January 2, 2025 • 35 mins
In 2024 we had so many amazing people stop by Elvis Duran and the Morning Show. Here's one of our favorites!
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):
Fly from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hello, oh my, wow, wow, sorry about that strike one.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm near Charlie.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Pooth is here everywhere everybody. Hi Charlie, Hi, take your
headphones off.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I know we were just talking about how your every
every guest your voice sounds different. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
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 we can'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. No one can
hear what they have to say. Right, welcome to my hell?
Why is this your hell? But look, we all have
occupational hazards. Mind is guests that cannot be heard through
the microphone?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
What is yours? Charlie?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Really, 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 that
wasn't shade. I mean, I don't have anyone in mind.
I love how you're casting blame on others and not yourself.
Well or no, I'm I'm pretty much happy to be
anywhere where there's music involved in this is technically iHeart here,
(01:32):
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
(02:08):
much haven't see 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?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Does that make sense? Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Does it?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
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? Well, it's a to me, it's a shade
of white. 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 C sharp. It's like you, I hear the note
(02:42):
and it's very literal, like these headphones are black. I
just equate everything the color because if you were color blind,
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 5 (02:55):
I have My family's color blind, 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 5 (03:17):
I think that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Okay, keep working.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Hard, you'll get there. To you, it's a sea sharp.
I think of it as a D flat. Isn't an
Is my glass half full?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
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, 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):
Said, and 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 5 (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 effrofestment 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 6 (04:19):
That's pricey water, is Charlie poos?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
That seems a little over priced everywhere you're in New
York City?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You're going to Dwayne Read or something? I like Ernest Climb.
But that's a lot of money the times we live in,
I know, can you imagine 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 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 5 (05:16):
That's promoting it there.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It's not stupid, No, it's it's it's good stupid. It's
like smart stupid. It has a good name, The Charlie
Pooth Show. Yeah, that's because we couldn't think of a
put your headphones. Okay, I love this which scene. That's
just my voice sped up. That's your your theme song. Yeah,
(05:38):
but I originally sang it like 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
gonna 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. I don't know if that
was just really I think it sounded like that, but
it sounds like they sound like here's another one. That's
me and junk cook. That's that's not Glee.
Speaker 5 (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 blatantly ripped them off, but never
watched the show, you should support No, I've never I
really have never watched the show, but I'm familiar with
the concept. And someone said that and 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's why.
Your skin's glowing. You close the beautiful, You smell awesome,
your hair's gray.
Speaker 2 (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 4 (07:11):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I think it's a little confidence confidence boost.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I have a very cool wife, and she's cool and
she's sleeping.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Is she sleeping? Because I want to bring something up here?
And I think it's bestially not hear this? Okay, yah,
won't that was supposed to be me marching down that
aisle was here, that was supposed to be me. 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.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I know.
Speaker 5 (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're so unseerious when it comes to flying,
you're I'm like shaking and you're just like, isn't this
(08:09):
But I knew it'd be fine. Everywhere. 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 moment it was it was put
me at ease. Oddly was the fact that he was
so calm.
Speaker 6 (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 5 (08:35):
Thank god. He wasn't there when the bird thing happened,
when the birds went in the end.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
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, different, different, different flight. We were on
a flight from here to way for.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Everybody who's doing their morning commuting. Love, so listen to this.
We were flying on their way to JFK. Right now,
you're gonna be great. He We heard this bumpy, bumpy
sound and then the air and the plane smelled like
roasted chicken. 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.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
It was kind of great, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
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 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.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I do believe that. Now do you believe in reincarnation? Absolutely,
welcome back. Thanks, I'm still here, you know, But no, absolutely,
I think we go into different things.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
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
it's just tones and in shapes that like when they
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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.
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 don't know
if your mom was a fan of my music, but
(11:45):
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.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
And explaining not at six what feels like six.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
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?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Like? 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,
(12:42):
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 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
a 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 I'll cry
(13:25):
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 R 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 her song?
(13:47):
Was her song? Was? I told her that uh, that
that her song wasn't. Then she immediately followed it with, well,
I let let's write a new song. I'm like, Diane,
I'm not working on my wedding day a good songwriter.
I bet I bet you thought about I was. I
had a moment, momentary thought, and then I was like,
I should probably focus on getting married. But no, music
(14:11):
is such an important part of a wedding, such an
important part of like anyone's life. I agree.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
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.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Interview was somebody else I have.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
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
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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 was I
mean that was like six years ago, Okay, and that
might have been exaggerated, but he he. I don't do
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this to like to be like a Flexosaurus rex. 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. 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 sesame 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.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Now you're now, you're now, you're all about Bougie.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Ef proves drinks a relax It's a Pellegrino 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 (16:35):
I get both.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
I have so many questions. Okay, first of all, Stevie
Wonder called you. Have you ever met him in person?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah, we've we've performed together at the American Music Awards.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Do you believe he's really blind?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
He's definitely blind.
Speaker 6 (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
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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 in a way. 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
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he was alone this Charlie, do you read all these celebrities?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
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 think they do.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
No, they know he might he must know.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Do you know, do you know what what what deep
footprint you're leaving on the music world. Do you understand
it yet or is it too right? I mean, I
mean no, but you're blushing. You're blushing.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
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,
in 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
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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 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 3 (19:22):
Can you know this is not.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
A conspiracy theory? But can you play the transition music
because it's totally off key or off topic.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Do you have it still?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
And now.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
New topic, new topic.
Speaker 6 (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 a lot of me okay because I'm hanging in there.
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (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 3 (19:59):
That would be tair horrible. And then I think it
was like a dream.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Wow, you just said full circle.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Is the shape of a butthole. Then I think the
birthday that's going to be. That's the sound bite we're
talking about all this great stuff here right there what
I just said. Say it and there's no problem, I know.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
But 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.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
You just 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.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Oh it was great.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
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
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 (20:58):
So?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Why why do I feel or 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 loud, 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. Yes, 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
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the wrong 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 hundred
people sing off key, it suddenly starts to sound good,
which is why they used to before auto tune. And
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we can 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 have done that, including myself because I sing
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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 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,
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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):
Do 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 5 (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.
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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. I remember one time we were I
think flying somewhere. 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.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
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 the
older you believe me, the oldest guy in the room.
The older you get, the faster he goes, Charlie, So
savor every mind. Oh I'm starting to feel like weeks
(25:22):
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 it is.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Going for me.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
No, I'm serious though, Like life is very precious. 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.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
It's okay, there's nothing wrong with the robot. 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, 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):
Sacrifice, and we appreciate you doing that for us. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Sure, my we have a big party to host later on.
As a matter of fact, I'm gonna invite someone to
come to this part of me. 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 Mount 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 sing 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, I'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. Yeah,
last year, me too.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
That was a great one.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
That was a good one. I'm very very talented.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yes, you are nailed it.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
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.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
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 awesome.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Well, it's gonna be an honor to have you here.
Makes 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.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Mount Kisco, west Chester County, west Chester. Oh my god,
it's iHeart better send the iHeart van or something very
damn We had to sell that right. We'll see you tonight, Atlana.
Thank you so much for being our I'll see you tonight, Elena,
Thank you tonight.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
We're talking about life, music and of course your partnership
with Big and celebration.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Of the Where's my favorite? 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 5 (29:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
They feel like I use that exact same pen and
like fourth grade.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Yeah, but they do have other ones.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
I think the green gets under used, does it. Peop
won't use green nearly enough.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
It's my favorite color.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
There you go, he's the one, But it's.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
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 take.
See I'm taking the headphones off of this because I'm
hearing my voice. They don't see the point of it sometimes,
(29:43):
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 music workshi
up class with kids from New Jersey. They all made
(30:05):
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 made in
front of me. I wish more people saw that. That
was really it was like a private thing, but it
(30:27):
was really really wonderful. 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 mean, and then came in with hatching 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 (30:51):
Yeah, and thanks for being a part of that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
And so they will be here tonight too. So let's
let's wear something nice. Yeah, one of the four colors.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Well, but now she says eighteen colors.
Speaker 5 (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?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yes? How did I just pull that out of my ask?
You just did? Wow? What else came out? Clean up?
On all four? You want to know? So? 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
(32:07):
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 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.
(32:29):
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 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 people love it.
Did you have another conspiracy question before I have to
be off the air? Okay? Yeah, god, oh god. So
we'll see you here. I know a lot. I've been
in the industry for ten whole years. Wow, I've seen
(33:09):
a lot. Yeah you have, I have, especially on this show.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
No, yes, 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 of change? Just a thought, there's a thought
about when some music's coming out.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I would love next year.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I would love to go on a nice little well
we're going to we're touring Asia.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
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 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
(33:59):
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 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. Charnie, thank you for coming in today.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
My pleasure, and you know what, see the bill this
and voice for the the fifteen dollars water I bought
you watch this.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Oh you're not even going to write that off. Who's
your daddy? Not no, not at all. That is on me.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Okay, then daddy, thank you. It's that department store. Thank you,
Juanne Reid, We thank you everywhere you go.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
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 your partnership with Vick
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 sleep, now.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Go to sleep from sleep.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
He's sleeping down the hallway. All right, we're gonna take it.
Fly from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hello, oh my, wow, wow, sorry about that strike one.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm near Charlie.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Pooth is here everywhere everybody. Hi Charlie, Hi, take your
headphones off.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I know we were just talking about how your every
every guest your voice sounds different. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
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 we can'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. No one can
hear what they have to say. Right, welcome to my hell?
Why is this your hell? But look, we all have
occupational hazards. Mind is guests that cannot be heard through
the microphone?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
What is yours? Charlie?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Really, 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 that
wasn't shade. I mean, I don't have anyone in mind.
I love how you're casting blame on others and not yourself.
Well or no, I'm I'm pretty much happy to be
anywhere where there's music involved in this is technically iHeart here,
(01:32):
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
(02:08):
much haven't see 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?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Does that make sense? Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Does it?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
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? Well, it's a to me, it's a shade
of white. 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 C sharp. It's like you, I hear the note
(02:42):
and it's very literal, like these headphones are black. I
just equate everything the color because if you were color blind,
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 5 (02:55):
I have My family's color blind, 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 5 (03:17):
I think that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Okay, keep working.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Hard, you'll get there. To you, it's a sea sharp.
I think of it as a D flat. Isn't an
Is my glass half full?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
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, 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):
Said, and 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 5 (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 effrofestment 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 6 (04:19):
That's pricey water, is Charlie poos?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
That seems a little over priced everywhere you're in New
York City?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You're going to Dwayne Read or something? I like Ernest Climb.
But that's a lot of money the times we live in,
I know, can you imagine 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 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 5 (05:16):
That's promoting it there.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It's not stupid, No, it's it's it's good stupid. It's
like smart stupid. It has a good name, The Charlie
Pooth Show. Yeah, that's because we couldn't think of a
put your headphones. Okay, I love this which scene. That's
just my voice sped up. That's your your theme song. Yeah,
(05:38):
but I originally sang it like 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
gonna 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. I don't know if that
was just really I think it sounded like that, but
it sounds like they sound like here's another one. That's
me and junk cook. That's that's not Glee.
Speaker 5 (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 blatantly ripped them off, but never
watched the show, you should support No, I've never I
really have never watched the show, but I'm familiar with
the concept. And someone said that and 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's why.
Your skin's glowing. You close the beautiful, You smell awesome,
your hair's gray.
Speaker 2 (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 4 (07:11):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
I think it's a little confidence confidence boost.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I have a very cool wife, and she's cool and
she's sleeping.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Is she sleeping? Because I want to bring something up here?
And I think it's bestially not hear this? Okay, yah,
won't that was supposed to be me marching down that
aisle was here, that was supposed to be me. 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.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I know.
Speaker 5 (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're so unseerious when it comes to flying,
you're I'm like shaking and you're just like, isn't this
(08:09):
But I knew it'd be fine. Everywhere. 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 moment it was it was put
me at ease. Oddly was the fact that he was
so calm.
Speaker 6 (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 5 (08:35):
Thank god. He wasn't there when the bird thing happened,
when the birds went in the end.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
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, different, different, different flight. We were on
a flight from here to way for.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Everybody who's doing their morning commuting. Love, so listen to this.
We were flying on their way to JFK. Right now,
you're gonna be great. He We heard this bumpy, bumpy
sound and then the air and the plane smelled like
roasted chicken. 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.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
It was kind of great, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
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 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.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I do believe that. Now do you believe in reincarnation? Absolutely,
welcome back. Thanks, I'm still here, you know, But no, absolutely,
I think we go into different things.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
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
it's just tones and in shapes that like when they
(10:21):
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.
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 don't know
if your mom was a fan of my music, but
(11:45):
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.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
And explaining not at six what feels like six.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
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?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Like? 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,
(12:42):
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 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
a 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 I'll cry
(13:25):
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 R 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 her song?
(13:47):
Was her song? Was? I told her that uh, that
that her song wasn't. Then she immediately followed it with, well,
I let let's write a new song. I'm like, Diane,
I'm not working on my wedding day a good songwriter.
I bet I bet you thought about I was. I
had a moment, momentary thought, and then I was like,
I should probably focus on getting married. But no, music
(14:11):
is such an important part of a wedding, such an
important part of like anyone's life. I agree.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
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.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Interview was somebody else I have.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
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 was I
mean that was like six years ago, Okay, and that
might have been exaggerated, but he he. I don't do
(15:47):
this to like to be like a Flexosaurus rex. 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. 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 sesame 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.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Now you're now, you're now, you're all about Bougie.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Ef proves drinks a relax It's a Pellegrino 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 (16:35):
I get both.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
I have so many questions. Okay, first of all, Stevie
Wonder called you. Have you ever met him in person?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah, we've we've performed together at the American Music Awards.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Do you believe he's really blind?
Speaker 3 (16:48):
He's definitely blind.
Speaker 6 (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 in a way. 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
(18:00):
he was alone this Charlie, do you read all these celebrities?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
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 think they do.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
No, they know he might he must know.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Do you know, do you know what what what deep
footprint you're leaving on the music world. Do you understand
it yet or is it too right? I mean, I
mean no, but you're blushing. You're blushing.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
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,
in 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
(18:58):
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 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 3 (19:22):
Can you know this is not.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
A conspiracy theory? But can you play the transition music
because it's totally off key or off topic.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Do you have it still?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
And now.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
New topic, new topic.
Speaker 6 (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 a lot of me okay because I'm hanging in there.
Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (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 3 (19:59):
That would be tair horrible. And then I think it
was like a dream.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Wow, you just said full circle.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Is the shape of a butthole. Then I think the
birthday that's going to be. That's the sound bite we're
talking about all this great stuff here right there what
I just said. Say it and there's no problem, I know.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
But 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.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
You just 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.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Oh it was great.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
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
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 (20:58):
So?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Why why do I feel or 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 loud, 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. Yes, 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
(21:43):
the wrong 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 hundred
people sing off key, it suddenly starts to sound good,
which is why they used to before auto tune. And
(22:06):
we can 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 have done that, including myself because I sing
(22:30):
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 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):
Do 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 5 (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. I remember one time we were I
think flying somewhere. 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.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
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 the
older you believe me, the oldest guy in the room.
The older you get, the faster he goes, Charlie, So
savor every mind. Oh I'm starting to feel like weeks
(25:22):
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 it is.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Going for me.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
No, I'm serious though, Like life is very precious. 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.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
It's okay, there's nothing wrong with the robot. 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, 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):
Sacrifice, and we appreciate you doing that for us. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Sure, my we have a big party to host later on.
As a matter of fact, I'm gonna invite someone to
come to this part of me. 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 Mount 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 sing 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, I'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. Yeah,
last year, me too.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
That was a great one.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
That was a good one. I'm very very talented.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yes, you are nailed it.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
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.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
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 awesome.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Well, it's gonna be an honor to have you here.
Makes 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.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Mount Kisco, west Chester County, west Chester. Oh my god,
it's iHeart better send the iHeart van or something very
damn We had to sell that right. We'll see you tonight, Atlana.
Thank you so much for being our I'll see you tonight, Elena,
Thank you tonight.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
It's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
We're talking about life, music and of course your partnership
with Big and celebration.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Of the Where's my favorite? 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 5 (29:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
They feel like I use that exact same pen and
like fourth grade.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Yeah, but they do have other ones.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
I think the green gets under used, does it. Peop
won't use green nearly enough.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
It's my favorite color.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
There you go, he's the one, But it's.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
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 take.
See I'm taking the headphones off of this because I'm
hearing my voice. They don't see the point of it sometimes,
(29:43):
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 music workshi
up class with kids from New Jersey. They all made
(30:05):
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 made in
front of me. I wish more people saw that. That
was really it was like a private thing, but it
(30:27):
was really really wonderful. 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 mean, and then came in with hatching 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 (30:51):
Yeah, and thanks for being a part of that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
And so they will be here tonight too. So let's
let's wear something nice. Yeah, one of the four colors.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Well, but now she says eighteen colors.
Speaker 5 (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?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Yes? How did I just pull that out of my ask?
You just did? Wow? What else came out? Clean up?
On all four? You want to know? So? 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
(32:07):
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 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.
(32:29):
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 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 people love it.
Did you have another conspiracy question before I have to
be off the air? Okay? Yeah, god, oh god. So
we'll see you here. I know a lot. I've been
in the industry for ten whole years. Wow, I've seen
(33:09):
a lot. Yeah you have, I have, especially on this show.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
No, yes, 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 of change? Just a thought, there's a thought
about when some music's coming out.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I would love next year.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I would love to go on a nice little well
we're going to we're touring Asia.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
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 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
(33:59):
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 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. Charnie, thank you for coming in today.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
My pleasure, and you know what, see the bill this
and voice for the the fifteen dollars water I bought
you watch this.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Oh you're not even going to write that off. Who's
your daddy? Not no, not at all. That is on me.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Okay, then daddy, thank you. It's that department store. Thank you,
Juanne Reid, We thank you everywhere you go.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
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 your partnership with Vick
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 sleep, now.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Go to sleep from sleep.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
He's sleeping down the hallway. All right, we're gonna take it.
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