SPEAKER_06 0:06

Who is the nicest celebrity that you've ever met?

SPEAKER_05 0:10

Dave Coz. Yes. I would say, I mean, well, not only for just being a nice guy, but like also like showing up consistently for me and the people like who are in his life. Uh like I mean you were there. He married my wife and I. Like, what an act of service. You know what I mean? What a nice thing to do for somebody. He shows up, yeah. Yeah, it's huge. He really shows up, and I love him, and he's uh yeah, he's changed my life. He kind of made me a world traveler, you know, one of the first people to just go, like, let's go to Venice. Let's on this cruise. I want to invite like, yeah, he's he's he's one of the kindest, most loving people, and I never stop learning from him in the best, best way. Always what to do, not what not to do. Yeah. He's a perfect example for that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:03

Cool. The nicest, you know who I I think was the most approachable that made me feel the most comfortable. I think was you know, Derek Trux. Yeah. Yeah, Derek Trux was the most for me, it was like the least least amount of nervousness meeting him. I felt like it was just uh my friend, my brother's older friend, like coming over to hang or something. There was it wasn't like, oh my god, it's like John Mayer, it's it's Jania Twain. Or I've said her twice. I don't know why I don't really live in the country. But country music's great. I like the stapleton, just saying things. But um he he just had a very like cool, calm, you know, thing where I felt very like relaxed. Who's the nicest celebrity you've ever met?

SPEAKER_09 1:43

Um Dick Van Dyke. Whoa. Definitely up there.

SPEAKER_06 1:48

Oh my gosh, how'd you meet him?

SPEAKER_09 1:50

I met him on The Mass Singer. Were you a Mast Singer? I coached seven seasons of The Mass Singer and had out my win with Bishop Briggs, and a runner-up runner-up with Wilson Phillips, and a runner-up with Scott Porter, who was the gumball. He was fabulous.

SPEAKER_06 2:12

Are you on camera for that kind of stuff?

SPEAKER_09 2:13

Every once in a while, but no, this is all behind the scenes. You you know, just getting songs together, coaching them through their performances, coaching them through their costumes and the whole thing.

SPEAKER_06 2:23

And so is Dick Van Dyke one of the people?

SPEAKER_09 2:24

He was on there, yeah. And Amy Chapman was his coach, but I got to meet him.

SPEAKER_06 2:28

Oh, Amy Chapman.

SPEAKER_09 2:29

Amazing vocal coach. One of my no Tracy Chapman.

SPEAKER_06 2:33

Okay, all right. Uh close. Okay, wait, wait, so what did he sing? What was his what was his best song that he sang?

SPEAKER_09 2:39

He only sang one song. He did, I forget what he s- Oh, he sang. I forget what he sang. I don't remember. He sang, he sang one of his songs at the end, like a spoonful of sugar or something. Or super califragilistic.

SPEAKER_06 2:49

Oh wait, did he dance?

SPEAKER_09 2:51

Came out and like did a little jig.

SPEAKER_06 2:52

Cindy Lopper.

SPEAKER_11 2:53

Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, she's one.

SPEAKER_06 2:55

And so she she comes in and I mean she's fire.

SPEAKER_11 2:59

She's just uh we have a thing uh where she, you know, she's very New York, very loud, very matter-of-fact. Um, and that's why we love her. And she's actually someone that I whenever I see, I can run up to and give a hug too, because we we still we're still cool. It's incredible. I saw her not too long ago when we did the Kennedy Center honestly, shit, that was a few years ago. But again, like I saw her, she's like, Yes! I'm like, Yes! We get to hug each other, and um, yeah, she's a nice, so like motherly, but poof, she will fuck you up, it feels like, you know, if you you know, don't cross her. Yes, um, same um creatively sitting down with her and just doing that. I think Ricky was playing it upright and there was just a cellist, and it was her. And I think that maybe there was something else too, maybe a percussion, but she's driving, and um I'll never forget the ending. Uh Ricky was like, How do you want to end it? And she's like, just feel it out. And she starts going, going in, huh, huh, and just doing she started going crazy at the end, and and it was one of those moments where you just forget, you know, where you are when you're performing and you get lost, you black out, and it feels good, and you're just on this wave.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

TV all day. Wow, geez, okay. So he walked in, and it's like, you know, uh it's not even like uh he walked because he he was kind of wearing this long, like um kind of I guess like a moo moo or a I don't know what you call it. The tiki movie, yeah. Okay. Which kind of like hit the ground, you couldn't see his feet. So actually when he walked in, it looked like he was sort of like gliding in, you know. Which made it all the more fabulous like oh he's like it disappears, and it's just like and he sort of glides in and it's like, hello everybody. And I just um and they're all like tell you, tell you, you know, so they just knew how special it was cool because they knew how special I would um it would be for me. And uh such a really uh just a really sweet thing that they that they sort of kept it under wrap for me. And that's I looked up and I just lost it. Yeah, it hit me out of nowhere. I didn't expect to even feel that way, but uh it's just somebody who I grew up, you know, uh idolizing listening to. Right. To actually get to sit next to the piano with him.

SPEAKER_06 5:40

Oh, you're sitting next to him, sure.

SPEAKER_01 5:42

Or sitting next to him as he's playing the chords or knocks me off my feet, and I'm sitting in and then just to get showered with compliments from him and um and just sort of like not that I needed it, but uh just definitely like he definitely validated why I was there and why I was meant to be there. You know, and meet your meet your heroes, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:04

I think the nicest celebrity that I've met is probably Pink. Oh my god, you got to meet her? Yeah, I mean this was recently, this is just you mean during Idol? No, no, no.

SPEAKER_06 6:13

Uh Pink, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:15

That's amazing. She's an incredible, incredible.

SPEAKER_06 6:17

So did she know that you sang her song?

SPEAKER_02 6:19

Yes. Well, that's a crazy story of how we met, which is I mean, just well, just the pipeline of that situation. Um, my publisher has been writing with her for decades. And like best. They're they're very close. And um I sang glitter in the air, which he wrote, so he reached out. Yeah, like it was so cool. That's why I mean I love American. I it's just I do. Good. I love American people. So you know, I feel like it's interesting to hear you know, people's takes, but it was just such a door, like you know, it was such a crazy platform to have millions of people's attention. It's such like a once in a life time.

SPEAKER_06 7:06

People are afraid to to admit that they had a good time. Who who's the nicest celebrity you've ever met?

SPEAKER_10 7:13

Oh if you've ever met any. Gosh, my favorite celebrity in the whole wide world is Lady Gaga.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

Yes.

SPEAKER_10 7:25

But I got to meet her and I she was really nice. But you know when you meet your hero, it's not like what you think. It just wasn't what I thought. So hold on, let me think who was the nicest. Stevie Wonder was nice. Hold on, I'm trying to think who would I consider the nicest. I'm like, what level celebrity?

SPEAKER_06 7:54

What did Stevie Wonder say to you?

SPEAKER_10 7:57

I think God, like, Tom Jones was so nice, Tom Hanks was so nice, like wow. Priscilla Pressey's the best.

SPEAKER_06 8:04

Oh, I've I've yeah, she's she's nice. I've done a couple fundraisers for her. She's sweet. She's awesome. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 8:10

But I'm like thinking like high-level celebrities, and I'm like, Joe Coy's the best.

SPEAKER_06 8:15

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 8:17

Frank, um, probably, okay, I could say Will I am. Yeah, I could say Will I am because I got to spend a lot of time with him, like at his events and at his studio, and he's a really kind person, really intelligent and just warm and welcoming. Yeah, I feel really but I like I know there's a woman in there that I'm Who's the nicest celebrity you've ever met?

SPEAKER_06 8:45

I know we know.

SPEAKER_08 8:46

No, no. Um the nicest celebrity I've ever met. Um I have to say Fabio. The male supermodel Fabio agreed to be in my web series. Web series. Back when that was a thing. Pre-Instagram, pre-Tik tock, pre-everything. A web series that I had like literally raised like a couple thousand dollars from my friends and family to make about superheroes, and I wore a leotard in it. Like a custom leotard. Like custom, by the way, like I gave it to a lady and she sewed things on it. Like wow, and we put Fabio in a leotard, so he was also a superhero, and the the the joke of the thing was that we me and my other friend, who's also a superhero, arrived to the crime scene first, so we got dibs on the crime, but then Fabio is like, everyone wants me to be here more than you. I am very handsome, I look good in the pictures. Everyone loves Fabio, and nobody wants to hang out with uh these fat guys, you know, and it was so funny, and he killed it so hard, and he did it for free, and he lent us his Lamborghini for the day, and he lent us his house, and like also just because he liked the script and and and liked me, we got along really good, and then we started going out, him and I, and having dinners like once a month, once every two months. But he was like, he was just down to be there with me and play, and um he was he always asked about my mom, he's so kind. Um, and he's he's like every time I see him, he invites me to come and stay with him on his farm, which just sounds like an insane thing to do. Like, he's just a wonderful, wonderful friend.

SPEAKER_06 10:58

Who's the nicest celebrity you've ever met?

SPEAKER_12 11:00

Oh, the nicest? Uh Catherine Heigel was really nice to me on set. I was her body double for a while. And I met Owen Wilson at my friend's wedding. I was the wedding singer.

SPEAKER_06 11:16

Oh, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_12 11:16

And he came up to me and just and said, Wow, wow, wow, I really love your voice. And we actually ended up becoming friends. And um that's so cool. Yeah, super cool. You could be his sister. You guys have uh we're blondies, and we both have a bumpy nose. Oh I have a little bump, and so does he. Nice.

SPEAKER_06 11:39

Yeah, that's a that's a that's a nice nose. That's a nice nose, yes.

SPEAKER_12 11:43

Thank you. Thank you very much. I met John Ham on the episode of the morning show, and he did you ever you watch SNL stuff? Yeah, I love that. He did this skit called Ham and Bubbly with Michael Buble.

SPEAKER_06 11:57

Yes, I saw that one.

SPEAKER_12 11:59

And I watched that like 20, 30 times probably in my lifetime. So I wanted to tell him, and I was like, dude, ham and bubbly. He's like, yeah, and I'm like, yeah. And I had also met Michael Buble at the village studios when I was recording my EP. Whoa. I also told him, I'm like, Ham and Bubbly, bro.

SPEAKER_06 12:19

Wow, you got to meet the trifector or the the duo of you got to meet the ham and the bubbly and the bubbly.

SPEAKER_12 12:26

Wow, so that wow.

SPEAKER_14 12:29

Oh, this is crazy. Steve Buscemi. Whoa, I love him. That's amazing. I know, it's amazing. So tell me, yes. I was on tour with Engelbert Humperdinck. Do you know him?

SPEAKER_06 12:44

Yes, yeah. A couple of my friends are on with him right now. Oh, Art. I forget who. I just saw a picture. Yeah, that's so rare. Crazy.

SPEAKER_14 12:52

I was on tour with Engelbert Humperdink playing in his band, and we were playing in Long Island at this theater in the round, so it's like the theater was in the middle of it.

SPEAKER_00 13:00

I love that.

SPEAKER_14 13:01

And yeah, it was really cool. And um, it was, or I think it was Long Island, but it was like real deep Long Island. New York, like yeah, but like outside New York, like long island. It was like I felt like I was in the Sopranos, it was crazy, and like driving out, we stopped at this like white tablecloth Italian restaurant where like all the Jersey mob wives were drinking their wine at like noon and gossiping. It was amazing. It was amazing.

SPEAKER_06 13:26

And you heard it. Wow.

SPEAKER_14 13:27

Oh no, it was like iconic. But um anyway, so we played at this theater in the round, and Steve Buscemi's mother is a huge fan of Engelbert, and so he was there and he brought her to the show, and I met him in the hallway afterwards. Hello, Mr. Buscemi, you know. Oh, and then there was like a picture of somebody from The Sopranos on the wall behind him, and he was in the Sopranos. Wasn't he? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 13:53

Steve Buscemi? Yeah, I feel like he wouldn't be. Well, he was in the Sopranos in Space.

SPEAKER_14 13:58

Or I'm pretty sure he was. But he's also in Fargo. Uh yeah, he's in Fargo. He's for sure in the Sopranos. Anyway, okay. Uh, there was somebody on the wall behind him in the Soprano in the Sopranos, and I tried to like make a quip about like the guy on the wall, and like just completely fumbled, like just completely fumbled, but he was really nice anyway. He was like, Yeah, great, great to meet you. But yeah, so I was I was pretty nervous though. I'm gonna say Michael Jackson.

SPEAKER_13 14:24

You meant Michael Jackson? Well, my uncle was his costume designer for years. And when my uncle passed away, um, I was trying to navigate things the best that I could, but it was very overwhelming. And I was like 27 or 28 at the time, so I was pretty young. And I got a call. And you know how now it'll say like unrecognized number or whatever. This just said call, which I thought was very unusual. And I picked up and this lady said, Hello, I'm an operator, a telephone operator, please hold the line for Mr. Jackson. And I was like, Get the hell off my phone. And I hung up. And I was driving, by the way, when this happened. So she called another time. She was like, Hello, we got disconnected. Hello, I'm an operator from some telestar server. I don't remember, it was like some communications company. She was like, Please hold the line for Mr. Michael Jackson. And I was like, Lady, I have a lot to do. Please stop playing on my damn phone. So then she calls another five and she goes, ma'am, please don't hang up to me. I really do have Michael Jackson on the line for you. And I was like, oh crap. So I pulled over and she transfers the line. And Michael Jackson gets on the line. And he says, first of all, the opening sentence I'm gonna say it still floors me to this day. He goes, Hi, I'm Michael. I don't know if you remember me. What? Because as a kid, Michael used to play with me in my uncle's draft room. He used to, he was a jokester and like a prankster. So he would have like the, you know, um, that gum that turned your mouth black and whoopee cushions and the rings that would like buzz and stuff. And he would like, you know, we'd play hide and go seek under the draft table. He'd like throw grapes at me. He was so fun, you know? And that's why when the whole kid thing went down, I took that really personally because everybody who worked around Michael, there were a lot of people who had children, and nobody would have brought their children, you know things about a person if you worked that intimately with them. And nobody would have brought their children around. And it was, and I always felt like it was a safe environment. I think what Michael might have had was a rest of development, if anything, but I I never, you know, felt unsafe, you know. So that made me feel sad for you know when all that happened because I was like, oh, I really feel like he made an effort to make you feel, you know, not just like like you won the lottery, like you, you know, got to go to Disneyland, like you know what I mean? And I just you know, and I remember him saying, I'm so sorry I'm not gonna be able to come to your uncle's memorial, but I just wanted to let you know how important he was, and he was a significant portion of my life, and he helped me really identify my own self-identity, you know, through what he did, and I'll never forget him, whatever. And I was like, wow, this is so lovely of you. And then on the day of the funeral, Michael sent this Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie. Lionel Ritchie was his best friend in high school, my uncle's best friend in high school, and introduced him to his first wife. But between the two of them, they sent these like six-foot towers of flowers. I ended up having to just put one on the coffin because like we didn't have we had to dissect one of them to get it through the door, you know. And I just remember feeling like you didn't have to, you this is one of the biggest pops, biggest stars in the world. And you know, just because he was a human being, he wanted to take time to acknowledge my uncle.

SPEAKER_06 17:39

Hey, who who is who is the nicest celebrity you've ever met? Wow.

SPEAKER_16 17:45

Dang, that's a good that's a good one. Um all right. Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 was um And how'd you meet him? Well, I sang one of uh a Matchbox 20 song. I sang it twice. Um Bright Lights, you know that song? Yeah. And uh You don't have to hold those. Okay, I didn't know if I was not. It's perfect. There we go.

SPEAKER_06 18:07

That was so that was so nice of you though. Yeah to like you're you're just like you're like, oh let me.

SPEAKER_16 18:13

He was a very nice man. No, Rob Thomas, uh, yeah, so I it so I performed his song and then uh I had a I did a radio like Christmas concert and matchbox uh Rob Thomas was one of the uh artists and we sang it together and I got to like hang with him and I was a big fan of his music and stuff. So and then you know I went to years later, I went to one of his concerts, he brought me backstage, gave me like just talked to me like just like a friend, but also gave me some like amazing like advice, like life advice. So I'd say I'd say he was one of the nicest. I've met so many, honestly. I haven't been really too disappointed about I haven't met too many of the big people that were like super rude or anything.

SPEAKER_06 18:50

So that's well, that's good. That's good, yeah.

SPEAKER_16 18:52

Um so yeah, I'd say Rob, he was like, I thought he was like super cool. Nice. Yeah, and oh Jason Marazz, I wrote with Jason Moraz. You wrote a song with him? Yeah, I might uh we wrote a song called Hurricane together. Um me, him, and what my one of my best friends from home actually got to get in the co-write on it too. It was awesome. That was so cool. Super cool, and he was like, talk about one of the most prolific songwriters I've ever worked with, and I've worked with some good writers. I mean, this man, he just we sat we were in San Diego, and he walked, we were at a hotel, and he walked in with no shoes on and was holding a guitar, like not in a case, and just we was like, yo, what's up, man? Nice to meet you, like we're gonna let's go write this song. And like me and Nick started like we didn't know what to do. We were like kind of I was kind of starstruck. I was playing his songs at bars and stuff, and then like we just like started jamming out on this thing, and he just started writing and writing and writing, and we he's just like, Yeah, just keep playing it. Uh and then he like just sang this like like the chorus and this beauty, like with the with like 90 verses, and we're like, What the hell? I was like, I've never it was it was really incredible because he was really cool too. Wow.

SPEAKER_15 19:55

Um, I guess I've been really lucky. I I know Teddy Swims more than I know John Legend just because we toured together. Right. So I'm gonna say him. Okay, nice. But John Legend's also really nice.

SPEAKER_06 20:06

He's also really nice. And then other than the show and other than Teddy Swims, have you had you met anyone else?

SPEAKER_15 20:10

Has any any critical You're the nicest celebrity I know. You're having me over at your place. Yeah, you're a celebrity, dude. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_06 20:20

So I know I know some celebrities. That's about it. That's about it.

SPEAKER_15 20:23

Wait, who's the nicest celebrity I know? Yeah, probably maybe Verdeen White.

SPEAKER_06 20:28

Whoa, and you worked with him?

SPEAKER_15 20:30

I mean, yeah, he's he's uh like a friend.

SPEAKER_03 20:35

I'm gonna say Simon Cowell. Okay, because Simon Cowell uh was such a great guy, uh like especially our first season where we were going out to these you know podunk little you know venues and doing it, and he was just he was down for it for all of it. And he was always a super nice guy behind the scenes, especially to the crew.

SPEAKER_06 20:57

Oh, nice, okay. Especially to the crew.

SPEAKER_03 20:59

That's great. Um, you know, I just I I love that, you know, it was people ask me all the time, it's like, was Simon Cowell really that mean? I go, kinda. Not to me though, but it it's not even that he was being mean, and I always try to take a uh a page out of that book of he's trying to help people, you know, either be a better singer or not be a singer at all. You know, I mean he would tell people you shouldn't be singing. And you know, some a lot of times, and this was the great thing about Simon. Simon was saying what we were thinking. That is one of the brilliant things about them. So I will always say, I mean, I had a great relationship with Simon. I cannot say enough about him, and he really is one of the main reasons Idle did as well as it did.

SPEAKER_06 21:39

Who is the nicest celebrity you've ever met on the show? Or no or off the show as well.

SPEAKER_07 21:47

I would say at that time when I was talking, I would have to say Ryan Seacrest. Yeah, okay. Yeah, because when that thing happened with Rock and Roll Week, I want to say this. Rock and roll week was when you guys all did like rock songs, but they wanted to bring in a star guitar player to be on the show, to to uh to play with all you guys. And they did have Jeff Beck as the guy that they wanted to do, and then he didn't become available. And then Ray was figuring out, okay, are we gonna get Prince? Are we gonna get Lenny Kravitz? We're gonna get Carlos, and I saw all these names, but I'm like, wow, and then like the the day of the um dress rehearsal, it was gonna be Lindsay Buckingham. Okay. From Fleet with Mac. Wow. And that didn't work out. So then the producers came over and say, Okay, you got it. So they looked at me. So then I ended up backing up all you got. I mean, it wasn't planned at all, you know, and that's like I remember it was kind of like being in Harold Hill and the music man, being like, because I had to I had to do this, and then I had to get do the one number with you, or whoever it was, get off, get into another costume. I had to, I, I had to strategic, I'd strategically know where I was gonna go from stage. I and and Ryan, he's like, I got I finally get back on stage. He says, Hey man, this is great, dude. This is awesome. We didn't know this was gonna happen. And then, you know, he was like, uh, you know, move over here. You know, he was always good with the blocking and stuff. Okay, but he was I mean, I would say he was good. Randy, Randy Jackson was great, but I was doing a bit with him, I was doing a thing with Scotty, and I was sitting, he was gonna do James Taylor, You Got a Friend. I think it was you I got a friend, and it was a guitar feature, and I was sitting on the stoop right in front of the judges, and and I'm getting the ear calm with Ray. I'm like, okay, you ready? You ready? I'm like, yeah, you can hear me. And I'm sitting here, like the commercial break and ready for the package, and then we start. And then I'm here and I'm ready to go. And all of a sudden, I hear Tony, and I'm like, and it's Randy said, You're having a great time, man. And I'm like, Yeah, I am. Just hold on, let me get through this and I'll talk to you after this.