December 26, 2025 • 27 mins
In 2025 we had so many amazing people stop by Elvis Duran and the Morning Show. Here's one of our favorites!
Mark Hoppus joins us to discuss his memoir, "Fahrenheit-182," and gives us a sneak peek into the crazy anecdotes from the Blink-182 founder.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Unforgettable stars, shocking confessions, and hilarious moments. These are the
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Not to embarrass myself, but here we go. I mean,
I'm on crazy, crazy allergy medicine, so I'm like a
crackhead over here. Okay, my skins crawling off my head.
So if it goes down a weird hallway, it's gonna happen.
Mark Hoppus is here. Yeah, we need more cowbell. That's great.
(00:36):
It's some morning radio. It's an embarrassing thing. Ever, I mean,
you have a slide whistle too? Probably do you really
don't mess with my slide. He's in a box of tricks.
It's so hokey. Put that crap nice, Okay, now that'll
(00:59):
be do. I just I mean it is a typical hokey, right.
I just stopped wearing bowling shirts. So Mark Hoppin is
of course blink two. And I'm doing my best not
to fan girl in your face because we're such huge fans. Oh,
thank you very much. Absolutely the story we all thought
(01:20):
we knew until now we're reading your book. Called Fahrenheit
one eighty two and wow, writing a book is an interesting,
interesting decision to make. It is why why did you
do this? My manager asked me to.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Actually, my manager has been saying forever that I should
write a book, but I didn't really think about it
until I was sick. And when I was sick, I
was talking with a therapist and she said, you should
write down what's happening and write like nobody's ever going
to read it, and just write. And I found it
really therapeutic, and so afterwards I was like, I enjoy
this process. And then it turned from writing as therapy,
(01:54):
from being sick to writing about my band and my
best friends and the great things that we've gotten to
do and how lucky we are. And then that went
into the band breakup and into like the part about
being sick.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So it was really great. And speaking of I mean,
you don't hold back. I mean you were talking about
Tom DeLong and you're interesting of volatile sometimes volatile relationship
with him. You just say it right here, yeah, And
did he read it and go, hey, man, is that
really what you thought about me? No, because there's nothing
in the book that I hadn't talked with Tom about
(02:26):
or said in his presence, and Tom and I were
in a great place, like as a Bandblinquity to is
in a really awesome place right now, and so I
think that.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And I wrote the book with the intent there would
be no demons in it, like I didn't want there
to be bad guys. And so when I was writing
the book, even when I was writing about fights that
we've had as a band, I would write about other
person's point of view because I'd want to be fair
about it. And so that was kind of healing for
me as well, to write about arguments that were in
the past, like twenty years ago, that I was still
maybe holding on us some grudges about, and then trying
(02:55):
to write it from the other person's perspective helped me
deal with it.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
So if we listened to the book on audible, right,
a lot of times, if I'm listening to someone who
talk does their own book, they kind of go off
page for a minute and give you, like a side note.
Do you do that at all?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
No? Okay, stick extrictly, as I stuck very strictly to
the book.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But I did write a song for the beginning in
the outro of it. So the audiobook has like a
little like musical intro and a little musical outro.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh that's cool, so cool.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Was there anybody that you had to reach out to
before the book came out and say, hey, just a
heads up, example, Melissa Johart, there's something about you in
this book?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Was it was more like my family, like talking about
my family stuff and things that happened in the past
like that, the things about like the band and stuff.
I didn't feel like I needed to warn about you
about because it's all it's all fun and joy and
there's no like I got you or whatever. It's all
it's all love. So Mark Hoppus, of course this book
is called fair. You talk about growing up with your
(03:52):
sister in California. Yeah, right, and Scotty by the way,
Scotty b what year do we see Blink and Green
Day Garden?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I think, oh wow, that had to be ninety nine
or two thousand. I was like two thousand and one.
I think too, that like the pop disaster to it, right, Yes, yeah,
and even back then I was the oldest person in
the garden. But you know, so Scotty was listening to
you talking about your your your parents and how you
would hear them fighting in the house, and you said
(04:24):
you actually started crying on the way to work today.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I did because it resonated with me a lot, because
you and your sister reminded me a lot of my kids,
because I got divorced, you know, And and I didn't
realize that you're the one that spilled the apple juice
an Adam song.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That was me.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I spilled the apple juice and Adams song. I was
hearing my parents fight, and uh, I was sitting outside
their bedroom on the carpet, drinking apple juice, wondering what
the heck is going on with my family? This doesn't
sound right, this is I was awful in there. These
are my parents are supposed to love one another, and
I can hear them yelling, and I like coughed or
like moved or something. And then the yelling stopped, and
I heard footsteps coming toward the door. I'm like, oh
(04:57):
my god, I'm maybe it's so much trouble for sitting
outside the door while they're arguing. And so I got
up and ran and I kicked over the apple juice
in the hall, and that was it. That was it.
You know, you also talk about I think it's a
during pandemic. You you were diagnosed with cancer. Yeah, I
mean we're talking to stage stage four lymphoma, diffuse large
B cell lymphoma type four A.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
By hell, what that was what I had? You had
to be complicated even with that. Yeah, but you said
if I'm if I'm not mistaken, debt knowing that the mortality,
mortality is like number one your headlined at the point
that it was actually freeing. It was to know that,
well you tell us I don't know. It's like, uh,
(05:39):
it's like if you found out the day that you
were going to die, you would you would know. And
I felt like that was what I was told. I
was told actually that I had a sixty percent chance
of getting through cancer never having to think about it again,
which is great odds. I had a friend who was
sick at the same time with pancreatic cancer and sadly
passed away.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So the type of cancer that I have or had
was curable, but it was going to be really difficult.
And somehow I was like, Okay, well, I've worried so
long about you know, mortality and how things are going
to end, and thought about my own death.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
This is a great morning radio. Hold on, hold on,
we go shoe the cancer? Yeah did the whistle cancer?
So okay, please continue that.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
But there was a freedom in that where I was like, okay,
well this is the fight now. Yeah, And so I
really crystallized things and like friends and family came and
we're like, my whole world shrunk down to like this
tiny little crucible of love and friends and family and
fighting this uh, this disease. See, this is why you
need to read this.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Because you go to a Blink one eighty two concert
and you see the joy, the fun people just around
on stage and having a great time. But when you
get to know you a little more, that's incredible. Everyone
has a book in them and I wrote my book
and I learn more about me. Yeah, write in this book,
talk about that. I mean, how do you see yourself
differently post book writing?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Post book writing? Honestly, writing a book about myself made
me realize that it's not about me, that it's about
the people around me and the people that I love,
and the band and what we've created and.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That whole world.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
And hopefully it's made me more humble and whatever I
think I've always been humble, but definitely writing a book
makes you think about what am I in the world,
and what do I have to give? And what what
do I need to do less of? What do I
want to do more of?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Have you carried that same freeing feeling post cancer with
you or did you just go back to like a
now I'm good both.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, there's a real thing at the end where you're like,
you know, if I get over this cancer, I'm gonna
go out to live every day with love, and I
try and do that. But then also like I just
get bummed on things. It's like I'm glad that I
get to take everything for granted again.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, that's the best part of like being cured of
cancer is like you get to go back to complaining
about stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's great.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
We've had a couple of guys here who you know,
battled death and they came out on the other side
and they're just you know, back to themselves.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah. Yeah, that's the best part. That's Froggy update in Jacksonville.
He's had two brain aneurysms. Oh my gosh, two brain
aneurysms and they had.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Strong yeah strokes exactly right though, That's what you do you.
You kind of first like, well, I'm gonna be different
and you are different, and it's like an accident on
the road. You put both hands on the wheel, You're
gonna drive really good, and then ten minutes tell you
the radio is blasted, windows down in your hall and
ass again. It's you get back to life eventually.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Ye love it? What's that scream? I can't hear you?
So we have a text that just came in. Oh
my god, Mark could be a DJ. Yeah he is
a Yeah. Apple Music you can check it out. I am.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I am a DJ. We have a show on Apple Music.
It's called after School Radio when me and my friends
do it, and it's awesome. You you may borrow a
bell if you want, Yeah, but not the way to
slide whistle for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
When you finish your book, right, you're done, You're you've
written it. You go to hand it in, you hand
it over to be published. Is it nerve wracking? Do
you question everything you put in there? Do you say,
oh my gosh, I should have left that out, I
shouldn't have done this, I should have done that.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I mean, it's like recording an album where it's the
hardest part is turning it in and saying this is
a complete work now. But what I did is I thought, well,
this isn't a book, and this is a milestone, Like
this is where I am today when I turned in
the book. That's how I felt that day. And then
life goes on. So this is really just like, that's
that's where I was when I started writing the book
two years ago. And I've obviously, you know, Blink has
(09:29):
gone on since this and done one hundred and twenty
five shows and we're recording a new album and all
kinds of stuff. So yeah, but there's always like I
look back and I'm like, oh, I wish I would
have changed that word, or I wish I would have included
that story or whatever.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, Mark Hoppae is here is memoirs called Fahrenheit one
eighty two. It's avay able right now. Listen to it.
Read it. We love listening. Yeah, hearing your voice, did
you ever find yourself getting out not choked up, but
just more emotional as you tell your story and you're
vocalizing it and you hear the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
When when I was doing the audio book and I
was talking about being sick and I was reading in
the book. I have these journals that I was keeping
while I was undergoing chemotherapy, and I was really at
my low point, and I'm reading and reading thoughts that
I had for myself while I was really in the dark,
and that made me choke up when I was reading
the book. Good morning, everybody, But where's the hustle?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
You have a very soothing voice, so I feel like
listening to your audible would be very a very soothing experience.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
It's it's a nice experience. I hope I haven't listened
to the audiobook because I dislike the sound of my
voice that much that you know, it's like when you
hear your voice back when you leave a message for somebody,
and you know, oh, that's what I sound like. You
have a great voice, Thank you. It's very low, low tones.
It's kind of rattling my scrot.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Kind of. You made reference to the fact that other
bands thought you guys blink when I did was a joke, right, always, always,
in forever, since day one. Why, because that's what we do.
When Tom and I get on stage, we try and
out do one another. Say the more ridiculous thing, have
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the more fun, write the better song, whatever it is
and so forever people just thought of Blink as the
joke band because we go on stage, and also, you know,
we had funny videos and What's My Age Again is
kind of a joke premise for a song, But we
also had songs like Adam's Song and really heartfelt things
and Tom's always written really heartfelt lyrics. And so I
think the people that grew up listening to Blink knew
(11:27):
that there was a duality to our band. That we
love to have fun, but we also try and write
the best songs we can and try and write the
best music that we can. So you and Tom and try.
I mean, the relationship basically we have the same thing.
I mean, you have to come in every day. We
have to be on stage, whether we like it or not.
People paid for the tickets. I guess this is a
free show, but they pay with their time and there.
(11:50):
You know, the relationship you had with Tom though, was
it definitely had its peaks and valleys. Yeah, and talk
about that, talk about what it was like, I mean
a partner.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Right while I met Tom, you know, I had just
graduated high school and was in college and Tom was
graduating high school at the time, and if you think
about it, the people that you were friends with in
high school, Like, we are grown men with families and
children of our own. Now what friends that you had
in high school are you still friends with today? That
you've worked with and lived with and toured in a
van and slept on people's floors and everything else, and
(12:21):
just humans going through life. You fall in and out
of stuff. So, you know, Tom and I were at
different points in our lives while we were in the
same band together, and you know, Tom wanted to stay
home and I wanted to go on tour, and Travis
wanted to go on tour, and we were having kids
a different point, and there's like a tear in that.
There's like a difference. When you start and you're all
in a van together, there's a unity of purpose. All
we want to do is play shows, be in this van,
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be in this band, and go and have fun. But
then you get married, and then you have relationship, then
you have kids, and you have mortgages, and you have
all this other stuff pulling your time away. And I
think that the balance that each of us had in
our lives was just different at different times. You're talking
one of the chapters is about how you and Tom.
Actually you're lane.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
You were both in at one point to start to
separate in different things, and you were a little confused.
He wanted to go to another project, the other music,
and you just weren't communicating at all. Did you think
it was over at that point? Oh? Yeah, there are
several times. Yeah, there were several times when I thought like,
I'm not going to talk with Tom again, and you know,
I don't even speak to him.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
You didn't speak like I mean when you know, when
Tom left the band the first time, we didn't speak
for like five years, and same thing the second time.
So there were numbers of years where I just wouldn't
even talk with Tom and there was so much acrimony
on both sides. But then the cool thing is that
when we got back together both times, you know, the
first time was after Travis had his plane crash, and
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the second time was after I was sick with cancer.
That Tom calls up and it's like none of the
bad things even happened at all. It was like you
just snapped back into best friend mode. And that's how
Tom has been like ever since whatever it was four
years ago when Tom texted me out of the Blue
and said, Hey, I'm directing this music video for Angels
and Airwaves. And he sent me a photo of him
at a music video shoot that he was directing, and
(14:01):
of course it's him in front of a bunch of
models in their underwear, of course, and I reply, hah,
that's awesome man. Hey, by the way, I have cancer
and I start chemotherapy. And that was the first real
text that I had exchanged with Tom in a number
of years. And immediately my phone rings and it's Tom,
and I pick up the phone and say hello, and
he says how are you? And so the past whatever
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four years just disappeared and it was just back to
square one, back to friends.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Wow, and do you think like now, Like you know,
when you guys first started, it was like the end
all be all that was you had to be successful,
you wanted to make the money. You guys are in
such a different place right now that it's got to
be more fun.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
It is fun.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And that was the reason that we got blank Oninity
two back together as the three of us is because
that's what's fun. And we sat down in early twenty
twenty two and we were like, Okay, what do we
need for Blankwinity two to be awesome and be what
we wanted to be because Blinkwinity two is the three
of us, and you know, thank you God for Matt
Skiba when he came in, and thank God for Scott
(15:02):
Rainer when he came in. But the soul Oblinquinity two
is Travis, Tom and me, And so we sat down
and we're like, we just want to do fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
We want to be creative.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
We want to keep writing new songs and touring and
playing music for people and having a great time. And
so we're like, we're not going to do anything that
we don't want to do, and we've kind of stuck
to that and served as well.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Was there anything that didn't make the book? Actually, Nate
said to you were telling a story about Detroit story
and he's asked, I said, tell me the story. You said, no,
let Mark tell the story. Oh.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I mean it was just with this was you know whatever,
Probably almost twenty years ago, we were sitting backstage in
Detroit and we were hanging out, the three of us
in a dressing room, just backstage doing nothing. And we've
been there for like an hour after soundcheck, and all
of a sudden, out of the bathroom comes these two guys,
probably in their like early twenties, very late teens, and
they look at us and they go, hey, what's up, guys,
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and they just walk out. We're like, what the hell?
They've been in that bathroom the whole time. So we
go into the bathroom. Those guys had snuck into the venue,
you and we're climbing through the ceiling like in breakfast
club and climbing over the ceiling tiles, and the ceiling
tiles had given way and they'd fallen through the ceiling
onto the stall of the bathroom underneath them, broken the
door off the stall, broken the toilet off the wall,
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and then just sat there in fear, not knowing what
to do, and finally gave up, and they walked out.
Security was grabbing them and kicking them out. We're like,
no way. Those guys are sitting side of stage for
the whole show. Yeah, that's the energy you want, right
next to the stage.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah. I love that crazy stuff on the road. I mean,
I'm sure that the list is so long there's no
way to even remember most of it. But we used
to call our tour manager. We used to call our
tour manager in the middle of the night at a
hotel and say, this is the front desk and we
have an urgent fact for you down here. We need
you to come down right now. It's three o'clock in
the morning. And then we called down to the front
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desk and say, this is liquidity toos tour manager. I
need a fax.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I'm expecting what I'm coming down there and if you
don't have her for me, I'm gonna kick your ass.
And so our tour manager would go downstairs and say
do you have a fact for me? And the person
working the desk we I'm so sorry, sir, we don't
have a fax.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
We I don't know what to tell you. He's like, well,
why'd you call me up and wake me? I didn't
call you and wake you up? I love it.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Did you guys have universal rules for the tour bus,
like no crapping when we're all on here?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Uh no, but we I mean when we first started off,
when we first had a bus, Scott and I still
smoked cigarettes, and we would like everybody except for Tom
basically smoked on our crew and it was just the dirtiest, smelliest,
awful bus. I imagine that stank, that just like dank
smoke for uh so awful.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Did you guys all have the same stalker?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
At one point we did.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
There was a stalker in San Diego that my wife
kept seeing around town and I was recording. We were
in the studio, and she called up and said that
lady who I see around town is out in front
of our house right now, and so she called the police,
and the police came and the lady took off and
they kid. The police came back and they said, hey,
we can't arrest this lady because she hasn't done anything illegal.
(17:58):
But she has a note book with pictures of your
house from six months ago, like license plate numbers written down,
times of when like lights would come on and off
in your house, or you know, pictures of Tom's wife
at the grocery store. Like really strange stuff we're see
today downstairs.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Oh yeah, that was that was really unsettling. And uh
it was after that that, you know, we moved into
a gated community and I was like, WHOA, being famous
is weird things?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Because you know, now we we read and hear so
many things about people being on stage and someone launching
a bottle at them, has touring changed for you guys
in that way at all? Or is it just still
kind of the same.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I mean, thank god there's a lot less shoes being
thrown on stage, because I never under like coming out
of the punk rock community, like, uh, every show there'd
be shoes and T shirts and like a belt and
like everyone's trash all thrown up on stage. I'm like,
what about, Like, like, how do you walk home with
no shoes? How do you leave a show with no shoes?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Would they throw both or just one? Because I have
just one shoe. Yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Phones and cameras, lots of bras, lots of underwear, but
bras are expensive. I've had to buy my wife bras
before him, Like why this is you know whatever?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
There's a lot of money. Yeah. So looking back, I mean,
did you guys first start touring? I mean I started
touring really in ninety five, was like our first tour. Wow,
So look at that and all these years that have passed.
I mean it didn't go fast, It's insane. I still
remember the smell of our van. It was not good.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Doesn't sound yeah good, It wasn't. It was like fast
food trash. That smell of like stale French fries and
Mexican food and this, like.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Uh do you miss that? Yeah? It was great because
something tells me, however, you're transporting ourselves around These days,
it smells much better. Oh it does.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
But there's nothing like the joy of just hitting it.
Because back then there were no cell phones, there was
no internet, there was no way to get a hold
of us. When we left to go on tour, we
had literally a Thomas Guide and a together thing like this,
just a bunch of papers with like this is the
venue address, this is what time you need to be there,
and you're getting paid, getting paid fifty dollars wow. And
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then nobody could get a hold of us. So if
I had to call home, I had to call home,
collect from a payphone and hope my mom was home
to pick up the phone and how's everything?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Wow? So how did your mom and your father still alive? Yeah?
So how did they respond to your success in the band?
Did they get it? Ever?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
They did get it. My mom was very supportive early on.
My dad was always a little more practical. My dad
didn't really understand that Blank Winty two is successful until
we played the Tonight Show with Jay LENO Wow. And
Richard Simmons was one of the guests. Oh yeah, then
this is one of their chapters. I pulled as up. Yeah,
(20:48):
that's the picture right there. So we were all hanging
out in the green room before like after soundcheck, before
we played, and Richard Simmons, the workout guru, comes into
our room. Just burst open the door. Blank comes in,
gives me a kiss, gives Tom a kiss, Travis a kiss.
Huge personality and I'm talking. And so we had invited
all of our families to the show and I'm not
(21:09):
seeing Richard Simmons for workout tips. And he said, oh,
I don't need to give you tips. I'm all enough
to be your dad. And my dad goes, actually, I'm
his dad. And Richard Simmons turns around and goes dad
and gives my dad and he's kiss on the cheek
and rich and my dad was like, well, if Richard
Simmons knows who my son's band is, then they must
be successful.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And that was that was really the moment. Wow, it
took Richard Simmons to like pound it home. Yeah, I
feel like that me.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
It was Donnie Osmond like, my mom listens to our show.
But when I put Donnie Osmond on the phone with
my mom, that's when my Mom's like, yeah, you got
a cool job.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
That's nice.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I'm still waiting on that moment.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, So what did you learn about yourself writing this book?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
What I learned about myself. That's the first time I've
been asked that. I don't know that I learned a
whole lot of it. Like I said, it's it's not
about me that I love my friends and family, I
love my band, and that's what's really important to me.
It really crystallized what's important to me in this world,
and it's actually a lot smaller than I thought that
it was.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It's not stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I mean, I like things, it's not any of that,
but it's the It's like the joy of being on
stage or writing a song, or being with my family
and my friends.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
That's it. That's really all that I learned.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Can I ask a question that has nothing to do
with the book? How what are you using to keep
your hair looking like that?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I'm just glad to have my hair back at all. So, yes,
this it does well.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
There's product in it right now, but not a lot literally,
Like my haircut now is such that like I can
wake up in the morning and just kind of like
wash it off, and it's just this big thing. So
I have to kind of just shape in into something.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Okay, So that's not a gorilla snot or anything.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It's not anything cool like that. Yeah. Yeah, So my
husband had cancer as well, and sorry chemotherapy the whole thing,
lost his hair, hated life. Yeah. He talked about what
it was like going through chemotherapy and he said it's
like worms or crawling around in your veins. Yeah. Yeah.
One day he called me, and I don't know if
he can relate, you probably can. He said, I'm standing
(23:01):
outside the door. I don't want to walk in. I
can't do this today. I can't. And I said to him,
I said, Alex, your decision. You know, it's your decision.
You can walk through that door and do what you
need to do or not, you know, And it's a
gift you have to give yourself.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
And it.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Really just messes with your head, your psyche, everything is
messed with when you go through that. But you come out,
you come out the other side and you are a
different person. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
When after my first so I had to undergo six
rounds of chemotherapy three weeks apart, and after the first
round of chemotherapy, when I was at my natier, which
is like the worst part of the low point, when
the Kimmuto therapy drugs have burned out so much of
your so much of your cells and everything that there
was a point where I was sitting at the breakfast
(23:53):
table with my wife and I looked at her and
I said, I don't think I can do this. I
don't know that I can go through with this. And
she looked at me and she said, so, what does
that mean? Are you going to kill yourself? And it
sounds cruel to say it aloud, but it was really
helpful to me because I was like, wait, what am
I saying here? Am I just going to give up?
Am I just going to let this take me? And
(24:13):
so at that point I was like, no, I'm not
going to give up, not at all. And so I'm
assuming it's the same thing as your husband where they're
standing outside and they're like, I don't know if I
can do this, and there's a point where you're like, no,
I have to do this, not for me, but because
I love the people around me so much that I
can't let them down.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Well, look, congratulations on getting this book out. And how
many people to texted and say I'm buying the book.
That's awesome. We all take a percentage of that. You
choke me up. Thank you, Mark Hoppus. Of course, Fahrenheit.
When we love everything you've brought to us over the years.
I love that you're still bringing it. Thank you. It's
(24:52):
all new and fresh and fun. Thank you. That's all
that I want to do is keep creating and keep
doing stuff that I love. I'm so glad to push
the button, push the buddy Scary. Thanks for coming in today.
Absolutely one times again Fahrenheit one my seventeen copies today.
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I took her route. It was a Friday night.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I woke alone to get the feeling right, and we
started making.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
It out and she took on my beds, DNA, turn
on the TV. And that's a stouthing. Time she walked.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Away for me, nobody got she went to pay.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
What the hoday? I say?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
I say that much with my body.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Later on on the drive pile, I called her mom
from my K phone and I said, I want.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
The cups and your hustrids in jail.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The stables down on sut of me.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
And that's a something a time.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
That's when you're not funny, nobody. Wait, okay, okay, what's
the best what's said to that language? What's my age? Plays?
(26:17):
And and and and.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
That's about the time you want to.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Wait a minute, actually wait to twass anything's question? Yeah, what's.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Said that language?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
What's your age? Again? That's a comer to that. You
come with me, But what's your take to preson a bard?
Why change that?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
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Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Not to embarrass myself, but here we go. I mean,
I'm on crazy, crazy allergy medicine, so I'm like a
crackhead over here. Okay, my skins crawling off my head.
So if it goes down a weird hallway, it's gonna happen.
Mark Hoppus is here. Yeah, we need more cowbell. That's great.
(00:36):
It's some morning radio. It's an embarrassing thing. Ever, I mean,
you have a slide whistle too? Probably do you really
don't mess with my slide. He's in a box of tricks.
It's so hokey. Put that crap nice, Okay, now that'll
(00:59):
be do. I just I mean it is a typical hokey, right.
I just stopped wearing bowling shirts. So Mark Hoppin is
of course blink two. And I'm doing my best not
to fan girl in your face because we're such huge fans. Oh,
thank you very much. Absolutely the story we all thought
(01:20):
we knew until now we're reading your book. Called Fahrenheit
one eighty two and wow, writing a book is an interesting,
interesting decision to make. It is why why did you
do this? My manager asked me to.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Actually, my manager has been saying forever that I should
write a book, but I didn't really think about it
until I was sick. And when I was sick, I
was talking with a therapist and she said, you should
write down what's happening and write like nobody's ever going
to read it, and just write. And I found it
really therapeutic, and so afterwards I was like, I enjoy
this process. And then it turned from writing as therapy,
(01:54):
from being sick to writing about my band and my
best friends and the great things that we've gotten to
do and how lucky we are. And then that went
into the band breakup and into like the part about
being sick.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So it was really great. And speaking of I mean,
you don't hold back. I mean you were talking about
Tom DeLong and you're interesting of volatile sometimes volatile relationship
with him. You just say it right here, yeah, And
did he read it and go, hey, man, is that
really what you thought about me? No, because there's nothing
in the book that I hadn't talked with Tom about
(02:26):
or said in his presence, and Tom and I were
in a great place, like as a Bandblinquity to is
in a really awesome place right now, and so I
think that.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And I wrote the book with the intent there would
be no demons in it, like I didn't want there
to be bad guys. And so when I was writing
the book, even when I was writing about fights that
we've had as a band, I would write about other
person's point of view because I'd want to be fair
about it. And so that was kind of healing for
me as well, to write about arguments that were in
the past, like twenty years ago, that I was still
maybe holding on us some grudges about, and then trying
(02:55):
to write it from the other person's perspective helped me
deal with it.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
So if we listened to the book on audible, right,
a lot of times, if I'm listening to someone who
talk does their own book, they kind of go off
page for a minute and give you, like a side note.
Do you do that at all?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
No? Okay, stick extrictly, as I stuck very strictly to
the book.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But I did write a song for the beginning in
the outro of it. So the audiobook has like a
little like musical intro and a little musical outro.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh that's cool, so cool.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Was there anybody that you had to reach out to
before the book came out and say, hey, just a
heads up, example, Melissa Johart, there's something about you in
this book?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Was it was more like my family, like talking about
my family stuff and things that happened in the past
like that, the things about like the band and stuff.
I didn't feel like I needed to warn about you
about because it's all it's all fun and joy and
there's no like I got you or whatever. It's all
it's all love. So Mark Hoppus, of course this book
is called fair. You talk about growing up with your
(03:52):
sister in California. Yeah, right, and Scotty by the way,
Scotty b what year do we see Blink and Green
Day Garden?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I think, oh wow, that had to be ninety nine
or two thousand. I was like two thousand and one.
I think too, that like the pop disaster to it, right, Yes, yeah,
and even back then I was the oldest person in
the garden. But you know, so Scotty was listening to
you talking about your your your parents and how you
would hear them fighting in the house, and you said
(04:24):
you actually started crying on the way to work today.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
I did because it resonated with me a lot, because
you and your sister reminded me a lot of my kids,
because I got divorced, you know, And and I didn't
realize that you're the one that spilled the apple juice
an Adam song.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
That was me.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
I spilled the apple juice and Adams song. I was
hearing my parents fight, and uh, I was sitting outside
their bedroom on the carpet, drinking apple juice, wondering what
the heck is going on with my family? This doesn't
sound right, this is I was awful in there. These
are my parents are supposed to love one another, and
I can hear them yelling, and I like coughed or
like moved or something. And then the yelling stopped, and
I heard footsteps coming toward the door. I'm like, oh
(04:57):
my god, I'm maybe it's so much trouble for sitting
outside the door while they're arguing. And so I got
up and ran and I kicked over the apple juice
in the hall, and that was it. That was it.
You know, you also talk about I think it's a
during pandemic. You you were diagnosed with cancer. Yeah, I
mean we're talking to stage stage four lymphoma, diffuse large
B cell lymphoma type four A.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
By hell, what that was what I had? You had
to be complicated even with that. Yeah, but you said
if I'm if I'm not mistaken, debt knowing that the mortality,
mortality is like number one your headlined at the point
that it was actually freeing. It was to know that,
well you tell us I don't know. It's like, uh,
(05:39):
it's like if you found out the day that you
were going to die, you would you would know. And
I felt like that was what I was told. I
was told actually that I had a sixty percent chance
of getting through cancer never having to think about it again,
which is great odds. I had a friend who was
sick at the same time with pancreatic cancer and sadly
passed away.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
So the type of cancer that I have or had
was curable, but it was going to be really difficult.
And somehow I was like, Okay, well, I've worried so
long about you know, mortality and how things are going
to end, and thought about my own death.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
This is a great morning radio. Hold on, hold on,
we go shoe the cancer? Yeah did the whistle cancer?
So okay, please continue that.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
But there was a freedom in that where I was like, okay,
well this is the fight now. Yeah, And so I
really crystallized things and like friends and family came and
we're like, my whole world shrunk down to like this
tiny little crucible of love and friends and family and
fighting this uh, this disease. See, this is why you
need to read this.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Because you go to a Blink one eighty two concert
and you see the joy, the fun people just around
on stage and having a great time. But when you
get to know you a little more, that's incredible. Everyone
has a book in them and I wrote my book
and I learn more about me. Yeah, write in this book,
talk about that. I mean, how do you see yourself
differently post book writing?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Post book writing? Honestly, writing a book about myself made
me realize that it's not about me, that it's about
the people around me and the people that I love,
and the band and what we've created and.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That whole world.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
And hopefully it's made me more humble and whatever I
think I've always been humble, but definitely writing a book
makes you think about what am I in the world,
and what do I have to give? And what what
do I need to do less of? What do I
want to do more of?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Have you carried that same freeing feeling post cancer with
you or did you just go back to like a
now I'm good both.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, there's a real thing at the end where you're like,
you know, if I get over this cancer, I'm gonna
go out to live every day with love, and I
try and do that. But then also like I just
get bummed on things. It's like I'm glad that I
get to take everything for granted again.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah, that's the best part of like being cured of
cancer is like you get to go back to complaining
about stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's great.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
We've had a couple of guys here who you know,
battled death and they came out on the other side
and they're just you know, back to themselves.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah. Yeah, that's the best part. That's Froggy update in Jacksonville.
He's had two brain aneurysms. Oh my gosh, two brain
aneurysms and they had.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Strong yeah strokes exactly right though, That's what you do you.
You kind of first like, well, I'm gonna be different
and you are different, and it's like an accident on
the road. You put both hands on the wheel, You're
gonna drive really good, and then ten minutes tell you
the radio is blasted, windows down in your hall and
ass again. It's you get back to life eventually.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Ye love it? What's that scream? I can't hear you?
So we have a text that just came in. Oh
my god, Mark could be a DJ. Yeah he is
a Yeah. Apple Music you can check it out. I am.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I am a DJ. We have a show on Apple Music.
It's called after School Radio when me and my friends
do it, and it's awesome. You you may borrow a
bell if you want, Yeah, but not the way to
slide whistle for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
When you finish your book, right, you're done, You're you've
written it. You go to hand it in, you hand
it over to be published. Is it nerve wracking? Do
you question everything you put in there? Do you say,
oh my gosh, I should have left that out, I
shouldn't have done this, I should have done that.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I mean, it's like recording an album where it's the
hardest part is turning it in and saying this is
a complete work now. But what I did is I thought, well,
this isn't a book, and this is a milestone, Like
this is where I am today when I turned in
the book. That's how I felt that day. And then
life goes on. So this is really just like, that's
that's where I was when I started writing the book
two years ago. And I've obviously, you know, Blink has
(09:29):
gone on since this and done one hundred and twenty
five shows and we're recording a new album and all
kinds of stuff. So yeah, but there's always like I
look back and I'm like, oh, I wish I would
have changed that word, or I wish I would have included
that story or whatever.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, Mark Hoppae is here is memoirs called Fahrenheit one
eighty two. It's avay able right now. Listen to it.
Read it. We love listening. Yeah, hearing your voice, did
you ever find yourself getting out not choked up, but
just more emotional as you tell your story and you're
vocalizing it and you hear the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
When when I was doing the audio book and I
was talking about being sick and I was reading in
the book. I have these journals that I was keeping
while I was undergoing chemotherapy, and I was really at
my low point, and I'm reading and reading thoughts that
I had for myself while I was really in the dark,
and that made me choke up when I was reading
the book. Good morning, everybody, But where's the hustle?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
You have a very soothing voice, so I feel like
listening to your audible would be very a very soothing experience.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
It's it's a nice experience. I hope I haven't listened
to the audiobook because I dislike the sound of my
voice that much that you know, it's like when you
hear your voice back when you leave a message for somebody,
and you know, oh, that's what I sound like. You
have a great voice, Thank you. It's very low, low tones.
It's kind of rattling my scrot.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Kind of. You made reference to the fact that other
bands thought you guys blink when I did was a joke, right, always, always,
in forever, since day one. Why, because that's what we do.
When Tom and I get on stage, we try and
out do one another. Say the more ridiculous thing, have
(11:06):
the more fun, write the better song, whatever it is
and so forever people just thought of Blink as the
joke band because we go on stage, and also, you know,
we had funny videos and What's My Age Again is
kind of a joke premise for a song, But we
also had songs like Adam's Song and really heartfelt things
and Tom's always written really heartfelt lyrics. And so I
think the people that grew up listening to Blink knew
(11:27):
that there was a duality to our band. That we
love to have fun, but we also try and write
the best songs we can and try and write the
best music that we can. So you and Tom and try.
I mean, the relationship basically we have the same thing.
I mean, you have to come in every day. We
have to be on stage, whether we like it or not.
People paid for the tickets. I guess this is a
free show, but they pay with their time and there.
(11:50):
You know, the relationship you had with Tom though, was
it definitely had its peaks and valleys. Yeah, and talk
about that, talk about what it was like, I mean
a partner.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Right while I met Tom, you know, I had just
graduated high school and was in college and Tom was
graduating high school at the time, and if you think
about it, the people that you were friends with in
high school, Like, we are grown men with families and
children of our own. Now what friends that you had
in high school are you still friends with today? That
you've worked with and lived with and toured in a
van and slept on people's floors and everything else, and
(12:21):
just humans going through life. You fall in and out
of stuff. So, you know, Tom and I were at
different points in our lives while we were in the
same band together, and you know, Tom wanted to stay
home and I wanted to go on tour, and Travis
wanted to go on tour, and we were having kids
a different point, and there's like a tear in that.
There's like a difference. When you start and you're all
in a van together, there's a unity of purpose. All
we want to do is play shows, be in this van,
(12:42):
be in this band, and go and have fun. But
then you get married, and then you have relationship, then
you have kids, and you have mortgages, and you have
all this other stuff pulling your time away. And I
think that the balance that each of us had in
our lives was just different at different times. You're talking
one of the chapters is about how you and Tom.
Actually you're lane.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
You were both in at one point to start to
separate in different things, and you were a little confused.
He wanted to go to another project, the other music,
and you just weren't communicating at all. Did you think
it was over at that point? Oh? Yeah, there are
several times. Yeah, there were several times when I thought like,
I'm not going to talk with Tom again, and you know,
I don't even speak to him.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
You didn't speak like I mean when you know, when
Tom left the band the first time, we didn't speak
for like five years, and same thing the second time.
So there were numbers of years where I just wouldn't
even talk with Tom and there was so much acrimony
on both sides. But then the cool thing is that
when we got back together both times, you know, the
first time was after Travis had his plane crash, and
(13:40):
the second time was after I was sick with cancer.
That Tom calls up and it's like none of the
bad things even happened at all. It was like you
just snapped back into best friend mode. And that's how
Tom has been like ever since whatever it was four
years ago when Tom texted me out of the Blue
and said, Hey, I'm directing this music video for Angels
and Airwaves. And he sent me a photo of him
at a music video shoot that he was directing, and
(14:01):
of course it's him in front of a bunch of
models in their underwear, of course, and I reply, hah,
that's awesome man. Hey, by the way, I have cancer
and I start chemotherapy. And that was the first real
text that I had exchanged with Tom in a number
of years. And immediately my phone rings and it's Tom,
and I pick up the phone and say hello, and
he says how are you? And so the past whatever
(14:23):
four years just disappeared and it was just back to
square one, back to friends.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Wow, and do you think like now, Like you know,
when you guys first started, it was like the end
all be all that was you had to be successful,
you wanted to make the money. You guys are in
such a different place right now that it's got to
be more fun.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
It is fun.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And that was the reason that we got blank Oninity
two back together as the three of us is because
that's what's fun. And we sat down in early twenty
twenty two and we were like, Okay, what do we
need for Blankwinity two to be awesome and be what
we wanted to be because Blinkwinity two is the three
of us, and you know, thank you God for Matt
Skiba when he came in, and thank God for Scott
(15:02):
Rainer when he came in. But the soul Oblinquinity two
is Travis, Tom and me, And so we sat down
and we're like, we just want to do fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
We want to be creative.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
We want to keep writing new songs and touring and
playing music for people and having a great time. And
so we're like, we're not going to do anything that
we don't want to do, and we've kind of stuck
to that and served as well.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Was there anything that didn't make the book? Actually, Nate
said to you were telling a story about Detroit story
and he's asked, I said, tell me the story. You said, no,
let Mark tell the story. Oh.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I mean it was just with this was you know whatever,
Probably almost twenty years ago, we were sitting backstage in
Detroit and we were hanging out, the three of us
in a dressing room, just backstage doing nothing. And we've
been there for like an hour after soundcheck, and all
of a sudden, out of the bathroom comes these two guys,
probably in their like early twenties, very late teens, and
they look at us and they go, hey, what's up, guys,
(15:53):
and they just walk out. We're like, what the hell?
They've been in that bathroom the whole time. So we
go into the bathroom. Those guys had snuck into the venue,
you and we're climbing through the ceiling like in breakfast
club and climbing over the ceiling tiles, and the ceiling
tiles had given way and they'd fallen through the ceiling
onto the stall of the bathroom underneath them, broken the
door off the stall, broken the toilet off the wall,
(16:16):
and then just sat there in fear, not knowing what
to do, and finally gave up, and they walked out.
Security was grabbing them and kicking them out. We're like,
no way. Those guys are sitting side of stage for
the whole show. Yeah, that's the energy you want, right
next to the stage.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah. I love that crazy stuff on the road. I mean,
I'm sure that the list is so long there's no
way to even remember most of it. But we used
to call our tour manager. We used to call our
tour manager in the middle of the night at a
hotel and say, this is the front desk and we
have an urgent fact for you down here. We need
you to come down right now. It's three o'clock in
the morning. And then we called down to the front
(16:49):
desk and say, this is liquidity toos tour manager. I
need a fax.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I'm expecting what I'm coming down there and if you
don't have her for me, I'm gonna kick your ass.
And so our tour manager would go downstairs and say
do you have a fact for me? And the person
working the desk we I'm so sorry, sir, we don't
have a fax.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
We I don't know what to tell you. He's like, well,
why'd you call me up and wake me? I didn't
call you and wake you up? I love it.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Did you guys have universal rules for the tour bus,
like no crapping when we're all on here?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Uh no, but we I mean when we first started off,
when we first had a bus, Scott and I still
smoked cigarettes, and we would like everybody except for Tom
basically smoked on our crew and it was just the dirtiest, smelliest,
awful bus. I imagine that stank, that just like dank
smoke for uh so awful.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Did you guys all have the same stalker?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
At one point we did.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
There was a stalker in San Diego that my wife
kept seeing around town and I was recording. We were
in the studio, and she called up and said that
lady who I see around town is out in front
of our house right now, and so she called the police,
and the police came and the lady took off and
they kid. The police came back and they said, hey,
we can't arrest this lady because she hasn't done anything illegal.
(17:58):
But she has a note book with pictures of your
house from six months ago, like license plate numbers written down,
times of when like lights would come on and off
in your house, or you know, pictures of Tom's wife
at the grocery store. Like really strange stuff we're see
today downstairs.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Oh yeah, that was that was really unsettling. And uh
it was after that that, you know, we moved into
a gated community and I was like, WHOA, being famous
is weird things?
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Because you know, now we we read and hear so
many things about people being on stage and someone launching
a bottle at them, has touring changed for you guys
in that way at all? Or is it just still
kind of the same.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I mean, thank god there's a lot less shoes being
thrown on stage, because I never under like coming out
of the punk rock community, like, uh, every show there'd
be shoes and T shirts and like a belt and
like everyone's trash all thrown up on stage. I'm like,
what about, Like, like, how do you walk home with
no shoes? How do you leave a show with no shoes?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Would they throw both or just one? Because I have
just one shoe. Yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Phones and cameras, lots of bras, lots of underwear, but
bras are expensive. I've had to buy my wife bras
before him, Like why this is you know whatever?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
There's a lot of money. Yeah. So looking back, I mean,
did you guys first start touring? I mean I started
touring really in ninety five, was like our first tour. Wow,
So look at that and all these years that have passed.
I mean it didn't go fast, It's insane. I still
remember the smell of our van. It was not good.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Doesn't sound yeah good, It wasn't. It was like fast
food trash. That smell of like stale French fries and
Mexican food and this, like.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Uh do you miss that? Yeah? It was great because
something tells me, however, you're transporting ourselves around These days,
it smells much better. Oh it does.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
But there's nothing like the joy of just hitting it.
Because back then there were no cell phones, there was
no internet, there was no way to get a hold
of us. When we left to go on tour, we
had literally a Thomas Guide and a together thing like this,
just a bunch of papers with like this is the
venue address, this is what time you need to be there,
and you're getting paid, getting paid fifty dollars wow. And
(20:10):
then nobody could get a hold of us. So if
I had to call home, I had to call home,
collect from a payphone and hope my mom was home
to pick up the phone and how's everything?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Wow? So how did your mom and your father still alive? Yeah?
So how did they respond to your success in the band?
Did they get it? Ever?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
They did get it. My mom was very supportive early on.
My dad was always a little more practical. My dad
didn't really understand that Blank Winty two is successful until
we played the Tonight Show with Jay LENO Wow. And
Richard Simmons was one of the guests. Oh yeah, then
this is one of their chapters. I pulled as up. Yeah,
(20:48):
that's the picture right there. So we were all hanging
out in the green room before like after soundcheck, before
we played, and Richard Simmons, the workout guru, comes into
our room. Just burst open the door. Blank comes in,
gives me a kiss, gives Tom a kiss, Travis a kiss.
Huge personality and I'm talking. And so we had invited
all of our families to the show and I'm not
(21:09):
seeing Richard Simmons for workout tips. And he said, oh,
I don't need to give you tips. I'm all enough
to be your dad. And my dad goes, actually, I'm
his dad. And Richard Simmons turns around and goes dad
and gives my dad and he's kiss on the cheek
and rich and my dad was like, well, if Richard
Simmons knows who my son's band is, then they must
be successful.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
And that was that was really the moment. Wow, it
took Richard Simmons to like pound it home. Yeah, I
feel like that me.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
It was Donnie Osmond like, my mom listens to our show.
But when I put Donnie Osmond on the phone with
my mom, that's when my Mom's like, yeah, you got
a cool job.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
That's nice.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I'm still waiting on that moment.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, So what did you learn about yourself writing this book?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
What I learned about myself. That's the first time I've
been asked that. I don't know that I learned a
whole lot of it. Like I said, it's it's not
about me that I love my friends and family, I
love my band, and that's what's really important to me.
It really crystallized what's important to me in this world,
and it's actually a lot smaller than I thought that
it was.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
It's not stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I mean, I like things, it's not any of that,
but it's the It's like the joy of being on
stage or writing a song, or being with my family
and my friends.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
That's it. That's really all that I learned.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Can I ask a question that has nothing to do
with the book? How what are you using to keep
your hair looking like that?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I'm just glad to have my hair back at all. So, yes,
this it does well.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
There's product in it right now, but not a lot literally,
Like my haircut now is such that like I can
wake up in the morning and just kind of like
wash it off, and it's just this big thing. So
I have to kind of just shape in into something.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Okay, So that's not a gorilla snot or anything.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It's not anything cool like that. Yeah. Yeah, So my
husband had cancer as well, and sorry chemotherapy the whole thing,
lost his hair, hated life. Yeah. He talked about what
it was like going through chemotherapy and he said it's
like worms or crawling around in your veins. Yeah. Yeah.
One day he called me, and I don't know if
he can relate, you probably can. He said, I'm standing
(23:01):
outside the door. I don't want to walk in. I
can't do this today. I can't. And I said to him,
I said, Alex, your decision. You know, it's your decision.
You can walk through that door and do what you
need to do or not, you know, And it's a
gift you have to give yourself.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
And it.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Really just messes with your head, your psyche, everything is
messed with when you go through that. But you come out,
you come out the other side and you are a
different person. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
When after my first so I had to undergo six
rounds of chemotherapy three weeks apart, and after the first
round of chemotherapy, when I was at my natier, which
is like the worst part of the low point, when
the Kimmuto therapy drugs have burned out so much of
your so much of your cells and everything that there
was a point where I was sitting at the breakfast
(23:53):
table with my wife and I looked at her and
I said, I don't think I can do this. I
don't know that I can go through with this. And
she looked at me and she said, so, what does
that mean? Are you going to kill yourself? And it
sounds cruel to say it aloud, but it was really
helpful to me because I was like, wait, what am
I saying here? Am I just going to give up?
Am I just going to let this take me? And
(24:13):
so at that point I was like, no, I'm not
going to give up, not at all. And so I'm
assuming it's the same thing as your husband where they're
standing outside and they're like, I don't know if I
can do this, and there's a point where you're like, no,
I have to do this, not for me, but because
I love the people around me so much that I
can't let them down.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Well, look, congratulations on getting this book out. And how
many people to texted and say I'm buying the book.
That's awesome. We all take a percentage of that. You
choke me up. Thank you, Mark Hoppus. Of course, Fahrenheit.
When we love everything you've brought to us over the years.
I love that you're still bringing it. Thank you. It's
(24:52):
all new and fresh and fun. Thank you. That's all
that I want to do is keep creating and keep
doing stuff that I love. I'm so glad to push
the button, push the buddy Scary. Thanks for coming in today.
Absolutely one times again Fahrenheit one my seventeen copies today.
(25:13):
I took her route. It was a Friday night.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
I woke alone to get the feeling right, and we
started making.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
It out and she took on my beds, DNA, turn
on the TV. And that's a stouthing. Time she walked.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Away for me, nobody got she went to pay.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
What the hoday? I say?
Speaker 4 (25:36):
I say that much with my body.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Later on on the drive pile, I called her mom
from my K phone and I said, I want.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
The cups and your hustrids in jail.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The stables down on sut of me.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
And that's a something a time.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
That's when you're not funny, nobody. Wait, okay, okay, what's
the best what's said to that language? What's my age? Plays?
(26:17):
And and and and.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
That's about the time you want to.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Wait a minute, actually wait to twass anything's question? Yeah, what's.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Said that language?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
What's your age? Again? That's a comer to that. You
come with me, But what's your take to preson a bard?
Why change that?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
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