Mark Hoppus joins us to discuss his brand new memoir, "Fahrenheit-182," and gives us a sneak peek into the crazy anecdotes from the Blink-182 founder.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge. Not to embarrass myself,
but here we go. I mean, I'm crazy crazy allergy medicine.
So I'm like a crackhead over here. Okay, my skins
crawling off my head. So if it goes down a
weird hallway, it's gonna happen. Mark Hoppus is here. Yeah,
(00:23):
we need more cowbell. That's great. It's some morning radio.
It's an embarrassing thing. Ever, have a slide whistle too?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Probably?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Do you really? Don't mess with my slide? Okay, box
of tricks, it's so hokey. Put that crap away nice, Okay,
now that'll be I just I mean, it is a
typical hokey. I just stopped wearing bowling shirts. So Mark
(01:00):
Hoppers of course Blink one eighty two. And I'm doing
my best not to fangirl in your face because we're
such huge fans. Oh, thank you very much. Absolutely the
story we all thought we knew until now we're reading
your book called Fahrenheit one eighty two. And wow, writing
a book is an interesting, interesting decision to make, it
is why why did you do this?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
My manager asked me to Actually, my manager has been
saying forever that I should write a book, but I
didn't really think about it until I was sick. And
when I was sick, I was talking with a therapist
and she said, you should write down what's happening and
write like nobody's ever going to read it, and just write.
And I found it really therapeutic, and so afterwards I
was like, I enjoy this process. And then it turned
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from writing as therapy from being sick to writing about
my band and my best friends and the great things
that we've gotten to do and how lucky we are.
And then that went into the band breakup and into
like the part about being sick, So it was it
was really great.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And speaking of I mean, you don't hold back. I
mean you were talking about Tom DeLong and you're interesting
of volatile sometimes volatile relationship with him. You just say
it right here. Yeah, And did he read it and go, hey, man,
is that really what you thought about me?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
No, because there's nothing in the book that I had
n't talked with Tom about or said in his presence.
And Tom and I are in a great place, like
as a Bandblinquity Too is in a really awesome place
right now, and so I think that, and I wrote
the book with the intent there would be no demons
in it, Like I didn't want there to be bad guys.
And so when I was writing the book, even when
I was writing about fights that we've had as a band,
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I would write about other person's point of view because
I'd want to be fair about it. And so that
was kind of healing for me as well, to write
about arguments that were in the past, like twenty years ago,
that I was still maybe holding on us some grudges about,
and then trying to write it from the other person's perspective,
help me deal.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
With it now.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
If we listen to the book on audible, right, a
lot of times if I'm listening to someone who does
their own book, they kind of go off page for
a minute and give you like a side note.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Do you do that at all?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Okay, I stick.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I stuck very strictly to the book.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
But I did write a song for the beginning in
the outro of it, So the audio book has like
a little like musical intro and a little musical outgro Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
That's cool, so cool.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Was there anybody that you had to reach out to
before the book came out and say, hey, just a
heads up, example, Melissa Joonhart, there's something about you in
this book.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It was it was more like my family, like talking
about my family stuff and things that happened in the
past like that, the things about like the band and stuff.
I didn't feel like I needed to warn anybout you
about because it's all it's all fun and joy and
there's no like I got you or whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
It's all it's all love. So Mark Hoppus. Of course
this book is called Fairne. You talk about growing up
with your sister in California. Yeah, right, And Scotty, by
the way, Scotty b what year do we see blink
in green Day two thousand one garden?
Speaker 6 (03:52):
I think, oh wow, there had to be ninety nine
or two thousands, like two thousand and one, I think too,
like the pop disaster to it? Right, Yes, yeah, and
even back then I was the oldest person in the garden.
But you know, so Scotty was listening to you talking
about your your your parents and how you would hear
them fighting in the house, and you said you actually
(04:14):
started crying on the way to work today. I did
because it resonated with me a lot, because you and
your sister reminded me a lot of my kids because
I got divorced, you know, And and I didn't realize
that you're the one that spilled the apple juice an
Adam song.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That was me.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I spilled the apple juice and Adams song. I was
hearing my parents fight, and I was sitting outside their
bedroom on the carpet, drinking apple juice, wondering what the
heck is going on with my family? This doesn't sound right,
this is I was awful in there. These are my
parents are supposed to love one another. And I can
hear them yelling, and I like coughed or like moved
or something. And then the yelling stopped and I heard
footsteps coming toward the door. I'm like, oh my god,
(04:47):
I'm maybe it's so much trouble for sitting outside the
door while they're arguing. And so I got up and
ran and I kicked over the apple juice in the hall,
and that was it.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That was it. You know, you also talk about I
think it's a during pandemic. You you were diagnosed with cancer. Yeah,
I mean we're talking to stage stage four lymphoma diffuse
large B cell lymphoma type four A hell lot. That
was what I had. You had to be complicated even
with that. Yeah, but you said if I'm if I'm
(05:17):
not mistaken that knowing that the mortality mortality is like
number one your headlined at the point that it was
actually freeing.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It was to know that, Well you tell us, well,
I don't know. It's like, uh, it's like if you
found out the day that you were going to die,
you would you would know. And I felt like that
was what I was told. I was told actually that
I had a sixty percent chance of getting through cancer, uh,
never having to think about it again, which is great odds.
I had a friend who was sick at the same
time with pancreatic cancer and sadly passed away. So the
(05:47):
type of cancer that I have or had was curable,
but it was going to be really difficult. And somehow
I was like, Okay, well, I've worried so long about
you know, mortality and how things are going to end,
and thought about my own death. This is a great
morning radio.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Hold on, hold on, hold.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
On, shoe the cancer.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah there the whistle cancer.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well, so okay, please continue that. But there was a
freedom in that where I was like, Okay, well this
is the fight now. Yeah, and so I really crystallized
things and like friends and family came and really my
whole world shrunk down to like this tiny little crucible
of love and friends and family and fighting this uh,
this disease.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
See this is why you need to read this, because
you go to a Blink one ay two concert and
you see the joy, the fun people just fing around
on stage and having a great time. But when you
get to know you a little more, that's incredible. Everyone
has a book in them and I wrote my book
and I learn more about me. Yeah, writing this book
talk about that? I mean, how do you see yourself differently?
(06:56):
Post book writing? Post book writing? Honestly, write a book
about myself made me realize that it's not about me,
that it's about the people around me and the people
that I love and the band and what we've created,
uh and and that whole world. And hopefully it's made
me more humble and whatever. I think.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I've always been humble, but uh, definitely, writing a book
makes you think about what am I in the world,
and what do I have to give?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And what what do I need to do? Less of
what do I want.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
To do more of Have you carried that same freeing
feeling post cancer with you or did you just go
back to like now I'm good both.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, there's there's a real thing at the end where
you're like, you know, if I get over this cancer,
I'm gonna go out, I'm gonna live every day with love,
and I try and do that. But then also like
I just get bombed on things. It's like I'm glad
that I get to take everything for granted again.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, you know, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, that's the best part of like of being cured
of cancer is like you get to go back to
complaining about stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's great.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
We've had a couple of guys here who you know,
battled death and they came out on the other side
and they're just you know, back to themselves.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's the best part. That's Froggy up there, Jacksonville.
He's had two brain aneurysms.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Oh my gosh, two brain aneurysms, and Nate had two strokes.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
Yeah, strokes exactly right, though, that's what you do. You
you kind of first you're like, well, I'm gonna be different,
and you are different, and it's like an accident on
the road. You put both hands on the wheel, You're
gonna drive really good, and then ten minutes tell you
the radio is blasting windows down on your haul and
ass again.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, you get back to life eventually. Yep, love it.
What's that Nate scream it lout? Okay, I can't hear you.
So we have a text that just came in. Oh
my god, Mark could be a DJ. Yeah he is.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, Apple Music you can check it out. I am
I am a DJ. We have a show on Apple Music.
It's called after School Radio when me and my friends
do it, and it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You you may borrow a bell if you want. Yeah,
I got it, But not the way to slide whistler
for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
When you finish your book, right, you're done, you're you've
written it. You go to hand it in, you hand
it over to be published. Is it nerve wracking? Do
you question everything you put in there? Do you say,
oh my gosh, I should have left that out, I
shouldn't have done this, I should have done that.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I mean, it's like recording now where it's the hardest
part is turning it in and saying this is a
complete work now. But what I did is I thought, well,
this isn't a book end, this is a milestone, Like
this is where I am today when I turned in
the book. That's how I felt that day, and and
then life goes on. So this is really just like,
that's that's where I was when I started writing the
book two years ago. And I've obviously, you know, Blink
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has gone on since this and done one hundred and
twenty five shows and we're recording a new album and
all kinds of stuff. So yeah, but there's always like
a look back and I'm like, oh, I wish I
would have changed that word. I wish I would have
included that story or whatever.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Mark Hoppus is here his memoirs called Fahrenheit one eighty two.
It's a be able right now, listen to it. Read it.
We love listening. Yeah, hearing your voice. Did you ever
find yourself getting not choked up, but just more emotional
as you tell your story and you're vocalizing it and
you hear the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
When when I was doing the audio book and I
was talking about being sick and I was reading in
the book, I have these journals that I was keeping
while I was undergoing chemotherapy, and I was really at
my low point, and I'm reading and I'm reading thoughts
that I had for myself while I was really in
the dark, and that made me choke up when I
was reading the book.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Good morning, everybody, But.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Where's the whistle?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You have a very soothing voice, So I feel like
listening to your audible would be very a very soothing experience.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
It's a it's a nice experience. I hope I haven't
listened to the audiobook because I dislike the sound of
my voice that much that you know, it's like when
you hear your voice back when you leave a message
for somebody, and you know, oh, that's what I sound like.
You have a great voice, Thank you. It's very low,
low tones. It's kind of rattling my scrot the.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Kind of you made reference to the fact that other
bands thought you guys blink when I was a.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Joke right, always, always in forever, since day one. Why,
because that's what we do when Tom and I get
on stage, we try and out you one another, say
the more ridiculous thing, have the more fun, write the
better song, whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
And so for people just thought of Blink as the
joke band because we go on stage, and also, you know,
we had funny videos and What's My Age Again is
kind of a joke premise for a song. But we
also had songs like Adam's song and really heartfelt things
and Tom's always written really heartfelt lyrics. And so I
think the people that grew up listening to Blink knew
that there was a duality to our band that we
love to have fun, but we also try and write
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the best songs we can and try and write the
best music that we can.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
So you and Tom and Travil, I mean the relationship
basically we have the same thing. I mean, able to
come in every day. We have to be on stage
whether we like it or not. People paid for the tickets.
I guess this is a free show, but paid with
their time and the and there. You know, the relationship
you had with Tom though, was it definitely had its
peaks and valleys. Yeah, and talk about that, talk about
(11:46):
what it was like, I mean a partner.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Right while I met Tom, you know, I had just
graduated high school and was in college and Tom was
graduating high school at the time. And if you think
about it, the people that you were friends with in
high school, Like we are grown men with families and
children of our own. Now, what friends that you had
in high school are you still friends with today? That
you've worked with and lived with and toured in a
van and slept on people's floors and everything else, and
(12:10):
just humans going through life. You fall in and out
of stuff. So, you know, Tom and I were at
different points in our lives while we were in the
same band together, and you know, Tom wanted to stay
home and I wanted to go on tour, and Travis
wanted to go on tour, and we were having kids
a different point, and there's like a tear in that.
There's like a difference when you start and you're all
in a van together, there's a unity of purpose. All
we want to do is play shows, be in this van,
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be in this band, and go and have fun. But
then you get married, or then you have relationship, then
you have kids, and you have mortgages, and you have
all this other stuff pulling your time away. And I
think that the balance that each of us had in
our lives was just different at different times. And you're talking.
One of the chapters is about how you and Tom
actually you're lane, You were both in at one point
started to separate in different lines, and you were a
little confused. He wanted to go to another project, other music,
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and you just weren't communicating at all.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Did you think it was over at that point?
Speaker 8 (13:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, there are several times. Yeah, there were several.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Times when I thought like, I'm not going to talk
with Tom again, and you know, I don't even speak
to him. You didn't speak like I mean when you know,
when Tom left the band the first time, we didn't
speak for like five years, and same thing the second time.
So there were numbers of years where I just wouldn't
even talk with Tom and there was so much acrimony
on both sides. But then the cool thing is that
when we got back together both times, you know, the
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first time was after Travis had his plane crash, and
the second time was after I was sick with cancer.
That Tom calls up and it's like none of the
bad things even happened at all. It was like you
just snapped back into best friend mode. And that's how
Tom has been like ever since whatever it was four
years ago when Tom texted me out of the blue
and said, Hey, I'm directing this music video for Angels
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and airwaves, and he sent me a photo of him
at a music video shoot that he was directing, and
of course it's him in front of a bunch of
models in their underwear, of course, and I reply, haha,
that's awesome.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Man.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Hey, by the way, I have came and I start
chemotherapy and that was the first real text that I
had exchanged with Tom in a number of years. And
immediately my phone rings and it's Tom, and I pick
up the phone and say hello, and he says how
are you? And so the past whatever four years just
disappeared and it was just back to square one, back
to friends.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Wow, and do you think like now, Like you know,
when you guys first started, it was like the end
all be all that was you had to be successful,
you wanted to make the money. You guys are in
such a different place right now that it's got to
be more fun.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It is fun.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
And that was the reason that we got blink Oninity
two back together as the three of us is because
that's what's fun. And we sat down in early twenty
twenty two and we were like, Okay, what do we
need for Blankwinity two to be awesome and be what
we wanted to be because Blinkwinity two is the three
of us, and you know, thank God for Mattskiba when
he came in, and thank God for Scott Rainer when
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he came in. But the soul of Blanquinity two is Travis,
Tom and me, and so we sat down and we're like,
we just want to do fun stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
We want to be creative.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
We want to keep writing new songs and touring and
playing music for people and having a great time. And
so we're like, we're not going to do anything that
we don't want to do, and we've kind of stuck
to that and served as well.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Was there anything that didn't make the book? I actually
Nate said to you were telling a story about Detroit.
Story and he's asked that. I said, tell me the story.
You said, no, let Mark tell the story.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Oh, I mean it was just this was, you know whatever,
probably almost twenty years ago, we were sitting backstage in
Detroit and we were hanging out, the three of us
in a dressing room, just backstage, doing nothing. And we've
been there for like an hour after soundcheck, and all
of a sudden, out of the bathroom comes these two
guys probably in their early twenties, very late teens, and
they look at us and they go, hey, what's up, guys,
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and they just walk out. We're like, what the hell
They've been in that bathroom the whole time. So we
go into the bathroom. Those guys had snuck into the
venue and we're climbing through the ceiling like in breakfast
club and climbing over the ceiling tiles, and the ceiling
tiles had given way and they'd fallen through the ceiling
onto the stall of the bathroom underneath them, broken the
door off the stall, broken the toilet off the wall,
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and then just sat there in fear, not knowing what
to do, and finally gave up and they walked out.
Security was grabbing them and kicking them out. We're like,
no way, those guys are sitting side of stage for
the whole show.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, that's the energy you want, right next to the stage. Yeah.
I love that crazy stuff on the road. I mean,
I'm sure that the list is so long there's no
way to even remember most of it. But we used
to call our tour manager.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
We used to call our tour manager in the middle
of the night at a hotel and say, this is
the front desk and we have an urgent fat for
you down here.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
We need you to come down right now. It's three
o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And then we called down to the front desk and say,
this is Blquidy two is true manager, I need a fax.
I'm expecting what I'm coming down there, and if you
don't have her for me, I'm gonna kick your ass.
And so our tour manager would go downstairs and say
do you have a fax for me?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And the person working the desk we I'm so sorry, sir,
we don't have a fax for you. I don't know
what to tell you, because like, well, why'd you call
me up and wake me? I didn't call you and
wake you up?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Did you guys have universal rules for the tour bus,
like no crapping when we're.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
All on here?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Uh no, we I mean when we first started off,
when we first had a bus, Scott and I still
smoked cigarettes, and we would, like everybody except for Tom
basically smoked on our crew and it was just the dirtiest,
smelliest awful bus. Like imagine that stank that just like
dank smoke for uh so awful.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Didn't you guys all have the same stalker.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
At one point we did.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
There was a stalker in San Diego that my wife
kept seeing around town. And I was recording. We were
in the studio and she called up and said that
lady who I see around town is out in front
of our house right now, and so she called the police,
and the police came, and the lady took off and
they kid. The police came back and they said, hey,
we can't arrest this lady because she hasn't do anything illegal.
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But she has a notebook with pictures of your house
from six months ago, like license plate numbers written down,
times of when like lights would come on and off
in your house, or you know, pictures of mom's wife
at the grocery store, like really strange stuff we're see
today downstairs.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I don't know one of those bring.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh yeah, but that was that was really unsettling. And
uh it was after that that, you know, we moved
into a gated community and I was like, WHOA, being
famous is weird things?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Because you know, now we we read and hear so
many things about people being on stage and someone launching
a bottle at them. Has touring changed for you guys
in that way?
Speaker 7 (18:28):
At all?
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Or is it just still kind of the same.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I mean, thank god there's a lot less shoes being
thrown on stage, because I never under like coming out
of the punk rock community, like uh, every show there'd
be shoes and T shirts and like a belt and
like everyone's trash all thrown up on stage. I'm like,
what about Like, like, how do you walk home with
no shoes? How do you leave a show with no shoes?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Would they throw?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Both are just one because I have just one shoe.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah that's weird.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Phones and camera and lots of bras, lots of underwear
and but bras are expensive. I've had to buy my
wife bras before. I'm like, why this is you know whatever,
there's a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So looking back, I mean, did you guys first start touring?
I mean it started touring really in ninety five was
like our first tour. Wow, So look at that and
all these years that have passed. I mean, did it
go fast or it's insane? I still remember the smell
of our van. It was not good. It doesn't sound
yeah good at it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It was like fast food trash, that smell of like
stale French fries.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
And Mexican food and this, like, uh, do you miss that? Yeah?
It was great. Yeah, because something tells me, however, you're
transporting yourselves around these days, it smells much better.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Oh it does. But there's nothing like the joy of
just hitting it. Because back then there were no cell phones,
there was no internet, there was no way to get
a hold of us. When we left to go on tour,
we had literally a Thomas Guide and a staple together
thing like this, just a bunch of papers with like
this is the venue address, this is what time you
need to be there, and you're getting paid, getting paid
fifty dollars wow. And then nobody could get a hold
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of us. So if I had to call home, I
had to call home, collect from a payphone and hope
my mom was home to pick up the phone and
how's everything?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Wow? So how did your mom and your father still alive? Yeah?
So how did they respond to your success in the band?
Did they get it? Ever?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
They did get it. My mom was very supportive early on.
My dad was always a little more practical. My dad
didn't really understand that Blanknity two is successful until we
played the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Richard Simmons
was one of the guests. Oh yeah, this is one
of the chapters I pulled aside. Yeah, that's the picture
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right there. So we were all hanging out in the
green room before like after sound check, before we played,
and Richard Simmons, the workout guru, comes into our room.
Just burst open the door, blank one eighty two, comes in,
gives me a kiss, gives Tom a kiss, Travis a kiss,
huge personality, and I'm talking. And so we had invited
all of our families to the show and I'm not
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seeing Richard Simmons or workout tips. And he said, oh,
I don't need to give you tips. I'm old enough
to be your dad. And my dad goes, actually, I'm
his dad, And Richard Simmons turns around and goes dad
and gives my dad and he's kiss on the cheek
and rich and my dad was like, well, if Richard
Simmons knows who my son's band is, then they must
be successful. And that was that was really the moment.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Wow, it took Richard Simmons to like pound it home. Yeah,
I feel like that me.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
It was Donnie Osmond like, my mom listens to our show,
but when I put Donnie Osmond on the phone with
my mom.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
That's when my mom's like, yeah, you got a cool job.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
That's nice.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
I'm still waiting on that moment.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, So what did you learn about yourself? Writ in
this book? When I learned about myself? That's the first
time I've been asked that. I don't know that. I
learned a whole lot of them.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Like I said, it's it's not about me that I
love my friends and family, I love my band, and
that's what's really important to me. It really crystallized what's
important to me in this world, and it's actually a
lot smaller than I thought that it was. It's not stuff.
I mean, I like things, Uh, it's not any of that.
But it's like the joy of being on stage or
writing a song, or being with my family and my friends.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That's it. That's really all that I learned.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Can I ask a question that has nothing to do
with the book, How what are you using to keep
your hair looking like that?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I'm just glad to have my hair back at all.
So yes, it does well, there's product in it right now,
but not a lot literally, Like my haircut now is
such that like I can wake up in the morning
and just kind of like wash it off, and it's
just this big thing.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So I have to kind of just shape in into something.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Okay. So that's not a gorilla snot or anything.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
It's not anything cool like that. Yeah. Yeah, So my
husband had cancer as well, and so sorry chemotherapy the
whole thing, lost his hair, hated life. Yeah. He talked
about what it was like going through chemotherapy and he
said it's like worms or crawling around in your veins. Yeah. Yeah.
One day he called me and I don't know if
you can relate, you probably can. He said, I'm standing
(22:51):
outside the door. I don't want to walk in. I
can't do this today. I can't. And I said to him,
I said, Alex, your decision. You know, it's your decision.
You can walk through that door and do what you
need to do or not, you know, And it's a
gift you have to give yourself.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
And it.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Really just messes with your head, your psyche, everything is
messed with when you go through that. But you come out,
you come out the other side and you are a
different person. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
When after my first so I had to undergo six
rounds of chemotherapy three weeks apart and after the first
round of chemotherapy, when I was at my natier, which
is like the worst part of the low point, when
the chemototherapy drugs have burned out so much of your
so much of your cells and everything that there was
a point where I was sitting at the breakfast table
(23:42):
with my wife and I looked at her and I said,
I don't think I can do this. I don't know
that I can go through with this. And she looked
at me and she said, so, what does that mean?
Are you going to kill yourself? And it sounds cruel
to say it aloud, but it was really helpful to
me because I was like, wait, what am I saying here?
Am I just going to give up? Am I just
gonna let this take me? And so at that point
(24:03):
I was like, no, I'm not going to give up,
not at all. And then so I'm assuming it's the
same thing as your husband where they're standing outside and
they're like, I don't know if I can do this,
and there's a point where you're like, no, I have
to do this, not for me, but because I love
the people around me so much that I can't let
them down.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Well, look, congratulations on getting this book out, and how
many people have texted and say I'm buying the book.
That's awesome. We'll take a percentage of that. You choke
me up. Thank you, Mark Hoppus. Of course, Fahrenheit W two.
We we love everything you've brought to us over the years.
I love that you're still bringing it. Thank you. It's
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all new and fresh and fun. Thank you. That's all
that I want to do is keep creating and keep
doing stuff that I love. I'm so glad, Scary push
the button, push the button, Scary, thanks for coming in today.
Absolutely one tops again Fahrenheit by seventeen copies today.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
I took her out. It was a Friday night. I
woke alone to get the feeling right, and we started
making out and she took up my bos. But then
I turned on the TV and that's a.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
South a time. She walked away from me. Nobody thought
she went.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
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a ship at ranage?
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Speaker 7 (25:28):
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Speaker 2 (25:28):
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Speaker 6 (25:29):
A Cain?
Speaker 9 (25:33):
Later on, on the drive home, I called her mom,
I'm from a K phone and I said I was
the Tops and your husband's in jail. The staylos down
on side of me.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And that's a southing. Time I met, you're gonna funny.
Nobody thought she went a twin anything And.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I said, it's no gay concut.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
What's the girl's candor?
Speaker 7 (25:55):
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Let me say ship that mar age? What's my age?
Speaker 7 (25:58):
A pain?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
What's my age?
Speaker 7 (26:00):
And and and that's about the time you want away
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from me about it.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Like you wake gas way anything and you see a
lot of joy pressure.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Yeah, what I was wrong with me my first second year?
Speaker 7 (26:35):
That age?
Speaker 5 (26:37):
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Speaker 7 (26:40):
But what she take the soul to see and say,
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Speaker 7 (26:47):
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Speaker 6 (26:48):
Like age?
Speaker 7 (26:49):
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Speaker 5 (26:50):
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Speaker 1 (26:52):
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Speaker 2 (27:17):
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Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge. Not to embarrass myself,
but here we go. I mean, I'm crazy crazy allergy medicine.
So I'm like a crackhead over here. Okay, my skins
crawling off my head. So if it goes down a
weird hallway, it's gonna happen. Mark Hoppus is here. Yeah,
(00:23):
we need more cowbell. That's great. It's some morning radio.
It's an embarrassing thing. Ever, have a slide whistle too?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Probably?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Do you really? Don't mess with my slide? Okay, box
of tricks, it's so hokey. Put that crap away nice, Okay,
now that'll be I just I mean, it is a
typical hokey. I just stopped wearing bowling shirts. So Mark
(01:00):
Hoppers of course Blink one eighty two. And I'm doing
my best not to fangirl in your face because we're
such huge fans. Oh, thank you very much. Absolutely the
story we all thought we knew until now we're reading
your book called Fahrenheit one eighty two. And wow, writing
a book is an interesting, interesting decision to make, it
is why why did you do this?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
My manager asked me to Actually, my manager has been
saying forever that I should write a book, but I
didn't really think about it until I was sick. And
when I was sick, I was talking with a therapist
and she said, you should write down what's happening and
write like nobody's ever going to read it, and just write.
And I found it really therapeutic, and so afterwards I
was like, I enjoy this process. And then it turned
(01:42):
from writing as therapy from being sick to writing about
my band and my best friends and the great things
that we've gotten to do and how lucky we are.
And then that went into the band breakup and into
like the part about being sick, So it was it
was really great.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And speaking of I mean, you don't hold back. I
mean you were talking about Tom DeLong and you're interesting
of volatile sometimes volatile relationship with him. You just say
it right here. Yeah, And did he read it and go, hey, man,
is that really what you thought about me?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
No, because there's nothing in the book that I had
n't talked with Tom about or said in his presence.
And Tom and I are in a great place, like
as a Bandblinquity Too is in a really awesome place
right now, and so I think that, and I wrote
the book with the intent there would be no demons
in it, Like I didn't want there to be bad guys.
And so when I was writing the book, even when
I was writing about fights that we've had as a band,
(02:34):
I would write about other person's point of view because
I'd want to be fair about it. And so that
was kind of healing for me as well, to write
about arguments that were in the past, like twenty years ago,
that I was still maybe holding on us some grudges about,
and then trying to write it from the other person's perspective,
help me deal.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
With it now.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
If we listen to the book on audible, right, a
lot of times if I'm listening to someone who does
their own book, they kind of go off page for
a minute and give you like a side note.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Do you do that at all?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Okay, I stick.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I stuck very strictly to the book.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
But I did write a song for the beginning in
the outro of it, So the audio book has like
a little like musical intro and a little musical outgro Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
That's cool, so cool.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Was there anybody that you had to reach out to
before the book came out and say, hey, just a
heads up, example, Melissa Joonhart, there's something about you in
this book.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It was it was more like my family, like talking
about my family stuff and things that happened in the
past like that, the things about like the band and stuff.
I didn't feel like I needed to warn anybout you
about because it's all it's all fun and joy and
there's no like I got you or whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
It's all it's all love. So Mark Hoppus. Of course
this book is called Fairne. You talk about growing up
with your sister in California. Yeah, right, And Scotty, by
the way, Scotty b what year do we see blink
in green Day two thousand one garden?
Speaker 6 (03:52):
I think, oh wow, there had to be ninety nine
or two thousands, like two thousand and one, I think too,
like the pop disaster to it? Right, Yes, yeah, and
even back then I was the oldest person in the garden.
But you know, so Scotty was listening to you talking
about your your your parents and how you would hear
them fighting in the house, and you said you actually
(04:14):
started crying on the way to work today. I did
because it resonated with me a lot, because you and
your sister reminded me a lot of my kids because
I got divorced, you know, And and I didn't realize
that you're the one that spilled the apple juice an
Adam song.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That was me.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I spilled the apple juice and Adams song. I was
hearing my parents fight, and I was sitting outside their
bedroom on the carpet, drinking apple juice, wondering what the
heck is going on with my family? This doesn't sound right,
this is I was awful in there. These are my
parents are supposed to love one another. And I can
hear them yelling, and I like coughed or like moved
or something. And then the yelling stopped and I heard
footsteps coming toward the door. I'm like, oh my god,
(04:47):
I'm maybe it's so much trouble for sitting outside the
door while they're arguing. And so I got up and
ran and I kicked over the apple juice in the hall,
and that was it.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
That was it. You know, you also talk about I
think it's a during pandemic. You you were diagnosed with cancer. Yeah,
I mean we're talking to stage stage four lymphoma diffuse
large B cell lymphoma type four A hell lot. That
was what I had. You had to be complicated even
with that. Yeah, but you said if I'm if I'm
(05:17):
not mistaken that knowing that the mortality mortality is like
number one your headlined at the point that it was
actually freeing.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It was to know that, Well you tell us, well,
I don't know. It's like, uh, it's like if you
found out the day that you were going to die,
you would you would know. And I felt like that
was what I was told. I was told actually that
I had a sixty percent chance of getting through cancer, uh,
never having to think about it again, which is great odds.
I had a friend who was sick at the same
time with pancreatic cancer and sadly passed away. So the
(05:47):
type of cancer that I have or had was curable,
but it was going to be really difficult. And somehow
I was like, Okay, well, I've worried so long about
you know, mortality and how things are going to end,
and thought about my own death. This is a great
morning radio.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Hold on, hold on, hold.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
On, shoe the cancer.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah there the whistle cancer.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well, so okay, please continue that. But there was a
freedom in that where I was like, Okay, well this
is the fight now. Yeah, and so I really crystallized
things and like friends and family came and really my
whole world shrunk down to like this tiny little crucible
of love and friends and family and fighting this uh,
this disease.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
See this is why you need to read this, because
you go to a Blink one ay two concert and
you see the joy, the fun people just fing around
on stage and having a great time. But when you
get to know you a little more, that's incredible. Everyone
has a book in them and I wrote my book
and I learn more about me. Yeah, writing this book
talk about that? I mean, how do you see yourself differently?
(06:56):
Post book writing? Post book writing? Honestly, write a book
about myself made me realize that it's not about me,
that it's about the people around me and the people
that I love and the band and what we've created,
uh and and that whole world. And hopefully it's made
me more humble and whatever. I think.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I've always been humble, but uh, definitely, writing a book
makes you think about what am I in the world,
and what do I have to give?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
And what what do I need to do? Less of
what do I want.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
To do more of Have you carried that same freeing
feeling post cancer with you or did you just go
back to like now I'm good both.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, there's there's a real thing at the end where
you're like, you know, if I get over this cancer,
I'm gonna go out, I'm gonna live every day with love,
and I try and do that. But then also like
I just get bombed on things. It's like I'm glad
that I get to take everything for granted again.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, you know, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, that's the best part of like of being cured
of cancer is like you get to go back to
complaining about stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's great.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
We've had a couple of guys here who you know,
battled death and they came out on the other side
and they're just you know, back to themselves.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's the best part. That's Froggy up there, Jacksonville.
He's had two brain aneurysms.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Oh my gosh, two brain aneurysms, and Nate had two strokes.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
Yeah, strokes exactly right, though, that's what you do. You
you kind of first you're like, well, I'm gonna be different,
and you are different, and it's like an accident on
the road. You put both hands on the wheel, You're
gonna drive really good, and then ten minutes tell you
the radio is blasting windows down on your haul and
ass again.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, you get back to life eventually. Yep, love it.
What's that Nate scream it lout? Okay, I can't hear you.
So we have a text that just came in. Oh
my god, Mark could be a DJ. Yeah he is.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, Apple Music you can check it out. I am
I am a DJ. We have a show on Apple Music.
It's called after School Radio when me and my friends
do it, and it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You you may borrow a bell if you want. Yeah,
I got it, But not the way to slide whistler
for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
When you finish your book, right, you're done, you're you've
written it. You go to hand it in, you hand
it over to be published. Is it nerve wracking? Do
you question everything you put in there? Do you say,
oh my gosh, I should have left that out, I
shouldn't have done this, I should have done that.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I mean, it's like recording now where it's the hardest
part is turning it in and saying this is a
complete work now. But what I did is I thought, well,
this isn't a book end, this is a milestone, Like
this is where I am today when I turned in
the book. That's how I felt that day, and and
then life goes on. So this is really just like,
that's that's where I was when I started writing the
book two years ago. And I've obviously, you know, Blink
(09:19):
has gone on since this and done one hundred and
twenty five shows and we're recording a new album and
all kinds of stuff. So yeah, but there's always like
a look back and I'm like, oh, I wish I
would have changed that word. I wish I would have
included that story or whatever.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Mark Hoppus is here his memoirs called Fahrenheit one eighty two.
It's a be able right now, listen to it. Read it.
We love listening. Yeah, hearing your voice. Did you ever
find yourself getting not choked up, but just more emotional
as you tell your story and you're vocalizing it and
you hear the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
When when I was doing the audio book and I
was talking about being sick and I was reading in
the book, I have these journals that I was keeping
while I was undergoing chemotherapy, and I was really at
my low point, and I'm reading and I'm reading thoughts
that I had for myself while I was really in
the dark, and that made me choke up when I
was reading the book.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Good morning, everybody, But.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Where's the whistle?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You have a very soothing voice, So I feel like
listening to your audible would be very a very soothing experience.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
It's a it's a nice experience. I hope I haven't
listened to the audiobook because I dislike the sound of
my voice that much that you know, it's like when
you hear your voice back when you leave a message
for somebody, and you know, oh, that's what I sound like.
You have a great voice, Thank you. It's very low,
low tones. It's kind of rattling my scrot the.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Kind of you made reference to the fact that other
bands thought you guys blink when I was a.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Joke right, always, always in forever, since day one. Why,
because that's what we do when Tom and I get
on stage, we try and out you one another, say
the more ridiculous thing, have the more fun, write the
better song, whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
And so for people just thought of Blink as the
joke band because we go on stage, and also, you know,
we had funny videos and What's My Age Again is
kind of a joke premise for a song. But we
also had songs like Adam's song and really heartfelt things
and Tom's always written really heartfelt lyrics. And so I
think the people that grew up listening to Blink knew
that there was a duality to our band that we
love to have fun, but we also try and write
(11:21):
the best songs we can and try and write the
best music that we can.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
So you and Tom and Travil, I mean the relationship
basically we have the same thing. I mean, able to
come in every day. We have to be on stage
whether we like it or not. People paid for the tickets.
I guess this is a free show, but paid with
their time and the and there. You know, the relationship
you had with Tom though, was it definitely had its
peaks and valleys. Yeah, and talk about that, talk about
(11:46):
what it was like, I mean a partner.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Right while I met Tom, you know, I had just
graduated high school and was in college and Tom was
graduating high school at the time. And if you think
about it, the people that you were friends with in
high school, Like we are grown men with families and
children of our own. Now, what friends that you had
in high school are you still friends with today? That
you've worked with and lived with and toured in a
van and slept on people's floors and everything else, and
(12:10):
just humans going through life. You fall in and out
of stuff. So, you know, Tom and I were at
different points in our lives while we were in the
same band together, and you know, Tom wanted to stay
home and I wanted to go on tour, and Travis
wanted to go on tour, and we were having kids
a different point, and there's like a tear in that.
There's like a difference when you start and you're all
in a van together, there's a unity of purpose. All
we want to do is play shows, be in this van,
(12:32):
be in this band, and go and have fun. But
then you get married, or then you have relationship, then
you have kids, and you have mortgages, and you have
all this other stuff pulling your time away. And I
think that the balance that each of us had in
our lives was just different at different times. And you're talking.
One of the chapters is about how you and Tom
actually you're lane, You were both in at one point
started to separate in different lines, and you were a
little confused. He wanted to go to another project, other music,
(12:56):
and you just weren't communicating at all.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Did you think it was over at that point?
Speaker 8 (13:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, there are several times. Yeah, there were several.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Times when I thought like, I'm not going to talk
with Tom again, and you know, I don't even speak
to him. You didn't speak like I mean when you know,
when Tom left the band the first time, we didn't
speak for like five years, and same thing the second time.
So there were numbers of years where I just wouldn't
even talk with Tom and there was so much acrimony
on both sides. But then the cool thing is that
when we got back together both times, you know, the
(13:26):
first time was after Travis had his plane crash, and
the second time was after I was sick with cancer.
That Tom calls up and it's like none of the
bad things even happened at all. It was like you
just snapped back into best friend mode. And that's how
Tom has been like ever since whatever it was four
years ago when Tom texted me out of the blue
and said, Hey, I'm directing this music video for Angels
(13:47):
and airwaves, and he sent me a photo of him
at a music video shoot that he was directing, and
of course it's him in front of a bunch of
models in their underwear, of course, and I reply, haha,
that's awesome.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Man.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Hey, by the way, I have came and I start
chemotherapy and that was the first real text that I
had exchanged with Tom in a number of years. And
immediately my phone rings and it's Tom, and I pick
up the phone and say hello, and he says how
are you? And so the past whatever four years just
disappeared and it was just back to square one, back
to friends.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Wow, and do you think like now, Like you know,
when you guys first started, it was like the end
all be all that was you had to be successful,
you wanted to make the money. You guys are in
such a different place right now that it's got to
be more fun.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
It is fun.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
And that was the reason that we got blink Oninity
two back together as the three of us is because
that's what's fun. And we sat down in early twenty
twenty two and we were like, Okay, what do we
need for Blankwinity two to be awesome and be what
we wanted to be because Blinkwinity two is the three
of us, and you know, thank God for Mattskiba when
he came in, and thank God for Scott Rainer when
(14:52):
he came in. But the soul of Blanquinity two is Travis,
Tom and me, and so we sat down and we're like,
we just want to do fun stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
We want to be creative.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
We want to keep writing new songs and touring and
playing music for people and having a great time. And
so we're like, we're not going to do anything that
we don't want to do, and we've kind of stuck
to that and served as well.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Was there anything that didn't make the book? I actually
Nate said to you were telling a story about Detroit.
Story and he's asked that. I said, tell me the story.
You said, no, let Mark tell the story.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Oh, I mean it was just this was, you know whatever,
probably almost twenty years ago, we were sitting backstage in
Detroit and we were hanging out, the three of us
in a dressing room, just backstage, doing nothing. And we've
been there for like an hour after soundcheck, and all
of a sudden, out of the bathroom comes these two
guys probably in their early twenties, very late teens, and
they look at us and they go, hey, what's up, guys,
(15:42):
and they just walk out. We're like, what the hell
They've been in that bathroom the whole time. So we
go into the bathroom. Those guys had snuck into the
venue and we're climbing through the ceiling like in breakfast
club and climbing over the ceiling tiles, and the ceiling
tiles had given way and they'd fallen through the ceiling
onto the stall of the bathroom underneath them, broken the
door off the stall, broken the toilet off the wall,
(16:05):
and then just sat there in fear, not knowing what
to do, and finally gave up and they walked out.
Security was grabbing them and kicking them out. We're like,
no way, those guys are sitting side of stage for
the whole show.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, that's the energy you want, right next to the stage. Yeah.
I love that crazy stuff on the road. I mean,
I'm sure that the list is so long there's no
way to even remember most of it. But we used
to call our tour manager.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
We used to call our tour manager in the middle
of the night at a hotel and say, this is
the front desk and we have an urgent fat for
you down here.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
We need you to come down right now. It's three
o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And then we called down to the front desk and say,
this is Blquidy two is true manager, I need a fax.
I'm expecting what I'm coming down there, and if you
don't have her for me, I'm gonna kick your ass.
And so our tour manager would go downstairs and say
do you have a fax for me?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And the person working the desk we I'm so sorry, sir,
we don't have a fax for you. I don't know
what to tell you, because like, well, why'd you call
me up and wake me? I didn't call you and
wake you up?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Did you guys have universal rules for the tour bus,
like no crapping when we're.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
All on here?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Uh no, we I mean when we first started off,
when we first had a bus, Scott and I still
smoked cigarettes, and we would, like everybody except for Tom
basically smoked on our crew and it was just the dirtiest,
smelliest awful bus. Like imagine that stank that just like
dank smoke for uh so awful.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Didn't you guys all have the same stalker.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
At one point we did.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
There was a stalker in San Diego that my wife
kept seeing around town. And I was recording. We were
in the studio and she called up and said that
lady who I see around town is out in front
of our house right now, and so she called the police,
and the police came, and the lady took off and
they kid. The police came back and they said, hey,
we can't arrest this lady because she hasn't do anything illegal.
(17:48):
But she has a notebook with pictures of your house
from six months ago, like license plate numbers written down,
times of when like lights would come on and off
in your house, or you know, pictures of mom's wife
at the grocery store, like really strange stuff we're see
today downstairs.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I don't know one of those bring.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh yeah, but that was that was really unsettling. And
uh it was after that that, you know, we moved
into a gated community and I was like, WHOA, being
famous is weird things?
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Because you know, now we we read and hear so
many things about people being on stage and someone launching
a bottle at them. Has touring changed for you guys
in that way?
Speaker 7 (18:28):
At all?
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Or is it just still kind of the same.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I mean, thank god there's a lot less shoes being
thrown on stage, because I never under like coming out
of the punk rock community, like uh, every show there'd
be shoes and T shirts and like a belt and
like everyone's trash all thrown up on stage. I'm like,
what about Like, like, how do you walk home with
no shoes? How do you leave a show with no shoes?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Would they throw?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Both are just one because I have just one shoe.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Yeah that's weird.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Phones and camera and lots of bras, lots of underwear
and but bras are expensive. I've had to buy my
wife bras before. I'm like, why this is you know whatever,
there's a lot of money.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
So looking back, I mean, did you guys first start touring?
I mean it started touring really in ninety five was
like our first tour. Wow, So look at that and
all these years that have passed. I mean, did it
go fast or it's insane? I still remember the smell
of our van. It was not good. It doesn't sound
yeah good at it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
It was like fast food trash, that smell of like
stale French fries.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
And Mexican food and this, like, uh, do you miss that? Yeah?
It was great. Yeah, because something tells me, however, you're
transporting yourselves around these days, it smells much better.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Oh it does. But there's nothing like the joy of
just hitting it. Because back then there were no cell phones,
there was no internet, there was no way to get
a hold of us. When we left to go on tour,
we had literally a Thomas Guide and a staple together
thing like this, just a bunch of papers with like
this is the venue address, this is what time you
need to be there, and you're getting paid, getting paid
fifty dollars wow. And then nobody could get a hold
(20:01):
of us. So if I had to call home, I
had to call home, collect from a payphone and hope
my mom was home to pick up the phone and
how's everything?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Wow? So how did your mom and your father still alive? Yeah?
So how did they respond to your success in the band?
Did they get it? Ever?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
They did get it. My mom was very supportive early on.
My dad was always a little more practical. My dad
didn't really understand that Blanknity two is successful until we
played the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Richard Simmons
was one of the guests. Oh yeah, this is one
of the chapters I pulled aside. Yeah, that's the picture
(20:38):
right there. So we were all hanging out in the
green room before like after sound check, before we played,
and Richard Simmons, the workout guru, comes into our room.
Just burst open the door, blank one eighty two, comes in,
gives me a kiss, gives Tom a kiss, Travis a kiss,
huge personality, and I'm talking. And so we had invited
all of our families to the show and I'm not
(20:59):
seeing Richard Simmons or workout tips. And he said, oh,
I don't need to give you tips. I'm old enough
to be your dad. And my dad goes, actually, I'm
his dad, And Richard Simmons turns around and goes dad
and gives my dad and he's kiss on the cheek
and rich and my dad was like, well, if Richard
Simmons knows who my son's band is, then they must
be successful. And that was that was really the moment.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Wow, it took Richard Simmons to like pound it home. Yeah,
I feel like that me.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
It was Donnie Osmond like, my mom listens to our show,
but when I put Donnie Osmond on the phone with
my mom.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
That's when my mom's like, yeah, you got a cool job.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
That's nice.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
I'm still waiting on that moment.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, So what did you learn about yourself? Writ in
this book? When I learned about myself? That's the first
time I've been asked that. I don't know that. I
learned a whole lot of them.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Like I said, it's it's not about me that I
love my friends and family, I love my band, and
that's what's really important to me. It really crystallized what's
important to me in this world, and it's actually a
lot smaller than I thought that it was. It's not stuff.
I mean, I like things, Uh, it's not any of that.
But it's like the joy of being on stage or
writing a song, or being with my family and my friends.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
That's it. That's really all that I learned.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Can I ask a question that has nothing to do
with the book, How what are you using to keep
your hair looking like that?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
I'm just glad to have my hair back at all.
So yes, it does well, there's product in it right now,
but not a lot literally, Like my haircut now is
such that like I can wake up in the morning
and just kind of like wash it off, and it's
just this big thing.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So I have to kind of just shape in into something.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Okay. So that's not a gorilla snot or anything.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
It's not anything cool like that. Yeah. Yeah, So my
husband had cancer as well, and so sorry chemotherapy the
whole thing, lost his hair, hated life. Yeah. He talked
about what it was like going through chemotherapy and he
said it's like worms or crawling around in your veins. Yeah. Yeah.
One day he called me and I don't know if
you can relate, you probably can. He said, I'm standing
(22:51):
outside the door. I don't want to walk in. I
can't do this today. I can't. And I said to him,
I said, Alex, your decision. You know, it's your decision.
You can walk through that door and do what you
need to do or not, you know, And it's a
gift you have to give yourself.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
And it.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Really just messes with your head, your psyche, everything is
messed with when you go through that. But you come out,
you come out the other side and you are a
different person. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
When after my first so I had to undergo six
rounds of chemotherapy three weeks apart and after the first
round of chemotherapy, when I was at my natier, which
is like the worst part of the low point, when
the chemototherapy drugs have burned out so much of your
so much of your cells and everything that there was
a point where I was sitting at the breakfast table
(23:42):
with my wife and I looked at her and I said,
I don't think I can do this. I don't know
that I can go through with this. And she looked
at me and she said, so, what does that mean?
Are you going to kill yourself? And it sounds cruel
to say it aloud, but it was really helpful to
me because I was like, wait, what am I saying here?
Am I just going to give up? Am I just
gonna let this take me? And so at that point
(24:03):
I was like, no, I'm not going to give up,
not at all. And then so I'm assuming it's the
same thing as your husband where they're standing outside and
they're like, I don't know if I can do this,
and there's a point where you're like, no, I have
to do this, not for me, but because I love
the people around me so much that I can't let
them down.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Well, look, congratulations on getting this book out, and how
many people have texted and say I'm buying the book.
That's awesome. We'll take a percentage of that. You choke
me up. Thank you, Mark Hoppus. Of course, Fahrenheit W two.
We we love everything you've brought to us over the years.
I love that you're still bringing it. Thank you. It's
(24:41):
all new and fresh and fun. Thank you. That's all
that I want to do is keep creating and keep
doing stuff that I love. I'm so glad, Scary push
the button, push the button, Scary, thanks for coming in today.
Absolutely one tops again Fahrenheit by seventeen copies today.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
I took her out. It was a Friday night. I
woke alone to get the feeling right, and we started
making out and she took up my bos. But then
I turned on the TV and that's a.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
South a time. She walked away from me. Nobody thought
she went.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
To twining the more.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
He's my TV shows? What the horis ef? I say
a ship at ranage?
Speaker 4 (25:27):
What's my age?
Speaker 7 (25:28):
Can?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
What's my age?
Speaker 6 (25:29):
A Cain?
Speaker 9 (25:33):
Later on, on the drive home, I called her mom,
I'm from a K phone and I said I was
the Tops and your husband's in jail. The staylos down
on side of me.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And that's a southing. Time I met, you're gonna funny.
Nobody thought she went a twin anything And.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I said, it's no gay concut.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
What's the girl's candor?
Speaker 7 (25:55):
I did?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Let me say ship that mar age? What's my age?
Speaker 7 (25:58):
A pain?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
What's my age?
Speaker 7 (26:00):
And and and that's about the time you want away
(26:25):
from me about it.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Like you wake gas way anything and you see a
lot of joy pressure.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Yeah, what I was wrong with me my first second year?
Speaker 7 (26:35):
That age?
Speaker 5 (26:37):
That's about the.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Toun and should have done the thing.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
But what she take the soul to see and say,
here's a deparm.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Why would she wished out.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
Of your neighborhood?
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Like age?
Speaker 7 (26:49):
What's my age?
Speaker 5 (26:50):
You came?
Speaker 7 (26:51):
What's my age?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Can hello? Hello? Helloy?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
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Speaker 7 (27:21):
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Speaker 1 (27:22):
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