Josh Groban

Naked Lunch

Straw Hut Media

Arts, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.9 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Phil & David feel raised up and charmed by this funny and fascinating "Lunch" with multi-platinum singer, songwriter, actor Josh Groban. Days before he takes the stage at The Hollywood Bowl with the Hollywood Phil, Josh comes over to Phil's house near Hollywood to tell amazing stories about how he got his first big break singing with Celine Dion at a Grammy rehearsal, about his latest career retrospective collections of "Gems" and about his strong comedic chops that many first discovered when he sang Kanye West's tweets for Jimmy Kimmel. Josh, Phil and David all also discuss their shared love for Stephen Sondheim. To learn more about Josh, go to https://www.joshgroban.com. To learn more about building community through food and "Somebody Feed the People," visit the Philanthropy page at philrosenthalworld.com

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0:00.0	Well, good afternoon, David. It's late in the day for us. It is. This is a naked
0:07.6	free snack. Yeah, naked drink. But we have a gem of a guest because he has a series of gems
0:17.6	is his latest anthology. He has an expanded edition of gems and then coming out in a few weeks,
0:24.8	I think,
0:25.2	hidden gems.
0:26.3	A lot of gems.
0:27.6	Yeah.
0:28.4	It's nice.
0:29.9	Uh,
0:30.2	what was the Adam Sandler movie?
0:32.5	What do you mean?
0:33.3	The Adam Sandler movie where he,
0:35.1	he played a...
0:39.3	Uncut gems.
0:41.3	Oh, thank you, Xavier. Yes, but no, it's interesting.
0:43.3	You, I remember I did not get to see Josh and Sweeney Todd.
0:47.3	You did, I did.
0:48.3	We can talk about that.
0:49.3	It was amazing.
0:50.3	And he's just one of the great voices of our time, I think.
0:56.1	Yes, and I think he's playing the... I will not sit here and have you denigrate his
1:00.2	voice with your silly uncut gems jokes. No, the funny thing about not denigrating his
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