August 10, 2025 • 12 mins
Robin, Kip & Corey Oates sat down with boyband icons Nick Carter & Brian Littrell to talk family, fame, and their epic Las Vegas residency at the Sphere, a show we were lucky enough to see in person.
It was a dream come true to chat with these legends, and we’re so grateful they shared their time (and stories) with us!
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
I heard podcasts, hear more kiss podcasts, playlists and listen
live on.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
The Free Heart.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Kids Now with the podcast.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Well, thanks so much for joining us, guys. We know
it's a big day.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Boys.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
We have to say, what a sensational show and it
was so good. It was so good.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Appreciate thank you.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Yeah, we heard your guys watch. They would love to
hear your opinions on it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I've been saying of the guys about all the animations
and stuff behind you on the on the screens. Does
that take a long time before your shows even started
to get all that ready and prepped? Or does that
do or is it pretty quick all that sort of stuff,
because that was incredible, you know, all the stuff behind
you while you're singing and performing the spaceships everything.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
Oh, the answer is no, is how quick at all? Okay,
it's not quick at all. We've been working on this
show since September of last year.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
It's it's been a while, but uh.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
There's a lot of a lot of different pieces to
the puzzle. Different songs come with different formats, different video listen.
If you haven't seen it, you got to come and
check it out. It's I mean, it'll it will spoil
you for any show that you've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, I can definitely say it was proud of it.
It was well worth it. All that hard work he's
putting from last September. The show is incredible. I'm being serious.
I've been in a lot of concerts and stuff, but
that was just an experience it. Like you said, people
have to have to come and experience it just to
believe it. Side well done.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, Brian, like you your voice, my friend, your voice.
We were there on a Sunday night and we saw
you mouthing some stuff off the microphone. What happened?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
I might have been having trouble with my ears, but like,
my voice is work in progress. It's and it's actually
been coming out, which is like nice, it's good, it's
coming out.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
That if you did lose your voice, is it an
option for the other boys to do solos some of
your solos or that just doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Oh yeah, that's exactly.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
That's exactly what would happen if unless he Two weeks ago,
Aj was filling a little under the weather and he
came to me and he also I think he came
to neck and he was like Hey guys, if I
look at you, pick me up.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
So okay, that's just what we do.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Hi, bro, this is it could be a question for both,
but it was only one that I'm saying for yourself
that you actually got a lot of charity sporting games
and fundraises. Is that something that you always had, Like
did you always have sporting ability growing up? Or is
that just something you've jumped into.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I mean I grew up loving sports.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
I played basketball, played a baseball.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
My wife says, anything with the ball.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
The cool thing about being being a celebrity, there's like
one really cool thing that's a great perk is being
able to get back to charities and things like that.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
These things are important to me.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
And if you can use that celebrity to draw attention
to getting people to donate to help out, I mean,
what a way to do it. And I know, Nick,
like you talk about this all the time, Like we've
we've performed in the ash p anthem in on baseball fields,
a World Series, at Super Bowls and it's like it's
(03:42):
like you're living a dream and you get to walk
out there on that field and sell the.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Grass like you're a little kid.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Yeah, and it's just a big perk about you know,
do what we do.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
That's exactly right. And I asked that question. You would
have heard of the n r L that comes to
Vegas every year the last few years, or you might
not not shut it's a big it's a it's the
biggest stry in rugby rugby league, Rugby league, National Rugby League.
Guy that comes to the stride is so yeah, that's
what I'll played that for twelve years and and I'll
just racently were taught. But I actually thought i'd ask,
(04:14):
would you ever want to come to a charity game
of rugby league?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I mean, listen, we are big American football leagues fans,
baseball fans, sports fans, and I think it's organically when
you have conversations like this, somebody invites you. Uh yeah,
we take up the offers all the time. We think
it'd be great. Brian and I we would when we
were traveling internationally all the time we would be watching it.
That's how we learned about international sports and we.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Learned about rugby.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
We love watching rugby because we're like, we know about
the rugby players talking smack about Oh you really think
you know what you're like, how to hit or you
take the helmet off?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Take off, bae.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
All causes like fourteen surgeries and not being able to
move too well. But it's a great guy to play,
trust me.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
That's good hard on.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
And when Corey says not move too well, he means
it because he actually did. In order for us to
come to Vegas and see your show, our boss set
him the challenge of becoming a backstreet boy, so he
learnt a attired dance routine, sang the songs as a
clip up on Instagra if you want to check it
out later.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Bit.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
But he was like, some type of broken.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Roads you have at the end of your show and
they're dancing. I thought you got that from me.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I want to see rugby players dancing to our music.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
What do they call us those mob flash to dance.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Flash yeahlash Well yeah, the whole team do it very fun.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So guys, are you back in Vegas or do you
not leave during the residency.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I don't leave because I live here. Oh yeah, I've been.
I've been living here since twenty seventeen when we did
our first residency. I've moved here with my son and
then just basically eight and both my daughters were born
here and so I'm pretty in like a big part
(06:15):
of the community out here. So just having the residency
at Sphere is just it's a little easier for me,
but sometimes not because then I'm required to come back
home and jump right into daddy mode. So I got
a double but it's great.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So you got three kids out of ten, is that right?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
My son's nine, my middle daughters five, and the youngest
is four.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
That's very busy that we're all talking about us going home.
We're flying back to Australia today and by the top
when when we land, we're going straight into parent mode
and we're like attempted to book a hotel so just
have a bit of time to rest before we have
to parent the media.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
It's chomping right back into daddy. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Hey, speaking of kids, Nick with your kids, given that
you started so young, you know, you were famous at
twelve years old, that's when you're with the Backtory Boys.
So would you encourage your kids to enter the industry
at a young age or would you rather they hold off? Like,
how are you advising them as far as the entertainment
industry now? No, not at all or just not.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
No, I'm gonna tell you why, because my situation was unique.
I started. I met the guys when I was basically
turning thirteen. I was twelve years old, and you know,
my situation, my story happens to be that, you know,
I came from a family that we had nothing, you know,
really with middle lower class family, five kids, and my
mother and father kind of saw an opportunity to utilize
(07:46):
my talents, you know, for the benefit of the family.
So but at the same time, I was blessed because
I was able to meet my four brothers and the
backsheet boys who essentially kind of, like i'd say, rescued
me in a lot of ways. And and so for me,
if I look back, you know, a kid basically working
(08:09):
and providing for his family at the age of twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixty,
seventy eighteen, all the way up to year an adult,
it's not it's not the right thing to do, you
know what I'm saying. But I don't look back and say, Okay, well,
you know, I regret it because I'm grateful that I've
learned a lot through that trial and error experience of
(08:30):
my life. Answering your question. When I look at my children,
I just want them to have a normal life. I
wanted to go to high school college. I want them
to be educated. I want them to play sports. I
want them to do all the things that I really
wanted to do and didn't get an opportunity to do.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Brian, what about you, because I've seen clips of your
son Bailey saying he wishes he wanted to do something else,
but the entertainment industry is where he wants to be.
What advice do you give him.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
You have to put on our father caps, you know,
our dad caps, just because you know, just because I'm
in this business. Never pushed Bailey to do it because
it's tough, just like Nick said, But he has a
he has an amazing gift and that you know, I
(09:23):
don't want to I don't want to ever limit him
in any way possible. You know, I felt like, you know,
like like Ike was saying, growing up in this business
and being young. You know, I was eighteen when we
started this. I was twenty two years old when I
met my wife. And that's the son. That's the age
of my son. Now he's twenty two.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I'm like, oh, my gosh, don't get married just yet.
Don't lock it up. That's fun. I don't want to
be a grand Ada.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
What it's like, this is a true joy. I mean,
like dads are supposed to be nothing but supportive, just
like Big said, and for baby to for baby pick
up a guitar and self like self teach himself how
to play.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
It's it's a it's an inspiration.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
It's it's really truly an inspiration, even to me, because
it's like something that I if I had a little
bit to do with it, Like it makes me so proud.
But he's such a great songwriter, he's such a great entertainer.
He's doing a little, small, little tour in the southeast.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I'm gonna be roadie. I'll be a bus driver, I'll
be back behind tech.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I'll be there to support it any exact way possible.
But but this is his journey man. It has nothing
really to do with me, has everything to do with
wherever he wants to go.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So, guys, are you planning on bringing this to a
down under? Can we see you in Brisbane anytime soon?
I know it won't be the Fear experience, but so
many people in Australia with us coming here, have said
they have to see you again.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
All right, yeah, I mean I hope.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
So yeah, you're just like like, have you planned these.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Not?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
You know, not yet, Like let's just let's just be honest,
let's break it down. You know, we've got a lot
of shows left here at the Sphere. There's some talk,
there's some talk about us coming back next year. We
don't know that yet. It's it's still just talk. We again,
it takes a lot of things to plan. There's a
(11:39):
lot of logistics that go into us traveling around the world.
So but yeah, I mean eventually, once this residency is
over and done with, we'd like to take the show
on the road. That would be nothing but a blessing
to do to give back to our fans. So we'll
see so hopefully down under.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Okay, Well, guys, I will say that I have seen
Freddie Mercury perform with Queen, I've seen a c d
C live, But you, guys, and what you did at
the Sphere was by far the best concept I have
ever seen in my life. So thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Thank you so much, thank you. We really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Thanks you see, you guys
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Don't hurt yourself on the rugby field.
I heard podcasts, hear more kiss podcasts, playlists and listen
live on.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
The Free Heart.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Kids Now with the podcast.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Well, thanks so much for joining us, guys. We know
it's a big day.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Boys.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
We have to say, what a sensational show and it
was so good. It was so good.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Appreciate thank you.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Yeah, we heard your guys watch. They would love to
hear your opinions on it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I've been saying of the guys about all the animations
and stuff behind you on the on the screens. Does
that take a long time before your shows even started
to get all that ready and prepped? Or does that
do or is it pretty quick all that sort of stuff,
because that was incredible, you know, all the stuff behind
you while you're singing and performing the spaceships everything.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
Oh, the answer is no, is how quick at all? Okay,
it's not quick at all. We've been working on this
show since September of last year.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
It's it's been a while, but uh.
Speaker 6 (01:17):
There's a lot of a lot of different pieces to
the puzzle. Different songs come with different formats, different video listen.
If you haven't seen it, you got to come and
check it out. It's I mean, it'll it will spoil
you for any show that you've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, I can definitely say it was proud of it.
It was well worth it. All that hard work he's
putting from last September. The show is incredible. I'm being serious.
I've been in a lot of concerts and stuff, but
that was just an experience it. Like you said, people
have to have to come and experience it just to
believe it. Side well done.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, Brian, like you your voice, my friend, your voice.
We were there on a Sunday night and we saw
you mouthing some stuff off the microphone. What happened?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
I might have been having trouble with my ears, but like,
my voice is work in progress. It's and it's actually
been coming out, which is like nice, it's good, it's
coming out.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
That if you did lose your voice, is it an
option for the other boys to do solos some of
your solos or that just doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Oh yeah, that's exactly.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
That's exactly what would happen if unless he Two weeks ago,
Aj was filling a little under the weather and he
came to me and he also I think he came
to neck and he was like Hey guys, if I
look at you, pick me up.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
So okay, that's just what we do.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Hi, bro, this is it could be a question for both,
but it was only one that I'm saying for yourself
that you actually got a lot of charity sporting games
and fundraises. Is that something that you always had, Like
did you always have sporting ability growing up? Or is
that just something you've jumped into.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I mean I grew up loving sports.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
I played basketball, played a baseball.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
My wife says, anything with the ball.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
The cool thing about being being a celebrity, there's like
one really cool thing that's a great perk is being
able to get back to charities and things like that.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
These things are important to me.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
And if you can use that celebrity to draw attention
to getting people to donate to help out, I mean,
what a way to do it. And I know, Nick,
like you talk about this all the time, Like we've
we've performed in the ash p anthem in on baseball fields,
a World Series, at Super Bowls and it's like it's
(03:42):
like you're living a dream and you get to walk
out there on that field and sell the.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Grass like you're a little kid.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
Yeah, and it's just a big perk about you know,
do what we do.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
That's exactly right. And I asked that question. You would
have heard of the n r L that comes to
Vegas every year the last few years, or you might
not not shut it's a big it's a it's the
biggest stry in rugby rugby league, Rugby league, National Rugby League.
Guy that comes to the stride is so yeah, that's
what I'll played that for twelve years and and I'll
just racently were taught. But I actually thought i'd ask,
(04:14):
would you ever want to come to a charity game
of rugby league?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I mean, listen, we are big American football leagues fans,
baseball fans, sports fans, and I think it's organically when
you have conversations like this, somebody invites you. Uh yeah,
we take up the offers all the time. We think
it'd be great. Brian and I we would when we
were traveling internationally all the time we would be watching it.
That's how we learned about international sports and we.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Learned about rugby.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
We love watching rugby because we're like, we know about
the rugby players talking smack about Oh you really think
you know what you're like, how to hit or you
take the helmet off?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Take off, bae.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
All causes like fourteen surgeries and not being able to
move too well. But it's a great guy to play,
trust me.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
That's good hard on.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
And when Corey says not move too well, he means
it because he actually did. In order for us to
come to Vegas and see your show, our boss set
him the challenge of becoming a backstreet boy, so he
learnt a attired dance routine, sang the songs as a
clip up on Instagra if you want to check it
out later.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
Bit.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
But he was like, some type of broken.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Roads you have at the end of your show and
they're dancing. I thought you got that from me.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I want to see rugby players dancing to our music.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
What do they call us those mob flash to dance.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Flash yeahlash Well yeah, the whole team do it very fun.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So guys, are you back in Vegas or do you
not leave during the residency.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I don't leave because I live here. Oh yeah, I've been.
I've been living here since twenty seventeen when we did
our first residency. I've moved here with my son and
then just basically eight and both my daughters were born
here and so I'm pretty in like a big part
(06:15):
of the community out here. So just having the residency
at Sphere is just it's a little easier for me,
but sometimes not because then I'm required to come back
home and jump right into daddy mode. So I got
a double but it's great.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So you got three kids out of ten, is that right?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
My son's nine, my middle daughters five, and the youngest
is four.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
That's very busy that we're all talking about us going home.
We're flying back to Australia today and by the top
when when we land, we're going straight into parent mode
and we're like attempted to book a hotel so just
have a bit of time to rest before we have
to parent the media.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
It's chomping right back into daddy. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Hey, speaking of kids, Nick with your kids, given that
you started so young, you know, you were famous at
twelve years old, that's when you're with the Backtory Boys.
So would you encourage your kids to enter the industry
at a young age or would you rather they hold off? Like,
how are you advising them as far as the entertainment
industry now? No, not at all or just not.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
No, I'm gonna tell you why, because my situation was unique.
I started. I met the guys when I was basically
turning thirteen. I was twelve years old, and you know,
my situation, my story happens to be that, you know,
I came from a family that we had nothing, you know,
really with middle lower class family, five kids, and my
mother and father kind of saw an opportunity to utilize
(07:46):
my talents, you know, for the benefit of the family.
So but at the same time, I was blessed because
I was able to meet my four brothers and the
backsheet boys who essentially kind of, like i'd say, rescued
me in a lot of ways. And and so for me,
if I look back, you know, a kid basically working
(08:09):
and providing for his family at the age of twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixty,
seventy eighteen, all the way up to year an adult,
it's not it's not the right thing to do, you
know what I'm saying. But I don't look back and say, Okay, well,
you know, I regret it because I'm grateful that I've
learned a lot through that trial and error experience of
(08:30):
my life. Answering your question. When I look at my children,
I just want them to have a normal life. I
wanted to go to high school college. I want them
to be educated. I want them to play sports. I
want them to do all the things that I really
wanted to do and didn't get an opportunity to do.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Brian, what about you, because I've seen clips of your
son Bailey saying he wishes he wanted to do something else,
but the entertainment industry is where he wants to be.
What advice do you give him.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
You have to put on our father caps, you know,
our dad caps, just because you know, just because I'm
in this business. Never pushed Bailey to do it because
it's tough, just like Nick said, But he has a
he has an amazing gift and that you know, I
(09:23):
don't want to I don't want to ever limit him
in any way possible. You know, I felt like, you know,
like like Ike was saying, growing up in this business
and being young. You know, I was eighteen when we
started this. I was twenty two years old when I
met my wife. And that's the son. That's the age
of my son. Now he's twenty two.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I'm like, oh, my gosh, don't get married just yet.
Don't lock it up. That's fun. I don't want to
be a grand Ada.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
What it's like, this is a true joy. I mean,
like dads are supposed to be nothing but supportive, just
like Big said, and for baby to for baby pick
up a guitar and self like self teach himself how
to play.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
It's it's a it's an inspiration.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
It's it's really truly an inspiration, even to me, because
it's like something that I if I had a little
bit to do with it, Like it makes me so proud.
But he's such a great songwriter, he's such a great entertainer.
He's doing a little, small, little tour in the southeast.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I'm gonna be roadie. I'll be a bus driver, I'll
be back behind tech.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I'll be there to support it any exact way possible.
But but this is his journey man. It has nothing
really to do with me, has everything to do with
wherever he wants to go.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
So, guys, are you planning on bringing this to a
down under? Can we see you in Brisbane anytime soon?
I know it won't be the Fear experience, but so
many people in Australia with us coming here, have said
they have to see you again.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
All right, yeah, I mean I hope.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
So yeah, you're just like like, have you planned these.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Not?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
You know, not yet, Like let's just let's just be honest,
let's break it down. You know, we've got a lot
of shows left here at the Sphere. There's some talk,
there's some talk about us coming back next year. We
don't know that yet. It's it's still just talk. We again,
it takes a lot of things to plan. There's a
(11:39):
lot of logistics that go into us traveling around the world.
So but yeah, I mean eventually, once this residency is
over and done with, we'd like to take the show
on the road. That would be nothing but a blessing
to do to give back to our fans. So we'll
see so hopefully down under.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Okay, Well, guys, I will say that I have seen
Freddie Mercury perform with Queen, I've seen a c d
C live, But you, guys, and what you did at
the Sphere was by far the best concept I have
ever seen in my life. So thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Thank you so much, thank you. We really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Thanks you see, you guys
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Don't hurt yourself on the rugby field.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
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