I'm so happy you're here in person.
This is wild.
It's been a while.
Yeah.
It's been a while.
Thanks for having us.
Thank you, thank you for being here.
How's the family doing?
Good.
You know, both of our kids got sick two weeks ago.
We panicked for a second and then remembered
that you can actually still get normal sick.
Right.
So I mean, honestly we had to pull them out of school,
tell everybody, then we were like, oh it's a cold.
We're fine.
So the kids have been good, and I've been busy
as you can be during this time.
Is Songland coming back?
So funny enough, I spoke with the other EP yesterday
of Songland.
I was with her.
And I said, is it happening?
And she's like, behind her mask going, like that.
So I'm taking it as a like, yes it's coming back.
We will know-- we should know when and where,
hopefully this week.
Good.
I love that show.
I love it too.
I love that show.
And your new song Run, which is a great video, you filmed
that on the set of Seinfeld?
We did, yeah.
I've lost count how many music videos we've
done at this point, shot them from Paris to New Orleans.
You name it, we've kind of shot everywhere.
This is the first time we've actually done the big Hollywood
backlot thing.
And Songland we actually filmed on the MBC backlot
near Back to the Future.
So I'd go to the Clock Tower every day.
And you've been there, you've seen it,
this is the first time we've actually
got the full backlot treatment.
And there it is, Seinfeld set right there.
And it is honest to God, this might be my favorite music
video of all time.
Well there's so much choreography.
I mean the timing of it is like to--
It was nuts.
Yeah.
It was a lot of rehearsal, it, yeah, it was absolutely nuts.
And when is the new album coming out?
We were having the conversation actually in the green room.
Right now, we've pegged a date at the very end of the summer,
at the very end of the summer--
Fantastic.
Like, late August, early September.
Can't wait, can't wait.
It's been too long.
You've been, like you said, you're so busy.
You're producing how many albums right now?
I'm executive producing-- there was
a point where I was executive producing six
or, if you count One Republic, seven albums at the same time.
So Bastlle, Jessie J, just worked
with Lil Nas, upcoming stuff, Miley Cyrus, Joe Bro's,
Alvvays, DNCE, I mean, it's just on and on and on.
That's fantastic.
And a couple of names that I'm NDA'd to death on.
So you can guess, but I can't talk about it.
All right, we'll just guess who the NDA's are.
And you're teaching an online class.
Yeah, monthly.com for the first time ever.
I got pitched this crazy thing a year ago, decided to do it.
I'd go through and break down how to write songs, top down.
How to produce them, how to try and write hit records.
And my class is kind of going throughout the whole year
on monthly.com.
I think July is the next class.
Yeah, it was the most intense seven days of filming.
I did about 50, 55 hours of filming,
to the point of delirium which I'm sure you're used to.
But I've never broken down my process before so it's fun.
Yeah, you talk about how busy you are
and how successful you are, you moved to LA,
I think the day that our show premiered.
I saw the premiere show.
I'll never forget, I drove from Colorado overnight, ran out
of gas on an Indian reservation, and had some locals,
seriously in Arizona, they drove me to get gas, paid for it,
brought me back.
I rolled into Los Angeles at 3:00 AM, September 3.
2003.
And we had this crap little television
sitting on a nightstand in our living room with one couch.
And I remember watching the premiere episode,
like all of us sat around watching it.
So this is like full circle.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Congrats by the way.
Apparently it worked out.
Yeah, it did work out.
Yeah.
Yeah yeah.
It seemed to work out.
All right, we're going to play a game after this.
I assume you approved it.
I approved it.
OK, all right.
It's a hard one.
I'm in.
It's not as hard as Danger Word but it's a hard one.
All right.
All right
Well I'm here for it.
All right, Ryan and I are going to play
a game when we come back.