Josh Groban's Role in Toy Story

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Yeah. Ling around. Yeah, that makes sense. No, we were shooting an episode of the travel series, Conan O'Brien M must Go And we Sonny, you were kind enough to come with me. because actually something came up on this podcast. You expressed a desire to get a certain product a certain arrgon oil. And and so I decided, I'm going to get you that argon oil by taking you to Morocco.. Is it a spoiler to say if you got We can't say anything. Okay. We can't say anything. What we can tell you. We're gonna tune in for that. wasnt like the Ark of the covenant. I mean, you could probably get this pretty. It's very readily available there. Apparently it's also readily available here Sam I got scams. as we were like in the market hunting down the Argon oil. S someone said, you know Yeah, ye, you can get this, you know, on Amazon and it will come from the same store that you found. But anyway, that ruins the magic of travel. So but we had well tell me what you thought, Son. Oh I had so much fun. I hadn't yeah, I used to travel Yeah and you'd do the travel shows I forgot how It's a lot of work. That's a lot of work. It is a lot of work. You guys seem a little tired. Are you tired? I woke up at two thirty this morning. I didn't get sleep because I was east for a while for other things. So I was on that time and then we went to to Morocco. Yeah. And so I haven't been on LA time in quite a while Yeah. So yeah, I've been waking up at like three in the morning and like cleaning out cupboards. Yeah. like I'll do when I wake up, black outside and I know I'm up. I just start doing tasks that I would never do otherwise. Yeah. Like I'll build a urinal, you know First I'll fire the porcelain. I mean, I'll do all these crazy things because I think you have that you're revving. You want to be useful, you want to get something done. So yeah, I've been actually mostly what I've been doing is organizing things that I haven't organized in a long time I mean, just and my wife was away, so I was alone me, the dogs and the cats and they' just they hear me in the garage banging away. A I doing. Yeah, it's productive. I'm not productive. What did you do in clipse of shows I like?. And I just scroll on my phone bed. It's nice. It's called doom sccrolling. It's not doom because my algorithm's really fun. So it's your algorithm. My algorithm's a lot of just silly it's like, you know, silly humor. It's a lot of really funny stuff. I don't know how to describe it. And then every once in a while it's like takes me to a really dark kind of place on Instagram. and then L like what I don't know. There's just like, like what's dark for you I can't I don't know. sometometimes I'm just like, how did this end up here? I can't I can't think of I be really good example if you if you had an example. It would be good So good if I had an example likereat fights, that kind of thing. I get a lot of fights. Yeah I do get a lot of fights, a lot of brawls and fights and I love That's your love language. I love them. I know. and they make me they fire me up They get me really intense. Like I don't know if you guys get that same No, noope, just me. Okay. You like watching fights? I love it I revisit I sa clip recently this' been going around this clip's been going around which is sort of tangential to this, but this clip's been going around if they unveil this robot and the robot comes out. It's one of these really impressive, you know, latest model robots and it's coming out and it's doing all these cool moves and spinning and stuff like that And all these families are around watching it like applauding And then it spins around and it kicks this little kid really hard in the stomach. and the kid doubles over and then kind of collapses and I think the kid's okay. I hope the kid's okay. Is' real? Yeah, it's real, I think. I'm pretty sure it's real. And then the robot sort of stands up and then just starts to step back, retreat and I've thought Does that robot feel shame? Is it possible it feels shame?? And I was because I'm a human, I was reading in, oh, that robot just must feel so much shame right now. And then I realized it doesn't no it doesn't. There' way the robots like that. That's darker than in the street fights. I know. but we don't feel shame. Robot kicks boy in the stomach. came up Yeah. I don't real see this. Yeah, yeah, no, it's not the kids okay And and I think the kid might have needed a kicking. I know. I don't want to bump people out, but I think it's okay. I know it's not it's not funny, right? Is thisu? Yes. Look to the here's the guy He's like, ha, ha Boy Oh! Yeah. Oh no, that's awful. Okay, and look at the robotss like, Oh no must destroy it to save oneself. Yeah. Oh my go. So anyway, Oh my Godd. now is standing out a little too far. What's that? That kid the kid for it. Yeah, he asked for. Well, you said he had it comeing, you're victim blaming. Yeah. guys algorithmms is turning you guys into monsters I um Yeah, I said go robot. That was my comment that I wrote in. No, you shouldn't be standing. Do you remember when we were, I don't know if we should mention this. when we were in Armenia? And there was a guy doing donoughuts? Yes. And there was a perimeter of people let me p the We're in Yervan. Yeah capital of Armenia. We're there for five minutes when we hear all this noise and excitement and we go to this big square where all these people are packed around watching And there's a guy in the middle who's accelerating really fast in a car doing donuts and everyone's just, it doesn't seem like an official performance. I think a guy was just doing donoughuts and everyone came to watch the guy do donuts because it's one o'clock and it's time for donuts. And everyone's, but there's no barrier between the people and the car and the guy doesnn't really he's not a professional is know he's doing And then at one point he swings around and I think he hit a bunch of people. He hit people. I think they were car. I think they were okay. Yeah. And I don't think people, you know, here everyone would be like, okay, get everyone's number and everyone's going to sue everyone. There' They're just like,, that's what happens. Sake it off. We're good. get back around the perimeter. Yeah get back to donoughuts. It was crazy. Yeah. it didn't make the show that we were shooting It was Oh no. No. you didn't open it with that. We are opening with the robot kicking the Chinese boy. I'm going to put the top of the show. Well what was your reaction to that? I mean, I don't know, first of all, I saw that thing it got sent to me Instagram thought Kon is going to love a Chinese robot kicking a kid in the stomach, which I don't endorse. But now that you've probably watched it more than once, it's going to think that's what you want is robots kicking kids. Yeah. I can I guess I'll just have to I made my bed and I have to lie in it It great if all my feet was robots attacking children. should be watching hour' on Now I' said it out loud, It probably will be. All right then Oh, Righty then, rememember that when that was a big thing? Oh Righty then. And Ient her at cool. I'm just trying That thirty years ago? It was over seventy years ago. Yeah. I just looked at it. Okay. My guess do it. Oh let's get into it. Okay, but you sometimes you should do it. You're not crispenting a sentence. you dribble. Okay, yeah. You should Anyway, so that's a head intro and go. Well, anyway, right Sona. Yeah. I got that one. Right, Sona. I guess today is. Any any have a thought like when we might want to end this podcast I think it's coming up real soon.tely It's coming up real soon because it's going to be taken away if we don't end it ourselves. If we can't use this responsibly Yeah. they're going to take it exactly. And intro Thanks, Sona. My guest today is a Tony Emmy and Grammy nominated singer songwriter His new album cinematic is a tribute to the silver screen and it's out now. I am so happy he's here today. He's a funny, lovely fellow Josh Robin. Welcome Josh, I am so thrilled you're here. Jony. We have had a connection over the years because as a veryery young man, you came on my late night show I did. And I thought this kid is very talented but also really funny. Oh man. And you were sweet And I thought donon't think he's gonna to make it. But wouldn't it be nice if he did? And I think I remember I said that to you. It's what you led with. Yeah.. So next guest probably won't make it. You really like to keep me on on edge. Yeah. I was nervous already. You that really threw me. You've had this brilliant career and you remain a really nice person and a really funny person, which leads me to my nextext topic of discussion whichich is not long ago, I was tasked with hosting the Oscars. And I remember we had this idea There needed to be someone who could sing this, you know, sing my tribute And immediately, I think two of us at the same time said, wouldn't it be great if Josh Gobin would do it? And I remembered having a thought, o my God, Josh Grobin, if he doesn't do it, I don't know that we can do this piece because that's the best person to do it. And I know that Whoever, if you weren't available because we knew that you were touring who second choice? Okay. This is not going to make you happy, but it was comedian Paton Oswald. Yeah Yeah. No, apparently, he's said a terrible voice. I'm imagining him in the night gar right now. I know that there was that's just it. There was no second choice. There was no second choice And I know that if we'd found someone, I'd have been mad the whole time that it wasn't you and probably tank the piece. So We reached out to you, we found out that you might be amenable. We should have a conversation. And next you know, I'm on a zoom with you and you're in Tokyo. I was in Tokyo. Yeah. There is no cooler experience in being in Tokyo first of all to begin with and then having a zoom with you about doing this bit Nothing will top this. Well, here's the weird thing too. I thought I remememberered we got on the Zoom and I said, you must be on tour and Josh said, no, they have the best sex toys here. That's right. Yeah. And this is where I like to shop for my sex toys. And then for twenty minutes Yeah, you were showing me these I had a bag I had two Trader Joe's bags full Yeah My God. suction cups and tassels. No, no, no, let me continue. No it was it was really it like tourism for me Yeah yeah. The thing is no one builds shit like the Japanese. True. But you kept turning them on and they're like ling a lot of robotics. Yeah. A lot of robotics. Yeah. And one of them had a song similar to the one you wanted me to sing. It was So I kind of said like, you know, like this. But anyway, we had this so the next thing you know rehearsing, you're you killed it. We do it at the Oscars. You were great. And then here's a weird thing about show business. killed it And people really liked the piece and people were so happy that suddenly you're there. I love anyone who's legitimizing a completely illegitimate piece of comedy. So the fact that you were part of it with your amazing voice, but you're singing these incredibly stupid lyrics about how' the greatest ever and Over From my perspective, I'm on top of a mountain holding ono a fake falcon and being pulled off the stage and I wave to you and you kind of wave back and you go left and I go right and then I'm into the show and I never see you again. I know. And it's weird because I know that if I had been watching that, I'd think, oh, cool. now Conan and Josh Grubin get to hang out backstage and trade old Wsege goo to a lounge. No, I don't see you anymore. Yeah. So much of TV is bits over and then you're off to elgium to do a concert and, you know, I'm off, I don't know where I go, but to sleep for a week. I did didn't I knew though going into it that I mean, if I could see you even for a second, that would be great because your responsibilities on a night like that leadading up to it and then on the night And you make it look easy. I mean, it really was I was happy that this was scheduled on the calendar so we could catch up Yes, you know, This is the only reason I'm having you. The only reason and first of all, this will never, no one will ever hear this. There's no tape in the machine said the idiot who fundamentally didn't understand how things work But it is really nice to get to talk to you and I U I was after the wave afterfter the wave Yeah And I was listening to the album you did, Cinematic and it's all these different amazing moovie songs, songs from great movies. And I was listening to you sing the Godfather theme and it has lyrics In Sicilian. That's right And I didn't realize that the Godfather had Lyrics, the Godfather theme. mee neither And I was like, this is amazing. And I translated the lyrics. I used I Translate And it's just going over the plot of the Godfather. That's right. It was before the Godfather, it came out. No, no, it came out at the same time as the Goddfather. no, but the lyrics are not imaginable. It sounds like such a beautiful song, but all the lyrics are, You shouldn't let your wife in Italy start the car. She will blow up and her body will go real far. Never sit with your back to a window 's. Let me enjoy the clams. Enjoy the clams. Yeah. Incredible just really, really getting into the nitty grid. Really it is. It's going to be a sequel and you'll see it's pretty good. Watch number one and two, but three, maybe well, it's understood. Trees a mistake. trees a mistake. Yeah, I go up for that one. Yeah But I was listening to it and u just uh Unchained melody. Oh yeah.'s I mean, there's a bunch of songs there and also your skyfall. Oh, thanks. is fantastic. Thank you. So I was listening to all these And I was thinking, first of all, the musicians you have behind you, it's insane N ninety p pieces, ninety players in London at Air stududios, and singing in the room with them is like nothing else. There's so much about my job that is just isolated. You're in a hotel room, you're in a dressing room, you're front of a microphone. To be in the room with them playing is like walking on a cloud. because you know if you mess up, they have to start again. If they mess up, you start again And it's just it's an incredible experience to sing these melodies with them. And the Sicilian came because I I rehearsed it inal There's an English language version, an Italian language and a Sicilian version. And you were fluent in Italian? No, I learned these languages as a singer because I grew up learning these art songs. and I would sing in French and Italian and Spanish I don't speak the language fluently but I learn them as I', of course, when I'm singing them But I sent in a demo of the Italian version to Cpola and the team. He would being honored for the AFI lifetime achievement do it for that. Yeah. And I sent in a demo and I was really nervous and I worked like for two weeks on it. and then they sent me back a note saying like, oh, no, no, mr. Coppola would like it in Sicilian And so that is when I realized that there was such a thing. There was and u Yeah, you learned something new every day. It was beautiful though. Did ever you think ever for a second, you know, having your agent call and go, yeah, that's not happening. Copa. Do you know what I mean? Because I send that response back all the time, but it's about much smaller things. Okay. Yeah, C Conan be there for the kids' birthday party at three? And I'll say, no, I can be there at three hundred fifteen But I want my two hundred dollars up front just to throw your weight around. Yeah. Just yeah. Oh, you want Sicilian, and now you get gibberish. That's what you get. 'ause what's really the j? Yeah. Yeahah, what are you gonna say No? Well, I'm sorry. Conan. I say all foreign languages are just gibberish. Oh no. No.. I'm sorry I thought everyone spoke American. Oh God Ccelcel canceling. Are we recording this No, we' we're good. I'm pretty sure America was the first language. Oh boy. said the idiot. And then everyone lost their way. Oh goodness. So I want to talk about your origin story because it really fascinates me. When you're a kid, you obviously you're like singing in your room. I think you're aware that you have this thing you can do, but you probably don't know what it's value is or its merit Yeah. And then you're thirteen years old and you're in a choir. Yes. and do I just write the choir teachher like, you in the back. exactly right. Why't you come forward? I want to hear you a little better? Well Well what he did was which all great teachers do is he recognized there was a student in his choir who really needed the push I was not I mean, I'm a ham on stage, but I'm like the most introvert on stage. And when I was a kid, I was really introverted had a really hard time making friends My grades weren't great. I did AD and didn't even know about it. So like I was a little bit lost and And I was in the back of the class and I was in the back of the choir And I loved being part of it, but He heard a that there was a little bit of a talent there. I was, by the way, thirteen years old, my voice still hadn't changed. So there was a talent there, but was it was very high. Yeah. So it was a real gamble for him to say, I'm going to put this kid in the front and I'm going to give him a song. And he gave me this song Swonderful, George Gershan song's wonderful It's wonderful. and I sang it with all my mightight because it was an assignment. He knew that if he didn't give it to me as a class thing, that I would never do it for myself. right So in pushing me to the front, he gifted me with a moment that changed, even if I hadn't gone into it professionally, a moment that changed my my growth forever You know, the kids like the next day were like, W, man, that was even the bully was like, bro Yeah I'm gonna still beat you, sent. I' I'm gonna beat you beforehand to compliment you on your incredible range. Voice of an angel. Now get in that locker. Yeah. Could you do it? Wow. C you do it yourself? I like this bully who just phones it in. Get in that locker. Well that's basy. You pull your own underwear up so that it rides into your crack? Thanks a lot What are you doing? I'm on Amazon. I they had to do it in person back then Yeah it's also anonymous online. you know. I didn't like it, but I respected it. B today's Zoom people. Oh they just fllow. Oh yeah, what's up? Thanks for taking Yeah. Can you stick your face in the urinal? Yeah. Yes, sir Getting a good deal is kind of a big deal Would you agree, Sona? Such a big deal. Yeah. So get this, Prime Day is coming june twenty third through the twenty sixth with all the best deals you've been waiting for. Prime Day delivers more than great prices, It delivers the big deal feeling. Upgrade that old mattress. Sona, your mattress I've here is just is terrible. Get a new one. It's vintage. It's not good. 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If you wait until something breaks, you're already behind Count on Granger for quality products, easy reordering and twenty four seven support. Call one eight hundred Granger, click Granger. com or just stop by. Granger for the ones who get it done I love stories where people figure it out. and I'm also picturing the teacher Okay, let's Music teacher, okay. Yeah, you next. What is it? Jay Groobin, J Josh. All right, let's hear it You know. theirir glasses shatter. What is this damn name anyway? Yeah. It was Okay, Pavorati Let's hear this guy. I gotta get to lunch. His name is actually, his name is Richard Barret and I invite him to every concert that I do because still make him pay. I still That's a trick I like to do. A, my old comedy teacher, it's seven hundred dollars hundred for that seat. I'd like to offer you the opportunity to buy tickets to my new show Uh No, he's he was he was not that guy. He was super, you know, excited to teach and still teaches. And you know, not only did he pull me off from back from the back, but he knew that I likeked to play piano. He knew that I was kind of gravitating towards the drum set in the back. So he's like I'm going to leave the music room open. So just whenever you need to go in have an escape. get in there and You know, having access to all that just changed absolutely everything for me. Do you have perfect pitch? Can you identify a note? Not, I don't have perfect. I can play by ear. If I listen to something, I can sit down at the piano and figure it out. I actually can't read music. Everything that I've learned how to play, No, it's true. That's the only reason you're here. What the hell? I hadem. Our lesson's gonna be really disappointing. That I push the button and you're ejected out of the Larchmont office. Do you land in a parked car. I parachute down in front of Noah's Bagels. Oh man Well, the good news is I can get a great lock in. you land fracturing your pelvis, but immediately order a Smear on a poppy seat. try I said Smear so you come out with pickles Conan, huh? Yeah. You probably found out you couldn't read music. I was some Ter when I found out he couldn't read music and I ejected him. Oh man. Soah So so you start singing and then You have this moment, another pivotal moment is you're seventeen Someone introduces you to David Foster, famous producer, aranger And he asks you do this thing at the Grammyys, It's like, you were a kid. It was so close together, like that the shy thirteen year old whose voice was on the brink of changing was thirteen. And then the call came in when I was sixteen.. So the time period between absolutely having no clue, wearing this coat that was so big on me, and getting this call to be part of something that was It was was was something a big a big thing at the Grammy. David had heard me sing at a charity event that he asked me to do plucked out of high school. I sang a song from Fhantom of the Opera. It was like the biggest day in my life, But I went back to class. I didn't think anything else would come from it So when he called me and he said I'm at the Grammyys I've written songs called The Prayer It's for Celenine Deian and Andrea Bocelli. And Bocelli is stuck on a tarmac in Germany. He can't be here in time for the rehearsals. Would you step in and would you sing this foreline with Celine until he shows up Do Do you mind. That's just insane. And I being an idiot, I mean, really, sixteen years old, I did not have stars in my eyes to be a solo artist. I was like I wanted to go to theater camp. I wanted to be I wanted to worship the throne of Sondheim and I wanted to like, that's what I wanted to do. So the idea of like the music business, being a singer with those kinds of people only thinking, can I do this well or not? And even though I was the hugest fan of Celinee, I said to him, I don't think I'm the right person for this gig. I was so insecure Andrea Beoceelli is like one of the great tenors of all time. And I was very much like living in my baritone world. I was not singing those very high notes. So I said, I think you can do better. I said, than you so much for asking me. I'm really honored, but I think you can do better. And my mom yelled at me from downstairs. O, of course, it's still living at home. and she said Who was that? And I said, Oh that was David Foster. Oh, oh, what did he want? Well, it's this Gammy rehearsal as it happens and Celine Dion is there and Bocelli isn't he casted me. to come and sing. And well what did you say? I said well, obviously, I said, I'm probably not the right person for the job. and they kind of went, Oh, all right, well, all right then. And I could tell they were disappointed. David Foster called me back and he said I don't think you understood me. Get your ass to the Srineatorium through it. Nobody had turned him down before. So he said, getet over here. He barely gave me a pass. My dad shows up with me at the side door. Security's like, Wh are you? I said, I'm here to sing with Celine Dion. Yeah. Hi, I'm seventeen. Yeah I'm. is my dad. Yeah. And ye. We're here for Celine Don Which way to the microphone And you know, and like security guard had to like walkie talkie, An guy with a walkie talkie who, you know, and so on and so for against finally, Ken Erlk who produced the Grammys came out. and grabbed me and You know, it was just, I was so new to it that it was such another world. I didn't really permeate important that moment was to be for me.. I justed to do a good job. I didn't want to embarr myself. Selinee course came out, and then I realized how real it was. But the thing about Celene in that moment was She knew that David Foster was doing a thing This wasn't just a job. She knew because she'd been there at my age, that David was actually providing a door and an opportunity to prove myself. And that it was a lesson and that was a this was a moment. this was not just a rehearsal. And so she kind of like clocked it and she's like, oh, oh, got it. Josh, so nice to meet you, kiss, kiss You could see I was nervous and she made her sound check about making me comfortable. She gbb my hand. She's like, we're going to do this. and when you look at me and you have the Italian, then I'll sing the English. We' got this. justust look at the prompter and look at the, you know, she was like, Pep talking me out there. And I know now that I've done a lot of sound checks for TV shows, I know how precious those, I mean, you know from just doing get much like I'm sure S little time allowances for Celine Dion in that. But I noticed that, you know, it's quick Yeah, if you're doing the Oscars the and it's only appropriate like Barbara Streiss and all the rehearsal time she needs And then I'll say, I've got a thing where I I catch a fake giant bird on a mountain with Josh Grob and they're like,' got eight seconds. Yeah, that's lunch. Yeah That's lunch. You have eight seconds to get it right and then get out of here. Who are you? a host, G it Yeah. Yeah. It's quick. And so now that I know like that and that was a big song that she was about to sing reallyally hard. and that was a big moment It was nominated for a Grammy and Oscar So the fact that she took her precious time when many superstars of that time would have looked at me as like stand in singer All right, do the best you can. Let's get through it. You know, I might not have decided that this business was for me had she been me even though you were for rehearsal only. right? Yeah. And so Kenrick said to me after I rehearsed, you know, we're still looking to see if Bocelli can make his flight. So go buy a suit in this lunch break, go buy a suit on there I mean, this is this feels so old timey like this feels so like the old but now You can tikTok yourself and get yourself on, you know, you can find an audience. R. But that idea of like, you know, the kid, the kid did okay. Go down to men's warehouse. There's one down the street and you know, I've got a taillor. Here's his name and you know, it's it was like like get a suit. I looked at my dad. I said, I'm not like, I'm not I can't do this on camera. Like this is not, I'm not ready for this Thankfully Boachlli showed up. I got to meet him. He wound up doing the song and I got to have a really good story. get to tell Bachlli? you were okay. I thought I nailed it. was She's a notoriously bad singer. Yeah. No, I just I was so grateful that he was gonna finally go out there and nail it. My dad did have a camcorder video of it You know, now of course, you know that filming a sound check for something like the Grammys of the Oscars is just absolutely, no, no And and Celinee saw that he was filming and the security said, you can't do that. And she said, No, no, let him let him film now. So that was, you know it just was She was the absolute best that day. And you know, but then ten years later, I got to sing that song on the Grammyyss with Bach Sheellie. So we had like a kind of a full circle and I've sung it with Celene a few times since then. So it was just, it's wild how those things Do you remember your sixteen year old get a suit moment? Well, mine came later. mine came when I was forty eight. Still involved a suit. Now, I do remember, I mean, the story I have that kind of lines up a little bit with that was obviously I had these other all these other adventures beforehand, but when I you know, living out here in LA and getting a chance to audition to possibly be considered to be a late night host replacing David Letterman, which seemed insane, but I they said show up in Burbank at this time. didn't have anything to wear. so Lisa Cudrero, who's, you know, my my best friend at the time. she said, Hey, let's I'll take care of this and she took me to Fred Siegel. out the worst coat And I'm sorry, Lisa, and we've talked about this before, but I'm a very pale person. I know now that I need to wear blue. She was like, Oh, this looks good and it was This linen floppy jacket that was very like almost pure white, maybe a little off white. And so I put it in the back of my turus and some transmission fluid that was got on it and stained it. So I like turned the and I walk out and I mean, people have I think looked up, you can look up the footage of me auditioning. I'm like, Hey everybody And I've got L flloppy hair and then you know I look like I'm trying to pretend to be Don Johnson in Miami Vice after he the stain on the. I don't think you could, but And so you don't just have one moment like that. You have, in my case anyway, many of them and they continue. Yeah, you know, And you know, they say luck as preparation meets opportunity and you know Th these moments, these points of light continue. It wasn't just that moment. It's like it's I can think of that was a that was a tent poole a moment that I didn't know then, but the domino effect happened after that. Now most people, I'm not most people I'll say many, many people in your situation That's where the self medication starts. That's where alcohol drugs, peopleeople get into that kind of behavior for a reason Because they feel like a lobster that's been shelled but is alive, you know, and everything's too literally too raw. You didn't have that. Right. Well, that's where my sex tourism to Japan started. I will say that was a somewhat Yeah lessess dangerous way to Okay. This is why I'm happy quote If anyone missed the top Y. That quote context is very well, that's just bad news for you and your team. Yeah in England, that would be the headline of of the Gardiian. Daily Mirror. Daily Mirror. yeah. Wait a minute. No, but but I was U you know, I battled all I battled all the stuff. I had anxiety, I had depression. I had you know, and, you know, I had I had certain medication medications you knew that you couldn't drink because your voice So the pressure of needing to sound really good out there. Yeah, I think kept me from getting into dangerous territory because ultimately The feeling of not doing great out there is worse than how good any of that stuff might feel in the interim. How can I just say heroin would not have affected your voice? No no no Does it affect your voice? it not this is something we should explore? Yeah, no, no You No you should not advocate for heroin. Is that what you're doing? Well, I'm just saying Okay. I'm a little shocked that that wasn't proposed to you by your team. Just to take the edge off. My team out of the sacks over there is constantly saying you know I don't think their comedy timing would be heard Yeah by some of these like a fentanyl or something. and I'm like, That's how you adam There's not a day that goes by Fuck! Why Oh, he's not going on mic now. The mic is staying so far away from me He's got He just took the mic and buried a ho dug a hole and buried it Now I'm very glad you didn' get any of those drugs, which by the way, I think are very bad. Oh good.. Yeah, you did My genre of music though. My genre of music though was not like, I did not have that crew around meike was What about your roies? Yeah it's like Hey man. Yeah. You gotta bump ofind. man. Hey man, your ave Maria was really killing but You seem a little tense. I was with Fan Halen But now, Grobin, this is what I think you should do. Yeah ye. Musical theatater' fine, but heroin's better. You know, It's like an episode of like, remember cop rock? Sure. cop rock. Everything I relate back to cop rock, everythingthing's a musical. I imagine like like a guy in a trenchcoat going. You saying the high note but here' some met. Yeah. I did not have that singing guy in the trench coat like after my classical scales saying like, you know, it's surising to me that I'm glad you brought this up because I have I have gone no, we're going to get off the drugs, but more specifically into into musical theater because and musicals that I've always to this day, I can never reconcile. I couldn't as a kid and I can't now as an old man. I can't reconcile the, what do you think we ought to do? I don't know. It's kind of tricky. But maybe we should what the hell happened? What is you say Itakes you out of it. Yeah.ah. and I'm always I would love to be in a musical where someone does that and other people are, you know, what are you doing? Yeah ret or scratch. Yeah Exactly. Yeah. But there's two camps of people. There's those that just think it's absolutely ridiculous and don't get it at all. You perhaps shallamy. And I's not putting you both in the same you know you know, I too and with a I'm with one of the Kardashians as well. Why is that clown singing in a high? know Ridiculous.. And then those that are totally swept. I was one of those kids that was totally swept just totally swept away by it. And the combination of music and story and that you could break into a song and that the singing of that song would somehow tap into some deeper way of expressing the story. Yeah. I just I suspended that disbelief. I do make an exception for the I'm obsessed with the Music Man and I'm obsessed with the You got Trouble song. And I feel like I was put on this earth to do that And someeday in my life, I need to do it because I you know, and I wrote a Simpsons episode about it and' something that I just And then later was asked because I know you've worked with the Hollywood men's gay choir. Yes, that's right Gayan's course of Los Angeles.. Gam's course. And What did I say? Butard Hollywood gay Hollywood Foreign choir you. I think they believe me, I've worked with them and their name is the gay Hollywood. That's right. choir that men frequit That's what it's called Frequent. And guys, hello. got I got to work with them You can speak directly to them you go look it right in the camera, Hollywood. Heo. it's me. David, I'm an alline. I'm so out of control. Un stopable. What do I say to you every day? He calls me once. He'll always just text me ally and once I was in the car with my boyfriend and he called me because he knew we were in the car and I answered and he just screams, Ally. Be then I can say later on, I went on record I'm just I need to be stopped. I'm an ass. but They I perform the troubles not the trouble song, the Monorail song, which was my version of it at the Hollywood Bowl for this Simpsons anniversary, which was classic. One of my all time favorite moments in show business. And they were absolutely fantastic and really funny. So I've always thought, oh my God, okay, I need to figure out a way where I get airlifted into a version of Music Man. and I just get to do that song and then I'm airlifted out I mean, I don't know, after the beef you clearly have with musicals, I don't know if that's gonna happen. Do This is seeing myself also from Chalamet. My beef is always just ballet. Yeah. I'm down with musicals. I do love musicals. I just notot a beef. it's just that I could never make the logical lead But the music manan is where the line is okay. Yeah. I love that like that's the one where you're like, but that guy, you know what his little traveling salesman box when he breaks into song I believe it. You know why? Why? Because it's that Rex Harrison thing if he's kind of talk singing. okay. You know, Now listen, my friend know, it's all that kind of thing That makes more sense to me because I often start talking to people in that musical rhythm and yelling at them I mean, I do. You could see why I would want to do a song where it's like Now gather around everyone and I'll tell you what you have to know. Right. Who you got try you know, ye that as opposed to I wish to have a mayonna sandwich it's not it's not trying to be real It you take a second and go Can, you have a beautiful vice.. I've given him every fucking opportunity I wish to have a man on his time. I mean, come on No, You know it's crazy? He's wiping blood from his eyes bllood that comes out of Josh's eyes when he hears music being butchered. That was has on the back of my neck antastic. What a beautiful Irishennry. Theirs on the of stunning. Notot your hair. It's just other hairs on the back of your neck. They go all the way down. I'm kidding. Stop it back there. All of you cackling. Um We should address I want to address the Timmy Chalamne thing for just a second because he was right there in the first row you were at thescars. and I think I do I think he's an amazing actor Yeah. and I actually have met him a bit. I know him I really don't know him that well, but I think he is a really good guy. I really do got piled on. It was became a head I'm going take a second and I have of course I was I thought that was Okay Maybe that wasn't a great thing to say, but You know it ultimately helped. Yeah. Ticket sales skyrocketed. I mean, like the thing I took from it is like, all right, people are going have their hot takes, their opinions as people should. And then you can disagree with it or not. But ultimately like if what he said meant that everybody went, yeah, stinks, whatever it is and then sales dropped, well then that would be one thing, but no everybody Ballet companies were saying use promo code shalamet. Yeah. Yeah If you want two for one tickets, everybody was, you know, sometimes you need a heel for everybody to go now wait a minute. Yeah. And every he actually he elevated it. peopleople then he had and then Misty Copeland came on show. Our bit was was written before He said those things. Yes, right. So, you know, people were asking me, did you do that? you were right in front of did you do that? And I said, no, we wanted to do. We came up with that before that whole thing, but anyway Just, you know, just a moment to say He's all right He' also and I think he's an incredible actor incredible act. incred very, very incredible and talented actor and And who amongst us hasn't said things? I mean, truly. didid this interview I think it' This interview aloneay. a lot of things. Can I just say, I want to double down on this. I believe when at the beginning of time everyone spoke American there we go. Oh my God. I think American is a language. Len What's wrong with fentanyl? Yeah And also use promo code Cin for your black tar heroine needs. Let me tell you Hey, so let's talk about this. You were always interested in comedy. That's always been an interest of yours. I know you're a talented mimic at some point because you are a renowned singer, you get this opportunity to be in the office voice on the Simpsons. You get to start playing in that on those little playing fields of comedy and you have a facility for it and you really enjoy it. And that must just been, I mean, you have fans who are comedy fans of I sing who don't know you sing. That's very true. Yeah. And if they're just tuning in right now, they think, oh, they have the comedian Josh Groan onond And then they're like, Oh wow. He sings. Yeah In fact, thank you for that opportunity on the Oscars to present my singing voice Yeah. It really. I thought you should finally be heard out. done wonders for my streaming. Yeah. ye. So I talked about those first years of my career where I just felt a shell of myself. partart of that was because I felt like a huge part of my brain was just going untapped. And you know in high school, I got to work with that choir teacher, but then I also got to start an improv troup I had a free period box theater and they and when everybody else was just having snacks and you know kids do rolling the dice and I don't know. Wow. You really I had no really I had no social life. You really had no childhood You know when you they were trading run down the street in your buck of shoes smoking clothes and you know, I don't know what they were doing. Yeah It like one of those rims that goes down the street. That's it. Yeah, was play I was playing hoop and stick all the way home. Hoop and stick. already had a butter churn. And And so they said, you got anything you want to do. We got an hour free period. And I asked my theater teacher. I said, canan we do improv? Can I do improv takaking some classes. this is actually a very funny side quest is that in the valley there's a theater called Cnection LA Connection Comedy Theater, That's it in the Valley. And I was one of the youngest people they had they had there taking classes there. They now have a very strange painting of me on their wall. If you drive down, I think it's Victory, one of the streets in Burbank, I think it's next to like there's a trophy shop on one side and a gunstore on the other. And then there's this improv building And it's got like me and Will Ferrell, who, I guess went there and Matthew Perry's facees on there. and but we all look like bizarre versions of ourselves. Any tribute painting to someone is by definition weird. There are faces are kind of bent and weird, you know, There are no paintings of me anywhere as a singer.. but for some reason, Ellie Connection was like, this guy, this improv master. we must have him on there Imrov was like an escape for me. So I started there. and then you know, for the vast majority of the beginning of my career, the label and everybody else was like, you have to be the guy who's on the billboard all the time. You cannot stray from the brand of singing these serious songs and being the seriious guy on the pedestal because people are getting an emotion from the songs and you don't want to ruin that. Honestly, it started with Kimel He gave me u he he said, you know 'a I wasn't getting couch time. And you giving me couch time like being allowed to talk and show my personality was not something as a singer you normally get to do.. Kimmel said, we've got a panda that is not mating right now. I think it's lingling the panda. Would you do a skit where you sing a ballad trying to make the pandas horny? Right. And I was like, here we go And away we go. And so that was the first it work That Yes. There's a little little Josh the panda. It's it's no there was I think I think that worked. I don't know, but he then he had me back to seeing Konany Uest tweets. Right. And then he had me back to seeing Trump's tweets back and we could laugh. And those were good timees. And so just I think and then friends that I knew that did these shows said we've got a funny little or we want you to play yourself in a bizarre way. And I just always said yes. I said yes to all of them because for me it was my way of just kind of exercising some of that stuff that I felt I wasn't able to be myself. It's freeing, it's fun. That's you have this just fascinates me, but let's say you're singing something like, you know, unchained melody or some song that where you have to hit these heights and you know those notes are coming. Do you ever get in your head about that or you just at this point know, oh, I know exactly what to do there which I'm sure you do. but when you have to take it up several octaves. Yeah you might be training for a long time. You might technically know that the notes are in your range. Yeah. But it's it's takes a lot of ice mentally to get yourself to a place where you just decide to say, and it's not because you don't care, but there has to be a certain amount of fuck at Because Yeah because if you care that much Oftentimes the mind and the voice are connected. you're gonna to get tense. And then the more you say, God, I hope it comes out. The sick thing about it is the more you're going regret how it came out. I don't know if you're aware of this, but you sometimes say fuck it out loud. Oh did I said No, no, no, no, what I'm saying is, I watched you do the National Anthem once and when it came to Rockets Red gllare And this was in front of a shoot stadium filled with children. Fuck it Ham fuck's read. And it's like don't do that. When you're timing the jets, sometimes you have to vamp. It's just I tried to stretch. you know, you see the camera guys going, you know doing this and it's fuck it. All right I think you should start when you're gonna hit a really great impressive note saying, watch this Just before you do it. just You break out of the sun and go watch this You know. there was a singer, I won't name him, but there was a singer kind of There was a tenor that I used to see that was kind of coming up around the same time. And he used to do something before he'd did high notes where like he'd be about to sing the highigh note. and he'd go Yeah. and I just would go get this. Here we watchatch this I like I don't I don't like that at all. Yeah just ye. Yeah, check me out. If I did that if I want definitely wouldn't come out. like that's a sure fire way to jink high. I would completely go this other guy's way. Yes he would. I would go the other way and glorify My favorite thing is to say check this out and then fail. I think it's the funniest, The funniest thing in the world to me is watch this and then wipe out. and then completely wipe out. I think that's very funny. Yeah, you don't start your oscar monologue with check this out. Yeah right, Here we go. All right, What is Hey, you ready to laugh? Watch this. Oh. Yeah, didid you see that that movie is so and so? Yeah, so and so, you know, boy, that would be all. That's a good joke,. have I did have one performance where I was kind of sick. I was with David Foster. By the way, I should preface by saying he's been the most supportive and he's been a great mentor, but there was one I think he knew that I should just buckle up and sing the note. And I was being kind of a baby about it. I had a cold and I said to David, this song, please we just make sure I don't canan I just not sing the note tonight? Can I sing around it? Yeah, yeah, no problem, no problem. We get out there, gets up to the note. He's got a mic at the piano, right? And he goes, Here comes the money note. right. And that was a lesson learned. That was like And by the way, because I was so surprised that he said it out sureure. And it was like, you know, tough love. Yeah. why? Yeah. A lot of Flem got spit out in that moment Tang Okay, there's another question. So I'm driving around listening to cinematic and you know, the breakfast at Tiffany's theme Rriver Moon Rver what you do with your dad? Yeah And then it devolves into bickering at one point. It does. you apparently left the milk out and it was overnight. Those dishes will never get done. River. There's no duet with me and my dad The fuck it in that one is very ft. It comes after the jazzy key change. a little off Mike. How cool to get to do that with your dad? amazing. One of one experience. Yeah. great great musical arranger, Vince Mendoza gave us that beautiful arrangement. and there was always a moment in the song for an instrumental And I had great players that I kind of reached out to get feelers. I talked to Winton Marallace and Tererennce Blanche and my heroes to say, Hey, I'm doing this song. wouldould you be interested? And they both said seend me in. And then I said to myself, you know, my favorite trumpet player is also my favorite person. and my dad is turning eighty this summer. He hasn't played the trumpet anyway in any way professionally since the sixties. right And I asked him. I said, if I I know you played Moon River as a kid If I got you to rehearse, you had two weeks notice. Do you think you could get the lip? and could you think you could do it? And he says, Well, let me see. And he unzipped his trumpet, you know, case It had Dizzy Gillespie for president on it and it hadn' was dusty, hadn't been open since like the seventies. And you know, every time I'd call the house I'd say, Mom, how's doing? I'd be you know, in the background, like he's rehearsing. And I said, How's it going, Dadd? He's good, goodood. You know, I actually think I might be able to do this. Greg Wells, producer set it up I said, Look this is going to be my dad. I want this to be special and we need to have some patience. He hasn't played in a while. So Greg's credit, he said, we got to do this at Sunset Sound, which was Louis Armstrong's favorite studio in L.A. And then he called and they said, you know, we actually still have Louis's stool. So if you want, we could set out the stool for your dad to sit on, and we got the old mics he used to record into going This is just turning into not just a song, but like a core memory family moment.. My whole family showed up and my brother and my sister in law, my two year old nephew, who's walking around and you know, I got pictures of my dad playing the trumpet for him and it was just, you know And he crushed it. He totally crushed it. So I got my musicality from him. He went into business. His mom said, that's no way to make a living. And to have a song that is a tribute and a thank you for what he put in my DNA is just it's the best. it's the best thing I've ever m. My My father in law is an incredibly talented musician and, you know, great, you know, you can play jazz guitar and You know, that kind of Dixieand style and He's just, I mean, he can play like Django Reinhard stuff. Oh great. And and he's really terrific and he would always sit in with other bands and stuff. at our wedding. And but he's someone who that's what was his is real love, but he thought, well, You know, I'm married, I'm getting married and I'm going to have kids and I must be responsible. So he, you know, worked in insurance. And there's so many people who are great artists. I think we live in a culture now of This is my dream and I must do it. and there's so many people who make decisions that this is what I want. I want a stable Inome from my family and they do that. so people like your like your dad. And he could really waail. We have one recording of a live performance he had in the sixties and he was, I mean, truly phenomenal. And you know, he became an executive recruiter. You know, he's a head hunter. You know, He goes out and finds jobs for people and he's brilliant at it. and he's got luckily, I don't have that side of the brain. If I wasn't doing this I'd be lost, but he has also the business he he can focus like really focus and he can do that and he's great at it. But for him to watch me do it for a living, my brother's a director to kind of watch our artistic endeavors blossom has, I think been re also and you're able to do that because well, yeah, he was responsible and what he had to do sit down c. That's exactly right, is that he went into to do what he did to make sure that we were able to say, hey, I liked going to the theater.an canan I join the theater camp? You know, I can I get you know, an instrument to play myself? And that is the greatest the greatest service he could have ever possibly done for us. Yeah. I think our final message here is don't pursue your dreams You know what I mean? Don't. Speak English. Yeah. Do heroin. I call it American. Oh, so sorry, speak American. D heroine. Deny your dreams, deny your dreams. Yeah. Yeah. I call old English original Americans eleven hundred AD English to me is like, yeah, that was American. And then they made it English. Yep, I'm a moron that just doesn't quit. Well latest album cinematic. It's really, it's amazing.. And also I mean, I was thinking, do do you ever just drive around and listen to yourself and enjoy it or is that impossible? Well there's so much of that happens when you're doing mixes. you got to make sure you you're listening with a critical lens because you just want to make sure that everything iss balanced right So I mean, yes, you accidentally get chills sometimes and you say, why I sounded good that really sounds great. you prick My That's true.'s true. Here comes the high know. Yeah. I'm going to rent you a convertible and we're going to get a bumped up sound system and you're going to listen to cinematic driving around LA and people are going to see you listening to yourself and pointing at yourself at stop lightights. I'm going to point at you Yeah say What a vice, say? Yeah Josh, this has been a real delight.ame here. met him. You were a teenager, I believe when I met you and you were Again Really sweet, really funny. and I thought And now here you are. and you're an incredibly, incredibly good guy and terrific artist. So glad to know you. And thanks again for your help. Listen, thank you for the opportunity. Thank you for being an inspiration for so many years. You make it look easy. I know how hard it is and you're just such a beacon of life for so many. So that's w this is the one. I'm going to stick the landing here W some take it. Take it Well, you heard it here. I'm a huge influence musically. You are. 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No, it's I mean, I recorded these. You recorded specifically for the toy or did they take the sound bits from the mvie? No, they had me do it for the toy. hear. And you know what I was like, I was like, you know what? That's you. That's me. So What's that? You did it here in this studio. Yeah, I did it Yeah It doesn't shut up It must be you. it won't shut up. Okay, that's. You know what I did? I decided You're like It look so weird, I'm being interrupted by myself. Finally, there's Karma. Oh my Godd. I can't get him to shut up. It's you. act dude. Are you done? Oh always motion activated. That's what the problem is. Yeah, it is. it is motion. Oh, it does say it on the box. Can you turn it upside down I'm just gonna to put it on the floor for a second can you yourself go on the floor too And can I And can I be boxed and put into storage by a collector? Yeah, they said, o, do you want to, you know, I guess they can use a different voice, but they said, do you want to do your voice for the toy? And I remember thinking, I'm never going be a toy again Yeah, I want to be a tour I want to be the voice of the tour A little extra they negotiate. I do not think so. No no. Well this is this is the opposite of a cash Yeah. this is not that. This is I mean and I don't I don't care because it's T be part of the toy story saga, was just a delight and to be in the same company of these amazingly creative people and these huge stars. So I was just super happy to do it. But yeah, so now it's a toy. I wonder when my youngest daughter gets potty trained to use that. U I think your wife will mix that. But what if you find out people are using it and children all over the world are getting constipated? An epic. There's an epidemic of constipation among children. We think we found the Yeah, kids just seize up When they hear my voice? I love that the time you're in a Pixar movie, it's when you're a roll of toilet paper. Well, that's how the toy looks, but I'm not a roll of toilet. I know, but that's what it's modeled after. You.'re a roll of toilet paper. to. Yeah. You look like a roll of toilet paper. You're lookingking at the wrong. Literally a roll of It actually is No no. my God, your eyes light up. Okaykay. You just talked over my toy, which is so you. My toy was trying to talk and you and typical Sona Sona toy. I didn't talk over that Let me see this thing? Oh look, now I like when you put it face down and he's just talking into the table. Alone again. Wow. B That's Smarty Pants when he's low on battery and he sounds drunk. Oh That's my method as an actor. Oh, that's good Um, that's now I have to be honest, as we record this I've not seen the movie yet. So I don't know what's going to happen. This could be the end of me. Really? What? you're joking? We just never know. No, you're joke. it's gonna be great. I do not want to be the guy that fucks up Toy Story five. Oh, you're so't. Maybe you'll get a spino off. What if I leave the podcast? to go double down on my smarty pants. What if I start touring and I'm in a smarty pantsc? go to conventions? I go to conventions and I have you one of those I just do this a lot and take pictures with people. Yeah. I think it's a good idea. Yeah. That'll work. Anyway, so that's it. I am the voice of a toilet training toy. This is exciting. Are you excited? No, this is a big deal for you, animation and Disney and all that, right?, I' One way or the other on