Ashley Parker Angel stops by to talk about the emotional new Boy Band Confidential doc, surviving the chaos of the Lou Pearlman era, his pivot into health and wellness, and why he says he’s in the best shape of his life.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, well, well look what the cat dragged in, Ashley
Parker Angel, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's good to see. Yes, the reunion and.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We're back together. Now, Hold on a second, Old Town
came in and you did not come in with them.
How many years ago? Was that? Nineteen something, nineteen forty three,
and then there's the nineteen hundreds. But no, you've been
here a couple of times since then. I don't know
you're in New York. But you were in sunglasses during
during the interview. The last person who wore sunglasses during
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an interview during an interview was what's his name?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Cruise?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And I asked, I said, take off your sunglasses. No, man,
not gonna take him off.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm like, well, get out of here, you idiot.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Them.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
No, so Ashley took him off. Oh look how red
your eyes are? Were you up late?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
What do you do? Don't don't tell me those are allergies,
because that's a big lie.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It's early for me. You got to get up early
on the radio.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Well, you know you could you good? Yeah, you could
have worn your small from massing. Then you're whole head,
you know, covered.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
That's a good look.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Yeah, the giant s'more costume, the Graham cracker body, the marshmallow,
the melting chocolate.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
The fire boots. Yeah, that was a hotvy. That was
a hot costume. He looked great. Now have you had
he had facework done? Because you look great?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No, I haven't you look awesome? Thank you? Okay, Ashley
Parker Angel is here. He is.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
He's in town on a on a mission. He's going
to be It's a g NC flagship over on eighth Avenue. Yeah,
you're hosting. I love how the notes are. Tell me
what this means. You're hosting a high Level Science pop up.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, that's my company, High Level Science.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
We launched nationwide with GNC Supplement medical grade supplement line.
But we're throwing a party open to the public. It's
gonna be so fun. We're doing karaoke, we're doing giveaways.
We're taking pictures six hundred eighth Avenue right outside Times
Square between thirty ninth and fortieth, So come down from us.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, but will remind you again where you can see
Ashley Parker Angel at that GNC flagship in just a
few minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So hang on.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So you're hosting this I saw like I said, in
my notes. A high level science pop up at my age.
It takes science for me to pop up. If you
know what I'm saying, Hey, I know what you're talking about, right, No.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
No you don't. I bet, I bet you have no
problem doing that.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Yeah, well you know I did sing a song called
liquid Dreams.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Okay, so we're ere just laughing about that. I'm like,
I'm not going to bring up that obvious joke. Ashley
Parker Angel brings it up. That was the setup too perfect.
So what's it like going through life with three names?
And I bring this up because usually people who kill
presidents assassins have three names, like John Wilkes Booth. That's true,
that's Lee Harvey Oswald. I see where you're going.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Okay, I'm moving on.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
No, we have you got Chad Michael Murray, you got
Sarah Jessica Parker.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
They have killed anyone, So.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Sarah Parker mayh So I have to bring something else up.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You do? You are known for your first trap posts.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Good for you.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You'd like to show your abs. I have been known
to show some abs.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, but you said you were in the best shape
of your life, like even better than when you were
in your twenties.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yeah, you know, I went hard into fitness, and part
of that is also learning a lot of these techniques
over twenty years of working in entertainment, I was working
with the best in fitness and nutritionists and peak performance coaches.
And then I pivoted into Broadway after you know, Otown
and a solo career sold ten million records. You have
to take care of yourself to do eight shows a
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week on Broadway. So I started posting about my fitness
journeys and you know, teaching people the things I learned.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Maybe that's why I tanged on Broadway because I'm in
bad shape.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Wouldn't we all do the same thing, Like you don't
want me to have abs game over, I would be ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Oh she would be walking on naked had Yeah she
never was, sir.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Also, I got to tell you, uh, you in that
docuseries of boy Band Confidential, is fascinating your story. You
really did a great job telling that story about you know,
being in Otown and hanging out with Lou Pearlman.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, I mean as you said, Yeah, you were saying
the experience was abusive and predatory, and so here I
am a sixty one year old gay guy talking about
Lou Pearlman, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Like, hey, pull up your shirt show big Daddy or Abs,
let's go.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
That is a fascinating it was I'm kidding, It is
a fascinating docuseries. And uh, of course Joey Fatone, who's
a good friend of ours as well, Yeah, in there.
And it was not all a bet of roses being
in a boy band at the time. I mean, and
you just felt, like you said, Lou Pearlman alone that situation,
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but just the whole thing. Even though you guys were successful,
you had great music, Uh, it wasn't It was not
a cake.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It was difficult, it was challenging, not always, you know.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
And again there were a lot of amazing, awesome things
about that experience. But I think the direction of this
documentary when Joey called and asked if I would be
a part of it, We're sharing stories that people have
never heard before. We're telling another side to the story.
And the Lou Pearlman story is crazy. I mean, he
embezzled three hundred million dollars, took advantage of every band
that he ever signed.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I mean, I say in the doc our.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Lawyer said, this is the worst deal I've ever seen
in thirty years of working in entertainment. But you're willing
to sign your life away as a young performer to
get that opportunity.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And the fact that you guys were courageous enough to
talk about it, you know, and not all of these
guys from these bands did talk about it for whatever reason,
it doesn't matter, but you did, and I'm assuming it
unlocked some crazy memories for you and the other people
who were in the documentary.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Can you talk about that, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
It was sort of a felt like I was in
therapy and we did these long interviews about it, and
for people that have seen it, it's, you know, it's
some wild stuff that we get into. And for people
that haven't, check it out on HBO Max. But the
boy band movement in general such a huge time in
music history, you know, and Lou Pearlman plays such a
part in all of that. And talking about, yeah, being
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groomed by Lou Pearlman and these weird, creepy situations we
were in. I think we're in a time in our
culture where we're able to talk about this a lot more.
You had the Nickelodeon documentary for example, you know, and
so people are telling their stories and I think, you know,
the feedback on it, which I appreciate yours as well,
has been that's been very well received. And you know,
we never want to sound like we're complaining because at
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the same time, it's a complicated situation. Without Lou, you
wouldn't have in sink Backstreet Otown LFO. Justin Timberlain, you
wouldn't have that. So he clearly had a talent for
putting together bands. Yeah, but at the same time he
was a creep unfortunately. Yeah, I mean they I guess
you would call it a fur lined trap. Being in
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a successful band situation like that. It's, yeah, you don't
want it to end, but at the same time you
you wanted to end, and it did.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, and then you pivot and you use it as
a stepping stone.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Right and the people who have have but the LFO
story especially, I mean, I actually I tear it up.
I cried a little bit because they used to come
up to our show when they first came out, and
we didn't know I didn't even know who Lou Pearlman
was back then. Sure, but they would come in and
there was just the greatest guys, the nicest, sweetest guys
just like you. You guys, you know you and just
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it's heartbreaking to know that you guys had a price
to pay for that.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Yeah, and it was I would think it was emotional
for me too. I think it was emotional for a
lot of us. And I think that really that really
shows in the documentary.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
A lot of you, the boy bands members friends with
each other, Like I know, backs you've been in sync
because it used to be like no oral enemies, but
now I feel like a lot of you guys are
friends and like you, you've been through the same thing,
so you get along.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
We are now.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
You know, back then, Lou who was really trying to
keep the band separate from each other, we talk about that,
and there was definitely this rivalry that was going on.
It was a lot like you know, you choose your
sports team, you root for them. There was definitely a
boy band rivalry. And now catching up years later, we
can really find the common thread and a lot of
these shared experiences we have And so for me, it
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was a very therapeutic experience. It was very cathartic to
be able to open up and talk about it a lot.
So yeah, I'm grateful that I could be a part
of something like that because it was twenty five boy
band members. I mean, you've got you know, ninety eight
degrees boys to men. I mean everybody.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Wow. And we were friends with everyone. Yeah, you know
what is we had everybody growing.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I think the last time I was here was twenty
years ago. So we're celebrating a twentieth anniversary. This is
your thirtieth anniversary.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
You actually brought food up.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Yes, fo, I did the Celebrity Cooking showdown on NBC.
I trained under Wolfgang Puck and it is this they
were doing this sort of It was like a like
the Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Idea, but it's cooking with the stars. Okay.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I almost cut my finger off because it was a
live taping and it was timed how quickly you had
to make these dishes and meals, and I almost cut
my my pinky off.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
It was a memorable experience.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Did you win?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
You know, I won the first round, but then I
end up coming in second overall.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
So almost if you're just turning us on, Ashley Parker
Angel is here. He will be at the GMC Flagship
over on eighth Avenue and thirty.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Thirty ninth between thirty ninth and four and fortieth Streets. Okay, yeah,
he'll be We're heart in eighth Avenue.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
What time you're showing.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Up, It's going to be between three pm and six pm.
It's totally free. We're doing live karaoke, we're doing giveaways,
we're taking pictures.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's going to be a party. And this is today.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, this is today. Make sure you're stopped by Gandhi. Yes,
he's all yours.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
So in boy Band Confidential, there's a part where you're
talking about how you are hanging out with Louke Pearlman
in his hotel room and a manager calls and says.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Get out of there.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
So people knew about the type of person that he was.
How many people do you think we're complicit in all
of this?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
You know, it's hard to know because a lot of
it was happening right out in the open. You know,
lou was always you know, he's always rolling around with
his entourage of young boys. I always say he was
like the Hugh Hefner of that, But it's also this
fngali of creating these bands and so these young, hopeful guys,
you know, with model good looks, We're always trying to
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be in his good graces, and they'd always work for
him somehow, you know, as a driver or an assistant
or whatever we were, you know, after the Backstreet and
in Sync movement, we had some people pull us aside
and say, hey, this is the kind of situation you
don't want to find yourself alone with lou And so
I think we were fortunate and somewhat to have some
(10:53):
people tip us off to that, whereas I don't know
that other bands had that advantage, and still I found
myself in some weird situations there.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Would you let your kids get into entertainment?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
You know? He did actually booked.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
He booked this incredible show, American Horror Story.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
He was like, he's twenty. Now, that's not a kid.
I'm aging myself. Good God, I can't believe it.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
But yeah, he actually his very first day of filming
was with Lady Gaga and Kathy Bates.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It was his first audition ever. He was like ten
years old at the time.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
He did six episodes and after that he was like, Dad,
I don't want audition anymore. I just I want to
go to school, and I was like, thank God, thank
god child stars have it.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Rough Man wown. So you live in Vegas? Now, what's it?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
This has nothing to do with anything we're talking about.
Let's switch gears. What would you like to live in
Las Vegas? I mean, it's not just the strip and
that's which you know. I mean, the strip is always
a party and a good time. But I live, well,
I'm far away from the strip. It's serene, it's tranquil.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
A lot of.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
People move into Vegas. There's incredible entertainment there. The restaurant sphere,
all this sphere. Have you seen Backstreet at the Sphere?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
No phenomenal shows. Yeah, you guys got to come out.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Let me know, we'll go, We'll go. We'll go see Battreet.
Oh yeah, no doubt. Now you've got Metallica doing the Sphere.
I mean it's amazing.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
We have like a lifetime pass.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I work with a lot of the same people that
work with Backstreets, so we could hook you up.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Let me know. It's an amazing show.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
But it's truly incredible. I mean, it's it's unreal. It's
it's a spectacle in itself. The Sphere but the Backstreet
shows incredible.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
It really is.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
I saw the Eagles there, but the Backstreet visuals take
it to a whole nother level. And you know, you
go around town, around the Strip when Backstreet's playing, and
everyone's walking around dressing white, and it feels like a cult.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Like You're like, what's going on? Everyone's wearing it white?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
It is a cult. Yeah, it is actually good way,
But there's artist residencies. I mean, I love Vegas.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
What about the Wizard of Oz at the sphere?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Did you see that I did?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Which is an incredible experience. Yeah, so I'm back. I'm
still in La a lot because it's really close. But
I love Vegas.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So I know he was a creep and he's no
longer with us, but he did put these bands together.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Louke Pearlman, Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
All right, I would not I would stop short of
calling it the Loop Perlman Reunion Show. I don't give
him credit for this, but all you guys and all
these bands you gave us excellent music, great dancing, the vibe.
You know that you guys all all owned it was
just that was a great time and.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Completely agree and that actually that name would fit.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I mean because I would never the Loop Perlman Reunion tour.
That's gross.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I mean, you had to have someone dressed up like
Lou Pearlman and host the show, ye you know, put
his arm around the boys.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Hey kids, let's see be awful. It was a necessary evil.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
I guess you could say, like I watched the Michael
movie and I think about Joe Jackson. Without Joe Jackson,
it doesn't it doesn't have. You don't have the circumstances
an environment to create the performer that is Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Right, Apparently Joe Jackson was the worst of the worst.
I'm saying he diddled with his kids, but he was
just not a nice man, not a nice father.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
No, in other ways, apparently very abusive and physically and mentally,
emotionally all that. But it's like, this is sort of
I feel that way about Lou, where it's like without
that though, so we're we have to pay homage to
the fact that Lou also launched our careers, and I
think that's why there's a lot of mixed emotions about it.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
So let me ask you this, If Lou Proman had
just been an up and up guy, never messed with anyone, no,
one ever questioned whether or not they should be alone
in a room with him. How would that have changed
the dynamics and the energy of the performances and the music.
It would have been different totally, But I don't know,
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for the better or for the worse.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Do you have a thought about that? You know, it's
hard to know. But he would have been so celebrated.
I mean we we already, you know, we on some level,
like lou is so likable and charming, and that's why
he was able to get away with embezzling three hundred
million dollars in and being a con man. So there's
this other side of him is like, you know, you're
being your best friend.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
In all of this.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
But it's like, I don't think he would have died
in prison. I think going to I think having to
be in a penitentiary like that. I think he probably
died young because of it, and he would have been
celebrated to this day. I mean, he was really the
Barry Gordie of that time in music, you know what
I mean. And so it's a really fascinating story.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It is, I mean, here a predator, an embezzler, but
kind of a.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Genius, kind of a genius at the same time, absolutely
not celebrating him at all. Now again, if you're just
turning us on if and you missed already some great
moments with Ashley Parker Angel, you can always listen to
us on demand where a Future podcasts and you can
hear the whole thing. But Ashley Parker Angel is going
to be at the GNC on eighth Avenue starting at
three o'clock today. You're running into this carry oak. Yeah,
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what does I have to do? Karaoke and fitness? Can
you where's the time? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (16:06):
You know I've gone you know for twenty years. It's
been a story in the making for me. That's years
in the making. I really went into health and wellness
and also teaching people that fitness isn't just about physical shape,
It's equally about your mental and emotional shape. Trying to
navigate being a young performer. You don't get an instruction man,
you on how to deal with fame. You know that
(16:26):
the twenty seven Club is a thing, and I talk
about that in the doc. And you know, I'm grateful.
I had a quarter life crisis. I had a complete
meltdown and I was questioning everything in my life. The
walls were crashing down around me because my hoddy, How'd
you get out of that? I leaned into exercise. I
leaned into proper nutrition. I leaned into proper supplementation and
(16:47):
understanding like, even if you eat a perfectly healthy diet,
you still have to take certain supplements that affects your
mental health. So I ended up launching a medical great
supplement line. I partnered with a world renowned cardiologist named
doctor David Riaac And you know, most doctors will tell
you most supplements don't work. So we're trying to clear
up the confusion and the supplement space. That's what high
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level science is about. Within nine months, we got picked
up nationwide at GNC. So yeah, so this is a
party for high level science, but also everyone's thinking about
healthy aging. So whatever I could do, if it's karaoke, whatever,
I'm trying to do some creative things to get people,
you know, off the couch and into the store. You
get a free consultation and helping people live a healthy life.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Right now is where I'm at. But look at you,
I mean, everyone in the room. Do you agree he
brought this energy into this room.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, and I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You're all smiles. You have a little allergy on anything going.
But that's okay you all do.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
It's early allegedly, I okay, so uh, look it's scary.
For instance, what can you do for that?
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I need a lot of help.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I'm actually on my new health and wellness journey as well.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
But yeah, ask ask Ashley Parker angel anything, anything at all.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
He's here for you.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Well.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
First of all, was there a specific life event that
happened to you that made you just go full throttle
in this health and wellness direction? And secondly, how do
you tell the good stuff from the garbage that's out there,
because there's so much in your face every day about
taking this and taking this and doing that.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
That's a great question. I actually talk about that moment
in the documentary. I was actually living in New York.
I was on the thirty eighth floor of my apartment.
I was starring in Hairspray at the time. But you know,
I was just trying to keep up with this external
success and an entertainment They say you're only as good
as your last at song or your last movie, and
all that really took its toll on me because for
you know, eight nine years of my life, all I
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did was focus on building an entertainment career and I
didn't have an identity outside of that. So really having
that sort of quarter life crisis was the moment where
I was like, I was also looking around and seeing
other peers in the industry deal with the stress of
that with drugs and alcohol, and you see these child stars,
you know, crash and burn publicly, right, So I really
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started leaning into hiring coaches, hiring nutritionists, hiring peak performance coaches.
I became a certified peak performance coach myself, and I
tell people the easiest way to start feeling better, you
don't even have to start exercising first, is to understand
proper supplementation, which is why I created a medical grade
supplement line, because the FDA does not actually endorse most supplements, right,
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so it's very confusing for people. There's thousands of things
out there. What do I take. Partnering with someone like
doctor Isaac, who's won three Emmy Awards, He's reinvented medicine
on a global level. He's a world renowned heart doctor,
really putting a lot of trust and confidence that like
what we offer is what's backed by doctors. You could
take our products to any doctor. They'll say, yes, you
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should absolutely be taking this. And that plays a huge
part in your mood and your memory and your sleep
and your energy and how you recover it. And I
all that plays a part in your mental and emotional wellbeing.
So I'm really passionate about this stuff. I want people
to feel the look and feel the way they did
years ago.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
He's not what it.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Used to be, right, fifty, God, why are you talking
to me thirty?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Okay? Forty? Why are you dressing the old guy in
the room. But if you think.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
About it, the Golden Girls, when they did the show
The Golden Girls, they were like, you know what the
same ja right exactly?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
And what they look like? I look at JA.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Yeah, for sure. I saw Mick Jagger. Oh my god,
the guy's eighty two. He's bounced around on stage like
he's twenty one. But he's into fitness and eating healthy. Look,
I was just like doing all a blow or something.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Two extreames.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
Okay, So when my parents were fifty, I thought my
parents at fifty were like, oh my goodness, they're old.
Now I'm fifteen, I'm like, wait, a second, I'm not
in the same shape they were fifty.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
We're better off than we were. Yeah, we are.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
We're aging differently because we know so much more now
and everyone's thinking about healthy aging.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
But it's so true.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Yeah, you look at like a TV star growing up
that was forty or fifty versus people you see now,
we're aging better, We're feeling better, and they say, if
you hang in there for another time in twenty years,
we might live forty fifty years longer. So I'm very
excited about the future of this and in the wellness
space too. There's a lot of new discoveries about the
easy things you can do, starting with proper supplementation and
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just remembering to take your supplements each day to fill
in the gaps to replace the vital nutrients that you
lose through the stresses of life and the aging process, etc.
So something I'm really excited about that was the mission
behind High Level Science, and I love that I can
be here talking about it twenty years later.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Elvis, I'm looking at it though I'm on Amazon now.
I looked up High Level Science Heart Body Mind.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, Heart Body and Mind was.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Our flagship supplement, which is a designed again to hit
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about methylene blue or should I take peptides? Like there
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(21:58):
have to go to a quality source. We talk a
lot about ultra processed food. Unfortunately that exists in the
supplement industry, and it's so good though most supplements are.
It does taste good. I get it's designed to taste good.
That's why it's addictive, right, But oh, I feel like
you're teaching us so much here, but you're.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Giving us, You're.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Lecturing to us in a loving way. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
This is a good room for it, though, because scary
over here, as mister TikTok taught me, and he bought
flat Tommy Ta for women drinking it?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
How did that work? He actually scary believes everything he reads.
He actually signed up for a vaginal rejuvenation. It's not funny.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
You see how that turned out? Very impressionable. Turn off
the lights and ship the lights. Ashley Parker Angel, what's
going on there. So you know you said something. Okay,
let me do a little reach around as we call it. Yeah,
you talked about having a quarter life crisis. But you
also said something I've found very very insightful. It's and
(23:09):
I'm quoting you, Ashley Parker Angels said you can do
it all, but you can't do it all at once.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Yeah, you can have everything you want in life, just
not all at the same time. Talk about that, you know.
I feel like it's been something that's been true of
my entertainment career. When I was in Otown, it was
all in four years of my life with obsession and passion, right,
But that's why it worked. Same thing with my solo career.
And then you go into Broadway. You do eight shows
a week. I did over two thousand performances, did Hairspray?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
What else?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Four years of both Two years in Hairspray, two years
in Wicked, Right, So four years of my life. And
I do feel like there's a lot of companies out
there that a public figure just slaps their name on
the product, right, I never wanted that to be this.
I think we're living in an age where people really
respect authenticity. So I've turned down everything an enterg tayment
to do this. I'm passed. I passed on a lead show. Actually,
(24:03):
I passed on the lead and a Juliet on Broadway.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Wow, all that's Daniel's favorite show. Danielle tell him how
many times you've seen a Juliet.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I don't know seven.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Really, it's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
It's tough because it's like, I'm I'm a co founder
in this company. I've built it from scratch, and you know, honestly,
in order to do that, I've had to pass on
TV projects and Broadway projects and things in music, and
so it's like, I'm all in on this because you can't.
You can't have everything you want in life all at
the same time. You have to you go through these
chapters of life. And I want it all or nothing
at all, Elvis, So you got to go. I see
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what you did there, Like my dad, my dads just
to say.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
My dad used to say, you can't have it all.
Where would you put it?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
So? I don't know, that's great fun again, Ashley Parker
Angel is here, Yes, and I'm gonna I'm already ordering
all the high level science. Okay, I ordered the co
Q ten stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yes, I'll and I'll send you some to everybody studio.
What about for anxiety?
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Like, do you have like something a specific thing that's
recommended for people that maybe suffer from anxiety, Like you did.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Well with dealing with being a live performer. Ever before
every show, I took a big dose of magnesium and
people should and honestly just before sleep at night, people
should be taking magnesium glyasonate. You'll never get enough through
your diet, but it's a natural beta blocker, so it's
so good for reducing stress and anxiety.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And Nate wants to know about irreugtile dysfunction. What do
you have for that?
Speaker 5 (25:30):
I do have a conversation. I have a men's wellness
for me A call high level man.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah you really? Maybe maybe I'll give it a try.
Asking for a friend, asking for a friend. I'll get
you some. I got you hooked up. Our men's formula
will do that. Well, that's a nice to a little
lead in the pencil. There you go.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
You know what. I love being with you. You are,
like I said, your energy is just fantastic. I want
you to come see us more Likewise.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Don't be a douche bag, please come back and say yes,
I would love to thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And may I quote Elvis Drane, don't be a douche bag,
please come back. So I took off the glasses and
I I appreciate this. So okay, so let me okay,
let me, let me, let me give it all to you,
Ashley Parker Angel. Go listen to this interview from the beginning.
We've had a lot of fun. Ashley Parker Angel will
be at the g NC Flagship on eighth Avenue starting
(26:23):
at three o'clock to day. It's all about hosting that
high level science pop up and yeah you need you
should call it high level science pop up for the
Nate problem.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh yeah, exactly. And also, uh, if you haven't seen,
uh the.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Documentary called Boy Bend Confidential, I think it's it's two parts.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Your storytelling, Like I said before, your storytelling in there,
Ashley is just incredible.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Thank you. What do we call you, Ashley Parker? What
do we call you? You could just call me ash
Oh wow, you can just we're like that.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
We're on that conch nickname basis.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Elvis, you call me e E fash and E look
at that.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, there you go, and uh, I just went on,
like I said, onto Amazon, and I'm looking up at
the all the high level science products you have and
congratulations on everything.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
It's such an exciting phase to be in and to
launch nationwide with G and C was an incredible opportunity.
We have a whole women's line that's launching soon and
I'm just excited to I want people to feel good
because I get a lot of questions from people. I
don't feel the same way I did. I don't wake
up with the same energy, I have the same kick
in my step. You don't have to feel that way,
and I appreciate you. Let me talk about it. This
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was a twenty year and twenty year reunion for us Elvis.
I love that e that's right, ash Yeah, yeah, fashion
and I know you did. You talked a lot about Yeah,
don't come in.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Bro, I hate that.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
No, no, so yeah, we talked a lot about your
high level science product and so we're gonna invoice you
for that. By the way, Yes, the King of thirst Trap,
she's much more than that. It's the one in only
Ashley Parker Angel. The guys are awesome as you have
a beautiful day.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Thank you. I'm gonna plate all or nothing.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yes, you could play Liquid Dreams, but too late, already
pushed the plate button.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Ash, thanks for coming by. We appreciate it. Thank you,
Well, well, well look what the cat dragged in, Ashley
Parker Angel, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's good to see. Yes, the reunion and.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We're back together. Now, Hold on a second, Old Town
came in and you did not come in with them.
How many years ago? Was that? Nineteen something, nineteen forty three,
and then there's the nineteen hundreds. But no, you've been
here a couple of times since then. I don't know
you're in New York. But you were in sunglasses during
during the interview. The last person who wore sunglasses during
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an interview during an interview was what's his name?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Cruise?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And I asked, I said, take off your sunglasses. No, man,
not gonna take him off.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm like, well, get out of here, you idiot.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Them.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
No, so Ashley took him off. Oh look how red
your eyes are? Were you up late?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
What do you do? Don't don't tell me those are allergies,
because that's a big lie.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It's early for me. You got to get up early
on the radio.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Well, you know you could you good? Yeah, you could
have worn your small from massing. Then you're whole head,
you know, covered.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
That's a good look.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Yeah, the giant s'more costume, the Graham cracker body, the marshmallow,
the melting chocolate.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
The fire boots. Yeah, that was a hotvy. That was
a hot costume. He looked great. Now have you had
he had facework done? Because you look great?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I have not.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
No, I haven't you look awesome? Thank you? Okay, Ashley
Parker Angel is here. He is.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
He's in town on a on a mission. He's going
to be It's a g NC flagship over on eighth Avenue. Yeah,
you're hosting. I love how the notes are. Tell me
what this means. You're hosting a high Level Science pop up.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, that's my company, High Level Science.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
We launched nationwide with GNC Supplement medical grade supplement line.
But we're throwing a party open to the public. It's
gonna be so fun. We're doing karaoke, we're doing giveaways.
We're taking pictures six hundred eighth Avenue right outside Times
Square between thirty ninth and fortieth, So come down from us.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, but will remind you again where you can see
Ashley Parker Angel at that GNC flagship in just a
few minutes.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So hang on.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So you're hosting this I saw like I said, in
my notes. A high level science pop up at my age.
It takes science for me to pop up. If you
know what I'm saying, Hey, I know what you're talking about, right, No.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
No you don't. I bet, I bet you have no
problem doing that.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Yeah, well you know I did sing a song called
liquid Dreams.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Okay, so we're ere just laughing about that. I'm like,
I'm not going to bring up that obvious joke. Ashley
Parker Angel brings it up. That was the setup too perfect.
So what's it like going through life with three names?
And I bring this up because usually people who kill
presidents assassins have three names, like John Wilkes Booth. That's true,
that's Lee Harvey Oswald. I see where you're going.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Okay, I'm moving on.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
No, we have you got Chad Michael Murray, you got
Sarah Jessica Parker.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
They have killed anyone, So.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Sarah Parker mayh So I have to bring something else up.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You do? You are known for your first trap posts.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Good for you.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You'd like to show your abs. I have been known
to show some abs.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yeah, but you said you were in the best shape
of your life, like even better than when you were
in your twenties.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yeah, you know, I went hard into fitness, and part
of that is also learning a lot of these techniques
over twenty years of working in entertainment, I was working
with the best in fitness and nutritionists and peak performance coaches.
And then I pivoted into Broadway after you know, Otown
and a solo career sold ten million records. You have
to take care of yourself to do eight shows a
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week on Broadway. So I started posting about my fitness
journeys and you know, teaching people the things I learned.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Maybe that's why I tanged on Broadway because I'm in
bad shape.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Wouldn't we all do the same thing, Like you don't
want me to have abs game over, I would be ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Oh she would be walking on naked had Yeah she
never was, sir.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Also, I got to tell you, uh, you in that
docuseries of boy Band Confidential, is fascinating your story. You
really did a great job telling that story about you know,
being in Otown and hanging out with Lou Pearlman.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, I mean as you said, Yeah, you were saying
the experience was abusive and predatory, and so here I
am a sixty one year old gay guy talking about
Lou Pearlman, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Like, hey, pull up your shirt show big Daddy or Abs,
let's go.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
That is a fascinating it was I'm kidding, It is
a fascinating docuseries. And uh, of course Joey Fatone, who's
a good friend of ours as well, Yeah, in there.
And it was not all a bet of roses being
in a boy band at the time. I mean, and
you just felt, like you said, Lou Pearlman alone that situation,
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but just the whole thing. Even though you guys were successful,
you had great music, Uh, it wasn't It was not
a cake.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It was difficult, it was challenging, not always, you know.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
And again there were a lot of amazing, awesome things
about that experience. But I think the direction of this
documentary when Joey called and asked if I would be
a part of it, We're sharing stories that people have
never heard before. We're telling another side to the story.
And the Lou Pearlman story is crazy. I mean, he
embezzled three hundred million dollars, took advantage of every band
that he ever signed.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I mean, I say in the doc our.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Lawyer said, this is the worst deal I've ever seen
in thirty years of working in entertainment. But you're willing
to sign your life away as a young performer to
get that opportunity.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And the fact that you guys were courageous enough to
talk about it, you know, and not all of these
guys from these bands did talk about it for whatever reason,
it doesn't matter, but you did, and I'm assuming it
unlocked some crazy memories for you and the other people
who were in the documentary.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Can you talk about that, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
It was sort of a felt like I was in
therapy and we did these long interviews about it, and
for people that have seen it, it's, you know, it's
some wild stuff that we get into. And for people
that haven't, check it out on HBO Max. But the
boy band movement in general such a huge time in
music history, you know, and Lou Pearlman plays such a
part in all of that. And talking about, yeah, being
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groomed by Lou Pearlman and these weird, creepy situations we
were in. I think we're in a time in our
culture where we're able to talk about this a lot more.
You had the Nickelodeon documentary for example, you know, and
so people are telling their stories and I think, you know,
the feedback on it, which I appreciate yours as well,
has been that's been very well received. And you know,
we never want to sound like we're complaining because at
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the same time, it's a complicated situation. Without Lou, you
wouldn't have in sink Backstreet Otown LFO. Justin Timberlain, you
wouldn't have that. So he clearly had a talent for
putting together bands. Yeah, but at the same time he
was a creep unfortunately. Yeah, I mean they I guess
you would call it a fur lined trap. Being in
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a successful band situation like that. It's, yeah, you don't
want it to end, but at the same time you
you wanted to end, and it did.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, and then you pivot and you use it as
a stepping stone.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Right and the people who have have but the LFO
story especially, I mean, I actually I tear it up.
I cried a little bit because they used to come
up to our show when they first came out, and
we didn't know I didn't even know who Lou Pearlman
was back then. Sure, but they would come in and
there was just the greatest guys, the nicest, sweetest guys
just like you. You guys, you know you and just
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it's heartbreaking to know that you guys had a price
to pay for that.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Yeah, and it was I would think it was emotional
for me too. I think it was emotional for a
lot of us. And I think that really that really
shows in the documentary.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
A lot of you, the boy bands members friends with
each other, Like I know, backs you've been in sync
because it used to be like no oral enemies, but
now I feel like a lot of you guys are
friends and like you, you've been through the same thing,
so you get along.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
We are now.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
You know, back then, Lou who was really trying to
keep the band separate from each other, we talk about that,
and there was definitely this rivalry that was going on.
It was a lot like you know, you choose your
sports team, you root for them. There was definitely a
boy band rivalry. And now catching up years later, we
can really find the common thread and a lot of
these shared experiences we have And so for me, it
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was a very therapeutic experience. It was very cathartic to
be able to open up and talk about it a lot.
So yeah, I'm grateful that I could be a part
of something like that because it was twenty five boy
band members. I mean, you've got you know, ninety eight
degrees boys to men. I mean everybody.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Wow. And we were friends with everyone. Yeah, you know
what is we had everybody growing.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I think the last time I was here was twenty
years ago. So we're celebrating a twentieth anniversary. This is
your thirtieth anniversary.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
You actually brought food up.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Yes, fo, I did the Celebrity Cooking showdown on NBC.
I trained under Wolfgang Puck and it is this they
were doing this sort of It was like a like
the Dancing with the Stars.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Idea, but it's cooking with the stars. Okay.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I almost cut my finger off because it was a
live taping and it was timed how quickly you had
to make these dishes and meals, and I almost cut
my my pinky off.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
It was a memorable experience.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Did you win?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
You know, I won the first round, but then I
end up coming in second overall.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
So almost if you're just turning us on, Ashley Parker
Angel is here. He will be at the GMC Flagship
over on eighth Avenue and thirty.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Thirty ninth between thirty ninth and four and fortieth Streets. Okay, yeah,
he'll be We're heart in eighth Avenue.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
What time you're showing.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Up, It's going to be between three pm and six pm.
It's totally free. We're doing live karaoke, we're doing giveaways,
we're taking pictures.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's going to be a party. And this is today.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, this is today. Make sure you're stopped by Gandhi. Yes,
he's all yours.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
So in boy Band Confidential, there's a part where you're
talking about how you are hanging out with Louke Pearlman
in his hotel room and a manager calls and says.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Get out of there.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
So people knew about the type of person that he was.
How many people do you think we're complicit in all
of this?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
You know, it's hard to know because a lot of
it was happening right out in the open. You know,
lou was always you know, he's always rolling around with
his entourage of young boys. I always say he was
like the Hugh Hefner of that, But it's also this
fngali of creating these bands and so these young, hopeful guys,
you know, with model good looks, We're always trying to
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be in his good graces, and they'd always work for
him somehow, you know, as a driver or an assistant
or whatever we were, you know, after the Backstreet and
in Sync movement, we had some people pull us aside
and say, hey, this is the kind of situation you
don't want to find yourself alone with lou And so
I think we were fortunate and somewhat to have some
(10:53):
people tip us off to that, whereas I don't know
that other bands had that advantage, and still I found
myself in some weird situations there.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Would you let your kids get into entertainment?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
You know? He did actually booked.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
He booked this incredible show, American Horror Story.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
He was like, he's twenty. Now, that's not a kid.
I'm aging myself. Good God, I can't believe it.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
But yeah, he actually his very first day of filming
was with Lady Gaga and Kathy Bates.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It was his first audition ever. He was like ten
years old at the time.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
He did six episodes and after that he was like, Dad,
I don't want audition anymore. I just I want to
go to school, and I was like, thank God, thank
god child stars have it.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Rough Man wown. So you live in Vegas? Now, what's it?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
This has nothing to do with anything we're talking about.
Let's switch gears. What would you like to live in
Las Vegas? I mean, it's not just the strip and
that's which you know. I mean, the strip is always
a party and a good time. But I live, well,
I'm far away from the strip. It's serene, it's tranquil.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
A lot of.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
People move into Vegas. There's incredible entertainment there. The restaurant sphere,
all this sphere. Have you seen Backstreet at the Sphere?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
No phenomenal shows. Yeah, you guys got to come out.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Let me know, we'll go, We'll go. We'll go see Battreet.
Oh yeah, no doubt. Now you've got Metallica doing the Sphere.
I mean it's amazing.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
We have like a lifetime pass.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
You know.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I work with a lot of the same people that
work with Backstreets, so we could hook you up.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Let me know. It's an amazing show.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
But it's truly incredible. I mean, it's it's unreal. It's
it's a spectacle in itself. The Sphere but the Backstreet
shows incredible.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
It really is.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
I saw the Eagles there, but the Backstreet visuals take
it to a whole nother level. And you know, you
go around town, around the Strip when Backstreet's playing, and
everyone's walking around dressing white, and it feels like a cult.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Like You're like, what's going on? Everyone's wearing it white?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
It is a cult. Yeah, it is actually good way,
But there's artist residencies. I mean, I love Vegas.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
What about the Wizard of Oz at the sphere?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Did you see that I did?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Which is an incredible experience. Yeah, so I'm back. I'm
still in La a lot because it's really close. But
I love Vegas.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So I know he was a creep and he's no
longer with us, but he did put these bands together.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Louke Pearlman, Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
All right, I would not I would stop short of
calling it the Loop Perlman Reunion Show. I don't give
him credit for this, but all you guys and all
these bands you gave us excellent music, great dancing, the vibe.
You know that you guys all all owned it was
just that was a great time and.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Completely agree and that actually that name would fit.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I mean because I would never the Loop Perlman Reunion tour.
That's gross.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I mean, you had to have someone dressed up like
Lou Pearlman and host the show, ye you know, put
his arm around the boys.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Hey kids, let's see be awful. It was a necessary evil.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
I guess you could say, like I watched the Michael
movie and I think about Joe Jackson. Without Joe Jackson,
it doesn't it doesn't have. You don't have the circumstances
an environment to create the performer that is Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Right, Apparently Joe Jackson was the worst of the worst.
I'm saying he diddled with his kids, but he was
just not a nice man, not a nice father.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
No, in other ways, apparently very abusive and physically and mentally,
emotionally all that. But it's like, this is sort of
I feel that way about Lou, where it's like without
that though, so we're we have to pay homage to
the fact that Lou also launched our careers, and I
think that's why there's a lot of mixed emotions about it.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
So let me ask you this, If Lou Proman had
just been an up and up guy, never messed with anyone, no,
one ever questioned whether or not they should be alone
in a room with him. How would that have changed
the dynamics and the energy of the performances and the music.
It would have been different totally, But I don't know,
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for the better or for the worse.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Do you have a thought about that? You know, it's
hard to know. But he would have been so celebrated.
I mean we we already, you know, we on some level,
like lou is so likable and charming, and that's why
he was able to get away with embezzling three hundred
million dollars in and being a con man. So there's
this other side of him is like, you know, you're
being your best friend.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
In all of this.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
But it's like, I don't think he would have died
in prison. I think going to I think having to
be in a penitentiary like that. I think he probably
died young because of it, and he would have been
celebrated to this day. I mean, he was really the
Barry Gordie of that time in music, you know what
I mean. And so it's a really fascinating story.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
It is, I mean, here a predator, an embezzler, but
kind of a.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Genius, kind of a genius at the same time, absolutely
not celebrating him at all. Now again, if you're just
turning us on if and you missed already some great
moments with Ashley Parker Angel, you can always listen to
us on demand where a Future podcasts and you can
hear the whole thing. But Ashley Parker Angel is going
to be at the GNC on eighth Avenue starting at
three o'clock today. You're running into this carry oak. Yeah,
(16:00):
what does I have to do? Karaoke and fitness? Can
you where's the time? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (16:06):
You know I've gone you know for twenty years. It's
been a story in the making for me. That's years
in the making. I really went into health and wellness
and also teaching people that fitness isn't just about physical shape,
It's equally about your mental and emotional shape. Trying to
navigate being a young performer. You don't get an instruction man,
you on how to deal with fame. You know that
(16:26):
the twenty seven Club is a thing, and I talk
about that in the doc. And you know, I'm grateful.
I had a quarter life crisis. I had a complete
meltdown and I was questioning everything in my life. The
walls were crashing down around me because my hoddy, How'd
you get out of that? I leaned into exercise. I
leaned into proper nutrition. I leaned into proper supplementation and
(16:47):
understanding like, even if you eat a perfectly healthy diet,
you still have to take certain supplements that affects your
mental health. So I ended up launching a medical great
supplement line. I partnered with a world renowned cardiologist named
doctor David Riaac And you know, most doctors will tell
you most supplements don't work. So we're trying to clear
up the confusion and the supplement space. That's what high
(17:08):
level science is about. Within nine months, we got picked
up nationwide at GNC. So yeah, so this is a
party for high level science, but also everyone's thinking about
healthy aging. So whatever I could do, if it's karaoke, whatever,
I'm trying to do some creative things to get people,
you know, off the couch and into the store. You
get a free consultation and helping people live a healthy life.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Right now is where I'm at. But look at you,
I mean, everyone in the room. Do you agree he
brought this energy into this room.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, and I mean.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
You're all smiles. You have a little allergy on anything going.
But that's okay you all do.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
It's early allegedly, I okay, so uh, look it's scary.
For instance, what can you do for that?
Speaker 5 (17:47):
I need a lot of help.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I'm actually on my new health and wellness journey as well.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
But yeah, ask ask Ashley Parker angel anything, anything at all.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
He's here for you.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Well.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
First of all, was there a specific life event that
happened to you that made you just go full throttle
in this health and wellness direction? And secondly, how do
you tell the good stuff from the garbage that's out there,
because there's so much in your face every day about
taking this and taking this and doing that.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
That's a great question. I actually talk about that moment
in the documentary. I was actually living in New York.
I was on the thirty eighth floor of my apartment.
I was starring in Hairspray at the time. But you know,
I was just trying to keep up with this external
success and an entertainment They say you're only as good
as your last at song or your last movie, and
all that really took its toll on me because for
you know, eight nine years of my life, all I
(18:36):
did was focus on building an entertainment career and I
didn't have an identity outside of that. So really having
that sort of quarter life crisis was the moment where
I was like, I was also looking around and seeing
other peers in the industry deal with the stress of
that with drugs and alcohol, and you see these child stars,
you know, crash and burn publicly, right, So I really
(18:57):
started leaning into hiring coaches, hiring nutritionists, hiring peak performance coaches.
I became a certified peak performance coach myself, and I
tell people the easiest way to start feeling better, you
don't even have to start exercising first, is to understand
proper supplementation, which is why I created a medical grade
supplement line, because the FDA does not actually endorse most supplements, right,
(19:21):
so it's very confusing for people. There's thousands of things
out there. What do I take. Partnering with someone like
doctor Isaac, who's won three Emmy Awards, He's reinvented medicine
on a global level. He's a world renowned heart doctor,
really putting a lot of trust and confidence that like
what we offer is what's backed by doctors. You could
take our products to any doctor. They'll say, yes, you
(19:42):
should absolutely be taking this. And that plays a huge
part in your mood and your memory and your sleep
and your energy and how you recover it. And I
all that plays a part in your mental and emotional wellbeing.
So I'm really passionate about this stuff. I want people
to feel the look and feel the way they did
years ago.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
He's not what it.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Used to be, right, fifty, God, why are you talking
to me thirty?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Okay? Forty? Why are you dressing the old guy in
the room. But if you think.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
About it, the Golden Girls, when they did the show
The Golden Girls, they were like, you know what the
same ja right exactly?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
And what they look like? I look at JA.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Yeah, for sure. I saw Mick Jagger. Oh my god,
the guy's eighty two. He's bounced around on stage like
he's twenty one. But he's into fitness and eating healthy. Look,
I was just like doing all a blow or something.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Two extreames.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
Okay, So when my parents were fifty, I thought my
parents at fifty were like, oh my goodness, they're old.
Now I'm fifteen, I'm like, wait, a second, I'm not
in the same shape they were fifty.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
We're better off than we were. Yeah, we are.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
We're aging differently because we know so much more now
and everyone's thinking about healthy aging.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
But it's so true.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Yeah, you look at like a TV star growing up
that was forty or fifty versus people you see now,
we're aging better, We're feeling better, and they say, if
you hang in there for another time in twenty years,
we might live forty fifty years longer. So I'm very
excited about the future of this and in the wellness
space too. There's a lot of new discoveries about the
easy things you can do, starting with proper supplementation and
(21:13):
just remembering to take your supplements each day to fill
in the gaps to replace the vital nutrients that you
lose through the stresses of life and the aging process, etc.
So something I'm really excited about that was the mission
behind High Level Science, and I love that I can
be here talking about it twenty years later.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Elvis, I'm looking at it though I'm on Amazon now.
I looked up High Level Science Heart Body Mind.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, Heart Body and Mind was.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Our flagship supplement, which is a designed again to hit
those three systems your heart, body, and mind. Those three
ingredients have years of medical research behind them. Because we're
living in an age where you watch TV, open social media,
you're going to get one hundred different ads. Everyone's talking
about methylene blue or should I take peptides? Like there
are such easier things to be doing, but you also
(21:58):
have to go to a quality source. We talk a
lot about ultra processed food. Unfortunately that exists in the
supplement industry, and it's so good though most supplements are.
It does taste good. I get it's designed to taste good.
That's why it's addictive, right, But oh, I feel like
you're teaching us so much here, but you're.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Giving us, You're.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Lecturing to us in a loving way. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
This is a good room for it, though, because scary
over here, as mister TikTok taught me, and he bought
flat Tommy Ta for women drinking it?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
How did that work? He actually scary believes everything he reads.
He actually signed up for a vaginal rejuvenation. It's not funny.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
You see how that turned out? Very impressionable. Turn off
the lights and ship the lights. Ashley Parker Angel, what's
going on there. So you know you said something. Okay,
let me do a little reach around as we call it. Yeah,
you talked about having a quarter life crisis. But you
also said something I've found very very insightful. It's and
(23:09):
I'm quoting you, Ashley Parker Angels said you can do
it all, but you can't do it all at once.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Yeah, you can have everything you want in life, just
not all at the same time. Talk about that, you know.
I feel like it's been something that's been true of
my entertainment career. When I was in Otown, it was
all in four years of my life with obsession and passion, right,
But that's why it worked. Same thing with my solo career.
And then you go into Broadway. You do eight shows
a week. I did over two thousand performances, did Hairspray?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
What else?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Four years of both Two years in Hairspray, two years
in Wicked, Right, So four years of my life. And
I do feel like there's a lot of companies out
there that a public figure just slaps their name on
the product, right, I never wanted that to be this.
I think we're living in an age where people really
respect authenticity. So I've turned down everything an enterg tayment
to do this. I'm passed. I passed on a lead show. Actually,
(24:03):
I passed on the lead and a Juliet on Broadway.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Wow, all that's Daniel's favorite show. Danielle tell him how
many times you've seen a Juliet.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I don't know seven.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Really, it's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
It's tough because it's like, I'm I'm a co founder
in this company. I've built it from scratch, and you know, honestly,
in order to do that, I've had to pass on
TV projects and Broadway projects and things in music, and
so it's like, I'm all in on this because you can't.
You can't have everything you want in life all at
the same time. You have to you go through these
chapters of life. And I want it all or nothing
at all, Elvis, So you got to go. I see
(24:40):
what you did there, Like my dad, my dads just
to say.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
My dad used to say, you can't have it all.
Where would you put it?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
So? I don't know, that's great fun again, Ashley Parker
Angel is here, Yes, and I'm gonna I'm already ordering
all the high level science. Okay, I ordered the co
Q ten stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yes, I'll and I'll send you some to everybody studio.
What about for anxiety?
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Like, do you have like something a specific thing that's
recommended for people that maybe suffer from anxiety, Like you did.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Well with dealing with being a live performer. Ever before
every show, I took a big dose of magnesium and
people should and honestly just before sleep at night, people
should be taking magnesium glyasonate. You'll never get enough through
your diet, but it's a natural beta blocker, so it's
so good for reducing stress and anxiety.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And Nate wants to know about irreugtile dysfunction. What do
you have for that?
Speaker 5 (25:30):
I do have a conversation. I have a men's wellness
for me A call high level man.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah you really? Maybe maybe I'll give it a try.
Asking for a friend, asking for a friend. I'll get
you some. I got you hooked up. Our men's formula
will do that. Well, that's a nice to a little
lead in the pencil. There you go.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
You know what. I love being with you. You are,
like I said, your energy is just fantastic. I want
you to come see us more Likewise.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Don't be a douche bag, please come back and say yes,
I would love to thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And may I quote Elvis Drane, don't be a douche bag,
please come back. So I took off the glasses and
I I appreciate this. So okay, so let me okay,
let me, let me, let me give it all to you,
Ashley Parker Angel. Go listen to this interview from the beginning.
We've had a lot of fun. Ashley Parker Angel will
be at the g NC Flagship on eighth Avenue starting
(26:23):
at three o'clock to day. It's all about hosting that
high level science pop up and yeah you need you
should call it high level science pop up for the
Nate problem.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh yeah, exactly. And also, uh, if you haven't seen,
uh the.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Documentary called Boy Bend Confidential, I think it's it's two parts.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Your storytelling, Like I said before, your storytelling in there,
Ashley is just incredible.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Thank you. What do we call you, Ashley Parker? What
do we call you? You could just call me ash
Oh wow, you can just we're like that.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
We're on that conch nickname basis.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Elvis, you call me e E fash and E look
at that.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, there you go, and uh, I just went on,
like I said, onto Amazon, and I'm looking up at
the all the high level science products you have and
congratulations on everything.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
It's such an exciting phase to be in and to
launch nationwide with G and C was an incredible opportunity.
We have a whole women's line that's launching soon and
I'm just excited to I want people to feel good
because I get a lot of questions from people. I
don't feel the same way I did. I don't wake
up with the same energy, I have the same kick
in my step. You don't have to feel that way,
and I appreciate you. Let me talk about it. This
(27:41):
was a twenty year and twenty year reunion for us Elvis.
I love that e that's right, ash Yeah, yeah, fashion
and I know you did. You talked a lot about Yeah,
don't come in.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Bro, I hate that.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
No, no, so yeah, we talked a lot about your
high level science product and so we're gonna invoice you
for that. By the way, Yes, the King of thirst Trap,
she's much more than that. It's the one in only
Ashley Parker Angel. The guys are awesome as you have
a beautiful day.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Thank you. I'm gonna plate all or nothing.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yes, you could play Liquid Dreams, but too late, already
pushed the plate button.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Ash, thanks for coming by. We appreciate it. Thank you,
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