Frosted Festivities (Part 2)

This is Frosted Tips with Lance bats an iHeartRadio podcast. All right, so People magazine just came out with a sexist man, of course, and somehow we were all left out of it. But uh, Mark, you were named sexiest.

It was an obvious choice.

And I think he and Stephen Jenkins are third eye blonde or no.

But that was well deserved. Listen, you were supreme.

I mean you still are, but father Time is undefeated, as they say.

But it was fun.

It was fun accolade. It was fun.

Like you know, but if you can't hang your career on songs, it goes away. As you know that, as you know that no one's coming.

Here, it goes Oh you were a sexy guy in ninety eight. They're coming to hear these songs again. And I think all of us in this room can appreciate that us have that moment you were sexual.

How about the duet you did with Twain that one time, like one of the.

I said, okay, party for greatest thing about that recorded this?

Uh her new song on her Greatest Hits record.

By the way, just got a diamond thing from her Sugarte and everything smelt diamond.

I've got a Diamond uh black of my Math.

Yeah, that was awesome.

Recorded that song with Mutt Lang before the divorce in her Swish cast.

Everybody Wearing White.

Is he is tough as everybody says he is as far as he was.

By the way, Joe, you can say obviously say I'm in there, you got pro tools broke because you're gonna need a lot you like copping lyrics because guy.

How did that happen? By the way, like how did this exactly?

Because rock Star in the nineties where we're kind of cracking a little bit, you were.

Totally killing it. But I like, what, like what was the connection? Like, I'm just curious about the details. David the management, I was just confused and flatters you were you were an American Idol judge too was.

Here's the thing. I don't want it to get lost that Mark isn't a good vocalist, because.

He is incredible.

Listen to the vocals on the Guys songs.

I know you gotta listen.

Try to sample one of your songs.

Stuck here with boy banders, so he has to like but Mark's vocals are up there with everybody else here. He's an amazing singer. He's gonna be humble, and I know it's probably a difficult situation to be here with guys that pride themselves on you could.

You couldn't make it before pro tools, if you couldn't say fans of yours.

I've heard you use that pro tools quit before you're an incredible singer. Man, It's just you know, Irish, what am I going to? We're huge fans of yours as well, and.

None of.

Switzerland to the castle and everybody's wearing white linen and certain like be juice and all in my juice for three days. That was in the Shania Twain orbit. She's lovely and he was lovely. But the the dude was there that ended up taking Shanaya, and the nanny was there too, and I was with my manager.

I go, it's just kind of like a little bit of but it was a bit of a vibe day.

And then we get home three weeks later, Shani has divorced literally so we saw it happening in real time. Crazy, crazy, crazy, one of the best experiences of my life because Shani was just so.

Love skiing Ski Castle.

Uh it could be, but it was out late and it was straight out of Central Casting.

It was what your dream castle would be.

My dream is to live in a castle.

Isn't like I should?

Should you can't get some good you know you can.

Castles are cheaper than real estate.

And relative it depends.

I mean, if your Ireland is beautiful, but you gonna be in Ireland, you know what I mean, you're gonna miss your home.

It depends on you know.

But for like, you know, a regular home in l A. You could buy like a nice castle up in your very true.

But castles are like private planes. You get in for three or four million, but it's five million a year.

And you know what I mean, you could.

Have been read for that.

You get the moat, you know, you got to take the mod you know, you just gotta be you know, the alligators. You gotta have a toilet. It's that's not working.

I mean, yeah, you have to poop through a whole.

Someone's gonna like those. You got to feed the gargoyles, you know, I mean, it goes on electricity.

I have a question.

I have a question so you, I mean, all of you have known each other for a long time throughout this business.

Is there anything a couple of years you.

For my life actually looking at because Man you know, and Jared because the Joey's managed. Jared Paul was my first manager I ever had. Oh really yeah, and so like right after American Idol like and and it was because of e Man So who worked on Writer Man wrote and produced crush My. Really we worked on your album that you released And was it two thousand and eight that you released her two thousand and seven?

It was we met in like two thousand actually, so we go way back.

Yeah, and so like Iman is who got me my first manager, which was Jared Paul with your manager. And then I went to your concert where I got you confused with I guess Jordan with the thing.

Yeah, because confused.

I'm not gonna lie. Here's the thing. Natasha Bedingfield was opening for y'all. I was obsessed with phenomenal Thank you. I was so starstruck by Natasha Beddingfield when y'all come to, like Jared had y'all come to say hi, And I was like, yeah, I was looking at Natasha and I didn't and I was I wanted to meet y'all too. It's just that I was starstruck by Natasha because any but like it was a great concert. Everyone was freaking out. Can I just say how like Avid the New Kids?

Yeah, Watts, you guys are really lucky.

But you curated yourself to know what you give back to the fans.

And everything. Wait back to my husband forgets.

Is there anything no, no, no, anything you've ever wanted to ask each other? Anything anything you've ever wondered about each other back in the day groups, did you like dislike one of them?

Secretly? And you have a reason.

I've got a question for everybody here because I get asked all the time and I've got different answers for it all the time. But I want you guys to take one that one moment in your career that was the most unforgettable moment. I can't believe I'm doing this like and not like, hey there was this and that just that one moment you go, my god, this is blowing my mind. Jeff, do you want to go for you guys can think about it or lancet.

I know mine. It was a super Bowl halftime show with with Aerosmith, which in Aerosmith's my favorite and Brittany.

Came that day. Ever ever looked fall.

Any, Nelly and Mary Jay at the end, but it was to go back and forth with Aerosmith at the because I'm a huge NFL fan. I mean, it was just the biggest moment for me ever and I mean I think.

About it and as a fan, that was the first time I actually really paid attention to to US halftime Super Bowl. So I was like twelve, I think at the time, was in seventh grade, and I just remember being like, Wow, this is epic, and before that I never cared.

Yeah, that was when that one just often listed as one of the top ten always of all time.

Yeah, that gaven Stick a gravitas like you're in sanc and Aerosmith and Nelly.

It was just amazing. And it was like.

Because they were the anchor, they were they were the main attraction at that time.

People, you know, which is really cool.

It was fine. That's when MTV would produce the halftime. It was just epic. What about you, guys, what's your like, what's your favorite moment so far in your career?

Yeah, it was like a wow, I can think about is watching you like, no, sorry, but it's a random thing. Does nothing to do. I'm just thinking about the magazines. When I was talking about you trying, like when you're gonna going to go to space, I want you to still go to Yeah, we please send. There's still a whole generation of millennials that are waiting for Lance Pas to go to space. Magazines did you go through train.

Certified?

It was a week before my launching, like.

A very important certif blah.

He lived on a Russian base for six months. That's a for the millennial.

At least send this man to space.

All right, listen, Mark asked a question, and he only asked it so we would ask him.

Tell me what would you want for? Was it?

Was it on?

It was final American Idol.

It was like after the fact because I didn't realize it was going to be as a special of a moment for other people and for me, Like the reason why I do what I do and why I sing is to connect with people. Sure like that's my favorite thing, even like from a person a person thing to to a performance to an audience or on a TV show. When I sang imagine on American Idol, I didn't think

No, that doesn't work on American Idol. If you can sing a song that you could kill vocally, that's.

Going to win.

I didn't know what that was, you know, I was I just turned seventeen. I just thought, Okay, like this song I like and whatever, and and like my they were going to have me sing another song?

What was it?

You made me so very happy? By blood? But my dad, my dad had heard me sing Imagine before. He's like, David, you should sing Imagine. And I was like okay, And so I was like, sorry, but can I change my song?

And I heard you saying it was like my favorite rendish I've ever heard of the song at the time, so I can listen to it in my head and I know exactly like your inflexes and everything, because I just remember that as a family, Joey.

That's why I asked the question. I just wanted to get back to it.

It's my way of getting back to it, Joey.

It would be interesting to know having so many experience.

I do want to say, though, I mean, you know you you you have a voice that, like some people say they could sing the phone Book, right, I mean you just.

You're blessed with that.

But the way you serve and the way you unselfishly and humbly, you know, just offer that gift is incredible.

That's why people.

Well, we've all been beaten up by by the business, and I think we all got into it to do exactly what you're talking about, to serve to do music because it's in our hearts, because we're because we're gifted with a little bit of it, maybe some more than other, right, But you know, I think that that's the thing that you end up getting sort of distracted from was the whole reason you got into it. It's because you just love music and you love the reaction of people that

There was only a few moments that like you really remember from American there's so many seasons and it's like you forget so much, but there's a few moments of certain people singing certain songs and remember your yours is definitely one.

And it was like Adam Lambert when he did Mad World, that was his moment.

Yeah, it was amazing.

Kelly Clarkson had the second you first saw her singing respect even as he was until the last twenty four and then she's saying that and natural woman woman killed. It's like what you're saying, It was like the competition's over.

Yeah, but don't get it lost because you were involved in that moment that your moment isn't as important as the one.

Thank you exactly.

What's weird about it is it didn't feel like a moment at the time. It was just like, you know, it's just like you're just doing what you love, like like singing like I would in my backyard, and like the dogs would bark because I'd be singing. They come over and like in drove me, Like I realize, so like it was just a moment, but you don't. Sometimes you just don't realize when it's going to be something that other people relate to. But that's also when I realized the power of music.

Music.

Yeah, like, and that's another great reminder though. That's the thing.

We don't get to decide what it means to other people, you know, we just to show up. Of course it means something to us. Of course that's so meant something to you. But like, yeah, everyone interprets it the reminder.

Yeah, Dave, you have to play that in your show. Its right, there's no way you're not.

I haven't show probably should.

I think I was.

There's like the American idol trauma that you deal with that, Like I'm like, I don't want to put myself back in that place because it was amazing but also super there's a lot mixed in with that. You try to like cancel it out, but maybe I should. I feel like, yes, it's enough time, what about you?

That's the beauty of it.

Man. It's like, but I'm glad, I'm I'm I'm glad.

He's aware of that, you know what I mean? And like, again, just feeding.

Off the awareness of that that like that was a tough time, you know, it's like and that that's that success, right, I mean, like we we can all identify with that.

Is that like.

It's the biggest show in the world and you're you're like you're right up there with everything, and like it's it's such a gift, but like it was hard and there's trauma and you have to sort through that and balance that, and like it's it's it's lovely that like you're at a moment now in your life that you can only get through living. You can't snap your fingers. It can't take five years or fifteen years or whatever.

I lived a life.

I went through that, and now maybe I can look at it and I identify with that.

I think we all do.

It's got to put distance between what you're known for and then let it all kind of cycle through and go.

That was pretty cool.

I'm so proud of it, and I'm so honored anybody ever showed up and still show up.

Yes, Jeff, you talked about earlier.

We all yeah, beautiful.

So your watching, Well, it's only forty minute segment.

A couple of things. I blessed beyond belief. I know, we know you believe, and you know me and the new kids.

We were like a family and somehow we haven't screwed it up and it's been wonderful. And I've also, you know, been able to do a lot of things on my own. A couple of things come to mind. I'll pick one and it sounds like a flex, but I just played Carnegie Hall this year, well so so and I just turned fifty, so I did something special. But yeah, no, it was great. It was great.

We played.

Yeah I'm not the guy with the shirt and the fan, but.

You probably yeah, but it was one of all. And I had the guys there, and I had all these meaningful people and I got to play.

It's amazing.

And the thing is what the gift there is that I belonged. I belong You know what I'm saying.

We get to a place where, because you know what I mean, eighteen thousand people could say, what do you mean you belong?

Right?

They say all of us, and that's what we're talking about here. But like for me, in a very simple, quiet way, like I belonged here.

You know what I mean? It was beautiful and I couldn't ask it never sold anything, It sold out, sold out. What did you say quickly?

About twenty five songs we sang for three hours. They had to kick us off because the curfew. Literally we cut the last song in half, called the audible. We said, well, the one verse, I mean it was it was union.

It is not play there. Yeah, but a lot of different stuff.

I'll sing that's really cold, your whole Holy Night saved on my cue, Yes, Spotify, Yeah, yeah, I'm going.

To go to market.

I'm still thinking.

It's it's really hard to pick. I mean, we were saying, you're going, okay, what was I mean the first time we heard I asked the song on the radio was amazing, Like we never expected this to happen. And then to do songs with Mariah Carey and Joe and Tevie Wonder and for Disney, and then do Michael Jackson's special for Luther Vander, performing with Luther Vandals and Usher, and to be associated with you guys and you guys and you guys later on. I mean, it's hard to pick a moment.

How did you get out of Ohio.

To you know, I just started a group at a party trying to sing for girls.

Yeah.

They were all friends, Yeah, so.

So we I mean, it was really, if you think about it now, it was really kind of impulsive and dumb and you would never do it. And my parents just were like, well, he's really got his head set on this. He's gonna go do it, and I got fortunate enough to be paired up with a bunch of other guys that were really, really talented, and we worked hard and had success and got lucky and it all ended up being amazing. So one moment, I don't have one, you know, I can't pick.

Well, you just said it, and wow, talk about like summarizing to a key like that was a great summary, but like just be able to being able to start something that took you on a journey.

I mean, you know, we're talking about doing stuff that I was dreaming about that my friends, we were from a really small town that's a football town. They thought it was absolutely insane and stupid, and I was laughing stock of my town and then.

Talking about but later on, you know, they everybody's gracious that you go back and support and give back to the town, which is perfect.

But certainly this goes above and beyond what I had envisioned for my life and and and the impact and things that we got to do later on, which is an absolute blessing, you know, uh, to be doing it this many years later and to be still relevant and selling tickets and not chasing you know how.

Much because sometimes I wonder that, like, how much longer can I do this? As long as you stop you I want to, I just don't know if like to be able to get You've got a world class voice.

Now if you show up, people are.

Going to show up as long as you love it and as long as people know that you love it and love what you do, unless.

You want to buy a castle. And then we got to talk to this better be good like the torches for you.

I mean it's pretty good.

I mean, but the thing he said is is what all of our best moment The journey has been amazing all but you kind of I hinted towards it, and David, you've said it to the journey and Lance, you know, the journey has been amazing and it's still happening and we still have magical moments.

But that one tangible moment for me was in nineteen ninety nine we were.

Opening for the Rolling Stones.

Watch your feet, names are falling and we're.

Opening for the Stones and I'm sitting there going because we were a little older, my success happened.

I was twenty seven.

I was a little bit older at sixty eight years old. Now I feel comfortable saying that what.

Look good and.

We'll be back now. You're impressed them, so.

Over the Stones and I'm sitting there going but you'll be twenty five forever.

I think you will mark.

Twenty five wherever. Yeah, you know.

So we're sitting there playing and Stones audiences are typically tough.

They're like Metallica audience. They don't want to see anybody else.

But the Stones.

So we're going out there. We're battling, we're throwing some punches. We had flying the arsenal. It's med a couple of haymakers. We're battling, and I think the audience looked at you guys, like, oh, there's a bunch of puppies on stage.

They're happy to be here because we were. It was amazing open.

The Stones, that's amazing.

So the last song we're doing, I went, hey, guys, thanks for sugar at, thanks for putting up with this one more song here tonight.

It's called every Morning.

It just went to number one today, So I want to say thank you all so much for having us. I don't think this night could ever get better for me in my career, and I want to thank you all. I looked at my right and there was Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at the monitor station watching this.

I go hold on.

It just got a little bit better, and so I was thinking of my mind, I don't think it's ever and I was very cognizant of the moment. I don't ever think it's going to be better than this.

So that was the moment. We play every morning and.

It was all look out there and see Keith Richard wind the wind where bottle Jack Daniels I had.

That's the coldest that they came out and they cared enough and they're sitting that.

That's the thing.

And the fact just to see like legends do that, like that, the fact that they wanted you there first of all, like that they're not just gonna like like yeah, bringing Joshua like you had stuff that impressed them and made an impact and that they enjoyed and connected with.

I appreciate it.

And it felt like that. The way they made us feel completely felt like that. We did about ten days with the Rolling Stones. I'd be calling it people on my second grade soccer team, what are you doing bro?

Nothing?

The Stones?

Yeah, that was amazing. Always glad to have that moment, you.

Know, I mean, that's that's beautiful tours. What is your dream tour to be on? If you could put a tour together with you guys and like two opening acts, like who would it be?

I mean, I mean, y'all, I mean with the new kids have been so lucky. I mean we' we have. We've been able to we do these you know, mixtape tours the last last few years.

And I like how it's mixed it is.

I mean, I've sort of started with having an amazing you know night of like ninety eight degrees and backs and ninety eight degrees.

And boys to men and us. That was like, come on and I wanted to see that.

Yeah, it was amazing night. And then and then after that we were able to do Paul.

Abdul in American Yeah yeah.

And then we did you know, but this last couple of ones, we really we started the show and ended the show so our acts, and that's a great way.

That was a cool.

Look, well, you get better acts because they're not like, well who open.

Call?

You know what I mean, we get great acts.

But now it's like no, no, no, in Vogue, you're gonna come out here, come out here, Pepper, You're gonna come out here and come out here, yeah man, and.

With the bands too, which made yeah, which is wonderful.

So we've been able to have that.

And Joey let us open if you guys and Hurshy Pennsylvania remember that. But that's never but we uh that was that was sort of.

Like we were playing with the mixtape thing. That was like our first sort of like.

Uh, super fun.

Really appreciate it.

But you're, you know, we're always like, you know, we always kept but I mean, are we Are we cool enough for Sugart?

Are we cooling up for Sugarrat?

But you're like, I still I shouldn't say this out loud, but you don't want but you guys got to.

Get back together, but say it. Say it, boy band aid.

That would be I mean, I could you imagine.

London Wembley, It's Philadelphia one day one day, one day the line, well you got all the from UK, we got get ninety eight degree one.

Day it's it's yeah, would be ninety eighth degree. Backstreet Boys, Boys to Men, New Edition. You bring the Jackson's back.

You know you have some stretch.

What's the biggest don't forget about West Life.

You well for for for for Live aid.

They did Philadelphia.

Some people say, I I thought it was New York, but it's the Philipphilly in London.

So you get London. But you did both both, remember phil Collins did both, went back forth. But then you know in London you have.

You know, so many boys West Life.

One direction take that wh where where where where? Buddies would take that? So and when they like that would be incredible.

That was that was a song they said that was one.

Yeah, but you know what we got but they got by instead and make good choice directed.

Yeah.

Anyways, but as far as like collaboration or you feel like a like a tour, yeah.

Well, I mean I was saying tour, but I mean I love that idea because it actually gives back to tell right now.

I'd really like this because to be a stadium tour and crush the summer in sync your kids.

Under story thinking about knights and.

Actual boys would cry if they were not invited. Okay, they got.

That money for you.

That would you would like ignite something in people that has been like dormant for our years.

That would something and see what it's back? They can they Taylor Swift Taylor Swift. They will be wiping their ass. They'll bring us in to wipe their ass, and they're gonna have that moment getting you together because we're all tired of waiting.

As far as like, you know, it's a little bit I know, you're you're a boy band or whatever.

I mean, us guys have sort of toured with each other, but it's it like who would your you know, three.

Acts you would love to go because they're doing that all time.

All these bands are coming back together, like you know, but who would those two other bands be.

That It was a hugely influential l A band came like really from a punk rock, really super college pre alternative background. Chili are gods, right, I said, I feel as the pots go, I'm not comparing because they're they're the next level, but there's.

There's a synergy.

Oh yeah, yeah, because I mean they were such an influence in our band.

Yeah, you know what I mean, just to get on stage, the energy and all that youse.

Guys had put out. I know a little bit about your background. Yeah, and you guys were influenced by more of that rock rock sort of scene. I know a lot of the songs you ended up putting out seemed to be a little bit more in the pop lane. But you guys were influenced by the Chili Peppers and some of the other punk rock scene.

Yeah, yeah, I mean we got signed as a rock and roll then, you know what I mean, That's what we did. We had two songs we got signed. We lied to Atlantic Records. You could do that back then. Yeah, you know, we had two songs. One was called Kaboos, the other was called Lick Me Yeah, and we made it.

We made a video.

McGee or Buddy McGee made a video to caboose I'm thirty five millimeter tape, so it looked ready to go, and Doug Morris founded Atlantic Records and goes, I don't know about the song kind of sucks, but this band looks fun and this is the grunge area.

Mind you early sign these fans. They're having fun. That's how we got signed.

Not on music, not in capabilities, not in talent. So we had to play catch up, you know. So the first record was that Kids in a Candy Store. We'd be like doing sex whistle song, red pepper songs with a little bit of hip hop in there.

And as you play more in toward the world.

You get better as musicians and songwriters, and that led to Fly and the rest of the hips.

Yeah, that's how it worked.

All that.

We did everything backwards, still doing this day. That word don't sing it better than me about it.

Here's the thing you got, swag like, that's the thing that like made.

You got the ridge.

You got the ridge you got.

The frost tips still wrong.

Crost tips are like Dumbo's feather for us. You're like, you know, as long as we have to power good. Well, guys, it has been so much fun catching up with you guys. Happy holidays, what like what would you like to tell your fans right now for the holidays? And like and how can we keep up with you guys?

Oh?

Wow, Mark, But.

I think we kind of alluded to it a little bit, like I'm just so grateful to be here with all you guys. I don't know what to expect tonight. It feels like old friends, you know, like we kind of said it. I see guys in a couple of years, you know, and it's always been course and fun. But I think we really like grinding it out today and talk about things that I feel like a connection you guys that will always have and to build these friendships

In nineties when we need to be. Yeah, we're in the nineties world.

So I couldn't I couldn't be more grateful to take this ride with you guys and everybody watching it at home.

And this is like the coolest guys ever.

Know.

It's like those talented guys ever all deserved to be where they are.

I got one more story about you, young man, because we all this is the You're a shining light and in this town. I showed me first when we first got back together, when the new kids first got back together, it was an exciting time. Same same thing you're witnessing now that like, oh my god, could instincts be getting back together? And it was in like two thousand and two thousand, late two thousand and seven, two thousand and eight.

Yep, And we're in a we're both in the bathroom. We just happened to be in the bathroom.

We're at side by side journals and Mark turns to me and goes, is it happening. I'm trying, But you're such are You're such a big heart, and like, I need that kind of stuff.

It's so easy to be a cynic in this business for sure, and like look down, but like thank you for like, you know, keeping the fires burning and like and having you know, comrades and fellows be excited about and things is so important because that's that's a rarity and it's and it's infectious too.

So thank you, thank you.

I think about you when the time. That's the best new kid song.

I love that one. Vocals Could you comp down for me? Up separate more time?

All right, Jeff?

Would everyone just thanks for having me. This has been a blast. It's been a joy. Of course, I love and feel honored to be with these guys, and of course I always love hanging out with you two and being a part of this and David Man such a big fan, and David watching your career keep escalating and having so much success. It's an honor to be with you as well, and exciting about everybody's endeavors.

Actually that's a long time as you're a sweetheart of a guy, You're kind, and you're curious about others.

So David wonderful.

I was probably best.

I feel like the odd ball because it's like everyone's in boy bands and stuff and I'm like, oh.

You look, if you were in one of our boy bands, we would have been jealous.

Of anyone whose fans Can we just say, like, I've loved what let me tell your next I'm.

Talking Christmas, happy to be here always.

You No, no, no, you don't want to hear what.

No, I'm good. I've said enough.

Seriously, if only saying something because David wants me to, this is what I'm saying.

Now, let's take it to David.

No, I just every everyone here. It's like such caliber of people. It's so fun to be with good people who are in the business. And everyone here is so enjoyable,

And now it is so fun.

I know, well, now you're part of a great support system, so welcome to the.

I can like join the boy band like Bible.

Okay, all right, guys, that is all the show happened. Well, people hear me too much on this same but no, I mean I've had such a great time, especially with this show, because this last year has been so fun

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