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Speaker 1: Carala Carol. Hey, y'all, welcome to Hyper Caroline Hobby. I
Speaker 1: am your host, Caroline Hobby. I know music, I know people,
Speaker 1: and I know the questions you want to ask. So
Speaker 1: let's get hyper heads up. These are adults having adult conversations,
Speaker 1: so there could be adult content. I'm super pumped about
Speaker 1: this episode because I have Noah got through joining me.
Speaker 1: Y'all probably recognize him. He was a star of Glee.
Speaker 1: He joined the cast the seventh season. We talked all
Speaker 1: about that. He's also a YouTube sensation. He's had over
Speaker 1: fifteen million or was it twenty five million views, so
Speaker 1: many views on his YouTube page. We talked about everything,
Speaker 1: and he has a new album coming out. The Valley
Speaker 1: is so inspiring. I cannot wait for y'all hear the interview.
Speaker 1: Here is no a get three? What's up? Oh a lot?
Speaker 1: Let's press. You've had a big lie. Uh yeah, hopefully
Speaker 1: gets bigger and bigger. So I want to start with
Speaker 1: a heel of rapid fire questions. Right, there's telling me
Speaker 1: the first thing that comes to your mind. Okay, okay, Ellen,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Um incredibly thankful to be on her
Speaker 1: website at one time telling what happened with that, because
Speaker 1: that's why I got you going in a way. Yeah sure,
Speaker 1: Uh no, so I did. I started on YouTube, and
Speaker 1: the way I got hearted was I posted a cover
Speaker 1: song of like my favorite you two song, which is
Speaker 1: where the Streets of No Name. And when I posted that, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I did it just to do it, Okay.
Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting anything. I wasn't trying to do anything
Speaker 1: with it. You were just putting up a YouTube song.
Speaker 1: I wanted to put it up pretty much, and actually
Speaker 1: I think I think my dad, uh just kind of
Speaker 1: decided to put it up, you know, without me knowing
Speaker 1: you has been a big advocate for you. Yes, my
Speaker 1: my whole life, which is good in a dad I think.
Speaker 1: But no, we ended up putting the video online and
Speaker 1: just a researcher at the Ellen de General show Um
Speaker 1: liked it and and wanted to put it on their website.
Speaker 1: They were having a they're in a competition for when
Speaker 1: she still had a record label. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a thing anymore. Um, I would like to see who
Speaker 1: could be the next big star, right, And I ended
Speaker 1: up pointing the competition and then nothing happened. Uh, so
Speaker 1: we're just like, no, see another thing. Uh. We had
Speaker 1: been scheduled to actually do the show like two or
Speaker 1: three times, I think, and it just always something never
Speaker 1: lined up. Um. But no, we were super ready. I'm
Speaker 1: still super ready. You have not gone on Ellen, No, No,
Speaker 1: but I was on our website and that really is though.
Speaker 1: That competition got everything going. That's when we kind of decided, Okay,
Speaker 1: well now I have a bunch of people looking at me. Um.
Speaker 1: And you know, it just gave me traction that I
Speaker 1: didn't think i'd get. Did it grow your fan base
Speaker 1: being on that show? Yeah? I would say it started it, um,
Speaker 1: just because after that video it was literally the first
Speaker 1: one I posted. The first one you posted gets you
Speaker 1: to Ellen. Yeah, you were by the divine because you're
Speaker 1: to be twenty three and to have had the things
Speaker 1: happen to you which we're gonna get into. Obviously, you've
Speaker 1: been on Glee. Five million YouTube views on an on
Speaker 1: Ellen a O song would you weren't even planning on
Speaker 1: doing for real? Land U Sepot on Glee. I mean,
Speaker 1: your life is so blessed, yeah, very much. You know,
Speaker 1: I do what I can with with what I'm giving,
Speaker 1: and I've been giving some awes, some stuff. It's been
Speaker 1: it's been great. Okay. So after Ellen, we was how
Speaker 1: old were you when that happened? Oh my gosh, seventeen,
Speaker 1: I think. Um. Yeah, So after Ellen, after that website
Speaker 1: a little cameo there. UM just decided to start posting
Speaker 1: more covers and and that just kind of fueled the
Speaker 1: fan base a little more and more and more and
Speaker 1: than eventually I had the sexy I know it um
Speaker 1: cover and and things kind of blew up from there.
Speaker 1: We gotta have pause on that from all right, Okay,
Speaker 1: so you're now you have a YouTube page going. I
Speaker 1: was gonna ask you, you know, and you said this,
Speaker 1: like you didn't set up to be like I want
Speaker 1: to be a YouTube star. Here's how I'm gonna lay
Speaker 1: it out. I'm going to post the video every week.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to like get hooked up with other
Speaker 1: YouTube stars to grow up. You just that was not
Speaker 1: your agenda. No, Um, honestly, like from the get go,
Speaker 1: my a thing has always been writing music and wanting
Speaker 1: to perform original music. Um. But when we started, or
Speaker 1: when I started the YouTube covers, um, you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's it was the perfect way to get my name
Speaker 1: out there because no one's out there typing in noah
Speaker 1: gu through original music ever. Um so they were today
Speaker 1: well now you do, um, yeah, so they were only
Speaker 1: you know, you're typing in whatever the big the biggest
Speaker 1: pop songs are. So I would try to kind of
Speaker 1: you know, take those pop songs and rework them and
Speaker 1: make them my own. And it was a good way
Speaker 1: to build a fan base. Um. And I've I've built
Speaker 1: such a loyal fan base from them. Um And I
Speaker 1: don't think I expected that. I didn't expect them to
Speaker 1: stick around as long as they have, and they've been great.
Speaker 1: Um And you know, yeah, it's when you get a
Speaker 1: viral video, everything changes. It's it's weird. So you said
Speaker 1: that a lot of times when you're posting YouTube videos,
Speaker 1: you would do several takes. You would like reshoot it,
Speaker 1: make sure it's right. But for whatever reason, when this
Speaker 1: one particular, the l M F A O Sexy and
Speaker 1: I know it. You're like, Okay, I've been wanting to
Speaker 1: post this video for a while. I've been thinking about
Speaker 1: an arrangement, but you just like a one take thing, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like lagging like you hadn't post one was? Yeah, what
Speaker 1: really happened is I was I think I don't know
Speaker 1: if it was just some kind of break. I guess
Speaker 1: i'd got a summer break or something. Um, And I
Speaker 1: hadn't posted a video in about three weeks, which if
Speaker 1: you're trying to build something on YouTube, that's a no, no,
Speaker 1: you can't. Can't do that every week, that's what you
Speaker 1: want to do, like but most now will probably post
Speaker 1: two or three times a week. I just can't. I've
Speaker 1: never been able to do that. But anyway, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I've been off for about three weeks. Um, And I
Speaker 1: think I was at my dad's house and I have
Speaker 1: been playing this little blues riff um and for some
Speaker 1: reason I sang like wiggle wiggle wiggle yeah over the
Speaker 1: top of it, and he was like, you should do that,
Speaker 1: and I said no, not, this isn't a serious song.
Speaker 1: But you were doing like more seriously. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I've always kind of liked the more you know, the
Speaker 1: deeper singer songwriter style of stuff and um, but this,
Speaker 1: you know, I think a couple of days after that,
Speaker 1: I was still hadn't put anything up and I was
Speaker 1: feeling very guilty, so UM just decided to do it,
Speaker 1: you know, as kind of a goofy like joke to myself.
Speaker 1: You know, you change the arrangement, you kind of mate
Speaker 1: your own. Yeah, it is absolutely not the l M
Speaker 1: F A O arrangement. Um, you know, it's it's just
Speaker 1: your standard really, just a standard blues riff um with
Speaker 1: the sexy I know it lyrics over the top and
Speaker 1: then just kind of placed in different weird ways. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a rare video that was like
Speaker 1: one take, um, and I went to bed after I
Speaker 1: posted it, and and it was blowing up the next morning.
Speaker 1: So next morning you woke up. So was that the
Speaker 1: song that was happening at that time? Like that was everywhere? Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think it was. I guess technically in the pop
Speaker 1: world it was kind of old at the point, like
Speaker 1: it was like a a at least six or seven
Speaker 1: months old, which know, the cycle just kind of goes
Speaker 1: and goes. So um, you know, I didn't think it
Speaker 1: was going to get that much traction. Um, But it
Speaker 1: was just something to post and it was something kind
Speaker 1: of different, you know. Um, And I guess that's what
Speaker 1: caught people's ear. Um. But yeah, it it blew up
Speaker 1: the next morning and then eventually I was onto the
Speaker 1: Today Show and just doing a bunch of different press
Speaker 1: and it was it was nuts. So when you go
Speaker 1: on the Today Show after you become a YouTube phenomen
Speaker 1: is the topic like YouTube phenomen joins us on the
Speaker 1: Today Show. Um, I think it was more of like
Speaker 1: they kind of I feel like they kind of hit
Speaker 1: the nail on the head, honestly, because I think they
Speaker 1: really marketed it more as like, uh, you know, awkward
Speaker 1: high school kid has viral video and is on the
Speaker 1: show Today to to to share his voice or whatever.
Speaker 1: And and it turned out really really well. They treated
Speaker 1: me so so good on the Today Show and uh
Speaker 1: really just couldn't say enough good things about that that crew.
Speaker 1: They were so so awesome and to be you know,
Speaker 1: like eighteen and and like I love Matt Lauer for
Speaker 1: so long and still do and like and and and
Speaker 1: Curry was on there when I was on there. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know, I've grown up watching the Today Show
Speaker 1: since I was a kid, and it was it was
Speaker 1: really really cool. It was unbelievable. What does that like
Speaker 1: to really have overnight success? Because it's not that you
Speaker 1: weren't always talented and weren't working towards it, but literally
Speaker 1: to go to bed one night, as you say, self,
Speaker 1: awkward high school kid and wake up the next day
Speaker 1: and be a YouTube phenomenal going on Today Show? What
Speaker 1: is that like to? And then here comes Glee, the
Speaker 1: producers calling you because they want you to join the
Speaker 1: hottest show on TV. What is that like? Um? To
Speaker 1: the first half of that question, I would say scary,
Speaker 1: a little bit scary. Were you prepared for it? No? No, never,
Speaker 1: I don't think I wouldn't be prepared for it today
Speaker 1: if it happened. But it's um. It is such a
Speaker 1: whirlwind kind of event, a viral video or anything that's
Speaker 1: like an overnight you know, overnight success. Um is such
Speaker 1: a It's like lightning on a bottle, right, you can't
Speaker 1: just recreate it over and over. And that's what I
Speaker 1: kept getting that question after Sexy I Know what happened?
Speaker 1: Was like, well, how do I you know? People would
Speaker 1: write in how do I make a viral video. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but like I don't you know, there's I
Speaker 1: don't know a formula for it, but um no, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's really I would say it was scary
Speaker 1: and exciting at the same time. You know, it was
Speaker 1: my first time, like, uh, first time I went to
Speaker 1: New York City and and you know, got to go
Speaker 1: around there and see all the big buildings and beautiful
Speaker 1: lights and what did you think? Oh my gosh, it
Speaker 1: was amazing. But also like being from such a small town,
Speaker 1: it like just overloaded me a little bit. Um. But
Speaker 1: now it was you know, no one else had had
Speaker 1: that experience in my close circle of friends, so it
Speaker 1: was just weird to kind of have this event happened
Speaker 1: that that no one else had. You know, I couldn't
Speaker 1: relate to anyone else, Like people change around you when
Speaker 1: you came back. High school got easier. Was it hard before? Um?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it was hard, but I was definitely
Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't like the most popular kid, um,
Speaker 1: But it was much easier when people like started hearing
Speaker 1: what I'm actually passionate about doing, just saw your talents
Speaker 1: and yeah, so and you know I had I had
Speaker 1: some friends that kind of knew what I did already.
Speaker 1: I was in you know, abandoned high school and we
Speaker 1: played around the town. But um, you know, once when
Speaker 1: stuff started picking up for me, Yeah, of course, like
Speaker 1: people get a little nicer, they get you know, a
Speaker 1: little more cozy. Butch is fine. But yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a it's a weird thing to have happened to you. Honestly,
Speaker 1: if you were to sum up high school, how would
Speaker 1: you describe high school? Because to me, high school is
Speaker 1: such an awkward time for me. Like, I don't know
Speaker 1: whoever likes high school. Yeah, there's so much It's just
Speaker 1: such a such a weird phase of life. You know. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: I guess if I had to sum up my high
Speaker 1: school experience, Um, I was started out band geek, I
Speaker 1: went to choir geek. Um kind of got more into
Speaker 1: like just the the arts side of things and just
Speaker 1: performance in general. Um, but you know, I I'm a
Speaker 1: bigger guy. I was bigger in high school, so like
Speaker 1: I was the chubby, um, super shy kid trying to
Speaker 1: figure it out and figure out my friends. Um, and
Speaker 1: I definitely like in my in like eleventh grade, I
Speaker 1: think I think That's when I kind of figured out
Speaker 1: where my my real friend group was. Where where did
Speaker 1: you feel most at home? Definitely like more with the
Speaker 1: like the art kids, um, or just anyone that was
Speaker 1: doing you know, whether it was visual art or performance
Speaker 1: art or anything like that. I just just kind of
Speaker 1: clicked with them because you can still be weird and
Speaker 1: it's okay, um, but you know, it's it's kind of
Speaker 1: It's what I said before. When I started singing uh
Speaker 1: in public, or when people just started hearing the music
Speaker 1: or whatever, it just it just got easier, you know. Um.
Speaker 1: I think I was saying this to uh my brother.
Speaker 1: The other day. I saw somebody in town that I
Speaker 1: went to school with, and you know, we just said
Speaker 1: what's up and how you doing and stuff. But I
Speaker 1: was just thinking about like we in high school, me
Speaker 1: and this other guy just ran in such different crowds, um,
Speaker 1: but the one thing that like actually brought us together
Speaker 1: was music. And we had such uh, just similar tastes
Speaker 1: in music that we really shouldn't have been friends at all, um,
Speaker 1: but we were totally, really really great friends. And I
Speaker 1: saw him in town the other day and it just
Speaker 1: it lasts, you know, like that connecting thing lasts. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know it's a it was a crazy thing,
Speaker 1: and I think it. I think being that kind of
Speaker 1: kid in high school kind of helped me with the
Speaker 1: character on Glee because it's very much the same. I
Speaker 1: was gonna ask you did your life Actually did you
Speaker 1: end up living your life in Glee? Yeah? Kind of? Um,
Speaker 1: minus the really bad wardrobe. Um, I don't mean bad
Speaker 1: as in the wardrobe department was bad. I mean the
Speaker 1: clothes I had to wear were just crazy. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I was, I was, I got it. I
Speaker 1: understood the role Roderick was. Tell me about your role.
Speaker 1: Tell me about Roderick. He was Noah Guthrie in high school?
Speaker 1: So who is no Guther in high school? Who was Roderick?
Speaker 1: He was just you know, he's he's I think I played.
Speaker 1: He was a senior, so he was a senior. Who
Speaker 1: still when you were a senior, I right around the same. No, No,
Speaker 1: I actually this was I guess I was. You're just
Speaker 1: a little old on the set. But um, No, Roderick
Speaker 1: was was, you know, senior in high school trying to
Speaker 1: find like his his group of friends before he graduated. Um,
Speaker 1: who kind of had a very like soul, full voice
Speaker 1: and kind of an old school look at music um,
Speaker 1: which is also me um. And he was just, you know,
Speaker 1: he shy and doesn't really know how to like start
Speaker 1: conversations very well me um. But you know, it was
Speaker 1: it was easy to play him one because the writers
Speaker 1: were so good at matching the character up with did
Speaker 1: they write him first or did they get to know
Speaker 1: you and write him as um. I think they probably
Speaker 1: wrote most of the first script without me, just to
Speaker 1: have a something to go from, and then once I
Speaker 1: started reading the lines, they pretty much just kind of
Speaker 1: rewrite if they need to, and I think they rewrote
Speaker 1: some of it um. But yeah, you know, the writers,
Speaker 1: I think we're one of, like one of my favorite
Speaker 1: groups of people on the show. We're just the writers
Speaker 1: that would come in and hang out on set because
Speaker 1: they would have to hang out with you to get
Speaker 1: to know you, to see how you would say the
Speaker 1: lines that they think you're gonna say. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they did a great job of just making it
Speaker 1: pretty close to me so I didn't have to act
Speaker 1: as much, and that was especially good for me because
Speaker 1: I've never acted before, so that was completely new. So
Speaker 1: when you get called by the producers, because do they
Speaker 1: find your video? Is that how they found you on YouTube?
Speaker 1: Or how do they find you? And then are you
Speaker 1: thinking because you're like, oh my gosh, I were active.
Speaker 1: I got to join the biggest show. I was on
Speaker 1: the road, um, just playing music. Um. And I had
Speaker 1: like a little filler date in between two main shows.
Speaker 1: I played this little house show in San Francisco, and
Speaker 1: um it was a tiny show, like ten fifteen people tops,
Speaker 1: because that's all you could fit in this guy's apartment. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so you know it was just like a quick way
Speaker 1: to to make a few extra bucks. Um. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I played, you know, a little concert for them in
Speaker 1: their courtyard. And one of the guys that had attended,
Speaker 1: his name is Jason I think his name is Jason
Speaker 1: Rock maybe, um, but he I think had been on
Speaker 1: The X Factor or something like that. But also he
Speaker 1: was the next day he was going to go to
Speaker 1: l A and UM judge some kind of talent competition
Speaker 1: with a couple other judges. One of the other judges,
Speaker 1: I was a girl named Alex who was looking to
Speaker 1: help cast for the last season of Glee, and um,
Speaker 1: I think she she said to him, I'm looking for
Speaker 1: a certain guy for this role. We can't seem to
Speaker 1: find him. What were they looking for? They were looking
Speaker 1: for a shy, chubby kid with the voice of Otis reading,
Speaker 1: is what she said. Um, as far as the voice
Speaker 1: of Votis reading, I don't know your voice is out
Speaker 1: of this world. Thanks. But know he he I think
Speaker 1: you know, once he heard what she was looking for,
Speaker 1: he was just like, I think I saw him in
Speaker 1: San Francisco last night. So here's his number, you know
Speaker 1: if y'all want to connect. And um, you know, we
Speaker 1: didn't expect anything he had. He contacted us again and
Speaker 1: just told us, you know, hey, you might get a
Speaker 1: call from Alex at casting at Glee, and um, we
Speaker 1: didn't really think anything of it. And then sure enough
Speaker 1: we get a call um about a week or so later. Um,
Speaker 1: And you know, at first, I really I wasn't too
Speaker 1: keen on doing it, just because Um, I wasn't looking
Speaker 1: for acting. I wasn't not on my radar at all.
Speaker 1: And I and I it was probably just a little
Speaker 1: concerned that I wouldn't be able to do it. Did
Speaker 1: fear creeping? Yeah, sure, scared of what if I fail
Speaker 1: or what if I like make me look like not
Speaker 1: the no, no exactly, and you know when it's when
Speaker 1: your music is your main thing and like you I
Speaker 1: want to be known as a songwriter. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: we were talking a little bit about this earlier, just
Speaker 1: about like I didn't set out to be a YouTuber,
Speaker 1: so I didn't set up be an actor either. UM.
Speaker 1: So you know, you just I feel like you always
Speaker 1: kind of want to really think about the choices you
Speaker 1: make and like how far you're stepping out of what
Speaker 1: you really want to do? Do you believe God opens
Speaker 1: doors for us so that maybe maybe are that we
Speaker 1: would never expect that they're actually getting us where we
Speaker 1: want to go? Absolutely? Yeah? Because Glee was the door
Speaker 1: that I didn't see at all. And think about how
Speaker 1: many hundreds of probably thousands of people would cut off
Speaker 1: their left arm for that role. Oh absolutely yeah no,
Speaker 1: and you know I can. I had to think about
Speaker 1: it a ton, and eventually UM decided to at least
Speaker 1: just send in a self tape audition and you know,
Speaker 1: just see what happens, because what is your thought process
Speaker 1: of going through then? Like through there, like what are
Speaker 1: what are what does the fear? What does fear look like?
Speaker 1: In your head? Um? Hm, I mean, honestly, I guess
Speaker 1: it was really just the fear of I think just
Speaker 1: the fear of the unknown and unknown and the fear
Speaker 1: of of of looking like an it honestly, like you know,
Speaker 1: and that's so ridiculous because that shouldn't matter, but it's
Speaker 1: such a normal thought we all had. Of course, how
Speaker 1: did you decide to be brave and take that leap?
Speaker 1: And then what did you learn from overcoming that fear
Speaker 1: and taking that leap? What did what was the payoff?
Speaker 1: I decided by having many conversations with family members and
Speaker 1: friends and then and then kind of re evaluating what
Speaker 1: it meant. And um, like you just said, I kept
Speaker 1: having this you know, well, there's a million people out
Speaker 1: there that would die for this role, you know, have
Speaker 1: been starving in l A for years, and um, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just felt like it was okay to do,
Speaker 1: like at least try it, um. And then once I
Speaker 1: once I got the part, you know, I sent in
Speaker 1: a self tape and then I eventually had to go
Speaker 1: out there in audition in person for Ryan Murphy and
Speaker 1: I completely thought I screwed it up, Like I just
Speaker 1: was not confident in the performance. I gave um, and
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't get nervous really, but um, I
Speaker 1: was just super nervous in front of them, and uh,
Speaker 1: Ryan Murphy look just looked so stones. Was it a
Speaker 1: panel of judges is staring at you there? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: it was like it was like two of the writers,
Speaker 1: the creator of the show, Ryan Murphy, and then like
Speaker 1: a you know, another executive producer, and they're not smiling.
Speaker 1: It's like they think you just are terrible and they're
Speaker 1: board but they're kind of doing that, probably to psyche
Speaker 1: you out right. I have no idea why they do it.
Speaker 1: I think they're just I think they're so in their
Speaker 1: heads trying to see you as the character that they
Speaker 1: have created. So they're just really trying to they're picking
Speaker 1: you apart, right, and that's what they have to do.
Speaker 1: But and I got warned, like the casting agents told
Speaker 1: me like, hey, we know you've never done this kind
Speaker 1: of thing before. Um, they're gonna look like they hate you,
Speaker 1: like they just don't paying attention to that. And I
Speaker 1: was like okay, And then I just completely paid a
Speaker 1: tension to it, and uh, it just threw me off.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I thought that I had really messed it
Speaker 1: up and uh, and then the next day I get
Speaker 1: the call as I'm getting on the plane to come home,
Speaker 1: um that I got the part and that I should
Speaker 1: go home and pack up everything I have, and and
Speaker 1: and and come out to l A in like two days.
Speaker 1: So we had like a two day turn around. So
Speaker 1: you started filming like two days later. Yea. So how
Speaker 1: do you all of a sudden become an actor on
Speaker 1: a hit show when you've never acted before? Like, what
Speaker 1: are you what's going through your head in that two
Speaker 1: day period? And then what do you do the first
Speaker 1: day on set? Are you nervous because now you're working
Speaker 1: with superstars like Lea Michelle, who's any one like the
Speaker 1: hottest stars in Hollywood. Now she's your cast member, not
Speaker 1: to mention the whole rest of the cast. Are you overwhelmed? Definitely?
Speaker 1: The first My first day of shooting was so it
Speaker 1: was it was like completely just jumping in the deep end. Um.
Speaker 1: There was no warm up at all because the first
Speaker 1: scene I had as a scene in the library and
Speaker 1: literally all of the senior cast and me and that's it.
Speaker 1: So it's like everyone who's been doing this for six years,
Speaker 1: who are veterans pros and you are I'm like having
Speaker 1: a panic. Yeah, it was. It was terrifying. Very everyone
Speaker 1: was super nice and you know, everyone knew that, like
Speaker 1: they're not gonna come in there and like, you know,
Speaker 1: try to scare you because they wanted you to succeed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they want you to have a good time. They want
Speaker 1: you to you know, they need a good show. So um. No,
Speaker 1: everyone was fantastic um and very welcoming. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the first day was nuts, and like the in the
Speaker 1: two days leading up to it, I was just I
Speaker 1: wasn't thinking about it as much because I was memorizing, memorizing, memorizing,
Speaker 1: And it's almost good that you were kind of stressed out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know I was like, okay, get your get
Speaker 1: to your hotel, like figure out time to work on this,
Speaker 1: like make sure you're not an idiot. Um. But anyway,
Speaker 1: the first you know, the first day, I get thrown
Speaker 1: into that scene. Um, and we shoot for through three
Speaker 1: or four hours, um, and you know it's it's just
Speaker 1: the same thing over and over, which I also I
Speaker 1: had no idea how TV works, How did that go.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of hurry up and wait, It's just
Speaker 1: tons of you get there at a certain time, and
Speaker 1: then usually you're gonna wait for another half hour an
Speaker 1: hour before you're really doing anything. Um. But you know
Speaker 1: you're also doing like marking rehearsals and and just kind
Speaker 1: of going over stuff with the director. Um. But uh
Speaker 1: and also my first my first encounter with a director
Speaker 1: was great. Um. I can't thank Brad Baker enough for
Speaker 1: being such a warm, like inviting person. Um because you
Speaker 1: just you know, you hear stories and stuff of just
Speaker 1: all you know how crazy the TV business can be.
Speaker 1: But he was very inviting and just very like, this
Speaker 1: is what I'm asking of you. Uh, you know, you
Speaker 1: do it in your own way. Um. And it all
Speaker 1: worked out very well. But we we shot there for
Speaker 1: about four hours and then they wrapped me and I
Speaker 1: got to go back to the hotel and and just
Speaker 1: you know, chill for the rest of the night. So
Speaker 1: what are you thinking the day that you wrapped that
Speaker 1: you go back to the hotel and this whole thing
Speaker 1: happens to you. You're just in your house in South
Speaker 1: Carolina making YouTube videos and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: what a month later, Yeah, you're doing your own shows,
Speaker 1: your own music, and now like you're on late. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So when I wrapped the first day, I was wrapped
Speaker 1: for about an hour and then they called me again
Speaker 1: and said, hey, we're doing this dance number later tonight
Speaker 1: and we want to throw you into that. And that
Speaker 1: was even worse because I don't act and I definitely
Speaker 1: don't dance that much. I cannot commend you enough for
Speaker 1: it to be a whirlwind. Well at that point, I
Speaker 1: had no choice. It's like there's a contract I've been signed,
Speaker 1: so um so you're like, okay, here I am. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they were awesome and then I you know, I
Speaker 1: met the dance uh instructors and stuff, and they were
Speaker 1: fantastic and uh, you know, just like showed me on right,
Speaker 1: you just gotta do this, Like we're gonna pair you
Speaker 1: up with this girl. She's gonna you just follow her
Speaker 1: lead the whole time, just at like you're in high
Speaker 1: school having fun. Um. Yeah, it was. It was a
Speaker 1: crazy first day. And I think we weren't wrapped until
Speaker 1: like twelve thirty. Uh you know that night, and and
Speaker 1: you know, see at seven am in the morning. So
Speaker 1: it's it's just it's a it's a crazy existence. Um,
Speaker 1: And especially like when you're shooting. When you're shooting uh
Speaker 1: on like the lot, like on the Paramount lot or whatever,
Speaker 1: you know studio that TV show has. Um when you're
Speaker 1: in like a sound stage was essentially just a huge
Speaker 1: warehouse building that just you know, converts into a bunch
Speaker 1: of different kinds of sets. You're just in a box
Speaker 1: all day for fourteen hours. So it's just you get,
Speaker 1: it's weird, it's very yeah, and you start thinking seriously
Speaker 1: like what is this? Yeah, well, I mean me and
Speaker 1: like the other four new guys that got umudn't and
Speaker 1: you guys they were not the senior but they were
Speaker 1: you know, we all got brought in together. Um and
Speaker 1: I don't think any of us had done TV before. Um,
Speaker 1: one of us had. But so is that kind of
Speaker 1: comforting that there was at least together to da clean
Speaker 1: together with? Yeah, we were. We basically spent like every
Speaker 1: night together. Um. And you know, and that was when
Speaker 1: people ask me, like, one of my favorite things about
Speaker 1: the show is literally that I just made like a
Speaker 1: whole group of really close friends, because it's almost like
Speaker 1: going to war together. You're thrown into the truly and
Speaker 1: I mean honestly not like as life and death, but
Speaker 1: you're thrown in the situation and you don't know what
Speaker 1: you're doing. You just have stupid brothers. Um that it
Speaker 1: really is. It's very much Yeah, I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: you all just kind of bond over the things that
Speaker 1: you don't know how to do or the things that
Speaker 1: you're scared of other support and sure, yeah, and I
Speaker 1: think we all kind of needed it. I did at least, um,
Speaker 1: but you know it was. It's weird. But you also
Speaker 1: have those days where you're just like, I'm in Hollywood, California,
Speaker 1: shooting on an international TV show that's you know, one
Speaker 1: Emmys and and all sorts of stuff. And and why
Speaker 1: do you think this happened to you? Why do you
Speaker 1: think you were blessed in this way? Because you've been
Speaker 1: touched like you've been blessed. Things have seemed to Matt, big,
Speaker 1: huge things have happened for you without you trying for them.
Speaker 1: Why do you think has happened for you this way?
Speaker 1: I have no idea, I really don't. I don't have
Speaker 1: the slightest clue. Um, Because like I said earlier, there
Speaker 1: are people that have been just slaving away in you
Speaker 1: know what I'm sure is much like the music industry
Speaker 1: where you just kind of feel like you're beating your
Speaker 1: head against the wall sometimes to finally break through. Um.
Speaker 1: And why that got dropped in my lap? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean I got they liked they liked my music,
Speaker 1: they liked the voice. That's which is great. UM. But
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I have no idea. Do
Speaker 1: you feel like you have responsibility now that you do
Speaker 1: have such a gift and you have been in a
Speaker 1: way like you have been chosen to use to have
Speaker 1: a platform and to be noticed for your talent? Do
Speaker 1: you feel like this is your calling? Do you feel
Speaker 1: like it's do you? Is there not like a higher purpose?
Speaker 1: But do you have some sort of um, higher calling
Speaker 1: with it? Yes? I mean you know there are and
Speaker 1: I feel like this is with any industry or any
Speaker 1: job or anything. UM. You know, there are certain days
Speaker 1: where you just it just doesn't feel like it's working,
Speaker 1: or you don't feel like you're you're you're on the
Speaker 1: right path or anything. But UM, I think at the
Speaker 1: end of every one of those days, it's so apparent
Speaker 1: to me that this is what I do because I
Speaker 1: have to. UM. I write music because I have to. UM.
Speaker 1: It's not I don't have a choice. Do you really
Speaker 1: feel that way? Kind of Yeah, it's it's it's and
Speaker 1: I feel that way because like, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, I don't and a bunch of people say this, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't care about what you know, what kind of
Speaker 1: accolades I get or or you know, TV show spot
Speaker 1: or or even chart listings or anything like that. I
Speaker 1: just don't care about. You're doing it for the gift
Speaker 1: for thee I do it. I do it for the songs.
Speaker 1: I like writing songs. It's it's that's what I do.
Speaker 1: And if it's a look on it, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I was saying this, uh the other day. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: if like five ten years from now, I'm still writing
Speaker 1: music making that my living, whether that is with me
Speaker 1: performing them or you know, someone else has cut one
Speaker 1: of my songs or it gets on TV shows or
Speaker 1: whatever it is, as long as it's my living and
Speaker 1: I'm able to like live the kind of life I
Speaker 1: want to live, Um, then I'm fine with that. I
Speaker 1: just don't. You know, It's it's about the song. It's
Speaker 1: about the songs for me, and that's that's it. Wow,
Speaker 1: so inspiring. Okay, we're gonna have to wrap up, So
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about your new album,
Speaker 1: tell me about this the Valley, and you had you
Speaker 1: said something. One of the words in the Valley is
Speaker 1: save your strength for the valley, the morning soon to come,
Speaker 1: your soul is waking up. And what inspired that line
Speaker 1: and what inspired that song? Because that is um. So
Speaker 1: when I wrote that song, I wrote it with a
Speaker 1: wonderful singer songwriter here in Nashville named Amy stroop Um
Speaker 1: And we've been writing together for a while now and
Speaker 1: I think that was one of our second right together.
Speaker 1: And we wrote that song, and I think when we
Speaker 1: wrote it, um, it was very much about like, you know,
Speaker 1: like the value of a relationship, like where you where
Speaker 1: you have you know, come so far with this person,
Speaker 1: but something has gone wrong and you're trying to kind
Speaker 1: of get back to where you were. Um. But now, Um,
Speaker 1: in the making of this album and just in the
Speaker 1: last year or so of just you know, trying to
Speaker 1: make music work and stuff, um, the Valley has kind
Speaker 1: of come to symbolize what it is to two make
Speaker 1: your passion, uh you're living or just do what you
Speaker 1: love in general. UM. So you know, for me, it's
Speaker 1: it's you know we all kind of start in a
Speaker 1: valley and then we work our way out. Um. And
Speaker 1: you know, I think that line that you mentioned is
Speaker 1: is for me. It's just it's it's kind of a
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, just someone yelling at you, just
Speaker 1: like just hold on. It's gonna be fine, you know,
Speaker 1: because you know on your worst days you want to
Speaker 1: give up and you don't want to do it anymore. Okay,
Speaker 1: I need to get a steady job, you know, but
Speaker 1: I can't do that. And you always known you had
Speaker 1: this talent at a young age. You had a very
Speaker 1: supportive father, but he thought he has encouraged you even
Speaker 1: sometimes it feels like when you weren't even wanting to
Speaker 1: do it yourself, your talent. I I without going too
Speaker 1: long winded here, I consider myself extremely fortunate that I
Speaker 1: have had people throughout my life that have told me
Speaker 1: you can do this for a living. And you can.
Speaker 1: It's not norm exactly. And lots of kids where I
Speaker 1: grow up have enormous amounts of talent, but they just
Speaker 1: don't have that support system. Um. So that's something I'd
Speaker 1: like to see happen more often. But yeah, I've had
Speaker 1: wonderful support from my family, from my friends, my teachers, um,
Speaker 1: and and they've always just told me, you know, if
Speaker 1: you want to do this, you can do it. So
Speaker 1: I want to do it and keep doing it until
Speaker 1: it doesn't work anymore. I guess that's amazing. Okay, two
Speaker 1: more questions than we really have to talk about. Everyone's like,
Speaker 1: what's Lee Michelle Like, she's great. No, she is probably
Speaker 1: something that no one would know about her. Oh h
Speaker 1: h she tends to talk about poop. Um. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's funny. She you know, she's like, she's one of
Speaker 1: the prettiest girls ever and and but she just kind
Speaker 1: of has like a kind of a crude sense of
Speaker 1: humor sometimes and it's funny. It's like that. I just
Speaker 1: love that she love her more. Yeah. No, Um, honestly,
Speaker 1: everyone on the cast fantastic. They're all like, we're amazing
Speaker 1: to me and welcoming to everybody. And yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: lucky to have been a part of something that cool.
Speaker 1: So okay, and I like to end all my interviews
Speaker 1: was leave your light, So give me some inspiration, how
Speaker 1: you've been inspired or how you want to inspire people.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I think if I guess I'll give it
Speaker 1: in the in the terms of kind of advice, maybe
Speaker 1: if you are wanting to do music for a living,
Speaker 1: or really any kind of art form for a living, Um,
Speaker 1: just know that it is a long game. UM. You know,
Speaker 1: I know that the overnight success story is never overnight.
Speaker 1: It's like seven years, eight years, um, but it is.
Speaker 1: It's you have to be patient, um, and you have
Speaker 1: to just be true to yourself. And you know I'm
Speaker 1: trying to do that. Um. Three have a lot to learn.
Speaker 1: But so far, I would just say, if you want
Speaker 1: to do this, you can do it, and just work
Speaker 1: at it and be patient and it will happen. I
Speaker 1: love that. Okay. So now Noah Got Three is going
Speaker 1: to play us a couple of songs from his highly
Speaker 1: anticipated album that's being released released June, The Valley Noah
Speaker 1: Got Three. Oh my gosh, I can't believe. Go to
Speaker 1: hear you in your real life right now. Yeah, let's
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Speaker 1: me about the first song. That you're gonna sing from
Speaker 1: your new album The Valley. Uh. This first song is
Speaker 1: called love You Now, and uh it's it's just kind
Speaker 1: of about when you're going through a rough patch with
Speaker 1: somebody and you're trying to kind of revitalize the relationship
Speaker 1: that you had. I guess, okayy take it away. You've
Speaker 1: been crying away from that oppin dreaming with your we
Speaker 1: said out food in California. See go darning now go
Speaker 1: be a shame. I want to find a way to
Speaker 1: love you now if your heart is sweet, the big you.
Speaker 1: You've got to show me how. I want to find
Speaker 1: a way to love you now. I remember leads turned
Speaker 1: your hard that it sween lives on the way rolls
Speaker 1: and I swear you used to hold me like I
Speaker 1: was dying, but a world it's dying too. You gotta night.
Speaker 1: I don't know where you don't k I want to
Speaker 1: find way to love you now if your heart just
Speaker 1: need to be and may you you gotta show me
Speaker 1: how I want to fight you with to love you now,
Speaker 1: Love you now, Love you now, love you now, time
Speaker 1: or not fights, I can't remand biming you four on
Speaker 1: out looking to stay out here it looks so full
Speaker 1: of God and this now lazy. I'm better be inside.
Speaker 1: I want to find a way to lon you now.
Speaker 1: If your heart is me and you've gotta show me,
Speaker 1: I want to find you way a loud you now.
Speaker 1: I want to find a way to love you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have one more. That is amazing. Your voice
Speaker 1: is amazing, your stage president is amazing. The song is amazing. Okay,
Speaker 1: so tell us about your last long you're gonna sing
Speaker 1: for us. This song is called This last song is
Speaker 1: called the Valley. UM and it's the title track, title
Speaker 1: track for the new record, UM oh man. And this
Speaker 1: song UM is for everybody. This is this is a
Speaker 1: song that if you've ever felt like you're in the
Speaker 1: valley or you're going through a super rough time trying
Speaker 1: to do what you love. UM, this is for you,
Speaker 1: and this is for us. Rudio Breath to the morning,
Speaker 1: Rudio Breath to its line, shadows, find us, save the
Speaker 1: even the blind dust, it's all. It's all. Let all
Speaker 1: go steid let heady it urn in the side or theater,
Speaker 1: eat cheesy, we smecent, creat cheesy. It's all. It's all.
Speaker 1: Save your faith for the valley. Burn it toon the car.
Speaker 1: No sily too strong now, so let it breathe, let
Speaker 1: it fall apart. Trouble find you in the dark. Find
Speaker 1: a little light, a little spur. You're closer, and you're closer.
Speaker 1: Hand you think you're closer, anything closer than your Thiel.
Speaker 1: Save your straith the valley borning soon came, No sure swear, Oh,
Speaker 1: save your faith for the valley. You're burning soon a
Speaker 1: car your soul strong, Oh, save your tray full value.
Speaker 1: Shoot come you're sure what comes? Noah gut thrie, you
Speaker 1: are bringing. My eyes are filled with tears. That is
Speaker 1: like spiritual. That was an experience, spiritual experience. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for sharing your gift with me. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for sharing your gift with us. Noah gut three,
Speaker 1: you have a new album, The Valley coming out. That
Speaker 1: was the title track to the songs. You'll make sure
Speaker 1: you look for it. It'll be everywhere where. Can we
Speaker 1: find it? Everywhere you can find music, you can find it.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Noah, You're amazing. She's I hope
Speaker 1: you guys love hearing from Noah gut three. If you're
Speaker 1: not going firing. What a great story in life. He's
Speaker 1: lived so far to be so young. Next week, I
Speaker 1: have Jillian Jacqueline joining me. She is the new hottest
Speaker 1: thing in country music. Her songs have already gotten five
Speaker 1: million streams on Spotify. She's blowing up. She's so inspiring.
Speaker 1: She's been doing this and she was like nine, and
Speaker 1: her story will just blow you away, so you'll get excited.
Speaker 1: Jillian Jacqueline is next week, y'all. Don't forget to subscribe.
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