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