This is an IHeart podcast. Hey, Fanderitos, and welcome to part two of our interview with the incomparable Joey McIntyre.

You know this is a dream interview for me, and we know that you could never get enough Joe Mac.

So let's get to it.

Do you have similar feelings in that you get to do it again?

I know like the band's been together longer now than you were originally in the 80s and 90s.

But the gift is that you go back to 2008 and we were babies then right yeah yeah we were freaking babies then right

yeah and so it actually opened up all the stuff again right now yes we were still

riding this wave of like wow you know you know what I mean? So much joy.

But now all of a sudden, after 15 years, I'm thrown back into these four other big personalities that mean so much to me that are such a part of my life.

Yeah.

That I was away from.

Yeah, we kept in touch and whatever. But to be back in there again, all my stuff came back up.

All of it came back up.

And I made, you know, a lot of the same mistakes.

I made new mistakes.

It just happened to be, you know, a lot of the same mistakes. I made new mistakes. It just happened to be, you know, my place to work out all my crap. And I, you know, thankfully, the first couple of years, by the first, by like 2010, well, by the end of like 2009, I was like, you know, that's saying, if you see three the assholes in one day, you're the ass.

It's you, right, right.

That's my rule.

Yeah, yeah.

The first one, I was them, second one.

So, third one.

So there were four apples and maybe, you know, it turned out I was the, you know,

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