Chapter 1: What are the hosts' initial thoughts on the weather?
Good morning from both coasts. Oh, we're recording from both coasts. Jason's still in New York City.
Oh, Sean, are we going to take a look at the weather first?
Yeah, we're going to take a look at the weather before we get into the feel-good piece. You know, we're going to look at the weather. Traffic on the threes. We're going to look at the weather right after this wonderful episode of Smart Less. Let's go. Welcome. Smart. Good morning, everybody.
Good morning. Hi, Sean. Sorry, are you about to launch into something? No. Good morning, everybody.
Remember when Sean used to have a bunch of talking points prepared for the coffee chat? I always do. I have them today if you want. Do you really? Yeah. Do you have it written down on a piece of paper?
I jotted down a couple things that happened. Does Nick do it? No, I do it.
Huh.
Just right before we sign on.
Does Scotty ever recommend or suggest, hey, you know what would be fun for you guys to talk about tomorrow? Ever? No, not really, no. All right, so what are the hot topics today? Yeah, let's go for a hot topic for sure.
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Chapter 2: How did Nick Jonas get his start in music and acting?
Scotty was out.
There's nothing weird about that.
No, you guys were cuddling. That's fine. That's fine.
You know what? We could use more cuddling in this world.
We could, and maybe a little less gum. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck. Every shot. I know it's hard to remember because, you know, we do these like a week apart and then you forget a lot in six days. It's difficult. Is there like a nicotine cream? What about if you found like a cream you could just put on your shoulders or something?
Yeah, what about, yeah. Yeah, is it like a testosterone cream?
Yeah.
That I've read about.
Yeah, I've heard about that, too. Oh, no. Yeah, oh, yeah.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Nick face as a young performer?
It's an offshoot. Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, yeah.
It's wild. So, Sam Bateman. Right? Yes, that's right. I thought of you. I'll bet you did. Yeah, it's... Explain yourself, Jason. Yeah, I don't know if there's a relation there, but I would guess that there is. I mean, our family is out of Utah. So, I mean... No.
That was probably your first tip, I guess, huh?
Yeah.
Was that what kind of got you going in that direction?
I'm not an experienced investigator, but those are two hot leads. Name and location.
Fuck, nothing gets past you, dude. It's unreal.
Name and location.
So how is Sam doing, Jason?
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Chapter 4: How did Nick transition from child star to adult artist?
We haven't even explored this one.
Sorry we got hung up on this.
So there you are with Tracy.
You're watching the doc. Are you worried that you just can't be yourself in the moment? Sure. Is that what it is?
No, we can totally. By the way, every day.
Was that it? You were just going to make a recommendation for media?
Yeah, and also I saw, now that we're talking about documentaries, Jay, I finally saw the Apocalypse Optimistic.
Oh, yeah, the AI documentary.
Yeah, yeah.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Nick share about his latest album?
I know. What an intro. That was great. Nick, I just saw you.
It's so insane. I saw you at the Golden Globes. I know. That was so lovely.
We were backstage at the holding room for the presenters. My wife was presenting you guys there. It's not a big room. It's not a big room.
That's one of the bleakest, most depressing rooms in Hollywood. Yeah. Everybody just walks in and out. It's way too small. The ceiling's low.
I did enjoy listening to you guys rehearse, though. It was the master class in bit rehearsal. And you guys crushed the bit. It went viral after. It was great.
Thank you. Do we honestly rehearse? You don't remember that? There's a little side room. No. At the monitor.
You ran it back like six times. It was great. We did?
Yeah. Just for timing. And then I'll bet it was nothing like, just for timing. Just for timing.
You got to do it. Get familiar with the piece. Didn't you think that Jason should have spoken up? He was a little soft on that one line.
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Chapter 6: What unique aspects are involved in Indian wedding ceremonies?
And I think because we had sort of early in our career had a big failure. Our first album did not do well. We got dropped by our first label. It took us finding a home with Disney and our partners there to kind of really... step into the next phase. And I think that resilience came from that early perceived failure.
Right, right, right. Well, that's, yeah, I mean, did you have, am I right about that? First of all, I read somewhere that, and I don't know, you tell me if it's true, that you were first discovered by like a talent manager or pushed towards one when you were at... I had like a barbershop, like getting a haircut or something.
I was at a hair salon with my mom. Yeah, I was six. And I was always singing, you know, before I was even talking. And she was getting her hair done. I grew up in Jersey. And so we're known for our hair salons, diners, bowling alleys.
Sure, sure.
Shopping malls. And yeah, so she was getting her hair done. I was singing. The woman next to her said, hey, my son is Gavroche on Broadway. I think your son could do it. You should go see this talent manager. So we went in to go see Shirley Grant.
Was it Gaten Matarazzo by any chance? Didn't he play Gavroche on Broadway?
No. He played Gavroche later than I did, I think. Okay. I did it in the early 2000s. Okay. But... Basically, went into this talent manager's office. Her name's Shirley Grant. Rest in peace, Shirley. She's got her walls lined with headshots of little actor kids, weird actor kids who look you in the eye and shake your hand really intense. He's looking at you, JB.
JB, he's looking at you. Did you notice that? He's looking at you.
And she started sending me on auditions, and that was kind of the start to my run doing shows.
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Chapter 7: How does Nick balance his music and acting careers?
And then I slowly expire. And all I hear is total silence. My eyes are closed on the floor. And I just hear Michael Landon go... Okay, we're going to cut. And he walks slowly over to me. I still have my eyes closed. I'm still in it. And he whispers in my ear, okay, we're going to do another one. And this time I'm going to want you to just collapse on the floor.
I want you to just slowly just collapse and quietly expire. Here we go, everybody back to work. I was so mortified and embarrassed. I mean, I was just... You know, vibrating and throwing myself. Sure. It's fucking terrible.
Sure. God bless you, JB. That's good.
I'm feeling it. So you do play this. So you were going to say, after Gabrash, you played.
Oh, yeah. So I did my first show, I did A Christmas Carol, which is kind of a seasonal show. show so technically not a Broadway show but Annie Get Your Gun was my first show with Reba McIntyre I did it with Frank Langella actually it was pretty incredible he played Scrooge I was actual character name Scrooge at 8 And I was the understudy for Tiny Tim.
And in the eight years that this show had run, they'd never had a Tiny Tim cover have to go on. So they just didn't bother to rehearse the Tiny Tim covers. Oh, shit. And the year I did it, again, my dad gets a call and they say, hey... Nick's going to go on for Tiny Tim today. We've got to get you here an hour before the show to do a put-in.
So I rush over to the theater and basically run the five scenes that Tiny Tim has and the two songs. And, you know, I'm thrown out there for the opening kind of song, and literally my mind goes blank. Sixteen bars of just silence as the music's playing. There's really intimidating conductors there looking me in the eye.
Mm-hmm.
It was a good entryway into live theater. You know, shit happens. You just gotta roll with it. But as an eight-year-old, I was pretty mortified.
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Chapter 8: What are Nick's thoughts on the future of AI in music?
And, like, is that sort of thing – now that you're an adult and you've managed to weather the transition between sort of, like, teen idol into an adult, you know, professional actor, performer, et cetera – You know, how does all that stuff kind of transition for you in your head about, you know, how much of it is real? How much of it is just part of the job?
What do you do with all that sort of like that ego surplus? And, you know, because it's all kind of junk food to a certain extent. And like, you got to figure out where to place it all. Right? I guess.
Yeah. It's a great question. I mean, I always think it's funny when people frame an answer this way, so forgive me for doing it. But I think one of the biggest misconceptions about us, and odd to acknowledge your own preconception, but it was that because we worked with Disney and the core of our demo was
you know, primarily teens, that, you know, there's no way this music came from an honest source or that it came from us even. Right, right, right. And it was a really bizarre thing to sort of, you know, be in a spot where at 13, 14 years old, I was experiencing all the things you're talking about. First love, first heartbreak, real big...
you know, human emotions that I was able to put into song in a way that spoke directly to that audience. And when you ask about, like, what's something I thought went incredibly right, it would be that. The fact that our dad raised us on this great bed of classics. We discovered our own kind of sound and found our own voice creatively.
And I had this outlet that both helps me process these big feelings, but also connect it in a way that, frankly, now we play these songs 20 years later as men and dads and husbands in our 30s. it's even more resonant with the audience because they've grown with us. And tracking that over time has just been the most fascinating thing and pretty special to be, you know.
And we will be right back. And now back to the show.
You mentioned that in your dad raising you on those classics and musically. So what was that? Who is the person? Did they discover that, oh, that you had a talent for music that kind of came from you or your parents? Were they musical in that way? Like, was that something that they came from them?
Yeah, our dad is a really gifted musician. He's a pianist, a vocalist, and he was actually a pastor when we first started. We lived in Dallas for a bit where I was born. And then we moved to Jersey, and he became a senior pastor at this church there. And music was always a part of our life.
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