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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Donnie, you there.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm here, Billy. What's happening?
Speaker 1 (00:02):
Are you on the set of Blue Bloods right now?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm actually, uh, they move my call back a few minutes.
I just got in the car. I'm going to set
right this minute.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
So what's the first thing you do? You get there
and make up?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I get there. Yeah, we gotta rush through a little
hair and makeup and then we rehearse. But the hair
and makeup trailer is fun. I do a whole bit
in the hair and makeup trailer usually, you know, because
I washed my hair and then I got a towel
on my head one day I noticed it looked like
a scarf, like a pirate good wear. So I'm out
an eyepatch and a hook and I do a pirate
(00:35):
performance and one of the hair guys acts like a parrot. Yeah,
we just do a whole thing. It's called the Parrot
Community Theater. It's really stupid, but yeah, it's real.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Who takes longer in makeup?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I don't know all the pirate jargons. It's like, are
getting me wrong? Find me treasurer lover. You know, it's
just really stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Who takes longer in makeup? You are Tom selling?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I don't know. Tom doesn't take long at all. I'm
trying to look like I could actually be related to
Tom take longer. It's like, darken up the little mustache. Here, guys,
Phil give me some eyebrows, because you know, at the
minute I met Tom well gosh, fourteen years ago, Wow,
I was like, I couldn't be this guy's son. He's
(01:21):
like six foot five. I'm five foot eleven. If I'm
on my tiptoes. None of it added up. So I'm
the one that takes a long time would make up.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
So I gotta ask you, Donnie, did you wake up
this morning on FaceTime and was your beautiful wife Jenny
right beside you on the phone?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
We did wake up together, and I had to hang
up to do this interview. We were actually together yesterday.
So sometimes, you know, sometimes when I travel back to
New York to work, we don't have to do it.
But you know, some days, yeah, I wake up there
on the phone and she'll do the same thing. I'll
(02:03):
you know, I'll be like, I'll pick up the phone.
I'll say, oh, she's still there. I'm not going to
hang up. I'll just keep it with me in the morning,
and I'll just go on Instagram, do whatever I'm doing
on the phone, and about an hour and a half
into my dayn here. And sometimes it's the same thing.
Sometimes I'll like be sitting there and she will be
(02:25):
I'll say, are you awake, and she's like in the
car driving, Yeah, I had to take Evan to school today,
you know, so wow. Yeah. But we really do it.
We really do it.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Would you guys seem like the happiest couple on Earth?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We I'd say, we're definitely in the top ten. But
you know, we also work at it. Like from day one,
we'd both been you know, in marriages that didn't work
out and relationships that didn't work, and we knew if
we wanted this to work, it takes to work. And
you know, people are funny about relationships, you know, the
(02:58):
people typically that aren't in relationships or are unfailed ones,
they'll say, Oh, it shouldn't be work. It shouldn't be work.
It's love. It shouldn't be work. Well, if you love something,
shouldn't you work at it? You know, we worked for
our careers, We worked for these things that we want
to do for the rest of our life, and we
put all this effort into it. We go to college
for four or eight or twelve years in some instances,
(03:20):
but with the most important relationship we'll ever have, we
don't want to put any work into it. Yes, it's like, oh, well,
it's just supposed to be perfect. It's supposed to wake
up and everything's just great. You can make it perfect,
and I think we do a good job of it.
We really have a lot of fun. We've worked on
how to communicate if we ever get frustrated or disappointed
(03:40):
in something, and learn to you know, look at ourselves
and take our own accountability at times. And it's just
it's a lot of work. But the work has paid
off because we're very happy. We have so much fun
and now we have the tools to you know, work
through situations that might come up and catch us off
and could be a pitfall for some couples, but we
(04:02):
just we fly right through it.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well said, well said. Hopefully people are taking notes. Hey, Donna,
do you have a hobby. What's your big hobby?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, besides the Celtics, and I like to fish, not
on the ocean, just on lakes. I'm a Boston kid,
so you know, fish on any pond. I can find
for some baths, and uh, I like the golf. Not
the greatest golfer, but I love to play a lot,
(04:32):
and golf is like the one time I could just
sort of get away and quiet and be so other
than fishing, you know, because I I'm pretty busy most
of the time, and I have, you know, kids and
relatives and a wife and a lot of jobs and
a lot of friends and a lot going on. So
for me those couple hours, I could just get away
(04:54):
and be with a few friends and laugh and joke
around and just see nothing but tree in sunshine. It's
just as much about that as it is for the
sport of anything.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So all that and now you guys have a new
tour and a new album.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, yeah, we just did piling On, Piling On.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
When did you get in the studio for the album?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I actually started in the studio. I don't know if
a lot of people would remember what we do A
song about a year and a half ago really for
our last one past maybe two years ago now, we
did a song called bring Back the Time with Psalm
Pepa and and Vogue and Rick Astley and New Kids
on the Block. Yeah, it was really really fun and
right around that time, I started getting the urge to
write sort of in that spirit of like an eighties feeling,
(05:41):
you know, album, and and so I just started writing
songs then, and slowly we started recording, and then Joey
McIntyre came in, you know a few months later and said, hey,
I got a few more songs as well, and we
just sort of picked through the best of his songs
and my songs and put together honestly, really really great album.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well really, you already have the first single. I think
we played a clip last week. Let's play it again now.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Justph and.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, and now you guys are celebrating thirty five years.
Can you have believed thirty five years later you'd be
coming out with an album and going back out on tour.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
No, not not at all. I mean I can still
remember the first time we would bump into you and
come up, come up to the radio station and just
you know, and couldn't even believe that we were like
getting on the air on a radio station somewhere. And
you know, it's in some ways it's gone by in
(07:00):
the blink of an eye, you know, and in some
ways it's unbelievable just that we lasted. I never thought
even when we became successful and we're like, I don't
know whatever, you call it the biggest thing since the Beatles,
people used to say, you know, even at that level
of success, we didn't think it would we'd be around
(07:20):
this long, Donnie.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Thank you so much for taking out the time this morning, buddy,
and again congratulations. When you get to town this summer,
you know what, drop by and we'll buy you breakfast.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I would love to drop by, and please, if you're available,
come down to the show. It's always a great time.
Bring your whole team, and I'd love to see you.
I know all the guys would love to see you.
We miss you and appreciate all you've done for us
through the years.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
All right, Donny, Well we did it last time, maybe
we'll do it again next time.
Donnie, you there.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm here, Billy. What's happening?
Speaker 1 (00:02):
Are you on the set of Blue Bloods right now?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm actually, uh, they move my call back a few minutes.
I just got in the car. I'm going to set
right this minute.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
So what's the first thing you do? You get there
and make up?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I get there. Yeah, we gotta rush through a little
hair and makeup and then we rehearse. But the hair
and makeup trailer is fun. I do a whole bit
in the hair and makeup trailer usually, you know, because
I washed my hair and then I got a towel
on my head one day I noticed it looked like
a scarf, like a pirate good wear. So I'm out
an eyepatch and a hook and I do a pirate
(00:35):
performance and one of the hair guys acts like a parrot. Yeah,
we just do a whole thing. It's called the Parrot
Community Theater. It's really stupid, but yeah, it's real.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Who takes longer in makeup?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I don't know all the pirate jargons. It's like, are
getting me wrong? Find me treasurer lover. You know, it's
just really stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Who takes longer in makeup? You are Tom selling?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I don't know. Tom doesn't take long at all. I'm
trying to look like I could actually be related to
Tom take longer. It's like, darken up the little mustache. Here, guys,
Phil give me some eyebrows, because you know, at the
minute I met Tom well gosh, fourteen years ago, Wow,
I was like, I couldn't be this guy's son. He's
(01:21):
like six foot five. I'm five foot eleven. If I'm
on my tiptoes. None of it added up. So I'm
the one that takes a long time would make up.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
So I gotta ask you, Donnie, did you wake up
this morning on FaceTime and was your beautiful wife Jenny
right beside you on the phone?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
We did wake up together, and I had to hang
up to do this interview. We were actually together yesterday.
So sometimes, you know, sometimes when I travel back to
New York to work, we don't have to do it.
But you know, some days, yeah, I wake up there
on the phone and she'll do the same thing. I'll
(02:03):
you know, I'll be like, I'll pick up the phone.
I'll say, oh, she's still there. I'm not going to
hang up. I'll just keep it with me in the morning,
and I'll just go on Instagram, do whatever I'm doing
on the phone, and about an hour and a half
into my dayn here. And sometimes it's the same thing.
Sometimes I'll like be sitting there and she will be
(02:25):
I'll say, are you awake, and she's like in the
car driving, Yeah, I had to take Evan to school today,
you know, so wow. Yeah. But we really do it.
We really do it.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Would you guys seem like the happiest couple on Earth?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We I'd say, we're definitely in the top ten. But
you know, we also work at it. Like from day one,
we'd both been you know, in marriages that didn't work
out and relationships that didn't work, and we knew if
we wanted this to work, it takes to work. And
you know, people are funny about relationships, you know, the
(02:58):
people typically that aren't in relationships or are unfailed ones,
they'll say, Oh, it shouldn't be work. It shouldn't be work.
It's love. It shouldn't be work. Well, if you love something,
shouldn't you work at it? You know, we worked for
our careers, We worked for these things that we want
to do for the rest of our life, and we
put all this effort into it. We go to college
for four or eight or twelve years in some instances,
(03:20):
but with the most important relationship we'll ever have, we
don't want to put any work into it. Yes, it's like, oh, well,
it's just supposed to be perfect. It's supposed to wake
up and everything's just great. You can make it perfect,
and I think we do a good job of it.
We really have a lot of fun. We've worked on
how to communicate if we ever get frustrated or disappointed
(03:40):
in something, and learn to you know, look at ourselves
and take our own accountability at times. And it's just
it's a lot of work. But the work has paid
off because we're very happy. We have so much fun
and now we have the tools to you know, work
through situations that might come up and catch us off
and could be a pitfall for some couples, but we
(04:02):
just we fly right through it.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Well said, well said. Hopefully people are taking notes. Hey, Donna,
do you have a hobby. What's your big hobby?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, besides the Celtics, and I like to fish, not
on the ocean, just on lakes. I'm a Boston kid,
so you know, fish on any pond. I can find
for some baths, and uh, I like the golf. Not
the greatest golfer, but I love to play a lot,
(04:32):
and golf is like the one time I could just
sort of get away and quiet and be so other
than fishing, you know, because I I'm pretty busy most
of the time, and I have, you know, kids and
relatives and a wife and a lot of jobs and
a lot of friends and a lot going on. So
for me those couple hours, I could just get away
(04:54):
and be with a few friends and laugh and joke
around and just see nothing but tree in sunshine. It's
just as much about that as it is for the
sport of anything.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So all that and now you guys have a new
tour and a new album.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, yeah, we just did piling On, Piling On.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
When did you get in the studio for the album?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I actually started in the studio. I don't know if
a lot of people would remember what we do A
song about a year and a half ago really for
our last one past maybe two years ago now, we
did a song called bring Back the Time with Psalm
Pepa and and Vogue and Rick Astley and New Kids
on the Block. Yeah, it was really really fun and
right around that time, I started getting the urge to
write sort of in that spirit of like an eighties feeling,
(05:41):
you know, album, and and so I just started writing
songs then, and slowly we started recording, and then Joey
McIntyre came in, you know a few months later and said, hey,
I got a few more songs as well, and we
just sort of picked through the best of his songs
and my songs and put together honestly, really really great album.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well really, you already have the first single. I think
we played a clip last week. Let's play it again now.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Justph and.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, and now you guys are celebrating thirty five years.
Can you have believed thirty five years later you'd be
coming out with an album and going back out on tour.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
No, not not at all. I mean I can still
remember the first time we would bump into you and
come up, come up to the radio station and just
you know, and couldn't even believe that we were like
getting on the air on a radio station somewhere. And
you know, it's in some ways it's gone by in
(07:00):
the blink of an eye, you know, and in some
ways it's unbelievable just that we lasted. I never thought
even when we became successful and we're like, I don't
know whatever, you call it the biggest thing since the Beatles,
people used to say, you know, even at that level
of success, we didn't think it would we'd be around
(07:20):
this long, Donnie.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Thank you so much for taking out the time this morning, buddy,
and again congratulations. When you get to town this summer,
you know what, drop by and we'll buy you breakfast.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I would love to drop by, and please, if you're available,
come down to the show. It's always a great time.
Bring your whole team, and I'd love to see you.
I know all the guys would love to see you.
We miss you and appreciate all you've done for us
through the years.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
All right, Donny, Well we did it last time, maybe
we'll do it again next time.
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