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January 9, 2026 12 mins

Mark Hoppus of blink-182 is back for more and this time, listener Jessica is sharing her own embarrassing tale of mistaken identity! 

Plus, find out how wild Mark and his bandmate Tom were during their journey up the charts and what Danielle did to Eminem that still mortifies her almost 30 years later.

Do you have an embarrassing story you want to share? Send in your voice memos to teenbeatpod@gmail.com!

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
That's okay because no one here is. Well.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
We have a little bonus episode that I want to do.
I asked our Pod Meats World listeners to send us
voice memos detailing their own awkward teenage stories, mostly so
we don't feel so alone, and boy did they deliver.
I wanted to play you one of my favorites and
then we can talk about it and maybe even share
some of our own most embarrassing memories.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
So let's hear from Jessica, a friend from the North.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
Hi, Danielle and Team My name is Jessica. I am
a listener from Canada, huge fan of Pod Meets World,
so excited for Team B. So my embarrassing moment goes
back to circa early two thousands when I was in
high school and I grew up in a really small
town in rural Canada, where we were about two hours
away from the nearest amenities like Starbucks and all of
the cooler ones. And I was in the high school band,

(01:12):
like the one with an Obo, and we were off
to a band competition and a big part of the
appeal for us was Hello Bye Bye. We were so
at the mall. And I should probably preface this part
of the story by saying this was one hundred percent
consensual Between my best friend and I. We had this
ongoing silly game where we would try and spot the
other one in the holliys at school sneak up behind

(01:34):
them and tap them right on the rear end. And
at the mall, we continued this game and my best
friend spotted me like at least three times before I
spotted her, and I was determined to get her back
at some point. So fast forward. We're now on the
school bus at the end of the day after the competition,
heading back to town. And I should probably mention that
an band you also wear matching uniforms. And it's dark

(01:58):
out and I'm sitting bus side my high school boyfriend,
and my best friend is sitting beside me, just across
the aisle, and she stands up to talk to somebody,
and I think, this is it, this is my moment,
and I really went for it, and I swing and
I get a right in the rear and then that
person takes a half step forward and I see my

(02:19):
best friend still sitting beside me, and I thought, huh,
then who is that?

Speaker 5 (02:24):
And that's when.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Our male band teacher actually chose not to acknowledge it,
but I was mortified and I literally threw my head
to my shoulder and was.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
Like osh and pretended to be sleeping.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
It's something that we still giggle about to this day. Anyway,
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Oh do you have any embarrassing mistaken identity?

Speaker 5 (02:45):
Yeah, well that's so tame.

Speaker 6 (02:46):
I mean, that's really tame compared to like I remember
when we were skateboard shitheads growing up. I remember going
to the bank with Tom and our skater friends and
literally like pantsing each other down, like past our underwear
nude in a line.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
Like that's what that's what we were doing.

Speaker 6 (03:04):
And I remember like Tom's manager's guy named Jimmy, who's
our friend, dear friend. He and his wife are out
one night and she's walking up the stairs in front
of him in a mini skirt and he goes up
her miniskirt and like bam, butt knife straight up her
mini skirt into her butt g string.

Speaker 5 (03:18):
Yeah wasn't her Oh oh, my grown men, this is
grown man shit butt NiFe right out there. Oh sorry,
I tell you were someone else.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
What what was her reaction?

Speaker 5 (03:32):
I don't know. I never got that part of the story.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh, that seems like an important part of the story
because yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
But yeah, mistaken identity.

Speaker 6 (03:39):
Well, when we were skateboarding in San Diego one time,
we had gone to the swift store downtown and we're
leaving and my best one of my best friend, Mark
is sitting right behind me, and I jump up and
spread my legs and I fart as loud as I can,
right in his face, and I turn around and go
a and it's just this old lady on the sidewalk
in downtown San Diego, nineteen ninety three.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
It just looked at me, like why would you do
that to me?

Speaker 6 (04:03):
And it was so humiliating, Like I like, I want
to laugh about it, but like the I remember the
look she gave me was like the betrayal of mankind
against this poor old lady.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Why did you think this old lady was your best friend?

Speaker 6 (04:18):
Because they're about the same size, they're both small, and
he had been right behind me, but then he had
stopped to do something else, and I just assumed that
the guy behind me was her.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
That sounds very much like when you get in trouble
for something from your parents, but they're not actually angry,
they're just disappointed.

Speaker 5 (04:32):
She was really disappointed.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
She had been angry, it would have been funny, yeah,
kind of, but the fact that she was so disappointed
and you made it really sad.

Speaker 5 (04:40):
But that was growing man. Shit.

Speaker 6 (04:41):
Also as a teenager, probably my most embarrassing moment was,
I think it was either seventh or eighth grade.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
My dad was finally like, you can buy whatever you
want for your first day of school.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Okay, Like as far.

Speaker 6 (04:54):
As clothing goes, Like, I'm not going to help you
buy clothes. You're old enough now, just pick whatever you want.
And this your budget. Miami this was really big that year.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Oh yes, so.

Speaker 6 (05:04):
I got like a sport code I love it, like
a salmon pink pastel T shirt, these like uh you know,
light brown kind of pants that I tacked just like these, Okay,
pegged them just like this, and wore you know, not
necessarily boat shoes, but I think like slip on vans.
Perhaps did my hair all the first day of school

(05:26):
walked in. I felt so cool. Yeah, because Miami Vice
was awesome. It was a great show. It was dark,
it was already it had great music, and I was
really drawn to the music and the vibe. But I
have no Miami and me whatsoever, and definitely not a
grizzled Miami detective in the cocaine scene at all. It's
just so I showed to school looking like Don Johnson

(05:46):
and people like, oh my god, Mark, what the hell
you think you're in Miami vice. I was like, no, no, no,
My grandma bought me these clothes and I had to
put them on, and so I took off my my
what do you call it? Sport coat and threw in
my locker and unrolled my pants and just felt like
an idiot.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
My first day of junior high, I insisted on getting
very dressed up because I had just moved from Orange
County to Calabasas and it was nineteen ninety three, and
I was convinced that everyone was still gonna get dressed
up like we did in Orange County, And so I
wore a black shoulder padded pantsuit, a wow one piece

(06:24):
like a jumper, like a one piece, and it had
little white flowers on it. I wore pantyhose and ballet flats.
And in nineteen ninety three, at a Wright Middle School,
everyone was into grunge.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
And I showed up first day of school, new kid.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
No, not a single soul and everyone was just like,
what is going on with her? And as I walked
down the hallway, I saw a kid coming toward me
and I saw literally I could picture his face right
now as he scanned me up and down, just utter disgust.
And then as he passed me and went are.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
You going to a funeral?

Speaker 5 (06:56):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (06:57):
And I was like, yes, now I have to leave
here to go to a funeral.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
My mom picked me up that day and I was like, Mom,
we are immediately going shopping.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
She's like, I tried to tell you, my mom was
so much.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
Cooler than I was.

Speaker 6 (07:09):
To show the next day flannel Converse mud Mud Honey
T shirt correct, and I.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Was like, all right, this is my new this is
my new vibe. I swear.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
I have a couple of stories of mistaken identity that
keep me up at night, but the number one story
that keeps me awake is I was a I was
a true super fan of Eminem when Eminem first came
out and I went to MTV spring Break and my
boyfriend at the time, Lance Bass from in Sync was

(07:51):
also going to be there, so it was like, this
was very exciting for me because I was seventeen. I
was going on spring break for work, but I could
go a few two days early because Lance was going
to have a couple of days there.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
Wait, Lance is really your boyfriend?

Speaker 3 (08:04):
True story?

Speaker 5 (08:05):
Okay? I thought was like a projection.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
No, no, no, he was.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
He was my real life boyfriend, got it and so,
and he was going to be there a few days early.
So I went a few days early just to spend
time with him. I arrive in Mexico for spring break.
I think it was Mexico. Yeah, it was like Cancun
or something, maybe Cosmo, I don't remember, but it was yes.
And I get there and literally that night, they get
a call that they're going to go. They're going to leave.
They're not going to be there for the next few days.

(08:30):
They're going to go do a show somewhere. And now
I'm alone in Mexico for spring break because I don't
have to work for a few days. And Lance basically
assigns me to the ninety eight degrees guys. He's like,
I'm not going to be here anymore. You don't really
know anybody else. These guys will take care of you.
They're nice guys. Great, So now I'm like an honorary

(08:50):
member of ninety eight degrees and their girlfriends. So on
one of the days that I'm there, I see one
of my friends from ninety eight degrees and he he's
leaning up against like a a.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Fence, like a railing.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
He's leaning up against the railing, and I see his
bleach bond hair, and I'm like, why are his pants below?
His underwear just massively sagging, which was not really the
style of the ninety eight degreeses, And so I decide
that I'm just going to sneak up behind him and
pull his pants up, and I do. I walk up

(09:28):
and I grab his pants and I yank him up,
and I see a man standing next to my friend
just start giggling and I look at him wondering why
he's laughing, and Eminem whips around so fast. That was
his pants I pulled up. I had never met him,
and I was like, oh my god. And immediately I

(09:50):
went to go say I thought you were insert name
from ninety eight degrees and was like, cannot do that.
That's not going to make him happy. So I was like,
oh my god, I thought that you were were somebody else.
I'm so sorry I don't know you, and he was
like no, and it was his security guard who was laughing.
Why security guard, did you not stop me? Except for
the idea that I think he thought this was going

(10:10):
to be really funny.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
And then anyway, Marshall introduced himself to me, and I
was like, Hi, nice to meet you, and I have
thought about it.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
Have you ever seen him again?

Speaker 2 (10:21):
I saw him then one other time where another boyfriend
I had was doing his one of his music videos,
and I also did something stupid that day. My best
friend was going to University of Michigan and I was
wearing a Michigan sweatshirt, not thinking about the fact that
he's also from Michigan, and so I was so nervous
he was going to recognize me as the girl who
pulled his pants up many years before, but he didn't.

(10:43):
But he was like, oh cool, are you from Michigan?
And then I was like, no, my friend goes to
school there.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
And I was just like, all right, well you.

Speaker 5 (10:52):
Should have pulled his pants down.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Pants him and run out.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
But I have thought about that story.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
When I like, you know, sometimes you wake up at
like two o'clock in the morning, I have a hard
time falling back asleep. And for whatever reason, every awful
thing you've ever said or done pops into your head.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
My mind isn't wait until two o'clock in the morning.
Mind's like pretty much out a costan reel.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Just a loop you go to sleep to stop thinking
about mm hmm. Okay, well, thank you so much for
joining us on this bonus episode of teen Beat with
Daniel Fishle. You can follow the podcast on Instagram at
teen beat pod and make sure you are subscribed to
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Speaker 3 (11:26):
That way, every episode just ends up on your phone
when they're released.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Hell yeah, even these fun bonus episodes. Merch is available
now at teenbeatpod dot com. And remember, you too can
share your embarrassing stories just by sending in a voice
memo and it could end up on our next episode.
Email them to teenbeatpod at gmail dot com. I'd love
to hear from.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
You, Mark.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
Thanks for having glad to be here.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Absolutely can't wait to see you again next time, just
over fun stories at dinner.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
Let's do it all right, Bye bye.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Teen Beat is an iHeart podcast produced and hosted by Daniel.
Executive producers Jensen Carp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge
of production Danielle Romo, producer and editor Tara Subach. The
theme song is by Mark Coppus, Yes that Mark Coppus.
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