- You loved her in Two Broke Girls and The Neighborhood.
Now she's got a new podcast called Harmonics
that explores the power of music and sound.
Let's say a big hello to Beth Behrs, y'all,
give it up for her!
(upbeat funk music) (audience applauding)
- How are you?
- I have a, I'm sorry, I look like a pirate,
or a really cool assassin.
- I love it, I was like, is that?
I thought it was like, I was like,
oh, it's part of her outfit.
You've got the badass- - I'm totally that cool, yeah.
- The bad boots.
(laughing)
- No, I know, honestly, I picked these boots
when it was supposed to be another one,
I was like, I'm wearing a patch,
let's wear ones that match.
So, oh, I just rhymed, look at that.
How are you? - How are you?
Jinx!
(laughing)
- Yeah, I would pinch, poke and owe you a Coke,
but we can't touch each other 'cause life sucks.
- [Beth] I know!
- But thank you for being here,
I hear this is like your first time out.
- This is my first time out.
I'm wearing a bra. - Yeah! (clapping)
- So you know, so thank you.
(audience cheering and applauding)
Thanks!
I'm not that big on pants.
I have on cowboy boots again,
although those I've kept with me,
but yeah, I feel excited to be in human contact with you.
Like, just to see your beautiful face, and like talk to you.
- Well, some of it. - Yes! (laughing)
- No, but last time I saw you, we were folding shirts.
We were doing the Marie Kondo thing 'cause you love her.
- I love Marie Kondo.
I actually, I did my whole house, we moved,
so I Marie Kondo'd.
- Oh, I moved recently.
- You did! - Yes!
- It was something in quarantine, huh?
- Yeah. - I have to move. (laughs)
- I'm gonna be honest with you.
I, we did it well.
- We did too, everybody was so safe.
We all got tested, yeah, it was, it was thank,
thank the universe, it was great.
But yeah, we Marie Kondo'd everything including the garage,
which last time I told you was like-
- [Kelly] Yeah, I was gonna say, did you get to your garage?
- Yes.
- That seems like a no.
- Okay. - Okay?
- So, we got to it and it is better than it was,
but a lot of it sparks joy for me and my husband,
I guess, the garage, there's a lot of stuff.
- [Kelly] You're hoarders!
- [Beth] So, I mean, especially cowboy boots.
There's, that's my new garage Kondo'd.
- [Kelly] Oh, I like your chairs.
- Thank you, do you want them?
They're for sale.
Or actually, you can have 'em for free.
- No, you know, it's so funny.
I have a storage 'cause I moved into a smaller place
and it's like more charming and kind of-
- Us too! - Yeah, and love it.
But I was like, I have so much stuff.
- Storage unit.
- It didn't spark joy, so it's just like,
I'm waiting to give it to someone who needs it.
- It needs that, yeah.
- Yes, but how do you like your new neighborhood?
See what I did there, with the question?
We're clever. - You, Kelly, you are so good.
- [Kelly] Still clever in season two!
- Honey, I love you.
Yeah, it's amazing, I mean, we, you know,
we're masked when we go outside,
nobody has brought over cookies or anything
'cause they can't and we're not able to go say hi,
but we walk dogs.
There's a lot of dogs in the neighborhood, right?
- I was about to say, everyone in my new neighborhood
walks their dogs and I'm like, am I a jerk?
I just, mine plays in our backyard.
Like, and it's a huge backyard, so I'm like-
- That's probably like safer in general,
but I think if you're wearing a mask, and like,
at first, I don't know if you've noticed this,
but wearing the mask, you're like meek, I think,
like, I all the time at everybody.
And so, when I'm in the new neighborhood, you know,
I'm trying to be friendly, but I forget I have the mask on.
So I'm like smiling, you know, as big as I can,
but all they're seeing-
- [Kelly] You're like, are my eyes smiling?
- Yeah, and then the people have been like walking quickly
away with their dogs, then I realized, guess what, you guys?
I can just go like this.
- Yeah, exactly. (laughing)
- I can just use my hands!
- Okay, it's really funny you said that though,
because this is a thing, like when I'm in the car,
like, I'm Southern and everyone waves,
like everyone in your car, like, when you pass someone,
I don't know, you wave.
Especially if you're on a road and they see you.
No one does that here. - No, people are terrible.
- No one does that, you wave and everyone looks at you like,
I don't know you. (laughs)
And I'm just like, well, you could!
- I'm Kelly Clarkson! (audience laughing)
- [Kelly] We could be friends.
It's so weird, no one does that here.
- We have so much.
- [Kelly] Guys, we have so much in common.
- I know, I know, I, Kelly, I just,
I am so happy to be with you.
- Whenever we're allowed to hang out, we should hang out.
- We can talk, I know, exactly.
So, I've always been a brown thumb,
so I've never really attempted gardening.
But literally the first thing I did
when we went into lockdown was buy a plant
'cause it just made me feel like if I can grow something,
the world will like repair itself
and we're gonna be okay. - Yes.
- So I've gotten really into it.
I'm still a terrible brown thumb with vegetables.
Everything has died, (laughing)
but flowers!
Flowers are my jam.
- [Kelly] Oh my gosh, I love it.
Don't they make you so happy? - I love it.
It makes me so happy.
I even started, I started like getting crafty
'cause what else is there to do?
- Yeah. - I wasn't working.
And we, I started decorating terracotta pots
and planting plants for like my neighbors
and the postal workers.
I sanitized everything, don't worry,
leaving them outside my door and gifting these like plants.
And it just- - It's therapeutic.
- It's therapeutic for me and to give it to someone else
and go, then someone else gets a beautiful flower
and it makes them happy and you're touching the earth,
you're connected to something bigger than ourselves.
- I agree, I mean, the new place we moved into,
like, it has like its own, It's like a secret garden,
the whole backyard.
I didn't have to do anything, it's just,
oh, there's already like flowers and everything.
It's so great. - That's so nice.
I actually think I brought you a gift.
- [Kelly] Oh, did you?
- I did.
I'm not sure where it is.
- We'll have to get that out here next time.
- But- - Hey, when you say grounding,
are you weird, like, we, oh you did!
- I brought you, I brought you, I guess-
- Are we allowed to touch it?
Or you put it there, okay. - I can put it on the table.
But I wanted you to have your own flower.
- Hey, did you paint that?
- Something to bring you joy.
I did.
- [Kelly] That's really good!
- It's a whole thing that I learned on,
I think it was Martha Stewart's website.
- Did you tape it?
- Yeah, you tape it and you do a rubber band around it
however you want it, and then.
- Oh my gosh, that's so cool!
My kids would love to do that.
- It's so, yeah, I'll send you the link of how to do it.
It's really easy.
- Yeah, oh my gosh.
I'm gonna gift you one back for your new house.
- (laughs) Thank you! - This will be for my house.
So, you and I have talked about anxiety.
How have you managed this during quarantine?
'Cause everybody's kind of managed it differently.
I've been writing a lot, so.
- That's awesome. - Yeah.
- Yeah, it's interesting.
For me, you know, I've always dealt with anxiety.
So, going into lockdown, even hypochondriac,
which is great for a pandemic when you're a hypochondriac,
girl!
And old my sort of techniques of like meditation
and the barn's always amazing, but it just,
I was still having a lot of anxiety, if I'm being honest.
And I started listening to music as sort of,
when I couldn't drop into meditation, I'd put on a record,
started listening to music
and just wanting to listen all the time.
And I started thinking about sort of the relationship
between anxiety, mental health, and creativity
and how healing is creative and creativity is healing.
And then that led into this new podcast endeavor
about the power of music.
- It's called Harmonics, right?
- [Beth] Yeah, it's called Harmonics, and-
- [Kelly] So what exactly happens on it?
- So basically, I talk to like Glennon Doyle,
who wrote "Untamed."
- I love! - Girl!
- I'm a cheetah! - I'm a cheetah!
- I'm a cheetah! - So, she's the first episode.
- Oh my gosh!
- And if you listen, she's incredible.
And Brandy Carlisle, who you did that-
- Oh, I love. - That duet you guys did.
- I have never been more vain,
I've never listened to myself more.
- You two have the best voices of all time
and putting them together.
I've listened, by the way,
I've played that video over and over again.
I told Brandon, I was like-
- I'm like a million of the views.
- It's on repeat.
But I wanted to ask people in the music industry,
but also people like Glennon Doyle, women,
how they handle this time, mental health,
what's happening in the world, the division,
in order to bring people together, promote love,
and hopefully provide some sort of healing.
And selfishly, I get to ask people like you
all the questions I wanna know
about what do you do for your mental health
on a day when you don't wanna get out of bed?
- This is an awesome podcast.
- I would love to have you on.
- I would love to come on.
You know who should have too,
another Glennon Doyle type of figure,
is Bernay Brown? - Oh!
- I love her.
- Her podcast is amazing as well.
- [Kelly] Yes, her Ted talks.
- Her Ted talks too, everything, yeah, I would love.
I have, I have a dream list.
This is season one.
I have like my dream list, but I-
- That's a really smart and important thing.
- You know music empowers healing.
I mean, and writing,
have you been writing music or pilots?
- I literally don't know how anybody goes through
anything horrible or big their life
without having an outlet like I have with writing.
Like, even if it doesn't get, I was telling,
I was talking to Gwen the other day on The Voice,
and I was like, we're both writing right now
for our next albums, and it's like,
even if no one hears it, it's so therapeutic,
it's so good for you, just so that's your outlet.
- And it's almost like, you know,
whether you're religious or not or spiritual,
whatever you believe, there's something about that
you're giving that gift of your writing,
even if nobody ever sees it.
- And it's a little like Marie Kondo too,
you're letting it go.
Like, thank you for the experience, I'm done!
- Yeah, totally!
And I'm terrified for this podcast
because I'm usually like the girl
twerking upside down on television,
and like falling down the stairs.
(laughing)
That's me and everybody knows me!
- There's room for all of it, Beth!
- But I realized is that like, if I expect my guests
to come on and not talk about, you know,
not just the classic sort of interview questions,
if I want them to get vulnerable and honest, then I had to.
And so I've revealed some stuff
and talked really deeply about my mental health.
But then hearing like that other musicians that I admire
have panic attacks before they go on stage, it's like-
- Oh my God, especially musicians, yeah.
- Yes, let's talk through it.
Brandy and I talked about when she sang for Joni Mitchell
and how, you know-
- I just started sweating for her right now.
- Did you really? - Wow.
- But if she can get through that, I can get through.
You know, there's something about coming together
and speaking about mental health openly, which for so long,
especially as women, we're like, I can toughen up!
You know, I can, I'm gonna take care of my family,
I'm going to take care of everybody around me.
- It's all in that book.
- "Untamed," cheetah!
- I know, I know.
- So yeah, it's been amazingly healing selfishly for me,
but also I hope it helps other people.
- Yeah, I cannot wait to be on it, first of all,
I would like to and also, I can't wait to check it out.
It sounds amazing. - Thank you.