I've seen you several times live and if people haven't,
or if they have, then you too. Anyway, because you
have one of the craziest voices.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I don't know that it's simple. I try not to.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I will say it for you because I don't know
how you do it. But like, every time you hit
a high note, I'm like, oh, surely that's the top
of his range. And you just keep going up. You
just keep going and your voice never breaks and you
have like this beautiful rasp but you put in that.
I just yeah, so cool.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Thanks for saying.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Our show right now is so much fun. We have costumes,
we have dance moves. It's kind of like a big
show choir kind of a feeling. Everybody plays instruments and
there's multiple multiple instruments. You know, people are changing out
and switching places and it's so fun and we and
the show's not you know, we don't do the same
(03:53):
song order every night, which is also fun where we're
still trying to make it exciting for ourselves.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So great.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
So I think if you if you have them into
a show of mine yet, this would be the tour
to do it, and also, I don't know how long
I'm going to tour after this, you know, I don't know.
Living in a motel on the side of the freeway.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Tough people show up and they see you in the lights,
in the stage and all that, and they think that's
all it is.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
They're seeing the best part of the day, you know.
They're saying, yeah, they're seeing the two hours that everybody
works all day to put together, you know. And then
after that the countdown begins to like, you know, pack
your stuff and get on the bus. You know, we've
got like, you know, crew that has to keep things moving,
(04:43):
and then we all squeeze into a bus that's too
small for all of us, pile of bags and the
gross you know, just the smells of the bus are
not pleasant, and you go bang them out night after night.
There's another job like it. It's like a circus, is
it really is.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
We toured for a little bit and we got a
small taste of it, and we got some swanky you
know things along with it too, and it was not
a fair tour experience.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You know, you get you get all the whole spectrum.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yes, that's right, Jenna I believe that.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I believe that.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Congrat thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So on Glee we got to cover two of your songs,
Lucky and I Will give Up.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
How does that work from your end? Do you hear
about like this show wants to use your music? Do
you approve of it? Had you heard of Glee? How
does that work from your end?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I heard of it and knew that they were taking,
you know, modern songs and spinning them into the script
and into the storyline for this musical television show. And
I just thought that's super cool. And as a songwriter,
you want to find homes for your songs. You want
to have places where they're played. And I think the
more interesting, the better, you know. I think anybody can
(06:20):
get their song streamed, anybody get their song on the radio,
but not everybody can get their song woven into a script,
into a storyline on a musical television show, you know.
So I find stuff like that, moments like that to
be really high honor. And and then I'm always curious,
is that you know how they're going to take a
song like I Won't give Up, which, you know, it
(06:40):
sounds like I'm singing to someone but you know, really,
I'm sitting at the table singing to myself to not
quit and I give up with myself after a heartache,
after a breakup, I still want to recognize the beauty
and the other person, but I still want to maintain
the beauty that I have inside, because when you go
through a breakup, you feel like a loser, you know.
And so I won't give up was a way for
(07:01):
me to say, Look, I don't want to walk away
from this, I don't want to walk over my dream.
I don't want to give up on thinking I'm a
cool guy. I won't give up, you know. So that
song was very healing for me. So whenever I see
people using it at weddings or in any ceremony in
their life and in the casically, you know, it was
(07:23):
pretty amazing just to see how a song idea from
your kitchen table can suddenly exist in some other universe.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Totally, yeah, totally did you now? Did you? Were you
curious after we use them? Did you not want to
see it done? Did you watch it? You don't also
have to tell us, But I'm just curious because like
as actors, some people watch their stuff and some people
cannot possibly watch their their work, So I'm just curious,
(07:53):
like what you are kind of processes.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I didn't see it in real time. I think I
saw it much later. I was touring a lot when
it came out, And honestly, I'm always working on the
next song, you know. Yeah, I don't think about the
old songs. I'm delighted, you know, don't get me wrong,
But as a creator, I'm always like, what I know
(08:19):
where my next song idea and where my next musical
expression will be.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It was also so fun for us because we did
so many older songs as well, Like a big part
of the foundation of Glee was doing sort of eighties
and seventies music. Sure, And I remember when we first
did Lucky so excited. I had my fingers crossed that
I was doing it, but I didn't get to do it.
But Cordon Dana who did it. It works so beautifully
(08:45):
with their voices and in the storyline. And then it
was one of our favorite times during the show on
tour because they did that every single night all over
the world, and.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
It was really.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Beautiful. I mean, like, I mean the most minised glimpse
maybe to what you are receiving every single night on
tour because we were all on stage for that, but
it's those two outperforming it, and so we're looking at
an arena full of people singing the song wow and yeah.
To hear them like that must just be the most
incredible feeling for you night of night on tour because
(09:19):
you have gigantic songs and songs that mean a lot
to people. I think a lot of your songs soundtrack
a lot of people's lives in a way, because you're
such a good storyteller. When you go out on tour,
do you do people just bum rush you of how
much these songs mean to them.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I don't get bum rushed, but I do, you know, receive.
You know, hear a lot of great stories about people,
how they've applied these songs to their lives, or what
they mean between friends and family. I wish I had
more of more songs like that, because they when they
hit in the set list, they pete. You know, the
(09:59):
show has these moments where suddenly the audience is just
singing so loud. I have a great singing audience and
it is a wonderful feeling that I never get tired of.
And like I said, I wish I had more songs
in the show like that, because occasionally, you know, I'll
do a few of those in a row, and then
I'll go to some obscure song and it's just quiet.
(10:21):
You know, the audience is like, Okay, we'll wait until
we know the next one. So sweet, But wow, I
didn't I didn't think about that about Lee on tour
and how that song would be sung. Thank you so much.
That's a great like visual to imagine arena full of
people and I'm not even there. Yeah, you know, if
(10:46):
I want to go on tour again, I might be
wrapping my tour years up and you can take my
songs and have That's very nice.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I think are over you could be a Jason Rats
cover group, you know what.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You know what when I'm on to I feel like
a Jason Rand's cover group, you know, I really do.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Who played the flash and he was also on Glee.
I was texting him before this because he and I
used to bond over your music. I love of your music.
So I was am like, is there anything you want
me to ask in your behalf? He's like, no, no, no,
I don't want to embarrass myself, but have a good,
good interview.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
That's cute.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Hey tell your friend Grant that my friend of house
mixer e T. He looks he looks a little like
Rod Stewart. He is the biggest Flash fan, the biggest
Ye every show, whole series on a little catch him
watching it on a little iPad on the soundboard. What
(11:53):
are you doing, I'm watching the Flash. He's in a
digets like I'm watching the Flash show, very familiar with Grant.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Tell us about your new album, because you came out
a couple of weeks ago and it's so good.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Thanks. You know, I'm still trying to do things that
I haven't done yet. And as a singer songwriter who
typically writes some guitar piano, it's hard to like break
out of you know, pop formulaic structure, you know. And
but I've sort of always been in the acoustic rock lane,
and I wanted, but I've loved electronic music for my
(12:40):
whole life, you know. I love synthesizers and beats and
going to you know, dj C DJs and listen to
m and all that roller skate to disco and dance music.
And Michael Jackson was one of my heroes growing up,
and so I've never really gone down the dance music route,
and I tried that on this album. I wanted to
see if I could take the songs we were working
on and just go them up a little bit. So
(13:01):
we we wrote from that perspective of like, how could
what could we give our audience Because that's another thing
is we tour so much. We noticed that our audience
wants to actually participate in dance and do things, you know,
So we wrote an album that would would hope affect
our tour and it is, you know. Now we're like
a little singing and dancing group. I just watched the
Wham documentary and I'm.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
So inspired by their They're just there, their their attention
to inclusivity and their their love of dance and bringing
joy to audiences.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I think that that document came out just the right
time for us here. We're launching, when we're launching the tour,
so we feel a little bit like Wham right now.
And that's kind of what the album feels like as well.
It's just like happy dancing, uh, cheering you on to
go live your dream type of songs.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
We need more of that right now. So I'm glad
that you are sending that out into the world right now.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, it's a great album. It's called Mystical, Magical, Rhythmical
Radical Ride. Make sure you go stream it, by it,
download it, go see a tour.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah, we're going to stream our tour live on August eleventh.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
That's right from the bank Amphitheater.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's right, Well, go check it out.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, if you can't get to a show, just tune in.
We're going to do our singing and dancing on a
live stream.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
We'll be dancing in our living rooms.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
That's the best place to do it. Yeah, nobody's t shirt.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Eating a bowl of ice cream and dancing around.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That's right. Well, we won't keep you from your crazy
travel and your wonderful motel. Thank you for joining us.
Really great to see you.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Thank you so so much.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Thanks for having me on your program. Okay, goodbye, Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
My god, so nice guys. We just talked to Jason Rice.
We should really start using this podcast as a way
to just hang out with people were gigantic fans of.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Well, I remember, and I just didn't we didn't have
enough time. But I remember they would ask me on
the carpet what I would want to sing, and I
would do a lot of carpets with you, Kevin, and
I would be like, I don't want to tell them
what I want to sing anywhere. I'm tired of that.
I'd be like, well, I want Kevin to sing I'm yours,
and I would always pitch that one for you out
(15:22):
in the world. But we loved Jason Raz. We loved
listening to when we were such a big fan of his.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
One of my earliest memories of living in LA when
I well, when I first started going to LA before
I properly moved there. I think I was thirteen or fourteen.
I made my mom drive me to a CD warehouse
is what it was called, to buy Jason Raz's very
first album. I remember it, oh so clearly. I went
and buy myself. I paid for it by myself because
(15:51):
I saw him like on VH one or something they're
doing like a new artist Spotlight, and I was like,
I want this guy to be so successful, because you know,
it was indie pop. It wasn't what everybody else was
doing at the time, and I felt like I need
to do my part and make sure Kevin he gets
to keep making music, and wow, wow, you know it's
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like I said to him, soundtracks the rest of my life.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
We got to see him from New York last a
couple of weeks ago, and he was really it was
really inspiring, and he's really wonderful, and you can tell
how much he loves his craft and how much he
respects it, and and it's so grounded, so just.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
How naturally good he is at it too. It all
just comes pouring out.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
So his eighth studio album is mystical, magical, rhythmic, rhythmical,
radical Ride. You try saying that ten times fast in
it's here, so go stream it. And then he's also
on tour and he's live streaming his August eleventh show.
So go to Jasonmraz dot veep's V E E p
(16:59):
s dot com to go scream that if you can't
go to a live show. And I hope you guys
enjoyed Jayson Riz. We're just gonna go gleek out even
more now because I'm overwhelmed. Yeah, that was exciting.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I'm fully overwhelmed. So thank you Jason for spending some
time with us. Thank you for allowing Glee to cover
a couple of your songs. Meant a lot to us
as a show and as fans. Correct See you next week,
and that's what you really missed, y'all. Thanks for listening
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(17:32):
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And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to and that's what you really miss Kevin.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Yes, Yes, today's the day.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We get to speak to the mythical magical. I said
it wrong, mystical magical Jason Moraz Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm not ready.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We're such big fans.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Jason raz is the sweetest human with the sweetest voice.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I met him backstage at Waitress. I went to go
visit and he was doing doctor Pometer at that point, to.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Which I'm so mad I'm going to see him do.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
That, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
To watch him sing you Matter to Me with Sarah
Brellis was such a treat.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I mean truly such a treat.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
And he's featured on Sarah's twenty fifteen album What's Inside
the Songs from Waitress, so you should go listen to
that too. So it was like projecting him coming to
do it.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Those two singing together should not be allowed.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
No, I know, I know, it was really something else.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I think they both have perfect pitch.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That would make sense.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
What oh I I love to ask you more about that.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well you guys imagine we have
the wonderful, Jason raz enjoy.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Coming to you from a motel room on the side
of the one oh one freeway.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Santa Barbara, Oh, Santa Barbara is fancy.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Well, Santa Barbara's fancy, But a hotel.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Room on the side of the freeway maybe not so much.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Not so much. But that's okay, Jason.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I don't if you remember I came backstage when you
were doing waitress and met you. Oh, because I also
did waitress, like two were you doing?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, that's so cool. I think I saw you is done?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Really it did.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, that's so cool. Yeah, what a great show.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Truly, what a joy, what a joy.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I would do that job forever and ever.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
No, right, I sing that music, hang out with those people,
the nicest people, and one of the funnest experiences I
ever had.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Yeah, mine too. Wow, small world. You know, if we
live long enough, maybe everyone in the world will get
to be in waitress.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I believe it. I will one day be in waitress.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yes, you could be old Joe at some point, Kevin,
try to give you some suff like that.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I would love that.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, we know you're on tour, so thank you for
chatting the best and taking the time.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Also, by the way, please look up Jason's tour because
I've seen you several times live and if people haven't,
or if they have, then you too. Anyway, because you
have one of the craziest voices.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I don't know that it's simple. I try not to.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I will say it for you because I don't know
how you do it. But like, every time you hit
a high note, I'm like, oh, surely that's the top
of his range. And you just keep going up. You
just keep going and your voice never breaks and you
have like this beautiful rasp but you put in that.
I just yeah, so cool.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Thanks for saying.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Our show right now is so much fun. We have costumes,
we have dance moves. It's kind of like a big
show choir kind of a feeling. Everybody plays instruments and
there's multiple multiple instruments. You know, people are changing out
and switching places and it's so fun and we and
the show's not you know, we don't do the same
(03:53):
song order every night, which is also fun where we're
still trying to make it exciting for ourselves.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So great.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
So I think if you if you have them into
a show of mine yet, this would be the tour
to do it, and also, I don't know how long
I'm going to tour after this, you know, I don't know.
Living in a motel on the side of the freeway.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Tough people show up and they see you in the lights,
in the stage and all that, and they think that's
all it is.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
They're seeing the best part of the day, you know.
They're saying, yeah, they're seeing the two hours that everybody
works all day to put together, you know. And then
after that the countdown begins to like, you know, pack
your stuff and get on the bus. You know, we've
got like, you know, crew that has to keep things moving,
(04:43):
and then we all squeeze into a bus that's too
small for all of us, pile of bags and the
gross you know, just the smells of the bus are
not pleasant, and you go bang them out night after night.
There's another job like it. It's like a circus, is
it really is.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
We toured for a little bit and we got a
small taste of it, and we got some swanky you
know things along with it too, and it was not
a fair tour experience.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You know, you get you get all the whole spectrum.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yes, that's right, Jenna I believe that.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I believe that.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Congrat thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So on Glee we got to cover two of your songs,
Lucky and I Will give Up.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
How does that work from your end? Do you hear
about like this show wants to use your music? Do
you approve of it? Had you heard of Glee? How
does that work from your end?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I heard of it and knew that they were taking,
you know, modern songs and spinning them into the script
and into the storyline for this musical television show. And
I just thought that's super cool. And as a songwriter,
you want to find homes for your songs. You want
to have places where they're played. And I think the
more interesting, the better, you know. I think anybody can
(06:20):
get their song streamed, anybody get their song on the radio,
but not everybody can get their song woven into a script,
into a storyline on a musical television show, you know.
So I find stuff like that, moments like that to
be really high honor. And and then I'm always curious,
is that you know how they're going to take a
song like I Won't give Up, which, you know, it
(06:40):
sounds like I'm singing to someone but you know, really,
I'm sitting at the table singing to myself to not
quit and I give up with myself after a heartache,
after a breakup, I still want to recognize the beauty
and the other person, but I still want to maintain
the beauty that I have inside, because when you go
through a breakup, you feel like a loser, you know.
And so I won't give up was a way for
(07:01):
me to say, Look, I don't want to walk away
from this, I don't want to walk over my dream.
I don't want to give up on thinking I'm a
cool guy. I won't give up, you know. So that
song was very healing for me. So whenever I see
people using it at weddings or in any ceremony in
their life and in the casically, you know, it was
(07:23):
pretty amazing just to see how a song idea from
your kitchen table can suddenly exist in some other universe.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Totally, yeah, totally did you now? Did you? Were you
curious after we use them? Did you not want to
see it done? Did you watch it? You don't also
have to tell us, But I'm just curious because like
as actors, some people watch their stuff and some people
cannot possibly watch their their work, So I'm just curious,
(07:53):
like what you are kind of processes.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I didn't see it in real time. I think I
saw it much later. I was touring a lot when
it came out, And honestly, I'm always working on the
next song, you know. Yeah, I don't think about the
old songs. I'm delighted, you know, don't get me wrong,
But as a creator, I'm always like, what I know
(08:19):
where my next song idea and where my next musical
expression will be.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It was also so fun for us because we did
so many older songs as well, Like a big part
of the foundation of Glee was doing sort of eighties
and seventies music. Sure, And I remember when we first
did Lucky so excited. I had my fingers crossed that
I was doing it, but I didn't get to do it.
But Cordon Dana who did it. It works so beautifully
(08:45):
with their voices and in the storyline. And then it
was one of our favorite times during the show on
tour because they did that every single night all over
the world, and.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
It was really.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Beautiful. I mean, like, I mean the most minised glimpse
maybe to what you are receiving every single night on
tour because we were all on stage for that, but
it's those two outperforming it, and so we're looking at
an arena full of people singing the song wow and yeah.
To hear them like that must just be the most
incredible feeling for you night of night on tour because
(09:19):
you have gigantic songs and songs that mean a lot
to people. I think a lot of your songs soundtrack
a lot of people's lives in a way, because you're
such a good storyteller. When you go out on tour,
do you do people just bum rush you of how
much these songs mean to them.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I don't get bum rushed, but I do, you know, receive.
You know, hear a lot of great stories about people,
how they've applied these songs to their lives, or what
they mean between friends and family. I wish I had
more of more songs like that, because they when they
hit in the set list, they pete. You know, the
(09:59):
show has these moments where suddenly the audience is just
singing so loud. I have a great singing audience and
it is a wonderful feeling that I never get tired of.
And like I said, I wish I had more songs
in the show like that, because occasionally, you know, I'll
do a few of those in a row, and then
I'll go to some obscure song and it's just quiet.
(10:21):
You know, the audience is like, Okay, we'll wait until
we know the next one. So sweet, But wow, I
didn't I didn't think about that about Lee on tour
and how that song would be sung. Thank you so much.
That's a great like visual to imagine arena full of
people and I'm not even there. Yeah, you know, if
(10:46):
I want to go on tour again, I might be
wrapping my tour years up and you can take my
songs and have That's very nice.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I think are over you could be a Jason Rats
cover group, you know what.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You know what when I'm on to I feel like
a Jason Rand's cover group, you know, I really do.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Who played the flash and he was also on Glee.
I was texting him before this because he and I
used to bond over your music. I love of your music.
So I was am like, is there anything you want
me to ask in your behalf? He's like, no, no, no,
I don't want to embarrass myself, but have a good,
good interview.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
That's cute.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Hey tell your friend Grant that my friend of house
mixer e T. He looks he looks a little like
Rod Stewart. He is the biggest Flash fan, the biggest
Ye every show, whole series on a little catch him
watching it on a little iPad on the soundboard. What
(11:53):
are you doing, I'm watching the Flash. He's in a
digets like I'm watching the Flash show, very familiar with Grant.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Tell us about your new album, because you came out
a couple of weeks ago and it's so good.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Thanks. You know, I'm still trying to do things that
I haven't done yet. And as a singer songwriter who
typically writes some guitar piano, it's hard to like break
out of you know, pop formulaic structure, you know. And
but I've sort of always been in the acoustic rock lane,
and I wanted, but I've loved electronic music for my
(12:40):
whole life, you know. I love synthesizers and beats and
going to you know, dj C DJs and listen to
m and all that roller skate to disco and dance music.
And Michael Jackson was one of my heroes growing up,
and so I've never really gone down the dance music route,
and I tried that on this album. I wanted to
see if I could take the songs we were working
on and just go them up a little bit. So
(13:01):
we we wrote from that perspective of like, how could
what could we give our audience Because that's another thing
is we tour so much. We noticed that our audience
wants to actually participate in dance and do things, you know,
So we wrote an album that would would hope affect
our tour and it is, you know. Now we're like
a little singing and dancing group. I just watched the
Wham documentary and I'm.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
So inspired by their They're just there, their their attention
to inclusivity and their their love of dance and bringing
joy to audiences.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I think that that document came out just the right
time for us here. We're launching, when we're launching the tour,
so we feel a little bit like Wham right now.
And that's kind of what the album feels like as well.
It's just like happy dancing, uh, cheering you on to
go live your dream type of songs.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
We need more of that right now. So I'm glad
that you are sending that out into the world right now.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, it's a great album. It's called Mystical, Magical, Rhythmical
Radical Ride. Make sure you go stream it, by it,
download it, go see a tour.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah, we're going to stream our tour live on August eleventh.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
That's right from the bank Amphitheater.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's right, Well, go check it out.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, if you can't get to a show, just tune in.
We're going to do our singing and dancing on a
live stream.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
We'll be dancing in our living rooms.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
That's the best place to do it. Yeah, nobody's t shirt.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Eating a bowl of ice cream and dancing around.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That's right. Well, we won't keep you from your crazy
travel and your wonderful motel. Thank you for joining us.
Really great to see you.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Thank you so so much.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Thanks for having me on your program. Okay, goodbye, Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
My god, so nice guys. We just talked to Jason Rice.
We should really start using this podcast as a way
to just hang out with people were gigantic fans of.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Well, I remember, and I just didn't we didn't have
enough time. But I remember they would ask me on
the carpet what I would want to sing, and I
would do a lot of carpets with you, Kevin, and
I would be like, I don't want to tell them
what I want to sing anywhere. I'm tired of that.
I'd be like, well, I want Kevin to sing I'm yours,
and I would always pitch that one for you out
(15:22):
in the world. But we loved Jason Raz. We loved
listening to when we were such a big fan of his.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
One of my earliest memories of living in LA when
I well, when I first started going to LA before
I properly moved there. I think I was thirteen or fourteen.
I made my mom drive me to a CD warehouse
is what it was called, to buy Jason Raz's very
first album. I remember it, oh so clearly. I went
and buy myself. I paid for it by myself because
(15:51):
I saw him like on VH one or something they're
doing like a new artist Spotlight, and I was like,
I want this guy to be so successful, because you know,
it was indie pop. It wasn't what everybody else was
doing at the time, and I felt like I need
to do my part and make sure Kevin he gets
to keep making music, and wow, wow, you know it's
(16:11):
like I said to him, soundtracks the rest of my life.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
We got to see him from New York last a
couple of weeks ago, and he was really it was
really inspiring, and he's really wonderful, and you can tell
how much he loves his craft and how much he
respects it, and and it's so grounded, so just.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
How naturally good he is at it too. It all
just comes pouring out.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
So his eighth studio album is mystical, magical, rhythmic, rhythmical,
radical Ride. You try saying that ten times fast in
it's here, so go stream it. And then he's also
on tour and he's live streaming his August eleventh show.
So go to Jasonmraz dot veep's V E E p
(16:59):
s dot com to go scream that if you can't
go to a live show. And I hope you guys
enjoyed Jayson Riz. We're just gonna go gleek out even
more now because I'm overwhelmed. Yeah, that was exciting.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I'm fully overwhelmed. So thank you Jason for spending some
time with us. Thank you for allowing Glee to cover
a couple of your songs. Meant a lot to us
as a show and as fans. Correct See you next week,
and that's what you really missed, y'all. Thanks for listening
and follow us on Instagram at and that's what you
(17:32):
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