Joey Fatone (*NSYNC)

God Must Have Spent a Little More Time On… Joey Fatone! That’s a fact that has never been more apparent than right now!  This episode almost seems too good to be true as Joey recalls his first impression of Lance, his honest opinion of his talents and what went down the first time Joey met JC and Justin. 

Plus, wait until you hear the details of a prank Lance once played on Joey, that included  a cop that wanted payback.

This episode is guaranteed ‘tearin’ up your heart’ material.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is Frosted Tips with Lance Basso podcast, Hello My
Little Peanuts sits me or host Lance Bass. This is
Frosted Tips with Me Lance. And today I do not
have my co host Michael Church in again because as
you know, we've had some travel problems. But I'm rolling

(00:26):
solo today because I got a man who know needs
no introduction. It's Mr Joey. Thank you. You got a
man who sometimes feels like a man and sometimes feels
like a woman. It feels like it all times to
feel like a nut. It all depends times. Don't When
you say hey my it sounds like you're saying, hey,
my penis. I know that when I started that my penis,
when I had my first little penises. When I have

(00:47):
my first talk show on another platform, we will not
mention penises. I don't know what it was. It was.
It was a live show two hours a day, and
I didn't know what I was doing. I mean, the
only radio I've ever done was us doing like you know,
interviews within saying I was I was around. I heard
about it and they were just like, okay, peanuts go
you're live, like uh, And for some reason it just

(01:08):
came out, Hey, my little peanuts. I don't know, and
so I call my my listeners out there, my little peanuts.
And yes, it sounds like like penis, sounds like little penis.
Why don't you say at least big, Hey have my
big penis? My little penis? Better to say that way,
It was little, my little penis. That's what I say
every morning. Are you in a good morning little guy?

(01:29):
Morning Penis? Are you like we said in a previous
episode with Jonathan Knight, we're edgy? Now we're edgy. You
could say things like poop, Yeah, we're cool, dukey, right,
we're just trying to pill to the gen z or yeah,
well you know what, well, if we were doing that,
I'd be um doing this live right now. Well, as

(01:50):
you know, folks, this show is all about catching up
with our favorite pop icons. Yes, especially boy banders, because
you're you're an icon joy for many reasons, not great reasons,
but any reason. No, many reasons, but we want, you know,
for us it We want to give you tips on life. Right.

(02:11):
We are now at an age where we feel like
we're experts on everything. I don't know about experts. We've
been we'll call it seasoned. You've been seasoned. Is your
beard colored okay, because you know you know why though
you know why though, because we were shooting something that
I can't say it can now because no, it has
an air. No. Yeah, happy birthday by the way, you
appreciate that. But you know what, sometimes I color it anyway,

(02:32):
I do color it, but I do come. Well, here's
the difference. I will tell you I'm coloring it. I don't.
I don't care. Same thing like my hair. I got
plugs right now. I got these plugs about a couple
of months ago and they're still slowly growing and it
looks awful. And that's why I have a hat on right. Okay,
that's a good tip we can start out with right now.
Everybody has no The new thing right now, especially for men,

(02:54):
is hair plugs. And it's so open and honest. And
the crazy thing is that all my friends are doing it. Now.
You just did it. You fly to Turkey, Yes, I've done.
I've done. Actually I did. I did it here in
California twice and then in Turkey. It is way deeper
and they fly you out, well, they don't fly you out,
but they will put my friends. The flight was covered,

(03:14):
the hotel was covered, everything was included. What did they
do though? They just you know this like you knowin
and they gave him money though or was it it
was like I think maybe five thousand dollars exactly what bucks.
They took care of the hotel though. That took care
of the hotel and the pickup. The only hand to
care was it was the flight. When in there, everything
was great, like a factory. Yeah, it's weird. Well, it's

(03:35):
funny because when you go back home the next morning, oh,
we got to start. When you go to to leave
to travel, you see so many people with their heads
wrapped up. Many I'm not exaggerating. I saw about ten
other people with the same stupid wraps that I had,
because it was all like this, it's a headband because
of the compression, and then this whole weird looking thing
on the other side. It was odd. Do you did
you get out and see turkey at all? I didn't

(03:56):
see nothing. I saw the car, I saw traffic. I
saw my head in a little thing that I saw.
My head gets shaved. I went, oh, my gosh, I've
never shaved my head. It looks like an egg head,
but actually looked. I was pleasantly surprised that if my
head is ever shaved, it doesn't look bad, but I
will say as it starts to grow in, it looks horrible.
We I mean, we as in Sync performed in Turkey, right,

(04:16):
I know we did Hungry a lot, but Booty Fest
is what we called it. It was that was booted pest.
That was all The girls were so gorgeous. Well not
only that, but remember that we were doing this, well
we can go into this forever. But everybody was like, oh,
making out and everyone as we were driving by the
actual venue, I remember that and then wasn't the one
where it was Finland where that was where it was
like twenty four hours of sunlight that everyone was like

(04:38):
doing that bushes. But yeah, booty Fest not great place
for me as a gay man to go these. Yeah,
but you know we're here there and I hear Egypt
is probably not another good place. No, we don't want
to know. It's okay, yeah, but I would like to,
like I would love to go. Let's go, you know.
Uh see, look, we have your first tip off the bat.

(04:58):
First tip. I don't have any frosted tips. You have
frosted tips, though I've had frosted I've had red, I've
had pink, I've had many different colors of my hair.
I was trying to we were going through a list
of people that we would like to have on the
show eventually, and you know, we're starting out with boy bands,
you know, because it's like, you know, I think what
everyone kind of wants to listen to. But then you
really opened the world to all these people that were

(05:20):
kind of known for the frosted tips from Martin McGrath,
Ryan Seacrest. I mean even like Hillary Duff had frosted tips.
Um And I was saying, I got my frosted tipts
because a sword from Aqua. How funny is that? Because
I actually had my hair dyed red because of Lena
and now they're married, then shocking, Wait didn't you dating?

(05:44):
I don't know we could. We can talk about no
one's I don't think anyone's ever. That's a that's a
dirt one that no one's ever really finally, because we
need something that's gonna get picked up out of the
pare right, all right? So you were really friends with
Lena from Aqua. This was a long while. We were
really close with her. Me and you were really close
we met. Gosh, we met one of the one of
the I think was the smash Hits road show, if
I'm not just thinking where we met the first time

(06:04):
Germany and I was actually I think it was we
were yeah, me and my, me and my we were separated,
mean my ex wife that were actually said it was
the first time we ever actually broke up. That was
kind of our high school sweetheart. That's hard and it
was tough man. Yeah, it was sixteen. And then, believe
it or not, me and Lena Lena Noystrom hit it
off really well. We just hung out. We had a
great time. But then the weird thing was that she
was like, I remember we were in I think it

(06:25):
was Spain, and then we went to Germany or something.
It was for during New Year's and then we flew
from New Year's back home and she flew back with
us because we went to drive and we got her
belly button correct, yes, And then we went to Universal
where there was a lot of interesting things, and she
actually came where we were recording in the studio. She
came by. She I was shocked that she was gonna
cut with me, and she hung out with me for
two weeks. He was lovely. I was straight. She would

(06:47):
definitely been. She still listed his day. Man, she still listened.
You talked to every once in a while, and she
had she has kids, and yeah, every every blue every
once in a while, every blue moon. I do well
say maybe we can. You know, I was very devastated
to find out that that tattoo is not real. Um,
I'm like, like, what that is? Correct? I know the secret.

(07:09):
You have to put that damn tattoo on our every
day every day. I think she I think I have
one of them. She gave me one, and she did.
I think she did. You didn't you didn't frame it? No,
not your memory. But but oh god, Joey and I
danced around. I'm kidding, No I didn't. But yeah, it's weird.
You know that back in the day. You know, just
in general, you know when you fall in love or
you think you fall in love and you think something's crazy,

(07:30):
but it's like like those moments are always interesting. You
think you're falling in love with everybody. I no, I didn't. Well, yeah,
maybe I didn't. I thought I fell in love with everything. Um,
what was it like growing up in benson Hurst? Did
you say say it like that benson Hurst. You just
say b K. It's benson Hurst, benson Hurst, benson Hurst.
Not fun growing up in Brooklyn, benson Hurst, Brooklyn, benson Hurst.

(07:51):
So there's Brooklyn, right, there's Williamsburg. There's a whole bunch
of little places. How many little sections of Brooklyn are there?
There's a lot. I don't know all of them specifically,
Just like, no, it's pretty big, Brooklyn's pretty bad. I
just can't imagine growing up in New York. I I mean,
I it's so well being young for me, I guess
I never really was old enough to really ride the train,

(08:13):
as I think as I got older, I was train twin. Dude.
I didn't move. I moved from New York to Florida
was thirteen. So would you go to Manhattan a lot
or you know? I never? Well, I never did because
I never. I wasn't I wasn't old enough. I remember
the one time though, I did go with my sister.
We went to the Palladium, which I was so excited
because that's where they filled your MTV, MTV Wraps Club,
MTV with Julie Brown, Downtown, all of them crazy. The

(08:37):
cool thing about them was is it was Yeah. It
was one of the times I've ever went to a
place with my sister and it was down at Club MTV,
and it was the coolest thing because you see it
on TV. It's like one of the first sets I've
ever been on to see something like you know, I've
seen this on TV and this is something that is
that what inspired you to go in entertainment, I think
my uncle and my dad really inspired that. Was a
singer my dad in a band together. They were it

(08:58):
was called the Orions. Uh many many moons ago over
a young little band but nothing popular. Years later, your
dad would be opening up for us. Some guy actually
had money and invested in them, so they bought like
in your monitors. They got this. The guy wanted to
do it. So there was like these old dudes performing
and opening up Forensic. Well it was fun because you know,
to be able to have the opportunity to give friends

(09:21):
and family an opportunity to open up for us. I
think that was so fun because we've always had people
didn't open like you know, but my boy Eric, who's
is out of his mind, I love him. He wanted
he wanted to. He opened up. He opened up a
few times like in Hawaii, and I think he opened
up in New York. Nobody knew who he was. I
never had an album or a record, but I think
it was his fast there because we we did bring

(09:42):
Ronnie ROZERI has been up there before before he started
doing stuff. So we've got a lot of people that
will just to be able to give those opportunities as
great because we know wish them luck and hopefully someone
can discover. But we would have Pink and Britney spearits
your dad, Oh yeah, my girl Meredith Edwards um which
that tour really because I think it was the pop
Odyssey tour that she opened up for us. Her album

(10:02):
went top five just from we were going to have
Jack de Fayo, a friend of ours, but then nobody
wanted him. And then all of a sudden, Keith Ivan
came out, and then that's when long Hair and Areans
came out, which was hysterically well. I mean, then Swift
came out right after Meredith, and she was a sixteen
year old country singer and it was like they'll that'll
never work. That'll never work, and a couple of years
later kills him like uh, and then she had already
left music, became a lawyer. Uh and then uh Ryan

(10:27):
tedor yeah, he was opened up for us for a
few uh nights too. Good times, good times. What was
one of your first memories of me? First memory of you?

(10:49):
Oh my god, and knowing specifically and you can be
real like yeah, I mean because obviously just looking at me,
you were probably like, what is this red nute? Well
we went like this. We went to the dude has
a bowl cut head. First of all, um, it was
a little bit like Ellen de generes um. Well, yeah,
we were trying to figure it out. We're like, Lance,
all right, can he dance? So we actually the first
thing was really initially I don't know anything about dancing. Well,

(11:11):
here's the thing. We didn't even hear you. Robin Widey
heard you on the phone, so none of us actually
got a chance to hear you. He they said you
could sing a low f is thin is what it was,
and you sang it over the phone blah blah bos.
And then we tried to convince your mom to to
for for us to get you over here. And then
we finally got you to Orlando. We looked and like, okay,
let's looks pretty cool. You know we we we met
like literally, I think maybe two or three other people.
That's all we met, though. So we went and we

(11:33):
took him. We we we actually sang together, which sounded
freaking amazing. We learned, uh a manner was really the
first thing we ever did. And then I think a
little bit of I thought she knew. We started to
learn towards the end whatever when when when you started
to saying us? But his mom said no officially at first,
and we brought him to Pleasure Island where you gotta dance.
He had to make sure. So we still there the
test and he was grooving a little bit. I was like,

(11:54):
all right, and we're looking at him. I'm like, he's
got potential as far as dancing, but he's he's white.
He is he's white. He's white. He's white. He's dancing
Like but these things freaking ridiculous. The blend that we
have was amazing, and we all got along really well.
I mean we knew that it was interesting because he
was the only one that nobody else really knew. So
he was very quiet first. He was the shy one
it first. I was quiet all eight years we were together. No,

(12:16):
we went that quiet Yeah, I hung out with you.
You talked not to maybe to everybody. We shared a
bus together, remember, oh yeah, I still remember that smell. Yeah,
but that was that was because of your chinchilla's. It
was because of your week whatever. And what was the
other one your ferrett I had? That was it. I
had my my min pitt and that was it. We
had a zoo on our freaking bucks. I mean we

(12:37):
were the cool bus, right. Darren Dell was there as well,
my Mississippi friends. See, that was what was so fun.
Not only do you get to, you know, have friends
pop up on stage, you know, on your tour, but
being able to let your friends just come out on
the road. And every single time my Mississippi friends would
come out, you know, because I was in high school, right,
I mean these are still my closest friends. They would

(13:00):
be so exhausted after three days not doing anything, just
my friends will be like, yeah, I'm ready to a party.
Whoa And we take him out for two days and
I'm like yeah, They're like, what are we doing. I'm like,
We're going out. He's like again, what do you mean
We're going out again? I'm like, yeah, dude, let's go
because I'm tired. I'm like, I don't care, let's go.
I remember that. But my first year, my first impression
with you was definitely potential. I think we can we

(13:24):
can definitely have a lot of fun and hopefully make
something of this. We didn't, you know, again, we were
so young. We really didn't know. It was like group
songs cool at first, you know what I mean. At
first it's the initial thought about it, and then you
get into it, and then you know, came into Do
you remember the first time you met each of the
other guys? I know, you and j C kind of
went to school. I knew j C and Just and

(13:44):
mostly j C just because of the Mickey Mouse Clubs
shot in Orlando, Florida, So he did go to the
high school that I went to, but also Jim McGill,
Milon Brooks and a couple of the other cast members
of the NMC. Yeah, she's awesome, she's still good. She um.
They they I used to obviously knew them in high school,
so he really wasn't didn't go to the school all
the time because he was tutored most of the time.
So when they were done shooting, he would go back home.

(14:05):
But for him. We actually hung out with each other
a bunch of times. And then when Justin came in
with the show, obviously I hung out with him a
few times. And it's weird because those two guys I knew.
But then with Chris, Chris worked at Universal and so
did I, so it was a different venue that Chris
worked at, singing Hollywood high tones. So when he's sang that,
you know, I ran into him a bunch of times.
So it was really weird to see all of a
sudden out of nowhere at Pleasure aroundand before you were there,
Lands was We went out, and I guess that's always

(14:27):
the meeting point for some reason. I don't know why,
but that's weird, but it was. It was a cool place,
especially under Yeah. Yeah, that's the place to go. You
want to do we want to feel like, yeah cool,
we like the seventies. H j C was telling me
the story, which I've never even heard before on the
first episode, and he was saying, I think the first
time that you all officially met was in a parking
lot at his apartment something. Yes, it was an apartment. Wow,

(14:50):
he remembered that. Crap. I do remember that. It was
when I was with my friend Diane and I think
my mom. No, Diane Riley, friend of mine from high school,
she I think it was. I don't know it was.
It wasn't his birthday. I think it was somebody's birthday.
And it was in the parking layer of the complex
where they were staying at. So it was the first
time I met him. You know, j C is very
hard to crack, right, I mean it's like you want
him to get tell stories, but so PC about everything safe.

(15:14):
So glad that you're on the show because maybe I
can get some real stories at it. I don't know.
I mean you hung around like making mouse Club era
kid Jim McGill everything. They're they're teenagers, right, there must
have been there must have been so much sex happening
between those casts. You know. What's funny, though they get
I've never seen anything like that. There was, there was
some drinking. I knew them know that there was sixteen

(15:35):
years all kind of were, but I've never I see,
I never hung out with him on set to know
what was going down in that sense. Well, I don't
think they're doing it on set. I'm talking about you
have to work. I don't know, but I did I
did Dave Jim Miguel, I did da Jim Magel. Yes,
I took her out to Prom. I never knew that.
I knew you went to Prom. I didn't know that, y'all. Yeah,
we kind of well, that's what that was the That
was the dating. That was kind of the moment. And

(15:56):
then then we got older and we go, what are
we doing? Friends? Been of dating? I mean you're now single?
You were, I mean you were with your high school
sweetheart for years, dated ten, married for ten. Two beautiful girls,
one I can't believe is almost graduating Corona Banna is
graduating college. And then the other thirteen now just turned thirteen.

(16:19):
Is crazy. Yeah, old people crazy. Um, can you give
us some tips since this is cold frosted tups uh
and you have kids, Yeah, we'll give us some tips
on co parenting when you when you finally want to
come and move in with me, we'll be single fathers
that you know what. That's the exact premise of our
first sitcom that we were developing twenty years ago, remember that,
so we had It was before c W was c W.

(16:41):
It was it was U, P N and W. The
marriage though they're emerging and so we were the first
sitcom they were going to produce at Fremantle, And so
Joe and I were gonna be it's gonna be about
our lives, exaggerated versions of ourselves. This is before I
was gay, right and he was. It was like the
odd couple. Yeah, very odd couple. But the premise was
that you were just broken up, You're getting a divorce

(17:03):
and you have to like move in with me, um,
which was so not the truth. But at the time
we were always I was always coming to your house
and staying with you when I was in l A.
So it was kind of that vibe. But it kind
of became the truth, which is weird, which is fift
years later, like oh ship, we just believe it or not.
That's kind of happening with my friends of mine. I

(17:23):
always wanted to have this a storyline almost like, uh,
I don't want to give away too much because I
was gonna steal it away. Well, it's basically a storyline
with two my other buddies though, and some of it's
actually coming true because I even said it's imagine and
this is before when I was married. I's imagine if
I was divorced and my buddy Karma got divorced and
Richie you know, blah blah blah, we all live together
and this this, this, that would be a great sitcom.
I'm divorced, buddy Karma. Is it's all coming true? Maybe

(17:46):
you should not say anything anymore about that kind of stuff.
But but parenting, you know what, you know, getting back
to that, it's it's it was at first. It's always
a challenge. I mean for people that have have you know, again,
people always think you know your celebrity when you get
divorced or you know, you have the kids, you can
do the naanies. You had the money and you got
this and that. Well, it's irrelevant. I think all all
of that money and all that ship is really irrelevant.

(18:07):
It's really what matters with the kids, especially if you
have kids. Um, it's more of less of making sure
you're creating that time for each other. Because again, when
I first got divorce from me, I didn't know what
to do. Or on top of that, I thought I
was gonna lose my kids because I honestly thought, you
know what, I I screwed up. Something may happen. I
don't know what that's. You know, she may go, you
know what, I'm gonna take the kids. So I didn't
know what was happened until we had a mediator. We

(18:28):
kind of got our differences, thank goodness, in a good order.
And then basically, so listen, we're gonna split custody, and
I get my kid pretty much every other week if
I'm not working or on the road sometimes working. She'll
work around my schedule, which I love Kelly for. She's
been doing absolutely great and amazing job, but she Yeah,
there's times that that I that I'm lily am gone.
But I'll try to get them every other week. And

(18:48):
I think that's key because when I first did it,
I didn't know what the hell I was doing at first.
And this is when my kids were One was what
three years old at the time, I think, and Brianna
was only about ten or twelve. I think of about
that raising two kids on your own. You know, you
do got joint custody, but you're literally left and it
dust to go where your ex goes figure it out,

(19:09):
you go. But I love that right at the beginning,
which to me it would be awkward. I guess it
depends on how you end things a situations, but you
are always on family vacations together, and I mean we
were like, damn, we are doing this co parenting thing. Good.
We we try, you know, we we we go and
we go. Just like anything, it's ups and downs, you know.
We we've been getting together now a lot more often,
you know, being able to spend time with our kids

(19:30):
together as a group. And you know, sometimes you don't
see eye to eye to each other, and that's normal.
That's it's life. You know. Sometimes I've seen parents where
they divorced and they hate each other, and you they'll
never get back together, like even just in the same room.
And it's like, is that fair to the kids. I'm
not saying you gotta be colder and suck it up,
but you know what, life is too damn short to
kind of hold a lot of grudges or whatever has
gone on where you need to move on from life,

(19:51):
and you know what, maybe you able to co parent
and be able to bring that other significant other into
that as well or not. You know, it's it's a
tough situation. But I think time is what really really
is important, and that's the tip I think when getting
divorced and when when spending time with your kids it's
not a fan of therapy, you know, I have nothing
wrong with that, just going and get a mediator in
front of you talk it out. I mean, who knows
there are people get afraid of like being, you know,

(20:13):
therapists as up. There's nothing wrong with that. I consider
it like being like you know, you're going to get
your your car a tune up. You need some sort
of tune. You need things a little bit cleaned up.
You need things like spaced out. You need to figure
if you need someone to call out your ship. Yeah,
that's what it means. You can't see yourself a lot
of the times, like where you don't want to believe
what other person says because you're already mad at that person.
So I wouldn't want to leave your ship. Now, all right,
let's rerund again back to Universal Studios. The great thing

(20:35):
about you know, basing ourselves in Orlando at that time.
I love Disney, I love Universal. We live right across
the street, so we could go all the time. You
were still working at the Beetlejuice Graveyard Review, which was
one of my favorite shows. So it's all the the Wolfman,
It's Dracula, the Bride of Frank It's done, and Beetle
Juice and this review, this musical review, and you played

(20:56):
the wolf Man. I've played the wolf you killed Weather
and sometimes a hundred and it was only a little
shed that covered it, and it was the sides were open,
and it was was that based on Michael J. Fox's Wolfman?
Because you kind of like that? It was it was
kind of that that version. I guess, I don't know.
It's well, actually it's the original old school uh monsters.
I think when he transforms, it's kind of the team
Wolf feel to it. I believe is what it was.

(21:18):
But it was really I think the cool idea about
it was when they first started really doing it, but
then they changed. It was kind of like me, but
they changed the words and they did classic iconic songs
and they changed the words pertaining to the to the characters,
which I thought was really cool. As they started to
go on more and do different things, it got a
little different. But it's crazy how many people have come
out of Universal or where I lived in general. You know,
you had myself. J C actually was part of Beetle Juice.

(21:41):
He was Oh my god, he was I forgot he
joined that what happened, because what happened was we weren't
getting any jobs and things weren't picking, Like what are
we doing? So j C's like, I gotta work. So
he went and got the job and he was gonna
work with me. Uh he he did. He got put
in for Dracula, he did. I was there for the
for his rehearsal and his put in. I think I
remember literally after that we got signed and we were going, yeah,

(22:03):
I think you did it once or twice. I totally forgot. No,
I definitely went to go see him. I forgot about that.
I remember he did that, and then that's when. Is
there a footage of that? That would be great? No,
I have no idea. I thought there was, or at
least a picture. I think there's gonna be some pictures
somewhere of him. Oh my god, because he had the
Caesar head, he had the Caesar haircut. Yes, he did well.

(22:24):
I mean, friends was a huge thing. That was that was,
that was the thing. Um So you also have dabbled
in opening your own restaurants. Um so we need to
know the tip on opening. I would say, don't do it.
Don't do it. That's why I have a food truck. Now, yeah,

(22:44):
I did a breaking mortar over in a in a mall.
I did that for about a good year. The crazy
thing about that one was is you got a small
square footage room and then the rent was very expensive
a month. So I was like, wait a minute, Um,
I'm not making any money. I'm just breaking out. Even so,
we decided to do a food truck and right now
we literally have been doing the food truck. It's it's
it's it is a tough business. I've I've me personally.

(23:07):
It's it's definitely a labor of love for some people
that you know, like a lot of subrides will slap
on their name and like, oh you know, I'm just
gonna do this, and they open up and people do
all the work. I did it, from tasting the hot dogs,
to the decor, to the logo to what the flavor taste.
They're good man, They're they're black Angus beef man. That's
what we use. But we do all these different kind
of combinations. And it's funny enough that for a while

(23:29):
when I did have the actual store there store though,
we did a boy band dogs those little mini hot
dogs that had five little hot dogs. I want the
frosted tips. How did you make frosted tips on your
mini dogs? Know that? Well, a little bit of relish,
a little bit of green relishy. But it was cool.
It was fun like that kind of stuff is fun
to do, and and and people. I was like, Oh,
you're gonna branch it out, you know, I said, I

(23:52):
actually am still learning about the business. I don't. I
don't feel as if I'm a percent ready yet to
open them up and franchise it yet, to be totally
honest with you. So right now, I've been living. Have
a team, Look, I have, That's why I'm not That's
why I'm building one. So that's why I haven't really
messed with it. I don't want to. I don't want
to have ascet. That's that's what I don't want to do. Yeah,
I have a couple of kitchens in West Hollywood, and
I don't know what the hell I mean. There's no

(24:12):
way IM I do entertainment and that is it. My partners.
But you have to have the team to do it
because it is a horrible business to get into and people,
and just in any business for that matter, you need
a good team of people. Did you shoul know, we're
supporting you and helping you out and beat on your side.
But then you have all these huge and you know,
big companies buy up all these restaurants and then you
just can't compete. So like what we're having a problem

(24:34):
with now after COVID is you know, keeping staff and
we'll finally like train someone in the kitchen for a
month and finally that oh great, you're getting our food right,
and then SBO come in and be like, oh yeah,
we're proaching them like god, So like you can't keep
anyone when you're like small dog. Yeah, So it's it's tough, man,
It's tough in that world. That's why. That's why I
liked it though, still doing it small though, I'm not

(24:55):
like going crazy and bring your trucks to l A.
I mean, this is it. Food trucks are my baby.
You know, you don't want to let your baby go
all right away and true and true and true. Um,
all right, let's take a little break and we come back.
We got Joey for tone, and we're going to go
through our team magazine questionnaire like we always do and
see if your answers match my answers are going to

(25:17):
be impeccably matching. That's a big word for you, Joe Dude,
that's a final a word. I'm not trying to be sophomore.
So welcome back to for ust to tips. Got Joey

(25:38):
for town today. Um My husband is out being daddy right? Well, yes,
we know he's out. He's in here. That's what we're
talking about. He'll be. I swear he will be on
every other show going forward. Are you sure? Yes? Because
every if I'm gonna get another call, phone call again,
I'm gona started asking for his check. Another birthday shout
out again. Have a birthday, Joey and Mr Nick Carter

(25:58):
you share birthday? Happy a thing, Nicholas, Yes, and also
Mr Justin timber Lake. First. You know who else was
our birthday and the same day though? Is Joseph Gordon Levitt.
I don't know why I know all this stuff. He's
not a boy man, so we don't care. But you
know what, he wanted to be a boy man. Yes,
Oh dude, you need to interview that dude. Okay, okay,

(26:20):
hear get on it, dude, seriously, he was, Yeah, he
wanted to be. He looks like he would be. He's
a good singer. Yeah, I could sing. You know, there's
a lot of fun people that you know, grew up
on our music and like Ristance, Darren Chris like you know,
actor great and then you get to know them and
you realize, Wow, they went to college for music. They

(26:41):
write singers, people like I played four teenagers like I
play like the kazoo, the kazoom. Yeah, I'm a vision
a visionist, So I do feel like I run into
a lot of people in the business that definitely deserved
to be in a band more than I did. Well,
here's a difference though some people, but some people are
are are straight up musicians, meaning some people are really

(27:02):
good writers, you know, just like you got Justin and
you got j C for instance, coming from the group
Amazing Writers. I'm not a great writer. I'll come up
with some stupid ass line or something dirty or something
that's just me. But however, you know, in the same
thing that that you've done, come up with concepts. We
do a lot of concepts. Ideas we come up. We're
very creative in that sense, you know, coming up with
the stage and coming up with the videos, coming up
with just all these other kind of ideas. But again

(27:25):
that's where that's where we excel. So it's kind of
it was kind of a nice thing as far as
a group of us. Do you remember the first video
we wrote together? First video we wrote together, I think
it was was it the Marionettes Job You Crazy? Oh? Yeah,
that's right, it was. It was when we was trying
to get Yeah, we're trying to be a different boy
band than we were. Spice Girls were Jackson five And

(27:48):
then I remember the other one that we regret together
was probably nothing, No, no, no. I wanted to yes
and please tell everyone your original idea because well, politic
incorrect of what we're about to say right now and
teenager not thinking correct. But but this is how I
got the idea though it was basically weird Al Yankovic

(28:08):
from listening to eat it so when he didn't makeup
and being very large, I wanted to do it to
where we were in fat suits and made up and
we were singing to a piece of cake that was
locked up in a in a class couldn't get to it. Yeah,
that was his idea. That was my idea. At all
ideas are good, people, not all ideas are great. We've
come up with some interesting one. So that's a good one. Well,
but then we didn't did do the Insane Asylum. We

(28:30):
did do that and used all of our girlfriends. Well
why not because I was I was secretly dating Daniel
fishal at the time. I didn't want to get that out.
Remember watching you making out with Daniel Fish at one
time at a club and cool? We made out a
lot o Cancus, like I do I remember Cancun, so
we don't. We didn't have many days off, but we

(28:51):
did have spring break off one year. I don't know how.
We're like, we're going, well, first, yeah, just me and you.
We were going to go to uh, Costa Rica because
I always wanted it because I always want to go
to Costa Rica because they had chattering monkeys. I don't
even know what a chattering monkey is, but it sounds awesome.
So we were in trans Content Company Airline whatever, trans

(29:14):
Con was booking our flights and everything. Two days before
they're like, oh, they messed something up and it just
we ended up going yeah, and we're like, well, where
do we go? Like, let's just go to Cancoon. We
go to Cancoon so much fun. You remember what happened club?
Remember the club. Okay, so you know when people think
phone parties are really fine, Yeah, so why not do it?

(29:34):
Not knowing that the phone goes all the way on
top of you and it's literally in the for some
reason in this club. It was in the in the club,
and it is I'm not kidding you, a can exaggerabably
like neck neck high and we're five at the time,
five seven five at in that sense, not knowing that
whatever they throw in there, whatever soap SuDS, they go
me and him, or they use like don yeah, me

(29:55):
and him, or hammered and we're in there for hours
just dancing or everyone. This is so like aw sexual
and amazing. The next morning was the next I lost
my watch. First of all, I lost my when we
walked out. It was like we walked out ten minutes
after we walked out. First off, we had been out
in the sun all day, so I got really sunburned
because I am white as hell, um, so I'm very sunburned.

(30:18):
Ten minutes after leaving the club, we take one of
those trolleys back to the hotel and we're like that
was so fun. Then all of a sudden freezing everything
starts to get tight and then We're like, what the
hell has happened? Into? It hurts and everything was like
cracking because we were in there so long that our
skin was drying. It was drying out so literally I'm
not getting lands was like your face of like what

(30:40):
the hell is going on? The next day too, it
was off. We didn't leave the hotel room because like
you couldn't wash it off either. I don't know why
you couldn't wash it off with sunburned peeling, just a lizard.
It was horrible. So do not go to phone parties
in Mexico, right, don't do that. That's your that's your
frost to Mexico. Don't go to me. That's a good tip.
You don't do that. Used on they had, I mean

(31:01):
it was it was. Yeah. I think now that I've
seen it a lot of times they use it like
in the pool because it's a lot easier because then
I just well, I'm sure they have SuDS that are
not you know, now the probably you know who knows,
you know, hypoellogenic and you know you got there. Okay,
that was good time. Though I lost my I told you,
I think I lost my watch. I don't bringing up
this watch. I was so piste off because I remember
I was going through the floor and the SuDS trying

(31:22):
to look for the damn thing. Do you know how
many pairs of sunglasses I've had at the bottom of
that lake that Johnny Wright had? An only imagine because
you know, jet skin was my I was speaking of.
I do have the Team magazine questionnaire from December jet
skins in there. Uh, jet skin was my hobby in
this in this nice magazine. But let's see what your hobby. Okay,

(31:45):
what was it my hobby with either collecting Superman stuff? Uh?
What else was my hobby? Going? Jet skin? I think
it was another one, and bowling or something like that,
and all counts. Your hobbies were dancing and flirting is
one of them. And watching movies. That is such a
great hobby. I like watching movies. What else were we

(32:05):
gonna do back in the day when we were seventeen? December?
What was your favorite film? Oh? My gosh, well, it's
either Really Wanting the Chocolate Factory. It's an eighties movie, though,
isn't it. Nope, Son of a one of them. I
don't know what the second one is, but this was
very not goonies. Goonies Nope. The first one was Billy Madison,
which still is amazing to that that's probably okay, yeah,

(32:26):
probably yes. And then I've never heard of this film.
But my life, oh yeah, that that got me for
a good one. There is that My life is with Keaton,
Michael Keaton. If I'm not mistaken, um, I think it's
passing with cancer or someone that's I think that's what
it is. When I was taking no, no no, it's but
it's a good tea. Yeah, it's a good it's a

(32:48):
very hard felt that's that's showing you my funny side
in my sensitive Do you like do you like to
cryme movies? Now? As I'm older, I I don't like
it because I do it a lot easier now. I
think that's like, there's no dude, once I once I
had kids, Wait until the first recital. Wait, it's the
first recital when they're clanking on ship, just bagging. It
doesn't make any sense that you're hearing that's crying from

(33:11):
a different one. No, you're crying because your kids clanking
and clanking on stupid shit right now, or when the well,
if the kid picks up a passion, starts singing or
dancing it's a wrap. That's the one thing. Like, of
course it's be cute that the kids are gonna do
all that kind of stuff. But I really am not
looking for because I've been to so many kid plays, right,
I think you saw me lose it once though? Did

(33:31):
you see me lose it? I think when it was
when it was Father's Day. It was the first time
I ever got a Father's Day gift, and and Kelly
sent me a book with Brianna and it was all
these different things. And I was sitting there opening up
and we were on tour though, and I don't I
don't if it was you were somebody else and I
freaking lost it, and you know, yeah, I mean if
I see a kid like hurting a movie or anything like,

(33:52):
it's just like it hits me. I'm like you, you
would never that funny though, you would never think it
doesn't add of nowhere. It just it literally it does.
It's smacks you in the freaking face. I read Hallmark
cards now I can cry. I'm serious. It's a tear jerk.
Or you know when the kid opens up the box
and he says, I when I adopted off, Uh there
is it is the month of December, Joey Fittone is

(34:14):
being an asked by Bot magazine, who are your favorite
movie stars? Wow? At that time? What years it? Again?
Tom Hanks might be one of them that would that
was mine, but now yours because you obviously had no taste.
I have no clue. It probably probably Adam Sandler, okay,
faced Billy Madison. I don't know. It's very Robert de Niro,

(34:39):
I mean as a New Yorker. Yeah, but it's it
isn't amazing how things change after a few years. But
your legs are course. I mean that's a good thing.
Except when I went through mine, everything was exactly the same.
Like I'm not just playing. I've changed a lot, and
I haven't mg a lot. Uh, you said Jodie Foster
and Robert DeNiro. Yeah you still like Yeah, Joe still

(35:03):
a great action right. Uh? Your favorite food Italian especially chicken?
Parmersanre It says lasagna. Yeah, the funk was I I
like chicken? Apparently your loves what are your loves? My loves?
Like what do I love? Yeah? Also my family Superman

(35:25):
collecting Superman stuff? Do you still collect a lot of
Superman stuff? Are you? I have a storage unit full
of Superman stuff. There's certain things that I see that
there are something different. I will still pick up something,
but it's it's it's definitely dwindled down. But I still
I have everything in the storage unit, like everything, and
I have like T shirts, watches. I'm just marrying it
from the nineteen fifties. I have a couple of old

(35:46):
comic books as well, obviously never having an original one.
That's a yeah. I never really stuck to Dr SEUs
was a big thing. I collected um Rent and Stimpy
before I met you guys. I don't remember. I don't
remember rending Stif And then when Beanie Babies came out,
you know, we got tossed. I mean especially in Europe.
America didn't do this, but in Europe, if you're on stage,

(36:08):
you're gonna get five thousand stuffed animals thrown it you
during your whole show. We didn't pick the meaning babies up.
Well we did. We kept a lot of those, we did.
But yeah, and I would like sitting on my mom
because she loved the Beanie babies and I think she
has some. I'm sure she threw up most of them,
but yeah, I thought I liked the Beanie Babies at
that time, and now it's all about Funko pop. Can
we can we talk about a story about This is

(36:29):
always a good story for Lance because you know, obviously
he always interviews people here, but we like to turn
the tables around. Um. Do you remember the one time,
um that you we went out one night and you
got really trash in Germany and we had to take
a shirt off because we're going to the airport. Let's
tell that story. And mind you told this one before.

(36:49):
I think we've we've said this one before, but in
not my my perspective. But the funny part about it
was a few things happened over and I still have
it to this day, and I gotta find it the autograph.
I have the autograph you still have picture of that.
I dated it and I wrote it and I folded
it up, and every once now and then when I
go through something, I will see it again, so I
know I still have it. I got him to sign something.

(37:09):
We were he got hammered. We will let me shut
it up just a little bit. It was a tour
in Germany that blah blah, we were whatever. It was
the laster parties after parties after like almost every show. Well,
but this was the last last one, so we were
flying back to Orlando, so we were just going to
stay up all night, right, and it was the damn
no mercy guys, where did you go? Lu lu lu um.
So they thought it would be real funny to get

(37:31):
you know, seventeen year old Lance just wasted. So they
kept giving me be fifty two shots, which tastes really good,
especially seventeen. Um. And yeah, it was out we got
when we got to the airport, he was swaying. He
was just by the way, it's legal age there in
Germany was eighteen years older, so whatever. No, but but
before we get there, you know, because there's you know,

(37:52):
paparazzi always following us. Um, I'm sitting in between you
and Justin and this is where you got the autograph.
And I'm sitting there like, and I look over at
Justin like I gotta throw up. I gotta throw up.
He's like, oh, so I crawl over him and I'm
just poking out the window. Carrie Sellers is behind us
in the car, behind us with all the little paps,
and I'm laughing taking pictures. So there's definitely a picture

(38:12):
of my head out the window, and then again in
the paper. I said, hey, do me favorites at you
signed us. A fan wants you to sign this, and
he grabbed it and it looked like it looked like
three lines and something. I have no idea what he
looked like, but I kept it. It was crazy, But yeah,
I mean that was I always tell that's my most
drunk moment ever. Well, one of my most non fun moments.

(38:33):
I'm sure lunch you've told this story. Mom was fun?
Wasn't fun? Lance likes to do prank, prank something. Oh lord,
this is a long story. It's a set up. That's
why we were in New Orleans. I think around Super Bowl.
It was super it was Super Bowl and I remember
this is when it started. Where we sat at Pat
O'Brien's and I was with We were with my our

(38:54):
tour managers, brother in law, Joe June, which happening a
friend of mine. This other girl, Carrie fred was there.
Remember it was five of us. We sat there and
all of a sudden're like, we're just gonna get somedingat.
We're not gonna drink. Was like, yeah, it was like
it was o'clock, so we're not gonna drink. All of
a sudden, somebody comes up, Hey, you guys are men saying,
you know what we get off what we're trying to

(39:14):
get something to eat right now, goes, I'll get you
guys some drinks. All right, we'll take a picture and
a drink. Rican. Yes, so the person gives us a
hurricane for each of us on the table. Now, hurricanes
are very large. If people don't have never been to
actual New Orleans and to Pat O'Brien's into New Orleans,
one your buzz to content and that is kind of

(39:35):
not fun after a few of them. So we started
to make it a game. Anybody that came up to us,
hey can we take a picture? We said, yes, give
us five hurricanes that went on from about a good
I don't know hour, two or three hours, maybe four
or four o'clock. Mind you fast forward now I don't
remember getting back from the We would just have them
all grouped in the middle with straws, and we just

(39:55):
stuck them down. There are pictures of us sitting there
stucking these things down. Now you fast forward where I
went to almost a whole drunk time and sober and
it was crazy. But that night we're on the balcony
and there was a guy. We were all having a party.
Everybody's hanging out and it starts to get kind of
like late and people starting to pass out. Remember one
of one of Lance's friends actually was sleeping in the hallway,
passing on the hallway. And one dude one I finished,

(40:16):
one was sleeping in the hallway. That was Freddie and
one there was a dude sitting on the balcony with
a half lit cigarettes sitting there and it went out.
So we're looking around, going, anybody know who this guy is?
And all the guys are like no, some I'm with
me and a couple of like a couple of Chris's friends.
So I'm like, okay, what do boys do when somebody
passes out? All right, let's take a picture next to him?
Take a picture. Okay, that sounds great. Uh. Yeah, we

(40:39):
were young, we were dumb. We laughed, We quieted away,
we walked away. The woman, the woman, the person that
was in the hallway. We asked, Hey, who's the guy
that was in Well, I think somebody did trumpy too.
I didn't do that. I didn't draw it. No, no,
no, no no, I didn't. I got I got the brunt
of it. Basically. So when when you left, we sharpied

(41:01):
all over him, passed out and he's married all that.
Yeah he was, he was. He was a law enforcement guy. Yeah,
he was like a captain and so great. Fast forward
six months later, we go on tour. We're in New
York City, we go to Jersey. I think we do
a show. I think it's in Jersey. We drive back on.
Mind you, when my captain friend got home, he couldn't

(41:23):
wash the sharpie off and he had like Samantha was here,
thanks for last night type stuff and he got kicked
out of his house for months. Good all right, so
he deserved should have been partying, passing out on the balcony. Kids.
That's where as another tip said it was we all
said that was Joey the Frost. Yeah, they all blame
me for it, always me. So this was six months
in the making. He goes, hey, guys, we're gonna have

(41:44):
a great time. Let's call go to the strip club.
So we all go to a strip club. Now it's
that when I mean all your first son, Lance me,
you was justin Uh Mark Anthony was there. Uh my
father was there. There was a whole bunch of people there.
So we all go to this strip club. We're all
hanging out, and for some reason, I'm like, why is

(42:04):
Lance always being like handing me shots every five seconds
and making me I'm like, okay, we're drinking and hanging out. Now,
all of a sudden, we're about to leave, and as
I stand up, one of my security guards, Andre comes
up because yo, he goes, let's leave. Now. There's a
lot of people here. But you know what this cops outside,
So let's get out of here. I said, okay, let's leap.
So as I started, we all start to walk out,
cops stop me and they said, hey, well you you
guys did a show tonight, And like yeah, I thought

(42:25):
he's gonna want an autograph for a picture. He's like, hey,
a little more backstory. They came into the table, the
cops the year and then they wanted to when they
shut down the whole club. So we go out there,
I think unbeknownst to my father at the moment, he didn't.
They started to grab me and they're like, hey, we
need to bring you into questioning, and I went okay.
So my dad walks up since what's the problem is,
we gotta take you to your son. So my dad goes,

(42:47):
you're gonna take him, take me and starts to getting
They pulled my dad aside. Then they bring him back,
and then now my dad's even more like, take me,
blah blah blah, like he's going a lot more than
anticipated at all. Whispered to him like it's just a joke.
It's just a joke. Nobody knew that. Everybody else knew that.
Mark Mark also knew as well. Mark's like, oh, you know,
my brother. They're all yelling and scream like, okay, get

(43:09):
in the cop car. They've drive me, They pull me,
pull me over. I'm sitting there for a while. Now
I'm thinking in my head, what did I say? What
did I do to somebody? They say something somebody. So
all of a sudden we pull up to the actual precinct.
As I get out, guy looks at me, and as
I'm walking with the other two cops, another cop comes
right in front of me says, paybacks are a bit,
aren't they? And sure enough it was a gown on
the balcony, and I was like, and it was everybody

(43:32):
was out there like, yeah, the best prank I'd ever
pulled ship myself when he was in that cop. I
have a picture of it somewhere. I wish I could
find it. Your eyes are trying to smile away from it,
going I'm shooting myself. And then your driver, who is
also an off duty cops running down the street, gets
hit by a car. You're like, oh my gosh, things

(43:54):
are really going down. And then once you drove off,
everyone was kind of in on. It goes down to
the precincts. So when they get there, one's like, free
Joey for done. It was the stupidest thing. I was like,
you guys, and I was like and all of a sudden,
finally I was like, Lance, you did this, didn't you.
Oh it was so great something that he didn't even do.
And uh, in those cops because it was cops, I

(44:14):
didn't even know because we didn't want you didn't see them.
Um they got suspended for six months. Yeah they got
in trouble. They got in trouble, but they they're like,
it didn't matter. It was worth it. It was worth it. Yeah,
it was it. Well it made it made it made
a newspaper, and it was saying that justin was getting
arrested or something like that. It was all the story
was completely not even something happened. But yeah, they got
in trouble for it s good time. So just saying

(44:36):
don't mess with me, don't I'm saying so frosted ship rule,
don't mess with Lance because paybacks are a bit Alright. Well, Joey,
I think we have had enough time to talk about things.
I mean, is there anything you want people to know?
Give us a little bit. You know, it's been an
amazing thing that that I get to do a lot
of different things with with you, Lance, Bess and a
lot of other fellow members of the group. A lot

(44:58):
of times. I've been doing some things called Joey Fat
and Friends that did things of Food and Wine Festival
at Epcot in Orlando, Florida for Disney, and I've done
a whole bunch of other shows. But Lance, you gotta
come out and do one with me. Yeah, you have
to try because you're doing on August. Right in August,
I'm going to try to go there because I think,
you know, maybe that's the first time we bring the kids.
Bring the kids. Still get me annoying with kids because
I still think it's too young bring to Disney. But

(45:18):
but that's why you have to work out. Well, yeah,
that you're providing me a guy, I'm in, I got you.
Let's go, all right, Thank you so much, Joe, always
a pleasure anytime, anytime. If Michael doesn't come back, you know,
you can always call me. Oh yes, work husband. Alright, guys,
that is all the show I have for you. Thank
you so much for listening. You can always follow us
on our socials, Lance Bass at the Real Joey for

(45:39):
Frosted Tips with Lance d m s with your questions
or tips. Next week. I don't know who's on yet,
but we'll figure that out. Um, so yeah, thanks you
little penis? Is I swear to go? Maybe should just
change that. It probably get us more repress a little
like why does Lance call everyone is a little penis?
Because you called him near and dear to your heart
and they're near and dear to my al Right, guys,

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