Story time with JT, Garbo & Jack - The OGs!

During their Vegas residency, Nick, Kevin and Joe got their “original” group back together for a very special episode. The OG band - Jack, Garbo and JT…let’s go! See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Kevin's, you know what I've found very interesting is how you will drink a carton to yourself.

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  Yeah, straight out the dome.

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• 2:08Speaker 06

  What's up, boys?

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  We are in Spain.

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  This is hours, Kevin, hours after Spain just won the World Cup. Now hit the applause.

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  Amazing. Have you gone to bed? Was the city on fire? Like, what happened?

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  The city is not on fire.

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  It's kind of an interesting.

• 2:30Speaker 06

  Viva la, viva la Spain.

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  We're on vacation.

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  Viva la Spain.

• 2:37Speaker 01

  This is called an after all spritz.

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  Where's mine?

• 2:39Speaker 01

  It's the drink of the summer, two years running.

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  To Spain, to Espana.

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  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.

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  Hanging out with me.

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  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.

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  Because I was shooting something in Los Angeles. I can't talk to you about it yet.

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  We got top secret projects.

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  So busy.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Seriously, shout out Spain.

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  It's fiesta season. They basically shoot off fireworks at 8:00 AM every morning. And then every night, there's fireworks.

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  I don't know if they're testing them for the nighttime or they just are.

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  I think it's a test.

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  They're testing. And then at night, like at 10, from pretty much from 10 till midnight, they're just going off.

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  Did you watch the match?

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  I did. I was flying home from the Hamptons. Me and Danny went and visited some friends.

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  Oh, very chic.

• 4:03Speaker 02

  Yes.

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  Tell us about the Hamptons, Kevin.

• 4:04Speaker 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.

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  What were you doing in the Hamptons?

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  Visiting some friends. They invited us out, went to their beach house and it was very awesome.

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  Did you take a helicopter?

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  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.

• 4:34Speaker 06

  It was in the great city of New Jersey.

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  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.

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  But that's pretty trippy probably to experience that in the rainstorm.

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  It was like, kind of like.

• 5:05Speaker 06

  It was giving Widows Bay.

• 5:06Speaker 02

  It was giving horror film.

• 5:08Speaker 01

  Speaking of horror films, have you guys watched Obsession yet?

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  No, I actually, by the way, I'm sorry, but I've been saving it. It's Tati and I.

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  I've been saving it too.

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  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?

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  I'm saving it for this long flight.

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  Why are you yelling at me? Cause you guys, I don't know. Why'd you watch it without me?

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  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.

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  I can't wait to see The Odyssey though.

• 5:39Speaker 01

  The Odyssey is gonna be great. Guys, a lot has happened that we have to, we have to recap.

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  Okay, let's recap.

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  The first is three sold out nights, Madison Square Garden.

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  Let's go.

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  Let's go.

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  20th, 21st, 22nd, our incredible fans.

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  This actually makes sense. This, this button I have makes a lot of sense for these three sold out shows.

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  We're turning it back, turning back in time. We're playing.

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  So we're running, we're running, yeah, we're turning it back.

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  The people have spoken, by the way. We're doing the show.

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  Oh, yeah, we're doing the OG show.

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  Turning the tables back to the Burning Up Tour that we were on in 2000 and?

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  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.

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  Thank you.

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  I can't wait to see you.

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  Cannot wait.

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  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.

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  The one that lights on fire.

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  Lights on fire. We could not find it.

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  So here's a picture of what it looks like. This is what we found in stores.

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  We have a Jonas Brothers storage unit.

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  Yeah.

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  Which also is quite fun.

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  It's a Jonas Brothers mall.

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  It's a massive storage unit that, if you're a fan of something.

• 6:48Speaker 01

  You guys remember Big Fat Liar? When they, when they went into the?

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  Just watched it with the kids. I was like, guys, you're gonna love this film. And you know what?

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  Shout out to millennials. You know what I'm talking about? Big Fat Liar.

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  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.

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  Yeah.

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  Fantastic film. Oh, Big Fat Liar. I was thinking of Liar Liar. Is there a storage unit scene in this?

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  Yeah, they, they go into the, the costume house at the, the lot. Remember Paul Giamatti is like the big bad guy?

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  Oh, right.

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  And it's, it's one of my favorite scenes in the film.

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  Oh, that's great.

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  The other one is when he jumps into his pool and he comes out and he's all.

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  All blue.

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  So we found the, the sign. That's the first step. We had been going back and forth with our production team.

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  We found it.

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  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.

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  Have you guys been working it out in the pool? Have you like been doing like some?

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  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.

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  It's a long show though, two.

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  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.

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  Exactly. And remember what happened after we got on tour and it was like, oh, no.

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  I feel like we could play. You guys are being very negative right now. I think I'm not being negative.

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  Just being realistic about our bodies.

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  Yeah, well, our stamina, stamina. What else, what else has happened? Kev, oh, you went on vacation?

• 8:27Speaker 02

  I went on vacation. We went to the Bahamas again, because that's what we do.

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  What are some lowlights? What are some highlights?

• 8:32Speaker 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.

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  Into water.

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  Into water.

• 8:43Speaker 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?

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  I got a little heated one morning. So I had the entire group going. Did I got a little frustrated.

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  How many people were talking?

• 8:58Speaker 02

  It was nine. No, it was eight and then Mikey joined.

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  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.

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  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.

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  What time are we talking?

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  Eight forty-five, nine o'clock.

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  Are you in the gym before that?

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  Yeah.

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  Damn, on vacay, on vacay, bro.

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  My body like wakes up.

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  No, you're locked in.

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  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.

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  And just, I'm gonna say, you're kind of hosting.

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  That's, I was a little pissed off.

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  Uncouth, as it were. That was the lowlight, then. You got heated. Lowlight.

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  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.

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  Drink are we talking about? We're talking about breakfast?

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  I needed an Aperol spritz and couldn't get one.

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  Got it.

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  So I started to rage and it became, and then I just had to go for a walk.

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  I had a lowlight. I went on a yacht trip.

• 10:06Speaker 02

  Wait a second. The fact that you just said, I had a lowlife, I went on a yacht trip.

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  Well, it was part of, the yacht trip had a lowlight.

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  Which was?

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  It's kind of a both thing. It's like a yacht trip.

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  You spend a lot of money for the bad lowlight, which is what we did.

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  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.

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  Just let it go. It's good. Just move on.

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  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.

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  I love that.

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  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.

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  So good.

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  It was nice to have a reason to celebrate.

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  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.

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  You're back?

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  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.

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  What?

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  Yeah, it's so good.

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  What?

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  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.

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  That's huge update for you, Nick.

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  It's a big update.

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  Are you kidding?

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  But this reminds me of.

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  Are you getting like cash for saying that?

• 12:16Speaker 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.

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  The OG band.

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  OG band, whose name as a band was Ocean Grove OG. See what I did there?

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  Wow.

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  Oh, that plays.

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  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.

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  Yeah, true.

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  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.

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  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.

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  He was starting to cook.

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  We have so much more we can unpack. Like that was such a, a warm up episode.

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  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.

• 13:28Speaker 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.

• 13:41Speaker 02

  This is Kevin Jonas.

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  And Joe Jonas from Hey Jonas.

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  Lucky good neighbor, State Farm is there. Hey Jonas is brought to you by Almond Breeze. It's time for some questions from the producers.

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  All right. Who started drinking Almond Breeze almond milk first?

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  Actually, I think that was you, Nick.

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  I think it was.

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  Yeah, you're like, you know, guys, I tried this almond breeze in my coffee today.

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  Changed the game for me. All right, who's the most likely to finish the last carton of Almond Breeze and not replace it?

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  That's Kevin.

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  Kevin, of course.

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  Yeah.

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  That's someone else's job.

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  Take it, Kev.

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  What's the most random place you drank Almond Breeze?

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  The last time I visited the Empire State Building.

• 14:33Speaker 01

  Ah, that's a random place for sure. I've noticed you guys really like Almond Breeze almond milk.

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  Mm-hmm.

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  Who has the most specific way of drinking it?

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  Ooh.

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  Ooh, um, Kevin's, you know what I found very interesting is how you will drink a carton to yourself.

• 14:47Speaker 02

  Yeah, just straight up to dump.

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  And he usually does it before show.

• 14:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, just really getting myself going.

• 14:52Speaker 00

  He needs it on stage.

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  Okay, last question. Why do you guys like Almond Breeze so much?

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  Oh, it just tastes great.

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  Yeah.

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  It's a great alternative.

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  It is great.

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  It's simply because it's really good.

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  True. Try Almond Breeze. Trust us, it's really good. You've probably heard that good things come in threes.

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  No, I've never heard that.

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  Kevin. Yeah, you have. You've got bacon, lettuce, tomato, rock, paper, scissors.

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  Joe, Nick, Kevin.

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  Yeah, and that is a good one.

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  Or because it's cold season, Kleenex lotion tissues.

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  There's no three in Kleenex tissues.

• 15:21Speaker 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.

• 15:30Speaker 02

  I never realized you were so into skincare, Joe.

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  Come on, who doesn't love to moisturize?

• 15:35Speaker 02

  You've got a good point.

• 15:37Speaker 00

  Oh, and don't forget to tell them about the three thick layers made with coconut oil and aloe.

• 15:40Speaker 01

  Wow, good things really do come in threes.

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  For whatever happens next, grab Kleenex.

• 15:45Speaker 01

  Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the pod, the OG Jonas Brothers band, John, Jack, and Greg.

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  Garbowski.

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  Garbowski.

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  Take a seat.

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  Take a seat.

• 15:57Speaker 01

  Okay.

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  All right.

• 15:58Speaker 02

  Oh, good jo- good choice, John.

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  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?

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  2005.

• 16:21Speaker 01

  Greg is the timekeeper.

• 16:22Speaker 02

  Yeah. He knows every date ever.

• 16:24Speaker 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.

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  Oh, yeah.

• 16:38Speaker 02

  We've talked about toenails before on this podcast.

• 16:40Speaker 07

  You've already breached the subject.

• 16:41Speaker 01

  Have we talked about that?

• 16:42Speaker 07

  The subject.

• 16:43Speaker 02

  It was just a conversation we had the other day about your toes being out because of the Javianas.

• 16:48Speaker 07

  Yeah, like grown men in flip flops or something. Yeah, I get it.

• 16:51Speaker 01

  I got paid for that, so shut up. Go on.

• 16:54Speaker 07

  I rolled in for my audition at the church on Franklin Avenue in Wyckoff.

• 16:59Speaker 01

  It was not an audition for the church. You might need to break that down a bit more.

• 17:01Speaker 07

  The audition was at the church.

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  The Church of Jonas.

• 17:04Speaker 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.

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  And the fact was you were a delinquent.

• 17:19Speaker 07

  And yeah, I was, I was a bit of a, a delinquent. Yes, a black sheep, if you will.

• 17:25Speaker 02

  We had no idea.

• 17:26Speaker 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.

• 17:45Speaker 01

  Looked you right in the eyes.

• 17:46Speaker 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?

• 18:08Speaker 02

  If ever being tested, this is the moment. It's like, okay, so either.

• 18:12Speaker 07

  This tiny man emerges from the woods.

• 18:14Speaker 02

  I think there was a graveyard back in the woods.

• 18:16Speaker 07

  There was.

• 18:17Speaker 01

  We had, we had a path through the woods that led from our backyard, the parsonage, to the church.

• 18:23Speaker 02

  Around another house. That's why it was cool.

• 18:25Speaker 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.

• 18:39Speaker 01

  And I really am glad though, that that's our first interaction.

• 18:42Speaker 07

  It was a good one.

• 18:43Speaker 06

  It actually kind of was a precursor to your relationship.

• 18:47Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 18:47Speaker 06

  Looking after each other's hygiene.

• 18:49Speaker 07

  Yeah. Nick is my personal valet. He checks my collar before I leave the room.

• 18:53Speaker 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.

• 19:01Speaker 06

  Which was only like.

• 19:02Speaker 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.

• 19:12Speaker 02

  Pink polo and camo shorts?

• 19:13Speaker 01

  Camo shorts.

• 19:14Speaker 06

  Close, camo shorts.

• 19:16Speaker 01

  Oh Adidas t-shirt.

• 19:17Speaker 06

  Armani Exchange t-shirt.

• 19:19Speaker 01

  It's the nicest shirt I own.

• 19:20Speaker 07

  Very New Jersey.

• 19:21Speaker 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.

• 19:29Speaker 01

  No way.

• 19:30Speaker 02

  Holy shit.

• 19:30Speaker 06

  Twenty one years ago today.

• 19:32Speaker 01

  And you know.

• 19:32Speaker 02

  What about you?

• 19:33Speaker 01

  Oh, it's so funny.

• 19:34Speaker 02

  We can buy you alcohol finally.

• 19:35Speaker 01

  We brought you Greg and we brought you this edible arrangement. This big edible arrangement.

• 19:39Speaker 06

  Oh, thank you.

• 19:40Speaker 01

  But you also have a weird interaction with one of us from that day.

• 19:44Speaker 06

  Oh, it was you?

• 19:45Speaker 01

  Well, I thought it was Kevin. For those, for those of you who are listening to this.

• 19:50Speaker 02

  This is very telling by the way.

• 19:52Speaker 01

  Oh, it was me.

• 19:52Speaker 02

  This is very telling about the interactions with, I think Nick was testing all of you.

• 19:56Speaker 01

  Greg, who's you? Cause people are listening, this is a podcast, you listen to it?

• 19:59Speaker 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.

• 20:15Speaker 01

  It was the chemistry.

• 20:16Speaker 06

  It was the chemistry exam, yeah.

• 20:17Speaker 02

  Nick was throwing out chemistry a lot.

• 20:19Speaker 06

  Nick was like, um, do you have a girlfriend? I guess we were also like, you know, are you, are you willing to?

• 20:25Speaker 01

  It's kind of weird, he's 12 years old, but okay, go on.

• 20:27Speaker 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.

• 20:44Speaker 07

  That's good, that's good.

• 20:45Speaker 06

  On day one.

• 20:46Speaker 02

  Day one.

• 20:47Speaker 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.

• 20:54Speaker 02

  Do you know how to do laundry?

• 20:56Speaker 06

  The answer was no.

• 20:56Speaker 02

  But to be honest, to be honest. The answer was no.

• 21:00Speaker 01

  Greg put, was it tin foil in the microwave on a tour bus? Was that it?

• 21:04Speaker 07

  A can of SpaghettiOs, uh oh, Garbo.

• 21:05Speaker 06

  Yeah, it was a aluminum can.

• 21:07Speaker 07

  I mean, we can, we can break that open if you want to.

• 21:09Speaker 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.

• 21:14Speaker 00

  Ten years later, I would say.

• 21:15Speaker 06

  What?

• 21:16Speaker 07

  No.

• 21:16Speaker 06

  Twenty.

• 21:17Speaker 02

  Twenty years later.

• 21:18Speaker 06

  Twenty years later. What year are you in?

• 21:19Speaker 01

  How much does a carton of milk cost?

• 21:22Speaker 07

  It was one year, right? It was one and a half years. It was Thanksgiving twenty two thousand six.

• 21:25Speaker 00

  Thanksgiving. Sorry, I was getting my dates back. I had my dates backwards.

• 21:28Speaker 01

  It was twenty five years.

• 21:29Speaker 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.

• 21:37Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 21:37Speaker 00

  And I think you said, bye, mom.

• 21:39Speaker 06

  I said, see you later.

• 21:40Speaker 00

  See you later.

• 21:41Speaker 02

  Such a surfer.

• 21:42Speaker 00

  You, uh, you went on to be our, our touring drummer.

• 21:45Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 21:45Speaker 00

  And today's your last.

• 21:49Speaker 06

  I just kidding. It's been a good run.

• 21:50Speaker 00

  And it's been over, it's twenty some years?

• 21:53Speaker 06

  Twenty years this year, yeah. I, uh, didn't know any of you guys and you guys were all kind of going already.

• 21:59Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 22:00Speaker 06

  Shout out to Alex Noyes for being an awesome dude and awesome drummer, too.

• 22:03Speaker 02

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 22:04Speaker 00

  And we love him. He quit when he quit. And we got you, so.

• 22:08Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 22:08Speaker 00

  Everything worked out.

• 22:09Speaker 02

  I remember my first interaction with Jack. We were in Orlando, walking around downtown Orlando, because that's what someone does in Orlando.

• 22:16Speaker 06

  Were we like going to Starbucks or something?

• 22:17Speaker 02

  We went to Starbucks and I asked you on the, on the slide, I'm like, hey, do you, do you drink beer?

• 22:21Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah.

• 22:22Speaker 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.

• 22:41Speaker 01

  Question, just going back to, to the Thanksgiving date pickup, that we played a show in Pennsylvania.

• 22:47Speaker 06

  The next day.

• 22:47Speaker 01

  The next day.

• 22:48Speaker 06

  In Pittsburgh, so.

• 22:48Speaker 01

  Not on Thanksgiving.

• 22:49Speaker 06

  Yeah, no, you guys.

• 22:50Speaker 01

  That would be diabolical.

• 22:51Speaker 06

  You guys did the parade.

• 22:52Speaker 02

  We did a lot of diabolical things.

• 22:53Speaker 06

  Thanksgiving parade.

• 22:54Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:54Speaker 00

  That's right, we worked, we worked.

• 22:56Speaker 06

  And then I met you guys that night and then we drove to Pittsburgh overnight.

• 22:59Speaker 01

  And you, you showed up to our, our house in Little Falls, New Jersey, which was a very, very, uh, nice home, but.

• 23:04Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 23:05Speaker 01

  Was, was, you know, we were in a bad financial spot.

• 23:09Speaker 06

  I had no idea what was going on.

• 23:10Speaker 07

  It was the four of you guys in.

• 23:11Speaker 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.

• 23:35Speaker 07

  The square square footage probably was almost match.

• 23:38Speaker 02

  Comparable, for sure.

• 23:39Speaker 07

  That was a small house.

• 23:40Speaker 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.

• 24:06Speaker 07

  I read your scripts, but yeah, it's cool.

• 24:09Speaker 01

  What's your favorite part about? Script reading. Being an agent?

• 24:11Speaker 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

• 24:20Speaker 01

  Damn, that's good.

• 24:21Speaker 07

  In a building where if you need something from someone, you can get ahold of anyone at any time.

• 24:26Speaker 01

  I love that. Clip it.

• 24:27Speaker 07

  And no, no ideas, no ideas too big. You dream it, we do it.

• 24:30Speaker 01

  Is that John Taylor or Ari say that?

• 24:32Speaker 07

  You know, comes down.

• 24:33Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 24:33Speaker 02

  Do you bring a paintball gun to the office?

• 24:36Speaker 07

  No.

• 24:36Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 24:37Speaker 07

  I'm chilled out.

• 24:37Speaker 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?

• 24:45Speaker 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.

• 24:52Speaker 01

  That's great.

• 24:52Speaker 07

  I'm fifteen years sober on Saturday.

• 24:54Speaker 02

  Birthday, congratulations.

• 24:56Speaker 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.

• 25:06Speaker 02

  Yeah, they are, but they're a call away.

• 25:07Speaker 07

  Of coffee, good, pretty decent coffee, not on your level, not on our level.

• 25:11Speaker 02

  UTA's coffee or you make your own?

• 25:12Speaker 07

  Leora downstairs has good coffee.

• 25:14Speaker 02

  Coffee.

• 25:14Speaker 01

  JT during COVID was my barista.

• 25:16Speaker 07

  Yes.

• 25:16Speaker 01

  Sidebar on coffee, I'm finding it hard to drink coffee as the older I get.

• 25:21Speaker 02

  Man.

• 25:22Speaker 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.

• 25:29Speaker 07

  It's over?

• 25:29Speaker 01

  I think it's over. My relationship with coffee has come to an end after a good, solid run.

• 25:33Speaker 07

  That sounds like a tragedy.

• 25:34Speaker 01

  Twenty years.

• 25:36Speaker 06

  Red Bull first, now it's coffee.

• 25:37Speaker 02

  Did you have coffee today?

• 25:39Speaker 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.

• 25:47Speaker 06

  Peptides.

• 25:48Speaker 01

  Uh, peptides.

• 25:49Speaker 02

  I did that, it's awesome.

• 25:50Speaker 01

  I'm finding that green tea is a better caffeine source for me.

• 25:54Speaker 02

  Doesn't green tea, I could be wrong here, have more caffeine?

• 25:57Speaker 01

  No, it's the bean of the coffee bean that I'm kind of at war with.

• 26:03Speaker 07

  It's a steadier caffeine intake.

• 26:05Speaker 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.

• 26:13Speaker 01

  I'll try it one more time.

• 26:14Speaker 02

  There's a great barista gonna be at the show today, you should try his coffee.

• 26:17Speaker 01

  I'll give it a try.

• 26:18Speaker 02

  Maybe not before the show, if you're having a hard time.

• 26:20Speaker 00

  Look who's talking, don't you have like two Americanos in the gym?

• 26:23Speaker 02

  Do you see me having an issue?

• 26:24Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 26:25Speaker 07

  I support you doing whatever you need to do to feel the best in your body.

• 26:28Speaker 01

  I appreciate it.

• 26:29Speaker 00

  Facts. Okay.

• 26:30Speaker 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?

• 26:54Speaker 06

  Um, is there? I feel like you guys get your dates pretty wrong. Like, you guys.

• 27:01Speaker 02

  Oh dude, there's like a black hole void in my memory.

• 27:04Speaker 06

  You were talking about five years ago, I'm like, that was 15 years ago.

• 27:06Speaker 00

  I just said Jack was many years, it took him many years after.

• 27:09Speaker 02

  10 years later, he joined the band, that's insane.

• 27:13Speaker 06

  Is there one particular story, I mean?

• 27:15Speaker 01

  Where do we write?

• 27:19Speaker 01

  Much better. For instance, or where do we write? No, games.

• 27:23Speaker 06

  Games we wrote.

• 27:24Speaker 01

  Before you answer, where do we write it? Joe?

• 27:27Speaker 00

  Bob Mason's living room.

• 27:29Speaker 01

  Okay, that's how I remember it, Kevin.

• 27:31Speaker 02

  Uh, I wasn't there.

• 27:34Speaker 01

  Clip it.

• 27:34Speaker 06

  Me neither. That's correct. We wrote it in.

• 27:38Speaker 07

  The grand piano in the living room.

• 27:40Speaker 06

  August 2005.

• 27:42Speaker 01

  What's the date? You know it. It's August.

• 27:45Speaker 06

  It was.

• 27:47Speaker 06

  That's very close. Yeah, I think you're right because it was the Jesse McCartney tour. It was a day off.

• 27:51Speaker 01

  The Jesse McCartney tour.

• 27:52Speaker 07

  Who did you sleep next to that night in bed?

• 27:56Speaker 06

  I slept.

• 27:58Speaker 06

  In a bunk bed, I think, with Alex Noiz in the room.

• 28:02Speaker 07

  In the room? I thought, I see, my memory was that you and I shared a bed.

• 28:07Speaker 07

  With a pillow.

• 28:08Speaker 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?

• 28:27Speaker 07

  I would stay there from time to time. I stayed on Alex Noiz's couch.

• 28:30Speaker 02

  Like, the fact you're in a band, being paid as a musician, and like, living on.

• 28:35Speaker 07

  By even being paid is.

• 28:36Speaker 06

  Being paid.

• 28:37Speaker 02

  Well, yeah, okay, so theoretically paid.

• 28:40Speaker 07

  Sometimes snatched.

• 28:41Speaker 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.

• 28:52Speaker 07

  I give those out, the agency tends to give those out for business relationships.

• 28:56Speaker 01

  It's an important business relationship.

• 28:57Speaker 07

  Interesting.

• 28:58Speaker 01

  You know what they say? You gotta learn how to golf in business?

• 29:00Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 29:01Speaker 01

  You gotta be good.

• 29:02Speaker 07

  You gotta have half, half a phone call away from edible arrangements.

• 29:04Speaker 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.

• 29:09Speaker 07

  I think you were. You're publishing on the song.

• 29:11Speaker 02

  No, I was there.

• 29:12Speaker 07

  You were there.

• 29:12Speaker 01

  Now you're there.

• 29:14Speaker 06

  Yeah, I remember you saying like, just a couple of days ago, like, you don't remember, like, almost anything.

• 29:17Speaker 02

  I have like, very big gaps in my memory.

• 29:19Speaker 06

  What do you think? Why do you think that is?

• 29:21Speaker 02

  Trauma.

• 29:23Speaker 02

  I'm actually not kidding. Like, I've unpacked this.

• 29:26Speaker 01

  We don't think you're kidding.

• 29:29Speaker 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.

• 29:44Speaker 06

  Your parents were the machine?

• 29:45Speaker 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.

• 29:55Speaker 01

  This is Nick Jonas.

• 29:57Speaker 02

  This is Kevin Jonas.

• 29:58Speaker 00

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• 30:02Speaker 02

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• 30:05Speaker 01

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• 30:07Speaker 02

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• 30:09Speaker 01

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• 30:18Speaker 01

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• 30:21Speaker 00

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• 30:22Speaker 02

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• 30:24Speaker 00

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• 30:28Speaker 01

  All right. Who started drinking Almond Breeze almond milk first?

• 30:31Speaker 02

  Actually, I think that was you, Nick.

• 30:32Speaker 00

  I think it was.

• 30:33Speaker 02

  Yeah, you're like, you know, guys, I tried this almond breeze in my coffee today.

• 30:36Speaker 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?

• 30:41Speaker 00

  That's Kevin.

• 30:42Speaker 01

  Kevin, of course.

• 30:43Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 30:44Speaker 02

  That's someone else's job.

• 30:45Speaker 00

  Take it, Kev.

• 30:45Speaker 01

  What's the most random place you drank almond breeze?

• 30:48Speaker 00

  The last time I visited the Empire State Building.

• 30:50Speaker 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?

• 30:57Speaker 00

  Oh, Kevin's, you know what's I've found very interesting is how you will drink a carton to yourself.

• 31:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, straight off the dome.

• 31:05Speaker 00

  And he usually does it before show.

• 31:07Speaker 02

  Yeah, just really getting myself going.

• 31:09Speaker 00

  He needs it on stage.

• 31:11Speaker 01

  Okay, last question. Why do you guys like almond breeze so much?

• 31:13Speaker 02

  It just tastes great.

• 31:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 31:15Speaker 02

  It's a great alternative.

• 31:16Speaker 01

  It is great.

• 31:16Speaker 00

  It's simply because it's really good.

• 31:18Speaker 01

  True. Try almond breeze. Trust us, it's really good. You've probably heard that good things come in threes.

• 31:23Speaker 02

  No, I've never heard that.

• 31:24Speaker 00

  Kevin. Yeah, you have. You've got bacon, lettuce, tomato, rock, paper, scissors.

• 31:29Speaker 01

  Joe, Nick, Kevin.

• 31:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, and that is a good one.

• 31:32Speaker 00

  Or because it's cold season, Kleenex lotion tissues.

• 31:36Speaker 02

  There's no three in Kleenex tissues.

• 31:38Speaker 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.

• 31:47Speaker 02

  I never realized you were so into skincare, Joe.

• 31:50Speaker 01

  Come on, who doesn't love to moisturize?

• 31:52Speaker 02

  You've got a good point.

• 31:54Speaker 00

  Oh, and don't forget to tell them about the three thick layers made with coconut oil and aloe.

• 31:58Speaker 01

  Wow, good things really do come in threes. For whatever happens next, grab Kleenex.

• 32:03Speaker 00

  We talked about getting our densists on the pod, but I think we should get our therapists on. They should all.

• 32:07Speaker 02

  That'd be great.

• 32:08Speaker 00

  They should all chat.

• 32:08Speaker 01

  Compare notes.

• 32:10Speaker 00

  My therapist, I would, I would constantly, anytime I'm on Zoom with her, I like.

• 32:16Speaker 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?

• 32:48Speaker 07

  Are you trying to humanize your therapist to make it more on your same level?

• 32:51Speaker 01

  I'm a Leo.

• 32:52Speaker 07

  It's a little.

• 32:54Speaker 07

  It is a little Leo coded.

• 32:55Speaker 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.

• 33:21Speaker 07

  Nick and I share a therapist, but hey.

• 33:23Speaker 01

  We used to.

• 33:23Speaker 07

  We used to.

• 33:24Speaker 01

  Have to call away.

• 33:25Speaker 07

  Have to call away.

• 33:28Speaker 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.

• 33:35Speaker 07

  I play golf with my dentist, yeah.

• 33:36Speaker 01

  I love my dentist. You play golf with your dentist?

• 33:39Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 33:40Speaker 01

  What do you talk about?

• 33:41Speaker 07

  We talk about life and love and the pursuit of happiness.

• 33:45Speaker 01

  It's beautiful.

• 33:46Speaker 07

  Yeah, he's a good guy.

• 33:47Speaker 01

  We have some questions in our, our fun question bowl, which today is an eight ball.

• 33:54Speaker 07

  Nice.

• 33:57Speaker 01

  Let me clarify.

• 34:00Speaker 01

  We are in Vegas. We got an eight ball and we're going in. I'm going to ask a question.

• 34:05Speaker 07

  I'm going to go with Greg Grabowski, you're up first.

• 34:08Speaker 01

  Hit me.

• 34:09Speaker 07

  If you could be invisible for a day, what's the first thing you'd do?

• 34:12Speaker 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.

• 34:25Speaker 07

  Wow.

• 34:25Speaker 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.

• 34:36Speaker 01

  I feel like it'd be fun to like mess, just be like, you know, just go around like messing with people.

• 34:41Speaker 06

  Just poke people?

• 34:42Speaker 01

  Yeah. Yeah. Steal some chips off the, we're in Vegas, so steal some chips off the table.

• 34:46Speaker 06

  Maybe go to a graveyard and like blow on people and.

• 34:49Speaker 01

  See?

• 34:50Speaker 02

  That's dark. Yeah, that's dark.

• 34:51Speaker 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?

• 34:57Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 34:57Speaker 07

  JT.

• 34:57Speaker 00

  You gotta haunt people.

• 34:58Speaker 06

  Yeah, I'm haunting.

• 34:59Speaker 01

  Okay, I like it.

• 34:59Speaker 07

  It's a hauntsome people.

• 35:02Speaker 01

  Oh, this is great. JT, what app do you waste the most time on?

• 35:05Speaker 07

  I mean.

• 35:06Speaker 01

  Well, just pull up your screen time. Let's see it.

• 35:08Speaker 07

  My screen time's gonna say that I'm on text messages more than anything.

• 35:12Speaker 01

  But you're not wasting, you're working.

• 35:13Speaker 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.

• 35:25Speaker 06

  Can we tell the story of when you guys had a text off?

• 35:28Speaker 07

  Yeah, it's great. In Ojai.

• 35:30Speaker 01

  What year was this, Greg?

• 35:31Speaker 00

  Text off? What do you mean?

• 35:32Speaker 07

  It was a fast texter. Was this John Joe fight? First one?

• 35:35Speaker 06

  Yeah, it might've been 2012 actually.

• 35:38Speaker 07

  We were at the, we were at Ojai. We were at the Ojai Valley Inn.

• 35:40Speaker 01

  Yes, you're right.

• 35:41Speaker 07

  Shout out Ben Kephart, General Manager, went to high school with him.

• 35:43Speaker 01

  Blacked out the keyboard too, so they couldn't see.

• 35:46Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 35:46Speaker 01

  Which keys they were hitting. So they just had to do it off like.

• 35:48Speaker 06

  We gave them a sentence.

• 35:49Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 35:49Speaker 06

  And they had to type it and see who typed it faster. Should we do one right now?

• 35:53Speaker 07

  Uh, I mean, I'm still pretty quick.

• 35:55Speaker 06

  Oh.

• 35:55Speaker 07

  I'm afraid of nothing.

• 35:56Speaker 01

  I'm.

• 35:56Speaker 07

  I'm gonna have less typos and the words will be spelled more correctly.

• 35:59Speaker 01

  I can go for it. Let's go.

• 36:01Speaker 00

  It's a little rusty.

• 36:01Speaker 06

  Uh, Joe, yeah, Joe's had a practice.

• 36:03Speaker 07

  I don't know where my phone is.

• 36:04Speaker 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.

• 36:09Speaker 06

  Me again.

• 36:09Speaker 01

  Oh no, not you. Jack, sorry. If aliens landed tomorrow, what's the first thing you'd show them?

• 36:14Speaker 02

  Ooh.

• 36:15Speaker 00

  I'd show them the drums I have in my basement.

• 36:21Speaker 07

  You guys, you guys, you travel like 700 light years.

• 36:24Speaker 06

  Check out this old Gretsch kid I got down here.

• 36:25Speaker 02

  I got this Gretsch kid I got in my basement.

• 36:26Speaker 06

  It does sick, bro.

• 36:27Speaker 07

  Oh, can't show him a dog or something.

• 36:29Speaker 02

  Something they're like, how cool is this?

• 36:31Speaker 06

  No, I'm like, check out these parrotedles.

• 36:32Speaker 01

  We gotta talk about it. You.

• 36:33Speaker 06

  What's up?

• 36:34Speaker 01

  You and your wife recently moved back to New Jersey.

• 36:37Speaker 07

  We did.

• 36:38Speaker 01

  Welcome back, baby.

• 36:39Speaker 07

  So excited about the greetings from your hometown.

• 36:42Speaker 01

  That you actually made the.

• 36:43Speaker 07

  I actually, I actually kinda almost did it. I moved next to my hometown.

• 36:46Speaker 02

  I'm so proud of you.

• 36:47Speaker 01

  That's so, so exciting.

• 36:48Speaker 07

  It's very, it's very.

• 36:49Speaker 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.

• 37:02Speaker 02

  Burning up tour.

• 37:03Speaker 01

  Burning up tour. Jack. Oh, 2019.

• 37:07Speaker 06

  The one I wasn't on stage for, Jack.

• 37:09Speaker 01

  The comeback tour.

• 37:10Speaker 07

  But you were all there. Everyone was still there.

• 37:11Speaker 02

  Still there. We're still there.

• 37:12Speaker 06

  I'm kidding.

• 37:14Speaker 07

  Just there is some.

• 37:14Speaker 06

  Oh, man. I don't know. I mean, there was something crazy about the, this original anti-drug school tour.

• 37:21Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 37:21Speaker 06

  We're playing 8am.

• 37:23Speaker 02

  Loading at 5:30.

• 37:24Speaker 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.

• 37:35Speaker 01

  Do you want to ask, ask me and my brothers a question?

• 37:37Speaker 02

  I think that's how I learned how to sleep on any moving vehicle was that tour.

• 37:40Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah.

• 37:41Speaker 02

  Because I could just be go into coffin mode.

• 37:43Speaker 06

  Like even on a roller coaster.

• 37:44Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 37:45Speaker 07

  I'm asking you first.

• 37:46Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 37:47Speaker 07

  What's the weirdest DM you've ever received? And what's the weirdest DM you've ever sent?

• 37:55Speaker 01

  The strangest ones I've ever sent, um.

• 37:58Speaker 07

  You've probably sent me one, like the strangest DM.

• 38:00Speaker 01

  Yeah. I probably sent you guys some weird ones.

• 38:03Speaker 02

  There's some brain rot hanging out in there.

• 38:05Speaker 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.

• 38:13Speaker 01

  Yep. Casual.

• 38:15Speaker 06

  And I got us all brain rot trading cards.

• 38:18Speaker 02

  No way. Is that? Oh my god. My kids are going to be.

• 38:28Speaker 02

  Greg's head just.

• 38:34Speaker 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.

• 38:49Speaker 07

  Are they valuable?

• 38:51Speaker 02

  Benbito Benbino.

• 38:55Speaker 02

  Luveskini Marotini.

• 38:57Speaker 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.

• 39:04Speaker 02

  Call Valentina, she'll do it in two seconds.

• 39:06Speaker 07

  Garbo mara ra ra mara mara man.

• 39:08Speaker 01

  Wow, this is great. Thank you, Greg.

• 39:10Speaker 02

  Robrini cosini. It's my favorite thing in the entire universe.

• 39:13Speaker 07

  Ape with like a unicycle.

• 39:16Speaker 01

  I love it.

• 39:16Speaker 07

  Oh, got a rare guy here.

• 39:20Speaker 02

  I got the muscular banana. It's the best one.

• 39:24Speaker 02

  Thank you for this.

• 39:25Speaker 07

  These are pretty cool. I got a toilet, a toilet seat.

• 39:28Speaker 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?

• 39:44Speaker 07

  Those are individual things.

• 39:46Speaker 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.

• 39:51Speaker 07

  Nick and I have a deep, deep connected relationship, I think. I don't even remember what happened, but Nick was bummed out.

• 39:57Speaker 01

  The 3D, the 3D movie didn't do well.

• 39:59Speaker 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.

• 40:30Speaker 01

  It was awesome.

• 40:30Speaker 07

  And a half hours.

• 40:31Speaker 01

  That's awesome.

• 40:32Speaker 07

  We were like the white stripes. It's just, I was Jack, Nick was Meg.

• 40:35Speaker 01

  Twenty-five million dollars in your pockets.

• 40:36Speaker 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.

• 40:44Speaker 01

  Oh, you did? We went to, uh.

• 40:45Speaker 07

  To Australia.

• 40:45Speaker 02

  It was very romantic.

• 40:46Speaker 07

  They thought we were a couple and that was, uh.

• 40:49Speaker 01

  It was a blast.

• 40:50Speaker 07

  They set up the massage room as a couples massage.

• 40:52Speaker 01

  I almost fell in a frozen lake.

• 40:53Speaker 07

  Yeah, he got, he did a, uh, Amma Casa, like degustation menu at a restaurant and.

• 40:59Speaker 01

  And you didn't drink?

• 41:00Speaker 07

  And he had eighteen, eighteen courses with eighteen glasses of wine.

• 41:03Speaker 01

  I don't think it was eighteen.

• 41:05Speaker 07

  It was like.

• 41:06Speaker 02

  He tried to drink the whole glass of the wine with the course.

• 41:08Speaker 01

  It was like ten or eleven courses.

• 41:10Speaker 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.

• 41:20Speaker 02

  Can I say my, my defining moment with you? You drove me to break up.

• 41:23Speaker 07

  I was about to say the same thing.

• 41:24Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 41:25Speaker 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.

• 41:30Speaker 02

  She bought me.

• 41:30Speaker 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.

• 41:38Speaker 01

  Rage!

• 41:39Speaker 07

  He was raging against the machine, talking about drama.

• 41:41Speaker 01

  The Jonas Brothers.

• 41:42Speaker 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.

• 41:52Speaker 01

  Side note, uh, isn't that sort of what inspired you tossing the phone in the SOS music video?

• 41:58Speaker 02

  As you, this is the mo- maybe?

• 42:00Speaker 01

  This is why I'm here, guys.

• 42:01Speaker 02

  Maybe? Sure.

• 42:02Speaker 01

  This is why I'm here.

• 42:03Speaker 02

  I think probably, that makes the most sense.

• 42:04Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 42:05Speaker 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.

• 42:11Speaker 07

  No, no. Funky cigarettes.

• 42:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, exactly.

• 42:14Speaker 07

  That was longer than fifteen years ago.

• 42:16Speaker 02

  Love you guys.

• 42:17Speaker 01

  It's time, it's time to wrap this thing up, guys.

• 42:19Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 42:20Speaker 01

  I'll see you in five minutes when we go to Soundcheck.

• 42:21Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 42:22Speaker 01

  See you soon. Thanks, guys.

• 42:24Speaker 07

  That was nice.

• 42:24Speaker 01

  So nice to meet you guys.

• 42:25Speaker 02

  Bye bye.

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