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Speaker 1: Welcome to two oh one with A J. McClain. I

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Speaker 1: was talking about talking about you, I guess yesterday, because

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Speaker 1: we were in Vegas and you guys were performing, and

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Speaker 1: I was just chilling because I was about to go

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Speaker 1: and I see you come on stage, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: something wrong with a J Like they're about to go on,

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Speaker 1: like thirty seconds he's coming up and you come up.

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Speaker 1: You're like, what up? And then you run up and

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Speaker 1: like almost right in time, there you go on. I well,

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Speaker 1: I saw you and I was like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: I gotta go see about you. It's like I would

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Speaker 1: seeing you in like forever, and I hadn't had a

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Speaker 1: chance to congratulate you on the mirror ball and all

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Speaker 1: these different things, so I'm like, yo, I have to

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Speaker 1: go say hi. And knowing most of these radio shows

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Speaker 1: were like at least twenty minutes behind, and that there

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Speaker 1: was a major sound issue. I guess Kama Cabello was

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Speaker 1: bit worried. So we're like, okay, let's just hold off

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Speaker 1: until we get ours right. And then literally like you're

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Speaker 1: pretty much spot on. As soon as I said, hi,

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Speaker 1: do you? I went went up and it was like

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Speaker 1: and then you and I was like, man, that got

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Speaker 1: cut the clothes, gotta go, Like you must do that

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Speaker 1: so much that he's got no fear just often on.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty much par for the course for me with

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Speaker 1: my entire life as as of late, things have been

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Speaker 1: going fantastic. We're super blessed um. But it's been go,

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Speaker 1: for the DNA World Tour, Like We've just been going, going, going,

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Speaker 1: So I'm just trying to find the time for me now,

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Speaker 1: so you know, and we'll we'll get back to the

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Speaker 1: backstreet stuff later. I'm curious about a lot of the

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Speaker 1: new stuff that you're doing too, And why don't we

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Speaker 1: start there because you're in Nashville now, you're at my

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Speaker 1: house obviously, so why are you here now? I literally

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Speaker 1: just got off a plane. I appreciate that. And it's

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Speaker 1: funny like when you're like, dude, I've I've I've got

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Speaker 1: one day and I'm like, okay, cool, one day. I'll

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Speaker 1: be here for like about eight or nine, and then

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Speaker 1: my management's like, yeah, so it's gonna happen as soon

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Speaker 1: as you land. I'm like, okay, I literally going that's fine,

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Speaker 1: let's go. So Land shot right over here. But I'm

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Speaker 1: actually here in town finishing up my my debut country

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Speaker 1: solo record. So I'll be actually in the studio most

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Speaker 1: of the week. Um, going to a pre taping of

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Speaker 1: the CMA Christmas Special tomorrow. Um, I'm gonna go see

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Speaker 1: bridgetone I am. Yeah, so, uh, just kind of a work,

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Speaker 1: casual work week, you know, like when I'm coming to Nashville.

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Speaker 1: To me, it's it's it's it's more about just leisure

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Speaker 1: have fun this week. This is going a nice little

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Speaker 1: breather for me. I wonder being super successful with I

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Speaker 1: looked at up here selling thirty million records or so,

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Speaker 1: to starting over again, to having people again I've seen

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Speaker 1: a weird juxtaposition of I just saw you played a

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Speaker 1: which was a bunch of like local publishing people and

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Speaker 1: Spent about eight months out here on on and off again,

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Speaker 1: And too, you know, country music tells tells you know stories,

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Speaker 1: the upside downs, fun songs, good songs, sad songs. Country

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Speaker 1: music is the perfect outlet for that. And I've made

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Speaker 1: that country music compared to pop music, like, there's so

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Speaker 1: much more competition, I feel in the pop genre. Country

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Speaker 1: you get ten hours to go on the same tour together,

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Speaker 1: it's all about who has the most followers, who has

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Speaker 1: I just want to get away from that for you

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Speaker 1: if you will. You bring up the Florida Georgia Line stuff.

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Speaker 1: How how did that in your world come together? Like

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Speaker 1: how did you hear about it and get brought into it?

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Speaker 1: So Nick used to live here in Franklin about five

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Speaker 1: backstreets back in their show and we're like, noother not

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Speaker 1: but it's country radio. It's like, what is going on

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Speaker 1: So there was talks briefly for us to possibly do

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Speaker 1: our anniversary album as a country record, but we collectively

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Speaker 1: you know? But and we've actually had songs over the

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Speaker 1: songs like Drowning, save Us, Place to Hide, Help Us

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Speaker 1: What then? What was that? Night Visions was the official

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Speaker 1: this will be on the record. Um, this was my

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Speaker 1: it's got some major twists and turns. And uh, my

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Speaker 1: my my handrew tide. But um, Night Visions was a

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Speaker 1: So to me was a nice kind of, like I said,

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Speaker 1: That was the craziest day because it was the first

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00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,000
Speaker 1: time any artists that were shut Downtime Square. We left.

426
00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:13,800
Speaker 1: We we did a live performance from the rooftop of

427
00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,600
Speaker 1: the Viscom building and then literally after we left, TRL

428
00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,320
Speaker 1: walked right next door and saw the premiere of episode

429
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:23,200
Speaker 1: one Star Wars and sat next to George Lucas. It

430
00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,639
Speaker 1: was the most surreal day in my life because I'm

431
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:30,200
Speaker 1: a huge Star Wars fan and to like have this

432
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,040
Speaker 1: moment happened all in the same day was just insane.

433
00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:37,680
Speaker 1: But I was still living in Florida, so I had

434
00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,320
Speaker 1: the same mall that I would go to back when

435
00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 1: we used to call the the you know States, no

436
00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,000
Speaker 1: fan land. Because we blew up in Europe first Europe

437
00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,120
Speaker 1: and the rest of the world, and we come back

438
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:52,000
Speaker 1: to the States. It was like crickets um. And then

439
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,480
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I'm at my my typical mall

440
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,920
Speaker 1: that I would go to every single weekend, and now

441
00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,240
Speaker 1: things have changed and it kind of hit me like, whoa,

442
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:04,879
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I can't go out anymore. But I'm the

443
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,639
Speaker 1: opposite of some of my bandmates. I don't mind the attention.

444
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:09,640
Speaker 1: I'll stop and take the pictures. I'll stop and take

445
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,760
Speaker 1: you know. The only the only time I don't want

446
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:13,960
Speaker 1: to really be bothered is when I'm eating. Plus, nobody

447
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 1: wants to watch anyone eat. It's not that flattering, you

448
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,119
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So, but I'll I will always

449
00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:21,080
Speaker 1: stop even if I'm in a bad mood, doesn't matter.

450
00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 1: For that one moment, you're changing someone's life, You're making

451
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 1: somebody happy, You're bringing someone joy. You know. I don't

452
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:29,920
Speaker 1: look at what I do as a job. I look

453
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,160
Speaker 1: at it as a privilege. I get to bring joy

454
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 1: and happiness for two hours a night, whether it's solo,

455
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,560
Speaker 1: whether it's with the group. Let those people forget about

456
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:41,320
Speaker 1: their job, their boss, whatever it is, and just come

457
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: out and just enjoy good music. That's what brings me happiness.

458
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,320
Speaker 1: So it's a it's an honest to God privilege, and

459
00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:49,400
Speaker 1: I couldn't be more grateful. How do you meet your wife?

460
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,439
Speaker 1: She was a bartender waitress at Saddle Ranch on Sunset boulevard. Um,

461
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,960
Speaker 1: how long he has been together? Ten years? Ten years together? Um?

462
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,679
Speaker 1: And uh when one day on a Sunday morning, um,

463
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 1: which is you know they have the food, there's amazing.

464
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:06,920
Speaker 1: And I have written the bull. If you're if you've

465
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:08,960
Speaker 1: ever been to Saddle Ranch, I have actually written the ball.

466
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:11,240
Speaker 1: I had the record until a couple of years ago.

467
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 1: I held on for twenty eight seconds, uh before they

468
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: threw me off. But she was working my you know table,

469
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 1: and I she just she just caught my eye, and uh,

470
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 1: we started talking. I asked her out. She said she

471
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 1: was single and cool. She claims she didn't know who

472
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,200
Speaker 1: I was, which I think is a bunch of bs um.

473
00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 1: And then and when she found out who I was,

474
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,200
Speaker 1: she panicked. Our first day was supposed to be dinner

475
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 1: in a movie. I just had three long nights in

476
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 1: the studios. So I was like, what about just I

477
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 1: make dinner at the house and we'll watch something at

478
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,440
Speaker 1: my house. And she's probably thinking, oh your house. I

479
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:49,400
Speaker 1: know you genuinely did not think that. So she made

480
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 1: up some weird story and then it just never ended

481
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:56,120
Speaker 1: up happening. Two years went by, I ended up dating

482
00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: someone else. Thank god. It fell apart, went back in.

483
00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 1: She had quit for that two years, went back in,

484
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: saw her again, asked her out again, left to go

485
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: on tour, like immediately after I asked her out, but

486
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 1: she waited. In March twenty two thousand nine was our

487
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 1: very first date and we've been together ever since and

488
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 1: have two beautiful kids. She's my rock. She's amazing. She

489
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 1: she deserves every award in the world to put up

490
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 1: with my antics and has put up with me for

491
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: the last ten years. So hats off to her. So

492
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 1: no secret stash of back Backstreet Boy posters that you found.

493
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 1: She was an in sync fan. She liked well. She

494
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 1: she she liked they're dancing better and liked our singing better.

495
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 1: But there's a photo of her at our Black and

496
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,879
Speaker 1: Blue tour. She was seventeen years old. She drove her

497
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,720
Speaker 1: friends out to Vegas from Santa Clarita in California, up

498
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 1: in the nosebleeds, and I always asked her, I'm like, so,

499
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 1: looking down at those guys, did you ever think one

500
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,119
Speaker 1: day you're gonna that you might possibly marry one? She's like,

501
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 1: absolutely not. She she had a crush on and you'll

502
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 1: see where I'm going with this. She had a crush

503
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 1: on Jonathan Night from Come from New Kids, had a

504
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: crush on Lance Bass from Women Sink, and then married me.

505
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:06,800
Speaker 1: So I'm like, no, babe, no, no, no, no no no.

506
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,439
Speaker 1: I do support my LGBT community, but I like women.

507
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 1: So but you know, they're still trying to pinpoint one

508
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: of us in the group. They're saying, you know, every

509
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 1: boy band has to have I'm like, no, not always

510
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: you guys. Whenever you guys were, were you ever officially

511
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 1: like hiatus? Like, did you guys ever just go? We're done?

512
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if we're coming back. Like

513
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: after we finished the Black and Blue tour, um before

514
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 1: we made it Never Gone record, that was the gap

515
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 1: that I think the media, fans, a lot of people

516
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 1: thought we quote unquote broke up. We've never broken up

517
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 1: in twenty six years. But we took a well needed

518
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 1: break and we took about a year and a half

519
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,119
Speaker 1: off of doing nothing, and then about a year and

520
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 1: a half to make the Never Gone record, So it

521
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,160
Speaker 1: became a three year break that again out of sight,

522
00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 1: out of mind, and then shortly after Never Gone is

523
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 1: when Kevin decided he wanted to go take a true

524
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: hiatus for almost seven years. Um, but we four kept

525
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: on going, so there's never really been a proper like

526
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 1: break break. I mean, which what was leading me to

527
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: ask this, Like whenever you guys are are chilling, you

528
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 1: all go to your own homes. You have families, like

529
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 1: who who's Who's like your boy? Like who do you

530
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: still stay closer? I mean, I'm I'm the one that

531
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 1: I feel is closest to everybody for different reasons. I mean,

532
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,200
Speaker 1: Kevin and I are the only ones that live in California.

533
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 1: I've gotten to his house every Easter for the last

534
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:36,640
Speaker 1: five years. Um, the Easter bunny shows up, wink wink um,

535
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:40,479
Speaker 1: and it's just awesome. Uh. Brian and I have definitely

536
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 1: I feel gotten closer over the last few years. Um. Uh.

537
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 1: Just I think with with all that he's been dealing

538
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 1: with with his vocals and with his voice in that

539
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 1: whole situation, I feel like, um, there's been this interesting

540
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 1: comparison between me and the world of sobriety and trying

541
00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 1: to you know, stay sober and like recovery, putting in

542
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,879
Speaker 1: the work to stay sober, and the same thing for him,

543
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: putting in the work to get his voice back. There's

544
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 1: just been this really interesting camaraderie between him and I

545
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 1: lately a lot. And we're both huge, huge golfers, so

546
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: we golf almost every day on the road that we

547
00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,679
Speaker 1: have a day off. How we have known for thirty years, Um,

548
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: I've known him the longest. We used to always go

549
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: to all the same auditions when there was any audition

550
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,159
Speaker 1: back in Orlando for someone who's Latin, or the two

551
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 1: Latin guys, so we'd always show up like in our

552
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: full like minuteau outfits. Um. And then Nick and I

553
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 1: are the youngest, so Nick and I have always we've

554
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: always had our own little special you know, bond Um.

555
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 1: But I I can tell you this for a fact.

556
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,199
Speaker 1: I know I'm the only one that calls everybody when

557
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: we're on downtime just say hi. Nobody calls me, isn't

558
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with that, But nobody calls me. I

559
00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 1: call them and like, Hey, what's up, Rock, how you doing? Hey,

560
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: keV I want to go see a movie or whenever,

561
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: Like I've had to be the one to like instigate

562
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: like double date night with Kevin and his wife. Were like,

563
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,640
Speaker 1: you know, if if Nixon town, you know, come over

564
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: and like we'll watch football, but nobody really ever calls me.

565
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: I don't know what to deal with, Like, I mean, this,

566
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: this particular tour, I feel has been the closest we've

567
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: ever been. I don't know what it is, but I

568
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: think now just again, we're all married, we're all family men.

569
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: There's a different level of respect and appreciation for for

570
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 1: for each other, and now we've kind of taken the

571
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 1: bull by the horns and we can really kind of

572
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 1: plan our life and have that and healthy balance now,

573
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 1: like we're not just needle to the grindstone, go go go,

574
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 1: Like we need to have a balance. And now that

575
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: we're all dad's priorities change, you know. So if I

576
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: can be home with my daughter to go see her

577
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: dance recital, and there's an opportunity to do a a

578
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: TV show or something like that, if it's not that important,

579
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say no, That's where I want to be

580
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: is with my is, with my kids. So, you know,

581
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: it's nice to have that balance now where before it

582
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: was just point and we just went, you know, but

583
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: things have definitely changed, I feel for the better. And

584
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: that's why the overall just energy is just much more positive.

585
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: What was it like at home as a kid. For you,

586
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: I kind of walking me through what a j's life

587
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: was like. You know when you started, like memories of

588
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: four or five years old? What was that like? I

589
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: mean I started. I was always performing as far back

590
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: as I can recall. Um, I did musical theater from

591
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: when I was six to twelve. UM did about seventy

592
00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,719
Speaker 1: five different plays without side of the performance like as

593
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: a human Like what I mean, what makes the scenario

594
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: would be at your house? It's weird, Like I'm I'm

595
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: an only child. Um. My mom had twin girls after

596
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: I was born. They both did not survive. UM, which

597
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 1: my mom always says I was more than enough to

598
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: handle anyways, which I get it now. UM, I was

599
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: just kind of I was a real goofy kid like UM,

600
00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 1: when the when the Nintendo Power Glove came out, I

601
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: cut the cord off of it and wore it to

602
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: school because I wanted kids to think I was cool.

603
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: Um did not work out in my favor. I didn't

604
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: wear a backpack at school. I carried a briefcase. UM.

605
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,800
Speaker 1: I took my mom's glasses and popped the lenses out

606
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: and wore the frames because I wanted to look smart. Um.

607
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: I was friends more so with girls than with guys. Um.

608
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: I wasn't big into sports. I was the kind of outgoing,

609
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: like always on performer type personality that that's just who

610
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: I was. Um, But I always took care of my family.

611
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: It was my you know, a single mom, living with

612
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: my mom and my grandparents and me in a three

613
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: bedroom apartment, and um, you know, just going to school,

614
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: just trying to be a normal kid, still doing the

615
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: acting thing, you know whatever, going to dance class. My

616
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: goal in my dream as a child was to be

617
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 1: a backup dancer from Michael or Janet Jackson. That's all

618
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: I wanted to be when I was growing up. Um,

619
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:03,719
Speaker 1: I love dance, and now I get to do all

620
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: of it. I get to act, I get to dance,

621
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: I get to sing, and it's all with within the

622
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: same world. But I was just a goofy, dorky kid.

623
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: I'm still a dork and and I will forever be

624
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,719
Speaker 1: a big kid because you know, I actually started when

625
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: I was fourteen. So I got pulled out of high school,

626
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: I got tutored, I graduated, but I never I never

627
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: went to homecoming. I never had a problem until my

628
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: FORTI my wife gave me my problem is the most

629
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: amazing I'm even getting emotional thinking about it. It was

630
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 1: the most amazing thing, most amazing night in my life.

631
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: I mean literally, spot On DJ played every song from

632
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: from the Class of ninety six. They had the little

633
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: cheesy photo boothe with all the props. Of course, my

634
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: wife and I were prom king and queen all my boys.

635
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 1: And if you weren't, what an upset If that would yeah,

636
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: that would have been like in Monica from Three Houses

637
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: of Down, O'd be so mad, been like if she

638
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: would have picked her best friend and like her boyfriend,

639
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: like really really? But yeah, I mean, looking back on it,

640
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: I've I've kind of gotten past, Like I feel like

641
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: I feeling that moment of like missing out. But again,

642
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: I had to grow up really fast. So again I'm

643
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: always gonna be a big kid. Now I get to

644
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: live vicuriously through my kids, which is awesome. You know.

645
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: Like I'm a huge sneaker head. I'm a huge gadget guy.

646
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 1: At one point I had every nerve gun you could

647
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: ever think of. And I was in my thirties, Like

648
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: I had a nerve war at my house at back

649
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: in my old house with me and tea pain. It

650
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: was a weird night, but like again, I just that

651
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: brings me happiness, just to keep that youthfulness, you know,

652
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: living in this three bedroom apartment with my parents, and

653
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: it was interesting. The apartment complex that we lived in,

654
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: Britney Spears lived in Ryan Gosling. A lot of the

655
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: Mousketeers lived there. So I played basketball with Ryan almost

656
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: every afternoon unless he was taping. Um, and I'll never

657
00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: forget I actually kissed Brittany on the basketball court. This

658
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: is before she became the Britney Spears. It was, Yeah,

659
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: it was an interesting life growing up. Whenever you guys

660
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: pop as a band and you're so famous that you

661
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 1: can't move, do you actually feel it as it's growing?

662
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: Like are you working so hard that you're not actually

663
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: uh understanding what's going on around you? Or or do

664
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 1: you do you really know all the time. My wife

665
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: just asked me the other day, Um, we're watching this

666
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: this CBS morning show that we had just filmed, and

667
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 1: just how this entire tour now has been sold out.

668
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: It's our biggest arena tour in eighteen years. And She's like,

669
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: is it freaking you out that this is happening again,

670
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: like getting this second chance, getting this renaissance, this resurgence

671
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: to happen again on the level of I said, you know, all,

672
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: if it's still hasn't hit me twenty six years I've

673
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: been doing this and it's still hasn't hit me, I

674
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: don't know when that well. I feel like for me,

675
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna finally hit me when we finally win a Grammy.

676
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: That's what I feel it's gonna because to me, that

677
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: is like the creme de la creme of our of

678
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 1: our world is to win a you know, Grammy. We've

679
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: been nominated nine times, which is amazing in itself, but

680
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: to finally win, I feel will solidify that kind of

681
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: respect and credibility that some of us feel like how

682
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 1: much longer? Because I had my whole speech plan and

683
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,839
Speaker 1: and I'll say it again because and I'll just I'll

684
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: put myself out there. I wanted to speak last, and

685
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:47,320
Speaker 1: I wanted to dedicate our Grammy to Leo DiCaprio and

686
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: then say nothing else. And I'm sure the press would

687
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: have been like, what are you talking about? I look

688
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,359
Speaker 1: at us like the Leo Dicaprios of the music world.

689
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 1: It took him how many years to finally get an Oscar?

690
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 1: They should have been winning multiple times departed. I mean,

691
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: Gilbert Grape so many movies he should have won for

692
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: and he it took him getting mauled by a fake

693
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: bear to win a freaking Oscar? So you know, what

694
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: is it gonna take for us to finally finally get there?

695
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: What is it gonna take that? That's the real question.

696
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if it's going to be us together for

697
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: thirty years, I mean twenty six years. It's unheard of

698
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: for groups like us, and I still don't know what

699
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: is it gonna take. Is it gonna be this amazing

700
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 1: collaboration moment? Is it gonna be um? You know? Is it?

701
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: Is it gonna be like that lifetime achievement thing? Like

702
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: what is it gonna What's it going to be? That's

703
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 1: an interesting question. I'm not thinking, like my wheels are

704
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: spending a little bit. And there are the there are

705
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: the positive things that could be a really interesting collaboration

706
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: from someone that you wouldn't expect the critics love because

707
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: you know, the Grammys are it's such a critic thing

708
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 1: it is. It's it's more internal, says a post like

709
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: the A M A's is like fan based Billboard awards.

710
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: All that stuff is more about the music and the fans.

711
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 1: But the Grammys is like the Oscars. It's that it's

712
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: that more corporate side of things. So let's talk to us.

713
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: Who would you guys, Who could you guys do do

714
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: a project with? Like right now, like her her could

715
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,959
Speaker 1: be cool, who was loved both by the critics because

716
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: she wins at the Grammys. Um, Janelle Money, I would

717
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: love to do something with her. We gotta think it

718
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: just can't be somebody super cool. But also because Jenelle

719
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: Money is also there. But I don't want to get

720
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: off just doing cool things. Um that the Grammy voter.

721
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 1: I'm a Grammy voter. And then you look and there's

722
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: so many Also, there's so many categories. You don't even

723
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: look at all the categories. Like I would like us

724
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: to do something outside of our comfort zone, Like if

725
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 1: we were to do something with like the Marcus King Band,

726
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 1: or like St. Paul and the Broken Bones or something

727
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 1: that's so avant garde that you'd be like, what did

728
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,840
Speaker 1: I just listen to? Like, you know, Saint Paul is

729
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 1: like that big band and a Marcus King is just ridiculous,

730
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: like in the jazz, like in as or like I'm

731
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 1: obsessed with. I mean, I'm probably like the like last

732
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: man to get on board with Tuxedo, but like even

733
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,280
Speaker 1: that kind of that old Roger and Zap type type

734
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: vibe as well. I mean, who knows. I mean, maybe

735
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 1: it's something so far left field that everyone goes, wait

736
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 1: a minute now, Like you said, there's there's positives and

737
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 1: there's negatives. The positive would be we finally get the Grammy.

738
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: But the negative to me would be, like, but we

739
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: had to do it with someone else, what is it

740
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: gonna take for us to do it on our own? Okay?

741
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Um, well, uh, let's see,

742
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: someone could die. You don't want that to happen, you know, no,

743
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,280
Speaker 1: you don't want that to happen. Somebody already went to rehab.

744
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 1: We've we've we've already played that one out. That one's done.

745
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: Or they make or or I'm just rolling through scenarios.

746
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,240
Speaker 1: They make a movie about you, like a real serious

747
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: like someone we talked about it. Someone hops in like

748
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: a major director and they make a movie and there's

749
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 1: some story because as you know, the vie opis have

750
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 1: a thread that maybe you haven't followed always exactly, or

751
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: they embell as certain scenarios, like you know, I think

752
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: that's I think we just figured it out. But he mean,

753
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: rahpsody to me was phenomenal, phenomenal. So if you did

754
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 1: do a biopic about us, um, because there is a

755
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: lot that we've never shared or that the press of

756
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: media don't know about. I mean, yes, everyone knows about

757
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: the lou prom and stuff. Everyone knows about this and

758
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,439
Speaker 1: that and the other, and but there's so much more.

759
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: Like after we did our documentary, we did get a

760
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,760
Speaker 1: lot out. But if you put it in a film

761
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:37,400
Speaker 1: aspect who knows like and we have, you need a

762
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 1: couple of big actors. You can't be in it. No,

763
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: we would be the producers. We'd be in the room,

764
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 1: we like, we'd be basically, we just we just figured

765
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: out how you're gonna win your game. And then you

766
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: do the soundtrack, done the and and we record all

767
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: of our music. There is the redemption at the end,

768
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: you're back selling at tours. There is it's done. Just

769
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: go out and two thous Rock and Roll Hall of

770
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,879
Speaker 1: Fame twenty five years after the first record, right that's

771
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: that's the it's almost that time. Do you think you'll

772
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 1: get hit from your twenty years years now? Okay? Do

773
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: you feel like you you should have been reached out

774
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: to buy me? Now? There's there's been I've heard rumblings

775
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: about that. I've heard rumblings about the MTV Vanguard. I've

776
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: heard rumblings about all kinds of things. But again, until

777
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: we see it, who knows. But I mean, how do

778
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,399
Speaker 1: they not? Like let's let's aside from if you think,

779
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 1: um pop music is your jam, if you think boy

780
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: bands or your jam or not. You know, people have

781
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: all these feelings about it. Um, you can't deny. And

782
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 1: I know this is gonna be where you're frustrated with

783
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: just the data exactly Like I mean, if you just

784
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: look at it on paper, it's all factual, like nothing's embellished.

785
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: This is actually our career, this is what we've achieved,

786
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: this is what we've done, and this is what we've

787
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 1: set out to do, and this is our and this

788
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 1: is where we where we want to go. Um. You know,

789
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 1: I've I've often I don't want to say joked about,

790
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: but I've I often thought to myself, Man, how bad

791
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: would it be if one of us goes and does

792
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: a solo thing and that's the one that gets the

793
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: Grammy before the group does, or that's the one that

794
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: gets the whatever before the group does. But at the

795
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:18,879
Speaker 1: same time, it's all because of the group. There would

796
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: be no platform for any of us to stand solo

797
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for the body of Absolutely I feel that,

798
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 1: you know, this is the epicenter that's been set for

799
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: us too. And we've always said we we will let

800
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 1: each of us go spread their wings and you know,

801
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: go do what you want to do. We know there's

802
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: power in numbers, but you never know, one of us

803
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: may have that moment that just shines, you know. Brian,

804
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,839
Speaker 1: Brian did have it in the Christian world. He won

805
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,240
Speaker 1: multiple Dove Awards, which is the equivalent to a Grammy

806
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 1: in the Christian market. So it can be, but not

807
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:55,839
Speaker 1: that nice little Grammy. That's an interesting question. I think

808
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: people would because again everything is driven by data and money.

809
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 1: Right man, you guys make the right movie, people are

810
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,240
Speaker 1: gonna go see it, obviously. What else is really interesting

811
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: to me is like Neil Port now used to work

812
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: at Jive Records, and we were with Sive Records, so

813
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 1: whenever I see Neil and like, Neil, what's up, buddy?

814
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: You know are we Is it gonna be our thirty?

815
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: Is it gonna be? Is it gonna be our twenty?

816
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: Like what's it gonna be? And he just always smiles

817
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 1: with that, with that nice silver beard and those glasses.

818
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: But I'm like, again, I think we're on this something here.

819
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: I think if you did do like a raw biopic

820
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: and make it just raw and emotional, what people are

821
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: expecting the same way with the movie. As you're talking

822
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 1: about the music, like you know, you go, you can

823
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: do original music as well as go in and re record,

824
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 1: which we've we've actually re recorded a bunch of our

825
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 1: music already. UM for legal reasons. We we we have

826
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: a a secret project up our sleeve. UM. I hopefully

827
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll be out next year. UM. When we made

828
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: the DNA LUM. We also another album, but I can't

829
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: say what's on it. But I can say that a

830
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 1: polka album in Spanish that I'm telling us in us

831
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: in weird al duet would be fantastic. That's the weird

832
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: I'll ever do any Backstreet stuff. Yes, he did. Uh.

833
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: I bought it on eBay. As opposed to I wanted

834
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: that way. Um. He put Backstreets Back in one of

835
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: his Polka Um songs um, which was amazing, and I

836
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: believe it came after like a White Snake song and

837
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: it was it was like a weird transition, but he

838
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: did Backstreets Back. Um. I think he did a third one.

839
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: I feel like, but yeah, he's like back in the day,

840
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 1: like if either Weird Alt parody they did any kind

841
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: of parody with you or or or Babs and butt

842
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 1: Head had you on the show, like then you were

843
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: like super super cool, so and we'd that was an

844
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: amazing guy at least. I mean, that guy's got a

845
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:49,840
Speaker 1: lot of Grammy's. I'm just saying that he's got a

846
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: lot of Grammy. We got just a few more minutes here.

847
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 1: I'm not that funny though, So let me ask you

848
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 1: a few So here's what I wrote down, some notes

849
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: and stuff. I've always wondered the financial part of being

850
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: in a group, asking A lot of my friends are

851
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 1: in bands, and so you know, they have a company

852
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: and the company gets paid and they split it. And

853
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 1: also something with artists country artists is that people just

854
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 1: assume once they're on the radio they start to get

855
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: rich immediately, like it's it's bad at something. It just

856
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. That's just not true. Where did the fame

857
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: and then where did the fame of the money actually meet?

858
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: Because I'm assuming you would be famous for a while

859
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 1: before you actually got I think, honestly, like it'll always

860
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: go back to the Millennium album. I feel like ninety

861
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: nine is when things really kind of came to a head. Um,

862
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 1: you know, because we're doing our show is in the round,

863
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: so we're doing domes, we're doing stadiums, were doing all

864
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 1: these things, multiple arena nights. UM guarantees were the highest

865
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 1: they've ever been. But again, that's a different time where

866
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: like a person could sell one point three or one

867
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: point five million albums the first week week week. Now,

868
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: if you sell a quarter of a quarter of a

869
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 1: million albums first week, you're gonna go to number one.

870
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 1: It doesn't. It's it's completely different now, you know. Like

871
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: I was reading about Taylor and you know she did

872
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,800
Speaker 1: like there was like two to forty and then Tool

873
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: came out with Theirs and it was like two sixty six,

874
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: and I'm just thinking, like, wait, too forty for Taylor.

875
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 1: But again, that's the new standard. I mean, it's completely

876
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,320
Speaker 1: different now, even though she's still gonna go out and

877
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,959
Speaker 1: sell out stadiums and she's beyond talented. Um, I bought

878
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: both albums. I'm a huge fan of Tool and I'm

879
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: a huge Taylor fan because of my kids. That Tool

880
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 1: record was nuts, right, wasn't so good? It's so good?

881
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 1: I mean I minute songs on it too, Like every

882
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:33,879
Speaker 1: other track was thirteen minutes plus. It's you know, going

883
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: back to their first records when I was growing up,

884
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: Like I I became a fan of them run around

885
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: the same time that I really started listening to a

886
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: lot of like Slipknot and just I kind of went

887
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: in this weird direction musically as a fan. Um. And

888
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: then they just kind of stopped and I was like,

889
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 1: all right, man. And when I heard they were making

890
00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: a new record, I got stupid excited. I was like,

891
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: this is gonna be interesting. And same with like Radiohead,

892
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 1: like I mean massive Radiohead fan. Um. I don't know

893
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,800
Speaker 1: if if if if if you've seen I don't know

894
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 1: the name of the song, but um, they have a

895
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: new video about Radiohead that's just it's it's a thirteen

896
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: minute video It's unbelievable. It's all choreographed. It is the

897
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: most It's one of the most beautiful videos I think

898
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,320
Speaker 1: I've ever seen ever since Weapon a Choice, which was

899
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 1: one of my all time top three videos. Spike Jones.

900
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: I mean, Christopher walking dancing is one of the most

901
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: iconic things you'll ever see in your life. So yeah,

902
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 1: but I mean, it's weird how the numbers have changed

903
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,919
Speaker 1: so much now compared to what it was twenty years ago.

904
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: You know, a million albums sold first week, first day.

905
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: You know, I think eminem didn't like three days. It

906
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:50,399
Speaker 1: just doesn't that that will never happen again. Ever, that's

907
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: a whole different time that will never ever come back

908
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 1: to ever. You know, you bring up Radiohead and I

909
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 1: like Tomm York. I like radio Head. You know, it's

910
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 1: growing up when we did, and you're in that scene.

911
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 1: Radio had kind of created a lane for other people

912
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: to jump in and out of, but they they definitely

913
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 1: had their own lane. And he they don't play creep, right,

914
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,800
Speaker 1: they just they don't play creep. You know that you

915
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: can't go to radio if you cannot do one song.

916
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 1: If you could creep one song, what would you do?

917
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: It would be cup playing games. I just feel like,

918
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't do I want it that way,

919
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: fans are gonna probably stampede the stage. Um. You know,

920
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 1: Like I was fortunate enough to go see Prince one

921
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: night before he passed away years ago, and he did

922
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: four encorees just to mess with people because by the

923
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: end of the of the first set he didn't do

924
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 1: a Purple Rain and people were mad as hell, and

925
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:48,320
Speaker 1: he came out for the first encore and justed Purple

926
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 1: Rain and then left. I didn't do when Doves Cry

927
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,320
Speaker 1: came out and like just kept keeping people into it.

928
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: And I was like, Okay, thank god, because you know,

929
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: if you come to a batch play concert and you

930
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 1: don't see these and songs. But what we've found a

931
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: way to do it so it it appieces our fans

932
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:06,759
Speaker 1: and it also gets out of our head after so

933
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: many times doing it is you do Medley's or you

934
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:13,439
Speaker 1: do remixes of the songs. Um, but my creep would

935
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: be quit playing games. I mean, that's that's when we've

936
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 1: done since the very first Red album back in Yeah.

937
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: I just there's no amount of remix for that song

938
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: to be cool to me anymore. I just just I'm

939
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: over it. How's your body with the dancing? I've had

940
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: knee surgery on both my knees. Um, probably gonna have

941
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: to have it done again. Um. You know, surprisingly we're

942
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: all in pretty decent shape for all being forty. Plus

943
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: Nick's not forty yet, but he's gonna be sooner than later. Um.

944
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 1: You know, we we definitely pop a lot more. I'll

945
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: be prof and after the show. And um, I actually

946
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: partnered up recently with a pharmaceutical company, UM called Vivera,

947
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: and we're we're putting out two different products. One is

948
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: for pain management, all CBD based and the and the

949
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,279
Speaker 1: one that's for pain management I've literally give to all

950
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,879
Speaker 1: my boys now. It's a topical cream. And I tell

951
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: you what, man, I kicked that stuff on after every

952
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: show now and I'm a million I feel like a

953
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 1: million bucks. Um. But you know, we we do the

954
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 1: ice bath stuff, all that stuff. You know. Then then

955
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: the nice thing about this this new show is it's

956
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: paced so well that we have a nice big gap

957
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: in the middle where we're not dancing at all, and

958
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:31,839
Speaker 1: we can just kind of get that energy built back

959
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 1: up to just take it home for the whole last

960
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: act like Vegas that was just go go go dance, dance, dance,

961
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: dance that that definitely hurt me a lot more than

962
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: this particular show right now. So, do you guys have

963
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: what they call a B MIC B dance with something else?

964
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,320
Speaker 1: We can talk to everyone in their ears while the

965
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 1: show is happening. We um, well, well, or do you

966
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:55,800
Speaker 1: have a button? Like? How are you guys communicating? We

967
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: like we we started really messing with each other on

968
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 1: this on on this last leg, especially how he God

969
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: bless Howie. We love the death. I love that dude.

970
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 1: But he gets nervous still to this day, he gets nervous,

971
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 1: especially in cities where like if like l A and

972
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: New York he gets nervous, or if he's got family

973
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,879
Speaker 1: coming out or any of his like you know, celebrity friends.

974
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 1: Whatever he gets, he gets nervous. I'm like, dude, we've

975
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 1: been doing this for twenties six years, you still get nervous.

976
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: He's like yeah. So we each talk individually during the

977
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 1: course of the show, and he's the first one, the

978
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: second one to talk, and then he does a little

979
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 1: bit of a solo song from our album. That way

980
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: we can get more new songs in the show, and

981
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: three different times he called the song on the wrong name,

982
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 1: and so now we're purposely telling him the wrong name

983
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 1: in his ears while we're quick changing, We're like, it's

984
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: chances the song is called shat till we're like, how

985
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:50,240
Speaker 1: he chances chances, and we just keep we keep messing

986
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 1: with each other. Kevin doesn't have any patience for it.

987
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: If Nick messes with Kevin, he'll put Nick on blast

988
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: on stage and be like, Oh, Nick's talking a bunch

989
00:49:58,160 --> 00:49:59,959
Speaker 1: of crap in my ears right now. Sorry, I gotta

990
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 1: all these out because I can't pay attention to me

991
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 1: talking to you guys. So we definitely like to mess

992
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 1: with each other quite a lot. Do you guys think

993
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: to click track or do you just have it all

994
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: down at this point, it's all The only one that

995
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: we have a click with is the acapella just so

996
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 1: we don't lose time. Um, you know, even though we

997
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 1: got our in ears in that particular song, we're out

998
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 1: over the audience about up in the air, So it's

999
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 1: a lot of slap back if we don't. Um. Aside

1000
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: from that, we have a click on a couple of

1001
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: different things. If if it's a bare bones intro where

1002
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 1: it's just you're coming in on that first on that

1003
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 1: first line, you got to know where it's starts. Aside

1004
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 1: from that, No, usually there's a good like second intro

1005
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 1: musically that just gets you into a song. But we

1006
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 1: have a couple of songs that have clicks for sure. Alright,

1007
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: speed round. What was the last concert yet to buy

1008
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: tickets for? Uh? Taylor Swift? The last movie you saw

1009
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: in theater it Chapter two, which they loved it. What

1010
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 1: was something that did live up to the hype? Um?

1011
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: That did live up to that? It live up to

1012
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 1: the hype? Huh? I have to say, easies. Yeah, they're

1013
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 1: I did not want to like them and they are

1014
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: very comfortable. I did not want to like him. And

1015
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:16,800
Speaker 1: my wife is like why, I'm like, don't ask what

1016
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 1: is your most humbling? Wow, it's totally wrong about that person.

1017
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,759
Speaker 1: Moment totally wrong. Who are you wrong about? And you're like,

1018
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 1: oh man, they're actually are pretty cool or they're not

1019
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 1: pretty cool or wow? Um Tom Brady. Um, I'm married

1020
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 1: into a Steelers family, so I have to stick to

1021
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 1: that or I'll be disowned. But um, when I got

1022
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 1: to meet Tom, I because I just did not like

1023
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 1: the Patriots because they just they won't let anybody else win.

1024
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: It's like for crying out loud gives us a chance.

1025
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: And then like knowing more about him and knowing that

1026
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 1: he takes a pay cut and that the rest of

1027
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 1: the team gets more money and his wife makes more

1028
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: money than him, but he's all about charity and this,

1029
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 1: and he's just this, like he's such a good guy,

1030
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: Like you can't not like him. And then when I

1031
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: met him, I'm like, damn, you really are this nice.

1032
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:12,839
Speaker 1: You got that pretty smile too. You're killing me, bro,

1033
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 1: that'd be there. He's such a he's such a great guy. Alright.

1034
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: Final one, what piece of advice from an artist has

1035
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:21,239
Speaker 1: stayed with you the longest your career? Someone said, hey,

1036
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 1: listen here, Um, I have the perfect answer for that.

1037
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,879
Speaker 1: We opened up for the remaining members of the Temptations

1038
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: at a festival back in Orlando years ago, five or six,

1039
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 1: and after we finished, the founding member chaked our hands

1040
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 1: and said we did a great job. And he said,

1041
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 1: just want you boys to remember something. This is show business.

1042
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 1: It's called that for a reason because while you're on

1043
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:50,359
Speaker 1: stage doing your show, your business could be walking out

1044
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 1: the back door behind your back, So just always remember that.

1045
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 1: And I guess that was a prelude to what ended

1046
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 1: up happening to us through our career with lou and

1047
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 1: everything else. But it's show business. Always keep an eye

1048
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 1: on your back. Well, good luck recording the record. Thank

1049
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:07,880
Speaker 1: you man? Which song? Let's let's hash this out here.

1050
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:11,399
Speaker 1: Which are these three songs? Because I'll do it. Don't

1051
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 1: tell him, but we had this talk all those that

1052
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,320
Speaker 1: this will be in everybody I'll know unless they don't know.

1053
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 1: But so, which of these songs would you like me

1054
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 1: to play? I'm gonna let you pick and don't tell

1055
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: you what. We're doing this outwardly right, and I'm gonna

1056
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: be like, because again we're on a hundred and fifty

1057
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 1: radio stations, my show is we have enough people listening

1058
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 1: that I can. I feel like the sample size will

1059
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: reflect back if they like the song without knowing exactly

1060
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: who it is. Which of the songs Night Visions, Boy

1061
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:39,719
Speaker 1: and a Man or Give You Away? Would you like

1062
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:48,359
Speaker 1: me to conduct that experiment with you? Pick? Wow? Ah,

1063
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: I would say, Man, Okay, that's the deal. We're gonna

1064
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna do. So probably next week or

1065
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna let this breathe a little bit and

1066
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:00,880
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna play way a Man and I'm just

1067
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 1: gonna set it up and go. I don't even tell

1068
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 1: it's not out of what I've done before. So everyone's like, like,

1069
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: what is happening. I'm like, hey, we got another one.

1070
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you who it is. You just tell

1071
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: me if you like the song, hit me up and uh,

1072
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 1: let's see what happens. I'm gonna get your number and

1073
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:15,800
Speaker 1: then you're gonna text me and tell me what the

1074
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: end result is. I want to know, Well, the end

1075
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: result is. It takes a while, right, It's not that

1076
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: nobody even calls radio station. That's not anything. But I'm

1077
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:25,719
Speaker 1: just curious to see over time, like what you can

1078
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 1: feel after about a couple of days, you can really

1079
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 1: want to so mine remember that we're gonna do Boing

1080
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 1: a Man. We're gonna play it, We're not gonna say

1081
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: anything about it. And I think that would be a

1082
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 1: good experiment. And I like that. And while I'm here,

1083
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 1: as I cut these songs and I get these things

1084
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: nicely fine tune, this week, I'll start sending you some

1085
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 1: more stuff and you tell me what you think I

1086
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: don't want. No, I don't want to do that. Okay,

1087
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: you want to be surprised in my general rule, and

1088
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: this is how I can keep friends in this world.

1089
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: I don't listen to anything new ever, if it's not

1090
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:57,720
Speaker 1: out with my listeners here, yes, I won't listen to it. Okay,

1091
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: every good as much as much as you know, yeah,

1092
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: because then you can get jaded about it, or you

1093
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 1: can get or biased, and then it's a slippery everybody

1094
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:08,800
Speaker 1: wants because you don't wanna. I love you. Oh no,

1095
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 1: I get it's get here it is. There's the line

1096
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:14,840
Speaker 1: and if I, if I stay consistent, then you know,

1097
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 1: consistencies currency. I'm jealous. Minds literally coming tomorrow the new iPhone.

1098
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:23,879
Speaker 1: Do you like it? Have you really messed with it yet?

1099
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:25,879
Speaker 1: I don't know that I've messed with it enough. Mike

1100
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:28,240
Speaker 1: has one too, and he thinks the camera's freaking cameras

1101
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 1: that will see like that's their biggest selling point. Like

1102
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 1: I this is the longest I've actually had an iPhone,

1103
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 1: to the point where I actually ran my contract out,

1104
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,399
Speaker 1: so I'm getting money back by getting the preodor done.

1105
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 1: But what's crazy to me is I was beta testing

1106
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:45,919
Speaker 1: the new Ilas thirteen on my eleven. The worst idea

1107
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 1: I've ever done in my life. Too much for it's

1108
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:50,399
Speaker 1: it's it is throwing my phone so much out of whack.

1109
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,400
Speaker 1: So no to anyone, don't bate a test the new

1110
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: iOS before you get the new phone. The stickers are cool,

1111
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:57,839
Speaker 1: like the emojis. You can send emojis of your own

1112
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 1: head need. Yeah, but again, I'm sure there's so much

1113
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:03,400
Speaker 1: about it that we Yeah, but I mean, I've been

1114
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 1: trying to get all the research done before I get mine,

1115
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:07,880
Speaker 1: so I know what I'm doing. But it's it's probably

1116
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: so much more. But it looks it actually looks cool.

1117
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:12,320
Speaker 1: And I was worried about how we would look with

1118
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:16,800
Speaker 1: this with the multiple lends. Yeah, yeah, that is pretty

1119
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: freaking sweet. And I'm blind and I had to get Yeah. Well,

1120
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 1: it's like once you go big, you can't go downsize,

1121
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 1: like you don't know someone. That's not the case with

1122
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 1: the ladies. But yeah, like no one nobody buys in

1123
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:29,360
Speaker 1: Clay and then goes and gets a smart cart like

1124
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's the other way. Well, listen, my friend,

1125
00:56:32,239 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna Because I had a friend hit me up

1126
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:36,440
Speaker 1: who works for ABC. I don't know even know what

1127
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:38,239
Speaker 1: do you do? We know how this all got together

1128
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 1: here because that a friend works BRABC. It's an executive.

1129
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 1: I do shows for ABC. Right, Like, Hey, I'm friends

1130
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: with a j um and I'm like, dude, I've met twice.

1131
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:46,319
Speaker 1: It's been awesome to me. It was before we saw

1132
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 1: each other in Vegas. Was like love to have them

1133
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 1: buy we do you know this long form show that

1134
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 1: it's a ton of podcast downloads We played on the

1135
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 1: radio too. I would love to have him come by

1136
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:55,439
Speaker 1: and just kind of talk a little bit my first

1137
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: time and he was at the rheyman, that's what I was.

1138
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:00,439
Speaker 1: And then I guess also Darius, Yeah, yeah, you're Darius.

1139
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:01,640
Speaker 1: And then I went up and I did I went

1140
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:05,239
Speaker 1: it that way and then, uh, did you ever see

1141
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 1: the photo of me in your parking space? Yeah? I

1142
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 1: was like yes, yes, so uh and it was like

1143
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: what about AJ. I was like, dude, I'm in town

1144
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 1: one day. I would love to see him. And I

1145
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:18,560
Speaker 1: really appreciate you taking the time. Now it's it's it's

1146
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:20,440
Speaker 1: been great. Well, Okay, we're gonna leave it at this.

1147
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes. You're in town cutting a record.

1148
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:26,320
Speaker 1: Let me know if you need a good uber driver. Okay,

1149
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 1: bringing man, I love it. Uh, we're done, Mike. You good.

1150
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 1: Anything you want anything with you? We're good, all right.

1151
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 1: There is episode two of one AJ McClain give me

1152
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 1: a time. I don't need a date. But you're trying

1153
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 1: to get this body of work out by win, Like,

1154
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:42,920
Speaker 1: what's the goal by Top of the Year? Um album

1155
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 1: title is long Road. Um, and uh, you know I

1156
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 1: was trying to do it this year, but just I

1157
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 1: just want to take my time and do this right.

1158
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: So Top of the Year January is momber looking at

1159
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 1: having the album out. Do you play guitar? I am

1160
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:57,400
Speaker 1: learning right now. Um, my player that travels with you,

1161
00:57:57,600 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 1: I do. My m D has been helped me and whatnot.

1162
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:03,440
Speaker 1: I play drums, um, but in a little bit of piano. Um,

1163
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 1: I play harmonica, but I don't. I've always wanted to

1164
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 1: learn how to play guitar, even before this whole thing started,

1165
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 1: Like it's just been my passion. My daughter is taking

1166
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 1: lessons and she's got better chops than I do. She's

1167
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 1: six and she can play better than I can right now.

1168
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: So but yeah, I definitely, I definitely want to learn

1169
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: on CMA Country Christmas, which you're gonna be out this week?

1170
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you part of the show? I am literally,

1171
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: I'm just I was invited by you know, CMA just

1172
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 1: to come and just enjoy the show. So I'm just

1173
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 1: sitting come out and have some fun and just enjoy

1174
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 1: some good Christmas music. And it'd be good for you

1175
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 1: to be around. Like listen, you just around people. As

1176
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: you know, it's all relationships, like you know, I like

1177
00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: that guy. Let me let me give a little opening

1178
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: and see if people then it's like how good as

1179
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 1: is it actually exactly you know what it is. And

1180
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a social butterfly and I just love people.

1181
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 1: So they're fun right from the airport over Here, Episode

1182
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 1: two one A J. McClean, good to see you, buy

1183
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:52,040
Speaker 1: you two Brother,