Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 3: Welcome to and That's what you Really miss podcast. It
Speaker 3: is the episode It's a fever dream, A good fever dream.
Speaker 3: We have Joey Fatone on the podcast today.
Speaker 1: Come on in Sync, we gotta they gotta get back together.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 3: I'm manifesting this announcement like the Backtor Boys announced that
Speaker 3: they're doing this fear. I'm manifesting in Sync getting back
Speaker 3: together so we can go to all of these shows.
Speaker 2: I have tried my hardest to get info out of JC,
Speaker 2: his manager Lance. They are a steel trap well and Jenna,
Speaker 2: I don't know it, talks about it in the in
Speaker 2: the podcast.
Speaker 1: So you gotta you know what I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Joey gave the most info and I believe him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so we asked about that and we're honestly just trying
Speaker 2: to play cool the whole time because you know how
Speaker 2: much we love in Sync and it's.
Speaker 3: Joey and he's so nice. They're all such nice, human,
Speaker 3: kind kind people, and you know what that gets you far? Yeah,
Speaker 3: that does get you far, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: That's sure.
Speaker 1: It is so well.
Speaker 2: Without further ado, another member of in Sync on the podcast,
Speaker 2: This is Joey Fatone.
Speaker 1: How's it going?
Speaker 4: Whoa?
Speaker 5: How are we doing?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 2: Good? How you doing crazy?
Speaker 5: Running around as ever? But it's good. It's in New
Speaker 5: York City.
Speaker 2: We know how crazy that theater schedule can be. So
Speaker 2: thank you for taking the time to h from my god,
Speaker 2: I don't know how you're doing it. How is it?
Speaker 2: How does it feel?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 2: What's not the first time you've done this?
Speaker 6: No, it's not my first rodeo. I mean we've it's
Speaker 6: been many moons, did it of course? Two thousand and three, say,
Speaker 6: I did Rent and Little Shoppahars as well on Broadways,
Speaker 6: and it's been over twenty years since I've been back.
Speaker 6: But it's it's awesome. I mean people don't really really
Speaker 6: sometimes realize, you know, the.
Speaker 5: Grind of it.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's it's not no, it's it's.
Speaker 6: An interesting groundhog day, if you will, Because you're constantly
Speaker 6: doing eight shows a week. You got one day off,
Speaker 6: which is right now my Monday, and I do two
Speaker 6: shows Saturday, two shows Sunday. We have a mat on Wednesday.
Speaker 6: In the in the thick of it, now Week three
Speaker 6: is week four.
Speaker 5: Now, I think it's starting.
Speaker 1: You're in the beginning of it.
Speaker 2: The yeah, does it feel good? Do you feel like
Speaker 2: you got it in your bones?
Speaker 5: It's getting there, it's getting there.
Speaker 6: It's it's a few times where you know, you think
Speaker 6: you feel confident, and all of a sudden your brain
Speaker 6: turns to crap and words come out of your mouth
Speaker 6: that you have no idea what that you're saying.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, pretty good.
Speaker 2: At least you know all these songs though, right, imagine
Speaker 2: you know they they correct.
Speaker 6: They're they're they're interesting, near and dear to my heart,
Speaker 6: not so not so dear, I would say, but very
Speaker 6: near as far as yeah, I sing a bunch of
Speaker 6: battreet Boys songs and actually.
Speaker 5: Do a yeah. Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 6: It's like the one instinct song that's not if it's
Speaker 6: in it that I don't sing it, but it's how
Speaker 6: you've sung it.
Speaker 5: And I enjoyed the song that too. That yeah. True,
Speaker 5: they're bangers, though they're bangers.
Speaker 6: Those actually songs are seriously I do a shape in
Speaker 6: my heart everybody, and then I also do a.
Speaker 5: Mashup of.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, I gotta think of the songs teenage
Speaker 6: Dream and they get a pretty well. I gotta think
Speaker 6: of the songs now my brain goes everywhere. Yeah, teenage
Speaker 6: Dream and something else. I forget it to mash up.
Speaker 6: But yeah, it's it's been. Honestly, it has been a blast.
Speaker 6: I've been having a really good time. Everybody's great, the
Speaker 6: cast is great. Never met Charlie Dmilian two. We started
Speaker 6: doing the show together. She's a sweetheart. She's in the
Speaker 6: show as well. Just everybody in the cast. I mean,
Speaker 6: it's just been seriously, really a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: It's been. It's I'm having so much fun that I
Speaker 5: hopefully I'm telling you guys this right now.
Speaker 6: Don't tell anybody, but I hopefully may extend or may
Speaker 6: do it long.
Speaker 2: That's a good sign.
Speaker 1: Is Drew's still in it right now.
Speaker 5: Drew is still in it. Yep, yep, yep. Drew's still there.
Speaker 6: Alison's there as well, playing and it's great again. It's
Speaker 6: it's unbelievable. My son Nathan was really funny. Nathan, who
Speaker 6: plays Francois, we were talking. I was like, hey, so
Speaker 6: how old are you He's like twenty five. I'm like great,
Speaker 6: I said, you actually are a year older than my daughter.
Speaker 5: Is my daughter in March.
Speaker 6: So it is a reality of me that I'm actually
Speaker 6: playing dad parts and it really I am a dad.
Speaker 5: So it's really weird, but I'm accepting it. I'm accepting it,
Speaker 5: you know, lean exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: I mean, people love do it. My friend Philippe was
Speaker 2: in that show for three years until October, and he
Speaker 2: was sad even after three years, he was sad, Yeah,
Speaker 2: to leave it. It just sounds like a really great
Speaker 2: group of people.
Speaker 5: You know, it is everybody is there.
Speaker 6: You know, everybody got your back on that kind of thing,
Speaker 6: and everybody wants to see it win, you know.
Speaker 5: I think that's why a lot.
Speaker 6: Of those, especially those kind of shows, are shows in
Speaker 6: general like that really come together there and really go
Speaker 6: far when the whole cast and everybody is one hundred percent,
Speaker 6: you know, any of.
Speaker 5: You see it and you sense it. I don't know why.
Speaker 6: Sometimes you could feel sometimes maybe maybe a little bit
Speaker 6: disconnect if something happens oway but a lot, you know,
Speaker 6: majority shows you.
Speaker 5: Wanted to win.
Speaker 6: But there's you know, something special about Angeuliette.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I think because maybe he goes.
Speaker 6: In the music Shakespeare and it's the play within a
Speaker 6: play and doing Romeo Jiet So it's it's adorable.
Speaker 2: I think you also have like it makes me feel
Speaker 2: happy as a Max Martin nerd that you have something
Speaker 2: that like people appreciate his music as much as I do,
Speaker 2: and that like the show has been so successful for
Speaker 2: so long here and in the West End, and I
Speaker 2: feel like you have the most specific, unique perspective because
Speaker 2: you were there right at the beginning of the birth
Speaker 2: of like Max Martin the Greatest All the Time, one.
Speaker 6: Of the one of the last closer to the last
Speaker 6: songs that Dennis Pop did with Max, which was I
Speaker 6: watched back uh and and and like bye bye bye
Speaker 6: and uh bye bye bye, then tear to My Heart
Speaker 6: and them they did with Christian London. But yeah, kind
Speaker 6: of interesting to see that legacy which where Dennis Pop
Speaker 6: was literally almost basically handing Max that torch. When Dennis
Speaker 6: passed away, Max obviously had the formula and and and
Speaker 6: ran with it, which is it's amazing how he gets.
Speaker 5: Music, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 6: It's truly is amazing, the way the hooks on, how
Speaker 6: they just drive certain things in the waste sometimes even
Speaker 6: you know, people always go, oh, well that's a you know,
Speaker 6: it's a Backstreet Boys song, or that's an Instant song,
Speaker 6: and that's a Britney song. It's like, yeah, listen to
Speaker 6: the sounds. They're very similar to some of the things
Speaker 6: that formula is there, but yet he comes up with
Speaker 6: different hooks and he comes up with those little different
Speaker 6: b hooks that just big it, you know, takes it
Speaker 6: over the top and the and a lot of the
Speaker 6: you know, the the the low ends that he hits
Speaker 6: on there.
Speaker 5: It's great.
Speaker 6: I mean again, it's he's a he is a uh
Speaker 6: a pop genius, I would say, you know in that sense,
Speaker 6: and like you say, you know, since.
Speaker 2: You know, I mean, do you feel any of that
Speaker 2: when you're doing the show that look at the breadth
Speaker 2: of his work. There's so many different artists from so
Speaker 2: many different decades. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what's amazing about it too is the different you know,
Speaker 6: even though it's all pop music, the different stylistics of
Speaker 6: what he does and actually pertains to a lot of
Speaker 6: the artists in general. But you know, with the music
Speaker 6: and these songs, of course, you know, with the with
Speaker 6: the script itself, it's so woven, very very well, very clever.
Speaker 6: A lot of the songs that go into it. You know,
Speaker 6: there's one scene if people haven't seen a Juliette, I'm
Speaker 6: gonna give one thing away. I think it's kind of
Speaker 6: funny where one, you know, Juliette is talking to somebody
Speaker 6: and she's like, you know, well, here's the thing. We
Speaker 6: started out as friends, and that's the song starting into
Speaker 6: his story.
Speaker 5: But it's since you've been gone, so.
Speaker 6: It's again, it's really funny and clever how certain things.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: Again, I'm doing the scene with Francois, I'm pouring my
Speaker 6: heart out the song I'm singing.
Speaker 5: Shape of my Heart.
Speaker 6: You know, it contains to a lot of that stuff,
Speaker 6: and it's again, it's one of those feel good, I
Speaker 6: don't know, feel good moments, especially for me and my character.
Speaker 6: It's like I'm not in the show completely a whole
Speaker 6: whole lot, but I'm in it connecting everyone, I guess
Speaker 6: in a sense. And then my son, but it has
Speaker 6: such depth to it, you know, it's just one thing
Speaker 6: of his you know, you know, the father coming out
Speaker 6: to his son saying, listen, I want you to either
Speaker 6: get married or you need to join the army like
Speaker 6: your brothers. Is one or the other that's what I did.
Speaker 6: This is what I did. I want to make sure
Speaker 6: you do what I'm doing. And you know, it's that
Speaker 6: it's that, you know, don't want to disappoint your dad,
Speaker 6: and he goes a different route, and it's the scariness
Speaker 6: of me getting you know, either upset, you know, the
Speaker 6: father going just being disappointed or accepting and acknowledging what's
Speaker 6: going on and knowing that he wants to be he
Speaker 6: wants basically his son to be happy. And really what
Speaker 6: sometimes was he was trying to make himself happy is
Speaker 6: you know, and that always kind of happened sometimes I
Speaker 6: was like listen, yeah, you gotta you gotta cut the
Speaker 6: you gotta cut the cord or you know, let let
Speaker 6: let the wings go, let him fly. So again, it's
Speaker 6: a great story message, especially my character and what I do.
Speaker 6: And it's again it's my character has fun with it.
Speaker 6: And then there's a little bit of a you know,
Speaker 6: softer side to it. So it's great, I'm gonna again
Speaker 6: having a blast.
Speaker 3: You So you your love for theater started young and
Speaker 3: you had kind of started in that. What was it
Speaker 3: like then to pivot into like pop music and a
Speaker 3: pop star and then kind of revisit theater again.
Speaker 1: What was that all like for you?
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I mean for me it was again it's
Speaker 6: kind of crazy to even think about, well over thirty years,
Speaker 6: you know, living in Brooklyn, New York, moving to Orlando, Florida,
Speaker 6: where you had access to a lot of theme parks
Speaker 6: and entertainment, and that's kind of where I got a
Speaker 6: bug on really singing and dancing, and right after literally
Speaker 6: from doing high school plays when I was in a
Speaker 6: magnet program, a theater magnet program in my high school.
Speaker 6: Which is crazy because the amount of people that have
Speaker 6: came out of that school within the maybe seven to
Speaker 6: eight year radius as far as what my years and
Speaker 6: ninety five on and before. You have people like Wayne
Speaker 6: Bray that came out of Doctor Phillips High School. You
Speaker 6: have DJ Khaled that came out of Doctor Phillips High School,
Speaker 6: was in the same grade as me.
Speaker 5: A J.
Speaker 6: Berzinski who's a baseball player, Johnny Damon who's a baseball player.
Speaker 6: Luis Fonsi who sings Desposito. He's one of my best friends.
Speaker 6: I sang in an a cappella group with him in high school.
Speaker 5: You have Tony Yasbeck who is nominated for Tony. He
Speaker 5: went to high school with me.
Speaker 6: You have Michael James Scott who was plays the genie
Speaker 6: Aladdin right now.
Speaker 5: He's a good friend of mine from high school.
Speaker 6: When you have people that have done editing for Conan O'Brien,
Speaker 6: my buddy Rob, I mean, it's crazy the list of
Speaker 6: people and even just a celebrity gentleman came out of
Speaker 6: that high school.
Speaker 5: I don't know what was in the water or it
Speaker 5: just again people just went to it.
Speaker 6: But to get back to that baby from going into
Speaker 6: like doing Shakespearean plays kind of interesting, doing Macbeth, doing
Speaker 6: Taming of the Shrew, going and doing you know, one
Speaker 6: act plays like the Grapes of Wrath, and then doing
Speaker 6: a music like you know, west Side Story or I've
Speaker 6: did the you know the Music Man.
Speaker 5: Stuff like that. Then going into InSync.
Speaker 6: Obviously the theater stuff in the stage presence is what
Speaker 6: was really my forte.
Speaker 5: I mean, I wasn't a writer. I'm not really a
Speaker 5: writer in that sense, but doing that and.
Speaker 6: Performing is what my love and my passion really started
Speaker 6: out doing it as far as you know, going within
Speaker 6: sync and oddly enough making that grow.
Speaker 5: It kind of of course opened up doors for me.
Speaker 6: But I even said the first time I went and auditioned,
Speaker 6: it was like two thousand and three, when I was
Speaker 6: going to get the part for in Rent, they were like,
Speaker 6: what character do you want to do? So first of
Speaker 6: all they were like, oh, well, you know you were
Speaker 6: in sync. How's the boy band you can do? It
Speaker 6: looks like and I even said, I said, you need
Speaker 6: to audition me.
Speaker 5: What if I suck?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you forgot you were in the biggest band on
Speaker 2: the planet, but you don't want to.
Speaker 6: Do it eight shows a week like that a different goal.
Speaker 6: So when when I went to do it, the funny
Speaker 6: part was is that, like I flewid from more landed
Speaker 6: to go to New York and they're like, all right,
Speaker 6: singing Roger's part and I was.
Speaker 5: Like, crap, Rochester definitely definitely up there.
Speaker 6: And then I left and they were because they were
Speaker 6: like well, which I was like, it's up to you,
Speaker 6: which one you want me to try for?
Speaker 5: And they're like, oh, do that.
Speaker 6: I left and went home. The next day they call
Speaker 6: it like we think you can come back in an
Speaker 6: audition from Mark. I was like, well that was the
Speaker 6: part I thought I was really auditioning, but I was
Speaker 6: just I wanted the ball in your court.
Speaker 5: And I've never known this before, you know, it was
Speaker 5: like really a first time doing this kind of stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah and lo and behold. Yeah, that was definitely the
Speaker 5: character for me.
Speaker 6: And did Mark for six months and then I went
Speaker 6: to Little Shop after that and a year later, which
Speaker 6: was funny, played.
Speaker 2: Shows huge, Seymour fantastic. That's amazing. It makes sense. Look en,
Speaker 2: Sync was one of my first concerts and which one
Speaker 2: no strings attached. Yeah, yeah, and I was forever changed,
Speaker 2: And it makes sense of it, like your stage presence,
Speaker 2: like you and JC stage presence was like something else,
Speaker 2: like you two just like grab that spotlight.
Speaker 5: The adrilline just goes. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But you know, like I have distinct memories of like
Speaker 2: watching you specifically on like the VMA's and all those things.
Speaker 2: How like you did and do just light up a stage.
Speaker 2: And it makes so much sense now knowing that you
Speaker 2: came from that theater world, that high school, so it's like,
Speaker 2: of course you do all those harmonies or compel the
Speaker 2: drama geek fully trained. It was likely aligned for you
Speaker 2: to like, oh you have to be in a boy band,
Speaker 2: this is your.
Speaker 5: Fate, you need to be.
Speaker 6: And again What's what's great about that is it opened
Speaker 6: up so many other doors for me to to do
Speaker 6: other things, which is great. I kept telling people are like, so,
Speaker 6: what is that you want to do or anything you
Speaker 6: haven't done. I said, well, so far, I haven't sucked
Speaker 6: at anything I've done so far. I'm not like it's amazing,
Speaker 6: but I'm I'm good I and people enjoy it. So
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna take that and carry that as much
Speaker 6: as i can, because for me, I love performing. I
Speaker 6: love doing live shows. I love doing that aspect of it.
Speaker 6: You know, you you get the instant gratification, you know.
Speaker 6: I mean I've done films before, like my Big Factory
Speaker 6: wedding and stuff like that, which is again amazing within itself,
Speaker 6: and it's great, and I love doing film, but it's.
Speaker 5: Something about the theater and something about doing.
Speaker 7: It live, yes, and the nervousness of screwing up, which happens.
Speaker 7: It does happen, and it just happened recently with me,
Speaker 7: even though I'm still new.
Speaker 5: My brain is going and there was a scene that
Speaker 5: I just did and I was supposed to.
Speaker 6: Say, well, you were running out of options and I'm
Speaker 6: running out of patience and What came out out of
Speaker 6: my mouth was you were running out of patients, options, options, patients.
Speaker 5: I'm so confused.
Speaker 6: Give me the game boy and I grabbed the game boy,
Speaker 6: the guy's tand I just walked off the stage.
Speaker 2: Amazing, So it happens.
Speaker 1: I must have loved it. They must have loved it.
Speaker 6: But again, some people have never seen the show before,
Speaker 6: so they don't know it before. But it's really it's
Speaker 6: fun to see now who can, who knows, and who doesn't,
Speaker 6: which is actually pretty cool because some people are like, oh,
Speaker 6: if the show was great, I was like, I screwed
Speaker 6: that up, like you did? Like they never mind?
Speaker 5: Never mind, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Never give it away your secrets, never tell your secrets.
Speaker 3: Obviously this is a Glee podcast, and so I'm curious
Speaker 3: to hear we obviously we did.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, did you know about Glee? Did you
Speaker 1: see it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, no, no, obviously the first one, first few seasons.
Speaker 6: And I've known Matt Morrison back from when he did
Speaker 6: Hairspray because I was across the street doing a little
Speaker 6: shop when he started on a hair so oddly enough,
Speaker 6: you know how I know Matt and I love the show.
Speaker 5: I think the show was great. I wish, trust me.
Speaker 6: I think I actually called a few times, going when
Speaker 6: you gonna put my ass?
Speaker 5: Yeah, my god, never got no phone call.
Speaker 2: My god, I didn't know, like I'm friends, we're friends
Speaker 2: with j C and like in Lance and.
Speaker 6: At that point me in a student or teacher or
Speaker 6: some washed up I would have done on any of that.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Justice for boy bands though we we always say on
Speaker 3: this show that there should have been more of your guys' music. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's just it was such a travesty that we only
Speaker 3: did that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but still I think you I think what the
Speaker 6: show was and what the show did in the music,
Speaker 6: even though it wasn't all boy man pop, but it was.
Speaker 6: It was one of again, as you know, as far
Speaker 6: as one of the first shows that had a musical
Speaker 6: element into it.
Speaker 5: That's more of us, you know.
Speaker 6: The way it was shot and everything else, it was
Speaker 6: never kind of done before they've done it looks like that,
Speaker 6: but not like an actual series.
Speaker 5: And it was amazing.
Speaker 6: So you guys did a fantastic you kidd me, praised down?
Speaker 2: Did you know that we were going to do Bye
Speaker 2: Bye Bye?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: Are you notified? How does that work.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well again, the I think they okay the songs
Speaker 6: we have to over it. The other thing one thing
Speaker 6: is is though we didn't you know, obviously you guys
Speaker 6: sang it, so if it was our actual version, we'd
Speaker 6: probably get more of a notification. But it's more or
Speaker 6: less of going, hey, you know they're gonna love to
Speaker 6: use this song.
Speaker 5: You know they approved to do it.
Speaker 6: There we're re recording and obviously it's not your vocals,
Speaker 6: so it's okay. Cool, And I was always interested to
Speaker 6: see what what what was going.
Speaker 5: To go down with it. I remember it was great.
Speaker 5: It was awesome.
Speaker 6: I think it was really cool the way you guys
Speaker 6: matched it all up with everything with all the boy
Speaker 6: bends cool.
Speaker 2: I'm just bitter I wasn't in the number, just like
Speaker 2: I was in.
Speaker 5: The background of one of us, and maybe would have
Speaker 5: been great.
Speaker 6: I don't even know why I get it, but I
Speaker 6: don't get it, you know, not.
Speaker 5: Putting him in there, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: And no, because we had Kristen was in a scene
Speaker 2: where they saying defying gravity, Christ and chenaw with right
Speaker 2: and so like I would that would be amazing if
Speaker 2: you were there when there was you know, you.
Speaker 6: Know, sometimes they just go, well, you know, maybe byes
Speaker 6: or sometimes.
Speaker 5: The guys would do it? Would they do it?
Speaker 6: So it was interesting because some people are honestly like
Speaker 6: the second guest to be like, should we ask him?
Speaker 5: You think he do? You think he do that?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: And I'm like, if it's fun, hell yeah? You know.
Speaker 5: For me, I'm a different breed.
Speaker 6: I enjoy things no matter what, as long as if
Speaker 6: it works and it makes sense to me into what's
Speaker 6: going on, old and what I'm doing. Why not, you know,
Speaker 6: done those silly commercials like a progressive commercial I did
Speaker 6: a while back, a couple of the commercials funny isact
Speaker 6: of tongue in cheek?
Speaker 5: Why not?
Speaker 2: Well? What it seems that you're like a real creative
Speaker 2: in that way, like you enjoy the process and learning
Speaker 2: whatever it may be in every single medium.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean again, you know you're know your strengthen
Speaker 6: your weaknesses and know those those points and then hone
Speaker 6: in on them.
Speaker 5: You know. Again, people always like, well, you know, can
Speaker 5: you say this? You know maybe bye bye bye?
Speaker 6: And sometimes again it calls for it, and if it works,
Speaker 6: it works. But sometimes I'm kind of like, well that's
Speaker 6: too fricking cheesey.
Speaker 2: Let's not yah.
Speaker 5: I mean you know I did.
Speaker 6: I did something for a great well, great wolf Lodge,
Speaker 6: which is gonna be may and it's for families and
Speaker 6: stuff like that. So I thought it was the silliest thing. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I believe me and Lance are actually gonna do another
Speaker 6: one like that or something like that too, which is funny.
Speaker 6: We've been having a blast at some of this stuff
Speaker 6: and why not. You know, it's a nostalgia part of it.
Speaker 5: It's fun. Like I said, it's tongue in cheek. I
Speaker 5: don't take that stuff too serious. And they're always like,
Speaker 5: you know, I did.
Speaker 6: One what was it, Schlotsky's I did akel Zone.
Speaker 5: So it's silly, but it's funny. Why not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like if you bring us in on it,
Speaker 3: it's like exactly, we love to see it, you know,
Speaker 3: as fans love.
Speaker 6: I mean, I even have a hot dog place called
Speaker 6: fat Ones for crying out loud my last name.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: It's so good.
Speaker 2: You've never not enjoyed a joke, you know.
Speaker 1: I love that about you.
Speaker 5: I love go for it. I embrace it.
Speaker 2: It's also like you raised a generation of us, like
Speaker 2: we grew up when you guys were doing it, and
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 6: The weirdest thing to hear and to say yeah, and
Speaker 6: it's very humbling and very I don't know, it's it's weird,
Speaker 6: like you know a few times when you see certain
Speaker 6: things like that and hear from you guys seriously and
Speaker 6: and and because you guys are so talented as well
Speaker 6: in your own right, and it's interesting that we as
Speaker 6: a group, you know, not say paved the way, but
Speaker 6: had you know, sparked interesting you guys to be entertainers,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, absolutely did crazy.
Speaker 5: It's weird to think.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I get that, Oh, I don't anytime.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm sure you know, if we ever are
Speaker 2: in person with each other, it will be the same thing.
Speaker 2: But I'm still weird around Lance and JC. I've been
Speaker 2: on International many times, JC like I know him well,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, this is because the amount of hours
Speaker 2: and like Jenna can attest to this, like standing in
Speaker 2: front of the TV learning the choreography, watching TRL the VMA's,
Speaker 2: going to concerts, whether it was you or Brittany, like
Speaker 2: you know, it was entire.
Speaker 6: It's very similar to when I was young and it
Speaker 6: was the same thing for me with New Kids on
Speaker 6: the Block and Michael Jackson, because I that's the dancing
Speaker 6: that I kind of I watched.
Speaker 5: I was like, holy cow, I want to do that.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: I couldn't tell anybody because it was it was a
Speaker 6: little weird that, you know, you like the boy band group,
Speaker 6: you couldn't do that, you know, back in the eighties.
Speaker 6: But it was like I was telling, like the girls
Speaker 6: I was hanging out with, they would love them.
Speaker 5: I'm like, yo, show me that video.
Speaker 6: Yes, And I'm like, don't tell anybody, but show me
Speaker 6: that video.
Speaker 5: Because I want to do that.
Speaker 6: And literally, I was doing the same thing watching Michael
Speaker 6: Jackson's Thriller over and over again and then doing the
Speaker 6: choreography and then realize, oh crap, I'm doing it backwards.
Speaker 2: I got to face the other way.
Speaker 6: So it's you know, it's always humbling and interesting to
Speaker 6: hear that, but it is crazy to see like you
Speaker 6: see people like Ariana Grande, you see people like Lady
Speaker 6: Gaga that are like I was a huge fan.
Speaker 5: I came to your.
Speaker 6: Concerts when I was young, and you're kind of like, what, yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, even you got it's weird. It's so weird
Speaker 6: to think about. But again, we got to come from somewhere.
Speaker 6: It's the same thing for me like when I.
Speaker 2: Was younger, you know.
Speaker 6: But it's weird to see people come up and be like, listen,
Speaker 6: you know, I appreciate what you did. You help me
Speaker 6: with my career and what I'm doing. And to see
Speaker 6: people that are and that are peers and doing acting
Speaker 6: and doing dancing and singing, and it's just amazing.
Speaker 5: It's a great feeling.
Speaker 3: It's crazy when you love what you're doing so much
Speaker 3: like it like you did. It's hard and you're having
Speaker 3: fun while doing it. It's hard to imagine that that's
Speaker 3: the thing that is changing lives, right, like changing people
Speaker 3: in ways, inspiring them to get out and do things.
Speaker 3: And so it's just and it's bigger than you, like
Speaker 3: we know because we were in this phenomenon non show
Speaker 3: there's Lenny in a bottle like you guys, that was
Speaker 3: so big that it will never happen in your life
Speaker 3: like that ever again. But you were a part of it,
Speaker 3: and you were in it and you did it, and
Speaker 3: so it's like it's hard to kind of wrap your
Speaker 3: head around. I don't know that you ever truly will
Speaker 3: understand the gravity of like the impact you have on
Speaker 3: people's lives individually one as a whole.
Speaker 5: And you guys get it though, because you get people.
Speaker 6: Because I come up to you day if day listen,
Speaker 6: you have no idea I was, you know, on suicidal
Speaker 6: watch kind of thing. I mean, we've I've heard the
Speaker 6: stories going like your music or they'll say, you know,
Speaker 6: your show helped me motivate me get out of this.
Speaker 5: Funk or get at it. And again, it's very humbling. It's
Speaker 5: weird to be able to change lives like that, and
Speaker 5: you kind of go, I did that? We how did
Speaker 5: we do that?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 5: I don't even know you how did we? You know?
Speaker 6: Again, it's just like anything as a young kid, you know,
Speaker 6: listening to music, it's just you know the feelings and
Speaker 6: you get those feelings. And that's why I think for me,
Speaker 6: I understand that because we've all had those times in
Speaker 6: our lives where we might have been, you know, down
Speaker 6: in the dumps or something like that, and then we
Speaker 6: lift listen to music and that would lift us up.
Speaker 6: Or you know, you you would get frustrated about something
Speaker 6: like you know what, I'm going to do this freaking
Speaker 6: choreo combo and dance my a.
Speaker 5: You know, it's that kind of feeling too.
Speaker 2: Like I still don't know the second verse. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be me, but I'm gonna figure it out well hopefully
Speaker 2: one day.
Speaker 6: One day when if we ever keep crossing the fingers,
Speaker 6: ever do something on tour, you got you definitely come out,
Speaker 6: come on.
Speaker 5: You gotta learn the choreo and then.
Speaker 1: I'll have a question about that. Don't tempt us here.
Speaker 2: It comes because I've asked jay Z, I've asked Lance,
Speaker 2: I've asked Wall. Nobody's given me anything.
Speaker 5: Mm hmmm, because you know why, and this is nobs.
Speaker 5: We still don't know anything.
Speaker 6: We are supposed to have a conversation and people have
Speaker 6: had the interviews and people asked me. It's like we're
Speaker 6: supposed to sit down, hopefully within the next month or so,
Speaker 6: to literally go what are we doing?
Speaker 5: Is it something? Does it look like ABC and D
Speaker 5: or we're not gonna do anything at all?
Speaker 6: Or is it an album?
Speaker 5: Is it an album? Is it? Just? Like? What exactly
Speaker 5: are we Because.
Speaker 1: I think I'll take anything.
Speaker 2: I'll give you some notes, So here's some notes you
Speaker 2: can bring. Yeah, we could do it. You could do
Speaker 2: a tour. You could Bats Boys announce you're doing the
Speaker 2: Sphere yesterday. Yeah, that's an option for you to right
Speaker 2: an album and a tour or album and Sphere one
Speaker 2: more singles. You put out some great records the past year.
Speaker 6: True, we can we recut new ones, old ones, do
Speaker 6: all that stuff? Maybe do Yeah, I mean again, for me,
Speaker 6: I would love for it to happen. Yeah, I would
Speaker 6: love I'd be you know, for me, it would just
Speaker 6: be fun to do. I think everybody's kind of getting
Speaker 6: to that same page. Possibly, but again, it's it's just
Speaker 6: one of the things where now everybody has lives, they
Speaker 6: have kids and children. Thank goodness that mine are older,
Speaker 6: so they're almost I got one that I got one
Speaker 6: that's completely out the door, and I got one that's
Speaker 6: kind of like almost you know, once you graduate high school,
Speaker 6: which is going to be a lot like four more
Speaker 6: years from her years and I can kick her out.
Speaker 5: But you know, they're just starting. They have they have baby,
Speaker 5: like you know, one hundred percent. But that's the fun part.
Speaker 5: I don't have to deal with anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't even know those logistics.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got my old my kids old one's twenty four,
Speaker 6: will be twenty four the next month, and the other
Speaker 6: one's fifteen.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 3: Crazy, you got to really kind of live this rock
Speaker 3: star pop star life and then live the family life,
Speaker 3: and now you're like a re emerging again. I'm in
Speaker 3: the in the very beginning of it all, so I'm
Speaker 3: looking forward to like somebody like you who's re emerging
Speaker 3: again and then you able us to enjoy it without
Speaker 3: having to think about all the things that out the
Speaker 3: door with.
Speaker 6: Yeah, people have asked like as far as like you know,
Speaker 6: well you've done this, you've done that, Like what do
Speaker 6: you want to do?
Speaker 5: Like what's your goals?
Speaker 6: I'm like, this is interesting, I said, because my goals
Speaker 6: are just being happy doing things that I love doing.
Speaker 6: But now it's not I'm not to the point where
Speaker 6: in my life it's really weird to say, but I'm
Speaker 6: not that type of person where I'm not an egotistical
Speaker 6: person who says.
Speaker 5: What I need to be number one and everything right.
Speaker 5: But we already were number one in the charts.
Speaker 6: We've broken a record every album, So it's like, I
Speaker 6: don't have those kind of goals or aspirations. It's more
Speaker 6: of creative, more having fun, coming up with different concepts,
Speaker 6: and doing things, but it has nothing to do with
Speaker 6: And I think that's why a lot of times when
Speaker 6: people do stuff and they win awards and stuff like that,
Speaker 6: it's because you're not even thinking about that kind of stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm thinking about just being creative. I'm not like back
Speaker 6: in the day when we were young, that's all you
Speaker 6: think about it. I want to be famous, I want
Speaker 6: to be rich, I want to Yeah, I want all
Speaker 6: this stuff.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: I'm like, I've been up there and the only place
Speaker 6: after up is either down or you got to try
Speaker 6: to maintain being number one.
Speaker 5: And that's a lot of freaking work.
Speaker 2: That's so Beyonce has that muscle. I don't know how
Speaker 2: she does that.
Speaker 6: Let me be Let me be number two and three
Speaker 6: because I will stay there for years.
Speaker 5: Number don't drop up and drop down to the bottom.
Speaker 5: Let me stay at number two. I'm cool with that.
Speaker 2: I'm a smarter smarter I think that is a good
Speaker 2: You know, people talk about Daniel Rodcliffe a lot where
Speaker 2: he's ever since Harry Potter, he's done all these sort
Speaker 2: of like crazy, weird but really interesting and creatively challenging parts,
Speaker 2: and I there is obviously something to that where you
Speaker 2: guys did everything. You guys like grossed a billion dollars
Speaker 2: one year, like on.
Speaker 5: Like it was crazy. Yeah, on tour. I mean it was.
Speaker 6: It's weird to even say it now, Like back in
Speaker 6: the day, you're not thinking about it because you're in
Speaker 6: it and you're like, wow, that was pretty cool, and then.
Speaker 5: You move on, like there's a picture that happen so fast. Yeah,
Speaker 5: there's a picture I have of of a of a
Speaker 5: of a.
Speaker 6: Panoramic view of one of the stadiums that we did.
Speaker 5: I can't remember myself. It was Three Rivers or somewhere
Speaker 5: like a Pittsburgh I can't remember what it was, but
Speaker 5: it's just this.
Speaker 6: It was just a sold out crowd and you just
Speaker 6: see that the stadium of how big it was and
Speaker 6: the magnitude and that place was completely just packed with people,
Speaker 6: and you.
Speaker 5: Go, that was our show. We did that. It's weird.
Speaker 5: It's so surreal to think about it. And even me
Speaker 5: going to con I.
Speaker 6: Went to a Beyonce concert in the stadium I soor
Speaker 6: Taylor Swift and you watch all this stuff and you
Speaker 6: just go, I did that.
Speaker 2: Yeah anywhere.
Speaker 5: And I'm not a cockey thing either.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like we did that, and I know and
Speaker 6: I know what they're going through, which is an interesting
Speaker 6: thing because.
Speaker 5: Not everybody can say that.
Speaker 6: I hope that their mind is going through the time
Speaker 6: when they're first coming out there for their stadium tour,
Speaker 6: how nervous. I hope everybody likes what they're what we're doing,
Speaker 6: you know, putting it upon hopefully all the text stuff
Speaker 6: where you know, your brain goes all over the place,
Speaker 6: but it is. It's truly one of the most interesting
Speaker 6: and surreal things to get on the stage of that
Speaker 6: crowd of an audience and get that reaction like that.
Speaker 5: Again, that's why I love live live audiences.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I imagine that also, like with Angeliette, the audience
Speaker 3: is a little different than seeing like a lay miss right,
Speaker 3: Like they have to be kind of like a little
Speaker 3: more pumped, and it feels a little more rock starry
Speaker 3: and pop stary and like like you're on tour, Like
Speaker 3: what does it feel like in you know when you
Speaker 3: walk on stage, it's like that, you.
Speaker 5: Know, it's funny, it's funny.
Speaker 6: I mean, especially for this show, this particular show, it
Speaker 6: is kind of like a a concert if you will.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it really is. And when I do everybody.
Speaker 6: It's the boy band dance that we all do. It's
Speaker 6: hilarious and it's it's literally five guys and we're dancing.
Speaker 6: So you know, people tend to love that. That is
Speaker 6: the crowd please in the show, and it's just funny
Speaker 6: for people to see me and that. First of all,
Speaker 6: I'm a dad in the show. I got really tight
Speaker 6: pants on that are really like shellacton, it feels like.
Speaker 6: And then I'm singing a backship voice song in a
Speaker 6: French accent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a mad libs.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's exactly right, exactly.
Speaker 6: Let's throw the most craziest stuff altogether. But you know
Speaker 6: what if for people who have never seen a Broadway show,
Speaker 6: this is a great show to ease into somebody else,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: Hilarious enough.
Speaker 6: I brought my girlfriend a while back to one of
Speaker 6: the first shows. I was in La and the Pantagious
Speaker 6: had the King and I and I'm like, and I'm
Speaker 6: telling my girl, I'm like, listen, she's never seen a
Speaker 6: Broadway show. I'm like, oh god, let me explain something, Like,
Speaker 6: let me explain it. This is old school theater Broadway show.
Speaker 6: So the music is definitely different from what you're not
Speaker 6: used to. So I'm just letting you know ahead of times.
Speaker 6: She was like, what did I just watch? I'm like,
Speaker 6: shut up, it's awesome. It is.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And then I brought it to like Rock of Ages,
Speaker 6: you know, and I'm like, let me, let me ease
Speaker 6: you in.
Speaker 5: This is a lot better. You know, the.
Speaker 6: Songs a lot funny, campy, but now she like loves them.
Speaker 6: I mean, we saw gosh, we saw Death Becomes Her.
Speaker 5: I saw great, it's amazing Redwood last night.
Speaker 1: What was that just belding from like feet in the air.
Speaker 5: I don't it is coolest, Yeah, it's I don't even
Speaker 5: know how to.
Speaker 6: I obviously didn't know any music, didn't know the storyline
Speaker 6: about it. Uh, but it's it's it's pretty deep. It's
Speaker 6: a good show. It's very deep. It's very the set's
Speaker 6: really freaking cool. Oddly enough, it was in need Lander Theater,
Speaker 6: where it's where I did rent for the first time.
Speaker 6: My first Broadway show was in the same theater. Tree
Speaker 6: is big, there's a tree in there.
Speaker 5: But it's it's it's done well.
Speaker 6: I thought it was really really cool, definitely definitely different
Speaker 6: from anything you've ever seen.
Speaker 5: I think on a Broadway show. So it's it's pretty cool,
Speaker 5: pretty pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, I need to show you New York. I
Speaker 2: got a lot of shows to see. I need to
Speaker 2: see you and Andreliet got it.
Speaker 5: You have to come out.
Speaker 6: It's again again like I said before, for people, I
Speaker 6: have never seen a Broadway show, and you want to
Speaker 6: see something and see every Max Martin's song pretty much
Speaker 6: catalog in there. And if you know Romeo and Juliette's story,
Speaker 6: and if you know about William Shakespeare, that's this is
Speaker 6: the show to come see, good.
Speaker 2: Old Bill Shakespeare.
Speaker 1: Just plug that show.
Speaker 5: We gotta go.
Speaker 3: You gotta go see it. Go see Joey. Wasn't it
Speaker 3: you heard it here first people, And.
Speaker 2: Maybe next summer see him on tour. I don't know.
Speaker 6: I you know what if I told you, I wish
Speaker 6: I would hope that happens. I mean, if if I
Speaker 6: need to get my butt in the shape though we.
Speaker 3: Need to, well, we hope that it works up the
Speaker 3: way you guys wanted to. You know, and thank you
Speaker 3: so much for literally this time is so precious. We understand,
Speaker 3: we know, so thank you so much for taking the
Speaker 3: time to chat with us. It's such a high joy
Speaker 3: and pleasure.
Speaker 6: Thank you guys for for taking the time as well.
Speaker 6: Come on now, you guys got a lot more people
Speaker 6: lined up than I.
Speaker 5: Do to do things, so you know, glad.
Speaker 2: Thanks for squeezing me now you're an icon. Thank you.
Speaker 2: And hope you know, hope we get to hang out
Speaker 2: in person.
Speaker 5: Out with jan.
Speaker 2: We're trying to collect all the instinct members on the
Speaker 2: show like oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't have that speed.
Speaker 2: That's a different gear that I.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 2: Have a show you too.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, why are they all so nice?
Speaker 4: I don't understand jarring to be to have like idols
Speaker 4: that you grew up literally raising us idols idols be
Speaker 4: so nice to us.
Speaker 2: Do you think I feel like the most the more
Speaker 2: famous the person I've met, like, the more success they've experienced,
Speaker 2: the nicer they are.
Speaker 1: Most of the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they have gotten to this place where it
Speaker 2: does not serve them to be mean or rude or
Speaker 2: diva because they've already done it. In terms of like
Speaker 2: a music career, there's nothing else any of the members
Speaker 2: and in Sync can do that will ever or anybody,
Speaker 2: not just members like Factory Boys and Sync Brittany. At
Speaker 2: that time, nobody's selling records like that. Now you know,
Speaker 2: it's like five people and they're like solo artists can
Speaker 2: compete with that, and so like the things that they
Speaker 2: were able to do is I don't I feel like
Speaker 2: the presence that it gives you after that, because.
Speaker 1: Yes, you've seen it all, yes, And I think and.
Speaker 2: I think the alternative is to be, you know, like
Speaker 2: a bitter, angry person, which is not sustainable or judgmental
Speaker 2: of like I'm having to like lower myself to do
Speaker 2: these things. And I think Joey has a great point outlook, yeah,
Speaker 2: an outlook of like you find things that fulfill you
Speaker 2: and challenge you creatively. It doesn't matter how it may
Speaker 2: look to the outside world.
Speaker 1: That's like no ego right there, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: No, you go, and it's not like I'm going to
Speaker 2: tell you that, Yeah, we had the biggest opening sales
Speaker 2: week of all time, most trucks on tour first like
Speaker 2: bandigrossa billion dollars in a year, Like it doesn't need
Speaker 2: to No, it.
Speaker 1: Doesn't need to. Well I am, I I'm speechless, I
Speaker 1: really am.
Speaker 3: I will keep bringing on all the NSYNC members, if
Speaker 3: Phil come on and what a shipping away again? Fourteen
Speaker 3: year old Jenna telling her that, like she's gonna have
Speaker 3: some instinct members's Joey Fatone on the podcast. On her podcast,
Speaker 3: I'd slap her in the face and say she's crazy.
Speaker 2: So, Jenna, you've gotten a lot of in sync. You
Speaker 2: worked with Britney Stairs and Backstreet Boys.
Speaker 1: You're right, I did.
Speaker 3: We worked with Brittany, I got a we got we
Speaker 3: worked with a j We've got Joey on, we had
Speaker 3: j c Wet.
Speaker 1: That's right, baby size spice.
Speaker 3: It's I mean, our whole childhood is being isn't It's
Speaker 3: circling us like jaws.
Speaker 2: I do feel bad that I was, like you raised us,
Speaker 2: I grew up because I hate when people say that
Speaker 2: to me. I don't hate it. It's just, you know, uh,
Speaker 2: like an existential crisis. Funny.
Speaker 1: I think it's so funny you raised me. I think
Speaker 1: it's so funny when people say that.
Speaker 4: It always makes me giggle.
Speaker 2: I always think it's crazy and then it just leapt
Speaker 2: out of my mouth and like, but I understand it.
Speaker 1: I understand, like Joey said, like new kids like you
Speaker 1: come from somewhere. So anyway, thank you Joey. Everybody goes
Speaker 1: see En.
Speaker 2: He's in.
Speaker 3: He's on Broadway until March and tomorrow. We're talking to
Speaker 3: Nicole Lamb, who is a Glee fan and she's on
Speaker 3: the Angeliette tour.
Speaker 1: The national tour. So we're just we're bringing it all together.
Speaker 2: We should be getting ready and uliet for this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And honestly, like, I have friends in the show.
Speaker 1: We love the show. You have friends in the show.
Speaker 1: We love this show. Uh, pay us? Should we be
Speaker 1: in it?
Speaker 5: Kevin?
Speaker 1: We should we pitch ourselves to be in this show?
Speaker 1: Is this the show? This is the show?
Speaker 2: Are you kidding?
Speaker 1: These are official audition?
Speaker 2: This would be one show I would not be scared
Speaker 2: to be and not because it's not hard, because it is.
Speaker 2: It's the show. Because I know these songs. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: know these songs.
Speaker 1: We're into it.
Speaker 2: Let's do it. I went to the opening of it
Speaker 2: in the West End, oh with JC and Lan. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I'm in. I'm in, Jenna, Okay, let's start out.
Speaker 1: Okay. Anyway, that's that's our episode and that's what you
Speaker 1: really met.
Speaker 2: Thanks Joey, thanks for listening and follow us on Instagram
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Speaker 2: See you next time.