1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: Unforgettable stars, shocking confessions, and hilarious moments. These are the 2 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: year's best celebrity interviews on Elvis Duran in the Morning Show, 3 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge. 4 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 2: Not to embarrass myself, but here we go. I mean, 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 2: I'm on crazy, crazy allergy medicine, so I'm like a 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,799 Speaker 2: crackhead over here. Okay, my skins crawling off my head. 7 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 2: So if it goes down a weird hallway, it's gonna happen. 8 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 2: Mark Hoppus is here. Yeah, we need more cowbell. That's great. 9 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 2: It's some morning radio. It's an embarrassing thing. Ever, I mean, 10 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 2: you have a slide whistle too? Probably do you really 11 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 2: don't mess with my slide. He's in a box of tricks. 12 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 2: It's so hokey. Put that crap nice, Okay, now that'll 13 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:05,680 Speaker 2: be do. I just I mean it is a typical hokey, right. 14 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 2: I just stopped wearing bowling shirts. So Mark Hoppin is 15 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 2: of course blink two. And I'm doing my best not 16 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 2: to fan girl in your face because we're such huge fans. Oh, 17 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:20,559 Speaker 2: thank you very much. Absolutely the story we all thought 18 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 2: we knew until now we're reading your book. Called Fahrenheit 19 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 2: one eighty two and wow, writing a book is an interesting, 20 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 2: interesting decision to make. It is why why did you 21 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 2: do this? My manager asked me to. 22 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,680 Speaker 3: Actually, my manager has been saying forever that I should 23 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 3: write a book, but I didn't really think about it 24 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,839 Speaker 3: until I was sick. And when I was sick, I 25 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:43,759 Speaker 3: was talking with a therapist and she said, you should 26 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 3: write down what's happening and write like nobody's ever going 27 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 3: to read it, and just write. And I found it 28 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 3: really therapeutic, and so afterwards I was like, I enjoy 29 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 3: this process. And then it turned from writing as therapy, 30 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 3: from being sick to writing about my band and my 31 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 3: best friends and the great things that we've gotten to 32 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 3: do and how lucky we are. And then that went 33 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 3: into the band breakup and into like the part about 34 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 3: being sick. 35 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 2: So it was really great. And speaking of I mean, 36 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,959 Speaker 2: you don't hold back. I mean you were talking about 37 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 2: Tom DeLong and you're interesting of volatile sometimes volatile relationship 38 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 2: with him. You just say it right here, yeah, And 39 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 2: did he read it and go, hey, man, is that 40 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,239 Speaker 2: really what you thought about me? No, because there's nothing 41 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 2: in the book that I hadn't talked with Tom about 42 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 2: or said in his presence, and Tom and I were 43 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,519 Speaker 2: in a great place, like as a Bandblinquity to is 44 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 2: in a really awesome place right now, and so I 45 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 2: think that. 46 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 3: And I wrote the book with the intent there would 47 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 3: be no demons in it, like I didn't want there 48 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:41,359 Speaker 3: to be bad guys. And so when I was writing 49 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 3: the book, even when I was writing about fights that 50 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 3: we've had as a band, I would write about other 51 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,399 Speaker 3: person's point of view because I'd want to be fair 52 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 3: about it. And so that was kind of healing for 53 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 3: me as well, to write about arguments that were in 54 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 3: the past, like twenty years ago, that I was still 55 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:55,959 Speaker 3: maybe holding on us some grudges about, and then trying 56 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 3: to write it from the other person's perspective helped me 57 00:02:58,560 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 3: deal with it. 58 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 4: So if we listened to the book on audible, right, 59 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 4: a lot of times, if I'm listening to someone who 60 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 4: talk does their own book, they kind of go off 61 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 4: page for a minute and give you, like a side note. 62 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 4: Do you do that at all? 63 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 2: No? Okay, stick extrictly, as I stuck very strictly to 64 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 2: the book. 65 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 3: But I did write a song for the beginning in 66 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 3: the outro of it. So the audiobook has like a 67 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 3: little like musical intro and a little musical outro. 68 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 2: Oh that's cool, so cool. 69 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 5: Was there anybody that you had to reach out to 70 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 5: before the book came out and say, hey, just a 71 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 5: heads up, example, Melissa Johart, there's something about you in 72 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 5: this book? 73 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 3: Was it was more like my family, like talking about 74 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 3: my family stuff and things that happened in the past 75 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 3: like that, the things about like the band and stuff. 76 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 3: I didn't feel like I needed to warn about you 77 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 3: about because it's all it's all fun and joy and 78 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 3: there's no like I got you or whatever. It's all 79 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 3: it's all love. So Mark Hoppus, of course this book 80 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 3: is called fair. You talk about growing up with your 81 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 3: sister in California. Yeah, right, and Scotty by the way, 82 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 3: Scotty b what year do we see Blink and Green 83 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 3: Day Garden? 84 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 2: I think, oh wow, that had to be ninety nine 85 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 2: or two thousand. I was like two thousand and one. 86 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 2: I think too, that like the pop disaster to it, right, Yes, yeah, 87 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 2: and even back then I was the oldest person in 88 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 2: the garden. But you know, so Scotty was listening to 89 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 2: you talking about your your your parents and how you 90 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 2: would hear them fighting in the house, and you said 91 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 2: you actually started crying on the way to work today. 92 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 6: I did because it resonated with me a lot, because 93 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 6: you and your sister reminded me a lot of my kids, 94 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 6: because I got divorced, you know, And and I didn't 95 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 6: realize that you're the one that spilled the apple juice 96 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 6: an Adam song. 97 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 2: That was me. 98 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 3: I spilled the apple juice and Adams song. I was 99 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 3: hearing my parents fight, and uh, I was sitting outside 100 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 3: their bedroom on the carpet, drinking apple juice, wondering what 101 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 3: the heck is going on with my family? This doesn't 102 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,720 Speaker 3: sound right, this is I was awful in there. These 103 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 3: are my parents are supposed to love one another, and 104 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 3: I can hear them yelling, and I like coughed or 105 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 3: like moved or something. And then the yelling stopped, and 106 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 3: I heard footsteps coming toward the door. I'm like, oh 107 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 3: my god, I'm maybe it's so much trouble for sitting 108 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 3: outside the door while they're arguing. And so I got 109 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:03,119 Speaker 3: up and ran and I kicked over the apple juice 110 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 3: in the hall, and that was it. That was it. 111 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 3: You know, you also talk about I think it's a 112 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 3: during pandemic. You you were diagnosed with cancer. Yeah, I 113 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 3: mean we're talking to stage stage four lymphoma, diffuse large 114 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 3: B cell lymphoma type four A. 115 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 2: By hell, what that was what I had? You had 116 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 2: to be complicated even with that. Yeah, but you said 117 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 2: if I'm if I'm not mistaken, debt knowing that the mortality, 118 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 2: mortality is like number one your headlined at the point 119 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 2: that it was actually freeing. It was to know that, 120 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 2: well you tell us I don't know. It's like, uh, 121 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 2: it's like if you found out the day that you 122 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 2: were going to die, you would you would know. And 123 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 2: I felt like that was what I was told. I 124 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,559 Speaker 2: was told actually that I had a sixty percent chance 125 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 2: of getting through cancer never having to think about it again, 126 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 2: which is great odds. I had a friend who was 127 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 2: sick at the same time with pancreatic cancer and sadly 128 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 2: passed away. 129 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 3: So the type of cancer that I have or had 130 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 3: was curable, but it was going to be really difficult. 131 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 3: And somehow I was like, Okay, well, I've worried so 132 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 3: long about you know, mortality and how things are going 133 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 3: to end, and thought about my own death. 134 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 2: This is a great morning radio. Hold on, hold on, 135 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 2: we go shoe the cancer? Yeah did the whistle cancer? 136 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 2: So okay, please continue that. 137 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 3: But there was a freedom in that where I was like, okay, 138 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 3: well this is the fight now. Yeah, And so I 139 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,039 Speaker 3: really crystallized things and like friends and family came and 140 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:40,039 Speaker 3: we're like, my whole world shrunk down to like this 141 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 3: tiny little crucible of love and friends and family and 142 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 3: fighting this uh, this disease. See, this is why you 143 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 3: need to read this. 144 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 2: Because you go to a Blink one eighty two concert 145 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 2: and you see the joy, the fun people just around 146 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 2: on stage and having a great time. But when you 147 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 2: get to know you a little more, that's incredible. Everyone 148 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,719 Speaker 2: has a book in them and I wrote my book 149 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 2: and I learn more about me. Yeah, write in this book, 150 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 2: talk about that. I mean, how do you see yourself 151 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,480 Speaker 2: differently post book writing? 152 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 3: Post book writing? Honestly, writing a book about myself made 153 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,119 Speaker 3: me realize that it's not about me, that it's about 154 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 3: the people around me and the people that I love, 155 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 3: and the band and what we've created and. 156 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 2: That whole world. 157 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 3: And hopefully it's made me more humble and whatever I 158 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 3: think I've always been humble, but definitely writing a book 159 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 3: makes you think about what am I in the world, 160 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 3: and what do I have to give? And what what 161 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 3: do I need to do less of? What do I 162 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 3: want to do more of? 163 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 5: Have you carried that same freeing feeling post cancer with 164 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 5: you or did you just go back to like a 165 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,119 Speaker 5: now I'm good both. 166 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a real thing at the end where you're like, 167 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 3: you know, if I get over this cancer, I'm gonna 168 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 3: go out to live every day with love, and I 169 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 3: try and do that. But then also like I just 170 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 3: get bummed on things. It's like I'm glad that I 171 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 3: get to take everything for granted again. 172 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. 173 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the best part of like being cured of 174 00:07:58,240 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 3: cancer is like you get to go back to complaining 175 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 3: about stuff. 176 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 2: It's great. 177 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 5: We've had a couple of guys here who you know, 178 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 5: battled death and they came out on the other side 179 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 5: and they're just you know, back to themselves. 180 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's the best part. That's Froggy update in Jacksonville. 181 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 2: He's had two brain aneurysms. Oh my gosh, two brain 182 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 2: aneurysms and they had. 183 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 7: Strong yeah strokes exactly right though, That's what you do you. 184 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 7: You kind of first like, well, I'm gonna be different 185 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 7: and you are different, and it's like an accident on 186 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 7: the road. You put both hands on the wheel, You're 187 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 7: gonna drive really good, and then ten minutes tell you 188 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 7: the radio is blasted, windows down in your hall and 189 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,679 Speaker 7: ass again. It's you get back to life eventually. 190 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 2: Ye love it? What's that scream? I can't hear you? 191 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 2: So we have a text that just came in. Oh 192 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 2: my god, Mark could be a DJ. Yeah he is 193 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 2: a Yeah. Apple Music you can check it out. I am. 194 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 3: I am a DJ. We have a show on Apple Music. 195 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 3: It's called after School Radio when me and my friends 196 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 3: do it, and it's awesome. You you may borrow a 197 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,319 Speaker 3: bell if you want, Yeah, but not the way to 198 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 3: slide whistle for sure. 199 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 4: When you finish your book, right, you're done, You're you've 200 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 4: written it. You go to hand it in, you hand 201 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 4: it over to be published. Is it nerve wracking? Do 202 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 4: you question everything you put in there? Do you say, 203 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 4: oh my gosh, I should have left that out, I 204 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 4: shouldn't have done this, I should have done that. 205 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 2: Yeah. 206 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 3: I mean, it's like recording an album where it's the 207 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 3: hardest part is turning it in and saying this is 208 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 3: a complete work now. But what I did is I thought, well, 209 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 3: this isn't a book, and this is a milestone, Like 210 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 3: this is where I am today when I turned in 211 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 3: the book. That's how I felt that day. And then 212 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 3: life goes on. So this is really just like, that's 213 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 3: that's where I was when I started writing the book 214 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:29,679 Speaker 3: two years ago. And I've obviously, you know, Blink has 215 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 3: gone on since this and done one hundred and twenty 216 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 3: five shows and we're recording a new album and all 217 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 3: kinds of stuff. So yeah, but there's always like I 218 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 3: look back and I'm like, oh, I wish I would 219 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,080 Speaker 3: have changed that word, or I wish I would have included 220 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:41,959 Speaker 3: that story or whatever. 221 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, Mark Hoppae is here is memoirs called Fahrenheit one 222 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,439 Speaker 2: eighty two. It's avay able right now. Listen to it. 223 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 2: Read it. We love listening. Yeah, hearing your voice, did 224 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 2: you ever find yourself getting out not choked up, but 225 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 2: just more emotional as you tell your story and you're 226 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 2: vocalizing it and you hear the Yeah. 227 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 3: When when I was doing the audio book and I 228 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 3: was talking about being sick and I was reading in 229 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 3: the book. I have these journals that I was keeping 230 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 3: while I was undergoing chemotherapy, and I was really at 231 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 3: my low point, and I'm reading and reading thoughts that 232 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 3: I had for myself while I was really in the dark, 233 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 3: and that made me choke up when I was reading 234 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 3: the book. Good morning, everybody, But where's the hustle? 235 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 4: You have a very soothing voice, so I feel like 236 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 4: listening to your audible would be very a very soothing experience. 237 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 3: It's it's a nice experience. I hope I haven't listened 238 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,079 Speaker 3: to the audiobook because I dislike the sound of my 239 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 3: voice that much that you know, it's like when you 240 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 3: hear your voice back when you leave a message for somebody, 241 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 3: and you know, oh, that's what I sound like. You 242 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 3: have a great voice, Thank you. It's very low, low tones. 243 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 3: It's kind of rattling my scrot. 244 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 2: Kind of. You made reference to the fact that other 245 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 2: bands thought you guys blink when I did was a joke, right, always, always, 246 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 2: in forever, since day one. Why, because that's what we do. 247 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 2: When Tom and I get on stage, we try and 248 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 2: out do one another. Say the more ridiculous thing, have 249 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 2: the more fun, write the better song, whatever it is 250 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:11,679 Speaker 2: and so forever people just thought of Blink as the 251 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 2: joke band because we go on stage, and also, you know, 252 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 2: we had funny videos and What's My Age Again is 253 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 2: kind of a joke premise for a song, But we 254 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 2: also had songs like Adam's Song and really heartfelt things 255 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 2: and Tom's always written really heartfelt lyrics. And so I 256 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 2: think the people that grew up listening to Blink knew 257 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 2: that there was a duality to our band. That we 258 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 2: love to have fun, but we also try and write 259 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 2: the best songs we can and try and write the 260 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 2: best music that we can. So you and Tom and try. 261 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 2: I mean, the relationship basically we have the same thing. 262 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 2: I mean, you have to come in every day. We 263 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 2: have to be on stage, whether we like it or not. 264 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 2: People paid for the tickets. I guess this is a 265 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 2: free show, but they pay with their time and there. 266 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 2: You know, the relationship you had with Tom though, was 267 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 2: it definitely had its peaks and valleys. Yeah, and talk 268 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 2: about that, talk about what it was like, I mean 269 00:11:59,040 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 2: a partner. 270 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 3: Right while I met Tom, you know, I had just 271 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 3: graduated high school and was in college and Tom was 272 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 3: graduating high school at the time, and if you think 273 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:08,599 Speaker 3: about it, the people that you were friends with in 274 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 3: high school, Like, we are grown men with families and 275 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 3: children of our own. Now what friends that you had 276 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 3: in high school are you still friends with today? That 277 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 3: you've worked with and lived with and toured in a 278 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 3: van and slept on people's floors and everything else, and 279 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 3: just humans going through life. You fall in and out 280 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 3: of stuff. So, you know, Tom and I were at 281 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 3: different points in our lives while we were in the 282 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 3: same band together, and you know, Tom wanted to stay 283 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 3: home and I wanted to go on tour, and Travis 284 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 3: wanted to go on tour, and we were having kids 285 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 3: a different point, and there's like a tear in that. 286 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 3: There's like a difference. When you start and you're all 287 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 3: in a van together, there's a unity of purpose. All 288 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 3: we want to do is play shows, be in this van, 289 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 3: be in this band, and go and have fun. But 290 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 3: then you get married, and then you have relationship, then 291 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 3: you have kids, and you have mortgages, and you have 292 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 3: all this other stuff pulling your time away. And I 293 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 3: think that the balance that each of us had in 294 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 3: our lives was just different at different times. You're talking 295 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 3: one of the chapters is about how you and Tom. 296 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 3: Actually you're lane. 297 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 2: You were both in at one point to start to 298 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 2: separate in different things, and you were a little confused. 299 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 2: He wanted to go to another project, the other music, 300 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 2: and you just weren't communicating at all. Did you think 301 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,320 Speaker 2: it was over at that point? Oh? Yeah, there are 302 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 2: several times. Yeah, there were several times when I thought like, 303 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 2: I'm not going to talk with Tom again, and you know, 304 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 2: I don't even speak to him. 305 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 3: You didn't speak like I mean when you know, when 306 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 3: Tom left the band the first time, we didn't speak 307 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 3: for like five years, and same thing the second time. 308 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 3: So there were numbers of years where I just wouldn't 309 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,439 Speaker 3: even talk with Tom and there was so much acrimony 310 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 3: on both sides. But then the cool thing is that 311 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 3: when we got back together both times, you know, the 312 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 3: first time was after Travis had his plane crash, and 313 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:42,079 Speaker 3: the second time was after I was sick with cancer. 314 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 3: That Tom calls up and it's like none of the 315 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 3: bad things even happened at all. It was like you 316 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 3: just snapped back into best friend mode. And that's how 317 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 3: Tom has been like ever since whatever it was four 318 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 3: years ago when Tom texted me out of the Blue 319 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 3: and said, Hey, I'm directing this music video for Angels 320 00:13:57,600 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 3: and Airwaves. And he sent me a photo of him 321 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:01,679 Speaker 3: at a music video shoot that he was directing, and 322 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 3: of course it's him in front of a bunch of 323 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 3: models in their underwear, of course, and I reply, hah, 324 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 3: that's awesome man. Hey, by the way, I have cancer 325 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 3: and I start chemotherapy. And that was the first real 326 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 3: text that I had exchanged with Tom in a number 327 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 3: of years. And immediately my phone rings and it's Tom, 328 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 3: and I pick up the phone and say hello, and 329 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 3: he says how are you? And so the past whatever 330 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 3: four years just disappeared and it was just back to 331 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 3: square one, back to friends. 332 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 4: Wow, and do you think like now, Like you know, 333 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 4: when you guys first started, it was like the end 334 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 4: all be all that was you had to be successful, 335 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 4: you wanted to make the money. You guys are in 336 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 4: such a different place right now that it's got to 337 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 4: be more fun. 338 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 2: It is fun. 339 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 3: And that was the reason that we got blank Oninity 340 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 3: two back together as the three of us is because 341 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 3: that's what's fun. And we sat down in early twenty 342 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 3: twenty two and we were like, Okay, what do we 343 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 3: need for Blankwinity two to be awesome and be what 344 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 3: we wanted to be because Blinkwinity two is the three 345 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 3: of us, and you know, thank you God for Matt 346 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 3: Skiba when he came in, and thank God for Scott 347 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 3: Rainer when he came in. But the soul Oblinquinity two 348 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 3: is Travis, Tom and me, And so we sat down 349 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 3: and we're like, we just want to do fun stuff. 350 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 2: We want to be creative. 351 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 3: We want to keep writing new songs and touring and 352 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 3: playing music for people and having a great time. And 353 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 3: so we're like, we're not going to do anything that 354 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 3: we don't want to do, and we've kind of stuck 355 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 3: to that and served as well. 356 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 2: Was there anything that didn't make the book? Actually, Nate 357 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 2: said to you were telling a story about Detroit story 358 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,960 Speaker 2: and he's asked, I said, tell me the story. You said, no, 359 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 2: let Mark tell the story. Oh. 360 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 3: I mean it was just with this was you know whatever, 361 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 3: Probably almost twenty years ago, we were sitting backstage in 362 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 3: Detroit and we were hanging out, the three of us 363 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 3: in a dressing room, just backstage doing nothing. And we've 364 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 3: been there for like an hour after soundcheck, and all 365 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 3: of a sudden, out of the bathroom comes these two guys, 366 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 3: probably in their like early twenties, very late teens, and 367 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 3: they look at us and they go, hey, what's up, guys, 368 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 3: and they just walk out. We're like, what the hell? 369 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 3: They've been in that bathroom the whole time. So we 370 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 3: go into the bathroom. Those guys had snuck into the venue, 371 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 3: you and we're climbing through the ceiling like in breakfast 372 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 3: club and climbing over the ceiling tiles, and the ceiling 373 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 3: tiles had given way and they'd fallen through the ceiling 374 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 3: onto the stall of the bathroom underneath them, broken the 375 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 3: door off the stall, broken the toilet off the wall, 376 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 3: and then just sat there in fear, not knowing what 377 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 3: to do, and finally gave up, and they walked out. 378 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 3: Security was grabbing them and kicking them out. We're like, 379 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 3: no way. Those guys are sitting side of stage for 380 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 3: the whole show. Yeah, that's the energy you want, right 381 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 3: next to the stage. 382 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 2: Yeah. I love that crazy stuff on the road. I mean, 383 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 2: I'm sure that the list is so long there's no 384 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 2: way to even remember most of it. But we used 385 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 2: to call our tour manager. We used to call our 386 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 2: tour manager in the middle of the night at a 387 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 2: hotel and say, this is the front desk and we 388 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 2: have an urgent fact for you down here. We need 389 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 2: you to come down right now. It's three o'clock in 390 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 2: the morning. And then we called down to the front 391 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 2: desk and say, this is liquidity toos tour manager. I 392 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 2: need a fax. 393 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 3: I'm expecting what I'm coming down there and if you 394 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 3: don't have her for me, I'm gonna kick your ass. 395 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,160 Speaker 3: And so our tour manager would go downstairs and say 396 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 3: do you have a fact for me? And the person 397 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 3: working the desk we I'm so sorry, sir, we don't 398 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 3: have a fax. 399 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 2: We I don't know what to tell you. He's like, well, 400 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:07,640 Speaker 2: why'd you call me up and wake me? I didn't 401 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,360 Speaker 2: call you and wake you up? I love it. 402 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 5: Did you guys have universal rules for the tour bus, 403 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:15,400 Speaker 5: like no crapping when we're all on here? 404 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 3: Uh no, but we I mean when we first started off, 405 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 3: when we first had a bus, Scott and I still 406 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 3: smoked cigarettes, and we would like everybody except for Tom 407 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 3: basically smoked on our crew and it was just the dirtiest, smelliest, 408 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,879 Speaker 3: awful bus. I imagine that stank, that just like dank 409 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 3: smoke for uh so awful. 410 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 4: Did you guys all have the same stalker? 411 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 2: At one point we did. 412 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:41,880 Speaker 3: There was a stalker in San Diego that my wife 413 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 3: kept seeing around town and I was recording. We were 414 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,679 Speaker 3: in the studio, and she called up and said that 415 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 3: lady who I see around town is out in front 416 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 3: of our house right now, and so she called the police, 417 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,240 Speaker 3: and the police came and the lady took off and 418 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:56,160 Speaker 3: they kid. The police came back and they said, hey, 419 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 3: we can't arrest this lady because she hasn't done anything illegal. 420 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,919 Speaker 3: But she has a note book with pictures of your 421 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:05,640 Speaker 3: house from six months ago, like license plate numbers written down, 422 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 3: times of when like lights would come on and off 423 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 3: in your house, or you know, pictures of Tom's wife 424 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:15,440 Speaker 3: at the grocery store. Like really strange stuff we're see 425 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:16,840 Speaker 3: today downstairs. 426 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 2: I don't know. 427 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that was that was really unsettling. And uh 428 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,400 Speaker 3: it was after that that, you know, we moved into 429 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,679 Speaker 3: a gated community and I was like, WHOA, being famous 430 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 3: is weird things? 431 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 5: Because you know, now we we read and hear so 432 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 5: many things about people being on stage and someone launching 433 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 5: a bottle at them, has touring changed for you guys 434 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 5: in that way at all? Or is it just still 435 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 5: kind of the same. 436 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:42,440 Speaker 3: I mean, thank god there's a lot less shoes being 437 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:44,439 Speaker 3: thrown on stage, because I never under like coming out 438 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 3: of the punk rock community, like, uh, every show there'd 439 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 3: be shoes and T shirts and like a belt and 440 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 3: like everyone's trash all thrown up on stage. I'm like, 441 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 3: what about, Like, like, how do you walk home with 442 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 3: no shoes? How do you leave a show with no shoes? 443 00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 5: Would they throw both or just one? Because I have 444 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 5: just one shoe. Yeah, that's weird. 445 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 3: Phones and cameras, lots of bras, lots of underwear, but 446 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 3: bras are expensive. I've had to buy my wife bras 447 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,640 Speaker 3: before him, Like why this is you know whatever? 448 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:16,280 Speaker 2: There's a lot of money. Yeah. So looking back, I mean, 449 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 2: did you guys first start touring? I mean I started 450 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,680 Speaker 2: touring really in ninety five, was like our first tour. Wow, 451 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 2: So look at that and all these years that have passed. 452 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 2: I mean it didn't go fast, It's insane. I still 453 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 2: remember the smell of our van. It was not good. 454 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:34,200 Speaker 3: Doesn't sound yeah good, It wasn't. It was like fast 455 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 3: food trash. That smell of like stale French fries and 456 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:39,440 Speaker 3: Mexican food and this, like. 457 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 2: Uh do you miss that? Yeah? It was great because 458 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 2: something tells me, however, you're transporting ourselves around These days, 459 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:48,359 Speaker 2: it smells much better. Oh it does. 460 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,239 Speaker 3: But there's nothing like the joy of just hitting it. 461 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 3: Because back then there were no cell phones, there was 462 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 3: no internet, there was no way to get a hold 463 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 3: of us. When we left to go on tour, we 464 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,640 Speaker 3: had literally a Thomas Guide and a together thing like this, 465 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 3: just a bunch of papers with like this is the 466 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:05,920 Speaker 3: venue address, this is what time you need to be there, 467 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 3: and you're getting paid, getting paid fifty dollars wow. And 468 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 3: then nobody could get a hold of us. So if 469 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 3: I had to call home, I had to call home, 470 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 3: collect from a payphone and hope my mom was home 471 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 3: to pick up the phone and how's everything? 472 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 2: Wow? So how did your mom and your father still alive? Yeah? 473 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 2: So how did they respond to your success in the band? 474 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 2: Did they get it? Ever? 475 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,639 Speaker 3: They did get it. My mom was very supportive early on. 476 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 3: My dad was always a little more practical. My dad 477 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 3: didn't really understand that Blank Winty two is successful until 478 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 3: we played the Tonight Show with Jay LENO Wow. And 479 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 3: Richard Simmons was one of the guests. Oh yeah, then 480 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,360 Speaker 3: this is one of their chapters. I pulled as up. Yeah, 481 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 3: that's the picture right there. So we were all hanging 482 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,879 Speaker 3: out in the green room before like after soundcheck, before 483 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 3: we played, and Richard Simmons, the workout guru, comes into 484 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 3: our room. Just burst open the door. Blank comes in, 485 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 3: gives me a kiss, gives Tom a kiss, Travis a kiss. 486 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 3: Huge personality and I'm talking. And so we had invited 487 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 3: all of our families to the show and I'm not 488 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,120 Speaker 3: seeing Richard Simmons for workout tips. And he said, oh, 489 00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 3: I don't need to give you tips. I'm all enough 490 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 3: to be your dad. And my dad goes, actually, I'm 491 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,120 Speaker 3: his dad. And Richard Simmons turns around and goes dad 492 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 3: and gives my dad and he's kiss on the cheek 493 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 3: and rich and my dad was like, well, if Richard 494 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 3: Simmons knows who my son's band is, then they must 495 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 3: be successful. 496 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 2: And that was that was really the moment. Wow, it 497 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 2: took Richard Simmons to like pound it home. Yeah, I 498 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:31,159 Speaker 2: feel like that me. 499 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,120 Speaker 4: It was Donnie Osmond like, my mom listens to our show. 500 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,479 Speaker 4: But when I put Donnie Osmond on the phone with 501 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 4: my mom, that's when my Mom's like, yeah, you got 502 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 4: a cool job. 503 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 2: That's nice. 504 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 5: I'm still waiting on that moment. 505 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, So what did you learn about yourself writing this book? 506 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:52,479 Speaker 3: What I learned about myself. That's the first time I've 507 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:53,760 Speaker 3: been asked that. I don't know that I learned a 508 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 3: whole lot of it. Like I said, it's it's not 509 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:58,439 Speaker 3: about me that I love my friends and family, I 510 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 3: love my band, and that's what's really important to me. 511 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 3: It really crystallized what's important to me in this world, 512 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 3: and it's actually a lot smaller than I thought that 513 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 3: it was. 514 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 2: It's not stuff. 515 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 3: I mean, I like things, it's not any of that, 516 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 3: but it's the It's like the joy of being on 517 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 3: stage or writing a song, or being with my family 518 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 3: and my friends. 519 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,120 Speaker 2: That's it. That's really all that I learned. 520 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 4: Can I ask a question that has nothing to do 521 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 4: with the book? How what are you using to keep 522 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 4: your hair looking like that? 523 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 2: I'm just glad to have my hair back at all. So, yes, 524 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,160 Speaker 2: this it does well. 525 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,919 Speaker 3: There's product in it right now, but not a lot literally, 526 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 3: Like my haircut now is such that like I can 527 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,479 Speaker 3: wake up in the morning and just kind of like 528 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 3: wash it off, and it's just this big thing. So 529 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 3: I have to kind of just shape in into something. 530 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 4: Okay, So that's not a gorilla snot or anything. 531 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 2: It's not anything cool like that. Yeah. Yeah, So my 532 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 2: husband had cancer as well, and sorry chemotherapy the whole thing, 533 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:52,159 Speaker 2: lost his hair, hated life. Yeah. He talked about what 534 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 2: it was like going through chemotherapy and he said it's 535 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 2: like worms or crawling around in your veins. Yeah. Yeah. 536 00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,479 Speaker 2: One day he called me, and I don't know if 537 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 2: he can relate, you probably can. He said, I'm standing 538 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 2: outside the door. I don't want to walk in. I 539 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,399 Speaker 2: can't do this today. I can't. And I said to him, 540 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 2: I said, Alex, your decision. You know, it's your decision. 541 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,719 Speaker 2: You can walk through that door and do what you 542 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:20,399 Speaker 2: need to do or not, you know, And it's a 543 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 2: gift you have to give yourself. 544 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 1: And it. 545 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 2: Really just messes with your head, your psyche, everything is 546 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 2: messed with when you go through that. But you come out, 547 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 2: you come out the other side and you are a 548 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 2: different person. Yeah. 549 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 3: When after my first so I had to undergo six 550 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 3: rounds of chemotherapy three weeks apart, and after the first 551 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,680 Speaker 3: round of chemotherapy, when I was at my natier, which 552 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 3: is like the worst part of the low point, when 553 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 3: the Kimmuto therapy drugs have burned out so much of 554 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 3: your so much of your cells and everything that there 555 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 3: was a point where I was sitting at the breakfast 556 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 3: table with my wife and I looked at her and 557 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,359 Speaker 3: I said, I don't think I can do this. I 558 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 3: don't know that I can go through with this. And 559 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,920 Speaker 3: she looked at me and she said, so, what does 560 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 3: that mean? Are you going to kill yourself? And it 561 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 3: sounds cruel to say it aloud, but it was really 562 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 3: helpful to me because I was like, wait, what am 563 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,439 Speaker 3: I saying here? Am I just going to give up? 564 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 3: Am I just going to let this take me? And 565 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 3: so at that point I was like, no, I'm not 566 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 3: going to give up, not at all. And so I'm 567 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,400 Speaker 3: assuming it's the same thing as your husband where they're 568 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 3: standing outside and they're like, I don't know if I 569 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 3: can do this, and there's a point where you're like, no, 570 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 3: I have to do this, not for me, but because 571 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 3: I love the people around me so much that I 572 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:29,679 Speaker 3: can't let them down. 573 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 2: Well, look, congratulations on getting this book out. And how 574 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 2: many people to texted and say I'm buying the book. 575 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 2: That's awesome. We all take a percentage of that. You 576 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 2: choke me up. Thank you, Mark Hoppus. Of course, Fahrenheit. 577 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 2: When we love everything you've brought to us over the years. 578 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 2: I love that you're still bringing it. Thank you. It's 579 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 2: all new and fresh and fun. Thank you. That's all 580 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 2: that I want to do is keep creating and keep 581 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 2: doing stuff that I love. I'm so glad to push 582 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 2: the button, push the buddy Scary. Thanks for coming in today. 583 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 2: Absolutely one times again Fahrenheit one my seventeen copies today. 584 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 2: I took her route. It was a Friday night. 585 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 3: I woke alone to get the feeling right, and we 586 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 3: started making. 587 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 2: It out and she took on my beds, DNA, turn 588 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 2: on the TV. And that's a stouthing. Time she walked. 589 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 6: Away for me, nobody got she went to pay. 590 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 2: What the hoday? I say? 591 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,640 Speaker 4: I say that much with my body. 592 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 3: Later on on the drive pile, I called her mom 593 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 3: from my K phone and I said, I want. 594 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 4: The cups and your hustrids in jail. 595 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,119 Speaker 2: The stables down on sut of me. 596 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: And that's a something a time. 597 00:25:56,520 --> 00:26:04,920 Speaker 2: That's when you're not funny, nobody. Wait, okay, okay, what's 598 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 2: the best what's said to that language? What's my age? Plays? 599 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 2: And and and and. 600 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:35,399 Speaker 4: That's about the time you want to. 601 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 2: Wait a minute, actually wait to twass anything's question? 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