Hi, I'm Ashley. I care I'm Hunter Kelly and welcome to an all-new episode of the all our favorite people podcast today. We have our new friend. Yes. I love him Court Overstreet is here of the band over Street. And this conversation was a lot of fun and all over the place all over the place. But thank you corded kept things really interesting. So we first got to know cord when he starred on Glee on Fox as Sam.And so yeah, it's quite the impression. Yes did a lot of performances and was a thirst trap on the show. Let's be honest. He didn't know this a didn't know that phrase until yesterday when I told him or allegedly, but I was like, yeah, you told it because you said to him yesterday we didn't get into this in the conversation with him on the podcast but Hunters like you've been thirst trap it on Instagram. So what court just did this big spread and flaunt flaunt.com, I think sexy photos, but he has great he has fun with them on Instagram, you know, but his captions but there's no denying it well and he's such a great guy like this conversation was so fun. I mean his father is Paul Overstreet who's one of the most successful songwriters and Nashville. So, he's a long history here in Nashville his dad wrote When You Say Nothing at All Is it she thinks my tractor's sexy right forever and ever amen forever? And ever? Amen. I rather on Love Can Build a Bridge by The Judds which we sing a lot reducing that a lot first song I ever sing in a recital and so court has he's obviously been doing his own music for a long time. Singer-songwriter project that he put out a couple years ago. And now he has an ALT pop project that is independently dropped called my ex and it's just I love seeing the diversity and the dimension of what he does. Oh, yeah, some real 80s Vibes here a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun. Yeah dance to it in the clerk. I know and then the video has all kinds of Hollywood scandals. It's real juicy. And you do love a Hollywood Scandal. I've been watching a lot of a True, Hollywood. Good stories lately so we talked about that as well. You guys make sure you check out Overstreet the single my ex and they've got an EP that they've dropped as well so you can make sure to check that out. It's so good. It's so fun. So let's get to it here. He is Chord Overstreet actually. Do you want to know I just love I love that were here and I was listening through the EP again this morning and I was like, it's just for me. I think at first it was really unexpected. Based on the stuff that you've done in the past and like the singer-songwriter project the last one that you did and then obviously the work out of Glee but I was like, it's so dang. I'm good. Oh, thank you guys kind of get like, I really lost in it. I appreciate it. Yeah. I mean I've been writing for the last like pretty non-stop for the last like three years trying to get a body of work together, but you know a bunch of different sides to me because I grew up here in Nashville, obviously and so I grew up listening loving and singing country music. And then nobody's ever heard of country music out in Los Angeles started change now that I mean it's shifting a little bit. Yeah, it's it is showing its becoming way more popular. It's for all the people going out stage. Koshen. I really yeah, that's eve-teasing a difference. Oh my gosh. I mean, well the first year I went to Stagecoach. It was versus now stagecoaches pretty much everybody rather. Go there than Coachella. Yeah, it's Coachella just a little crazy. Yeah, coachella's like where you go to like trip acid and stay. Coaches ready to go to drink and like have a good time. Yeah, right but stagecoaches where you also go to get in fights because beer drunk is very different than like when you're feeling like you're one with the Universe. I remember seeing like fights at country concerts is a kid like the best one was at a Reba McEntire show and I was in the upper deck is the last time we let my dad go to really get in a fight. Oh, yeah and like they cared like six rows on the floor. So So that's last time we let my dad handled tickets though because we were just here in the nosebleed. Yeah, we were never like past like row five after that. It was intense, but big big fight to cut it Reba almost got in a big fight at a James Taylor concert once but who are these like rough like I want to get in a fight going to these concert now when James I think you supposed to be there just to have a great time and like get away and enjoy the music but there's always that image on here. There's that one. He's like he's like looking around and Woman, he's just like he's probably in a tight muscle tee. Uh, Hey, excuse me. He's like, oh you want to go you want to go right with your shower the people you love with love and he was like, I'm glad he's not on the ground people you love he didn't get the message didn't get James's message of unity. Well, so going back to going back to my ex. I love this 80s sound that you're in and I'd one of the influences that you said was the police and the Beach Boys to have the Beach Boys. Yeah, but there's something about that. The insistence of a you know, the police that I hear in these these Melodies like a little Darkness. Yeah, it's Darkness. Yeah, it's kind of always just loved like older kind of classic rock and I mean I was listening to pretty much like 80 70 60 stuff on the way over here. And I before I came up here money came on Pink Floyd and just like those old just music was just so great and like I don't know how you can not be influenced by it. But yeah, I mean like I think In kind of has a lot of Reggae Melody Tendencies and mixed with that rock kind of has like a little bit Jazz Incorporated in it. That stuff's just always kind of I've just always kind of like noticed when people can kind of like take three different Vibes or four different elements and put them together. I just think it's awesome that actually that song when I ran into an exit a bar in Los Angeles with the bar was actually called No Name Bar. There's a lyric and their sister own eyes that are No Name Bar. Our I hadn't seen her in God knows how long and she was like Hey, all right, what's going on? I was like, oh, you know Gabriel like one-armed hug because really you're going to give me a one-armed hug and I was like, okay full-frontal just like I mean like but go outside and have a smoke or drink and I was like, she had a new boyfriend get a boyfriend at the time. And so I was like man, this is this is an interesting predicament. I'm N I feel like she's trying to hook up with me or what and I was like and I was like, all right. Well, I got I definitely got that Vibe and then her boyfriend showed up and then the vibe tone changes. I was like, oh, wow. I was like, you know what the next day I had this idea for the song when I went in with one of my buddies and we started talking. I was a we think about this title and he's like well, how would you sing it and I was just like just kind of Blurted out the chorus and then kind of told him the story and I was like kind of be an interesting Twist on it if I hadn't made the mistake of going home with her and she was cheating on her current boyfriend with her ex-boyfriend didn't happen though. I'm not you didn't have just just so everyone's just I don't backtrack when I listen to my ex. I'm like, this is definitely like a one-night thing because like you've been there before I've been there and I quickly realized why Broke up when you had like, oh, yeah. Well or there could still be this like underlying lingering things like and I feel like that's the thing too. It's like once you break up with some of their still this there's still this attraction. So that's right. And you kind of you still want them in those situations when you run into an AB are like so want them to kind of want you and your only know you're going home alone. So you're like, oh wow playing Janet Jack Howell gives him to your head playing. I'm playing I never want to dance again guilty feet. They got a rhythm. Oh, no, did you see that? I'm Glee. I don't know if we did which would be so surprising that seems like there would have been such a good song. Yeah such a I didn't get it until I was older about to break into an acapella version right now. Sometimes we do that and here so, yeah, it's not out of the realm of possible happened because I have a few questions along those lines continuing now, go ahead. Where were you about to say? Well, I do want to talk about like, you know this video for my exes up in the Hollywood Hills. And you know, it's the whole vibe. I was just out in LA and it's crazy to be on the Sunset Strip and it feel like such a low-key Vibe compared to Nashville. Oh my gosh. What have you seen like because you grew up in Nashville or tell you like? Oh, this is the big city. I was like, it feels so quiet here. First of all La in maybe in certain spots not all spots, but certain spots. It's a for the national because National is now like just basically Getting dumped with buses of idiots out on Broadway and people are jumping off balconies and just I mean, it's like it's crazy how much it's changed in the last like five to seven years. I went down on Broadway, which I never which if you're from Nashville, you never really do because it's filled bachelorette parties and yeah and bridesmaids, you know, woo girls. We're gonna go ride the electric bull down a wild Beaver. Like that's awesome. That's usually actually where I go, but you know the kind of like I used to love the way there. Yeah you go down there. Singer karaoke, so I used to spend I'll jump on the electrical there. I only went there once I think Solange Knowles was there one night. I won't almost what the stalker but I didn't she's always singing karaoke. Yeah, I did do some salad karaoke there, but it reminds me of don't like down that area reminds me of like a post-apocalyptic. It's like Vegas. It's like Vegas but more crowded right? Well just because it's so centralized. I'll I moved out of Nashville in like 2009. So it was completely different but every time I come here, it's just like Everybody's just coming here to party. It's kind of crazy. It's yeah, what was the question because I lived in La for a couple of years and there are certain spots of Los Angeles that are just like Sunset Boulevard wild but then there are Parts like if you're in Santa Monica or by the beach, it's really chill. Yeah. Well, it's weird because it's La is so much more spread out. Yeah, it's less about the streets are filled with people like National. It's you go. Spots and then I go that was a wild time with I was but you know, it's like kind of has pockets. Yeah, but it's kind of crazy. Now what everyone's really doing their own thing and not really paying attention to what everybody else is doing. Do I in Los Angeles? Yeah. Well in your business in Nashville, do you find that when you come back that everybody's up in your business and Nashville in a good way or a bad way to come back here and pretty much just working so much. Yeah. That or hanging with my family and my parents live so far out of the city that it's either, you know out in the country hanging with them or in the studio, right and stuff and then in the occasional Red Door drink till 2 a.m. But other than that as we do, yeah as everybody does and then you know, sometimes you'll you'll be up for a while night and you'll go crash a couple bachelorette parties. We've all been there. I guess mattei Court. The best Instagram account is Broadway and Censored it's like a compilation of all the crazy stuff that happens on Lower Broadway. Do you know I didn't covid uncensored is my wife Robert said toad. It's my life. Okay. So let's take it back out to Los angeles' you chose to have JFK and Marilyn Monroe and your video. Oh, yeah, Marilyn. Oh, yeah, but but you did have some of this old Hollywood glamour has provided if it was provocative some of the couples that you chose to put in the video about exes. Like, you know, you kind of have your face Amos excess but I feel like you broke some new ground. Well, there's you know, I just feel like that's the Scandal kind of wanted to do like a bunch of like presidential scandals to throw Bill Clinton in there and Monica Lewinsky because great on Twitter by the way, you follow Monica on Twitter Monica Lewinsky on Twitter. No, she's fabulous. Yeah, she's pretty she's saying like all kinds of shaped like the dress was mine or just all kinds of shade. It's great. But about the Oval Office. Yeah. I mean that comes up as you would imagine. So yeah, so I just thought that With that experience kind of Hollywood's kind of really in sexual and no matter how many how much distance you try to put in between you and X is there no one's bound to pop up at any random night out. And so I was just kind of thinking about who's dated. Who and it's just like wow this person say to this person or this person is also dated this person who's also due to this person in this like it's just like it's kind of crazy and I just thought that I think the old Hollywood like the Frank Sinatra JFK Marilyn Monroe Elvis Presley that's more appealing to me because I like the old kind of classic stuff, but I thought it might be interesting to throw that in there, which I also liked on the CPU did a throwback to your own version of Sex on Fire which is Kings of Leon song then which allows the your friends with the guys from Kings, aren't you? Yeah. I know Jarrod but I think I was like, I've met the other guys I've been passing but I've shared fairly well and there. They're awesome dudes and from Nashville. So when I realize this song came out 10 years ago like as soon as I read that I was like, oh my gosh, like how has it been 10 years ago. It was a song. Yeah, because I remember it was I guess yeah. I was right when I moved to LA because we have got summer and and then I didn't even know that it had been out 10 years and somebody mentioned that to me was like you're joking. I like coming to just 10 years went by us X the thing but like 10 to 20 years, you can start like covering songs and people young people. People won't remember them. Oh, I know I cried like Wagon Wheel people think that's a Darius Rucker something. But why did you decide on sex on fired put that on this EP? I was about to make a really bad inappropriate joke. I'm learning to filter myself. I just always loved that song and I just love like rock and roll in there kind of like one of the only rock bands left and love those guys and it was just always a big fan of that song and I just started messing around in the studio with My friends and we were just like wait what if we did this kind of and and then it kind of just started snowballing and then we're like, let's start playing it live and we recorded it and put it out so good. Yeah. It's such a good it's like I just forget about it. Like after all these are bad. I don't know just because there was a period of time where that was a song that was always on my playlist and stand with me and Mambo Number 5. It was yeah Mambo Number 5 here. I am get that is weird to think about because like to With songs from the 2000s are now like 10 to 15 years old songs from mm. I'll be 20 next year antiques. Yeah, that's not so you go back and say whoa It's rediscovering the mineral way with some distance. Yeah, then pries the next thing, you know, you're dead. The songs are still there goes for it fast Court Overstreet. How are you making the most of today? Well, I for he down but a lot of like Bengay on my arthritis every morning and just yet just so I can you know, and to my Mobility back antioxidants in your diet. Antioxidants and my juices. Okay. So before we move on from a tax video after talk about what I consider the most controversial couple of Exes in the video to be and this is really going to hit home with Ashley. It's Ross and Rachel which I saw and it really that's just has a 25 year anniversary of the debut of character, right? Yeah. So you're saying that that was the most controversial. Yeah for me. I guess it's elevating them to the level of like actual people because I think Ross and Rachel's relationship really gripped the nation and you're the first to really well is that it actually wasn't roster H. It was David Schwimmer and Jennifer answer they used to be a thing really worth it. No, I was like, I don't know I'm making that up but he know that would but he is accessory is showing old True Hollywood stories. And the morning is yeah and he is he is he a network? So I was watching this when you seen Angelina Jolie, but Circa 2005 so it's like Bob Thornton Tomb Raider Angelina Jolie. Yeah into the mr. Mrs. Smith which you know, but it was crazy because it's like everything after 2005 hadn't happened and then you look back and be like, wow, they're fashion in 2005 looks so weird and then there's bars on both sides of the screen. So, you know what's old, you know before they had widescreen. Yeah. Do you want an E True Hollywood Story or I may I think it would probably be more interesting if you had any true at Kingston spring story. Yeah, what up talking about birthing goats and all grown up on a farm you dip Earth coats personally. Yes. You got a farm. Yeah. Well, I went out of town one like on a family vacation One winner and we had like probably 25 female goats, and we had one male goat and when we were gone he Out of his pen and damn near got every one of those females and so five months. It's the pregnancy terms or term for put goat in five months go by and my family goes out of town on another trip and I had to stay back because I had a baseball tournament or something and I had to stay back and I heard this goat just screaming up at the barn and walk up there and all of a sudden it's happening. And so I had I ended up calling my mom was like hey, yeah, so there's a goat going into labor right now. What do I do? What do I do? She's like go get the rubber gloves get the iodine get a couple towels get a heat. Them aspirator right know what you're going to do and she just goes walks me through this and my adrenaline's pumping and I just I birthed those two goats and then soon as I finish that I'm like this is this was this is ridiculous another goat starts going into labor and I think there's probably like eight to ten deliveries that weekend that God that you were doing this by yourself. Did you that point call a buddy like phone a friend be like, can you come help me deliver these goats? What friend is? What friend is that much of a friend is like no, I'm good man. You you and the placenta can hang out on your own like oh. Are they after bird after Bird? Yeah, it is. It's real thing after birth with cord over what you know, you got a life after birth Lord. No, but it's I so I basically you know, how these look really big plastic gloves on up to up to the elbows and Yeah, it was an experience. I mean is this ever a story that you thought you would actually tell? No, I didn't even want goats. My mom. Just thought oh, I always wanted to have a barn and a you know a farm and I'm going to have six kids and I'm to make them do it all and so that's how I kind of got put I kind of got thrown into the situation without volunteering or being able to say how were you again with this happen 14 because you were like being home, so I will drop you. Was yeah. I wish I was driving illegally to my baseball tournament spring. Oh, I was driving like an hour away. My dad was like, oh you're you're fine fine. Just take government take the truck and go that day and government but there is something about growing up in a small town like that that I mean my grandfather would just be like, you're fun. You can go Joe. Yeah on the road was driving a tractor when I was like seven. Yeah 104 Sexy Tractor. It was my guess is was the tractor not what While I was in it because that's just weird that you were a child. Sorry, but no it was a it was a sad story behind Dad wrote that song and the story behind that joke for everybody behind that is is Hill. He says this whenever he's playing live, but he'll he's like, you know me and me and your mom we went to the Tractor Supply Company and you know, we were looking at this big, you know, the big old tractor and this heavy equipment. We leave and there's a middle console the truck and she slides it over and she scoots in the middle and she puts her arm around me and I look at her and I said, hey honey, this heavy equipment really turns you on and then he that's what he that's his story and he wrote the song like few days after that. I didn't realize it was an innuendo until like we were 14. It was like eight or seven when it was eight. That's crazy. There's like 9897 maybe yeah, that sounds Not right. I mean it was it was before Kenny Chesney was Kenny Chesney. It's before it was when he was on the farm in East Tennessee before he moved full-time to the beach in his career. That's right Cory. I can't believe that you actually use the term goat because that was what I was going to use for your dad as a songwriter. Wow, go I mean it's in my notes. So I mean the transition was just so easy, but I didn't take it because sometimes too cheesy transition you do and symptoms were like, we just need to we'll get back to it later after we saw his diverse down this hat. But it's true that oh my gosh. So like when did you realize that your dad was like this in saying songwriter? Because you know growing up. He's just Dad and then you start to realize these songs are just so finely crafted was it when you are sitting on like the side of the stage watching him perform? Hmm, it would probably be kind of like, yeah. I think I get one of the first concerts I went to and you're watching like all these people. Like listen to your dad's music. It's kind of it's a weird. It's a weird thing to say but like your yeah, I remember big being like two or three and like going to shows and you don't we bring kids out there and I was always fascinated with the music side of things and like I had was I always grab any kind of instrument like a to go on the steel guitar and play it horribly and not you know, I grabbed the mandolin players mandolin and but watching him kind of perform. I was just fascinated on the fact that one person could literally Kind of like Captivate an audience and I was like, oh, that's really cool. But I didn't really realize I'd always just listen to lyrics I didn't realize how great of a Lyricist he was until you start hearing a lot of other songs and country music and then you're like where you have contrast to compare and then there's like when the when you hear something great like, oh, wow, your mind kind of goes to a different spot and there's a lot of like that's like a lot of the older Country Music like, you know, Johnny Cash. Sure, Keith Whitley and Waylon, Jennings and these like these these older like country artists were all lyrics and that's that's one of the things that I like listen to when you're little you just have every you have a lot of people coming up to you being. Oh my gosh, you know how great of a greatest song this is and this and this and you don't know anything other than people just and I'm just like, please don't don't tell my dad this his ego is already out of control. He does not need any it does not need a bigger head. No you go back and listen to some of these songs. Like well like when you say nothing at all, I mean I think about that is like one of the best songs ever written. How does anybody come up with like that's I can't come up with those phrases. Like how does anybody come up with that? Like, yeah. It's just like twists on Words. And then I was talking to my dad. I was like, oh, yeah, we wrote the song the song. What were you saying? Oh, that wasn't me that was you know, my always let my co-writer. That was my you know, he's always like never try to take credit for stuff except for like the funny ones. There's like really cool stories behind all of us. Songs which it just interesting hearing like how this song kind of just came out of nothing like he liked him and dance. Let's did forever and ever amen and he wanted his the story behind it was him and on road every Monday or Tuesday, I think and he was he just got done playing 36 holes of golf and Dawn was like, hey Paul you coming over and we're going to write and he's like, oh Madam. She's really tired. You know, I he's like just just come on. Let's just I just write one today and you showed up that's stay there forever and ever amen. But the story behind that was when I guess Don's kid was in school. They would say like the Lord's Prayer and at the end of it, they would say forever and ever amen. Hmm and so he could come home after whenever they pray the safe and forever and ever amen. And so that's kind of where that whole thing came from but had you not shown up, you know, you would never written that song. And so that's one of the things he was just like, you know, you never know. You never know when you're going to write this always show up. And so that was just kind of like a Flashing back to the slide that like the story behind how these songs kind of coming out is and then like Digging Up Bones. My dad is sitting at home at Thanksgiving alone and looking at like a turkey carcass and hit up at one of his co-writers and he's like I got this song title Digging Up Bones and he's like, well, what does it mean he goes? I don't know but I think it's our job to find out. Yeah, it's brilliant Zoomin things are better left alone. No, but yeah, it's just it's interesting. Like I just love stories. I think I think everybody loves. Or he's and that's one of the things that we're if I if a song kind of lyrically doesn't really make sense and I don't have feel like I'm connected to the story behind it. I kind of check out even if it's something like Old Town Road or which actually love that song. It really grow. It really grows on you. Yeah. I just I love stories and lyrics oh, but I love the story of you had a football injury in high school and were I'm assuming kind of sitting on the couch moping around because it sounds like that football. Was over yeah, it was now like kind of seeing football played up close and how big and strong and like fast and athletic those guys are I never had a shot but I think since brings you were are a big deal in Kingston Springs huge deal in Kingston Springs of the time. There's like five either kids trying to play football and just know I was on oxycontin and I was just I had just had a ACL surgery and I was just high off of my My face and oxycontin is it's an amazing but crazy addictive drug, like my mom like through my pills the pills away like after one or two days of taking it. So I was still in a lot of pain because she was like, I'm not letting you get hooked on these things, but it was like you would take him and days we just go by I could be like you taking me like it would be two days later a bit whoa crazy, but anyways, so on oxycontin and my dad come came in and I was playing a video game. He's like Turn it down game off write a song cause like which I love because he obviously saw the talent in you from a very early age. Yeah, and it was it was one of those things that I always used to do impressions of country singers and he's like, what are you going to sing like you and I was like, well, I don't really know how I sang and that was a whole different thing anyways started writing a song after he's like turn the dang game off write a song and started writing the song and it was like a really dark song. It was like a very like Johnny Cash his first song I had written and was Death row. I mean it was so intricate. I'm kind of wondering if it was the drugs now that were riding this one but it was like it was like the story of this love affair this love affair with this girl who's cheating on this guy and one of the guys she was cheating on like shot her and the guy who was like her boyfriend or husband or whatever founder and cops. Basically, I guess arrested him. He ended up on death row. Basically. It's a dark country song. Yeah. It was a The dark kind of sounds like a very Johnny Cash's like and I played for my damn it. I was like, I love it and so he came back and we finish what we wrote it together and that's just it's so wild I just thinking back to that was my first one. I was looking for like a 17 year old. That's really dark but X is really bubblegum compare. Yeah, I know but I just I just love the stories. Like I just kind of like the fact you can kind of disappear into like your own movie with a song right which is what a lot of great great country artists did like, you know, even like Charlie Daniels, Annuals or like you were saying fancy. I love you. Threw it back too fancy for him. But it really I think has been this journey for you from like that day at 17 to being on Glee to then having more music out to now this project like really finding your voice and what you wanted to say. Yeah, and it was tough for a while because you're on a show where you're saying pop songs and you're you know, you're having to kind of try to sound like the person who's recording it like the, you know, either the demo singer or the pop art. So it's like seeing a different pop songs really hard to figure out how you sing for after a while. You're like I could technically sing like XXX action X and so it's it took me like you don't two or three years just to develop as an artist and what I wanted to do, so, you know, it's it's a process for sure. I mean like that really did come in handy all these Impressions on Glee so I could just be like a chameleon. Yeah, you're just going to start singing like Matthew McConaughey. Hmm. Tell me more about that. For Matthew McConaughey. Okay, so they just had the auto show here in Nashville we go sit in all the new cars. So he's just I was agents like I was watching that Lincoln Navigator. I was that Lincoln Navigator with the are right on it, you know you so smooth. You can't even feel the speed bumps in the road. It's great. I love it that I love that one commercial Irish talking about that ball. He comes out. Shower, she eighteen eighteen hundred pounds to do whatever the hell I want. That's right take long road. Thank you showers because there's like it's like I just you imagine. Can you imagine that pitch meeting pitch meeting for this AB which I think he probably curates it. But which is kind of great because I think there's a longhorn he's a big Longhorn fan. So yeah, so guys I'm thinking Outside of the car there's a bull and it comes head on the car and there's no way this car could take the bull on so the car has to turn around and drive a little bit longer. Here's the police shoot of Italy. I'm just like oh my God, it's Matthew in the room. Right? Because like what is happening also heard you on that Kevin McHale's podcast doing Christopher Walken Christopher walk that way Matthew McConaughey, they both just live in their own world, and I think that's what's so appealing about them to me. You know like my own universe as a woman. I feel like Matthew McConaughey is more appealing than Christopher Walken, but just that I wasn't talking about their sex appeal. I was talking about their their bubble of their own world. Yeah. I mean by the way, the Christopher Walken one of my friends her dad is like an actor of that it was around the time period like Chris Walker Robert De Niro and those guys would go on trips together and she was like, I was going on trips to them as like a little little girl and she said Chris was always just like he said in his own world. World they would be out like and I think in Florida or somewhere and they're out on the golf course and Krista's in a robe, like smoking a cigar apparently and just standing up to his knee in a puddle her and her dad walked by and she goes and he just heard a bit Chris. What are you doing? He's like The water it's it's wet like just like he's like, yeah, well no shit man. So when but like I was like I heard she told me a story and I was just like I died laughing. 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So it's like when I first was, you know a ginseng your publicist was like hey, would you like to talk to quarter of shit in my oh, yeah, so then I'll look you up on Apple music or streaming is like wait, is he released and it is it unreleased but it's under overstressed are history. So, why was there a reason that you It to kind of have a different bit of a break here. Yeah, I mean the reason behind just using my last name on it is because I have like I said, I have two different sized where I love the singer-songwriter stuff. I love the Storyteller thing and I also love rocking out and putting on a show and just having a great time and it's just I wanted also this music to kind of be based on the music first and just kind of like people to not have any expectations and kind of Into it not knowing, you know and kind of have a fresh start as a new music project so I could still have my singer-songwriter stuff and it not be a completely different, you know on the same thing, but I was listening to a lot of just also did a lot of like touring what was just me and acoustic guitar and it's amazing to like really connect with with audiences and like be that into it but I went and saw a lot of really fun shows and that's like a another side of me that I just love making fun upbeat. Yeah music you want just party too and you know have a good time and I tend to write a lot of on the on the acoustic guitar a lot of very heavy heartbreak songs that I went through a phase where there's not heartbroken at all for a while. I was like, I'm sick. I'm having fun. I'm not yeah of care in the world and just party about well, but what I love about that is like so often I feel like the music industry or people just want to put a song writer or an artist and a box and be like, this is what you do in that said, yeah. That's a great way to put it because as opposed to were three dimensional like we're not one-dimensional. I was talking to my friends about this the other day, but I mean the industry is very much a what is what's the sound where they like you said they want to put it in a box. It's like well you could be into making hip-hop music you could be in to make a country music you could be in a doing singer song. You don't people aren't one-dimensional. Right? So like having multiple sides is not like that crazy of a thing to kind of wrap your mind around, but but But if you went into a label or a, you know, a radio station you replace something that was like completely, you know, it might confuse people right? They might be that guy but like people don't really care what they're listening soon as long as they love it and you're inspired by so many different things that I you know, people just want to connect. Yeah and if it's real and if it's a real story for you and you like makes you feel any kind of emotion. I think you just ride the wave well, like you said you're reflecting like where you are at that sir? Point you can write the dark heart broke songwriter songs, but then also you just want to get out and have a good time. And this is a way to do that. Yeah, and honestly like my experiences in life were, you know, obviously growing up in the country and listening to pretty much only classic rock and country music and then moving out to massive City like Los Angeles and your experiences your environment everything around you changes. So it's like how could you not be influenced by different elements, you know, so but those those are still parts of of you and you know, it's kind of music to me is kind of like almost like flipping through a journal. You're kind of just saying. Oh, I remember this part of I remember this so it's like when it's real you never get bored of playing it or singing it because it kind of takes you back to that moment and then you kind of like, oh, I remember what that was like and that feeling and that and I don't think that people like necessarily always connect with the specific stories, but they connect with the emotion behind it nature. It's like, oh I felt that way versus I've I've been on the Chattahoochee Right Way Down Yonder way down here with Chattahoochee. Like it's hotter than a hoochie coochie about a wild Beaver or not editing that out. Sorry Mom when you're listening to this out at home at 2:00 in the morning when you can't sleep sorry. Okay, is that when this airs? Yeah, tell me what you think. It's only one time. You got a you got a small window to catch. Again, so I do want to ask them about you know, the acting part of your career. Do you ever plan to go back and do more? Yeah. Yeah. I'm doing stuff kind of here and there I just got back from Montreal filming something it was it was more. So for me, I mean the music thing just it takes a lot of energy on the time. Yeah, we're after being on something for five or six years. I was like man if I'm gonna do this, I gotta do this now or it'll never happen because it's like it mean you write a hundred songs together. Twenty great ones, you know are good ones. And so it's a process but that's just, you know, three years to get a body of work and then sits still uphill. So it's just like it's just a lot of like working a lot of emotions that you have to put in. So I just I was like, well, I've done this now. I want to try to like really put the time and energy to make something make something great. And so yeah after I've been getting that up off the ground, it's kind of getting its own legs. I'm ready. It's going to get back and doing a bunch of other stuff. So I'm working on a bunch of different things constantly. So just kind of figuring it out as I got all this stream of stuff. You know, I know you can be needing that streaming. My streaming apps actually just streaming apps. I actually I actually just did it click actually just did a couple of funny funny call me things. So for many of the other projects, you've worked on a nineteen wise, what are some of the craziest stories or a favorite memory that you have? I would say A the pp the people you work with and you kind of you learn something from where you get to meet and it's just like really cool and they're really awesome. And you have a like like Kristin Chenoweth was amazing working with her. Ricky Martin's like really cool. So super sweet guy like Stevie Nicks came on set one day and I was just like, I mean, so like that's like really cool. Then Elton John came up to me at like something like forever going like started talking to me and like was Elton John that's like they in what world would I World is this stuff ever happen? Like this is like the coolest shit and then you're you're you're you're learning a lot with the craft as well. Like I would have never got that kind of a experience in any other any other way. I mean like you're literally and thrown into like boot camp, uh performing and you're learning from like the best. So it's just the education was probably my favorite thing from just all the experiences. I've had and then, you know getting to meet really nice new friends and I think It's like learning from your cast mates because you're all sharpening each other. That's biblical. Mmm praises and watching like, you know, like yeah, he's so like getting to like see how Jane Lynch operates. Yeah, I watch her like that's just that's just a thrill it is to like be sitting across from somebody and just like watching them and try just trying not to laugh. It's just it's just like that's that was like probably the one of the funnest experiences because those people are so funny and they're so Now that just like and then one of our writers is he's a really funny actor and really talented writer but he did all the Christopher Guest movies and like he was one of the one of my best friends and he would always kind of like take me under his wing and we go coffee everyday but like when we have brakes and stuff and I learned a lot just from like kind of picking his brain. So there's just like a lot of really valuable valuable stuff you pick up from just being in it when I kind of have to wonder like how do you hold that laughter in like you were just trying desperately cuz it's all about the comedic timing. Well holding it in this hold it in and not react. Well, there's something funny about holding it and when you're holding it and you just train yourself to not like break because you're kind of on the verge and it kind of has this weird energy back and forth between like seeing how long you can kind of go. It kind of charges the other person to kind of try to push you over the edge a little bit and if it doesn't it's it ends up you just have to start thinking about like really miserable things like what I'm trying not to laugh at other people like on you know, you just You kind of do disconnect now. You can also get in a rhythm of trying to like really just like like earlier when the stuff that's probably not going to make this and get it out. You said I'd really dark things with a straight face just to see if you can get a reaction to somebody you get good at that after a while because I'm so sorry you guys are going to miss some of that laughter. What about we're at that level. It takes a while to make you laugh. But I knew that the righteous gemstones was one of the best shows I've seen in forever because I was laughing out loud and then I realized I'm laughing out loud. It's true though, because no Ivy because well now it's like when there's so much content and everything is like funny you get so desensitized to are like that's why comedy is always changing and humors just always it's evolving like if you go back and look at like older, you know comedy like you go from back all the way back to like Milton Berle even well, which nobody else is going to get that reference. It's Google it but he's in the Pee-wee's Big Adventure Jesse great reference, you know, but even like but even like people Wee Herman and then you and then it kind of evolved in you have like the Jim Carrey's of and then you have the Chris Farley's and as far as you have that SNL era and then the Will Ferrell's then you get like the James Franco and Seth Rogen. So it's like it's constantly like you go back and try to remake these older comedies and it's not as funny because it's constantly evolving and it's comedy gets dated really quickly to where it's like it has to always be like, so if you're on a show and you're watching the same stuff you can kind of train yourself to like be a little bit desensitized, but I feel like when Now I feel like with so much coming at us all the time. Sometimes it's just hard to get lost in a show anymore and just completely check out. That's what I loved about the righteous gemstones because I was just like he goes I need you to sit down and watch the so I was traveling last weekend and sit in the hotel and I was like, all right. I'm just gonna I'm gonna check out and I was rolling and I'm like, I just don't do that as much anymore. I feel like it's so funny because that's such a premise. I'm sure we all kind of connect to yeah. Yeah, so there should be from like the South Living in the Bible Belt. I just thought it was I thought it was hysterical. I did have a question though about Glee and the songs of Clues because the way that some of them were recast was really brilliant the way it recast a song so like my favorite song from Glee that is now my favorite over the original is Total Eclipse of the Heart. Yes, because I think Kevin koury and Jonathan's voice is doing the other part made it make more sense for me. But also I just think their vocals are fact. What is your Favorite, I mean there's guess we did 700 ridiculous set on our musical numbers, but that was one of the I think the genius Parts about Ryan is Ryan was able to take music that everybody already had an attachment to and put a new story whether that it kind of like it was almost like he had it. So in a woven with plot of the show and like made it make he made the songs make sense with where the storylines are going. So, yeah, it was almost like he just had a catalog of You know song every amazing song ever recorded and he was like, well this song Fits in the storyline and kind of weirdly tied everything into where you know songs kind of had new meanings after you watched it, which is really cool. Yeah. My favorite song one of my favorite songs of all times is Dreams Fleetwood Mac and that was pretty cool. Especially getting watched like Kristin Chenoweth saying that and I mean, there's just so many talented people we got to work with so it's just really hard to pick. I mean we did that sort. Side, it's song Time After Time. Which great when I was just like one of my favorite songs. Cyndi Lauper Yeah. That was I met her once I met her once and I just sat there and I was like your Cyndi Lauper you like we're very influential on my childhood and upbringing like that's a thing is meeting people that you looked up to your entire life and when they're cool. Yes, it's so disappointing to meet somebody that you like looked up to in your that, you know, they say don't meet your Heroes right and you meet somebody They're either a dick or they're really cool. It's just like it can it can make or break it for you. Has there been one of your Heroes you've met that gave you like a really great piece of advice? Oh, yes, Jimmy Buffett. I got this play the second verse of Margaritaville with him at Show a Cobra Delmar like few years back and I was talking to him about music industry and touring and just picking his brain and he He because he used to write be a writer for billboard right back in the day. When he first moved to Nashville. This is what before Margaritaville obviously and I was asking him kind of like his first like starting of touring and all the sudden. He said we were we were playing gigs and we were opening for the Eagles. Say wow. What a what a crazy the Eagles are crazy tour to be all not be awesome. But you know, he was opening for the Egos and he's like nobody knew who we were and then like a hundred eighty two shows later. We were we were opening for the Goes at like Madison Square Garden or something and nobody really knew who we were a hundred eighty shows where we just pretty much played every day. And then we were headlining and then his his fan base is so ridiculous and just kind of like that's it's such a experience and it's such a it's like its own like my parents are like it's on like tight-knit Circle, but that was one of the things that Jimmy said you just just play just get out there and play just like just push through it and play as many shows. As you can and I just thought that was kind of like really cool coming from him like just to kind of take the time just to even kind of walk me through his experience and like what it was but he was like, yeah, we didn't know we didn't know what we were doing. We were just we just started moving. Let's play play play and then everything else kind of just took care of yourself and that's like and his fan base is probably the most dedicated fan bases. There is like they still like show up in herds. Well, it's like people that follow Buffett. It's like the same car same people in a different way. Yeah. It's a lifestyle. Follow like the Grateful Dead like they will follow him around everywhere ever everywhere Bullpup people go people travel and like with him on tour and go to every single show Absolutely still the way. I mean that's fascinating to me that you can have a fan base. That's that dedicated to you as an artist or they'll go see every show and you're the you you had something special about you were you can grab that many people like that. That was really a really cool piece of advice I got and then I got I got a piece of Advice from on the acting side from one of the directors that changed how I change kind of how I saw things because I was like, I was obsessed with comedy but I wasn't always as funny as I ended up becoming or being or were able to really not about being funny. It's about not giving away the joke, but one of the things he said to me, he's like it's never funny to you. He's like whatever it is because it's the most dire because you want this more than anything and It's the most important thing to you in the world and whatever the circumstances and the fact that it's ridiculous makes it funny. And so I was always start from then on just like become obsessed with like trying to learn that world and becoming like I'm just watching and studying people but you know that I will always use to kind of try to make it make a joke happen like, you know play into it or kind of lean into it, you know, but then you go back and show watching all this like all these all this like comedy that's like just constantly evolving. It's just so it's such a serious serious thing to these guys. Yeah and comedians are actually pretty dark pretty dark individuals. Like my dad. My dad was telling me goes one of his friends was friends with Richard Pryor and he was like, my dad was a huge Richard Pryor friend. He was like Paul you want to come over for dinner? Richard Pryor's coming over the house. He's like well, yeah, he was expecting him to be Richard Pryor and he has he was just really quiet and very like nice and just like soft-spoken and just not what you think at all. I just always thought that was interesting like every comedian I've met Had a little bit like throw a little bit darker. They're not what you think. Yeah. Well, I think too like I have a friend that's a comedian everyone always expects. She like when they see you on the street, they expect you to be hysterical and so it's like if you're just not in that place and that will fare on I was like, I'm not I'm not going to go up and I'm not going to like we're expecting. Yeah. It was just like he was just very like a normal guy that you would never think was funny. It's weird that when people come up like this friend of a friend came out to me and she's like I've seen you on TV Videos with my friend. You're really funny. I'm funny too. And I'm like it's scary because it's so much but it's true though, because well you are really funny but it's always like huh Lord, but it's in the moment. She understands right? I would die. Well, actually I've been trying to get say would you ready numbers to Jennifer Nettles for like them to do in season two because like there's different levels on Jennifer Nettles is the mom. You know, I don't know. I don't know if she's in the amazing and she's in that up. She's in the upcoming movie about our believe Harriet Tubman. She's like a mean slave mistress kind of like Catherine Paulson and 12 years of slave of you're gonna make a joke. We've gone down taught me so many things that's not funny cord. I never thought Jennifer Nettles was funny. No, I'm OK. I met her like forever ago. She was the sweetest. She's one of the sweetest looks everybody from the south is the sweetest. Well your heart less insulin exactly how sweet smiles and nice Compliments are just beat this guy sometimes I mean, I always say like I love and I love everybody and Hunters like you do not love everybody. Well, everybody knows you to southern people can talk more shit than anybody else is just always behind somebody's back. There's people that are like, you know in New York and be like, yeah, we don't like it. You're that is one of the things about living in Los Angeles people just tell you right what they think and I appreciate that because I would rather you be honest with me then. Yeah, then some of the BS that we tried that one up here that was vindictive. That's like the first time I started playing music or somebody like every song you write camping great and you play some songs or probably really really bad and if somebody tells you hey, oh, that's great. Probably gonna write more. More shitty songs, but they're like it's bad. So I got to step it up. I got to do something better and you're going to write that bad song again. So you gotta keep growing step up your game. Yeah. I love it quarter Overstreet of the band Overstreet. Thank you so much. This is so fun. Thank you chord. Yeah, I mean that Matthew McConaughey impression. I just still can't get over it Court. Thank you so much. It was so much fun again. You guys make sure to check out Overstreet the single my ex. You can also check out the article in-flight magazine. It's really really good. You see those photos Hunter was talking about I can't deny. And you can check out the new music from Overstreet as well. The EP that is dropped. You can find us at at all. Our favorite people. You can find me at Ashley Iker you can find Hunter it at Nashville HK, make sure to rate review And subscribe. We don't you guys to miss a single episode. Thanks so much for so much for joining us. I'm just tripping over words today. Do you want anything else all revoir? Thank you guys for joining us and we'll see you next week.
Chord Overstreet is best known for his role as Sam Evans on the hit show GLEE, but it’s his band OVERSTREET and their new alt-pop single “My Ex” that has us really excited about this conversation. Their latest EP, Man on the Moon, is out now. Now based in Los Angeles, Chord grew up in rural Kingston Springs, Tennessee and began writing songs as a teenager with his dad, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Paul Overstreet  (“When You Say Nothing At All”, “Forever and Ever, Amen”). Chord tells us about the process of finding his own musical voice, learning about comedy and performance on the set of GLEE from Jane Lynch and Kristin Chenoweth, and picking up some great career advice from Jimmy Buffett. And get ready for plenty of laughs, too. Between being a master of impersonations (Wait until you hear his impressions of Matthew McConaughey and Christopher Walken!) and his hilarious story about helping deliver goats all by himself on the family farm, Chord is full of surprises. ---   This episode is sponsored by  · Taking Sides - The Marriage Podcast: On Taking Sides - The Marriage Podcast listeners send in their relationship questions, disputes, and current disagreements. 