April 17, 2023 • 40 mins
Confetti Falling…on the Frosted Tips pod today as our Big Time Rush continues with Carlos and Kendall! What did it feel like reuniting after a 10 year hiatus?! Kendall reveals struggles he had when the band was apart and Carlos spills details on his family life.
Plus, find out what has Lance fired up and ready to take action and is there an *NSYNC / BTR “Next Generation” in the works?!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is Frosted Tips with Lance Bass and iHeartRadio podcast. Hello,
my little Peanuts, it's me your host, Lance Bass. This
is Frosted Tips with Lance. Why are you laughing? Turkey?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Your voice was so presentery radio.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hello, this is what I do how I talk at home?
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's great? Hey, it's Turkey. I think you're introducing me.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I sounded like the movie phone guy.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, you do.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Push three for Titanic.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
That was great.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Oh, thanks, thank you so much, Turkey. Here we are again.
We are anything you need to catch up everyone with
because we have a busy show today.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
We do have a busy Yeah, I know. I think
is there anything catch up for us?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I know everyone pretty much knows everything about us. We
have kids.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We have kids.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That's it. Yeah, they're you know, they're making us tired
and that's life with that. Yeah, And there you go.
And we can't wait for the summer. And I'm especially
ready for summer because Big Time Rush is coming out
in June and we're all going to go watch them.
And now Kendall Schmidt, Carlos Penevega is with us right now.
Congratulations guys on a huge success that you're having right
(01:13):
now after a ten year hiatus, I.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Believe basically, yeah, very long, very long.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
What do y'all feel about this, because you know, you
took a little break, y'all did individual solo things and
just living life. What is it like to come back
to read their brothers?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Wow, it's amazing to see what the response has been. Obviously,
we've been friends for a long time, and even back
on the show, we I think it was kind of
unexpected how close we would all get and how much
we would all gel being that we weren't like, you know,
we didn't grow up together. But seeing the response and
(01:49):
going out on this tour, the last tour we did,
the Forever tour, and seeing how many people showed up
and how excited everyone was, it's kind of just mind blowing.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
It's so fun. And I'm sure that your audience is
so diverse now with you know, our generation watching you,
but also they're having kids and now they're introducing you
guys to a younger generation. Yeah, I mean, do you
see that in your concerts now? Like front Rows still
those teens?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Oh yeah, I mean, you know, we just got finished
doing a little college run and that was wild because
nobody really thought like, oh, the our initial thought was, hey,
it's gonna be fun. But it was crazy, you know,
I mean nineteen eighteen, twenty year.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Olds, Well that was was That was the kids that
were loving you first round, right.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
But then we have you know, the kids who were
you know, fifteen sixteen, who are now twenty five, twenty six,
twenty seven, they have kids, and they're bringing their kids
to the show, and it's just wild. It's this this
huge gap, but it's great.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Do you have kids?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I have three kids?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, you have three kids. You're the only one that
has kids in the group.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
When you were saying that you were tired, I was like, yes,
oh I get it.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And how old are your kids?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Six? Three and one?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Oh, you are tired? Y.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So my wife is meeting me tonight in the airport
and we're flying to Florida and we're taking a cruise.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
All nice with the kids.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Uh okay, let me tell you. I'm like, both of
us are just like we need this week.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And of course Alexa Aga, who I mean, I've known
her for a very very long time.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
How did you guys meet man crazy? I had just
come off tour, my first tour being single, so I
was going a little crazy, and I came back and
I was just kind of in a weird funk, and
I went to my first Bible study ever and it
was for her first time by a Bible study. And
we met there and the rest is history.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Was that in l a.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, that's so cute.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It's like Chris Jenner song when she redid a Cheesecake Factory.
Bible study. Yeah, hello, La Christ's fortieth birthday. All these
people did, uh I love La.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
But her version of it, oh yeah, I love my friends.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I love my friends. Yeah, so they surprised her with
it and it was just all this ly. Oh it
was amazing. You should have been a top ten.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It's just funny because she's probably mostly talking about Calabasas.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, not really.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
I don't think a friend surprised her because she's the
one singing the whole song again, like performing in it.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So she probably did it for herself for herself, and
her friends do.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
It for her. Even j Simpson was in the video.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Oh yeah, he's like, I love you. Yeah it aged well.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, really aged. All right. So Kendall, you are from Kansas.
What's it like growing up in Kansas?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well, you know, there was a wheat field behind the backyard, so.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You were like country Kansas.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yeah, we were in the suburb. It's andover is a
suburb of Wichita. Wichita already is a very country city.
I mean it is a city, but it's like you know,
maybe the population of burbank. Yeah, you total and I had,
you know, used to go shoot BB guns and try
to hit the crab apples in the tree, and you know,
play paintball in the wheat field. And I grew up
(05:05):
learning how to drive like a loader, a front end loader,
tractors and stuff like that. And yeah, it was what
would you what you would imagine it was. It wasn't
quite farm life because it was still a suburb, but
it was yeah, Midwest life for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I mean sounds exactly how I grew up in Mississippi. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You learned to drive a tractor before a car, yes, and.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It was legal, like I think to drive a tractor
you could be ten years old.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, I think the farm permit.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Of fourteen. Yeah, and we got my license at fifteen.
I the real license at fifteen in Mississippi. You know,
thank god, I know, you couldn't imagine my niece and
nephews driving at fifteen, they all looked like they were eight.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, and that just here's the question. How is Lance
as a driver?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I'm a great driver, right, who's the better driver? Right?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Who's the better driver?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
No, he is a better great It depends what you
mean by driver, Like he operates a car, Well, he
just doesn't.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I just want to if others drive around him, well,
I just want to go.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I want to. I have a little bit of road rage.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I do.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I do. I want to take I want to take
everyone's licenses away because I'm like, what do you what
are you doing? What? And why do cops not see
what I see? Because there's some there idiot driver. There's
like real bad drivers out there. And I think I'm
a really good driver.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I said.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
If I weren't into music, maybe I would have been
like a race car driver, because I love driving and
I think and like when we do the go KRT
the fast go carts, I'm always the one that like
wins and I can like edge you out. I think
I would have been a really good kids I do, yeah,
I do, but not like that. I'm good. I'm very
safe with the kids, just safe because but yeah. I'm
(06:43):
usually the driver because.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
He's the driver.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Because if Lance is a very big backseat driver like you,
so like I refuse to drive. I refuse to drive
because he's telling me, no, you got to go this way, no, no, no,
don't stop there to stop a little earlier.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I'm like, oh my, well, then you drive. How about that.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I just like to be in control.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And then he complains like can you never drive anywhere?
I have to drive everywhere. And I'm like, well, then
shut up when I drive, and I will, but you
have to make the choice.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
You get a little distracted, though I do not get
distracted when I drive. I'm like, oh man, here's the
one thing, here's the one thing that you do. And
I just say, okay, it's scary when you see. When
I see someone's tail lights going and it's half a
mile in front of me, I let off, you know,
the gas, just in case there's they're missing, a cat
crossing the street. Whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Get old person driving cart. When we're in every uber,
he's clenching my leg and arm like we're gonna die,
and I'm like, we are not going to die. Just
bomb down. When I drive. He's like, oh, I got
a break and I'm like, okay, we.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Have almost died several times in Ubers the.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Amost dead.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
He is very yes, no, but it's like when I
see the red lights going, my foot at least goes
off the gas. You know him, He'll just continue with
the gas. I'm like, there's there's brick lights. There's brick lights.
What if they're like coming to a complete stop.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I've not crashed yet.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Someone I know there's a guitar. I think a cord.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Guys, this is.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Why we do our show because this is our therapy.
Thank you for being our therapist.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Happy, happy to help.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Carlos. You are from Missouri. I remember going to Branson
all the time growing up. Yeah, my first concerts were there. Yeah.
I think my first guns with Tana Tucker and Tammy Want.
Tammy Want and Tanya Tucker.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Were pretty much like Midwest people. Yeah, yeah, a little
South for you, but we.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Go up for the action. You know, no one's coming
down to Mississippi to have any fun, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Where Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I was born in a place called Laurel, which if
you watch h Laurel Laurel. Oh, yeah, I can't.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I needed to go from Pucket, Mississippi Pucket.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
That's very close to Laurel. Yeah, but that's if you
watch h HDTV, it's called Hometown. There's a show called that,
and that's about my hometown. No, that shows about your
about my little home show.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Like it too.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
About laurelmus million homes. You know, they're I mean beautiful.
They've really redone our town and made it nice. So
where what was it like growing up there? And did
you always know you wanted to go into entertainment? Well?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I was there until until probably like ten years old
in Columbia, Missouri, so so most people like swe you
from like Columbia, Missouri.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Of course it's like I don't hear the accent.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
But around ten years old, my parents had four boys
and they were like, let's just get out of here
and get to somewhere where we had more more Latinos,
you know, more people from our culture, and we moved
to Miami. So Miami's really were like you know, from
like ten on is where like I really became who
I am, and so is I don't really remember. It
(10:03):
just pretty boring and.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
It's a good way to start because it must have
felt so safe and innocent those first ten years and again, and.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
We had land, like you know, like our backyard was
like two acres and we could run around.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
That's what I miss. I miss the space. And we're
toying around with you know, basing. We'll never leave La,
but we do want to base ourselves somewhere where we
have a few acres that the kids can run and
get lost in the woods. I just feel like a kid.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, see I am. I'm actually eyeing, like how do
I get like two hundred acres of woods?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
He was to, I'm right with you, and I want
to get like two hundred acres and then kind of
divide it up with friends and have like a compound.
You people, that's just okay.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
You don't have to manage two hundred acres of woods.
The woods manage themselves.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
That's just would.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
But I just want to actually a big goal of mine.
This is so stupid, but I want to do that
so I can make I mean, you from Mississippi, you know,
cutting tree and I really want to cut a trail myself.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
And that sounds so dumb. No, these guys know that.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Like I've always been like I want to go to
a place where I can dig a hole and nobody
and poo and nobody and nobody says anything.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yeah, I was like, make this choke in La. If
you just like went in your front yard and you
started digging, eventually someone's going to come up and go, hey,
what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
A home?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
A permit?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yeah, do you have a permit? And you're like, well, no,
it's my I don't know, I can.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Give it twenty five.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
It's the little things that I'm you know, it's the
little thing simple to the simpler life.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Now, Turkey's from Miami.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
From Miami, hey, let's go.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, he lived a Mimmi beach for I mean, your
whole life. Still his grandparents. I mean since what nineteen forties,
you've lived on the same street, on.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
The same street, Yeah, yeah, since the forties.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
My grandpa moved to Miami in nineteen twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yes, from where?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
From New York.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, so he was a snowbird went down there.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
He was a little Oh he was a business guy.
He built half of Miami, like like the Fayena, like
all those huge buildings. That was his grandfather.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, and it was great and it was funny because
your grandfather helped build the country club, right course, and
when he built it, Jewish people weren't allowed to even
be members and he built the place because that's like
nineteen FIFTI fifties.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
But then yeah, they wouldn't give him.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
A member, they wouldn't gi him membership, but he built it.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's crazy, I know. And now the whole
gun club is Jewish.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It's like Cuban Jewish mainly. All right, y'all, Just y'all
sold out Madison Square Garden, which is like the pinnacle
right of so many people. Yes, we just definitely msg
our HBO special which was so much fun that I
loved that special. Although we didn't get it. I nominated,
But that's okay, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You know, you guys flew in the air. I think
they're picking. How did you not get what?
Speaker 6 (12:54):
I know?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I know?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well, it's a different time.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
We talked about it for this tour, is like, is
there any way for this upcoming tour there any way
that we can fly in some way? And it's amphitheaters,
it's half amphitheaters, half arenas, so it doesn't really work
like that. Yeah, Like we don't have any thrust of
the stage. This is kind of we're going to be
on the stage, but how can we at least get
lifted in some way.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, here, take my advice. Don't do anything to save
the money, actually actually make money on top on.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
So I recently speaking of this tour that y'all did,
I recently watched the you know, I found it on YouTube,
but it was like a special about you guys putting
on that that whole tour.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
It was making the tour on MTV.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yes, if you haven't seen a jerky, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I haven't.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I learned a lot. No, but y'all had the crab
what is it called the mover? The movers, I think
like Joey really wanted them, like the treadmill, but it
was like, you know, like are we gonna spend his
money and and Joey was like, no, I want the
mills and they ended up being sick.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And that was our stadium tour because we were like,
we can have anything we want. It's a stadium tour.
Mechanical bulls, moving stage. We were so dumb. No one
was an Arab being like Okay, this is great and all,
but yeah, you're not going to make a dime on them.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Okay, so Mechanical Bulls a million dollars. That same thing
happened to us. We did a huge tour and they
were like, what do you want and it was like
our third or fourth two We were like, we want
to lift. We want pyro on every song and this,
and then have an elevator and to have an elevator,
wardrobe changes, special shoes, light up jackets, and then at
the end of the tour it was like here's you know,
here's your check. And it was like, well, where did
(14:33):
it all go? And they're like, let me show you
the list. You guys wanted to lift, you guys wanted
the pyro, you wanted this, the light of jackets.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
We should explain that no offense to our stylist at
the time, because it was the technology of the of
the moment, and it's advanced a lot even since twenty ten.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
But like they were pretty cheese ball and then they
never worked, and they never worked. Jameses would always just
be off, so the three of us would be lit
up and he would just be like eight eight eight.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And what people don't understand is, yeah, the Mechanical Bulls
and moving stage all this. Well you also have to
travel with that, so that means more eighteen wheelers and
poor crew. Yeah, I mean it's just it's so exacting.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Trucks that tour.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I have to ask Dave Brown, but I think eighteen trucks. No, well,
that tour was more than that.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, if it was a stadium, it had to be.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
It was like probably like forty trucks it was.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
And harnesses just suck, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That does not feel good at all, But that was
our thing. We like to fly, you know, it's just
say we love flying over it started doing the first
stage and no, that was sling. We would do that.
We would like run and like that all to fly.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
But dude, they're just standing there and all of a
sudden they go and they just go. It looked like
magic a moment.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
We did like magic. We did a lot of magic
tricks in it. In fact, we had to hire a
magician who went on tour with us.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Stop it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Well again, another expenditure, that's just stupid. I'm like, well,
we know the tricks, so why don't we need you
out here?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Good to refresh you guys on that there was an
actual magic trick oh.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah, because there was one show I think it was
the Pop Ye I was the pop Odyssey tour. At
the very end, we disappear out of the you know,
they cover the dancers cover us up, and then they
and we disappeared, and.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
So I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
So that needed a magician the entire tour, just to
make sure that the tricks. We were married, very David.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I still have never told anyone how that works, just saying,
not even my husband.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Wow. Yeah, I'm just still just want to I know.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
He asked me every single morning more, did you did
you disappear that trick that I've never even seen? You
never heard of? The pop Odyssey tour?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Were you a fan back then?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yes I was.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You keep saying I wasn't a fan.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I was a huge fan of everybody, was a fan
of INSYNCT.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
He was a Spice girl.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
My god, We've we've literally been together twelve years. We
have this argument every time it's comes up. And he asked,
you liked because your sister says that y'all liked back
first because they came out first.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
What don't you understand about this?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
And driving, sorry, got listen.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I liked You're our therapist right now. Yeah, it is
all about us.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It didn't go to your concert.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
It's because they were so expensive.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah, they were twenty three dollars a ticket. It was
really expensive back then. That these tickets are insane is
how much they were. Back then. Our top ticket probably
was sixty something dollars, like front row.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, the whole business has changed.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I don't know, I feel like we're not.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
If you're listening and you're a fan from the past,
if you spent more than sixty dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
On it, yeah, DMS, what prices.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Because you have the ticket stuff, we'll fly you out.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Okay, yes, he will fly you out. That's right, Carlos
said on his own time No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
On the on the podcast, on the iHeart Jet.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah, they kindly lent it to us for this moment.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
You know, actually I have I read a little bit
about why that is why tickets are so expensive now.
So not even that long ago, but when CDs were selling,
In fact, our first record, I think we were at
the tail end of that because we got a gold
record of CDs and then that immediately stopped shortly after.
But from then to like you know, from there, all
(18:07):
the way back to the forties, fifties, sixty seventies, all
the eighties nineties, all was either vinyl records or CDs
or whatever, and the whole goal was to get people
to your concert to buy CDs. So it was what
you wanted was to people to buy CDs. And the
tickets were cheap as like a.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Hey, so promote to promote the record, and it's.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Flip now, flip now because music is basically free. So
now they have to charge a lot for tickets in
order to make up the difference.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I get okay, yeah, I'm looking at a ticket thirty
seven dollars and fifty cents for row nine.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I think God, that was overpaid for that, right, overpaid? Wow?
Whoever about that? Maybe you're right, I mean, and you're right.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I never even thought about that. But yes, it was
just a promotional tool to get everyone there.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
So because people buy more money on CDs because it
doesn't cost anything to make.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
A CD, and the amount and merchandise, right, because merchandise
is what really built our house. You know, we weren't
making crap on our records. The record label makes everything.
And then lou Pearlman on top of that, took whatever
was the pennies were left and you.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Know, merches everything Now touring is everything.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Except our merch. Again, we got screwed because our first
two tours we made this merch deal with one of
the big ones. But then they they paid out Ricky
Martin so much money before we went on tour that
they basically went bankrupt and then they didn't. We had
to basically pay Ricky Martin. How did that enjoy that merch? Yeah?
(19:41):
All those lance Bash shorts that were just flying off
the shelves. So let's give some frosted tips for our
listeners out there. So what is a good tip on
Because you did a hiatus in between and y'all all
did your individual you know, careers, what would you what
(20:03):
advice would you give to someone listener right now that
was thinking about, okay, changing careers kind of in the
middle of something they've been doing forever, Like, what is
that step for someone not to be afraid to try
something different?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Well, I have a good tip.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Don't have any expectations, Yeah, because it's better just to
go into it saying, you know what, I'm going to
do this and we'll see what happens. And I hope
for the best and all that because at least for
my own experience, and I had a great time. I
mean I played hundreds of shows by myself after with
my own project, with my own band, and we went
from doing sold out, you know, twenty thousand seat amphitheaters
(20:36):
to I mean it was hard sometimes to get like
a couple hundred people to show up. Yeah, And that
was like right after and so in my head leaving,
you know, moving on from the band and going into
solo stuff, I was thinking, oh, this is going to
be great. You know, at least a quarter of the
people are going to show up, right, and it's going
to be awesome. And then I had these high expectations
(20:57):
and I was like, oh, well, okay. Then I made
the most of it and I adjusted from there, but
not going into that having expectations, not expecting that it's
just going to be a certain way, and like, just
have fun with it and so you switch careers.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Just have fun with it and see what happens.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
It's true. And did you ever feel I mean, were
you ever upset with like the fandom and like, guys,
where are you?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Like?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I mean, you were behind us for so long and
then all of a sudden we do something like individual
and you can't show up for.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Us, Well, it was more like I just didn't understand
the and I how I just didn't understand how because
if you even took a small percentage of a show
and as well, at least ten percent of people in
this area would show up.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
It just wasn't the case.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
And I think that also made us appreciate how big
the band was itself.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It's true, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
And so it's like with our powers combined, Captain Planet,
with our powers combined, it's not like, oh you know,
it's not a quarter quarter, it's just the whole entity itself.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It attracts a different sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
And that's why boy bands are so fun and group
because it is it's a it's a it's a monster
on its own. I mean, it's just like together it's
just this powerful.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
And I I've noticed that for sure, Like when we
do our individual stuff, it's just it just doesn't hit
like if you're all together. If even if four of
us are in a room together, people would just freak out.
It's like, oh my gosh. But just one of us
walk in, it's like okay. But it's something about seeing
all the guys together. There's just a moment, right exactly
what about you want to ask a question? Being quiet
(22:28):
over here, Well, I.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Was letting you explain.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
He's still about He's still yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, I'm just like.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I was.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I was thinking about the boys. That's what I was doing.
Huge fan. I love their work. Yeah, I did a
lot of copycats. I can think there you we did.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
You know what, I got a good one. Don't be
afraid to take small steps. So so for instance, when
the band finished, I had just recently got married, like
the year before, and we decided to have our our
first kid a little bit later. But my wife and I,
you know, she's been doing you know, TV and film
(23:08):
all her life. We did TV. I really wanted to
break into film. I mean, I still have this dream
of being like in a Marvel like a Marvel movie
and be something and some blockbuster something.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Just like one little that.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Is there a character you'd like to play Marble?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I would love to be a superhero just like something
and not not not DC but Marvel like like that,
like like in that world. He's really placing kidding, listen,
I'm specific, Okay, I'm being specific. No, but we we
had an opportunity. H her her manager, reached out and
was like, hey, I'd love to set up this, you know,
(23:43):
meeting with with Hallmark Channel.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Bring this up.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
And we were like, well, I don't know, and he goes, no,
just just you know, take the meeting. So we take
the meeting.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
It was.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
It was awesome, It was wonderful, and we end up
doing project after project together. And look, at the time,
Hallmark wasn't what I wanted to do. I wanted to
go off and do all these other things. But Hallmark
allowed us to to stay together as a family, and
I got to work together on numerous projects over and
over again. They're so accommodating, you know. I like, they
literally let us bring our family on set, give our kids,
(24:12):
you know, plane tickets so we can bring them.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It's one big trailers where everybody comes and hang you know,
hangs out. It's been such a blessing financially to help us,
you know, like secure a really great house in Hawaii
where now we live.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
And it.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Wasn't my ideal situation, but it's been a great building
block to continue my career and now you know, we're
still doing Hallmark here and there, and now we're executive
producing and you know, like bringing them projects. So for me,
i'd say, sometimes you may not be doing exactly what
you want, but that doesn't mean that you won't get there.
Sometimes you just kind of take those you.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Know, exact says the universe gives you what you need
at that time. And what a blessing that was for you,
you know, to be able to be with your family.
I love the Hallmark I mean I love your movies
and Hallmark Family I think is so incredible. Nikki de
Looach is one, you know, good Friends awesome. She was
Some Innocence and Mickey Mouse Club. But she's having the
best time at Hallmark because they treat you so well and.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
It's so easy. It's so easy, Like there really isn't
I get it. The day that I do that Marvel movie,
I'm going to get on set and there's going to
be so much pressure and they're going to shoot one
page in one day or a court of page. It's
going to be crazy. But Hallmark, you show up and
they're like, oh, you don't like this line, what do
you want to say? You're like, oh, I would like
to say it like this, and They're like, that sounds.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Perfect, that's great, creative, that's exactly, that's awesome. House living
in Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
God, that's terrible.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
It's awful.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
No, you know what again, that fresh ocean air. Everything.
We got so lucky that we found this property and
it's it's on six acres, so we have have, you know,
room for the kids to run around naked all the time. Maui.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Okay, now, so if.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
You're ever there, bro come visit.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I haven't. I haven't taken into Maui yet, but I
used to love going to Maui. I rode on you
with the.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Vision that pen has almost gone to my eyeball so
many times.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I'm very I what are you writing down back sat driving?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I wrote something on the page.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Oh, I can read my own weird handwriting. He knows
what he wrote exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
He knows what he wrote.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
She look, that's my girl. That's who made me survive
in the early days of instinct because she lived with us.
Now she would she had a little daddy friar, you
know those like old daddy friar.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And the only thing I could afford was hash browns,
frozen hash browns, and so every morning she would fix
these frozen hash browns. And that's how I would like.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Was she the den mother in a way?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Sort of the mature one?
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Yea?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Did you say that all of the instinct guys lived together?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Oh yeah, we all lived together in Orlando?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Was this before you guys like, oh yeah, I met.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
The guys October first and I moved in with them. Yeah, media,
and I didn't even know that. I slept on Chris
Kirkpatrick's futan Wow, Justine's mom our vocal coach Robin Wiley, uh,
you know, and NICKI was on the Mickey Mouse Club
with them, so I was like, she would always be
crashing with us. I mean it was just this tiny
three bedroom house and Doctor Phillips and we just that's
(27:19):
where we. I went to school there, we rehearsed there.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
So so how long was the like, what's the timeline
from then until you guys really hit.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
And we got signed like a year later. So it
took it like for months. Oh we were like, there's
no way we're not going to get signed, right, Oh yeah,
we it took forever. And then I was going back
to school because I wanted to finish my senior year.
I'm like, guys, I'll come back on the weekends. And
then immediately when I decided to do that, we got
signed to Germany. They were like, okay, I guess we're
(27:49):
going to Germany now. And yeah, we lived in Munich
for a couple of years before we see wait what, Yeah,
I didn't know that German band. We are a German band.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Yeah, well, Germany loves her popping's.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Oh my gosh. That's where I learned the term boy
band for the first time. There was no term in America,
and so we go over there and they're like, oh,
boy band, you know, like, oh, okay, we're a band
of boy sure. And then there was five hundred of
them and you're like, oh, there are a lot of
these boy bands.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Was there a demo that, like you think was leading
the charge to getting signed?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
In all that we tried, we put together at Pleasure Island.
We did our big video of like four or five songs,
really cheesy choreography, and we shopped that around to every
record label and Tommy Motola, Clive Davis. Everyone's like, Okay, yeah,
I don't think this is a band like this will
ever work in America. So they all passed, But then
(28:43):
Ben Jeriol it was like, no, we like boy bands, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
We really like Are any of those songs make it?
Sorry to interrupted, No.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
No, none of those made any albums. I don't think.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Yeah, oh man, it'd be great to hear that from
the vaults.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
And I'm sure it's on YouTube. I'm sure. All right,
Before we let you go, we have a few questions here.
So in twenty ten, you did an interview with some
(29:21):
pop oh pop star magazine. We have the audio. Oh
my gosh, I'm gonna ask you the question to see
what you thought you said, and then we're gonna see
what you actually said. So let's say, what was your
biggest pet peeve in twenty ten?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I can't think of anything that I would have said
back then. I can't think of anything biggest pet peeve.
I just think people generally sort of cruising through life
not realizing like the impact they have. Like so many
people are just like I don't like people being rude.
Oh really bugs me. I know it bugs everybody, but
I'm just like, it's so easy just to be nice,
(30:00):
you know.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
And so that really could be that easy, what a
Kendall say?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Oh mine? It's not like I don't really put too
much thought into things like that, like trying to forget
most things like that. But my biggest pippy, I guess
is when people use the word sorry a lot, like
it's a word that should be reserved for when it's
really needed, you know, like there's no nothing else you
can say but sorry. And I feel like sometimes people
if I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, oh sorry, and then
(30:26):
it just totally wears out the use.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Of the word.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Why is my voice deeper?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Then?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
I've always wondered this, Like my voice was deeper like
twelve fifteen years ago than it is now. I've really
lightened up a bit. Yeah, I will agree with myself.
I do think when people just overuse it, it takes
away the meaning. And you know, if it's like everything sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry,
and then when something really happens, it's like sort of
like the Boy who Cried Wolf, It's like, now I don't.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Really take the path. It's like when people when they
text use exclamation points, right and now, if you don't
use just the period, people like, what's wrong? You's so true?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah? Yeah, the thumbs up thing. Sometimes I'm like, well,
is that like ay for you?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
With gen Z the thumbs up means they're flipping you
the bird. Yeah, no, it's kind of like yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Yeah, responding in business now with the thumbs up, it
feels a little bit passive aggressive.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
I know.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
My assistant always hates because I'm real short on text
because I get way too many. So she'll asked me
a question, I'm like yes. She hates when I just
put yes, just like really that's all just write word.
Oh yeah, I go word word words.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I'm so unbelievably excited. Yeah, I want to know what
you said that.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Was your pet peeve.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You know, all I can think of is that I
said that I can't stand like mess like I can't
stand uh being disorganized, like you know people who are
disorgan or like right now just.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Look at me.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
No, no, no, I'm just saying like, like, I'm the
guy that when we leave somewhere, I clean up the
rooms because I don't want people to come in and
be like, yo, he's from the same there's freaking idiots
messed it up, you know. So I go and I
make it look really decent so that they come in.
It's super easy for.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Them the same way. And when we leave. We just
were in Arizona and we when I leave a hotel room,
I have to pick up things like I'm just like thinking,
this is so rude to leave a wrapper here or this,
so I'll put it.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Well, I have the hotel room a little bit when
I leave.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah, I have trouble having anyone come to my house
to clean, So I just do it because when they come,
I feel like I need to clean the house for
them so that they can clean the house. And my
wife was like, what are you doing, And I'm like,
I have to clean. It's like no, but that's why
we hired them to come help us clean, Like no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
That's how my mom was the one time that we
had someone come and clean the house when we lived
in Mississippi, it was just like so chic, like what
have someone like help clean? My mom would completely clean
the house like spick and span before someone will come.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
And I'm like, what do you that's me that we
don't have that problem anymore. We we do a good
job of making a nice and messy.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Kids.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
The kids, dude, we all agree that the worst task
of all his dishes. Can we just say that I
actually enjoy dishes.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I like, I love, I love.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Do you have white walls?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Yeah, yeah, we have white walls, And I just think
every day I'm like why, why why did you?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, we want a.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Lot of wallpaper now so it covers up a lot
of things.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah, okay, so what did he say?
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I want to know. I bet it's the same thing.
My biggest pepe is being rushed. I hate being rushed.
I hate coming in like to like said them one, like,
you have ten minutes and you're ready. I just can't
stand being rushed. So that still carries through. I still
feel that way.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Do you feel big time rushed?
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I always feel like we always feel like that all
the time. No, you know what, Dave Brown so our
tour manager, it was also your tour managers yours. Dave
Brown has this thing that he does where say, okay,
guys that you know, night before seven forty five am,
you know, lobby call. Okay, great, So we go to
sleep and that's seven fifteen. He's like, I changed my mind,
seven thirty lobby call. And then we're all like, what
(34:11):
what do you mean? What do you think? Weir and
like I can't stand it. It's so annoying. Was he
liked that for you too?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Yes, for sure. For sure. We love Dave Brown, but
he would get so much crap from us, because you know,
teenagers on the road you gotta find like the dad
like figure that you're just gonna like just give it to. Yeah,
Justin and Chris would just berate him at all. Yeah,
they would always just like start poking at everybody.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Always give him a hard time too. And we're in
our thirties. So it said, nothing really changes.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
This is just so innocent, you know it was. You know,
he's always like frantically this, but he was.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
The only the only he hasn't change one bit.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah, but if he was always the voice of reason,
that would we would actually listen to.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Come on, guys, let's go, we gotta go. Yeah, did
you have the hokies here? They're delicious.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Well, I love that you have a one year old.
So if do you ever want to have a play date? Yeah,
we have started this fun little playdate group. It started
out with a class. It's like a seven week thing,
but half the time no one can make it because
everyone in this group is entertainers. So it's like, well,
we're not here today, so it's just become like a
little play date. But we have really fun people in it,
(35:20):
and you definitely need to come join it.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
It's a hold of your kids.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
There are sixteen months.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Sixteen months? Oh the twins? How is that?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
We don't know the difference?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Difference? Okay?
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Apparently apparently it's great to start with twins because you
don't realize how insane it is. But we loved everybody.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
The biggest the hardest thing was going from one to two,
two to three and you're like, whatever, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Do you have any tips for us on our kids?
Speaker 3 (35:50):
It goes by so fast. My six year old is huge.
I FaceTime him this morning and he was like, it's
but it's so you know. And someone once said, like,
you really only have five years to like really mold
these kids, because once they pass five, like they kind
of start becoming who they are.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
It's because their friends will now whatever they're gonna Beeah, So.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
The first five years are super important.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
That's why I'm trying to get him to do another one.
But we'll see, we'll see one.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
A little girl, Well.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
We have a girl, and we had we had the jackpot.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
You got a girl and a boy. I don't know,
really good. We have two boys and girl.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Ye got a boy and a girl.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Well now she will have protectors. See our boys a
minute older. So he's the older brother.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Okay, and you have the.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Best of both worlds. That's great, Yeah, because because for me,
Daddy's little girl, she's my I know something that's a
real thing.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
That's a real thing. Is like you know, there's three
girls in her family and dad is like, you know,
the hero. Her mom's amazing, but it's like dad always
gets a little more of that attention.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Have we have we set the wedding yet?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Gonna be this year, and I'm so excited about We've
been together eight years.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
So it's like, so y'all might be thinking kids, Oh yeah,
of course, Like right off the.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
She that's like kids are that's non negotiable.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Right of course it.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Wouldn't be for me either, But same thing with him,
Like I was like, we're having kids, Like yeah, on
the first month, I'm like kids, right.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
I was like, well have to graduate and mine come
on tour with us too, So we have like a
whole family bus and it's wild.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
I remember when Joey was the only one that had
a kid while we were on the road, and uh,
it's my god daughter and it was so fun to
just see her. It was just weird to go from
being the you know, rock star lifestyle to now having
this baby on the bus with us.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I love it. His little boy Kingston calls me, Tendall, yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
And hiss right now, and it's all come out of
the bus and then maybe they're coming out to do
something and I'm like, you know, a little tired, and
he looks at me and goes.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
And I'm like, We're not like Daddy Kendall Crossing or
Logan and James. We're Big Time Rush. So anytime they
he sees like them, he's like, oh it's a big
Time Rush, that's it.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
But how great they get to see you guys, because
our kids will probably never see me on stage.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
They will, they will, they will, but as a member
of Big Time will be there as well.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Yeah that's right, Okay, we'll see all right, guys. Thank
you so much for being here, Thank you, thank you awesome.
How can everyone stay in touch with you? Uh?
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Well, of course the band at Big Time Rush and everywhere.
Kendall Schmidt on social media. Can't miss it.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
I use Instagram at the real Carlos Penna and yeah,
you can see fun, cute pictures of my family.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
I love it. I love it, and I can't wait
for your next call Mark movie. I'll have to do
a little cameo in the background, featured extra coffee.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
He's like, He's like, we literally make the movie, so
if you like, we can make that happen. You know,
I've been telling Carlos that I would like a cameo
for years now and I still have yet to the.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Mine has to be in a Christmas movie because if
it's I mean, I need holiday guys, I mean holiday.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Have you ever done one with him?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
No?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Do we should make that happen?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Yeah? Oh, I've actually because years ago because I've always
had the dream of having an LGBT lead in a
Hallmark movie.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Right, and they did that, they did, but I brought
it some years.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Ago for I forget the production coming that does most
of the Yeah, but that production company met, they're like,
you know what, I think it's time. Like great, So
they're like, come back with three ideas. So I developed
these three movies and they're really great. And then they're like, yeah,
they're just not ready for it. And then three years
later it's like, I told you this is gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Jonathan's a great representative though.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Yeah, John is so great. I put him in one
of my first movies ever produced, and he's just lovely,
a great actor.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
They're outliving the life fandango in the desert.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
I think, oh yeah, yeah, and now they have that
out travel so they're like taking cruises everywhere. Big time
Russian needs to do a cruise.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
I'm just we've talked about it. We've talked about it.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
So much fun, so much fun. All right, guys, Well
that is all the show I have for you. Thanks
for listening out there. Review, subscribe and rate.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
That was a good order. Thank you, rate subscribe review.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
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we cursed.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
If you give a one star, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
And we gave tips this time. We got one star
because we didn't give tips.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Yeah, well they got two tips this time. Yeah, we'll
do it.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
We'll go on.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Yeah, five starve that's a good tip. Care is excellent.
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my little Peanuts, it's me your host, Lance Bass. This
is Frosted Tips with Lance. Why are you laughing? Turkey?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Your voice was so presentery radio.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hello, this is what I do how I talk at home?
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's great? Hey, it's Turkey. I think you're introducing me.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I sounded like the movie phone guy.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, you do.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Push three for Titanic.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
That was great.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Oh, thanks, thank you so much, Turkey. Here we are again.
We are anything you need to catch up everyone with
because we have a busy show today.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
We do have a busy Yeah, I know. I think
is there anything catch up for us?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I know everyone pretty much knows everything about us. We
have kids.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
We have kids.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
That's it. Yeah, they're you know, they're making us tired
and that's life with that. Yeah, And there you go.
And we can't wait for the summer. And I'm especially
ready for summer because Big Time Rush is coming out
in June and we're all going to go watch them.
And now Kendall Schmidt, Carlos Penevega is with us right now.
Congratulations guys on a huge success that you're having right
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now after a ten year hiatus, I.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Believe basically, yeah, very long, very long.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
What do y'all feel about this, because you know, you
took a little break, y'all did individual solo things and
just living life. What is it like to come back
to read their brothers?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Wow, it's amazing to see what the response has been. Obviously,
we've been friends for a long time, and even back
on the show, we I think it was kind of
unexpected how close we would all get and how much
we would all gel being that we weren't like, you know,
we didn't grow up together. But seeing the response and
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going out on this tour, the last tour we did,
the Forever tour, and seeing how many people showed up
and how excited everyone was, it's kind of just mind blowing.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
It's so fun. And I'm sure that your audience is
so diverse now with you know, our generation watching you,
but also they're having kids and now they're introducing you
guys to a younger generation. Yeah, I mean, do you
see that in your concerts now? Like front Rows still
those teens?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Oh yeah, I mean, you know, we just got finished
doing a little college run and that was wild because
nobody really thought like, oh, the our initial thought was, hey,
it's gonna be fun. But it was crazy, you know,
I mean nineteen eighteen, twenty year.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Olds, Well that was was That was the kids that
were loving you first round, right.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
But then we have you know, the kids who were
you know, fifteen sixteen, who are now twenty five, twenty six,
twenty seven, they have kids, and they're bringing their kids
to the show, and it's just wild. It's this this
huge gap, but it's great.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Do you have kids?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I have three kids?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, you have three kids. You're the only one that
has kids in the group.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
When you were saying that you were tired, I was like, yes,
oh I get it.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And how old are your kids?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Six? Three and one?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Oh, you are tired? Y.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So my wife is meeting me tonight in the airport
and we're flying to Florida and we're taking a cruise.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
All nice with the kids.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Uh okay, let me tell you. I'm like, both of
us are just like we need this week.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And of course Alexa Aga, who I mean, I've known
her for a very very long time.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
How did you guys meet man crazy? I had just
come off tour, my first tour being single, so I
was going a little crazy, and I came back and
I was just kind of in a weird funk, and
I went to my first Bible study ever and it
was for her first time by a Bible study. And
we met there and the rest is history.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Was that in l a.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Yeah, that's so cute.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It's like Chris Jenner song when she redid a Cheesecake Factory.
Bible study. Yeah, hello, La Christ's fortieth birthday. All these
people did, uh I love La.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
But her version of it, oh yeah, I love my friends.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I love my friends. Yeah, so they surprised her with
it and it was just all this ly. Oh it
was amazing. You should have been a top ten.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It's just funny because she's probably mostly talking about Calabasas.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, not really.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
I don't think a friend surprised her because she's the
one singing the whole song again, like performing in it.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So she probably did it for herself for herself, and
her friends do.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
It for her. Even j Simpson was in the video.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Oh yeah, he's like, I love you. Yeah it aged well.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, really aged. All right. So Kendall, you are from Kansas.
What's it like growing up in Kansas?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well, you know, there was a wheat field behind the backyard, so.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You were like country Kansas.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yeah, we were in the suburb. It's andover is a
suburb of Wichita. Wichita already is a very country city.
I mean it is a city, but it's like you know,
maybe the population of burbank. Yeah, you total and I had,
you know, used to go shoot BB guns and try
to hit the crab apples in the tree, and you know,
play paintball in the wheat field. And I grew up
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learning how to drive like a loader, a front end loader,
tractors and stuff like that. And yeah, it was what
would you what you would imagine it was. It wasn't
quite farm life because it was still a suburb, but
it was yeah, Midwest life for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I mean sounds exactly how I grew up in Mississippi. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You learned to drive a tractor before a car, yes, and.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It was legal, like I think to drive a tractor
you could be ten years old.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, I think the farm permit.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Of fourteen. Yeah, and we got my license at fifteen.
I the real license at fifteen in Mississippi. You know,
thank god, I know, you couldn't imagine my niece and
nephews driving at fifteen, they all looked like they were eight.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, and that just here's the question. How is Lance
as a driver?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I'm a great driver, right, who's the better driver? Right?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Who's the better driver?
Speaker 5 (05:50):
No, he is a better great It depends what you
mean by driver, Like he operates a car, Well, he
just doesn't.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
I just want to if others drive around him, well,
I just want to go.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I want to. I have a little bit of road rage.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I do.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I do. I want to take I want to take
everyone's licenses away because I'm like, what do you what
are you doing? What? And why do cops not see
what I see? Because there's some there idiot driver. There's
like real bad drivers out there. And I think I'm
a really good driver.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I said.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
If I weren't into music, maybe I would have been
like a race car driver, because I love driving and
I think and like when we do the go KRT
the fast go carts, I'm always the one that like
wins and I can like edge you out. I think
I would have been a really good kids I do, yeah,
I do, but not like that. I'm good. I'm very
safe with the kids, just safe because but yeah. I'm
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usually the driver because.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
He's the driver.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Because if Lance is a very big backseat driver like you,
so like I refuse to drive. I refuse to drive
because he's telling me, no, you got to go this way, no, no, no,
don't stop there to stop a little earlier.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I'm like, oh my, well, then you drive. How about that.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I just like to be in control.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And then he complains like can you never drive anywhere?
I have to drive everywhere. And I'm like, well, then
shut up when I drive, and I will, but you
have to make the choice.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
You get a little distracted, though I do not get
distracted when I drive. I'm like, oh man, here's the
one thing, here's the one thing that you do. And
I just say, okay, it's scary when you see. When
I see someone's tail lights going and it's half a
mile in front of me, I let off, you know,
the gas, just in case there's they're missing, a cat
crossing the street. Whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Get old person driving cart. When we're in every uber,
he's clenching my leg and arm like we're gonna die,
and I'm like, we are not going to die. Just
bomb down. When I drive. He's like, oh, I got
a break and I'm like, okay, we.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Have almost died several times in Ubers the.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Amost dead.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
He is very yes, no, but it's like when I
see the red lights going, my foot at least goes
off the gas. You know him, He'll just continue with
the gas. I'm like, there's there's brick lights. There's brick lights.
What if they're like coming to a complete stop.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I've not crashed yet.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Someone I know there's a guitar. I think a cord.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Guys, this is.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Why we do our show because this is our therapy.
Thank you for being our therapist.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Happy, happy to help.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Carlos. You are from Missouri. I remember going to Branson
all the time growing up. Yeah, my first concerts were there. Yeah.
I think my first guns with Tana Tucker and Tammy Want.
Tammy Want and Tanya Tucker.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Were pretty much like Midwest people. Yeah, yeah, a little
South for you, but we.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Go up for the action. You know, no one's coming
down to Mississippi to have any fun, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Where Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I was born in a place called Laurel, which if
you watch h Laurel Laurel. Oh, yeah, I can't.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I needed to go from Pucket, Mississippi Pucket.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
That's very close to Laurel. Yeah, but that's if you
watch h HDTV, it's called Hometown. There's a show called that,
and that's about my hometown. No, that shows about your
about my little home show.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Like it too.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
About laurelmus million homes. You know, they're I mean beautiful.
They've really redone our town and made it nice. So
where what was it like growing up there? And did
you always know you wanted to go into entertainment? Well?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I was there until until probably like ten years old
in Columbia, Missouri, so so most people like swe you
from like Columbia, Missouri.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Of course it's like I don't hear the accent.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
But around ten years old, my parents had four boys
and they were like, let's just get out of here
and get to somewhere where we had more more Latinos,
you know, more people from our culture, and we moved
to Miami. So Miami's really were like you know, from
like ten on is where like I really became who
I am, and so is I don't really remember. It
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just pretty boring and.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
It's a good way to start because it must have
felt so safe and innocent those first ten years and again, and.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
We had land, like you know, like our backyard was
like two acres and we could run around.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
That's what I miss. I miss the space. And we're
toying around with you know, basing. We'll never leave La,
but we do want to base ourselves somewhere where we
have a few acres that the kids can run and
get lost in the woods. I just feel like a kid.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, see I am. I'm actually eyeing, like how do
I get like two hundred acres of woods?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
He was to, I'm right with you, and I want
to get like two hundred acres and then kind of
divide it up with friends and have like a compound.
You people, that's just okay.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
You don't have to manage two hundred acres of woods.
The woods manage themselves.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
That's just would.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
But I just want to actually a big goal of mine.
This is so stupid, but I want to do that
so I can make I mean, you from Mississippi, you know,
cutting tree and I really want to cut a trail myself.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
And that sounds so dumb. No, these guys know that.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Like I've always been like I want to go to
a place where I can dig a hole and nobody
and poo and nobody and nobody says anything.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yeah, I was like, make this choke in La. If
you just like went in your front yard and you
started digging, eventually someone's going to come up and go, hey,
what's going on here?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
A home?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
A permit?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yeah, do you have a permit? And you're like, well, no,
it's my I don't know, I can.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Give it twenty five.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
It's the little things that I'm you know, it's the
little thing simple to the simpler life.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Now, Turkey's from Miami.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
From Miami, hey, let's go.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Yeah, he lived a Mimmi beach for I mean, your
whole life. Still his grandparents. I mean since what nineteen forties,
you've lived on the same street, on.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
The same street, Yeah, yeah, since the forties.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
My grandpa moved to Miami in nineteen twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yes, from where?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
From New York.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, so he was a snowbird went down there.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
He was a little Oh he was a business guy.
He built half of Miami, like like the Fayena, like
all those huge buildings. That was his grandfather.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, and it was great and it was funny because
your grandfather helped build the country club, right course, and
when he built it, Jewish people weren't allowed to even
be members and he built the place because that's like
nineteen FIFTI fifties.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
But then yeah, they wouldn't give him.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
A member, they wouldn't gi him membership, but he built it.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's crazy, I know. And now the whole
gun club is Jewish.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It's like Cuban Jewish mainly. All right, y'all, Just y'all
sold out Madison Square Garden, which is like the pinnacle
right of so many people. Yes, we just definitely msg
our HBO special which was so much fun that I
loved that special. Although we didn't get it. I nominated,
But that's okay, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
You know, you guys flew in the air. I think
they're picking. How did you not get what?
Speaker 6 (12:54):
I know?
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I know?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well, it's a different time.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
We talked about it for this tour, is like, is
there any way for this upcoming tour there any way
that we can fly in some way? And it's amphitheaters,
it's half amphitheaters, half arenas, so it doesn't really work
like that. Yeah, Like we don't have any thrust of
the stage. This is kind of we're going to be
on the stage, but how can we at least get
lifted in some way.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, here, take my advice. Don't do anything to save
the money, actually actually make money on top on.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
So I recently speaking of this tour that y'all did,
I recently watched the you know, I found it on YouTube,
but it was like a special about you guys putting
on that that whole tour.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
It was making the tour on MTV.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yes, if you haven't seen a jerky, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I haven't.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I learned a lot. No, but y'all had the crab
what is it called the mover? The movers, I think
like Joey really wanted them, like the treadmill, but it
was like, you know, like are we gonna spend his
money and and Joey was like, no, I want the
mills and they ended up being sick.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
And that was our stadium tour because we were like,
we can have anything we want. It's a stadium tour.
Mechanical bulls, moving stage. We were so dumb. No one
was an Arab being like Okay, this is great and all,
but yeah, you're not going to make a dime on them.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Okay, so Mechanical Bulls a million dollars. That same thing
happened to us. We did a huge tour and they
were like, what do you want and it was like
our third or fourth two We were like, we want
to lift. We want pyro on every song and this,
and then have an elevator and to have an elevator,
wardrobe changes, special shoes, light up jackets, and then at
the end of the tour it was like here's you know,
here's your check. And it was like, well, where did
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it all go? And they're like, let me show you
the list. You guys wanted to lift, you guys wanted
the pyro, you wanted this, the light of jackets.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
We should explain that no offense to our stylist at
the time, because it was the technology of the of
the moment, and it's advanced a lot even since twenty ten.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
But like they were pretty cheese ball and then they
never worked, and they never worked. Jameses would always just
be off, so the three of us would be lit
up and he would just be like eight eight eight.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And what people don't understand is, yeah, the Mechanical Bulls
and moving stage all this. Well you also have to
travel with that, so that means more eighteen wheelers and
poor crew. Yeah, I mean it's just it's so exacting.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Trucks that tour.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I have to ask Dave Brown, but I think eighteen trucks. No, well,
that tour was more than that.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, if it was a stadium, it had to be.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
It was like probably like forty trucks it was.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
And harnesses just suck, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That does not feel good at all, But that was
our thing. We like to fly, you know, it's just
say we love flying over it started doing the first
stage and no, that was sling. We would do that.
We would like run and like that all to fly.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
But dude, they're just standing there and all of a
sudden they go and they just go. It looked like
magic a moment.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
We did like magic. We did a lot of magic
tricks in it. In fact, we had to hire a
magician who went on tour with us.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Stop it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Well again, another expenditure, that's just stupid. I'm like, well,
we know the tricks, so why don't we need you
out here?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Good to refresh you guys on that there was an
actual magic trick oh.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah, because there was one show I think it was
the Pop Ye I was the pop Odyssey tour. At
the very end, we disappear out of the you know,
they cover the dancers cover us up, and then they
and we disappeared, and.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
So I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
So that needed a magician the entire tour, just to
make sure that the tricks. We were married, very David.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I still have never told anyone how that works, just saying,
not even my husband.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Wow. Yeah, I'm just still just want to I know.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
He asked me every single morning more, did you did
you disappear that trick that I've never even seen? You
never heard of? The pop Odyssey tour?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Were you a fan back then?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yes I was.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You keep saying I wasn't a fan.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I was a huge fan of everybody, was a fan
of INSYNCT.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
He was a Spice girl.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
My god, We've we've literally been together twelve years. We
have this argument every time it's comes up. And he asked,
you liked because your sister says that y'all liked back
first because they came out first.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
What don't you understand about this?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
And driving, sorry, got listen.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I liked You're our therapist right now. Yeah, it is
all about us.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It didn't go to your concert.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
It's because they were so expensive.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Yeah, they were twenty three dollars a ticket. It was
really expensive back then. That these tickets are insane is
how much they were. Back then. Our top ticket probably
was sixty something dollars, like front row.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, the whole business has changed.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
I don't know, I feel like we're not.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
If you're listening and you're a fan from the past,
if you spent more than sixty dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
On it, yeah, DMS, what prices.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Because you have the ticket stuff, we'll fly you out.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Okay, yes, he will fly you out. That's right, Carlos
said on his own time No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
On the on the podcast, on the iHeart Jet.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah, they kindly lent it to us for this moment.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
You know, actually I have I read a little bit
about why that is why tickets are so expensive now.
So not even that long ago, but when CDs were selling,
In fact, our first record, I think we were at
the tail end of that because we got a gold
record of CDs and then that immediately stopped shortly after.
But from then to like you know, from there, all
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the way back to the forties, fifties, sixty seventies, all
the eighties nineties, all was either vinyl records or CDs
or whatever, and the whole goal was to get people
to your concert to buy CDs. So it was what
you wanted was to people to buy CDs. And the
tickets were cheap as like a.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Hey, so promote to promote the record, and it's.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Flip now, flip now because music is basically free. So
now they have to charge a lot for tickets in
order to make up the difference.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I get okay, yeah, I'm looking at a ticket thirty
seven dollars and fifty cents for row nine.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I think God, that was overpaid for that, right, overpaid? Wow?
Whoever about that? Maybe you're right, I mean, and you're right.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I never even thought about that. But yes, it was
just a promotional tool to get everyone there.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
So because people buy more money on CDs because it
doesn't cost anything to make.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
A CD, and the amount and merchandise, right, because merchandise
is what really built our house. You know, we weren't
making crap on our records. The record label makes everything.
And then lou Pearlman on top of that, took whatever
was the pennies were left and you.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Know, merches everything Now touring is everything.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Except our merch. Again, we got screwed because our first
two tours we made this merch deal with one of
the big ones. But then they they paid out Ricky
Martin so much money before we went on tour that
they basically went bankrupt and then they didn't. We had
to basically pay Ricky Martin. How did that enjoy that merch? Yeah?
(19:41):
All those lance Bash shorts that were just flying off
the shelves. So let's give some frosted tips for our
listeners out there. So what is a good tip on
Because you did a hiatus in between and y'all all
did your individual you know, careers, what would you what
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advice would you give to someone listener right now that
was thinking about, okay, changing careers kind of in the
middle of something they've been doing forever, Like, what is
that step for someone not to be afraid to try
something different?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Well, I have a good tip.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Don't have any expectations, Yeah, because it's better just to
go into it saying, you know what, I'm going to
do this and we'll see what happens. And I hope
for the best and all that because at least for
my own experience, and I had a great time. I
mean I played hundreds of shows by myself after with
my own project, with my own band, and we went
from doing sold out, you know, twenty thousand seat amphitheaters
(20:36):
to I mean it was hard sometimes to get like
a couple hundred people to show up. Yeah, And that
was like right after and so in my head leaving,
you know, moving on from the band and going into
solo stuff, I was thinking, oh, this is going to
be great. You know, at least a quarter of the
people are going to show up, right, and it's going
to be awesome. And then I had these high expectations
(20:57):
and I was like, oh, well, okay. Then I made
the most of it and I adjusted from there, but
not going into that having expectations, not expecting that it's
just going to be a certain way, and like, just
have fun with it and so you switch careers.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Just have fun with it and see what happens.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
It's true. And did you ever feel I mean, were
you ever upset with like the fandom and like, guys,
where are you?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Like?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I mean, you were behind us for so long and
then all of a sudden we do something like individual
and you can't show up for.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Us, Well, it was more like I just didn't understand
the and I how I just didn't understand how because
if you even took a small percentage of a show
and as well, at least ten percent of people in
this area would show up.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
It just wasn't the case.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
And I think that also made us appreciate how big
the band was itself.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It's true, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
And so it's like with our powers combined, Captain Planet,
with our powers combined, it's not like, oh you know,
it's not a quarter quarter, it's just the whole entity itself.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It attracts a different sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
And that's why boy bands are so fun and group
because it is it's a it's a it's a monster
on its own. I mean, it's just like together it's
just this powerful.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
And I I've noticed that for sure, Like when we
do our individual stuff, it's just it just doesn't hit
like if you're all together. If even if four of
us are in a room together, people would just freak out.
It's like, oh my gosh. But just one of us
walk in, it's like okay. But it's something about seeing
all the guys together. There's just a moment, right exactly
what about you want to ask a question? Being quiet
(22:28):
over here, Well, I.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Was letting you explain.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
He's still about He's still yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, I'm just like.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I was.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I was thinking about the boys. That's what I was doing.
Huge fan. I love their work. Yeah, I did a
lot of copycats. I can think there you we did.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
You know what, I got a good one. Don't be
afraid to take small steps. So so for instance, when
the band finished, I had just recently got married, like
the year before, and we decided to have our our
first kid a little bit later. But my wife and I,
you know, she's been doing you know, TV and film
(23:08):
all her life. We did TV. I really wanted to
break into film. I mean, I still have this dream
of being like in a Marvel like a Marvel movie
and be something and some blockbuster something.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Just like one little that.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Is there a character you'd like to play Marble?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I would love to be a superhero just like something
and not not not DC but Marvel like like that,
like like in that world. He's really placing kidding, listen,
I'm specific, Okay, I'm being specific. No, but we we
had an opportunity. H her her manager, reached out and
was like, hey, I'd love to set up this, you know,
(23:43):
meeting with with Hallmark Channel.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Bring this up.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
And we were like, well, I don't know, and he goes, no,
just just you know, take the meeting. So we take
the meeting.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
It was.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
It was awesome, It was wonderful, and we end up
doing project after project together. And look, at the time,
Hallmark wasn't what I wanted to do. I wanted to
go off and do all these other things. But Hallmark
allowed us to to stay together as a family, and
I got to work together on numerous projects over and
over again. They're so accommodating, you know. I like, they
literally let us bring our family on set, give our kids,
(24:12):
you know, plane tickets so we can bring them.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It's one big trailers where everybody comes and hang you know,
hangs out. It's been such a blessing financially to help us,
you know, like secure a really great house in Hawaii
where now we live.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
And it.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Wasn't my ideal situation, but it's been a great building
block to continue my career and now you know, we're
still doing Hallmark here and there, and now we're executive
producing and you know, like bringing them projects. So for me,
i'd say, sometimes you may not be doing exactly what
you want, but that doesn't mean that you won't get there.
Sometimes you just kind of take those you.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Know, exact says the universe gives you what you need
at that time. And what a blessing that was for you,
you know, to be able to be with your family.
I love the Hallmark I mean I love your movies
and Hallmark Family I think is so incredible. Nikki de
Looach is one, you know, good Friends awesome. She was
Some Innocence and Mickey Mouse Club. But she's having the
best time at Hallmark because they treat you so well and.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
It's so easy. It's so easy, Like there really isn't
I get it. The day that I do that Marvel movie,
I'm going to get on set and there's going to
be so much pressure and they're going to shoot one
page in one day or a court of page. It's
going to be crazy. But Hallmark, you show up and
they're like, oh, you don't like this line, what do
you want to say? You're like, oh, I would like
to say it like this, and They're like, that sounds.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Perfect, that's great, creative, that's exactly, that's awesome. House living
in Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
God, that's terrible.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
It's awful.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
No, you know what again, that fresh ocean air. Everything.
We got so lucky that we found this property and
it's it's on six acres, so we have have, you know,
room for the kids to run around naked all the time. Maui.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Okay, now, so if.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
You're ever there, bro come visit.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
I haven't. I haven't taken into Maui yet, but I
used to love going to Maui. I rode on you
with the.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Vision that pen has almost gone to my eyeball so
many times.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I'm very I what are you writing down back sat driving?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I wrote something on the page.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Oh, I can read my own weird handwriting. He knows
what he wrote exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
He knows what he wrote.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
She look, that's my girl. That's who made me survive
in the early days of instinct because she lived with us.
Now she would she had a little daddy friar, you
know those like old daddy friar.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
And the only thing I could afford was hash browns,
frozen hash browns, and so every morning she would fix
these frozen hash browns. And that's how I would like.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Was she the den mother in a way?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Sort of the mature one?
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Yea?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Did you say that all of the instinct guys lived together?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Oh yeah, we all lived together in Orlando?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Was this before you guys like, oh yeah, I met.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
The guys October first and I moved in with them. Yeah, media,
and I didn't even know that. I slept on Chris
Kirkpatrick's futan Wow, Justine's mom our vocal coach Robin Wiley, uh,
you know, and NICKI was on the Mickey Mouse Club
with them, so I was like, she would always be
crashing with us. I mean it was just this tiny
three bedroom house and Doctor Phillips and we just that's
(27:19):
where we. I went to school there, we rehearsed there.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
So so how long was the like, what's the timeline
from then until you guys really hit.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
And we got signed like a year later. So it
took it like for months. Oh we were like, there's
no way we're not going to get signed, right, Oh yeah,
we it took forever. And then I was going back
to school because I wanted to finish my senior year.
I'm like, guys, I'll come back on the weekends. And
then immediately when I decided to do that, we got
signed to Germany. They were like, okay, I guess we're
(27:49):
going to Germany now. And yeah, we lived in Munich
for a couple of years before we see wait what, Yeah,
I didn't know that German band. We are a German band.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Yeah, well, Germany loves her popping's.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Oh my gosh. That's where I learned the term boy
band for the first time. There was no term in America,
and so we go over there and they're like, oh,
boy band, you know, like, oh, okay, we're a band
of boy sure. And then there was five hundred of
them and you're like, oh, there are a lot of
these boy bands.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Was there a demo that, like you think was leading
the charge to getting signed?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
In all that we tried, we put together at Pleasure Island.
We did our big video of like four or five songs,
really cheesy choreography, and we shopped that around to every
record label and Tommy Motola, Clive Davis. Everyone's like, Okay, yeah,
I don't think this is a band like this will
ever work in America. So they all passed, But then
(28:43):
Ben Jeriol it was like, no, we like boy bands, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
We really like Are any of those songs make it?
Sorry to interrupted, No.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
No, none of those made any albums. I don't think.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Yeah, oh man, it'd be great to hear that from
the vaults.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
And I'm sure it's on YouTube. I'm sure. All right,
Before we let you go, we have a few questions here.
So in twenty ten, you did an interview with some
(29:21):
pop oh pop star magazine. We have the audio. Oh
my gosh, I'm gonna ask you the question to see
what you thought you said, and then we're gonna see
what you actually said. So let's say, what was your
biggest pet peeve in twenty ten?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I can't think of anything that I would have said
back then. I can't think of anything biggest pet peeve.
I just think people generally sort of cruising through life
not realizing like the impact they have. Like so many
people are just like I don't like people being rude.
Oh really bugs me. I know it bugs everybody, but
I'm just like, it's so easy just to be nice,
(30:00):
you know.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
And so that really could be that easy, what a
Kendall say?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Oh mine? It's not like I don't really put too
much thought into things like that, like trying to forget
most things like that. But my biggest pippy, I guess
is when people use the word sorry a lot, like
it's a word that should be reserved for when it's
really needed, you know, like there's no nothing else you
can say but sorry. And I feel like sometimes people
if I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, oh sorry, and then
(30:26):
it just totally wears out the use.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Of the word.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Why is my voice deeper?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Then?
Speaker 4 (30:32):
I've always wondered this, Like my voice was deeper like
twelve fifteen years ago than it is now. I've really
lightened up a bit. Yeah, I will agree with myself.
I do think when people just overuse it, it takes
away the meaning. And you know, if it's like everything sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry,
and then when something really happens, it's like sort of
like the Boy who Cried Wolf, It's like, now I don't.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Really take the path. It's like when people when they
text use exclamation points, right and now, if you don't
use just the period, people like, what's wrong? You's so true?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah? Yeah, the thumbs up thing. Sometimes I'm like, well,
is that like ay for you?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
With gen Z the thumbs up means they're flipping you
the bird. Yeah, no, it's kind of like yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
Yeah, responding in business now with the thumbs up, it
feels a little bit passive aggressive.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
I know.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
My assistant always hates because I'm real short on text
because I get way too many. So she'll asked me
a question, I'm like yes. She hates when I just
put yes, just like really that's all just write word.
Oh yeah, I go word word words.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I'm so unbelievably excited. Yeah, I want to know what
you said that.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Was your pet peeve.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You know, all I can think of is that I
said that I can't stand like mess like I can't
stand uh being disorganized, like you know people who are
disorgan or like right now just.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Look at me.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
No, no, no, I'm just saying like, like, I'm the
guy that when we leave somewhere, I clean up the
rooms because I don't want people to come in and
be like, yo, he's from the same there's freaking idiots
messed it up, you know. So I go and I
make it look really decent so that they come in.
It's super easy for.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Them the same way. And when we leave. We just
were in Arizona and we when I leave a hotel room,
I have to pick up things like I'm just like thinking,
this is so rude to leave a wrapper here or this,
so I'll put it.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Well, I have the hotel room a little bit when
I leave.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah, I have trouble having anyone come to my house
to clean, So I just do it because when they come,
I feel like I need to clean the house for
them so that they can clean the house. And my
wife was like, what are you doing, And I'm like,
I have to clean. It's like no, but that's why
we hired them to come help us clean, Like no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
That's how my mom was the one time that we
had someone come and clean the house when we lived
in Mississippi, it was just like so chic, like what
have someone like help clean? My mom would completely clean
the house like spick and span before someone will come.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
And I'm like, what do you that's me that we
don't have that problem anymore. We we do a good
job of making a nice and messy.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Kids.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
The kids, dude, we all agree that the worst task
of all his dishes. Can we just say that I
actually enjoy dishes.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I like, I love, I love.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Do you have white walls?
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Yeah, yeah, we have white walls, And I just think
every day I'm like why, why why did you?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, we want a.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Lot of wallpaper now so it covers up a lot
of things.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah, okay, so what did he say?
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I want to know. I bet it's the same thing.
My biggest pepe is being rushed. I hate being rushed.
I hate coming in like to like said them one, like,
you have ten minutes and you're ready. I just can't
stand being rushed. So that still carries through. I still
feel that way.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Do you feel big time rushed?
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I always feel like we always feel like that all
the time. No, you know what, Dave Brown so our
tour manager, it was also your tour managers yours. Dave
Brown has this thing that he does where say, okay,
guys that you know, night before seven forty five am,
you know, lobby call. Okay, great, So we go to
sleep and that's seven fifteen. He's like, I changed my mind,
seven thirty lobby call. And then we're all like, what
(34:11):
what do you mean? What do you think? Weir and
like I can't stand it. It's so annoying. Was he
liked that for you too?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Yes, for sure. For sure. We love Dave Brown, but
he would get so much crap from us, because you know,
teenagers on the road you gotta find like the dad
like figure that you're just gonna like just give it to. Yeah,
Justin and Chris would just berate him at all. Yeah,
they would always just like start poking at everybody.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Always give him a hard time too. And we're in
our thirties. So it said, nothing really changes.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
This is just so innocent, you know it was. You know,
he's always like frantically this, but he was.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
The only the only he hasn't change one bit.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yeah, but if he was always the voice of reason,
that would we would actually listen to.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Come on, guys, let's go, we gotta go. Yeah, did
you have the hokies here? They're delicious.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Well, I love that you have a one year old.
So if do you ever want to have a play date? Yeah,
we have started this fun little playdate group. It started
out with a class. It's like a seven week thing,
but half the time no one can make it because
everyone in this group is entertainers. So it's like, well,
we're not here today, so it's just become like a
little play date. But we have really fun people in it,
(35:20):
and you definitely need to come join it.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
It's a hold of your kids.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
There are sixteen months.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Sixteen months? Oh the twins? How is that?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
We don't know the difference?
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Difference? Okay?
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Apparently apparently it's great to start with twins because you
don't realize how insane it is. But we loved everybody.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
The biggest the hardest thing was going from one to two,
two to three and you're like, whatever, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Do you have any tips for us on our kids?
Speaker 3 (35:50):
It goes by so fast. My six year old is huge.
I FaceTime him this morning and he was like, it's
but it's so you know. And someone once said, like,
you really only have five years to like really mold
these kids, because once they pass five, like they kind
of start becoming who they are.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
It's because their friends will now whatever they're gonna Beeah, So.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
The first five years are super important.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
That's why I'm trying to get him to do another one.
But we'll see, we'll see one.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
A little girl, Well.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
We have a girl, and we had we had the jackpot.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
You got a girl and a boy. I don't know,
really good. We have two boys and girl.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Ye got a boy and a girl.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Well now she will have protectors. See our boys a
minute older. So he's the older brother.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Okay, and you have the.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Best of both worlds. That's great, Yeah, because because for me,
Daddy's little girl, she's my I know something that's a
real thing.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
That's a real thing. Is like you know, there's three
girls in her family and dad is like, you know,
the hero. Her mom's amazing, but it's like dad always
gets a little more of that attention.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Have we have we set the wedding yet?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Gonna be this year, and I'm so excited about We've
been together eight years.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
So it's like, so y'all might be thinking kids, Oh yeah,
of course, Like right off the.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
She that's like kids are that's non negotiable.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Right of course it.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Wouldn't be for me either, But same thing with him,
Like I was like, we're having kids, Like yeah, on
the first month, I'm like kids, right.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
I was like, well have to graduate and mine come
on tour with us too, So we have like a
whole family bus and it's wild.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
I remember when Joey was the only one that had
a kid while we were on the road, and uh,
it's my god daughter and it was so fun to
just see her. It was just weird to go from
being the you know, rock star lifestyle to now having
this baby on the bus with us.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I love it. His little boy Kingston calls me, Tendall, yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
And hiss right now, and it's all come out of
the bus and then maybe they're coming out to do
something and I'm like, you know, a little tired, and
he looks at me and goes.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
And I'm like, We're not like Daddy Kendall Crossing or
Logan and James. We're Big Time Rush. So anytime they
he sees like them, he's like, oh it's a big
Time Rush, that's it.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
But how great they get to see you guys, because
our kids will probably never see me on stage.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
They will, they will, they will, but as a member
of Big Time will be there as well.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Yeah that's right, Okay, we'll see all right, guys. Thank
you so much for being here, Thank you, thank you awesome.
How can everyone stay in touch with you? Uh?
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Well, of course the band at Big Time Rush and everywhere.
Kendall Schmidt on social media. Can't miss it.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
I use Instagram at the real Carlos Penna and yeah,
you can see fun, cute pictures of my family.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
I love it. I love it, and I can't wait
for your next call Mark movie. I'll have to do
a little cameo in the background, featured extra coffee.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
He's like, He's like, we literally make the movie, so
if you like, we can make that happen. You know,
I've been telling Carlos that I would like a cameo
for years now and I still have yet to the.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Mine has to be in a Christmas movie because if
it's I mean, I need holiday guys, I mean holiday.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Have you ever done one with him?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
No?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Do we should make that happen?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Yeah? Oh, I've actually because years ago because I've always
had the dream of having an LGBT lead in a
Hallmark movie.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Right, and they did that, they did, but I brought
it some years.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Ago for I forget the production coming that does most
of the Yeah, but that production company met, they're like,
you know what, I think it's time. Like great, So
they're like, come back with three ideas. So I developed
these three movies and they're really great. And then they're like, yeah,
they're just not ready for it. And then three years
later it's like, I told you this is gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Jonathan's a great representative though.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Yeah, John is so great. I put him in one
of my first movies ever produced, and he's just lovely,
a great actor.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
They're outliving the life fandango in the desert.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
I think, oh yeah, yeah, and now they have that
out travel so they're like taking cruises everywhere. Big time
Russian needs to do a cruise.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
I'm just we've talked about it. We've talked about it.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
So much fun, so much fun. All right, guys, Well
that is all the show I have for you. Thanks
for listening out there. Review, subscribe and rate.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
That was a good order. Thank you, rate subscribe review.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Because you know, those one stars are really getting to me. Guys. Sorry,
we cursed.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
If you give a one star, let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
And we gave tips this time. We got one star
because we didn't give tips.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Yeah, well they got two tips this time. Yeah, we'll
do it.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
We'll go on.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Yeah, five starve that's a good tip. Care is excellent.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Yeah yeah, all right, guys, be good to each other.
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