Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Puth or Dare With Charlie Puth!

Episode Date: August 27, 2023

We chat to superstar musician Charlie Puth ahead of his NZ show!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Charlie Puth, he's got a new single, Lipstick, with so many smash hits over the years like this. His voice is incredible and he's coming to New Zealand's Spark Arena Saturday, 4th of November this year. All the details at thehitstock.nz. And he joins us on Zoom now. What are you eating at the moment, mate? Just some overpriced smoothies. Looks like you're in a cafe or something. What's going on, Charlie? You're living in a cafe? What's happening, mate? Living in a cafe.

This is my house and I'm sitting on the floor. It was very hard to keep a laptop on your lap and not develop a giraffe neck. Is this the first time performing in New Zealand? Have you ever been here before, though, just on holiday? It is my first time performing in New Zealand. Have you ever been here before, though, just on holiday? It is my first time performing in New Zealand. I've never been there on holiday. I was there once six years ago for about five hours. It was a promo trip.

New Zealand was actually, you guys were the region that broke that record. And that's, for everyone listening, broke means made it popular. New Zealand made the record popular, I remember, being we were all celebrating. It's number one in New Zealand. And then your next search was, where's New Zealand? No, they were more like, you're going to New Zealand. It was awesome. I mean, your story is incredible.

You know, you got famous through, you know, YouTube's amazing stats and so many of your videos on TikTok and social media just blew up until was it Ellen DeGeneres that kind of stumbled across you and and and called you up and you were like oh this is a prank oh my gosh that was that was in back in 2011 when I was in my prime we're all in our prime in 2011. Look at us, Charlie. Jeez, look at us. 2011 was all of our primes. But yeah, she gave me my first big break to go on national television. And I remember feeling pretty cool when I was in college when that happened. So she's actually calling you?

Yes, she had called me on my, I think FaceTime hadn't even been invented yet. We had iPhones, but it was a it was an actual phone call now we understand too you actually wrote a song while making love at the same time simultaneously or did you have a time out from there i got i got some serious serious media training after that article they were like okay good news you are you remember in the episode of friends when rachel got demoted and had to relearn how to serve coffee that was me i they were record label to charlie congratulations you now get to take media training he's not falling for that trap again, Joe He graduated media training

Don't try and lure him again to that, alright Oh, Charlie Now, we have delved back into some of your archive Of songs that still are on the internet as well The Pickle songs Who threw this pickle at me? Ow Who threw this pickle at me?

Excuse me I mean He's like, go on, don't We don you want me to come to new zealand right oh hey don't google jonah you watch some stuff it's terrible all right uh but this is a comedy song you're you know what's fun you bring it up you know what's funny is that i i found my old password and that's a song for people who don't know that i like not even even call it a song it's a ditty that i made when i was 17 years old and uh and the like when youtube was tiktok essentially it was just the peak of its popularity and the thing to do was to make i think

i saw andy samberg make a snl skit and i'm like i can too. Well, we wanted to take some inspiration from your pickle song. We've got some of those, the spicy pickle and the hot and the sour, the super sour pickle. So we wanted to play a quick game of Puth or Deer, kind of like Truth or Deer, but with your name, that's the pun. Please tell us where the first commercial radio show to play Puth or Deer. You are, congrats to you, yes. So it works like this. We ask you a question you tell us the the truth or the pooth and then we'll uh we'll do the deer we'll take a bite of

the extreme sour of the spicy pickle all right it's good that i'm on the other side of the world it's pretty easy for you it's pretty low maintenance for you mate to be honest i'm surprised you can't smell these from the other side of the world they they're stinging the nostrils, Charlie. Okay. Is it the poof? Your fans are pretty full on. One actually hid underneath the tour bus once waiting for you.

I don't remember that. Okay. I think that's a pickle. You got to take a bite of that. I got to take a pickle. Okay. You going to go hot? I'm going hot.

Okay. I'll go hot too with you. Oh. You have to get those toilets with the bidets. Yeah. Pharmacies are open. Oh, You have to get those toilets with the bidets. Yeah. Pharmacies are open late at night. Oh, jeez. They've got some sink.

Is it true? Is it the poof that your mate's with Vin Diesel now after singing the, oh, jeez, that's spicy, the Fast and Furious song? Yeah, I haven't seen Vin in a long time, but I would say that that's the poof. Would you say it's time to see him again? Go on. Take a super sound pickle for that one i'm going to see this out okay you're going to see this out all right yeah that's unrelated you got to take a bite of the pickle for that oh oh oh okay mate the final one charlie is it the poof that this is one of the top 100 interviews

you've ever done? I mean, it is, but I kind of want you to finish the treat that you're having. Oh, my God. Oh, jeez. God. I was trying to wrap up the interview. See what you did there? Charlie's like, I've got another 10 minutes.

I can do it. I'm going to preach you. Charlie, we are so excited about you coming to New Zealand. Hopefully this interview hasn't put you off. I'll never forget that. Loud and clear. Lovely to meet you, mate. Take care.