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Speaker 1: but here we go. I mean, I'm crazy crazy allergy medicine.

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Speaker 1: we need more cowbell. That's great. It's some morning radio.

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Speaker 1: It's an embarrassing thing. Ever, have a slide whistle too?

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Speaker 2: Probably?

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Speaker 1: Do you really? Don't mess with my slide? Okay, box

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Speaker 1: of tricks, it's so hokey. Put that crap away nice, Okay,

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Speaker 1: now that'll be I just I mean, it is a

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Speaker 1: typical hokey. I just stopped wearing bowling shirts. So Mark

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Speaker 1: Hoppers of course Blink one eighty two. And I'm doing

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Speaker 1: my best not to fangirl in your face because we're

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Speaker 1: such huge fans. Oh, thank you very much. Absolutely the

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Speaker 1: story we all thought we knew until now we're reading

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Speaker 1: your book called Fahrenheit one eighty two. And wow, writing

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Speaker 1: a book is an interesting, interesting decision to make, it

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Speaker 1: is why why did you do this?

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Speaker 3: My manager asked me to Actually, my manager has been

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Speaker 3: saying forever that I should write a book, but I

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Speaker 3: didn't really think about it until I was sick. And

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Speaker 3: when I was sick, I was talking with a therapist

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Speaker 3: and she said, you should write down what's happening and

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Speaker 3: write like nobody's ever going to read it, and just write.

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Speaker 3: And I found it really therapeutic, and so afterwards I

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Speaker 3: was like, I enjoy this process. And then it turned

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Speaker 3: from writing as therapy from being sick to writing about

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Speaker 3: that we've gotten to do and how lucky we are.

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Speaker 3: And then that went into the band breakup and into

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Speaker 3: like the part about being sick, So it was it

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Speaker 1: And speaking of I mean, you don't hold back. I

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Speaker 1: mean you were talking about Tom DeLong and you're interesting

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Speaker 1: of volatile sometimes volatile relationship with him. You just say

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Speaker 1: it right here. Yeah, And did he read it and go, hey, man,

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Speaker 1: is that really what you thought about me?

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Speaker 3: No, because there's nothing in the book that I had

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Speaker 3: And Tom and I are in a great place, like

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Speaker 3: as a Bandblinquity Too is in a really awesome place

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Speaker 3: right now, and so I think that, and I wrote

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Speaker 3: the book with the intent there would be no demons

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Speaker 3: And so when I was writing the book, even when

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Speaker 3: I was writing about fights that we've had as a band,

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Speaker 3: I would write about other person's point of view because

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Speaker 3: I'd want to be fair about it. And so that

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Speaker 3: was kind of healing for me as well, to write

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Speaker 3: about arguments that were in the past, like twenty years ago,

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Speaker 2: With it now.

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Speaker 4: If we listen to the book on audible, right, a

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Speaker 4: lot of times if I'm listening to someone who does

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Speaker 2: Do you do that at all?

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Speaker 1: I stuck very strictly to the book.

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Speaker 3: But I did write a song for the beginning in

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Speaker 3: the outro of it, So the audio book has like

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Speaker 1: That's cool, so cool.

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Speaker 5: Was there anybody that you had to reach out to

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Speaker 5: heads up, example, Melissa Joonhart, there's something about you in

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Speaker 3: It was it was more like my family, like talking

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Speaker 3: past like that, the things about like the band and stuff.

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Speaker 3: I didn't feel like I needed to warn anybout you

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Speaker 1: It's all it's all love. So Mark Hoppus. Of course

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Speaker 1: this book is called Fairne. You talk about growing up

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Speaker 1: with your sister in California. Yeah, right, And Scotty, by

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Speaker 6: even back then I was the oldest person in the garden.

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Speaker 6: But you know, so Scotty was listening to you talking

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Speaker 6: that you're the one that spilled the apple juice an

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Speaker 3: I spilled the apple juice and Adams song. I was

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Speaker 1: That was it. You know, you also talk about I

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Speaker 1: think it's a during pandemic. You you were diagnosed with cancer. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, hold.

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Speaker 3: Well, so okay, please continue that. But there was a

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Speaker 1: See this is why you need to read this, because

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Speaker 1: you see the joy, the fun people just fing around

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Speaker 1: get to know you a little more, that's incredible. Everyone

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Speaker 1: and I learn more about me. Yeah, writing this book

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Speaker 1: Post book writing? Post book writing? Honestly, write a book

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Speaker 3: I've always been humble, but uh, definitely, writing a book

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Speaker 1: And what what do I need to do? Less of

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Speaker 5: To do more of Have you carried that same freeing

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the best part of like of being cured

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's the best part. That's Froggy up there, Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you get back to life eventually. Yep, love it.

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Speaker 1: What's that Nate scream it lout? Okay, I can't hear you.

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Speaker 1: my god, Mark could be a DJ. Yeah he is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Apple Music you can check it out. I am

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Speaker 3: It's called after School Radio when me and my friends

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Speaker 1: You you may borrow a bell if you want. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got it, But not the way to slide whistler

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Speaker 4: When you finish your book, right, you're done, you're you've

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Speaker 4: it over to be published. Is it nerve wracking? Do

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Speaker 4: you question everything you put in there? Do you say,

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Speaker 4: shouldn't have done this, I should have done that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's like recording now where it's the hardest

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Speaker 3: this isn't a book end, this is a milestone, Like

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Speaker 4: You have a very soothing voice, So I feel like

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Speaker 4: Wow, and do you think like now, Like you know,

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Speaker 3: uh it was after that that, you know, we moved

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Speaker 3: into a gated community and I was like, WHOA, being

442
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Speaker 3: famous is weird things?

443
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Speaker 5: Because you know, now we we read and hear so

444
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Speaker 5: many things about people being on stage and someone launching

445
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Speaker 5: a bottle at them. Has touring changed for you guys

446
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Speaker 5: in that way?

447
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Speaker 7: At all?

448
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Speaker 5: Or is it just still kind of the same.

449
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Speaker 3: I mean, thank god there's a lot less shoes being

450
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Speaker 3: thrown on stage, because I never under like coming out

451
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Speaker 3: of the punk rock community, like uh, every show there'd

452
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Speaker 3: be shoes and T shirts and like a belt and

453
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Speaker 3: like everyone's trash all thrown up on stage. I'm like,

454
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Speaker 3: what about Like, like, how do you walk home with

455
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Speaker 3: no shoes? How do you leave a show with no shoes?

456
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Speaker 2: Would they throw?

457
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Speaker 1: Both are just one because I have just one shoe.

458
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Speaker 2: Yeah that's weird.

459
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Speaker 3: Phones and camera and lots of bras, lots of underwear

460
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Speaker 3: and but bras are expensive. I've had to buy my

461
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Speaker 3: wife bras before. I'm like, why this is you know whatever,

462
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of money.

463
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

464
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Speaker 1: So looking back, I mean, did you guys first start touring?

465
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Speaker 1: I mean it started touring really in ninety five was

466
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Speaker 1: like our first tour. Wow, So look at that and

467
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Speaker 1: all these years that have passed. I mean, did it

468
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Speaker 1: go fast or it's insane? I still remember the smell

469
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Speaker 1: of our van. It was not good. It doesn't sound

470
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Speaker 1: yeah good at it wasn't.

471
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Speaker 3: It was like fast food trash, that smell of like

472
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Speaker 3: stale French fries.

473
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Speaker 1: And Mexican food and this, like, uh, do you miss that? Yeah?

474
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Speaker 1: It was great. Yeah, because something tells me, however, you're

475
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Speaker 1: transporting yourselves around these days, it smells much better.

476
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Speaker 3: Oh it does. But there's nothing like the joy of

477
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Speaker 3: just hitting it. Because back then there were no cell phones,

478
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Speaker 3: there was no internet, there was no way to get

479
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Speaker 3: a hold of us. When we left to go on tour,

480
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Speaker 3: we had literally a Thomas Guide and a staple together

481
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Speaker 3: thing like this, just a bunch of papers with like

482
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Speaker 3: this is the venue address, this is what time you

483
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Speaker 3: need to be there, and you're getting paid, getting paid

484
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Speaker 3: fifty dollars wow. And then nobody could get a hold

485
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Speaker 3: of us. So if I had to call home, I

486
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Speaker 3: had to call home, collect from a payphone and hope

487
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Speaker 3: my mom was home to pick up the phone and

488
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Speaker 3: how's everything?

489
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Speaker 1: Wow? So how did your mom and your father still alive? Yeah?

490
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Speaker 1: So how did they respond to your success in the band?

491
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Speaker 1: Did they get it? Ever?

492
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Speaker 3: They did get it. My mom was very supportive early on.

493
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Speaker 3: My dad was always a little more practical. My dad

494
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Speaker 3: didn't really understand that Blanknity two is successful until we

495
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Speaker 3: played the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Richard Simmons

496
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Speaker 3: was one of the guests. Oh yeah, this is one

497
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Speaker 3: of the chapters I pulled aside. Yeah, that's the picture

498
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Speaker 3: right there. So we were all hanging out in the

499
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Speaker 3: green room before like after sound check, before we played,

500
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Speaker 3: and Richard Simmons, the workout guru, comes into our room.

501
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Speaker 3: Just burst open the door, blank one eighty two, comes in,

502
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Speaker 3: gives me a kiss, gives Tom a kiss, Travis a kiss,

503
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Speaker 3: huge personality, and I'm talking. And so we had invited

504
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Speaker 3: all of our families to the show and I'm not

505
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Speaker 3: seeing Richard Simmons or workout tips. And he said, oh,

506
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Speaker 3: I don't need to give you tips. I'm old enough

507
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Speaker 3: to be your dad. And my dad goes, actually, I'm

508
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Speaker 3: his dad, And Richard Simmons turns around and goes dad

509
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Speaker 3: and gives my dad and he's kiss on the cheek

510
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Speaker 3: and rich and my dad was like, well, if Richard

511
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Speaker 3: Simmons knows who my son's band is, then they must

512
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Speaker 3: be successful. And that was that was really the moment.

513
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Speaker 1: Wow, it took Richard Simmons to like pound it home. Yeah,

514
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Speaker 1: I feel like that me.

515
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Speaker 4: It was Donnie Osmond like, my mom listens to our show,

516
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Speaker 4: but when I put Donnie Osmond on the phone with

517
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Speaker 4: my mom.

518
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Speaker 2: That's when my mom's like, yeah, you got a cool job.

519
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Speaker 1: That's nice.

520
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Speaker 5: I'm still waiting on that moment.

521
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So what did you learn about yourself? Writ in

522
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Speaker 1: this book? When I learned about myself? That's the first

523
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Speaker 1: time I've been asked that. I don't know that. I

524
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Speaker 1: learned a whole lot of them.

525
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Speaker 3: Like I said, it's it's not about me that I

526
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,080
Speaker 3: love my friends and family, I love my band, and

527
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Speaker 3: that's what's really important to me. It really crystallized what's

528
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,560
Speaker 3: important to me in this world, and it's actually a

529
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Speaker 3: lot smaller than I thought that it was. It's not stuff.

530
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Speaker 3: I mean, I like things, Uh, it's not any of that.

531
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Speaker 3: But it's like the joy of being on stage or

532
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Speaker 3: writing a song, or being with my family and my friends.

533
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Speaker 1: That's it. That's really all that I learned.

534
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Speaker 4: Can I ask a question that has nothing to do

535
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Speaker 4: with the book, How what are you using to keep

536
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Speaker 4: your hair looking like that?

537
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Speaker 3: I'm just glad to have my hair back at all.

538
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 3: So yes, it does well, there's product in it right now,

539
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,879
Speaker 3: but not a lot literally, Like my haircut now is

540
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Speaker 3: such that like I can wake up in the morning

541
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Speaker 3: and just kind of like wash it off, and it's

542
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Speaker 3: just this big thing.

543
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Speaker 1: So I have to kind of just shape in into something.

544
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Speaker 2: Okay. So that's not a gorilla snot or anything.

545
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Speaker 1: It's not anything cool like that. Yeah. Yeah, So my

546
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Speaker 1: husband had cancer as well, and so sorry chemotherapy the

547
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Speaker 1: whole thing, lost his hair, hated life. Yeah. He talked

548
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Speaker 1: about what it was like going through chemotherapy and he

549
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 1: said it's like worms or crawling around in your veins. Yeah. Yeah.

550
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Speaker 1: One day he called me and I don't know if

551
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Speaker 1: you can relate, you probably can. He said, I'm standing

552
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Speaker 1: outside the door. I don't want to walk in. I

553
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Speaker 1: can't do this today. I can't. And I said to him,

554
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Speaker 1: I said, Alex, your decision. You know, it's your decision.

555
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 1: You can walk through that door and do what you

556
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Speaker 1: need to do or not, you know, And it's a

557
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Speaker 1: gift you have to give yourself.

558
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Speaker 9: And it.

559
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Speaker 1: Really just messes with your head, your psyche, everything is

560
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Speaker 1: messed with when you go through that. But you come out,

561
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Speaker 1: you come out the other side and you are a

562
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Speaker 1: different person. Yeah.

563
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Speaker 3: When after my first so I had to undergo six

564
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Speaker 3: rounds of chemotherapy three weeks apart and after the first

565
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Speaker 3: round of chemotherapy, when I was at my natier, which

566
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Speaker 3: is like the worst part of the low point, when

567
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 3: the chemototherapy drugs have burned out so much of your

568
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 3: so much of your cells and everything that there was

569
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Speaker 3: a point where I was sitting at the breakfast table

570
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Speaker 3: with my wife and I looked at her and I said,

571
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Speaker 3: I don't think I can do this. I don't know

572
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Speaker 3: that I can go through with this. And she looked

573
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Speaker 3: at me and she said, so, what does that mean?

574
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Speaker 3: Are you going to kill yourself? And it sounds cruel

575
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 3: to say it aloud, but it was really helpful to

576
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Speaker 3: me because I was like, wait, what am I saying here?

577
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Speaker 3: Am I just going to give up? Am I just

578
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 3: gonna let this take me? And so at that point

579
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Speaker 3: I was like, no, I'm not going to give up,

580
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 3: not at all. And then so I'm assuming it's the

581
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,119
Speaker 3: same thing as your husband where they're standing outside and

582
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Speaker 3: they're like, I don't know if I can do this,

583
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,679
Speaker 3: and there's a point where you're like, no, I have

584
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Speaker 3: to do this, not for me, but because I love

585
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 3: the people around me so much that I can't let

586
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Speaker 3: them down.

587
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Speaker 1: Well, look, congratulations on getting this book out, and how

588
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Speaker 1: many people have texted and say I'm buying the book.

589
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Speaker 1: That's awesome. We'll take a percentage of that. You choke

590
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Speaker 1: me up. Thank you, Mark Hoppus. Of course, Fahrenheit W two.

591
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Speaker 1: We we love everything you've brought to us over the years.

592
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Speaker 1: I love that you're still bringing it. Thank you. It's

593
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Speaker 1: all new and fresh and fun. Thank you. That's all

594
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Speaker 1: that I want to do is keep creating and keep

595
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Speaker 1: doing stuff that I love. I'm so glad, Scary push

596
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Speaker 1: the button, push the button, Scary, thanks for coming in today.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely one tops again Fahrenheit by seventeen copies today.

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Speaker 9: I took her out. It was a Friday night. I

599
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 9: woke alone to get the feeling right, and we started

600
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Speaker 9: making out and she took up my bos. But then

601
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Speaker 9: I turned on the TV and that's a.

602
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Speaker 1: South a time. She walked away from me. Nobody thought

603
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Speaker 1: she went.

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Speaker 7: To twining the more.

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Speaker 1: He's my TV shows? What the horis ef? I say

606
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Speaker 1: a ship at ranage?

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Speaker 4: What's my age?

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Speaker 7: Can?

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Speaker 2: What's my age?

610
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Speaker 6: A Cain?

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Speaker 9: Later on, on the drive home, I called her mom,

612
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Speaker 9: I'm from a K phone and I said I was

613
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Speaker 9: the Tops and your husband's in jail. The staylos down

614
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Speaker 9: on side of me.

615
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Speaker 1: And that's a southing. Time I met, you're gonna funny.

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Speaker 1: Nobody thought she went a twin anything And.

617
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Speaker 2: I said, it's no gay concut.

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Speaker 1: What's the girl's candor?

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Speaker 7: I did?

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Speaker 1: Let me say ship that mar age? What's my age?

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Speaker 7: A pain?

622
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Speaker 1: What's my age?

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Speaker 7: And and and that's about the time you want away

624
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Speaker 7: from me about it.

625
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Speaker 2: Like you wake gas way anything and you see a

626
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Speaker 2: lot of joy pressure.

627
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what I was wrong with me my first second year?

628
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Speaker 7: That age?

629
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Speaker 5: That's about the.

630
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Speaker 1: Toun and should have done the thing.

631
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Speaker 7: But what she take the soul to see and say,

632
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Speaker 7: here's a deparm.

633
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Speaker 1: Why would she wished out.

634
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Speaker 7: Of your neighborhood?

635
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Speaker 6: Like age?

636
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Speaker 7: What's my age?

637
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Speaker 5: You came?

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Speaker 7: What's my age?

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Speaker 1: Can hello? Hello? Helloy?

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Speaker 2: El vistran in the Morning Show.

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