at times. I'm Tracy. Nice to I haven't met you yet, but everyone else has met. Yeah, everyone else has met except Tracy. It's all good though. So, we are with the one and only Charlie Puth at Jingle Ball, first one in Dallas.

On my good side, too. This is the eyebrows. I knew. I knew. Yeah, you're very smart. This is my good side. So we we worked out really well with that, right?

We should just interview. We totally planned that. Forever and ever. Fine, I'm I'm totally fine with that. Um, I was just saying Young Hollywood loves you. We've been following you everywhere. But this is the first time I've actually meeting you. I'm like behind on this game right now. Is this is it is it like underwhelming at all? Or is it like It's it's what I thought.

It's what you thought. Perfect. In a very good way.

Oh, he's actually kind of boring. You know what I heard though? I heard that when you were in our studio, you were trying to get to like some butterfingers and a candy bowl and you broke the candy bowl?

I'm sorry, yeah. I did break the candy bowl. It kind of, you know, a little crack, but um I I Butterfinger is my favorite candy and um I had to. It was. We had it. We had it. I get barbaric when it's time for candy. I have some Reese's in my hotel freezer.

Freezer. Interesting. Is freezing candy, is that like a thing for you? Is it better that way?

Have you never froze Reese's before?

I have not. What are you talking about? So many things I'm learning from Charlie tonight. Freezing Reese.

Yeah, but they know this. Get Reese's peanut butter cups and put it in a freezer.

Do you guys know about freezing Reese's? Do my nieces? You guys should come in right now. You should come in. Wait. They've been waiting for this moment. Do you guys know about freezing Reese's peanut butter cups? Putting them in the freezer and then eating them. It's delicious, isn't it? Have you never done it? I do like chocolates, so. Okay, this is clearly not a Texas thing. That's okay. Eden, do you do this? Um, no. Okay. Well, I mean, that's what Well, then Eden and I Eden and I need to do a candy party. With with Charlie.

put it in the freezer right now. You have to be like me and just put a bunch in like whatever. It's all good. You guys are all. No, you're you're still invited back to the studio. You can break as many candy balls as you want.

You don't hate me for breaking. I I don't hate you at all. I like you to break a million more. I like this a lot. It's very s and nice and matching. It's cool. So, and then you've had an incredible year. Incredible year.

It feels incredible. I get to I get to play from playing, you know, to 10 people to 20,000.

How many people are here tonight? A lot of people. You guys know the exact number, right? The exact There are a lot of screaming girls like this. They are part of that screaming crowd. Yeah. Who are you excited to see tonight? I mean, there's so many people.

Well, I was outside and I heard um perfect by One Direction, which is my favorite song. And um yes, I rushed out and just you know, I was like the only like dude screaming along.

You know what's funny is I I actually I've been causing trouble up in hotel rooms. I we rushed out to see it too and then I heard you were coming out. I'm like rushing back. I'm like, I can't miss Charlie. We should have coordinated the rushing. coordinated there was a lot of rushing going on. But we're here. We're here and that's all that matters. Exactly. So, and then AMAs. Let's talk about the AMAs for what happened at the AMAs.

What happened at the AMAs did not stay at the AMAs. As far as I know, I just performed and then I walked off stage, had a donut and went to bed.

And you just uh had a little smooch sesh with uh Megan Trainer.

about that. Yeah. Um no, that was um that was part of the performance. We had to uh, you know, make out with uh my best friend. So a little harder than uh you'd expect, but uh

It was it was an incredible performance and an incredible ending.

Well, thank you. Thank you. Um no, it was really uh I I was really happy with that performance. It was wearing a cool pretty cool jacket that night. So shout out to my stylist Michael. Shout out right there.

Um and then debut album. Coming out.

Nine track mind comes out January 29th. I'm sorry for the delay. I kept pushing it back and pushing it back. It was supposed to come out a little while ago, but I wasn't done with it yet.

You're keeping us like hanging on this, right? You have to come back to the studio when that comes out. Yeah, absolutely. And last question, let's get into the holiday spirit. If you had to pick any celebrity to be your Secret Santa, who would it be? Is it Meghan Trainer?

I mean, I don't think Megan's here this year, but like I get to see her um tomorrow. Um no, who would be my Secret Santa? Um, wait, what is a Secret Santa?

You give gifts. It's like a gift exchange thing. Right? Like so like if you got a present from someone that was a secret, who would you love for it to be from?

Maybe can I can I say Ariana Grande? Because

Totally can.

Ariana Grande probably have like this really like intricate gift with like, you know, like uh like glitter and stuff and whatever it is, I would be like, wow, this is really, really delicate looking. I want I don't want to like discard of this. I want to put it on a shelf. Um and I would give her like, you know, a

What would you give her?

Uh one of those holiday cakes that everyone throws out anyway.

This is a little too much. You don't like holiday cake? That could happen. No, have you ever had a holiday cake before?

I have not. You've never had You had a holiday cake? You've never had a holiday cake?

I need to party with Charlie for the holidays. Fruitcake is horrendous. It's awful. But it's fruitcake at the same time you have to have it. You guys holiday? Nope. Now. It's not good, but it's a holiday tradition. Okay, that's what's holiday tradition. You have a lot of amazing holiday. Sorry, I was talking over you because I'm so into the Christmas spirit right now. Okay, well, congratulations on everything. Have fun tonight performing and Jingle Ball Charlie Puth. It's all you need to know. Jingle Ball Charlie Puth. I don't know what I'm saying. Yeah. And that's a wrap.