Pod Insights Hey Jonas! Story time with JT, Garbo & Jack - The OGs! About this episode During their Vegas residency, Nick, Kevin and Joe got their “original” group back together for a very special episode.
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0:10 Speaker 00 Kevin's, you know what I've found very interesting is how you will drink a carton to yourself.
0:16 Speaker 02 Yeah, straight out the dome.
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0:19 Speaker 02 Yeah, just really getting myself going.
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2:08 Speaker 06 What's up, boys?
2:11 Speaker 01 We are in Spain.
2:16 Speaker 01 This is hours, Kevin, hours after Spain just won the World Cup. Now hit the applause.
2:23 Speaker 02 Amazing. Have you gone to bed? Was the city on fire? Like, what happened?
2:27 Speaker 06 The city is not on fire.
2:29 Speaker 01 It's kind of an interesting.
2:30 Speaker 06 Viva la, viva la Spain.
2:31 Speaker 01 We're on vacation.
2:32 Speaker 06 Viva la Spain.
2:37 Speaker 01 This is called an after all spritz.
2:39 Speaker 02 Where's mine?
2:39 Speaker 01 It's the drink of the summer, two years running.
2:43 Speaker 06 To Spain, to Espana.
2:45 Speaker 01 Kevin, let us tell you about our trip. So, we clocked in on vacation. I got here about, what was it? Five days ago. I came straight from New York. I was in New York doing a shoot with a friend of mine.
2:58 Speaker 02 Hanging out with me.
2:59 Speaker 01 And I stayed at your place for one night. And I got here, Priyanka and Malte and our parents were already here. So then I joined up. Joe got here a day after me.
3:09 Speaker 06 Because I was shooting something in Los Angeles. I can't talk to you about it yet.
3:12 Speaker 01 We got top secret projects.
3:13 Speaker 02 So busy.
3:14 Speaker 01 We did Priyanka's birthday, wonderful day. The following day, we watched Spain win the World Cup. And the city was going nuts till about 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning.
3:23 Speaker 06 We'll show a clip right now. This is a video I took of the fireworks. And you hear the horns honking. Yeah, they're going nuts.
3:35 Speaker 01 This went on all night. So the other thing about this place that we're in here in Spain, which shout out Spain, we love you.
3:40 Speaker 06 Seriously, shout out Spain.
3:41 Speaker 01 It's fiesta season. They basically shoot off fireworks at 8:00 AM every morning. And then every night, there's fireworks.
3:47 Speaker 06 I don't know if they're testing them for the nighttime or they just are.
3:50 Speaker 01 I think it's a test.
3:51 Speaker 06 They're testing. And then at night, like at 10, from pretty much from 10 till midnight, they're just going off.
3:57 Speaker 01 Did you watch the match?
3:58 Speaker 02 I did. I was flying home from the Hamptons. Me and Danny went and visited some friends.
4:02 Speaker 01 Oh, very chic.
4:03 Speaker 02 Yes.
4:03 Speaker 01 Tell us about the Hamptons, Kevin.
4:04 Speaker 02 We had a little. We literally had a five minute flight. Actually, it was the perfect amount of time. It was 24 minutes and I watched the end of the real time. Then I drove, watched the rest of it, you know, in the car ride home.
4:19 Speaker 06 What were you doing in the Hamptons?
4:20 Speaker 02 Visiting some friends. They invited us out, went to their beach house and it was very awesome.
4:24 Speaker 06 Did you take a helicopter?
4:25 Speaker 02 I did not. We flew on a plane and, cause I was not about to sit in five hours of traffic with the World Cup traffic going on. It's crazy here. It like lit it. New York is insane.
4:34 Speaker 06 It was in the great city of New Jersey.
4:36 Speaker 02 It was in the great city of New Jersey, not New York. But Joe, I went to Sunset Beach where you said, "We have to go" when you were out in the Hamptons. And it was the most amount of rain on Shutter Island I've ever experienced, like ever. How much rain we got that night? The tent inside that place was dripping, but it became, because you were so like just drenched, it didn't matter. And dinner was awesome and the music was going.
5:00 Speaker 06 But that's pretty trippy probably to experience that in the rainstorm.
5:03 Speaker 02 It was like, kind of like.
5:05 Speaker 06 It was giving Widows Bay.
5:06 Speaker 02 It was giving horror film.
5:08 Speaker 01 Speaking of horror films, have you guys watched Obsession yet?
5:11 Speaker 06 No, I actually, by the way, I'm sorry, but I've been saving it. It's Tati and I.
5:16 Speaker 02 I've been saving it too.
5:17 Speaker 06 My GIF. We are waiting to watch it, but there's never an appropriate time to watch it. So I have it saved. Can we please watch it?
5:24 Speaker 02 I'm saving it for this long flight.
5:26 Speaker 06 Why are you yelling at me? Cause you guys, I don't know. Why'd you watch it without me?
5:29 Speaker 01 I watched quite a few movies, but Obsession is the movie of the year. When I say it, it's, it's beyond its cultural reach. It is a fantastic film.
5:37 Speaker 02 I can't wait to see The Odyssey though.
5:39 Speaker 01 The Odyssey is gonna be great. Guys, a lot has happened that we have to, we have to recap.
5:43 Speaker 02 Okay, let's recap.
5:44 Speaker 01 The first is three sold out nights, Madison Square Garden.
5:47 Speaker 02 Let's go.
5:48 Speaker 01 Let's go.
5:50 Speaker 01 20th, 21st, 22nd, our incredible fans.
5:53 Speaker 06 This actually makes sense. This, this button I have makes a lot of sense for these three sold out shows.
6:00 Speaker 06 We're turning it back, turning back in time. We're playing.
6:02 Speaker 01 So we're running, we're running, yeah, we're turning it back.
6:05 Speaker 02 The people have spoken, by the way. We're doing the show.
6:07 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah, we're doing the OG show.
6:09 Speaker 06 Turning the tables back to the Burning Up Tour that we were on in 2000 and?
6:12 Speaker 01 The Burning Up Tour all over again, 2008. It has been so incredible to see the response of these shows. Thank you to everyone that bought a ticket.
6:17 Speaker 06 Thank you.
6:18 Speaker 01 I can't wait to see you.
6:19 Speaker 06 Cannot wait.
6:20 Speaker 01 But what's been really fun is literally putting the show back together. And I will say that this is a bit of lore that we've never talked about, but the OG sign, the burning up sign.
6:31 Speaker 06 The one that lights on fire.
6:33 Speaker 01 Lights on fire. We could not find it.
6:35 Speaker 02 So here's a picture of what it looks like. This is what we found in stores.
6:39 Speaker 06 We have a Jonas Brothers storage unit.
6:41 Speaker 01 Yeah.
6:41 Speaker 06 Which also is quite fun.
6:43 Speaker 02 It's a Jonas Brothers mall.
6:45 Speaker 06 It's a massive storage unit that, if you're a fan of something.
6:48 Speaker 01 You guys remember Big Fat Liar? When they, when they went into the?
6:51 Speaker 02 Just watched it with the kids. I was like, guys, you're gonna love this film. And you know what?
6:55 Speaker 01 Shout out to millennials. You know what I'm talking about? Big Fat Liar.
6:58 Speaker 02 They said it moved too slow. They're like, it's a little slow. I'm like, oh. Cause everything they watched is just like.
7:04 Speaker 01 Yeah.
7:04 Speaker 06 Fantastic film. Oh, Big Fat Liar. I was thinking of Liar Liar. Is there a storage unit scene in this?
7:09 Speaker 01 Yeah, they, they go into the, the costume house at the, the lot. Remember Paul Giamatti is like the big bad guy?
7:16 Speaker 06 Oh, right.
7:16 Speaker 01 And it's, it's one of my favorite scenes in the film.
7:18 Speaker 06 Oh, that's great.
7:19 Speaker 01 The other one is when he jumps into his pool and he comes out and he's all.
7:21 Speaker 06 All blue.
7:22 Speaker 01 So we found the, the sign. That's the first step. We had been going back and forth with our production team.
7:27 Speaker 06 We found it.
7:27 Speaker 01 While on vacation and, uh, you know, all the rest, putting the show back together piece by piece. It's gonna be the OG set list. Uh, there's some special things too that are, are new and some slight changes. Um, a lot of conversation around the flips. If we're gonna be doing the flips, I will say that Joe and I have been, we've been.
7:47 Speaker 02 Have you guys been working it out in the pool? Have you like been doing like some?
7:51 Speaker 01 But we have something extra special for that moment. I don't wanna give anything away, but it's gonna be great. And then we, we take this 25 minute break. We come back out and we do about an hour and a half of, of more music.
8:02 Speaker 06 It's a long show though, two.
8:03 Speaker 01 Two and a half hour show. Oh, well, you get a break, though. I mean, we should just, we should talk about this. Five albums one night was three hours long.
8:11 Speaker 02 Exactly. And remember what happened after we got on tour and it was like, oh, no.
8:16 Speaker 01 I feel like we could play. You guys are being very negative right now. I think I'm not being negative.
8:20 Speaker 02 Just being realistic about our bodies.
8:22 Speaker 01 Yeah, well, our stamina, stamina. What else, what else has happened? Kev, oh, you went on vacation?
8:27 Speaker 02 I went on vacation. We went to the Bahamas again, because that's what we do.
8:30 Speaker 01 What are some lowlights? What are some highlights?
8:32 Speaker 02 Lowlight was the delayed flight. Highlight was getting there and watching them like go on the water slides. Here's a video of Valentina jumping off a cliff. Like, they have, they're no fear.
8:41 Speaker 01 Into water.
8:42 Speaker 02 Into water.
8:43 Speaker 01 Let's have a little softball question. This, this won't be controversial at all. Any conflict with any fights or, you know, anything juicy you want to share?
8:50 Speaker 02 I got a little heated one morning. So I had the entire group going. Did I got a little frustrated.
8:57 Speaker 01 How many people were talking?
8:58 Speaker 02 It was nine. No, it was eight and then Mikey joined.
9:02 Speaker 01 By the way, great call. It's good to on a family vacay. An uncle showing up a little late brings that wave of excitement.
9:09 Speaker 02 Two days in, perfect. Yeah, it helps. It like re- reduces the energy. Went down to breakfast because I bring the girls down early because they're up and I'm up because I was already at the gym because.
9:18 Speaker 01 What time are we talking?
9:19 Speaker 02 Eight forty-five, nine o'clock.
9:20 Speaker 01 Are you in the gym before that?
9:21 Speaker 02 Yeah.
9:22 Speaker 01 Damn, on vacay, on vacay, bro.
9:24 Speaker 02 My body like wakes up.
9:25 Speaker 01 No, you're locked in.
9:26 Speaker 02 I set up breakfast for everyone where we've been having breakfast the last three days. Everybody else had a table outside and eating ahead of us without inviting us. Like, I invite everyone to meals.
9:36 Speaker 01 And just, I'm gonna say, you're kind of hosting.
9:38 Speaker 02 That's, I was a little pissed off.
9:40 Speaker 01 Uncouth, as it were. That was the lowlight, then. You got heated. Lowlight.
9:44 Speaker 02 Yeah, I got heated. And then I couldn't get a drink for like three hours. For some reason, they just wouldn't come to check on us. And so then I was like, then I was really angry.
9:53 Speaker 01 Drink are we talking about? We're talking about breakfast?
9:55 Speaker 02 I needed an Aperol spritz and couldn't get one.
9:58 Speaker 01 Got it.
9:59 Speaker 02 So I started to rage and it became, and then I just had to go for a walk.
10:02 Speaker 01 I had a lowlight. I went on a yacht trip.
10:06 Speaker 02 Wait a second. The fact that you just said, I had a lowlife, I went on a yacht trip.
10:10 Speaker 06 Well, it was part of, the yacht trip had a lowlight.
10:14 Speaker 02 Which was?
10:15 Speaker 06 It's kind of a both thing. It's like a yacht trip.
10:17 Speaker 02 You spend a lot of money for the bad lowlight, which is what we did.
10:21 Speaker 06 Actually, I was a guest on the boat. So, all jokes aside, I fell off a boat going onto a tender. It was pretty scary. Stepped a little early. Everyone said it was fine. And me and the first mate, we like slipped between the two boats. It was pretty terrifying. Then I think, I think the adrenaline was going and there's like the element of embarrassment. And I think I pulled myself up on the smaller boat and I hit my shin. But it was more just like terrifying. Like in a moment like that, you're like, so many things could have gone bad. I mean, other than like a bruised shin, like everybody's fine, but it was definitely one of those moments like, A, I want to call my kids right now. Like that's the first, I just need to talk to them. And like, pretty shook for like a while, but also makes it worse when people are like, you good? You okay? Like you're like, yeah, I'm fine. Even though you know you're not fine, but I'm like, I'm just trying to tell myself I'm fine.
11:05 Speaker 02 Just let it go. It's good. Just move on.
11:07 Speaker 06 That being said, the trip itself was a lot of fun. Did some day clubbing, which was not something I do in my mid 30s, but that was fun. Like Nikki Beach is like a restaurant club where like halfway through the, you're eating a little lasagna and it's like, you just hear like, crazy frog. And then it's just, it's party time.
11:27 Speaker 02 I love that.
11:28 Speaker 06 It's really fun and you have to lean into it and it's a good time. And also I was on the trip when we like found out that we sold out these shows. So.
11:35 Speaker 01 So good.
11:36 Speaker 06 It was nice to have a reason to celebrate.
11:38 Speaker 01 So pumped. I have an update. It's neither a lowlight or a highlight. It's just a general update. But it does actually tie into the next piece of the conversation. So let's call this a segue, if you will. I'm having a Coke Zero summer.
11:52 Speaker 02 You're back?
11:53 Speaker 01 I just, I just was like, let me just, I'm gonna have a nice cold, ice cold Coke Zero today. It's so good.
12:00 Speaker 02 What?
12:00 Speaker 01 Yeah, it's so good.
12:01 Speaker 02 What?
12:01 Speaker 01 I always drank Diet Coke, but now Coke Zero is, is shout out Coke Zero. You're doing your thing. So this is my Coke Zero summer. It's a nice refresh.
12:09 Speaker 02 That's huge update for you, Nick.
12:11 Speaker 01 It's a big update.
12:12 Speaker 02 Are you kidding?
12:12 Speaker 01 But this reminds me of.
12:14 Speaker 00 Are you getting like cash for saying that?
12:16 Speaker 01 Absolutely not. Not yet. I have a segue here. I want to get to it because it's, it's a good one. Having a Coke Zero reminds me of my teen years. And I was brought back to the many wonderful memories we had with John Taylor, Greg Gorbowski and Jack Lawless, the OG band.
12:32 Speaker 02 The OG band.
12:33 Speaker 01 OG band, whose name as a band was Ocean Grove OG. See what I did there?
12:40 Speaker 00 Wow.
12:41 Speaker 02 Oh, that plays.
12:41 Speaker 01 So a few weeks ago, during our Vegas residency, we had a sit down with the OG band, John Taylor, Jack Lawless, Greg Gorbowski. And we've been sitting on this gem of an episode now for weeks because we've had so many great guests that we just had to.
12:57 Speaker 02 Yeah, true.
12:57 Speaker 01 Sit on it. But this conversation was really reflective and, and fun. And we got to walk down memory lane with some guys that were there from the very start of our journey.
13:07 Speaker 00 I will say, we need to have another OG band episode because John Taylor, the minute he got, he got up, A, he was just getting his, he was just starting to cook.
13:15 Speaker 01 He was starting to cook.
13:16 Speaker 00 We have so much more we can unpack. Like that was such a, a warm up episode.
13:20 Speaker 02 Maybe they're gonna have to come back in to the MSG shows and play a song with us on some stairs like they did back in the day.
13:28 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah. But every, you know, couple of weeks, months, we should have them back on and tell some more stories. Storytime with the OG band, which is what we're calling this episode. This is Storytime with the OG band. This is Nick Jonas.
13:41 Speaker 02 This is Kevin Jonas.
13:42 Speaker 00 And Joe Jonas from Hey Jonas.
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14:10 Speaker 01 All right. Who started drinking Almond Breeze almond milk first?
14:13 Speaker 02 Actually, I think that was you, Nick.
14:15 Speaker 01 I think it was.
14:15 Speaker 02 Yeah, you're like, you know, guys, I tried this almond breeze in my coffee today.
14:19 Speaker 01 Changed the game for me. All right, who's the most likely to finish the last carton of Almond Breeze and not replace it?
14:24 Speaker 00 That's Kevin.
14:25 Speaker 01 Kevin, of course.
14:26 Speaker 00 Yeah.
14:26 Speaker 02 That's someone else's job.
14:27 Speaker 00 Take it, Kev.
14:28 Speaker 01 What's the most random place you drank Almond Breeze?
14:31 Speaker 00 The last time I visited the Empire State Building.
14:33 Speaker 01 Ah, that's a random place for sure. I've noticed you guys really like Almond Breeze almond milk.
14:37 Speaker 02 Mm-hmm.
14:38 Speaker 01 Who has the most specific way of drinking it?
14:40 Speaker 02 Ooh.
14:40 Speaker 00 Ooh, um, Kevin's, you know what I found very interesting is how you will drink a carton to yourself.
14:47 Speaker 02 Yeah, just straight up to dump.
14:48 Speaker 00 And he usually does it before show.
14:50 Speaker 02 Yeah, just really getting myself going.
14:52 Speaker 00 He needs it on stage.
14:53 Speaker 01 Okay, last question. Why do you guys like Almond Breeze so much?
14:56 Speaker 02 Oh, it just tastes great.
14:57 Speaker 01 Yeah.
14:58 Speaker 02 It's a great alternative.
14:58 Speaker 01 It is great.
14:59 Speaker 00 It's simply because it's really good.
15:00 Speaker 01 True. Try Almond Breeze. Trust us, it's really good. You've probably heard that good things come in threes.
15:06 Speaker 02 No, I've never heard that.
15:07 Speaker 00 Kevin. Yeah, you have. You've got bacon, lettuce, tomato, rock, paper, scissors.
15:12 Speaker 01 Joe, Nick, Kevin.
15:13 Speaker 02 Yeah, and that is a good one.
15:15 Speaker 00 Or because it's cold season, Kleenex lotion tissues.
15:19 Speaker 02 There's no three in Kleenex tissues.
15:21 Speaker 00 That's where you're wrong, Kev, my friend. Listen, Kleenex lotion tissues have three-in-one skin-loving benefits. It protects hands, soothes, and moisturizes your skin.
15:30 Speaker 02 I never realized you were so into skincare, Joe.
15:33 Speaker 01 Come on, who doesn't love to moisturize?
15:35 Speaker 02 You've got a good point.
15:37 Speaker 00 Oh, and don't forget to tell them about the three thick layers made with coconut oil and aloe.
15:40 Speaker 01 Wow, good things really do come in threes.
15:43 Speaker 00 For whatever happens next, grab Kleenex.
15:45 Speaker 01 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the pod, the OG Jonas Brothers band, John, Jack, and Greg.
15:51 Speaker 02 Garbowski.
15:52 Speaker 01 Garbowski.
15:56 Speaker 01 Take a seat.
15:57 Speaker 00 Take a seat.
15:57 Speaker 01 Okay.
15:58 Speaker 00 All right.
15:58 Speaker 02 Oh, good jo- good choice, John.
16:00 Speaker 01 We'll get you cozy first. No, not everyone that listens to this pod is a, uh, a lifelong Jonas Brothers fan. Shame on them. Shame on them. No, no, no, it's still going. A, a, a brief history of our relationship with these three guys. Um, this goes back all the way to, what year, Greg?
16:20 Speaker 00 2005.
16:21 Speaker 01 Greg is the timekeeper.
16:22 Speaker 02 Yeah. He knows every date ever.
16:24 Speaker 01 We, the first person we've ever met on this couch? That we've ever met, ever. That's true. Was John Lloyd Taylor. Yes. And I'd love to hear, John, your first interaction with- With Nick, which has to do with his nails.
16:37 Speaker 07 Oh, yeah.
16:38 Speaker 02 We've talked about toenails before on this podcast.
16:40 Speaker 07 You've already breached the subject.
16:41 Speaker 01 Have we talked about that?
16:42 Speaker 07 The subject.
16:43 Speaker 02 It was just a conversation we had the other day about your toes being out because of the Javianas.
16:48 Speaker 07 Yeah, like grown men in flip flops or something. Yeah, I get it.
16:51 Speaker 01 I got paid for that, so shut up. Go on.
16:54 Speaker 07 I rolled in for my audition at the church on Franklin Avenue in Wyckoff.
16:59 Speaker 01 It was not an audition for the church. You might need to break that down a bit more.
17:01 Speaker 07 The audition was at the church.
17:03 Speaker 01 The Church of Jonas.
17:04 Speaker 07 The church was an extension of the home. Your father was a pastor at the Wyckoff Assembly of God. And I brought my sisters back up because my sister is very affable, likable, and I thought that that would make me look like a family man. And you guys were a family, so it was going to give me a leg up on getting the gig.
17:18 Speaker 01 And the fact was you were a delinquent.
17:19 Speaker 07 And yeah, I was, I was a bit of a, a delinquent. Yes, a black sheep, if you will.
17:25 Speaker 02 We had no idea.
17:26 Speaker 07 Who somehow ended up as the adult in the room for the first few years of, of this journey. But I, I met Nick first. I was walking around the church and Nick emerged out of the woods, which I thought was kind of strange. Like a feral child bounding out of the woods. And he came up to me and he gave me this very firm handshake, shook my hand.
17:45 Speaker 01 Looked you right in the eyes.
17:46 Speaker 07 I'm, I'm Nick. It's very nice to meet you. I look forward to playing music with you today. And I was like, all right, man. He was 12, 12 years old. And he said, he looked down at his feet. He was wearing flip flops. And he said, excuse me, I have to go back home and trim my toenails. I'll be right back. And he disappeared back into the woods. And I was like, what, what was that?
18:08 Speaker 02 If ever being tested, this is the moment. It's like, okay, so either.
18:12 Speaker 07 This tiny man emerges from the woods.
18:14 Speaker 02 I think there was a graveyard back in the woods.
18:16 Speaker 07 There was.
18:17 Speaker 01 We had, we had a path through the woods that led from our backyard, the parsonage, to the church.
18:23 Speaker 02 Around another house. That's why it was cool.
18:25 Speaker 01 And I remember specifically, I was wearing flip flops, which I never did and, and don't really to this day. And I was so appalled when I looked down at my own feet at how long my, my toenails were.
18:39 Speaker 01 And I really am glad though, that that's our first interaction.
18:42 Speaker 07 It was a good one.
18:43 Speaker 06 It actually kind of was a precursor to your relationship.
18:47 Speaker 01 Yeah.
18:47 Speaker 06 Looking after each other's hygiene.
18:49 Speaker 07 Yeah. Nick is my personal valet. He checks my collar before I leave the room.
18:53 Speaker 01 So John, you auditioned for the band. You, you get the gig and we start to assemble the rest of the pieces of the band. And one of those very important pieces was Greg Gorbowski, who.
19:01 Speaker 06 Which was only like.
19:02 Speaker 01 Twenty minutes later after your audition. Greg came in, were you wearing, correct me if I'm wrong, this is my vision of you Greg. You had a purple polo and cargo shorts. Pink polo.
19:12 Speaker 02 Pink polo and camo shorts?
19:13 Speaker 01 Camo shorts.
19:14 Speaker 06 Close, camo shorts.
19:16 Speaker 01 Oh Adidas t-shirt.
19:17 Speaker 06 Armani Exchange t-shirt.
19:19 Speaker 01 It's the nicest shirt I own.
19:20 Speaker 07 Very New Jersey.
19:21 Speaker 06 And fun fact, I don't know when this episode airs, but it is 21 years ago today that we met, that I auditioned.
19:29 Speaker 01 No way.
19:30 Speaker 02 Holy shit.
19:30 Speaker 06 Twenty one years ago today.
19:32 Speaker 01 And you know.
19:32 Speaker 02 What about you?
19:33 Speaker 01 Oh, it's so funny.
19:34 Speaker 02 We can buy you alcohol finally.
19:35 Speaker 01 We brought you Greg and we brought you this edible arrangement. This big edible arrangement.
19:39 Speaker 06 Oh, thank you.
19:40 Speaker 01 But you also have a weird interaction with one of us from that day.
19:44 Speaker 06 Oh, it was you?
19:45 Speaker 01 Well, I thought it was Kevin. For those, for those of you who are listening to this.
19:50 Speaker 02 This is very telling by the way.
19:52 Speaker 01 Oh, it was me.
19:52 Speaker 02 This is very telling about the interactions with, I think Nick was testing all of you.
19:56 Speaker 01 Greg, who's you? Cause people are listening, this is a podcast, you listen to it?
19:59 Speaker 06 It was one of the Jonas Brothers. No, it was Nick. So I, I learned two songs on the spot. It was I Am What I Am and Time For Me To Fly. And then it was the second half of the audition, I kind of realized was seeing if we get along. So we went outside and just talked for a bit. And then Nick was like.
20:15 Speaker 01 It was the chemistry.
20:16 Speaker 06 It was the chemistry exam, yeah.
20:17 Speaker 02 Nick was throwing out chemistry a lot.
20:19 Speaker 06 Nick was like, um, do you have a girlfriend? I guess we were also like, you know, are you, are you willing to?
20:25 Speaker 01 It's kind of weird, he's 12 years old, but okay, go on.
20:27 Speaker 06 Willing to leave your house for years at a time and go on tour. And I said, no. And then I said, do you? And Nick was like, no, the label, the record label won't allow us to have girlfriends. I was like, whoa, are you serious? He was like, no. I got roasted.
20:44 Speaker 07 That's good, that's good.
20:45 Speaker 06 On day one.
20:46 Speaker 02 Day one.
20:47 Speaker 01 That's beautiful. The real question should not have been, you know, do you have a girlfriend? Do you know how to travel like as an adult? Cause we were all children.
20:54 Speaker 02 Do you know how to do laundry?
20:56 Speaker 06 The answer was no.
20:56 Speaker 02 But to be honest, to be honest. The answer was no.
21:00 Speaker 01 Greg put, was it tin foil in the microwave on a tour bus? Was that it?
21:04 Speaker 07 A can of SpaghettiOs, uh oh, Garbo.
21:05 Speaker 06 Yeah, it was a aluminum can.
21:07 Speaker 07 I mean, we can, we can break that open if you want to.
21:09 Speaker 01 We have to take the jack first, we have to take the jack first. But we will say, then many years later, I was.
21:14 Speaker 00 Ten years later, I would say.
21:15 Speaker 06 What?
21:16 Speaker 07 No.
21:16 Speaker 06 Twenty.
21:17 Speaker 02 Twenty years later.
21:18 Speaker 06 Twenty years later. What year are you in?
21:19 Speaker 01 How much does a carton of milk cost?
21:22 Speaker 07 It was one year, right? It was one and a half years. It was Thanksgiving twenty two thousand six.
21:25 Speaker 00 Thanksgiving. Sorry, I was getting my dates back. I had my dates backwards.
21:28 Speaker 01 It was twenty five years.
21:29 Speaker 00 Something in the edible arrangements. Be careful. Yeah, like many, many, many, many years later. Uh, Thanksgiving Day. Uh, your mom dropped you off.
21:37 Speaker 06 Yes.
21:37 Speaker 00 And I think you said, bye, mom.
21:39 Speaker 06 I said, see you later.
21:40 Speaker 00 See you later.
21:41 Speaker 02 Such a surfer.
21:42 Speaker 00 You, uh, you went on to be our, our touring drummer.
21:45 Speaker 06 Yeah.
21:45 Speaker 00 And today's your last.
21:49 Speaker 06 I just kidding. It's been a good run.
21:50 Speaker 00 And it's been over, it's twenty some years?
21:53 Speaker 06 Twenty years this year, yeah. I, uh, didn't know any of you guys and you guys were all kind of going already.
21:59 Speaker 00 Yeah.
22:00 Speaker 06 Shout out to Alex Noyes for being an awesome dude and awesome drummer, too.
22:03 Speaker 02 Yeah, absolutely.
22:04 Speaker 00 And we love him. He quit when he quit. And we got you, so.
22:08 Speaker 06 Yeah.
22:08 Speaker 00 Everything worked out.
22:09 Speaker 02 I remember my first interaction with Jack. We were in Orlando, walking around downtown Orlando, because that's what someone does in Orlando.
22:16 Speaker 06 Were we like going to Starbucks or something?
22:17 Speaker 02 We went to Starbucks and I asked you on the, on the slide, I'm like, hey, do you, do you drink beer?
22:21 Speaker 06 Oh, yeah.
22:22 Speaker 02 And you went, uh, didn't, I could see your face, not sure how you should answer this, knowing that we were both under twenty one. And you're like, uh, drink responsibly, everyone. You looked at me and said, yeah. And I went, sweet, me too. But no one can know. That was our interaction together. We were homies for life.
22:41 Speaker 01 Question, just going back to, to the Thanksgiving date pickup, that we played a show in Pennsylvania.
22:47 Speaker 06 The next day.
22:47 Speaker 01 The next day.
22:48 Speaker 06 In Pittsburgh, so.
22:48 Speaker 01 Not on Thanksgiving.
22:49 Speaker 06 Yeah, no, you guys.
22:50 Speaker 01 That would be diabolical.
22:51 Speaker 06 You guys did the parade.
22:52 Speaker 02 We did a lot of diabolical things.
22:53 Speaker 06 Thanksgiving parade.
22:54 Speaker 01 Yeah.
22:54 Speaker 00 That's right, we worked, we worked.
22:56 Speaker 06 And then I met you guys that night and then we drove to Pittsburgh overnight.
22:59 Speaker 01 And you, you showed up to our, our house in Little Falls, New Jersey, which was a very, very, uh, nice home, but.
23:04 Speaker 06 Yeah.
23:05 Speaker 01 Was, was, you know, we were in a bad financial spot.
23:09 Speaker 06 I had no idea what was going on.
23:10 Speaker 07 It was the four of you guys in.
23:11 Speaker 01 One bedroom, if I recall correctly. We had invested, you know, far more money into the band or our dad had than than we had. And I'm sure it was probably a strange thing to get there and see the the duality, big word, sorry. Duality of of this little house in Little Falls, New Jersey, and all of us kind of crammed into it. And then this giant tour bus next to it. And that was sort of summed up that chapter. Big bus, Little Fall.
23:35 Speaker 07 The square square footage probably was almost match.
23:38 Speaker 02 Comparable, for sure.
23:39 Speaker 07 That was a small house.
23:40 Speaker 01 And we had more room individually on that tour bus. And and now, you know, we should talk about how we all still work together. Jack, obviously, you're still playing with us every night. It's awesome. We love you. Yep. Greg is the head of creative and helps us basically build out everything from A and R for our music to song choices to mixes and all the things and just bigger creative conversations at a high level. And John Taylor is literally our agent. Music. Good job. Not acting, music agent.
24:06 Speaker 07 I read your scripts, but yeah, it's cool.
24:09 Speaker 01 What's your favorite part about? Script reading. Being an agent?
24:11 Speaker 07 Working with you guys. That's my favorite part about being an agent. No, but my favorite part about being an agent is I like to say the agency is a half a phone call away from anything. There's a lot of people in
24:20 Speaker 01 Damn, that's good.
24:21 Speaker 07 In a building where if you need something from someone, you can get ahold of anyone at any time.
24:26 Speaker 01 I love that. Clip it.
24:27 Speaker 07 And no, no ideas, no ideas too big. You dream it, we do it.
24:30 Speaker 01 Is that John Taylor or Ari say that?
24:32 Speaker 07 You know, comes down.
24:33 Speaker 01 Okay.
24:33 Speaker 02 Do you bring a paintball gun to the office?
24:36 Speaker 07 No.
24:36 Speaker 02 Okay.
24:37 Speaker 07 I'm chilled out.
24:37 Speaker 01 What's your morning routine look like at the office? I just want like a full visual. You walk in, you got your coffee waiting. It's like, what's it look like?
24:45 Speaker 07 I I get there pretty early and just candidly, I do an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting from eight to nine on Zoom at my desk.
24:52 Speaker 01 That's great.
24:52 Speaker 07 I'm fifteen years sober on Saturday.
24:54 Speaker 02 Birthday, congratulations.
24:56 Speaker 07 And so I get my mind right and then people start to come in around then between eight and nine and then are off to the races. I spend a lot of time on the phone. That's not a a meme. Agents are on the phone a lot.
25:06 Speaker 02 Yeah, they are, but they're a call away.
25:07 Speaker 07 Of coffee, good, pretty decent coffee, not on your level, not on our level.
25:11 Speaker 02 UTA's coffee or you make your own?
25:12 Speaker 07 Leora downstairs has good coffee.
25:14 Speaker 02 Coffee.
25:14 Speaker 01 JT during COVID was my barista.
25:16 Speaker 07 Yes.
25:16 Speaker 01 Sidebar on coffee, I'm finding it hard to drink coffee as the older I get.
25:21 Speaker 02 Man.
25:22 Speaker 01 I'm I'm thirty three, as you know, of course, but thirty three, almost thirty four. And I don't think I can drink coffee anymore.
25:29 Speaker 07 It's over?
25:29 Speaker 01 I think it's over. My relationship with coffee has come to an end after a good, solid run.
25:33 Speaker 07 That sounds like a tragedy.
25:34 Speaker 01 Twenty years.
25:36 Speaker 06 Red Bull first, now it's coffee.
25:37 Speaker 02 Did you have coffee today?
25:39 Speaker 01 I had a coffee on the plane and it got me jacked up again, it felt crazy. So I'm shifting. You heard it here first, which is another chance for an ad.
25:47 Speaker 06 Peptides.
25:48 Speaker 01 Uh, peptides.
25:49 Speaker 02 I did that, it's awesome.
25:50 Speaker 01 I'm finding that green tea is a better caffeine source for me.
25:54 Speaker 02 Doesn't green tea, I could be wrong here, have more caffeine?
25:57 Speaker 01 No, it's the bean of the coffee bean that I'm kind of at war with.
26:03 Speaker 07 It's a steadier caffeine intake.
26:05 Speaker 00 But he also only drinks iced Americanos, so if we're gonna get in the coffee debate, maybe you're drinking the wrong coffee. That'd be my argument here.
26:13 Speaker 01 I'll try it one more time.
26:14 Speaker 02 There's a great barista gonna be at the show today, you should try his coffee.
26:17 Speaker 01 I'll give it a try.
26:18 Speaker 02 Maybe not before the show, if you're having a hard time.
26:20 Speaker 00 Look who's talking, don't you have like two Americanos in the gym?
26:23 Speaker 02 Do you see me having an issue?
26:24 Speaker 00 Yes.
26:25 Speaker 07 I support you doing whatever you need to do to feel the best in your body.
26:28 Speaker 01 I appreciate it.
26:29 Speaker 00 Facts. Okay.
26:30 Speaker 01 So something interesting about Greg Garbowski is that he, as we mentioned before, can remember anything. And before you guys came on, we were talking about how the three of us have different versions of a lot of stories that we've all been a part of. Is there a particular story or thing that we all look at and say, oh, this happened this way, it happened this way, but you know the truth about, because you don't forget anything?
26:54 Speaker 06 Um, is there? I feel like you guys get your dates pretty wrong. Like, you guys.
27:01 Speaker 02 Oh dude, there's like a black hole void in my memory.
27:04 Speaker 06 You were talking about five years ago, I'm like, that was 15 years ago.
27:06 Speaker 00 I just said Jack was many years, it took him many years after.
27:09 Speaker 02 10 years later, he joined the band, that's insane.
27:13 Speaker 06 Is there one particular story, I mean?
27:15 Speaker 01 Where do we write?
27:19 Speaker 01 Much better. For instance, or where do we write? No, games.
27:23 Speaker 06 Games we wrote.
27:24 Speaker 01 Before you answer, where do we write it? Joe?
27:27 Speaker 00 Bob Mason's living room.
27:29 Speaker 01 Okay, that's how I remember it, Kevin.
27:31 Speaker 02 Uh, I wasn't there.
27:34 Speaker 01 Clip it.
27:34 Speaker 06 Me neither. That's correct. We wrote it in.
27:38 Speaker 07 The grand piano in the living room.
27:40 Speaker 06 August 2005.
27:42 Speaker 01 What's the date? You know it. It's August.
27:45 Speaker 06 It was.
27:47 Speaker 06 That's very close. Yeah, I think you're right because it was the Jesse McCartney tour. It was a day off.
27:51 Speaker 01 The Jesse McCartney tour.
27:52 Speaker 07 Who did you sleep next to that night in bed?
27:56 Speaker 06 I slept.
27:58 Speaker 06 In a bunk bed, I think, with Alex Noiz in the room.
28:02 Speaker 07 In the room? I thought, I see, my memory was that you and I shared a bed.
28:07 Speaker 07 With a pillow.
28:08 Speaker 02 Guys, I will say, I will say, I give you so much incredible, like, credit to stick around with us for so many years when we obviously had a financial issues and other things. And we were like, I'm pretty sure there's the Holiday Inn on Route 3, 46 Route 3, right by the Little Falls. That's the one that you guys stayed at, right?
28:27 Speaker 07 I would stay there from time to time. I stayed on Alex Noiz's couch.
28:30 Speaker 02 Like, the fact you're in a band, being paid as a musician, and like, living on.
28:35 Speaker 07 By even being paid is.
28:36 Speaker 06 Being paid.
28:37 Speaker 02 Well, yeah, okay, so theoretically paid.
28:40 Speaker 07 Sometimes snatched.
28:41 Speaker 01 As a show of appreciation for all the sacrifice and staying by our side through all of the craziness, we got you a beautiful.
28:52 Speaker 07 I give those out, the agency tends to give those out for business relationships.
28:56 Speaker 01 It's an important business relationship.
28:57 Speaker 07 Interesting.
28:58 Speaker 01 You know what they say? You gotta learn how to golf in business?
29:00 Speaker 07 Yeah.
29:01 Speaker 01 You gotta be good.
29:02 Speaker 07 You gotta have half, half a phone call away from edible arrangements.
29:04 Speaker 02 I remember why I wasn't there. I would know. Maybe it was. I just don't remember being there. Maybe I just don't remember it.
29:09 Speaker 07 I think you were. You're publishing on the song.
29:11 Speaker 02 No, I was there.
29:12 Speaker 07 You were there.
29:12 Speaker 01 Now you're there.
29:14 Speaker 06 Yeah, I remember you saying like, just a couple of days ago, like, you don't remember, like, almost anything.
29:17 Speaker 02 I have like, very big gaps in my memory.
29:19 Speaker 06 What do you think? Why do you think that is?
29:21 Speaker 02 Trauma.
29:23 Speaker 02 I'm actually not kidding. Like, I've unpacked this.
29:26 Speaker 01 We don't think you're kidding.
29:29 Speaker 02 I've unpacked it with my therapist. There's like, I think so much was going on and I wanted to like, I was fighting against the machine for so bad, like, being at that age where I felt like I was older and I should be like, able to go do whatever I want and be, I would theoretically be in college. That was my argument to my parents constantly.
29:44 Speaker 06 Your parents were the machine?
29:45 Speaker 02 No, no, no, like, the Jonas Brothers thing where everything had to be, in my opinion. I had to live the same life as like, a 21-year-old that I was living a, like, 16-year-old's life.
29:55 Speaker 01 This is Nick Jonas.
29:57 Speaker 02 This is Kevin Jonas.
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30:28 Speaker 01 All right. Who started drinking Almond Breeze almond milk first?
30:31 Speaker 02 Actually, I think that was you, Nick.
30:32 Speaker 00 I think it was.
30:33 Speaker 02 Yeah, you're like, you know, guys, I tried this almond breeze in my coffee today.
30:36 Speaker 01 Changed the game for me. All right. Who's the most likely to finish the last carton of almond breeze and not replace it?
30:41 Speaker 00 That's Kevin.
30:42 Speaker 01 Kevin, of course.
30:43 Speaker 00 Yeah.
30:44 Speaker 02 That's someone else's job.
30:45 Speaker 00 Take it, Kev.
30:45 Speaker 01 What's the most random place you drank almond breeze?
30:48 Speaker 00 The last time I visited the Empire State Building.
30:50 Speaker 01 Ah, that's a random place for sure. I've noticed you guys really like almond breeze almond milk. Who has the most specific way of drinking it?
30:57 Speaker 00 Oh, Kevin's, you know what's I've found very interesting is how you will drink a carton to yourself.
31:04 Speaker 02 Yeah, straight off the dome.
31:05 Speaker 00 And he usually does it before show.
31:07 Speaker 02 Yeah, just really getting myself going.
31:09 Speaker 00 He needs it on stage.
31:11 Speaker 01 Okay, last question. Why do you guys like almond breeze so much?
31:13 Speaker 02 It just tastes great.
31:14 Speaker 01 Yeah.
31:15 Speaker 02 It's a great alternative.
31:16 Speaker 01 It is great.
31:16 Speaker 00 It's simply because it's really good.
31:18 Speaker 01 True. Try almond breeze. Trust us, it's really good. You've probably heard that good things come in threes.
31:23 Speaker 02 No, I've never heard that.
31:24 Speaker 00 Kevin. Yeah, you have. You've got bacon, lettuce, tomato, rock, paper, scissors.
31:29 Speaker 01 Joe, Nick, Kevin.
31:31 Speaker 02 Yeah, and that is a good one.
31:32 Speaker 00 Or because it's cold season, Kleenex lotion tissues.
31:36 Speaker 02 There's no three in Kleenex tissues.
31:38 Speaker 00 That's where you're wrong, Kev, my friend. Listen, Kleenex lotion tissues have three-in-one skin-loving benefits. It protects hands, soothes, and moisturizes your skin.
31:47 Speaker 02 I never realized you were so into skincare, Joe.
31:50 Speaker 01 Come on, who doesn't love to moisturize?
31:52 Speaker 02 You've got a good point.
31:54 Speaker 00 Oh, and don't forget to tell them about the three thick layers made with coconut oil and aloe.
31:58 Speaker 01 Wow, good things really do come in threes. For whatever happens next, grab Kleenex.
32:03 Speaker 00 We talked about getting our densists on the pod, but I think we should get our therapists on. They should all.
32:07 Speaker 02 That'd be great.
32:08 Speaker 00 They should all chat.
32:08 Speaker 01 Compare notes.
32:10 Speaker 00 My therapist, I would, I would constantly, anytime I'm on Zoom with her, I like.
32:16 Speaker 01 My goal, and I think Greg and I, we spoke about this. You can get your therapist to laugh. You feel like you did something like really like a big achievement. Or I can figure something about her personal life. I know this is not why therapy exists, but trust me, I also get therapists and it's great and I love it. Shout out mental health, but like, okay. Well, you know, you have nothing to talk about. Then also I saw like, she had like a banner from a marathon. I was like, oh, she's a runner. And I'd like try to sneak that into the conversation. That is. Or be like, you know, as like as a parent, you get it. Why are you trying to make your therapist laugh?
32:48 Speaker 07 Are you trying to humanize your therapist to make it more on your same level?
32:51 Speaker 01 I'm a Leo.
32:52 Speaker 07 It's a little.
32:54 Speaker 07 It is a little Leo coded.
32:55 Speaker 01 Little people pleasing. I know, but Greg, you're with me. No, I love it. Put that back in your mouth. Okay, that is wild. We can learn something about your therapist a little bit. I don't know, there's like. Just remember, everybody, remember that if you also have weird things of trying to get your therapist to laugh or figure out the personal life, you can tell us at the, at the at Hey Jonas Podcast. Make me feel seen. Yeah, I want them to like me. We want to hear about your relationship with your therapist and weird stuff too, because it's important.
33:21 Speaker 07 Nick and I share a therapist, but hey.
33:23 Speaker 01 We used to.
33:23 Speaker 07 We used to.
33:24 Speaker 01 Have to call away.
33:25 Speaker 07 Have to call away.
33:28 Speaker 01 That's great. It's like on Dennis, trying to make, you know, small talk with your mouth wide open with tools in it.
33:35 Speaker 07 I play golf with my dentist, yeah.
33:36 Speaker 01 I love my dentist. You play golf with your dentist?
33:39 Speaker 07 Yeah.
33:40 Speaker 01 What do you talk about?
33:41 Speaker 07 We talk about life and love and the pursuit of happiness.
33:45 Speaker 01 It's beautiful.
33:46 Speaker 07 Yeah, he's a good guy.
33:47 Speaker 01 We have some questions in our, our fun question bowl, which today is an eight ball.
33:54 Speaker 07 Nice.
33:57 Speaker 01 Let me clarify.
34:00 Speaker 01 We are in Vegas. We got an eight ball and we're going in. I'm going to ask a question.
34:05 Speaker 07 I'm going to go with Greg Grabowski, you're up first.
34:08 Speaker 01 Hit me.
34:09 Speaker 07 If you could be invisible for a day, what's the first thing you'd do?
34:12 Speaker 01 Oh, if I could be invisible for one day, what's the first thing I would do? Play bass for the Jonas Brothers and turn down your, your modern, your current day bass player.
34:25 Speaker 07 Wow.
34:25 Speaker 06 No, I'm kidding. Um, he's actually incredible and I'm, I'm very, very happy that he took my spot. Cause he's better than me. Um, what would I do? I don't know.
34:36 Speaker 01 I feel like it'd be fun to like mess, just be like, you know, just go around like messing with people.
34:41 Speaker 06 Just poke people?
34:42 Speaker 01 Yeah. Yeah. Steal some chips off the, we're in Vegas, so steal some chips off the table.
34:46 Speaker 06 Maybe go to a graveyard and like blow on people and.
34:49 Speaker 01 See?
34:50 Speaker 02 That's dark. Yeah, that's dark.
34:51 Speaker 07 That is fun. Oh, when I was like blowing on people, like I was thinking the dead people. And I was like, oh, you mean the people visiting the graveyard?
34:57 Speaker 06 Yeah.
34:57 Speaker 07 JT.
34:57 Speaker 00 You gotta haunt people.
34:58 Speaker 06 Yeah, I'm haunting.
34:59 Speaker 01 Okay, I like it.
34:59 Speaker 07 It's a hauntsome people.
35:02 Speaker 01 Oh, this is great. JT, what app do you waste the most time on?
35:05 Speaker 07 I mean.
35:06 Speaker 01 Well, just pull up your screen time. Let's see it.
35:08 Speaker 07 My screen time's gonna say that I'm on text messages more than anything.
35:12 Speaker 01 But you're not wasting, you're working.
35:13 Speaker 07 My screen time also gonna say it's like 13 or 14 hours a day. So I don't pull that up because it's depressing. Um, wasted time, I probably waste the most time on Instagram. Cause I don't care about anything that's on there.
35:25 Speaker 06 Can we tell the story of when you guys had a text off?
35:28 Speaker 07 Yeah, it's great. In Ojai.
35:30 Speaker 01 What year was this, Greg?
35:31 Speaker 00 Text off? What do you mean?
35:32 Speaker 07 It was a fast texter. Was this John Joe fight? First one?
35:35 Speaker 06 Yeah, it might've been 2012 actually.
35:38 Speaker 07 We were at the, we were at Ojai. We were at the Ojai Valley Inn.
35:40 Speaker 01 Yes, you're right.
35:41 Speaker 07 Shout out Ben Kephart, General Manager, went to high school with him.
35:43 Speaker 01 Blacked out the keyboard too, so they couldn't see.
35:46 Speaker 06 Yeah.
35:46 Speaker 01 Which keys they were hitting. So they just had to do it off like.
35:48 Speaker 06 We gave them a sentence.
35:49 Speaker 01 Yeah.
35:49 Speaker 06 And they had to type it and see who typed it faster. Should we do one right now?
35:53 Speaker 07 Uh, I mean, I'm still pretty quick.
35:55 Speaker 06 Oh.
35:55 Speaker 07 I'm afraid of nothing.
35:56 Speaker 01 I'm.
35:56 Speaker 07 I'm gonna have less typos and the words will be spelled more correctly.
35:59 Speaker 01 I can go for it. Let's go.
36:01 Speaker 00 It's a little rusty.
36:01 Speaker 06 Uh, Joe, yeah, Joe's had a practice.
36:03 Speaker 07 I don't know where my phone is.
36:04 Speaker 01 I'm a little rusty. All right. Well, he, John doesn't know where his phone is. That's a lie. Okay. Greg or Basky, here you go.
36:09 Speaker 06 Me again.
36:09 Speaker 01 Oh no, not you. Jack, sorry. If aliens landed tomorrow, what's the first thing you'd show them?
36:14 Speaker 02 Ooh.
36:15 Speaker 00 I'd show them the drums I have in my basement.
36:21 Speaker 07 You guys, you guys, you travel like 700 light years.
36:24 Speaker 06 Check out this old Gretsch kid I got down here.
36:25 Speaker 02 I got this Gretsch kid I got in my basement.
36:26 Speaker 06 It does sick, bro.
36:27 Speaker 07 Oh, can't show him a dog or something.
36:29 Speaker 02 Something they're like, how cool is this?
36:31 Speaker 06 No, I'm like, check out these parrotedles.
36:32 Speaker 01 We gotta talk about it. You.
36:33 Speaker 06 What's up?
36:34 Speaker 01 You and your wife recently moved back to New Jersey.
36:37 Speaker 07 We did.
36:38 Speaker 01 Welcome back, baby.
36:39 Speaker 07 So excited about the greetings from your hometown.
36:42 Speaker 01 That you actually made the.
36:43 Speaker 07 I actually, I actually kinda almost did it. I moved next to my hometown.
36:46 Speaker 02 I'm so proud of you.
36:47 Speaker 01 That's so, so exciting.
36:48 Speaker 07 It's very, it's very.
36:49 Speaker 01 Speaking of the greetings from your hometown tour, quick fire round here for the OGs who have been at every tour. Favorite tour that, that we've ever all done, both in the capacity you were in in the band, but also in this new capacity. Go, John.
37:02 Speaker 02 Burning up tour.
37:03 Speaker 01 Burning up tour. Jack. Oh, 2019.
37:07 Speaker 06 The one I wasn't on stage for, Jack.
37:09 Speaker 01 The comeback tour.
37:10 Speaker 07 But you were all there. Everyone was still there.
37:11 Speaker 02 Still there. We're still there.
37:12 Speaker 06 I'm kidding.
37:14 Speaker 07 Just there is some.
37:14 Speaker 06 Oh, man. I don't know. I mean, there was something crazy about the, this original anti-drug school tour.
37:21 Speaker 02 Yes.
37:21 Speaker 06 We're playing 8am.
37:23 Speaker 02 Loading at 5:30.
37:24 Speaker 06 Kids who had no idea who we were and. The come up tour too, like the 20s, 2007, like when we played like every Six Flags. Oh, yeah. We get to ride all the way around.
37:35 Speaker 01 Do you want to ask, ask me and my brothers a question?
37:37 Speaker 02 I think that's how I learned how to sleep on any moving vehicle was that tour.
37:40 Speaker 06 Oh, yeah.
37:41 Speaker 02 Because I could just be go into coffin mode.
37:43 Speaker 06 Like even on a roller coaster.
37:44 Speaker 02 Yeah.
37:45 Speaker 07 I'm asking you first.
37:46 Speaker 01 Okay.
37:47 Speaker 07 What's the weirdest DM you've ever received? And what's the weirdest DM you've ever sent?
37:55 Speaker 01 The strangest ones I've ever sent, um.
37:58 Speaker 07 You've probably sent me one, like the strangest DM.
38:00 Speaker 01 Yeah. I probably sent you guys some weird ones.
38:03 Speaker 02 There's some brain rot hanging out in there.
38:05 Speaker 06 Wait, speaking of brain rot, this is a slight pivot, but I got you guys something. I just got back from Norway. I was in Norway last week.
38:13 Speaker 01 Yep. Casual.
38:15 Speaker 06 And I got us all brain rot trading cards.
38:18 Speaker 02 No way. Is that? Oh my god. My kids are going to be.
38:28 Speaker 02 Greg's head just.
38:34 Speaker 02 These, okay, so for everyone not understanding, so my kids are on Roblox and that this is what this from. So they created these Italian brain rot game and it's completely insane and you collect these in the in Roblox. And they're just absurd.
38:49 Speaker 07 Are they valuable?
38:51 Speaker 02 Benbito Benbino.
38:55 Speaker 02 Luveskini Marotini.
38:57 Speaker 07 How do you even say this one? Gam. Garbo mara ra mara ra man. That's what it says. That's literally what it says.
39:04 Speaker 02 Call Valentina, she'll do it in two seconds.
39:06 Speaker 07 Garbo mara ra ra mara mara man.
39:08 Speaker 01 Wow, this is great. Thank you, Greg.
39:10 Speaker 02 Robrini cosini. It's my favorite thing in the entire universe.
39:13 Speaker 07 Ape with like a unicycle.
39:16 Speaker 01 I love it.
39:16 Speaker 07 Oh, got a rare guy here.
39:20 Speaker 02 I got the muscular banana. It's the best one.
39:24 Speaker 02 Thank you for this.
39:25 Speaker 07 These are pretty cool. I got a toilet, a toilet seat.
39:28 Speaker 02 I will say, as we come to our, you know, close to the end of our podcast time with you, I want to say thank you for all the memories. Clearly, but if you had to pick one thing that you felt was the eye, like the defining moment in our friendship. As like a, as a thing that happened, what would have been?
39:44 Speaker 07 Those are individual things.
39:46 Speaker 02 Yeah, that's what I mean. Like for you, like just with Nick, you can pick one. It doesn't have to be, you have to go down the line.
39:51 Speaker 07 Nick and I have a deep, deep connected relationship, I think. I don't even remember what happened, but Nick was bummed out.
39:57 Speaker 01 The 3D, the 3D movie didn't do well.
39:59 Speaker 07 3D movie didn't do well. No, I think it made 25 million dollars. Didn't do very well. Right? Because it was a comparison. It's a thief of joy and we were comparing it to Miley's movie and it was like Miley's movie was bigger. And if somebody was one better than we weren't the best, and that's, that's a disaster in the way that we were wired at the time. Thank you. Shout out mental health. Shout out therapist. But Nick was bummed and went over to the house. You guys were at a house like on the west side or something. And we had no plan and we ended up going, Nick had a drum set set up like in the laundry room. And we just played loud ass rock and roll.
40:30 Speaker 01 It was awesome.
40:30 Speaker 07 And a half hours.
40:31 Speaker 01 That's awesome.
40:32 Speaker 07 We were like the white stripes. It's just, I was Jack, Nick was Meg.
40:35 Speaker 01 Twenty-five million dollars in your pockets.
40:36 Speaker 07 We dug in and we went hard and we just, we, we, we played through the pain. So that was that. Joe and I took a honeymoon to, uh.
40:44 Speaker 01 Oh, you did? We went to, uh.
40:45 Speaker 07 To Australia.
40:45 Speaker 02 It was very romantic.
40:46 Speaker 07 They thought we were a couple and that was, uh.
40:49 Speaker 01 It was a blast.
40:50 Speaker 07 They set up the massage room as a couples massage.
40:52 Speaker 01 I almost fell in a frozen lake.
40:53 Speaker 07 Yeah, he got, he did a, uh, Amma Casa, like degustation menu at a restaurant and.
40:59 Speaker 01 And you didn't drink?
41:00 Speaker 07 And he had eighteen, eighteen courses with eighteen glasses of wine.
41:03 Speaker 01 I don't think it was eighteen.
41:05 Speaker 07 It was like.
41:06 Speaker 02 He tried to drink the whole glass of the wine with the course.
41:08 Speaker 01 It was like ten or eleven courses.
41:10 Speaker 07 Yeah, but he had a lot of booze. He almost fell in a frozen lake. I saved his life. We ran into some sheep. We went to, we, we landed. Yeah, took a helicopter, took it to Whitehaven Beach.
41:20 Speaker 02 Can I say my, my defining moment with you? You drove me to break up.
41:23 Speaker 07 I was about to say the same thing.
41:24 Speaker 02 Yeah.
41:25 Speaker 07 I drove you to break up with one of your girlfriends. She threw the cell phone across that you bought her across the parking lot.
41:30 Speaker 02 She bought me.
41:30 Speaker 07 And I thought about, you know, she bought it for you. It was like a burner phone that she bought for you so that no one could. Cause the, the machine that he was pushing against, that he was raging against.
41:38 Speaker 01 Rage!
41:39 Speaker 07 He was raging against the machine, talking about drama.
41:41 Speaker 01 The Jonas Brothers.
41:42 Speaker 07 She threw that phone across the parking lot and I saw her do it. And so I spun the car back around and peeled across the parking lot, grabbed that phone, pulled the SIM card out of it. I was like, no one's getting those texts.
41:52 Speaker 01 Side note, uh, isn't that sort of what inspired you tossing the phone in the SOS music video?
41:58 Speaker 02 As you, this is the mo- maybe?
42:00 Speaker 01 This is why I'm here, guys.
42:01 Speaker 02 Maybe? Sure.
42:02 Speaker 01 This is why I'm here.
42:03 Speaker 02 I think probably, that makes the most sense.
42:04 Speaker 01 Yeah.
42:05 Speaker 02 That's so crazy, John. Thanks for being my, my wingman on that one. And your Prius that smelled like not cigarettes, but was cigarettes.
42:11 Speaker 07 No, no. Funky cigarettes.
42:13 Speaker 02 Yeah, exactly.
42:14 Speaker 07 That was longer than fifteen years ago.
42:16 Speaker 02 Love you guys.
42:17 Speaker 01 It's time, it's time to wrap this thing up, guys.
42:19 Speaker 02 Yeah.
42:20 Speaker 01 I'll see you in five minutes when we go to Soundcheck.
42:21 Speaker 07 Yeah.
42:22 Speaker 01 See you soon. Thanks, guys.
42:24 Speaker 07 That was nice.
42:24 Speaker 01 So nice to meet you guys.
42:25 Speaker 02 Bye bye.
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