AJ McLean
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this week's In Service Of host Steve Baltin, who's known Backstreet Boys since the early 2000's, sits down for an incredibly intimate conversation with AJ McLean. In a talk that can only happen between people who've known each other for decades, McLean talks about his new EP, 'My Name Is Alex,' being four years sober, fatherhood, his brotherhood with BSB, his marriage and the Jim Croce classic that reminds him of his grandmother.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.1 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:09.5 | It's Steve Walton. |
| 0:11.0 | And this week, we have one of my favorite interviews of the year on In Service Up. |
| 0:17.1 | I sat down with the backstreet boy, just AJ McLean, to talk about his new EP. My name is Alex. I've known AJ for 20 plus years. This was an incredibly intimate conversation about the EP, about sobriety, about his marriage, about his relationship with the band, about his Jim Crocey tattoo. We talked about |
| 0:41.1 | everything. It was a really wonderful conversation. He really opened up and why is, this is the |
| 0:47.4 | time for him to do the solo EP, how supportive the guys were of him, how much he's loving |
| 0:52.7 | doing the Backstreet Boys as well. |
| 0:54.7 | So I really hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. Thanks. Well, thanks for being here today. |
| 1:16.7 | It's always great to catch up. |
| 1:18.0 | And, you know, all right, wait, we're going to start with a fun one first rather |
| 1:21.6 | than talking about aging because that's not fun. |
| 1:24.2 | But, you know, I am curious because I do these four roundup questions and you know the last |
| 1:31.2 | one i just did was favorite lyric so what's your theme song that one song you feel identifies you |
| 1:37.3 | best wow favorite theme song or no the theme song the song that you feel identifies you best. |
| 1:45.6 | That would be like your spirit song. |
| 1:50.4 | Probably Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce. |
| 1:54.8 | Interesting one. |
| 1:55.7 | Why that one? |
| 1:56.4 | And I fucking love that song. |
| 1:57.5 | I love Jim Crochet. |
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