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Speaker 1: Let's dig into that. Welcome to Z one hundred, where

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Speaker 1: I met you back in the nineteen nineties. But back

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Speaker 1: You were your farting in my studio, were lighting them

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Speaker 1: Guess what the interview is young and we have a

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Speaker 1: lighter Welcome guys, it's so great to have you here.

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Speaker 1: And what's what's wonderful about new kids on the block.

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Speaker 1: It's not only one big ball of energy, it's five

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Speaker 1: It's now eleven balls, So welcome to the show. We've

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Speaker 1: had things to celebrate. Of course, the album Still Kids

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Speaker 1: We're waiting for legal to say we can push the

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Speaker 1: is not an easy task because there were so many

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Speaker 5: Thirteen of them so far, twelve real ones and one

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Speaker 5: We just oh, we all got back yeah, yeah, and

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Speaker 1: What it's like getting back into the studio with each other.

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Speaker 1: Level of importance has been heightened absolutely. What do you think, Gandhi?

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Speaker 10: Okay, So I've been looking at the text messages and

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Speaker 10: and you guys would call us back.

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Speaker 5: We have a new one free, oh free this time.

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Speaker 10: Because my parents had like a four hundred dollars bill

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Speaker 5: Could bring on that our new ones free. So what

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Speaker 5: we do is we pull out our phones whenever we're

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Speaker 5: doing something fun like I'm doing. Hey, everyone, welcome to

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Speaker 5: the new Free New Kids hotline. We're hair at the

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Speaker 5: Elvis Durant show and yeah, everyone say hi, it's just

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Speaker 3: It's free.

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Speaker 5: We're not getting any money, so you won't be getting

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Speaker 1: That's number, by the way, what is it? What?

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Speaker 5: One eight eight six zero New Kids Complete Team one

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Speaker 5: zero one eight six zero New Kids. Yeah, but it's free.

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Speaker 5: It's free, and you hear messages from us all the

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Speaker 3: Good Bye everyone.

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Speaker 1: That's so cool.

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Speaker 4: I think Pink famously got grounded actually for spending so

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Speaker 10: So did Pria Gandhi, sorry listening, I tried.

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Speaker 1: So I know. Uh, you're leaving after this interview, Donnie

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Speaker 1: to go do some work with Blue Bloods. I think

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Speaker 1: you're doing some some promotional today. But yeah, but Blue

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Speaker 1: Bloods is actually shooting at Lee's tavern an in Staten

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Speaker 5: Go have a clampie, I could call Blue Blood's and

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Speaker 3: I can try.

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Speaker 4: I thought maybe we can even name it after you

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Speaker 4: Elvis's Clampie.

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Speaker 1: That video was done years ago, but thanks for asking.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Let's talk about your schedule now. I

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Speaker 5: No, new kids is the foundation. You know, none of

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Speaker 5: and they still have our back after all these years

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Speaker 5: you know, it's expanded so much, but New Kids is

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Speaker 1: I must make an assumption here, and I know I

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Speaker 1: It's you one hundred for twenty seven years. So when

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Speaker 8: In the past few years we've seen more, you know,

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Speaker 8: And yeah that too, and a lot of people say, like,

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Speaker 5: Appeal absolutely, I think if I can add to it's

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Speaker 1: Kind of wonder, like what artists new artists are we

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Speaker 4: Can five teenagers cramming into a car driving down from

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Speaker 1: I mean that right there was enough to you know,

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Speaker 4: to show up, you know, to pay back and see

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00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,240
Speaker 4: see what else is you know around the corner as well.

438
00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:56,920
Speaker 1: Hitting that payment, would you ever want to go back

439
00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 1: to that day ever again?

440
00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:58,120
Speaker 5: Yes?

441
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:06,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, really, yes, yeah, yeah, Jonathan, Yeah, no, no, definitely, definitely, yes, yeah.

442
00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 1: Those are those are wild days. Man.

443
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,080
Speaker 4: We're talking to Times Square for the first time and

444
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,440
Speaker 4: in nineteen eighty five, right, Yeah.

445
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,760
Speaker 5: It's a lot more fun walking into a New York

446
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,240
Speaker 5: radio station and having a few people welcome you in

447
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 5: instead of a few people saying, who the hell are you?

448
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 1: Get the hell out of here.

449
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 3: It's definitely more fun.

450
00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:29,480
Speaker 5: But what makes it special now is when Joey just

451
00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:31,919
Speaker 5: telling those stories, when we remember, you know, if we

452
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,159
Speaker 5: don't forget that struggle and those tough times and what

453
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,800
Speaker 5: it took to get here. You know, I I rarely

454
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 5: walk into a place that I used to not be

455
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:43,240
Speaker 5: able to get into without going, wow, I'm blessed, you know,

456
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 5: how lucky am I? I mean, that's that's what it's

457
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,680
Speaker 5: it's about. Is you got to remember the journey.

458
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:50,040
Speaker 3: And you know, you.

459
00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,719
Speaker 5: Said we were like and I know you didn't mean

460
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,120
Speaker 5: in a bad way, but like five superstar kids when

461
00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 5: you first met icine, like yeah, and fortunately, after all

462
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,879
Speaker 5: these years, we remember the journey, and we respect the journey,

463
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:04,840
Speaker 5: and it makes us grateful to be here. You're still

464
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 5: on the journey. That's absolute, still on the journey. All right,

465
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,119
Speaker 5: let's talk about the album. All right, So Still Kids

466
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 5: is out tomorrow. It's an album of songs that do

467
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 5: what what.

468
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:16,880
Speaker 1: Are these songs?

469
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 3: I mean, make you feel good?

470
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 1: Okay, make you feel a lot. Is there a filter

471
00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 1: that each song needed to go through in order to

472
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 1: make it on this album? I think it's kind of

473
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:27,440
Speaker 1: I mean a little, I mean a little.

474
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 5: Bit, but well, I would say there wasn't a filter,

475
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 5: Like we sat down and said that doesn't feel right.

476
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:34,119
Speaker 3: I think we were.

477
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 5: We were writing and singing and recording from a space

478
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 5: of feeling.

479
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:40,040
Speaker 3: You know.

480
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,639
Speaker 5: It's a lot of love and heart and you know,

481
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 5: in some ways it's a nostalgic album. In other ways,

482
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 5: it's a reflective album. In other ways it's a it's

483
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 5: a very contemporary album. It's it has a lot of layers,

484
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 5: but it's very cohesive and I my experience to the

485
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,919
Speaker 5: couple of fans I sneak previeated too. It's in a

486
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:05,640
Speaker 5: emotional rollercoaster, but all very it has a symmetry, if

487
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,679
Speaker 5: that's the right word. I don't know.

488
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 1: I think I think you know, lyrically too.

489
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,359
Speaker 4: You know, we get to have all the fields on

490
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 4: the music, but lyrically we get to you know, speak

491
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 4: to you know, our generation and the life we've lived

492
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:22,400
Speaker 4: and also have fun at the same time and then

493
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 4: have one of the you know, our first single was Kids,

494
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,320
Speaker 4: but we we gave like a free download on New

495
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 4: Kids on the block day of a song Jordan sing's

496
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 4: love like this, which is it's it's absolutely classic, you

497
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,160
Speaker 4: know what I mean. It's it's Jordan and I doing

498
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,719
Speaker 4: his thing and the fields are just instant. It's just

499
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:45,040
Speaker 4: like bam, you know, and we have those moments along

500
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,439
Speaker 4: the way in the album, but we also stretch and

501
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 4: grow because that's the stuff that gets you excited, you

502
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 4: know what I mean, to try and stretch and yeah,

503
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,199
Speaker 4: it was it was fun. I mean again, Donnie, you know,

504
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,479
Speaker 4: kicked it off and you know when I had stepped

505
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 4: in with my buddy Sean who who wrote a bunch

506
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,399
Speaker 4: of songs with me for the album. You know, it

507
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 4: was just fitting into that vibe, you know what I mean,

508
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,400
Speaker 4: and making something cohesive.

509
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:13,400
Speaker 1: But that spoke to our very long history. What about you, John,

510
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 1: this album, anything in particular that sticks out for you

511
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 1: while listening to this album. Have you heard the album?

512
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 4: Are you?

513
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 3: Are you a secret block? Are you a secret?

514
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 6: Yeah?

515
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,199
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll get to it. John's like, I'll get to

516
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 1: it one day.

517
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 6: No, I have heard it. I did it when it

518
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 6: was done.

519
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 1: I'll show you.

520
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 4: I'll show you a picture from from a text from John,

521
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,199
Speaker 4: just just to prove it. But he of of you

522
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,159
Speaker 4: texted me the other day of him listening to a

523
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 4: song called come Back, and.

524
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,159
Speaker 1: He was like, I love love love you know what

525
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 1: I mean.

526
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 3: That is a.

527
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: Big high praise from John. Okay from his.

528
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 4: Pickup truck on his phone. You know he's stealing it

529
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 4: if he's gonna stop and take a picture. So yeah,

530
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 4: he's We all have our favorites.

531
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: What about you? Dan? Danny and he thought about this album.

532
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 7: I just thought it was great that, you know, two

533
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,919
Speaker 7: guys in the group were writing in two separate places,

534
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,119
Speaker 7: but then the songs coexist on the album and sound

535
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,120
Speaker 7: like either one of them could have wrote each other songs.

536
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 7: So they weren't interesting. Yeah, they were writing and everything

537
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 7: just works together. And it was great when Joe came

538
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 7: with his songs because it kind of was like more energy.

539
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 7: And then Donnie wrote a few more that brought more energy.

540
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,639
Speaker 7: So for me, it was watching that and being a

541
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 7: part of it was great. And finally, Jordan, what do

542
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 7: you think this album?

543
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:45,160
Speaker 1: Not a fan?

544
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 2: No, no, you know it's funny, like you know, like

545
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 2: we're older now, I guess, you know. But like you

546
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 2: see a lot of times you see, like I've seen it,

547
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,879
Speaker 2: older bands or bands have been for thirty years, they'll

548
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 2: come up with an album and it's like, I don't know,

549
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 2: they hired the latest producer, and it's kind of like,

550
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,880
Speaker 2: it's not it doesn't feel right, you know. And this

551
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 2: album is not like that. It's not like us trying.

552
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 2: It's not us trying to be something. It's like it

553
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 2: found the beautiful medium of like sounding very contemporary but

554
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 2: sounding very us Like. The lyrics are grown lyrics, like

555
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 2: stuff that we go through. It's not like trying to

556
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 2: cater to young kids.

557
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,360
Speaker 8: But young kids will still like it because it has

558
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 8: a contemporary sound.

559
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 1: All right, well we have I have Okay, we could

560
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: play Kids right now, which is everyone's heard Kids. But

561
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: Magic is the song that has not been released yet.

562
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 1: I'd rather get through.

563
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 5: You get all the inside scoops, so you might as

564
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 5: well do whatever you want at this.

565
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: Point, he's gonna do it anyway, Donnie, are we breaking

566
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: any laws here? If you say yes, it makes it

567
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 1: more fun.

568
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,879
Speaker 5: You're sort of find your status in blockhood lore forever

569
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 5: right now?

570
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 3: Is that what I'm doing?

571
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 5: Oh your questions? You're playing of a song? Yeah, you're

572
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 5: You're locked in forever, you know.

573
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 4: Obviously it's a tie into our tour this summer, the

574
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,439
Speaker 4: Magic Summer Tour. And so the first two tracks on

575
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 4: the album are Magic one and the next one is

576
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:19,880
Speaker 4: Summer Love.

577
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 1: So you got the Magic Summer Love.

578
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 4: Just a little inside, okay, sort of like a you know,

579
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 4: like a swifty thing, you know what I mean.

580
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: There's we have Easter eggs too. Yeah, absolutely, you do. Okay,

581
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 1: here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna We're gonna play

582
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,199
Speaker 1: Kids and Magice. I'm gonna play them both at the

583
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: same time. What do you think I'm gonna play Magic first? Guys,

584
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: I cannot thank you enough for spending time with us today.

585
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: What an honor to have you in our house, to

586
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: be here, and thanks for not lighting your farts on fire,

587
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: even the part of me screetly wished you would one

588
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: text and then we'll let you go. I'm a retired

589
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: NYPD detective. One of my favorite memories is working in

590
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: uniform Thanksgiving Day parade. Joey was on a float you

591
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: look down and waved. Of course, he was my favorite.

592
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: I was screaming and jumping up and down, completely forgetting

593
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: I was working in uniform. The audience was laughing at

594
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 1: one of my best memories of being on the New

595
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 1: York City Police Department. That was two thousand and one.

596
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 8: Ish.

597
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I know you guys are busy before

598
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 1: we play your music. I have a question. We have

599
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: this thing every year called the iHeartRadio Music Festival to

600
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. I don't answer now because I know you

601
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:37,959
Speaker 1: gotta look at your count. We've never been invited to that.

602
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: You're now invited. What I'm officially on a hope and

603
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: they can fire me. Fine, I'm worth more fire than

604
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 1: higher and let me go. iHeart Gods. I would like

605
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: to officially invite you. I want you to look at

606
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: your calendars, have the managers talk to the managers, you know,

607
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: all that be as it, and let's see if we

608
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: can get you out in Vegas for the incredible, most

609
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: incredible two days of music in Las Vegas with the

610
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: art we do music questo.

611
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 3: We don't answer.

612
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: That's incredible, but if you could entry.

613
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 8: Yes, we're not answering this weekend.

614
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 3: No, no, September in September.

615
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 1: September is it? Is it?

616
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 4: Is it a steak or chicken thing or a fish

617
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 4: or beating.

618
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: The chicken box?

619
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 5: No, no, Robert chickens, you're septem None of us are answering,

620
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 5: but we're all smiling.

621
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 3: If you and you have a camera to prove it.

622
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: All go And if we could get John off the

623
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: farm for the crops are down by September, you're down.

624
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: This should be available. I'm just out there. Let me

625
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: give it to you. Good still kids. The album is

626
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: out tomorrow. You've heard kids. We're gonna play it up

627
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 1: for you in a second. But Magic is the song

628
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: that's released tomorrow. We're gonna play it for you now

629
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: because what the hell, because New Kids on the

630
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:01,360
Speaker 6: Don that