December 10, 2024 • 29 mins
He's not 12 years old anymore, but Joey McIntyre is still the youngest member of New Kids on The Block, who are still performing to sold out crowds! But the very talented Joey has a lot of other things in the works too.
Like the single with Shoshana Bean, "A Brand New Christmas", from Roku's original movie he stars in, Jingle Bell Love. He's also starring in an off-broadway musical "DRAG" at New Worlds Stage, and has a full-length LP coming out in the new year. "Freedom" is an album that explores his upbringing and path to pop stardom. The single, "Is Anybody Out There" was released in November! If that's not enough, NKOTB will be starting a residency at Park MGM in Las Vegas in the summer of 2025!!!
We'll cover all of this and a lot more in this episode of LOVE SOMEONE! ~ Delilah
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Happy Holidays, Happy Holidays, feeling the Christmas spirit yet ready
or not? The holiday season is upon us, Christmas and Hanukkah.
I've been playing Christmas music for several weeks now on
my radio program, and I love love. I'm loving all
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the old favorites and the brand new festive tunes as well.
I keep thinking I've got a new favorite, narrow down.
Then I'll hear something else and I'm back to pondering
my options. There are so many options, like a brand
New Christmas from Roku's original movie Jingle Bell Love. A
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Brand New Christmas was recorded by Joey McIntyre, a singer,
songwriter and actor well known as the youngest member of
the boy band New Kids on the Remember them back
in the day. They're still performing together and drawing huge crowds.
In fact, they're going to be starting a residency at
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Park MGM and Las Vegas in the summer of twenty
twenty five. I know a number of my own grown
kids are going to insist we spend a week in
in Vegas to go see them. While New Kids on
the Block is still a very big deal. The talented,
charismatic and exceptionally handsome Joey has sold over one million
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records worldwide as a solo artist. He's working in film, television,
and his favorite being on the stage, including a Broadway show. Currently,
he is the lead in Drag and Off Broadway musical
performing at New World Stage. Joey's also got a full
length LP coming out in the new year called Freedom.
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It's a semi biographical album that explores his upbringing and
his path to pop stardom. The single is Anybody out
There was just released in November, and as luck would
have it, he's joining us today to tell us about
his many, many varied projects and to spread a little
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holiday joy. We're welcoming Joey McIntyre to the podcast today.
This guy has so many irons and so many fires.
I can't wait to hear about them all. We'll dig
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Joey McIntyre, Welcome to love someone with Delilah. How are
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you happy holidays?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I'm good, Happy holidays to you. Does does everybody go
gaga when they meet you because you're really that iconic?
Do you get you got to get tired of it?
You gotta get tired of it, because do you he's
thrilled to meet you? Do you?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Do you ever get tired of it? When they're like,
oh my god.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I don't, I know, I know, but I honestly I'm
saying that honestly. No, of course I don't, so I guess.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
No, we love it, we love it, we love it. Yes,
it's it's it's not why. It's not why I do
what I do, but it's one of the perks. Free food,
backstage passes and people adoring me. It's it's all, you know,
it's it's the I'm.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Having that similar kind of reaction because I want whatever
I do to do well and and then you know,
and when it does what it does, it's not that
I'm it's not my ego, Oh it didn't do well.
I just want to do more stuff, right, you know,
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it's not that I want to be super success. Just
let me continue to do more stuff and then then
that's all I want, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, I don't know what I would do, Joey if
I didn't do radio, Like, like, what would I do?
I've sat and thought about this a lot, like if
tomorrow my career came to an end, if I lost
my vocal chords, God forbid, if I, you know, couldn't
go on the air and talk every night, Like, what
would I do for a job. I'm not qualified to
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do anything.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I was going to say, I'd be a dishwasher, and
I would I think I'd really like it.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, you'd be a good dictionary and like the cleanliness.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It would satisfy my OCD. But then I forgot. I'd
have to be standing on your feet.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, you don't get to sit in a comfortable chair
in front of a piano when you're washing dishes, right, Yeah,
So what was your first job, Joey McIntyre New Kids?
Was that the first gig? Or did you wash dishes
before me?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Ish? I just rake leaves. I mean I joined New
Kids when I was twelve, which is crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
No, sack but no sah, yes, sah at twelve years old?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Who knows? What about? What?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Like? How do you know anything about anything? At twelve?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I know, but we were singing songs called popsicle, so
it wasn't like I needed to know much more than that.
But we didn't. This is funny. We didn't get famous
until I was fifteen. I had to wait till I
was fifty.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, you gotta scene.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
For your first hit record. It was tough now. The
raking leaves, I remember, I got fifty bucks for raking
leaves at the boy Scout building at the end of
my block. My mom worked there.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
What block was it? What town was it?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Jamaica Plane. We were all from Boston, like inside the
city and in different towns. They were from Dorchester.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I lived in Denham.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Oh well, JP was closer yeah to Deadham than Dorchester.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Denham and Hyde Park what oh just in radio. Yeah.
I worked at the PREW in town, but I I
the prove.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
My mother's first job after nine kids was the Hancock Tower. Yeah, yeah,
she worked at.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
The Hancock Tower. Was always in competition with the PREW.
Remember they built the PREW.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, well yes, but once once that glass building went up.
They kind of it was the bell of the ball.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, it defeated the Prow. The prew went down, the
Hancock took over. You know, while you were raking Lee's
I was. I was at the Crew right down the street.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, you're at the Deada Mall.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I wasn't the Deata Mall. They had a theater there then,
and I belonged to a health club there by the
Deata Mall. So we go way back. Oh yeah, so
you were twelve new kids on the block fifteen when
you had your first hit, Like, did you get any
money from that or was it one of those situations
where you worked your little took us off.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
We were never you know, raped over the calls. I mean,
you know, the normal business stuff. I mean we were
The idea started from Maurice Starr's brain and he was
a producer from Roxbury and then he met Donnie Wahlberg
and really the two of them, Donnie had to go
out and find members of this group because you know, and.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
How old was Donnie at the time.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
He was like fourteen when he joined fourteen, he was
like fourteen and fifteen. And then I was busy doing
like theater in Jamaica, playing and just having fun and
community theater, and they started making calls for public schools
looking for little white kids who can sing and dance,
and there weren't many of us then, so they found
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me that way. But yeah, business wise, I mean, Maurice,
you know, on the name of the beginning, we did
find there wasn't There weren't any horror stories. I think
for us, really it was just we were so massive
that there was some arrested development, you know what I mean.
By the time I was twenty, I was already in
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the biggest band in the world and it had come
and gone, you know what I mean, for all intents
and purposes.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So at twenty years old, did you ever feel like
a has been like, oh my gosh, I mean yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Mean as far as you know, yeah, I mean well theoretically, yes,
I mean, you know whatever that looked like. I mean,
I think the twenties are pretty funky for anybody, you know,
And I think it took me a while to just,
you know, recommit myself to what I love to do.
I mean, I love to perform on stage. So it
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was never like what am I going to do? I
knew what I wanted to do. It was just in
what capacity and that takes time and hustle and you
know the ups and downs. But yeah, and I've been
lucky and came from good family, so but you know,
it certainly wasn't easy, you know, finding my way back
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to what I'd love to do.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And now you're doing it. You got a brand new
single out. Yes, tell me about the jingle Bell Love.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yes, my Christmas movie is called jingle Bell Love. It's
on Roku, which you can a lot of people have
Roku TV or rogustick, but you can go to Roku
channel dot com. So a lot of TVs, these roco
TVs come with the app and the Roku channel like
it has that icon of like Apple or Hulu whatever,
and Roku's there, or there's Roku sticks, which is you
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plug into your thing and you get all these all
this content right that I know, just go to Roku
channel dot com and sign up. It's a free there's
a there'll be a couple of commercials during the movie,
but you can watch it for free.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I did not know that. That's the part I did
not know. I knew the stick, I knew the TV.
I didn't know the sign up Roku dot com. Yeah, wow.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
And they're starting to make a lot of original content.
So this movie was one of their one of the
you know, the beginning of that. And it was lovely.
It was lovely to make and I'm happy with it all.
It's and I wrote a song specifically for the movie,
and it's called the Brand New Christmas. And the radio version,
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so to speak, is I got Shoshana Bean, who's been
nominated for two Tonys in the last three years. She's
in Hell's Kitchen, the Lisia Keys story right now, and
we were we've been in Wicked together and Waits. We've
been a Broadway and work together. And so that she
and I sing that that version of the record of
Brand New Christmas, and I'll be singing that on a
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float in a Thanksgiving Day parade. And I also have
a new full length album that the solo album that's
coming out in January. So I have a lot of
stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
A lot of well let's talk about it. Let's talk
about Freedom, your album that's coming out just in a
couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, So we announced that November twenty fifth. You can
pre save the album and the first single as Anybody
out There came out on November twenty fifth, so you
can pre save the album now starting now, and it
comes out officially in January. And it's you know, making
a full length album is a commitment, and it's something
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I haven't done in about ten years or so. So
I feel really satisfied with it. I think it's certainly
an important record for me, and I was, you know,
you get to grow in this business and you get
to grow in life, and I feel like it showed
up on this album, and I'm very excited to share
it with everybody.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
So tell me about is anybody out there?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Is anybody out there? Is? I think the blurb what
we came up with, you know, but it does kind
of say it sort of does take the temperature of
where we are in the world. You know, this this
idea of connection, the inside story if you listen, you know,
with you know AI for instance, all this AI stuff,
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you know, sort of guessing but dictating what we want.
There's fifteen steps ahead of us, you know, And I
mean it's been written forever. It's like you know, the
stones that I can't get satisfaction. You know. It's about
the TV commercial. There's tons of connection, but how authentic
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is it and how does it speak to us individually?
And everybody has their own truth and their own way
of connecting. But I just sort of that's where it
came from. I hope that makes sense, but that's kind
of what it's about.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
So, you know, I've been doing this gig, this little
gig on the air fifty years last September, and people
ask me all the time, you know, in interviews, what's
the biggest change you've seen, what are the biggest trends
you've seen. You know, you talk to sixty eighty ninety
people a night, what kind of differences do you see?
(14:49):
And what you just said about that connection. We have
more ways, more technology that allows us to connect than
at any time in our history. We have more ways
to communicate joy than ever, and yet people who call
me at night are more lonely, lonely aching for intimate
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connection than ever in my career.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, it's yeah, it's it's quite a dichotomy. You know,
it's there's such an engine behind all the other stuff.
I also, again it's you know, sound like a dad
or whatever, but like you know, my my kids, they're
on you or on screens, and we try to we
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we do a good job, my wife and I, you know,
to keep it at a minimum, but still they're on there.
What I'm getting at is there's if there weren't any screens,
they'd be out in the street.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, Planta neighborhood, getting to know the neighbors, riding bikes,
doing all this stuff that you and I did, and.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Riding their bikes and playing you know, tag and hide
and seek and like literally, like I know my kids
they would love that, but it's not available anymore. It's
not available. It doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
How old are your kids?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Seventeen almost fifteen and thirteen? Two boys and a girl.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
So the last two I have at home are fifteen
and eight, and I don't allow screens in the house.
My daughter has a computer for school because most of
her school work is online. But sure, you know, they
have dirt bikes and real bikes and basketballs, but no
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kids because we live out in the country, so you
need to bring your kids here, you know, and then
they can go play basketball and stickball and kickball.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Door. Yeah. No, I think it's still a we have
an above average experience because my son will get on
the bike, you know, on a Saturday morning and drive up,
you know, and get the bagels in the morning and
hang out on the you know, in the town and
then come back and you know, they are active. Thank god.
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They have very busy lives. But as far as the
social how these kids interact is so mechanical.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Ye, very different from when kids were running to the
store to get the magazine that has the new picture
of the new kids on it.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Oh, very very different.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Remember when we would go to the store to buy
Team Beat magazine.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
The deada ma All Baby.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
The Deata mall. We were there. You're also on Broadway.
You're also in love with Broadway, which I love. You
mentioned Wicked earlier, and you're in a production right now.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, it's called Drag the Musical technically off Broadway, but
it's a really fun A lot of people, I mean
they are getting drag queens, yes, but it's actually a
full on musical with a great story, great music, a
lot of heart. I play the one straight man in
the show, and I even have a song called straight Man,
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which is very funny. But I have a son who's
kind of figuring out who he is. He's not saying
he's gay or straight or whatever. He has a song
called I'm just Brendan, you know, and it's really people
are surprised that their heartstrings are getting tugged. So it's
a wonderful show to be a part of. That's why
I'm in New York. My wife has her hands filled
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with three kids in La by the way, So I'm
in the show to the December ninth, and then they
get back home for the holidays.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Well, I am so happy to get to talk to you.
I can't wait to Now that I know how to
get onto Roku, I can watch your new movie and
listen to your new music.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I love You. The whole album is thirty two and
it's long, from top to bottom, ten songs. I think
you'll enjoy it. I'm very happy with it. I'm going
to get it to you like momentarily.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And my kids that grew up loving you, my daughter Sheila,
and because I've got, you know, kids that are much older,
and then kids that are much younger, and then kids
in the middle. My kids who grew up loving you.
Thank you for all the sweet, wonderful joy, pure joy
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you brought them and millions of other kids, young people.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Thank you well, thanks for being a part of.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
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All right, let's talk about your residency, you and new kids,
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all of us, all of the whole.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Gang, the whole gang. It's always been the whole gang,
the same five guys, and we have been lucky enough
to do so much. But Vegas was still on the
table and we've been kind of.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
You know, how do you coordinate schedules when you're as
busy as you all are. You got to say, yeah,
I can drag the wife and the kids, or are
you going to be there and she's going to be
you know, parenting And in La well.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
It has worked out. We usually tour, we do big
tours about every other year. We just did an amazing
outdoor show tour in the sheds, as they say in
the industry, the amphitheaters. Yeah and so yeah, Vegas was
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always sort of like bubbling up and we finally said
let's do it, and we're at the Adobe Theater where
Usher was and Bruno Mars and all the big guys,
and we're very, very excited. It's something we haven't done
to be like have all the bells and whistles of
Vegas and bring what we do to the table. And
our fans are very excited. Again they've showed up, and
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we keep adding dates so that starts in June. We
kind of do pockets like they call residencies. Now, it's
not like eight shows a week. It's like we're going
to go in June, and then we're going to go
in the fall, and then we're going to go at
next next spring as well. So you can find all
that out at at KOTB dot com.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Well, I have eight daughters and we went and saw
Katie Perry. We did a girl's weekend away, not not
all of us, but a lot of my daughters and
my niece and my sister. And we're going to have
to do a girl's weekend. You're going to have to
give me the dates so that we can come like
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and do a slumber party and then come see you guys.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Please.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
It wouldn't that be fun? Oh my gosh, that would
be so much fun And then now does your audience
show up in the clothes like the kind of clothes
they wore back in the day.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Some tours like this actual we did sort of a
take on our Summer Magic tour from nineteen ninety, so
we kind of did a reboot there and we said,
you know, we're fluorescent colors and they played along, like
when the lights turned out, the whole place was like
glowing with like yet hot yellows and pinks and purples
and yeah, I was sweet.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah, fun, fun. Tell me one of your favorite traditions
maybe that you grew up with or you got three kids, right,
so something that is like the core memory that they
have to have a tradition they have to have every year.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Selfishly, you know, Dad has to be happy so he
can do all the you know, the Christmas magic. First
of all, it's kicked off by my wife's sweet potato
pie on Thanksgiving, and I try to ride that out
for as long as she has to make me an
extra like castrole dish of that, so I can take
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that into the Christmas season.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
And then mind and do you have to hide it?
Like do you have to hide it in the fridge
and market like liverwurst or something so nobody gets into
your the sweep of titta pie.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
It's definitely tucked away. It has a southern Southern origin.
By the way, she's a New York Jew but she
it meets you know, Texas, you know, spice and goodness,
like a soulful thing. It's unbelievable. And then I kind
of bookend that with my famous grilled ham and cheese
(25:24):
on Christmas Eve. You got to get, you know, at
least three cheeses and it has to be on raisin
hol of bread and I make about eight or nine
or ten of them, and we all kind of sit
on the floor in the living room, you know, and
it's fun like kids do, and you put the stuff
on the ottoman and you kind of cozy up by
the fire. And I don't cook anything, but I do
(25:47):
cook a wonderful grilled ham and cheese on Christmas. Even
those are those traditions.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Do you have like tomato basil soup with it? I
have to have tomato basil soup with ham and cheese.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
That's nice. I I need no, it's really that. And
like cape cod potato chips, the crunchy.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Crunchy cut ones, with all the grease off.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yes, yes, the bass.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Now, if you if you take a carton of sour
cream and you dump in a package of onion soup mix,
stir that up, let it set for an hour, and
then the cape cod crunchy, extra crunchy, thick cut with
the sour cream with the onion soup mix. Dude, Yeah,
it's it's like it's like it's like a heart attack
(26:35):
in a bowl right there, right there.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I concur I actually make a candy that we call
Christmas crack. Uh, it's that good.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Oh my god? What is that?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
It's saltine crackers, only I use like the little buttery ones.
And then it's you make like brittle caramel, you know,
pour that over the top. Then you put a package
of chocolate chips on top of that and put it
in the oven just for minute, so the chocolate melts,
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and then you break it up. And I put salt,
a little thick salt on top of all that, so
you get the salty and the weed and the crunchy
in the it's the brittle.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
What kind of brittle though? Can you just try to
it's butter.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
And it's butter butter and sugar and vanilla. That's all
it is. Butter, sugar and vanilla. It's so simple, so good.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
That that and the onion dip with the chips. That's
all you need.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
That's all you need, Joey, that's all you need for
a mirror and kids. You got your three kids and
your music. Will be listening to your new music, maybe
watching the jingle Bell Story, Yes, I.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Love and listening to a brand of Christmas while we
while we eat Christmas crack.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Oh, we give ourselves a heart attack. I love it.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I love you. Thank you for spending time with us.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Thank you, Mary Christmas. I was not aware of the
Boston connection, but I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I mean it. I thank you for the goodness that
you have put into the universe, especially for my kids.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Thanks for taking time out of what sounds like a
very busy, busy schedule, Joey to spend time with us today.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanikah. Joey McIntyre from New Kids on
the Block. Joey McIntyre is a busy guy. He's a singer,
he's a songwriter, he's an actor. He's got a new
Christmas single out right Now, a brand new Christmas from
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Roku's jingle Bell Love. A whole new album in the works, Freedom,
releasing next month early twenty twenty five, in which the
single is Anybody out There? Dropped last month. He's starring
in an off Broadway for Reduction of Drag and joining
fellow bandmates from New Kids on the Block in Las Vegas,
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where their residency at the Park MGM begins in June.
You have many options for keeping up with a guy that,
for all intents and purposes, appears pretty hard to keep
up with. You know who isn't hard to keep up
with me? I'm in the same spot, night after night,
here in the studio, helping you to unwind, relax, and
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enjoy the beauty of life in this special season? Have
you been joining me in the evenings on the radio?
Might I suggest a healthy dose of Delilah while decking
the halls, basting the bird, wrapping the gifts, sipping and
gnashing with friends and family. I am here for you,
just as you're there for me. Thank you and happy holidays.
Happy Holidays, Happy Holidays, feeling the Christmas spirit yet ready
or not? The holiday season is upon us, Christmas and Hanukkah.
I've been playing Christmas music for several weeks now on
my radio program, and I love love. I'm loving all
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the old favorites and the brand new festive tunes as well.
I keep thinking I've got a new favorite, narrow down.
Then I'll hear something else and I'm back to pondering
my options. There are so many options, like a brand
New Christmas from Roku's original movie Jingle Bell Love. A
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Brand New Christmas was recorded by Joey McIntyre, a singer,
songwriter and actor well known as the youngest member of
the boy band New Kids on the Remember them back
in the day. They're still performing together and drawing huge crowds.
In fact, they're going to be starting a residency at
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Park MGM and Las Vegas in the summer of twenty
twenty five. I know a number of my own grown
kids are going to insist we spend a week in
in Vegas to go see them. While New Kids on
the Block is still a very big deal. The talented,
charismatic and exceptionally handsome Joey has sold over one million
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records worldwide as a solo artist. He's working in film, television,
and his favorite being on the stage, including a Broadway show. Currently,
he is the lead in Drag and Off Broadway musical
performing at New World Stage. Joey's also got a full
length LP coming out in the new year called Freedom.
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It's a semi biographical album that explores his upbringing and
his path to pop stardom. The single is Anybody out
There was just released in November, and as luck would
have it, he's joining us today to tell us about
his many, many varied projects and to spread a little
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This guy has so many irons and so many fires.
I can't wait to hear about them all. We'll dig
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Joey McIntyre, Welcome to love someone with Delilah. How are
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you happy holidays?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I'm good, Happy holidays to you. Does does everybody go
gaga when they meet you because you're really that iconic?
Do you get you got to get tired of it?
You gotta get tired of it, because do you he's
thrilled to meet you? Do you?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Do you ever get tired of it? When they're like,
oh my god.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I don't, I know, I know, but I honestly I'm
saying that honestly. No, of course I don't, so I guess.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
No, we love it, we love it, we love it. Yes,
it's it's it's not why. It's not why I do
what I do, but it's one of the perks. Free food,
backstage passes and people adoring me. It's it's all, you know,
it's it's the I'm.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Having that similar kind of reaction because I want whatever
I do to do well and and then you know,
and when it does what it does, it's not that
I'm it's not my ego, Oh it didn't do well.
I just want to do more stuff, right, you know,
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it's not that I want to be super success. Just
let me continue to do more stuff and then then
that's all I want, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, I don't know what I would do, Joey if
I didn't do radio, Like, like, what would I do?
I've sat and thought about this a lot, like if
tomorrow my career came to an end, if I lost
my vocal chords, God forbid, if I, you know, couldn't
go on the air and talk every night, Like, what
would I do for a job. I'm not qualified to
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do anything.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I was going to say, I'd be a dishwasher, and
I would I think I'd really like it.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, you'd be a good dictionary and like the cleanliness.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It would satisfy my OCD. But then I forgot. I'd
have to be standing on your feet.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, you don't get to sit in a comfortable chair
in front of a piano when you're washing dishes, right, Yeah,
So what was your first job, Joey McIntyre New Kids?
Was that the first gig? Or did you wash dishes
before me?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Ish? I just rake leaves. I mean I joined New
Kids when I was twelve, which is crazy.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
No, sack but no sah, yes, sah at twelve years old?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Who knows? What about? What?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Like? How do you know anything about anything? At twelve?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I know, but we were singing songs called popsicle, so
it wasn't like I needed to know much more than that.
But we didn't. This is funny. We didn't get famous
until I was fifteen. I had to wait till I
was fifty.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, you gotta scene.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
For your first hit record. It was tough now. The
raking leaves, I remember, I got fifty bucks for raking
leaves at the boy Scout building at the end of
my block. My mom worked there.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
What block was it? What town was it?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Jamaica Plane. We were all from Boston, like inside the
city and in different towns. They were from Dorchester.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I lived in Denham.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Oh well, JP was closer yeah to Deadham than Dorchester.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Denham and Hyde Park what oh just in radio. Yeah.
I worked at the PREW in town, but I I
the prove.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
My mother's first job after nine kids was the Hancock Tower. Yeah, yeah,
she worked at.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
The Hancock Tower. Was always in competition with the PREW.
Remember they built the PREW.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, well yes, but once once that glass building went up.
They kind of it was the bell of the ball.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, it defeated the Prow. The prew went down, the
Hancock took over. You know, while you were raking Lee's
I was. I was at the Crew right down the street.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, you're at the Deada Mall.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I wasn't the Deata Mall. They had a theater there then,
and I belonged to a health club there by the
Deata Mall. So we go way back. Oh yeah, so
you were twelve new kids on the block fifteen when
you had your first hit, Like, did you get any
money from that or was it one of those situations
where you worked your little took us off.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
We were never you know, raped over the calls. I mean,
you know, the normal business stuff. I mean we were
The idea started from Maurice Starr's brain and he was
a producer from Roxbury and then he met Donnie Wahlberg
and really the two of them, Donnie had to go
out and find members of this group because you know, and.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
How old was Donnie at the time.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
He was like fourteen when he joined fourteen, he was
like fourteen and fifteen. And then I was busy doing
like theater in Jamaica, playing and just having fun and
community theater, and they started making calls for public schools
looking for little white kids who can sing and dance,
and there weren't many of us then, so they found
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me that way. But yeah, business wise, I mean, Maurice,
you know, on the name of the beginning, we did
find there wasn't There weren't any horror stories. I think
for us, really it was just we were so massive
that there was some arrested development, you know what I mean.
By the time I was twenty, I was already in
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the biggest band in the world and it had come
and gone, you know what I mean, for all intents
and purposes.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So at twenty years old, did you ever feel like
a has been like, oh my gosh, I mean yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Mean as far as you know, yeah, I mean well theoretically, yes,
I mean, you know whatever that looked like. I mean,
I think the twenties are pretty funky for anybody, you know,
And I think it took me a while to just,
you know, recommit myself to what I love to do.
I mean, I love to perform on stage. So it
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was never like what am I going to do? I
knew what I wanted to do. It was just in
what capacity and that takes time and hustle and you
know the ups and downs. But yeah, and I've been
lucky and came from good family, so but you know,
it certainly wasn't easy, you know, finding my way back
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to what I'd love to do.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And now you're doing it. You got a brand new
single out. Yes, tell me about the jingle Bell Love.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yes, my Christmas movie is called jingle Bell Love. It's
on Roku, which you can a lot of people have
Roku TV or rogustick, but you can go to Roku
channel dot com. So a lot of TVs, these roco
TVs come with the app and the Roku channel like
it has that icon of like Apple or Hulu whatever,
and Roku's there, or there's Roku sticks, which is you
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plug into your thing and you get all these all
this content right that I know, just go to Roku
channel dot com and sign up. It's a free there's
a there'll be a couple of commercials during the movie,
but you can watch it for free.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I did not know that. That's the part I did
not know. I knew the stick, I knew the TV.
I didn't know the sign up Roku dot com. Yeah, wow.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
And they're starting to make a lot of original content.
So this movie was one of their one of the
you know, the beginning of that. And it was lovely.
It was lovely to make and I'm happy with it all.
It's and I wrote a song specifically for the movie,
and it's called the Brand New Christmas. And the radio version,
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so to speak, is I got Shoshana Bean, who's been
nominated for two Tonys in the last three years. She's
in Hell's Kitchen, the Lisia Keys story right now, and
we were we've been in Wicked together and Waits. We've
been a Broadway and work together. And so that she
and I sing that that version of the record of
Brand New Christmas, and I'll be singing that on a
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float in a Thanksgiving Day parade. And I also have
a new full length album that the solo album that's
coming out in January. So I have a lot of
stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
A lot of well let's talk about it. Let's talk
about Freedom, your album that's coming out just in a
couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, So we announced that November twenty fifth. You can
pre save the album and the first single as Anybody
out There came out on November twenty fifth, so you
can pre save the album now starting now, and it
comes out officially in January. And it's you know, making
a full length album is a commitment, and it's something
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I haven't done in about ten years or so. So
I feel really satisfied with it. I think it's certainly
an important record for me, and I was, you know,
you get to grow in this business and you get
to grow in life, and I feel like it showed
up on this album, and I'm very excited to share
it with everybody.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
So tell me about is anybody out there?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Is anybody out there? Is? I think the blurb what
we came up with, you know, but it does kind
of say it sort of does take the temperature of
where we are in the world. You know, this this
idea of connection, the inside story if you listen, you know,
with you know AI for instance, all this AI stuff,
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you know, sort of guessing but dictating what we want.
There's fifteen steps ahead of us, you know, And I
mean it's been written forever. It's like you know, the
stones that I can't get satisfaction. You know. It's about
the TV commercial. There's tons of connection, but how authentic
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is it and how does it speak to us individually?
And everybody has their own truth and their own way
of connecting. But I just sort of that's where it
came from. I hope that makes sense, but that's kind
of what it's about.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
So, you know, I've been doing this gig, this little
gig on the air fifty years last September, and people
ask me all the time, you know, in interviews, what's
the biggest change you've seen, what are the biggest trends
you've seen. You know, you talk to sixty eighty ninety
people a night, what kind of differences do you see?
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And what you just said about that connection. We have
more ways, more technology that allows us to connect than
at any time in our history. We have more ways
to communicate joy than ever, and yet people who call
me at night are more lonely, lonely aching for intimate
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connection than ever in my career.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, it's yeah, it's it's quite a dichotomy. You know,
it's there's such an engine behind all the other stuff.
I also, again it's you know, sound like a dad
or whatever, but like you know, my my kids, they're
on you or on screens, and we try to we
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we do a good job, my wife and I, you know,
to keep it at a minimum, but still they're on there.
What I'm getting at is there's if there weren't any screens,
they'd be out in the street.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, Planta neighborhood, getting to know the neighbors, riding bikes,
doing all this stuff that you and I did, and.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Riding their bikes and playing you know, tag and hide
and seek and like literally, like I know my kids
they would love that, but it's not available anymore. It's
not available. It doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
How old are your kids?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Seventeen almost fifteen and thirteen? Two boys and a girl.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
So the last two I have at home are fifteen
and eight, and I don't allow screens in the house.
My daughter has a computer for school because most of
her school work is online. But sure, you know, they
have dirt bikes and real bikes and basketballs, but no
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kids because we live out in the country, so you
need to bring your kids here, you know, and then
they can go play basketball and stickball and kickball.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Door. Yeah. No, I think it's still a we have
an above average experience because my son will get on
the bike, you know, on a Saturday morning and drive up,
you know, and get the bagels in the morning and
hang out on the you know, in the town and
then come back and you know, they are active. Thank god.
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They have very busy lives. But as far as the
social how these kids interact is so mechanical.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Ye, very different from when kids were running to the
store to get the magazine that has the new picture
of the new kids on it.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Oh, very very different.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Remember when we would go to the store to buy
Team Beat magazine.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
The deada ma All Baby.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
The Deata mall. We were there. You're also on Broadway.
You're also in love with Broadway, which I love. You
mentioned Wicked earlier, and you're in a production right now.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, it's called Drag the Musical technically off Broadway, but
it's a really fun A lot of people, I mean
they are getting drag queens, yes, but it's actually a
full on musical with a great story, great music, a
lot of heart. I play the one straight man in
the show, and I even have a song called straight Man,
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which is very funny. But I have a son who's
kind of figuring out who he is. He's not saying
he's gay or straight or whatever. He has a song
called I'm just Brendan, you know, and it's really people
are surprised that their heartstrings are getting tugged. So it's
a wonderful show to be a part of. That's why
I'm in New York. My wife has her hands filled
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with three kids in La by the way, So I'm
in the show to the December ninth, and then they
get back home for the holidays.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Well, I am so happy to get to talk to you.
I can't wait to Now that I know how to
get onto Roku, I can watch your new movie and
listen to your new music.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I love You. The whole album is thirty two and
it's long, from top to bottom, ten songs. I think
you'll enjoy it. I'm very happy with it. I'm going
to get it to you like momentarily.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
And my kids that grew up loving you, my daughter Sheila,
and because I've got, you know, kids that are much older,
and then kids that are much younger, and then kids
in the middle. My kids who grew up loving you.
Thank you for all the sweet, wonderful joy, pure joy
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you brought them and millions of other kids, young people.
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Thank you well, thanks for being a part of.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
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All right, let's talk about your residency, you and new kids,
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all of us, all of the whole.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Gang, the whole gang. It's always been the whole gang,
the same five guys, and we have been lucky enough
to do so much. But Vegas was still on the
table and we've been kind of.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
You know, how do you coordinate schedules when you're as
busy as you all are. You got to say, yeah,
I can drag the wife and the kids, or are
you going to be there and she's going to be
you know, parenting And in La well.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
It has worked out. We usually tour, we do big
tours about every other year. We just did an amazing
outdoor show tour in the sheds, as they say in
the industry, the amphitheaters. Yeah and so yeah, Vegas was
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always sort of like bubbling up and we finally said
let's do it, and we're at the Adobe Theater where
Usher was and Bruno Mars and all the big guys,
and we're very, very excited. It's something we haven't done
to be like have all the bells and whistles of
Vegas and bring what we do to the table. And
our fans are very excited. Again they've showed up, and
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we keep adding dates so that starts in June. We
kind of do pockets like they call residencies. Now, it's
not like eight shows a week. It's like we're going
to go in June, and then we're going to go
in the fall, and then we're going to go at
next next spring as well. So you can find all
that out at at KOTB dot com.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Well, I have eight daughters and we went and saw
Katie Perry. We did a girl's weekend away, not not
all of us, but a lot of my daughters and
my niece and my sister. And we're going to have
to do a girl's weekend. You're going to have to
give me the dates so that we can come like
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and do a slumber party and then come see you guys.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Please.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
It wouldn't that be fun? Oh my gosh, that would
be so much fun And then now does your audience
show up in the clothes like the kind of clothes
they wore back in the day.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Some tours like this actual we did sort of a
take on our Summer Magic tour from nineteen ninety, so
we kind of did a reboot there and we said,
you know, we're fluorescent colors and they played along, like
when the lights turned out, the whole place was like
glowing with like yet hot yellows and pinks and purples
and yeah, I was sweet.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah, fun, fun. Tell me one of your favorite traditions
maybe that you grew up with or you got three kids, right,
so something that is like the core memory that they
have to have a tradition they have to have every year.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Selfishly, you know, Dad has to be happy so he
can do all the you know, the Christmas magic. First
of all, it's kicked off by my wife's sweet potato
pie on Thanksgiving, and I try to ride that out
for as long as she has to make me an
extra like castrole dish of that, so I can take
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that into the Christmas season.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
And then mind and do you have to hide it?
Like do you have to hide it in the fridge
and market like liverwurst or something so nobody gets into
your the sweep of titta pie.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
It's definitely tucked away. It has a southern Southern origin.
By the way, she's a New York Jew but she
it meets you know, Texas, you know, spice and goodness,
like a soulful thing. It's unbelievable. And then I kind
of bookend that with my famous grilled ham and cheese
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on Christmas Eve. You got to get, you know, at
least three cheeses and it has to be on raisin
hol of bread and I make about eight or nine
or ten of them, and we all kind of sit
on the floor in the living room, you know, and
it's fun like kids do, and you put the stuff
on the ottoman and you kind of cozy up by
the fire. And I don't cook anything, but I do
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cook a wonderful grilled ham and cheese on Christmas. Even
those are those traditions.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Do you have like tomato basil soup with it? I
have to have tomato basil soup with ham and cheese.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
That's nice. I I need no, it's really that. And
like cape cod potato chips, the crunchy.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Crunchy cut ones, with all the grease off.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yes, yes, the bass.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Now, if you if you take a carton of sour
cream and you dump in a package of onion soup mix,
stir that up, let it set for an hour, and
then the cape cod crunchy, extra crunchy, thick cut with
the sour cream with the onion soup mix. Dude, Yeah,
it's it's like it's like it's like a heart attack
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in a bowl right there, right there.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I concur I actually make a candy that we call
Christmas crack. Uh, it's that good.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Oh my god? What is that?
Speaker 1 (26:48):
It's saltine crackers, only I use like the little buttery ones.
And then it's you make like brittle caramel, you know,
pour that over the top. Then you put a package
of chocolate chips on top of that and put it
in the oven just for minute, so the chocolate melts,
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and then you break it up. And I put salt,
a little thick salt on top of all that, so
you get the salty and the weed and the crunchy
in the it's the brittle.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
What kind of brittle though? Can you just try to
it's butter.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
And it's butter butter and sugar and vanilla. That's all
it is. Butter, sugar and vanilla. It's so simple, so good.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
That that and the onion dip with the chips. That's
all you need.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
That's all you need, Joey, that's all you need for
a mirror and kids. You got your three kids and
your music. Will be listening to your new music, maybe
watching the jingle Bell Story, Yes, I.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Love and listening to a brand of Christmas while we
while we eat Christmas crack.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Oh, we give ourselves a heart attack. I love it.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I love you. Thank you for spending time with us.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Thank you, Mary Christmas. I was not aware of the
Boston connection, but I love it.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I mean it. I thank you for the goodness that
you have put into the universe, especially for my kids.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Thanks for taking time out of what sounds like a
very busy, busy schedule, Joey to spend time with us today.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanikah. Joey McIntyre from New Kids on
the Block. Joey McIntyre is a busy guy. He's a singer,
he's a songwriter, he's an actor. He's got a new
Christmas single out right Now, a brand new Christmas from
(28:44):
Roku's jingle Bell Love. A whole new album in the works, Freedom,
releasing next month early twenty twenty five, in which the
single is Anybody out There? Dropped last month. He's starring
in an off Broadway for Reduction of Drag and joining
fellow bandmates from New Kids on the Block in Las Vegas,
(29:06):
where their residency at the Park MGM begins in June.
You have many options for keeping up with a guy that,
for all intents and purposes, appears pretty hard to keep
up with. You know who isn't hard to keep up
with me? I'm in the same spot, night after night,
here in the studio, helping you to unwind, relax, and
(29:28):
enjoy the beauty of life in this special season? Have
you been joining me in the evenings on the radio?
Might I suggest a healthy dose of Delilah while decking
the halls, basting the bird, wrapping the gifts, sipping and
gnashing with friends and family. I am here for you,
just as you're there for me. Thank you and happy holidays.
Host
Delilah
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