JB- Let's get to some listener's e-mails. Samantha writes, "Do you have any pets?"

CM- You know, I love pets and I love animals, and I always grew up with dogs in the house. In fact, we had to . . .  My one dog passed away that I had since before high school. It was really old and died when I was on American Idol, so that was tragic, and I haven't ever gotten a new puppy. But my parents have a dog at the house. It's hard for me when I'm travelling, but one day I'll be a little bit more settled. A bunch of dogs running around in the house.

JB- I did just get a new puppy, a new golden retriever, if you want me to send him over.

CM- Oh that's the cutest thing in the whole world. You got to train them when they're very young 'cause they get really erratic, those dogs.

JB- I've gone through more Band-Aids in the last three months than I have in my entire life.

CM- From biting or . . .

JB- From the teeth and the claws.

CM- Oh, wow.

JB- Yeah, and no more new furniture in my house. I've learned that lesson, too.

CM- Yeah. That, too. You come home and everything's just ripped up. But so soon enough, hopefully, I'll get a dog and maybe I'll get a girlfriend, too.

JB- Oh, we just took care of Jackie's question here: "Are you single?"

CM- I am single. Listen, and I've had a lot of fun, but I work a lot. It's tough getting to know a girl and leaving town for four months or something. So I'm pretty available. I've been dating. Why? Is she single? (laughing)

JB- I'll have to find out. Well, why don't we do that? We'll have you on the show and maybe we'll do a dating game and we'll hook you up with somebody and then report back to us how it goes?

CM- That sounds great.

JB- We'll get in touch with Jackie and see. Jen wants to know: "You've been on many stages before. Which do you prefer? The Broadway stage or the concert stage?

CM- Hmm. Not to be like the nerdy artsy, craft guy with this kind of response, but I really do think it's true. Any stage for me is the best stage, and I approach . . . Whether I'm doing Shakespeare of musical comedy or putting on a rock 'n' roll concert or doing an intimate acoustic show for 50 people, I think you need to approach and prepare yourself for each time as if it were your last, really. You want to put the best show on. You want to connect with every single person in the audience and get them off. Every rock star's ever said that and I'm no rock star, but you have to prepare and you owe it to the audience as well. They've come, they've paid to come and see you. They want your best. They want everything you have, so even when I'm doing Broadway eight times a week, each night is a new adventure for me, and you have to find new things to make it interesting for yourself even, to get through those eight shows a week. It can be monotonous, but when you're finding new choices and new journeys each night, that's when it's thrilling. It's a lot of fun, man. Any stage, really.

JB- I'll pass that on to Jackie, "getting off the audience" you said.

CM- (laughing) I pass out tissues out the end.

JB- Bonnie saying maybe a mop.

CM- Yeah, well, you know? (laughing)

JB- Wow, where do you go from there? Now in doing that you want to feel your best, you want to give your best performance. You also want to look your best. Tell me - everyone wants to know - will you ever cut your hair short?

CM- Oh, yeah. Definitely. I've had my hair short before. It grows like weeds. I think the last time I had it short was probably maybe 2001. I remember, because that was my last year in school. I had it short for a few projects at school, and absolutely. If the right role came along and I needed it short. I have no problems cutting it off. I don't think anyone in the world would ever recognize me again, which could be a good thing. (laughing) But I think I've become known for my long hair now. It's gone through stages of longness, but I cut it kind of short recently. It's like a medium sort of long hair now. But, yeah, man if the right thing . . .  I'm not married to it.

JB- You could be out drinking with Paula Abdul and nobody would recognize you.

CM- Well, that would be fine. We'd have a good ol' time.

JB- Now does her breath smell like booze when you talk to her after the show or no?

CM- (laughing) Absolutely not. She takes a lot of heat, but she's such a lovely, lovely woman and very supportive and really down-to-earth. She's just a very sweet person and doesn't deserve all of the heat that she gets. But I'll tell you this: I think she's 10 steps ahead of all of us, because she's laughing all the way to the bank.

JB- But she sees a different show than we do.

CM- You're mean the widely talked about mishap on the show about the two songs and Jason Castro et cetera.

JB- Yeah, what was the drink special that night?

CM- (laughing) I think it was Mediterranean cocktail of sorts, because I was fortunate enough. . . . I was backstage as the show ended, and I had my celebrities lined up to interview and all that stuff, and I got a chance to get the exclusive with her. I'm in the middle of interviewing with this . . . What's up guys? Um, I'm actually hanging out by the pool right now, so people are finally starting to migrate down to the pool after a long night in L.A.

JB- It's noon for the record.

CM- I got an exclusive with her, which was really nice. She came over and was, like, "I wanted to set the record straight. I want Constantine to interview me." Then we served it out to every major media outlet in the world basically. So our little Fox American Idol Extra got some pretty incredible coverage that night, because I got the exclusive. But I think in the end, she didn't really correct what she wanted to say, or she didn't really correct what happened. Basically what happened was this - I think you guys know - but the judges sometimes either get a feed in their trailer, watch a little bit of the rehearsal, get a sense of what the show's going to be or sometimes Paula will pop her head in there. No big deal. I think they gave them a heads-up that they're going to be doing two songs without a critique, so to take notes, and she must've done that during the dress rehearsal and then started talking about the second song, which of course, we hadn't heard yet. Then she sort of bought into the whole thing, "Well, this is hard." Blah, blah, blah. It just became a classic Paula moment. I just think that just makes it bigger and better when stuff like that happens. I certainly . . . At least me falling on my butt a couple of years ago at the Idol finale was probably one of the most watched bloopers in Idol history. I see it on, like, every TV show.

JB- It's on my screen right now. Yeah.

CM- You know, it humanizes you. Sure, people crack jokes. I can't you how many girls came up to me and said, "Oh, my God. I thought that was the cutest thing when that happened, and I just thought you were so sweet about it, and it makes you real," and all that stuff. I was like, "Cool." (laughing) So it's what it is. It's no big deal. No one's perfect.

JB- Bonnie just went to go grab the mop. I'm not sure what she's doing.

CM- Uh, oh.

JB- I think you're getting. . . You did "the look" just now, didn't you?!

CM- Is she a gusher?

JB- She's 57.

CM- But those are hard to find.

JB- She's 57 and a grandmother, so I'm not too sure.

CM- (laughing) That's a little crazy.