May 2, 2023 • 49 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is Frosted Tips with Lance Bass and I Heart
Radio Podcast. Hello, my Little Peanuts, it's me your host,
Lance Bass. This is Frosted Tips with Me and my
co host Michael Turkey Turch.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hello there.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
All right, guys, this is your two for part two
of the Donnie Wahlberg Interview. Loved that first half so good.
All right, let's get into the second part of Donnie Wilberg.
Let's get into your acting because your your acting career
is just as successful as your music career. When Jordan
and Joe were trying the solo stuff in the nineties,
You're like, no, I want to act. Did you always
(00:38):
know that you wanted to act? And it's hard when
someone knows you as Donnie Wahlberg I new kids on
the block. It's hard to cross over into acting because
everyone's gonna be like, that's Donnie. Like that's just that's Donnie.
How did you break that? Because you did such a
great job. You chose really great roles, especially that sixth
sense where no one could recognize you, right, I mean
(00:58):
it was like, wow, this guy, this guy is going
to be an actor. So did you purposely know what
to do or did you just kind of like luckily
fell into some really great roles.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'd like to say I purposely les. However, the roles
there wasn't a lot to choose from back then. I
remember auditioning gosh a hundred times and getting nothing. You know.
I just to backtrack to the beginning of the question,
(01:30):
I went to a Boston public school. It was. It
was a smaller Boston public high school, and so it's
kind of an unusual school. We didn't have a football team,
we didn't have a lot of you know, our sports
teams terrible because we didn't have enough kids to do it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
High school, yeah, Miami.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, Well, we had a theater class. We had a
theater class. And freshman year I jumped into the theater
class and was I loved it. I had a great
time with it. I had a couple of great theater teachers,
Miss Skelton and ms Don They were great, and a
lot of my friends were in it, and it was
really cool for me. So I always had a love
of performing, of acting, and of course doing music. But
(02:14):
when new kids got successful, people would often say to me, oh, yeah,
you should go into acting, you should get into acting.
And I always knew it eventually I would do it.
It's just when new kids were at their peak, and
the first go round, people would like literally hand me
a script and I'd be like, when, yeah, this work.
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I'm on tour for three hundred and ninety days a
year and you know there aren't that There aren't even
that many days any year. So it was like I
couldn't really do it. And then by the time I
wanted to, new kids had kind of gone, right, so
there was now this perception that I'm twenty three, twenty
(02:55):
four and I'm washed up.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Right, because that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, then that's how it was, right. It's a little
different now. In the old days, if you did music,
you couldn't just become an actor. People are like, no, no,
just what you said, Lance, people would see you. You'll
always be that guy with the mullet or the rat
tail for kids, like, nah, you're never in my movie. Right.
If you do it when you were at the peak
(03:20):
of success and it works, great, you know, But I
could also do like Vanilla Iis did that movie and
it didn't go very well for him, right, Like that
was kind of the end of his career, so it
just didn't work. A lot back then, but I just
decided I was going to try and give it a go,
(03:41):
and so I got a small agent and hired a
small manager, and I just started auditioning. And I would
audition and audition and audition, and sometimes it seemed like
a joke, Like I auditioned to that movie the thing
you do, that Tom Hanks movie, and the casting director
was like, I'm gonna have you come for Tom Hanks
and read for him, and I was like, oh, maybe
(04:02):
this is the shot, and crickets never got a callback.
Like he said I was getting a call back. I
never got the callback right. So then I would to
audition for garbage movies and like couldn't even get those parts.
And it was a really a period of uncertainty. And
I'm not you know, I'm a hopeful person. I had
had success in the band. I'd had success producing music
(04:25):
outside of the band, writing songs, you know, have like
number one songs on the Billboard chart that I wrote
and produced. So I felt confident. But after like audition
one hundred and nothing right, I really started to be like, Okay,
like this is the script that everyone said was going
to come true, that you're going to be successful in
(04:46):
this boy band and it's going to last two years
and you're done. You're going to be on where are
they now? You know whatever happened to And I had
to confront that a lot in my myself and say, Okay,
you can buy that narrative, or you can get your
ass up and get out there and pursue what it
(05:09):
is you want to do. And that meant like driving
from New York from Boston to New York sometimes three
times a week, Like I would drive down, do an audition,
drive back home, do it again the next day, you know,
And like I had to really just keep taking my lumps,
and I would tell myself things like, all right, you know,
(05:33):
this is like the New Kids. We paid a lot
of dues in The New Kids before we really broke big.
Not a lot of people know that, but to break
that big, you know, after three years of being in
the band, you know who really deserves that level of
success after the Yeah, this is my karma right here.
Like I have to now suffer through this in a
(05:56):
way that I didn't quite have to suffer, you know,
in the climbing.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It's so funny to say that because I think the
same thing. I even wrote down right here, I was
like paying dues. I always felt guilty though, I mean,
it took us a while to get a deal and
you know, get going. No one saw the beginning stages
of InSync, but I do feel guilty that it just
blew up so quickly, and I felt like we didn't
pay our dues. But then once I chose industries and
went to television and film, I'm like, this is where
(06:22):
I'm paying my dues. This is where I'm finally I'm
getting to do that, And so I totally relate to that.
But when you when you went over to acting, is
it something that you knew? Okay, I never want to
go back to music again. Is that, like, what is
your first love of music and film?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I'm a Leo, so my first love is being at
the center of attention.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I don't care what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Right, No, but I'm I think it was both. I
think it was performing in whatever means was at my disposal,
If it was me moving around in the park on
a Tuesday afternoon for the six friends of mine and
the girl that I thought was really cute, you know,
from the other high school, right, whatever, it was like,
(07:15):
I always was performing, right so which again makes it
weird because now I'm trying to be an actor and
you know, after after like audition number eighty six for
Obscure TV Show number twenty seven, right, it's like you
start to that enthusiasm. It doesn't wane, but it takes
(07:39):
its lumps.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Sure. And now instead of like bopping into the audition
to the casting room with like twenty other actors standing
there all for the same role, it's like, I'm gonna
sign and and dump down. No, right, because it takes
a toll on you. It's like the reaching sucks. It's
that's one of my that became one of my goals
as an actor was not to win an oscar, not
(08:03):
to do this, to get to the point where I
don't have to audition it. Oh my god. Yes, Now
I'm gonna tell you I used to. I got it
got so intense with auditioning that I would this is
gonna be a little t m I So we're gonna
get so intense for me that I would get like
severe anxiety. So I would go into the audition. I
(08:27):
would sign into the you have to sign in like
when you arrived. So there's ten actors sitting there. You know,
you sign your name and I'm like, oh, I know
those are the three actors. Okay. I would be so nervous.
I would sign my name, sign my time in and
then look at the casting associate and say, where's the
bath Yes, that's what I would go in and do
the biggest to give me diarrhea in the world, every
(08:52):
single audition, every audition. When I auditioned for Band of Brothers,
walked in, I signed in, I went into the bathroom
stall and literally my entire coali, you know, and it
was like, it's that sounds that like I think it
was a joke. It was like every bad I was
(09:15):
so nervous, I'm going in to read for Steven Spielberg
and Tom Hanks room. When I flushed the toilet and
got out, I looked to my left and at the
sink was Tom Hanks. Oh God, okay, okay there and.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well you got your dream. You got to finally audition
in front of Tom. Finally you do Yeah, not.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
That thing hard and Band of Brothers because he felt
so bad for me that he had to listen to
that entire disaster. But I used to get that every.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Auditions are the worst, Like I am. I'm horrible at auditions.
Thank god. Now because of COVID, you do a lot
of like send in your own auditions, which I'm very
happy to do. But those live ones, man, And especially
when those casting directors are looking at you like they
don't give a shit about you. It's it's just so intimidating.
I hate it. I hate it.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And I got to tell you though, I've directed, so
I've directed Bloods and I've been on the other side
of it for once, and it does help. It does
help to be in the casting chair. It's tremendous empathy
for actors, you know. I see in every actor who
comes in when I'm reading them from Blue Bloods, they
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do all the things that I did. They say sometimes
I'd come in and try to lighten the mood with
the jokes, sometimes and be self deprecating, like I'm not
going to get the part, sometimes like this is my part.
I even went into an audition I actually got the part.
I walked in and said to the director, I said, man,
there's nothing here, there's not enough for me to do.
Just give me the fucking part and I'll make it great.
(10:53):
But I could have done that ten other times be
like get out of here. Yeah, but but being in
the casting chair really let me know that that's how
all actors feel. Very rarely does an actor come in
feeling like eh, all right, you know, and those ones
usually get a lot of work because they just wrote
it so easily.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, are you a big crime junkie? Because I mean
Blue Bloods, which is on its seventy fifth season right now, congratulation, incredible,
(11:36):
still going strong. But then your other show that I
think is a season five right now, one of my favorites,
very scary people. I love true crime. I love shows
like this. This would be the perfect show for me
to host because I feel like maybe this doesn't take
you long to put all your parts into these episodes
and then you're kind of like done. How does that
process work as a host?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
You want to host the spinoff?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yes, I'll host the spinoff?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
All right, we'll talk off.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Let's do this happen.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Let's go see.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
This is how see. This is my audition right here,
This is how you audition. He's already a great casting
director because he already put me in one of his
videos Boys in the Band, so he knows what he
knows what he's.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Talk, I would cast you in a heart beat. Let
me tell you why, and then we'll get back to
the crime thing, because you just talking to you about
this journey of like going from the band and going
through these lumps like you did it. You did it too.
You know you you put yourself out there, and you
know there's a certain you know, we we when we're young,
(12:39):
we're like fighting for respect from everyone else. But as
we get older, we realize it's really our own respect
that that we we really are working for. It's really
like that you quickly said in the middle of one
of those conversations, you said, like I felt guilt, like
did I really earn it? Right? You earned it now?
You earned it now, And and I know, like I
(13:02):
feel good about my career because you know, yes, I
had a tremendous launching pad of new kids on the block,
and I love new kids. I love it, I love
performing doing everything with new kids. To this day, I
love our fans like my own family. And I know
outside of that, I worked my ass off and took
(13:23):
a lot of lumps to get to a point not
to say I told you so, to be able to
say thank you, you know, thank you for these opportunities.
Thank you for the chance to take those lumps and
to prove myself, not to the world but to myself
that the things I dreamed of doing outside of the band,
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I could actually achieve them if I just kept going.
And to hear you relating to everything I'm saying, it's
like I love that about you. I respect it and
admire it. And you know there's just from like an
outsider point of view and not knowing you like super
super well in the old days, it's like you could
have been that guy that was in the band that
(14:05):
wanted to go to space and that's it, and you wrote,
you rewrote it. You didn't accept where are they now?
Narrative that could have happened for you? You know you you
defied it and you kept working and you kept working.
And even things that may not even seem that substantial
(14:25):
to other people, but they mattered to you. They're important
to you, and you did them because they were from
your heart and your loves right, and so kudos to you.
So yes, you're doing the freaking space. I love it.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Straight to Magan about you. Sorry, but that knowledge that
because it's it's it's important, and I love I love
this fraternity of boy bands that we have. You know,
it's an addition to new kids, new kids, to factory
doing sync. It's like, it's good.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It's a fun club to be a part of, you know.
And that's why I wanted to start a show like
this that we get all kind of get together, compare stories,
commiserate together. But it's it's insane how how many parallels
that we did have like together in all of our bands,
like so many things you would say, I'm like, yes,
that's exactly how I felt, but no one else will
understand that at all. So we have a fun, little
(15:17):
not so secret boy band society that we're creating, right
and the post.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Boy band, even though we're not out of it, you know,
that society is that fraternity, and society is really wonderful
and just about the true crime. I don't even know
how I ended up doing this show. Very scary people.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Other than oh I thought you created this show, Well yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
But I didn't think i'd be like on the Nancy Duffy,
who's an executive producer who's like a Marvel. She's like
one of the great television producers, you know, in the
dis space especially, But he brought the idea for the
show to me, and I didn't know that I was
the right guy to be involved in it because I
love forensic files.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
That's that's what we every night. Yeah, so good, Oh my.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
God, Especially if you're like traveling or working out or whatever.
Like I'm in the hotel on a Tuesday morning.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It's always It's always on the TV at a hotel.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Oh yeah, And I can watch one hundred episodes in
a row. So that was my real love affair with
true crime. But when I think the combination of that
fandom of that show and playing a detective on Blue
Bloods created this world where suddenly I was the right
guy to be on screen talking about this. So if
(16:33):
you look like from you're that guy from the boy band,
you'll always be that guy from the boy band. How
you doing this true crime show? That doesn't make sense?
But if you throw Blue Bloods in the middle and
the work that I do as Danny Reagan on Blue Bluds,
I think that bridges the gap. It makes makes it
make sense that I'm I'm actually hosting that show and
(16:55):
it's been eye opening, it's frightening at times, it's it's
difficult at times because the subject matter is tough, it's heavy,
and it's hard. Like I go on Twitter during Blue
Bloods and I'm like, oh, I'll tweet with the fans,
and we get blue Bloods trending number one every Friday night,
and the blockheads like rally to everything and make everything
(17:16):
like trend They're just they're awesome. And now I'm like,
very scary people tonight, let's go on Twitter and like
I'm watching it live tweeting with them. I'm like, oh,
this is tough. I know, yeah, harsh subject matter. So
it's a little delicate, but it's people love true crime.
They love it. And I think my theory of why
(17:38):
people love it so much, specifically this show and this
thing about serial killers, it's I think we don't understand it.
We don't understand how somebody who could do such things,
how their brain works, will never understand it, right, So
the only way we could even possibly get close to
understanding is learn as much as we can about it. Right. So,
(17:59):
my older son, when he was like in third grade,
he wanted every Godzilla movie on VHS. He wanted every
Godzilla toy, and I was like, oh, Ooh, my son
loves Godzilla. I love Godzilla like I love Godzilla movies.
When I was a kid and his teacher called me
in one day for a meeting. It was like, yeah,
he doesn't really love Godzilla, and I was like, what
(18:21):
are you talking about. She was like, he's afraid of
Godzilla and he wants all the toys so he can
understand it and control it. If he can play with
this toyah, he won't be afraid that Godzilla is gonna
walk down the street in his house. And I was like,
oh shit. And I think in somewhere in that psychology
(18:41):
is attracts so many people to true crime. It just
we don't think the way a criminal thinks. We don't
think the way a crazy person thinks, and we never will.
But if we can sort of get some understanding of it,
I think, or get a little closer to learning about
it, it might help us not fear it quite as right
(19:02):
or see the signs.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah totally. Your sons are thirty and twenty one now right, Yeah,
it's crazy. That is so great that. I mean, look,
you're you're thirty five, Like you could be his dad
if you like started really young.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, I listen, a lot of my friends when I
have my first son, I think I was twenty three
or twenty four. I thought I was. I thought I
was a late bloomer friend when they were like sixteen.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, that's like my Mississippi. Yeah, my Misissippi friends definitely.
You know, they got married early twenty one twenty two,
had kids in their twenties. Now we're having our first
kids at forty three. Forty that's forty two. I guess, uh, yeah,
I felt like I'm really a late bloomer. So I
kind of I'm jealous of people like you that got
an early start because my body just can't handle a
(19:51):
lot of it, and just I just feel old sometimes.
But now your sons, do they think dad is cool?
How do they How did they deal with your your fame?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Well, it's you know, it's yes, I would say my
younger son. They're both musicians, by the way, and both
I'm sure are very proud of me and love, you know,
watching the concerts, and I'm very supportive. And at the
same time, they're in a whole different league from me.
(20:25):
My older son is in a hardcore band. He's not
gonna want me talking too much about him, So I
won't talk too much about him other than to say
he's toward the world. He's awesome. His shows look really dangerous.
There's marsh pits and stuff. Okay, but often he'll come
to my concerts and be like he'll bring all this
fings like that was awesome. But a lot of times
(20:48):
he'll tell me like he'll he's like, Dad, we open
for this band. It was one of the great hardcore
bands of all time. And the singer is this female
vocalist and she came backstage and like, I've looked up
to her for like twenty years, and she came back
stage and said, are you Donny Wahlberg's son When I
was eighteen, Yeah, that's right. So I get a lot
(21:09):
of cool points in ways that you know, I don't expect.
And my younger son has toured with me his whole life.
He used to come on tour and come on stage
when he was eight years old. He's they're both so talented.
They're musicians. They play My oldest son plays guitar and bass.
He plays in two different bands. He just got a
(21:30):
record deal for his main band. And my younger son
has put out two albums since since like the lockdowns
in COVID, Like he was stuck upstairs with his friend.
He said, you know what, I'm gonna make an album
and he's he's amazing. His band is called Pink Laces,
but he's the whole band, He's the whole thing. He
named it after his favorite nikes, Jordan Travis Scott nikes
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that have pink shoelaces in them. So that's he called
his band that, and he's a genius. He's working on
a new album now and they're proud. And they'll call
me on my shit though if I do something dumb,
they'll call me out. But if they say they saw
new kids in New Addition play on the American Music Awards,
and you know, I get like, I'll get a heartfelt
(22:13):
call about that and be like sick, sick dad, Like
that's like your childhood dream just came through it like
it did, it really did. So let they care and
they pay attention. It means a lot.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I hope our kids think we're cool when they're that age.
I'm just gonna say, all right, let's get to some
frosted tips right now. I got two for you. What
advice do you have for people who have many different
passions but don't know where to start.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I would say, it's easy to be distracted by multiple passions, right,
you can pull yourself in different directions.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
That I'm so guilty of that. Oh my gosh, it happens.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Right. That said, it's hard to cut off other ones,
you know, because you're you know, to just focus on one,
because you think, you know, you're, you're, you care about
this too, and you might your opportunity may come there.
I think if you give them all attention, eventually one
(23:18):
will rise to the surface. Right. So it's like when
I started trying to act, I would audition. I would audition.
I would audition. Someone come along and say, hey, do
you want to do this reality show? And I'd be like,
I could be really good at that, but I'm gonna
stay with the acting. Right. It's like I could have
went back to New Kids, I could have put out
a solo album. I could have done a bunch of things,
(23:39):
and I dabbled it. I would go home from a
failed audition and start to work on music. But eventually
the signs will show themselves, right for the one that
you're supposed to do that and that may then allow
the door to open for other things. Right. So, when
I became successful as an actor, it gave me the
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confidence to get new kids back together. Right. So it
created a platform for me where I could say, you
know what, I'm gonna get back with the band. You
know I'm gonna do that now. So I think it's
hard to choose just one, like choosing a favorite kid
or a favorite pet or favorite food right there, it's
hard to choose one. But I think if you give
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them all attention, eventually the one that's the right one
will reveal itself and the doors will start opening when
you do lock in on that one.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
What are some tips on keeping a relationship nice and
fresh when both of you are like at the peak
of your careers and super busy.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Well, it takes work and care, you know. I think
Jenny and I, for example, are both incredibly busy. We're
both doing really well, and they're very fortunate right now
and incredibly grateful. But the relationship comes first. The relationship
comes first, and I think the more we treat the
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relationship that way, the more successful other things become. Honestly,
it's it's strange and sounds backwards, but you know, people
often think like and I thought this for years, Like
when you're in a relationship, they's supposed to be music playing,
like the soundtrack at the end of the movie when
they fall in love. It's like that music ain't fucking playing.
(25:26):
It's playing on That's it, right, But you can make
it play all the time by putting the care and
effort and work into relationship. And a lot of that
work sometimes is on yourself, right. So it's like, if
I bring my old ways into this new relationship and
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it hasn't worked in the past and other relationships, guess what,
It's not gonna work. So I have to work on
myself to adapt those ways. And a lot of times
we're too prideful to do that. But Jenny and I
both wanted this relationship to work from day one. We're
both crazy about each other, and we work incredibly hard,
and when we get super busy, we make sure to
put ourselves first. If I'm on set shooting the family
(26:09):
dinner scene of Blue Bloods and that phone rings and
it's her, I'm taking the call. Sorry, guys, I have
to step away, right, you know, we we have to
treat that relationship as number one, even when you have kids.
You know kids for example, you guys you're having kids,
it's important to show your kids what a happy, loving
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relationship looks like and give each other that work, put
that care and effort into that because they're learning by watching.
And if it's like, oh yeah, the kids can sleep
in the bed till they're forty and on the edges,
it's like, that's what they're going to grow up and do.
And you know, but you put your partner first. They're
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gonna watch that and they're gonna learn and they're gonna say, oh,
I'm supposed to put my partner first. And that's a big,
big thing for both of us. So our kids can
watch and see what a healthy, successful relationship that is.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Great. All right, we're gonna leave you here with some
fan questions because we love our listeners out there and
(27:24):
they love you so turkey. What's the first man question?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
All right?
Speaker 5 (27:27):
The first one is from Ninyadla because she wants to
know how do you work so many hours in a
day and maintain your energy level?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Oh yeah, you have a lot of energy. What do
you do?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
It's a red bull.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
It gives you wings. It's true.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I just did God, I just did some Red Bull's
their marathon that they're about to do, and I'm kind
of the catch car behind them, but they just showed
me their new flavors. They have a coconut one that
is good. It tastes like you're drinking a peanut colada,
which is like my drink when I'm on vacation. And
there's a sugar free version of it too, So yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Love some favored Red Bulls for the wind, the lime one,
oh my god, it tastes like a slush puppy from back.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Or the yellow one.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I can't go out now unless I drink Red Bulls.
There's just no way I can do it at night.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, you're a vodka. You're just like that that that
white girl from two thousand and.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Two exactly give me a vodka Red Bull. Thanks.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I must be the same, because that's but I'll say,
I will say the one thing like that. Red Bull
ain't gonna do it to carry me through all this stuff.
But I'm incredibly grateful, and I work on reminding myself
to be grateful every single day. It's so easy to
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wake up and sometimes you have a dream and you
wake up in the middle of it and it's a
bad dream and it haunts you, like all day You're
in this weird mood because sometimes you wake up in
your back rod. Sometimes you wake up and you got bills,
you have concern. I wake up every day and feel
anxiety and things that many many people feel. Just stop myself,
(29:10):
And it doesn't matter how successful you become. It doesn't
matter that shit stays with you. Right, And it's I
had to learn over the years to work at getting
up and getting still and finding gratitude in Right, If
I am away from my wife for the fourth month
in a row because she's taping and I'm taping, it's like, well,
(29:31):
I'm grateful that I have that they invented phones so
I can call her in FaceTime. Like, I find gratitude
and everything I can. And even in loss, you know,
I lose a loved one, I try to focus on
being grateful for the times I had rather than what
I'm going to miss. Right, it's just in everything I do,
I just try to find gratitude. And once I connect
(29:52):
to gratitude, I'm like, I just float through the day
with joy and everything becomes more fun and much easier.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, it seems so simple, but so hard to do.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
At the same time, it is, it is, it is,
And sometimes we're in a shit mood and we have
no reason, no understanding of why it is, and it's
usually probably something in the future or in the past,
or something our ego is tapping us on the shoulder about.
That's complete bullshit that we don't really want to worry about.
We're here, eathing, we're walking the planet. We've we've been
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through a lot. Every person who's here today on this
planet has survived a ton of awful ship and they're
still here. And if we can tune into that, you know,
we'll know that we'll get through this next awful shit
whatever whatever may come, and we can get through it
a little easier if we can find gratitude.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah. Photo fourteen wants to know if you could do
one thing you have never done, what would it be.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I think I'd love to know how to fly a plane. Yeah,
but that one takes too much work, so i'dn't. Like,
I'd love to jump out of an airplane and parachute.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Have you ever done that? That seems like something that
you would have already done by now.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
I bungee jumped a lot. I did a bunch of
kookie stuff. But I used to jump off cliffs with
no parachute into water a lot. I never jumped out
of an airplane.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
It's so it's incredible, Like it's it's one of the
best feelings ever. When you land, You're like, oh my gosh,
that's coleting thing. Ever, now that I have kids, I
don't know if I'll do it now. But yeah, before kids,
i'd just I'd throw myself off any building. So it's great.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, that's probably one I'd like.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, what groups or soloax would you would be your
ultimate mixtape tour dream? This is from cool Beans Mitch,
cool Beansnitch.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I would say, I would say New Kids in New Addition,
but I don't think that's a mixtape tour it. Yeah, yeah,
I would say. You know, the both mixtape lineups that
we had were amazing. It's really hard to say until
we're putting it together. You know, I would love to
(32:11):
get I'd say Bellevov Devou Vanilla Ice only because Ice
Ice Baby's.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
That was a formative yours right there. What about Candy's group? Uh,
there's what's the new Bravo show that they're bringing back
to escape Escape or SWV.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
We almost toured. We've toured with TLC. I don't want
to say nothing about SWB, but I do have a song,
a new Kids song that there's a female group part
in it and that I'm going to be reaching out
to them. Okay, but if they end up doing it,
SWB would definitely be amazing an Escape too. Yeah, So
(32:56):
it's it's girl groups and boy groups together is a
lot of fun. Like going with in Vogue this last tour,
amazing energy was just so amazing. So you know, whether
it's the Spice Girls or whomever, like that energy always
just works. It just it's beating the girl power in
(33:19):
the audience because we have family female fans. It's just
pretty electron.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
In all right, missus Jane YCS. What would Jenny say
is your best and worst trait? Jennifer, She's like, oh,
how long do we have?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I'm going to try to answer, but I'm going to
facetimeer and see what. Okay, she's gonna say. I don't
have a worst trait. That's a good wife, Jennifer. Are
you there? Michael want to know what my best and
worst trait is? I can't that in your opinion of
(33:58):
my capacity to love and your worst trait are your
long toenails.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
She called, I love you, thank you, Jitny. Oh don
you got to go on the panic.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
There's a story. There's a story, all.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Right, let's hear the story. Loails all right.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
So I love to get pedicures of my wife. Yeah,
when I come home, we go to our favorite place. Yeah, nails,
we go, we get our we get our pan.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
It's our new thing too. Just in the last two years,
we're like, we love getting a pedicure. Like it's just
got to take care of your feet. You got it.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
It's the best.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Actually, we both have long toenails now.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, I know, we got to get to it.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Here's we're waiting to go back.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Oh, this is the thing. We went and got a
pedicure in December when I was home for Christmas break.
Then I had to go back to Blue Blood's from
excuse me January third to like March twenty fifth. So
in those three months I let my toenails go. I
could come back and enjoy the pedicure.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Right, It's literally what we're dealing with right now.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I refuse to cut them because I'm like, they're going
to cut them.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, I want them to cut them. It's like saying
you want going to get into pedicure off and cut
all the nails. I know. I let them grow and
they literally curl over in my toe. And so every
day getting ready when I wake up for Blue bloods Now,
I gotta get dressed and put on my own socks.
Then I get to blue Blood's got to take off
my put on the blue Blood socks, then do that.
(35:31):
So four times a day, I'm putting socks on them.
But I gotta like curl my toes so I don't rip.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
The nails, pull them back.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
But there was nothing like coming home. I I literally
wrapped for the season. A week ago. I said, Jenny, look,
my toenails look like orange talons from hell. And I
was so happy when I went to the pedicure place.
I feel bad that the nail lady was not happy. Yeah,
of course she laughed at me, so she got a
good laugh at me. But yeah, it color.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Do you put some color on it? So we do.
We love choosing different colors, especially in the summertime, like boom.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
I know I have blue toenails right now.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
I know I have to get it done because it's
like it turns into like a French manicure, just at
the tips of color and the rest have grown out.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
I'm like, oh, that's not good.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
I gotta play a detective like manicure. It's like I
don't even like the buffet because it gets shiny.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. All right, before
I let you go, what do you what do we
have to binge on TV these days?
Speaker 2 (36:36):
What do you watch it?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Blue blots?
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Okay, well, we watched White Lotus. That's a little like
now love it. Right now, we're watching the Jury?
Speaker 1 (36:50):
What's that? I don't think I know the Jury?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
You haven't seen No, we haven't seen it.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
But it's wait was this with Brian Cranston James Martin?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
And it looks I saw of it the other day.
It looks so good.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
So here's the thing. It's floating around TikTok and Instagram.
So there's a real floating around where this guy is
a jury duty and he stands up and says something
crazy why he shouldn't be on jury duty, and like
he points to a guy in the courtroom and says,
he told me to say it. And it's like, what
am I watching here? And it turns out it's a
(37:29):
nonscripted show where there's a jury duty of a crime
that isn't real, of a courtroom that isn't real, with
a judge. Every single person is an actor except one person.
So funny, and the one person becomes the jury foreman
and thinks all this ship is real. He thinks the
(37:50):
trials real.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
That sounds I've seen a few clips of it, and
it looks it's like you're watching an episode of like
The Office.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
That's how it's kind of shocked. But like one in it.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
I'm kind of pissing that one guy's not in on it.
And and James Marsden is he's a juror, but he
doesn't want to be. He's like, I'm an actor. I'm me,
I'm famous, I can't I got I'm up for this
speaker movie. He never says what the movie is, but
it's supposed to be like a Tarantino movie or something.
He's pretending that he's playing himself, pretending that he's like
(38:21):
reading for a movie, and like so he's like now
he's like it's a Western. So he's like, now he's
walking around in character, like I'm method acting. Let's go
have a beer, right, So he's like, it's so outrageous.
And the cast they're all like unknown, but they're really funny.
(38:42):
You stay in character, in character, like all day long.
All it's out there. It's really out there. It's really fun,
all right.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
That one's going right to the top of the list.
That sounds amazing and.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Then one love it or hate it, but.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
We love every television show out there. Are what movie
do we need to watch right now? What's going on?
Speaker 3 (39:04):
I didn't see it, but I want to see it.
Spinning Gold, which is about Casablanca Records. Okay, So it's
like that label became massive in the seventies with like Kiss,
I think, Donna Summer, like all these bands and stuff
became super huge on this label. And I think, like
(39:28):
the movie came out like a few days ago and
it already fizzled out. Like I guess it was a
total box office flop, but that music was such a
time in my life that I'm desperate to see it.
So it's not I haven't had time to go to
a theater. It's not streaming yet, so but I guess
it flopped. So it's going to be on streaming really fast.
Because it's not gonna be in the theaters anymore.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
All right, well we'll look out for that.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
I don't know what other movies I've watched. I did
watch the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
That was the first already movie I ever saw, and
it still sticks with me today.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Yeah, I've seen it about twenty times, but not in
the last fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Does it hold up?
Speaker 3 (40:12):
It holds up.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Yeah, it still does.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Those movies so freaky the way they shot it. But
I gotta tell you, the first time leather Face pops
up and does what he does, I turned it off. Yeah,
something changed in me. I got a little crewe.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
It's kind of upsetting.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
It kind of makes me a little sick, like because
it was so Yeah, it's just so like gratuitously, like
I'm just gonna murder these people.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
There's not even you know that. It's just like it
gives you like a pin in your stomach.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
I got to rewatch that because that on. That one
definitely stuck with me for a long time. And yeah,
now now directors are trying to make their films look
like that because it doesn't. It makes it creepier when
it feels that something.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
It's like the original too. It was like half the
killing is just like in the middle of the middle
of the day so it's just.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
Like you're usually like ready for nighttime is going to
be creepy, but now they're just killing you in the
middle of the daylight where you think.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
You're supposed to be safe. I shouldn't have watched it.
It's kind of haunting me.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
Well.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
On that note, Donnie, thank you so much for joining
us on Frosted Tips. You are an amazing man, amazing father,
amazing husband, and I love I love everything that you do.
You've been so good to me. And yeah, I can't
I can't thank you enough for coming on the show.
How can everyone stay in touch with you?
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Instagram at Donnie Wahlberg, Twitter at Donnie Wahlberg and everyone
can find me. I'm so easy to find.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
You're everywhere.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Yeah, I tell you. Of all the gratitude we talked
about on this podcast and all this stuff, it's like,
the greatest gratitude I have on this planet is for
the Blockheads. They are They're just a godsend and they
give and give and give and give and give, and
(41:59):
they're just like watching the evolution of them from those
screaming girls and guys, we have a lot of guy
blockheads now yourself included. Thank you to watch the evolution
of them and to see how the amazing the adults
they've turned into when everyone just wrote them off as
being crazy little girls and who don't know anything, to
(42:21):
see how just awesome they are after all these years.
And look who's laughing now, Oh my god, you know
they're like they're calling the shots now. The top of
all that, it's like, like, I friendly with the editor
People magazine. She's a blockhead, She's funny.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
We said it all the time. The yeah, I was like, oh,
we're finally the age where our peers are now running
everything like this is great. Yeah, finally getting some good jobs.
All right, Donnie, thank you so much. We'll be talking
about you'll spin off there because Very Scary People is
one of our favorite shows, which we have to like
binge this last season. But thank you so much for
being on the show. I can't wait to see you again.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Here's my pleasure, and thank you guys for having me.
And you're hired.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
You heard it here first. All rybody, love you. We'll
see you later. Johnny Wahlberg. He I mean, look, I'm
not supposed to have favorites, right.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
But he's just the nicest.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
It's always been so supportive of all the thing I've done,
yes and just and he makes you feel good. He
like validates you.
Speaker 5 (43:22):
Yeah, everything he said, like like you know, he has
the reputation of like the tough one in the group,
but he's just the nicest and just a smart guy.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
And it's so much a good insight. I felt like
it was like a we're in a life coaching session.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
I feel like I was in therapy. Yeah, it was
like a ted talk Like I was like, wow, you're right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Like I should look for the gratitude and every.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Day it's true and hard to like I always break
out of it. There's things in these words that I
repeat all throughout the day just to remind you, remind you.
And the one is like humble, kindness, forgiveness, you know
those type of words. But I need to add that
word into it, gratitude focus and we have gratitude like
we write on our mirror and that type of stuff.
Like some gratitude.
Speaker 5 (44:02):
Yeah, when you're feeling upset and you're feeling about something,
it's always I do this. It's one of the only
thing that really helps me is like you focus on
all the amazing things you do have, and you're like, well,
in comparison, is this really.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
That much of an issue? Yeah, and it's so much
easier to get over.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
Yep, yep, yep. We'll go follow him and all his
social media accounts, Tony because he's a good one. We
love our Donnie, and I guess that's all the show
we have for you. I feel like there was something
else I needed to talk.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
Oh yeah, we have reviews.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
All right, guys, before I let you go, I told
you we've we've teased it before. But I'm going to
read some of your reviews and then we're going to
vote on which one we like. Okay, Okay, here we go.
This is from Doesn't say oh yeah, oh just love
this podcast at work. I love listening to this podcast
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That's what it says that curps my day quick Joe River.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
I think I mean keeps my day quick.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
However, Okay does Turkey? Tchurch and get bored? He hardly talks.
Speaker 5 (44:59):
I only hardly talk on the interviews because I don't
really know the person and Lance's uh.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
I know, it's hard because I have such a bond
with so many of these people that were just literally
like talking like we're talking.
Speaker 5 (45:10):
I know, it's hard to like jump in and we
have a list of things to talk about and then.
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You can interrupt us. I don't care. Yeah, that's had
too much.
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Don't embarrass me in front of my listeners ever again.
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We got we got a one star review in the
past because we we said damn or something and we
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so they gave it a damn. But this person gave
us those extra stars.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Hot damn.
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Okay, thank you Mary. About two thousand and seven, you said,
Monday is my start to the work week. Have always
dragged into Lance and Turkey have graciously decided to make
my morning commute fun. I love listening to this podcast
every week, and I'm learning all sorts of things about
nineties boy bands I have never known. It feels like
I'm right there in the conversation with Lance Turkey and
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Love MBPS. A show needs to be pitched at Bravo
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were to be the cast in the show, what would
his tagline?
Speaker 2 (46:24):
I would love that show.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
You know, we used to have taglines like we'd always
pretend we're going to housewives and oh, I know mine,
I know mine. Hold on, it's coming to him, It's
coming to me.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
I remember it.
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I may have been in a boy band, but I
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I love everything about the show, Turkey. I tried to
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Oh thank you. If you hear a chorus in the background,
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Speaker 1 (46:57):
But yeah, that's that's our babies. We're teaching them harmony,
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Speaker 2 (47:00):
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I'm not familiar with otown. I am particular about what
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are in Sync with an Eye by the way and
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Sorry, yeah, of course.
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That's very sweet, Love you too, all right.
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So, which one of these are we to give a
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Speaker 3 (48:03):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (48:04):
I mean I might have to go to Mary Beth
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I mean she wrote a small novel.
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Small novel which I appreciate, and she let me reveal
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Took a last night.
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He was hitting her up beside the head of the
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hello there.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
All right, guys, this is your two for part two
of the Donnie Wahlberg Interview. Loved that first half so good.
All right, let's get into the second part of Donnie Wilberg.
Let's get into your acting because your your acting career
is just as successful as your music career. When Jordan
and Joe were trying the solo stuff in the nineties,
You're like, no, I want to act. Did you always
(00:38):
know that you wanted to act? And it's hard when
someone knows you as Donnie Wahlberg I new kids on
the block. It's hard to cross over into acting because
everyone's gonna be like, that's Donnie. Like that's just that's Donnie.
How did you break that? Because you did such a
great job. You chose really great roles, especially that sixth
sense where no one could recognize you, right, I mean
(00:58):
it was like, wow, this guy, this guy is going
to be an actor. So did you purposely know what
to do or did you just kind of like luckily
fell into some really great roles.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'd like to say I purposely les. However, the roles
there wasn't a lot to choose from back then. I
remember auditioning gosh a hundred times and getting nothing. You know.
I just to backtrack to the beginning of the question,
(01:30):
I went to a Boston public school. It was. It
was a smaller Boston public high school, and so it's
kind of an unusual school. We didn't have a football team,
we didn't have a lot of you know, our sports
teams terrible because we didn't have enough kids to do it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
High school, yeah, Miami.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, Well, we had a theater class. We had a
theater class. And freshman year I jumped into the theater
class and was I loved it. I had a great
time with it. I had a couple of great theater teachers,
Miss Skelton and ms Don They were great, and a
lot of my friends were in it, and it was
really cool for me. So I always had a love
of performing, of acting, and of course doing music. But
(02:14):
when new kids got successful, people would often say to me, oh, yeah,
you should go into acting, you should get into acting.
And I always knew it eventually I would do it.
It's just when new kids were at their peak, and
the first go round, people would like literally hand me
a script and I'd be like, when, yeah, this work.
(02:34):
I'm on tour for three hundred and ninety days a
year and you know there aren't that There aren't even
that many days any year. So it was like I
couldn't really do it. And then by the time I
wanted to, new kids had kind of gone, right, so
there was now this perception that I'm twenty three, twenty
(02:55):
four and I'm washed up.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Right, because that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, then that's how it was, right. It's a little
different now. In the old days, if you did music,
you couldn't just become an actor. People are like, no, no,
just what you said, Lance, people would see you. You'll
always be that guy with the mullet or the rat
tail for kids, like, nah, you're never in my movie. Right.
If you do it when you were at the peak
(03:20):
of success and it works, great, you know, But I
could also do like Vanilla Iis did that movie and
it didn't go very well for him, right, Like that
was kind of the end of his career, so it
just didn't work. A lot back then, but I just
decided I was going to try and give it a go,
(03:41):
and so I got a small agent and hired a
small manager, and I just started auditioning. And I would
audition and audition and audition, and sometimes it seemed like
a joke, Like I auditioned to that movie the thing
you do, that Tom Hanks movie, and the casting director
was like, I'm gonna have you come for Tom Hanks
and read for him, and I was like, oh, maybe
(04:02):
this is the shot, and crickets never got a callback.
Like he said I was getting a call back. I
never got the callback right. So then I would to
audition for garbage movies and like couldn't even get those parts.
And it was a really a period of uncertainty. And
I'm not you know, I'm a hopeful person. I had
had success in the band. I'd had success producing music
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outside of the band, writing songs, you know, have like
number one songs on the Billboard chart that I wrote
and produced. So I felt confident. But after like audition
one hundred and nothing right, I really started to be like, Okay,
like this is the script that everyone said was going
to come true, that you're going to be successful in
(04:46):
this boy band and it's going to last two years
and you're done. You're going to be on where are
they now? You know whatever happened to And I had
to confront that a lot in my myself and say, Okay,
you can buy that narrative, or you can get your
ass up and get out there and pursue what it
(05:09):
is you want to do. And that meant like driving
from New York from Boston to New York sometimes three
times a week, Like I would drive down, do an audition,
drive back home, do it again the next day, you know,
And like I had to really just keep taking my lumps,
and I would tell myself things like, all right, you know,
(05:33):
this is like the New Kids. We paid a lot
of dues in The New Kids before we really broke big.
Not a lot of people know that, but to break
that big, you know, after three years of being in
the band, you know who really deserves that level of
success after the Yeah, this is my karma right here.
Like I have to now suffer through this in a
(05:56):
way that I didn't quite have to suffer, you know,
in the climbing.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It's so funny to say that because I think the
same thing. I even wrote down right here, I was
like paying dues. I always felt guilty though, I mean,
it took us a while to get a deal and
you know, get going. No one saw the beginning stages
of InSync, but I do feel guilty that it just
blew up so quickly, and I felt like we didn't
pay our dues. But then once I chose industries and
went to television and film, I'm like, this is where
(06:22):
I'm paying my dues. This is where I'm finally I'm
getting to do that, And so I totally relate to that.
But when you when you went over to acting, is
it something that you knew? Okay, I never want to
go back to music again. Is that, like, what is
your first love of music and film?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I'm a Leo, so my first love is being at
the center of attention.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I don't care what I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Right, No, but I'm I think it was both. I
think it was performing in whatever means was at my disposal,
If it was me moving around in the park on
a Tuesday afternoon for the six friends of mine and
the girl that I thought was really cute, you know,
from the other high school, right, whatever, it was like,
(07:15):
I always was performing, right so which again makes it
weird because now I'm trying to be an actor and
you know, after after like audition number eighty six for
Obscure TV Show number twenty seven, right, it's like you
start to that enthusiasm. It doesn't wane, but it takes
(07:39):
its lumps.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Sure. And now instead of like bopping into the audition
to the casting room with like twenty other actors standing
there all for the same role, it's like, I'm gonna
sign and and dump down. No, right, because it takes
a toll on you. It's like the reaching sucks. It's
that's one of my that became one of my goals
as an actor was not to win an oscar, not
(08:03):
to do this, to get to the point where I
don't have to audition it. Oh my god. Yes, Now
I'm gonna tell you I used to. I got it
got so intense with auditioning that I would this is
gonna be a little t m I So we're gonna
get so intense for me that I would get like
severe anxiety. So I would go into the audition. I
(08:27):
would sign into the you have to sign in like
when you arrived. So there's ten actors sitting there. You know,
you sign your name and I'm like, oh, I know
those are the three actors. Okay. I would be so nervous.
I would sign my name, sign my time in and
then look at the casting associate and say, where's the
bath Yes, that's what I would go in and do
the biggest to give me diarrhea in the world, every
(08:52):
single audition, every audition. When I auditioned for Band of Brothers,
walked in, I signed in, I went into the bathroom
stall and literally my entire coali, you know, and it
was like, it's that sounds that like I think it
was a joke. It was like every bad I was
(09:15):
so nervous, I'm going in to read for Steven Spielberg
and Tom Hanks room. When I flushed the toilet and
got out, I looked to my left and at the
sink was Tom Hanks. Oh God, okay, okay there and.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well you got your dream. You got to finally audition
in front of Tom. Finally you do Yeah, not.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
That thing hard and Band of Brothers because he felt
so bad for me that he had to listen to
that entire disaster. But I used to get that every.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Auditions are the worst, Like I am. I'm horrible at auditions.
Thank god. Now because of COVID, you do a lot
of like send in your own auditions, which I'm very
happy to do. But those live ones, man, And especially
when those casting directors are looking at you like they
don't give a shit about you. It's it's just so intimidating.
I hate it. I hate it.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And I got to tell you though, I've directed, so
I've directed Bloods and I've been on the other side
of it for once, and it does help. It does
help to be in the casting chair. It's tremendous empathy
for actors, you know. I see in every actor who
comes in when I'm reading them from Blue Bloods, they
(10:28):
do all the things that I did. They say sometimes
I'd come in and try to lighten the mood with
the jokes, sometimes and be self deprecating, like I'm not
going to get the part, sometimes like this is my part.
I even went into an audition I actually got the part.
I walked in and said to the director, I said, man,
there's nothing here, there's not enough for me to do.
Just give me the fucking part and I'll make it great.
(10:53):
But I could have done that ten other times be
like get out of here. Yeah, but but being in
the casting chair really let me know that that's how
all actors feel. Very rarely does an actor come in
feeling like eh, all right, you know, and those ones
usually get a lot of work because they just wrote
it so easily.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, are you a big crime junkie? Because I mean
Blue Bloods, which is on its seventy fifth season right now, congratulation, incredible,
(11:36):
still going strong. But then your other show that I
think is a season five right now, one of my favorites,
very scary people. I love true crime. I love shows
like this. This would be the perfect show for me
to host because I feel like maybe this doesn't take
you long to put all your parts into these episodes
and then you're kind of like done. How does that
process work as a host?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
You want to host the spinoff?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yes, I'll host the spinoff?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
All right, we'll talk off.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Let's do this happen.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Let's go see.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
This is how see. This is my audition right here,
This is how you audition. He's already a great casting
director because he already put me in one of his
videos Boys in the Band, so he knows what he
knows what he's.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Talk, I would cast you in a heart beat. Let
me tell you why, and then we'll get back to
the crime thing, because you just talking to you about
this journey of like going from the band and going
through these lumps like you did it. You did it too.
You know you you put yourself out there, and you
know there's a certain you know, we we when we're young,
(12:39):
we're like fighting for respect from everyone else. But as
we get older, we realize it's really our own respect
that that we we really are working for. It's really
like that you quickly said in the middle of one
of those conversations, you said, like I felt guilt, like
did I really earn it? Right? You earned it now?
You earned it now, And and I know, like I
(13:02):
feel good about my career because you know, yes, I
had a tremendous launching pad of new kids on the block,
and I love new kids. I love it, I love
performing doing everything with new kids. To this day, I
love our fans like my own family. And I know
outside of that, I worked my ass off and took
(13:23):
a lot of lumps to get to a point not
to say I told you so, to be able to
say thank you, you know, thank you for these opportunities.
Thank you for the chance to take those lumps and
to prove myself, not to the world but to myself
that the things I dreamed of doing outside of the band,
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I could actually achieve them if I just kept going.
And to hear you relating to everything I'm saying, it's
like I love that about you. I respect it and
admire it. And you know there's just from like an
outsider point of view and not knowing you like super
super well in the old days, it's like you could
have been that guy that was in the band that
(14:05):
wanted to go to space and that's it, and you wrote,
you rewrote it. You didn't accept where are they now?
Narrative that could have happened for you? You know you you
defied it and you kept working and you kept working.
And even things that may not even seem that substantial
(14:25):
to other people, but they mattered to you. They're important
to you, and you did them because they were from
your heart and your loves right, and so kudos to you.
So yes, you're doing the freaking space. I love it.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Straight to Magan about you. Sorry, but that knowledge that
because it's it's it's important, and I love I love
this fraternity of boy bands that we have. You know,
it's an addition to new kids, new kids, to factory
doing sync. It's like, it's good.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It's a fun club to be a part of, you know.
And that's why I wanted to start a show like
this that we get all kind of get together, compare stories,
commiserate together. But it's it's insane how how many parallels
that we did have like together in all of our bands,
like so many things you would say, I'm like, yes,
that's exactly how I felt, but no one else will
understand that at all. So we have a fun, little
(15:17):
not so secret boy band society that we're creating, right
and the post.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Boy band, even though we're not out of it, you know,
that society is that fraternity, and society is really wonderful
and just about the true crime. I don't even know
how I ended up doing this show. Very scary people.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Other than oh I thought you created this show, Well yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
But I didn't think i'd be like on the Nancy Duffy,
who's an executive producer who's like a Marvel. She's like
one of the great television producers, you know, in the
dis space especially, But he brought the idea for the
show to me, and I didn't know that I was
the right guy to be involved in it because I
love forensic files.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
That's that's what we every night. Yeah, so good, Oh my.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
God, Especially if you're like traveling or working out or whatever.
Like I'm in the hotel on a Tuesday morning.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It's always It's always on the TV at a hotel.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Oh yeah, And I can watch one hundred episodes in
a row. So that was my real love affair with
true crime. But when I think the combination of that
fandom of that show and playing a detective on Blue
Bloods created this world where suddenly I was the right
guy to be on screen talking about this. So if
(16:33):
you look like from you're that guy from the boy band,
you'll always be that guy from the boy band. How
you doing this true crime show? That doesn't make sense?
But if you throw Blue Bloods in the middle and
the work that I do as Danny Reagan on Blue Bluds,
I think that bridges the gap. It makes makes it
make sense that I'm I'm actually hosting that show and
(16:55):
it's been eye opening, it's frightening at times, it's it's
difficult at times because the subject matter is tough, it's heavy,
and it's hard. Like I go on Twitter during Blue
Bloods and I'm like, oh, I'll tweet with the fans,
and we get blue Bloods trending number one every Friday night,
and the blockheads like rally to everything and make everything
(17:16):
like trend They're just they're awesome. And now I'm like,
very scary people tonight, let's go on Twitter and like
I'm watching it live tweeting with them. I'm like, oh,
this is tough. I know, yeah, harsh subject matter. So
it's a little delicate, but it's people love true crime.
They love it. And I think my theory of why
(17:38):
people love it so much, specifically this show and this
thing about serial killers, it's I think we don't understand it.
We don't understand how somebody who could do such things,
how their brain works, will never understand it, right, So
the only way we could even possibly get close to
understanding is learn as much as we can about it. Right. So,
(17:59):
my older son, when he was like in third grade,
he wanted every Godzilla movie on VHS. He wanted every
Godzilla toy, and I was like, oh, Ooh, my son
loves Godzilla. I love Godzilla like I love Godzilla movies.
When I was a kid and his teacher called me
in one day for a meeting. It was like, yeah,
he doesn't really love Godzilla, and I was like, what
(18:21):
are you talking about. She was like, he's afraid of
Godzilla and he wants all the toys so he can
understand it and control it. If he can play with
this toyah, he won't be afraid that Godzilla is gonna
walk down the street in his house. And I was like,
oh shit. And I think in somewhere in that psychology
(18:41):
is attracts so many people to true crime. It just
we don't think the way a criminal thinks. We don't
think the way a crazy person thinks, and we never will.
But if we can sort of get some understanding of it,
I think, or get a little closer to learning about
it, it might help us not fear it quite as right
(19:02):
or see the signs.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yeah totally. Your sons are thirty and twenty one now right, Yeah,
it's crazy. That is so great that. I mean, look,
you're you're thirty five, Like you could be his dad
if you like started really young.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, I listen, a lot of my friends when I
have my first son, I think I was twenty three
or twenty four. I thought I was. I thought I
was a late bloomer friend when they were like sixteen.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, that's like my Mississippi. Yeah, my Misissippi friends definitely.
You know, they got married early twenty one twenty two,
had kids in their twenties. Now we're having our first
kids at forty three. Forty that's forty two. I guess, uh, yeah,
I felt like I'm really a late bloomer. So I
kind of I'm jealous of people like you that got
an early start because my body just can't handle a
(19:51):
lot of it, and just I just feel old sometimes.
But now your sons, do they think dad is cool?
How do they How did they deal with your your fame?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Well, it's you know, it's yes, I would say my
younger son. They're both musicians, by the way, and both
I'm sure are very proud of me and love, you know,
watching the concerts, and I'm very supportive. And at the
same time, they're in a whole different league from me.
(20:25):
My older son is in a hardcore band. He's not
gonna want me talking too much about him, So I
won't talk too much about him other than to say
he's toward the world. He's awesome. His shows look really dangerous.
There's marsh pits and stuff. Okay, but often he'll come
to my concerts and be like he'll bring all this
fings like that was awesome. But a lot of times
(20:48):
he'll tell me like he'll he's like, Dad, we open
for this band. It was one of the great hardcore
bands of all time. And the singer is this female
vocalist and she came backstage and like, I've looked up
to her for like twenty years, and she came back
stage and said, are you Donny Wahlberg's son When I
was eighteen, Yeah, that's right. So I get a lot
(21:09):
of cool points in ways that you know, I don't expect.
And my younger son has toured with me his whole life.
He used to come on tour and come on stage
when he was eight years old. He's they're both so talented.
They're musicians. They play My oldest son plays guitar and bass.
He plays in two different bands. He just got a
(21:30):
record deal for his main band. And my younger son
has put out two albums since since like the lockdowns
in COVID, Like he was stuck upstairs with his friend.
He said, you know what, I'm gonna make an album
and he's he's amazing. His band is called Pink Laces,
but he's the whole band, He's the whole thing. He
named it after his favorite nikes, Jordan Travis Scott nikes
(21:53):
that have pink shoelaces in them. So that's he called
his band that, and he's a genius. He's working on
a new album now and they're proud. And they'll call
me on my shit though if I do something dumb,
they'll call me out. But if they say they saw
new kids in New Addition play on the American Music Awards,
and you know, I get like, I'll get a heartfelt
(22:13):
call about that and be like sick, sick dad, Like
that's like your childhood dream just came through it like
it did, it really did. So let they care and
they pay attention. It means a lot.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I hope our kids think we're cool when they're that age.
I'm just gonna say, all right, let's get to some
frosted tips right now. I got two for you. What
advice do you have for people who have many different
passions but don't know where to start.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I would say, it's easy to be distracted by multiple passions, right,
you can pull yourself in different directions.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
That I'm so guilty of that. Oh my gosh, it happens.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Right. That said, it's hard to cut off other ones,
you know, because you're you know, to just focus on one,
because you think, you know, you're, you're, you care about
this too, and you might your opportunity may come there.
I think if you give them all attention, eventually one
(23:18):
will rise to the surface. Right. So it's like when
I started trying to act, I would audition. I would audition.
I would audition. Someone come along and say, hey, do
you want to do this reality show? And I'd be like,
I could be really good at that, but I'm gonna
stay with the acting. Right. It's like I could have
went back to New Kids, I could have put out
a solo album. I could have done a bunch of things,
(23:39):
and I dabbled it. I would go home from a
failed audition and start to work on music. But eventually
the signs will show themselves, right for the one that
you're supposed to do that and that may then allow
the door to open for other things. Right. So, when
I became successful as an actor, it gave me the
(24:00):
confidence to get new kids back together. Right. So it
created a platform for me where I could say, you
know what, I'm gonna get back with the band. You
know I'm gonna do that now. So I think it's
hard to choose just one, like choosing a favorite kid
or a favorite pet or favorite food right there, it's
hard to choose one. But I think if you give
(24:23):
them all attention, eventually the one that's the right one
will reveal itself and the doors will start opening when
you do lock in on that one.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
What are some tips on keeping a relationship nice and
fresh when both of you are like at the peak
of your careers and super busy.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Well, it takes work and care, you know. I think
Jenny and I, for example, are both incredibly busy. We're
both doing really well, and they're very fortunate right now
and incredibly grateful. But the relationship comes first. The relationship
comes first, and I think the more we treat the
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relationship that way, the more successful other things become. Honestly,
it's it's strange and sounds backwards, but you know, people
often think like and I thought this for years, Like
when you're in a relationship, they's supposed to be music playing,
like the soundtrack at the end of the movie when
they fall in love. It's like that music ain't fucking playing.
(25:26):
It's playing on That's it, right, But you can make
it play all the time by putting the care and
effort and work into relationship. And a lot of that
work sometimes is on yourself, right. So it's like, if
I bring my old ways into this new relationship and
(25:47):
it hasn't worked in the past and other relationships, guess what,
It's not gonna work. So I have to work on
myself to adapt those ways. And a lot of times
we're too prideful to do that. But Jenny and I
both wanted this relationship to work from day one. We're
both crazy about each other, and we work incredibly hard,
and when we get super busy, we make sure to
put ourselves first. If I'm on set shooting the family
(26:09):
dinner scene of Blue Bloods and that phone rings and
it's her, I'm taking the call. Sorry, guys, I have
to step away, right, you know, we we have to
treat that relationship as number one, even when you have kids.
You know kids for example, you guys you're having kids,
it's important to show your kids what a happy, loving
(26:31):
relationship looks like and give each other that work, put
that care and effort into that because they're learning by watching.
And if it's like, oh yeah, the kids can sleep
in the bed till they're forty and on the edges,
it's like, that's what they're going to grow up and do.
And you know, but you put your partner first. They're
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gonna watch that and they're gonna learn and they're gonna say, oh,
I'm supposed to put my partner first. And that's a big,
big thing for both of us. So our kids can
watch and see what a healthy, successful relationship that is.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Great. All right, we're gonna leave you here with some
fan questions because we love our listeners out there and
(27:24):
they love you so turkey. What's the first man question?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
All right?
Speaker 5 (27:27):
The first one is from Ninyadla because she wants to
know how do you work so many hours in a
day and maintain your energy level?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Oh yeah, you have a lot of energy. What do
you do?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
It's a red bull.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
It gives you wings. It's true.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I just did God, I just did some Red Bull's
their marathon that they're about to do, and I'm kind
of the catch car behind them, but they just showed
me their new flavors. They have a coconut one that
is good. It tastes like you're drinking a peanut colada,
which is like my drink when I'm on vacation. And
there's a sugar free version of it too, So yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Love some favored Red Bulls for the wind, the lime one,
oh my god, it tastes like a slush puppy from back.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Or the yellow one.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I can't go out now unless I drink Red Bulls.
There's just no way I can do it at night.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, you're a vodka. You're just like that that that
white girl from two thousand and.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Two exactly give me a vodka Red Bull. Thanks.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I must be the same, because that's but I'll say,
I will say the one thing like that. Red Bull
ain't gonna do it to carry me through all this stuff.
But I'm incredibly grateful, and I work on reminding myself
to be grateful every single day. It's so easy to
(28:47):
wake up and sometimes you have a dream and you
wake up in the middle of it and it's a
bad dream and it haunts you, like all day You're
in this weird mood because sometimes you wake up in
your back rod. Sometimes you wake up and you got bills,
you have concern. I wake up every day and feel
anxiety and things that many many people feel. Just stop myself,
(29:10):
And it doesn't matter how successful you become. It doesn't
matter that shit stays with you. Right, And it's I
had to learn over the years to work at getting
up and getting still and finding gratitude in Right, If
I am away from my wife for the fourth month
in a row because she's taping and I'm taping, it's like, well,
(29:31):
I'm grateful that I have that they invented phones so
I can call her in FaceTime. Like, I find gratitude
and everything I can. And even in loss, you know,
I lose a loved one, I try to focus on
being grateful for the times I had rather than what
I'm going to miss. Right, it's just in everything I do,
I just try to find gratitude. And once I connect
(29:52):
to gratitude, I'm like, I just float through the day
with joy and everything becomes more fun and much easier.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, it seems so simple, but so hard to do.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
At the same time, it is, it is, it is,
And sometimes we're in a shit mood and we have
no reason, no understanding of why it is, and it's
usually probably something in the future or in the past,
or something our ego is tapping us on the shoulder about.
That's complete bullshit that we don't really want to worry about.
We're here, eathing, we're walking the planet. We've we've been
(30:25):
through a lot. Every person who's here today on this
planet has survived a ton of awful ship and they're
still here. And if we can tune into that, you know,
we'll know that we'll get through this next awful shit
whatever whatever may come, and we can get through it
a little easier if we can find gratitude.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah. Photo fourteen wants to know if you could do
one thing you have never done, what would it be.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I think I'd love to know how to fly a plane. Yeah,
but that one takes too much work, so i'dn't. Like,
I'd love to jump out of an airplane and parachute.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Have you ever done that? That seems like something that
you would have already done by now.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
I bungee jumped a lot. I did a bunch of
kookie stuff. But I used to jump off cliffs with
no parachute into water a lot. I never jumped out
of an airplane.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
It's so it's incredible, Like it's it's one of the
best feelings ever. When you land, You're like, oh my gosh,
that's coleting thing. Ever, now that I have kids, I
don't know if I'll do it now. But yeah, before kids,
i'd just I'd throw myself off any building. So it's great.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, that's probably one I'd like.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah, what groups or soloax would you would be your
ultimate mixtape tour dream? This is from cool Beans Mitch,
cool Beansnitch.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I would say, I would say New Kids in New Addition,
but I don't think that's a mixtape tour it. Yeah, yeah,
I would say. You know, the both mixtape lineups that
we had were amazing. It's really hard to say until
we're putting it together. You know, I would love to
(32:11):
get I'd say Bellevov Devou Vanilla Ice only because Ice
Ice Baby's.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
That was a formative yours right there. What about Candy's group? Uh,
there's what's the new Bravo show that they're bringing back
to escape Escape or SWV.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
We almost toured. We've toured with TLC. I don't want
to say nothing about SWB, but I do have a song,
a new Kids song that there's a female group part
in it and that I'm going to be reaching out
to them. Okay, but if they end up doing it,
SWB would definitely be amazing an Escape too. Yeah, So
(32:56):
it's it's girl groups and boy groups together is a
lot of fun. Like going with in Vogue this last tour,
amazing energy was just so amazing. So you know, whether
it's the Spice Girls or whomever, like that energy always
just works. It just it's beating the girl power in
(33:19):
the audience because we have family female fans. It's just
pretty electron.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
In all right, missus Jane YCS. What would Jenny say
is your best and worst trait? Jennifer, She's like, oh,
how long do we have?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
I'm going to try to answer, but I'm going to
facetimeer and see what. Okay, she's gonna say. I don't
have a worst trait. That's a good wife, Jennifer. Are
you there? Michael want to know what my best and
worst trait is? I can't that in your opinion of
(33:58):
my capacity to love and your worst trait are your
long toenails.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
She called, I love you, thank you, Jitny. Oh don
you got to go on the panic.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
There's a story. There's a story, all.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Right, let's hear the story. Loails all right.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
So I love to get pedicures of my wife. Yeah,
when I come home, we go to our favorite place. Yeah, nails,
we go, we get our we get our pan.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
It's our new thing too. Just in the last two years,
we're like, we love getting a pedicure. Like it's just
got to take care of your feet. You got it.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
It's the best.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Actually, we both have long toenails now.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, I know, we got to get to it.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Here's we're waiting to go back.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Oh, this is the thing. We went and got a
pedicure in December when I was home for Christmas break.
Then I had to go back to Blue Blood's from
excuse me January third to like March twenty fifth. So
in those three months I let my toenails go. I
could come back and enjoy the pedicure.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Right, It's literally what we're dealing with right now.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
I refuse to cut them because I'm like, they're going
to cut them.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, I want them to cut them. It's like saying
you want going to get into pedicure off and cut
all the nails. I know. I let them grow and
they literally curl over in my toe. And so every
day getting ready when I wake up for Blue bloods Now,
I gotta get dressed and put on my own socks.
Then I get to blue Blood's got to take off
my put on the blue Blood socks, then do that.
(35:31):
So four times a day, I'm putting socks on them.
But I gotta like curl my toes so I don't rip.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
The nails, pull them back.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
But there was nothing like coming home. I I literally
wrapped for the season. A week ago. I said, Jenny, look,
my toenails look like orange talons from hell. And I
was so happy when I went to the pedicure place.
I feel bad that the nail lady was not happy. Yeah,
of course she laughed at me, so she got a
good laugh at me. But yeah, it color.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Do you put some color on it? So we do.
We love choosing different colors, especially in the summertime, like boom.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
I know I have blue toenails right now.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
I know I have to get it done because it's
like it turns into like a French manicure, just at
the tips of color and the rest have grown out.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
I'm like, oh, that's not good.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
I gotta play a detective like manicure. It's like I
don't even like the buffet because it gets shiny.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. All right, before
I let you go, what do you what do we
have to binge on TV these days?
Speaker 2 (36:36):
What do you watch it?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Blue blots?
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Okay, well, we watched White Lotus. That's a little like
now love it. Right now, we're watching the Jury?
Speaker 1 (36:50):
What's that? I don't think I know the Jury?
Speaker 2 (36:52):
You haven't seen No, we haven't seen it.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
But it's wait was this with Brian Cranston James Martin?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
And it looks I saw of it the other day.
It looks so good.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
So here's the thing. It's floating around TikTok and Instagram.
So there's a real floating around where this guy is
a jury duty and he stands up and says something
crazy why he shouldn't be on jury duty, and like
he points to a guy in the courtroom and says,
he told me to say it. And it's like, what
am I watching here? And it turns out it's a
(37:29):
nonscripted show where there's a jury duty of a crime
that isn't real, of a courtroom that isn't real, with
a judge. Every single person is an actor except one person.
So funny, and the one person becomes the jury foreman
and thinks all this ship is real. He thinks the
(37:50):
trials real.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
That sounds I've seen a few clips of it, and
it looks it's like you're watching an episode of like
The Office.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
That's how it's kind of shocked. But like one in it.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
I'm kind of pissing that one guy's not in on it.
And and James Marsden is he's a juror, but he
doesn't want to be. He's like, I'm an actor. I'm me,
I'm famous, I can't I got I'm up for this
speaker movie. He never says what the movie is, but
it's supposed to be like a Tarantino movie or something.
He's pretending that he's playing himself, pretending that he's like
(38:21):
reading for a movie, and like so he's like now
he's like it's a Western. So he's like, now he's
walking around in character, like I'm method acting. Let's go
have a beer, right, So he's like, it's so outrageous.
And the cast they're all like unknown, but they're really funny.
(38:42):
You stay in character, in character, like all day long.
All it's out there. It's really out there. It's really fun,
all right.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
That one's going right to the top of the list.
That sounds amazing and.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Then one love it or hate it, but.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
We love every television show out there. Are what movie
do we need to watch right now? What's going on?
Speaker 3 (39:04):
I didn't see it, but I want to see it.
Spinning Gold, which is about Casablanca Records. Okay, So it's
like that label became massive in the seventies with like Kiss,
I think, Donna Summer, like all these bands and stuff
became super huge on this label. And I think, like
(39:28):
the movie came out like a few days ago and
it already fizzled out. Like I guess it was a
total box office flop, but that music was such a
time in my life that I'm desperate to see it.
So it's not I haven't had time to go to
a theater. It's not streaming yet, so but I guess
it flopped. So it's going to be on streaming really fast.
Because it's not gonna be in the theaters anymore.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
All right, well we'll look out for that.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
I don't know what other movies I've watched. I did
watch the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
That was the first already movie I ever saw, and
it still sticks with me today.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Yeah, I've seen it about twenty times, but not in
the last fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Does it hold up?
Speaker 3 (40:12):
It holds up.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Yeah, it still does.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Those movies so freaky the way they shot it. But
I gotta tell you, the first time leather Face pops
up and does what he does, I turned it off. Yeah,
something changed in me. I got a little crewe.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
It's kind of upsetting.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
It kind of makes me a little sick, like because
it was so Yeah, it's just so like gratuitously, like
I'm just gonna murder these people.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
There's not even you know that. It's just like it
gives you like a pin in your stomach.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
I got to rewatch that because that on. That one
definitely stuck with me for a long time. And yeah,
now now directors are trying to make their films look
like that because it doesn't. It makes it creepier when
it feels that something.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
It's like the original too. It was like half the
killing is just like in the middle of the middle
of the day so it's just.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
Like you're usually like ready for nighttime is going to
be creepy, but now they're just killing you in the
middle of the daylight where you think.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
You're supposed to be safe. I shouldn't have watched it.
It's kind of haunting me.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
Well.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
On that note, Donnie, thank you so much for joining
us on Frosted Tips. You are an amazing man, amazing father,
amazing husband, and I love I love everything that you do.
You've been so good to me. And yeah, I can't
I can't thank you enough for coming on the show.
How can everyone stay in touch with you?
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Instagram at Donnie Wahlberg, Twitter at Donnie Wahlberg and everyone
can find me. I'm so easy to find.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
You're everywhere.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Yeah, I tell you. Of all the gratitude we talked
about on this podcast and all this stuff, it's like,
the greatest gratitude I have on this planet is for
the Blockheads. They are They're just a godsend and they
give and give and give and give and give, and
(41:59):
they're just like watching the evolution of them from those
screaming girls and guys, we have a lot of guy
blockheads now yourself included. Thank you to watch the evolution
of them and to see how the amazing the adults
they've turned into when everyone just wrote them off as
being crazy little girls and who don't know anything, to
(42:21):
see how just awesome they are after all these years.
And look who's laughing now, Oh my god, you know
they're like they're calling the shots now. The top of
all that, it's like, like, I friendly with the editor
People magazine. She's a blockhead, She's funny.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
We said it all the time. The yeah, I was like, oh,
we're finally the age where our peers are now running
everything like this is great. Yeah, finally getting some good jobs.
All right, Donnie, thank you so much. We'll be talking
about you'll spin off there because Very Scary People is
one of our favorite shows, which we have to like
binge this last season. But thank you so much for
being on the show. I can't wait to see you again.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Here's my pleasure, and thank you guys for having me.
And you're hired.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
You heard it here first. All rybody, love you. We'll
see you later. Johnny Wahlberg. He I mean, look, I'm
not supposed to have favorites, right.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
But he's just the nicest.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
It's always been so supportive of all the thing I've done,
yes and just and he makes you feel good. He
like validates you.
Speaker 5 (43:22):
Yeah, everything he said, like like you know, he has
the reputation of like the tough one in the group,
but he's just the nicest and just a smart guy.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
And it's so much a good insight. I felt like
it was like a we're in a life coaching session.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
I feel like I was in therapy. Yeah, it was
like a ted talk Like I was like, wow, you're right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Like I should look for the gratitude and every.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Day it's true and hard to like I always break
out of it. There's things in these words that I
repeat all throughout the day just to remind you, remind you.
And the one is like humble, kindness, forgiveness, you know
those type of words. But I need to add that
word into it, gratitude focus and we have gratitude like
we write on our mirror and that type of stuff.
Like some gratitude.
Speaker 5 (44:02):
Yeah, when you're feeling upset and you're feeling about something,
it's always I do this. It's one of the only
thing that really helps me is like you focus on
all the amazing things you do have, and you're like, well,
in comparison, is this really.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
That much of an issue? Yeah, and it's so much
easier to get over.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
Yep, yep, yep. We'll go follow him and all his
social media accounts, Tony because he's a good one. We
love our Donnie, and I guess that's all the show
we have for you. I feel like there was something
else I needed to talk.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
Oh yeah, we have reviews.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
All right, guys, before I let you go, I told
you we've we've teased it before. But I'm going to
read some of your reviews and then we're going to
vote on which one we like. Okay, Okay, here we go.
This is from Doesn't say oh yeah, oh just love
this podcast at work. I love listening to this podcast
at work. Curps my day quick Joe ever does Turkey?
(44:50):
That's what it says that curps my day quick Joe River.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
I think I mean keeps my day quick.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
However, Okay does Turkey? Tchurch and get bored? He hardly talks.
Speaker 5 (44:59):
I only hardly talk on the interviews because I don't
really know the person and Lance's uh.
Speaker 1 (45:05):
I know, it's hard because I have such a bond
with so many of these people that were just literally
like talking like we're talking.
Speaker 5 (45:10):
I know, it's hard to like jump in and we
have a list of things to talk about and then.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
You can interrupt us. I don't care. Yeah, that's had
too much.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
You're not going to pinch me after I will not pinky.
Don't embarrass me in front of my listeners ever again.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Julie Jackson says, extra stars for the Curse.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
You're welcome. You're welcome.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
We got we got a one star review in the
past because we we said damn or something and we
had to put you know, the explicit on there and
so they gave it a damn. But this person gave
us those extra stars.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Hot damn.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Okay, thank you Mary. About two thousand and seven, you said,
Monday is my start to the work week. Have always
dragged into Lance and Turkey have graciously decided to make
my morning commute fun. I love listening to this podcast
every week, and I'm learning all sorts of things about
nineties boy bands I have never known. It feels like
I'm right there in the conversation with Lance Turkey and
the guest of the week. I feel like we've all
become bestie. All we have. Guys, Please continue this podcast
(46:08):
until I retire many years from now, so I can
keep enjoying an entertaining drive to work. Thanks so much
for your effort in making every Monday enjoyable for me.
Love MBPS. A show needs to be pitched at Bravo
called Real boy Bands, similar to Real Housewives. If Lance
were to be the cast in the show, what would
his tagline?
Speaker 2 (46:24):
I would love that show.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
You know, we used to have taglines like we'd always
pretend we're going to housewives and oh, I know mine,
I know mine. Hold on, it's coming to him, It's
coming to me.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
I remember it.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (46:35):
I may have been in a boy band, but I
can assure you I'm all man.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
That's it. That's it. What do you think about that? Marribeth,
what do you think?
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (46:44):
This one says I would give six stars if I could.
I love everything about the show, Turkey. I tried to
give you six stars, but it wouldn't let me.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
Oh thank you. If you hear a chorus in the background,
it's our shreaking babies.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
But yeah, that's that's our babies. We're teaching them harmony,
yeah we are.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
And they're trying to get They're trying to rate review
right now with their voices.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
All right, this is from a Alt Raleigh. This is
an interesting episode. This is the Ashley Parker Angel episode.
I'm not familiar with otown. I am particular about what
music I listened to. The only boy bands I like
are in Sync with an Eye by the way and
backsh you boys. I think they're more talent and have
better songs than n KOTV. We just had Donnie on
how dare you? Ah, how dare.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
And they give you four stars, us four stars.
Speaker 1 (47:27):
But I mean I'm gonna agree because I like our music.
Speaker 3 (47:29):
Sorry, yeah, of course.
Speaker 4 (47:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
And then US millennials have been through it and honestly,
this podcast is a little pocket of joy. Thank you
Lance for bringing this to us. Now, please I speak
for all of us, make the sync our union to
were happen. Okay, I'm want it. I'm gonna that was
Lisa ar Gallo Okay. And then our last one here,
heartbreak equal mended, Lance broke my little hetero heart, my childhood.
Now that we're both married and moved on. I don't
know that I'd be able to live without his frosted tips.
(47:53):
My nineties heart needed all of this boy band nostalgia.
Love you in Turkey so much.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
That's very sweet, Love you too, all right.
Speaker 1 (47:59):
So, which one of these are we to give a
special shout out? Who won?
Speaker 3 (48:03):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (48:04):
I mean I might have to go to Mary Beth
because that was a long one.
Speaker 2 (48:07):
I mean she wrote a small novel.
Speaker 1 (48:09):
Small novel which I appreciate, and she let me reveal
my housewife tagline. So Marybeth, congratulations. Shout out to you,
uh for the best review of the week. All right, guys,
that is all the show I have for you again.
You can review and subscribe and all that fun stuff.
Wherever you get your podcast, let's do it. Follow us
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Speaker 2 (48:32):
It's blowing up.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
It's blowing up. Yeah, all y'all are really liking the
TikTok so TikTok Instagram dm us there for all your questions,
uh and for the guests or for us or giving
us some good tips like baby tips on the tips
keep a baby in a crib because I was of
last night. Both of our kids are plopping out of
their crib. So we don't know what we're gonna do.
(48:56):
We tried, we tried doing it, just a big boy bed,
big girl bed. Didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
Took a last night.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
He was hitting her up beside the head of the
bottle all night. Oh my gosh. It's a lot. This
parenting thing is a lot, guys, it's a lot. But yeah,
we're figuring out. I think we're gonna get those little
sleep sacks where they can't lift their leg over, so
hopefully that works.
Speaker 2 (49:15):
Literally the only thing we can do, I know.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
All right, guys, be good to each other, don't drink
and drive, take care of those animals, and remember always
stay frosted. Hey, thanks for listening. Follow us on Instagram
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