Hey, kids, welcome to the Phile for a Monday... it's Veterans Day. There aren't enough discounts to honor your service and bravery today, but I hope you use all the ones that involve alcohol. Government and Armed Forces are always s quick to send people to war, bit not so quick to take care of their own veterans. Children, Columbus is more important to America than its own veterans. That's why you get Columbus Day off of school but not Veterans Day. Okay, I said my three cents, lets move on.
Sometimes you read something so stupid it feels like it makes you stupider. This story is supposedly 100 percent real, which fills me with despair for humanity. It’s a Facebook post from someone so homophobic they are afraid to let their mother get a knee transplant. Here it is...
To be clear, a knee transplant is not like an organ transplant. The part if manufactured with synthetic materials, not taken from another human body. But something tells me science isn’t this person’s strong suit. The post starts with an explanation of the poster’s mom’s condition. She’s walked for two years with a “kain” since she fell in a McDonald’s. Maybe this is very weird branded content? Anyway, the doctor informed them “with tears n his eyes” that her knee would have to be replaced. That’s when things go really off the wall. “We told the doctor that under no situation would we allow the knee of a gay transhomo or lesbian be put into moms body,” the poster wrote. “Do you know what the doctor did? HE LAUGHED. He told us there was no way they could ever discriminate between sexual likes when it came to using body parts. THEN HE LIED TO US AND TOLD US THEY WOULD USE AN ARTIFICIAL PART." If all the doctor did was laugh, they’re honestly very lucky. The people reading the original Facebook post seem to find this whole thing as ridiculous as I do. A number of people tried to correct the poster’s misapprehension that a knee can be “gay,” and more to the point, that his mom would be getting a knee from another human. Like, the thing you’re worried about can’t even happen, even setting aside what a hideous bigot you are! The main issue with the post is how homophobic and misinformed it is, of course. This might be irrelevant, but she’s definitely lying about certain aspects of her story. No doctor would tell a patient with tears in their eyes that they need knee surgery. Compared to some news that doctors have to deliver without being emotional, a knee surgery is rather small. Seriously. No one cares about your mom falling down in a McDonald’s, and why would you “go on without her” over a bad knee? Maybe they think their mom is a horse and will get put down. It’s possible, considering what else they think is true.
Donald Trump Jr., the guy who compared refugees to Skittles, is currently criss-crossing the country promoting his book about liberals are the real intolerant ones. The book is called Triggered: How The Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us, the title mocking people with PTSD making it a perfect Veterans Day read. Don Jr. and his hype-woman/girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle were at UCLA yesterday promoting the book, and they likely came prepared with some snappy comebacks targeted at any anti-Trump protester who interrupted the proceedings. In the greatest twist since The Empire Strikes Back, Don Jr. was heckled offstage by people on his own team. The Guardian reports that 20 minutes into the event, the couple were heckled offstage by MAGA hat-clad attendees who were pissed at them for not making time for an audience Q&A. "USA! USA!" chants morphed into "Q&A! Q&A!", and it turns out they came from a group even more racist than Turning Point USA, the conservative organization that hosted the event. Nicholas Fuentes, a 21-year-old white supremacist who marched at the deadly Charlottesville march in 2017, took credit for the protests. Fuentes, who is prone to anti-Semitic outbursts, insisted that his beef wasn't with Don Jr., but with the event's moderator, TPUSA's Charlie Kirk. That didn't stop Guilfoyle from getting defensive, saying, "Let me tell you something, I bet you engage and go on online dating because you’re impressing no one here to get a date in person." Nothing says "out of touch" like accusing young people of being on Tinder.
Your dad's favorite Canadian-born rock star (suck it, Nickelback) posted on his website that his application to because a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen has been delayed, thanks to that old narc Jeff Sessions. "I want to be a dual citizen and vote," he explained. "Recently however, I have been told I must do another test, due to my use of marijuana." Even though recreational weed is legal in California, where Young lives, it is Department of Homeland Security policy that a pot smoker might not possess the "good moral character" needed to become an American. "I sincerely hope I have exhibited good moral character and will be able to vote my conscience on Donald J. Trump and his fellow American candidates," Young said in his post. It is unlikely that the president intervenes in specific cases through the immigration bureaucracy, but he has been slighted by Young before, which may or may not contribute to Young's naturalization troubles. President Trump, whose on moral character is consistently in question, uses Young's song "Rockin' in the Free World" at campaign events, and Young wrote that it "goes against [his] wishes." It must have burned, because in 2014, Trump called Young one of his favorite musicians. Keep on rockin' in the free world... just not with federally controlled substances.
In 1996 Benjamin Schreiber was convicted of murder and sentenced to "life in prison" without the possibility of parole for murdering a man with the handle of an ax. He's currently 66, and has been attempting a creative appeal to get out of jail. In 2015, while serving his sentence at Iowa State Penitentiary, Mr. Schreiber contracted septic poisoning due to complications from large kidney stones. He had a high fever and seizures, which required hospitalization. While at a local hospital he momentarily died before being resuscitated. When the hospital called his brother he instructed them to give him medicine to ease his pain, but not to try to keep him alive. Mr. Schreiber also had a due-not-resuscitate order on file with the Iowa Department of Corrections. In 2018 he argued in a Wapello County court that he had ben resuscitated against his will, and because of this he had served his life sentence. With his life sentence served, he explained he should be released. Judge Amanda Potterfield didn't agree. She said, “Schreiber is either still alive, in which case he must remain in prison, or he is actually dead, in which case this appeal is moot.” What's the moral of this story? Don't murder people.
Oh, joy, here's another bloody Don Jr. story... A deeply emotionally dense passage from Don Jr.'s book is currently making the rounds on Twitter, and it would be an understatement to say that people aren't feeling it. The passage from Don Jr.'s 300 page book Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us reflects on a visit to the Arlington National Cemetery shortly before Trump's inauguration. "I rarely get emotional, if ever,” Trump Jr. wrote. “Yet, as we drove past the rows of white grave markers, in the gravity of the moment, I had a deep sense of the importance of the presidency and a love of our country.” While gazing upon over 400,000 graves, Trump Jr. felt a deep sense of gratitude and kinship with the soldiers, which naturally inspired him to compare his family to people martyred in service. "In that moment, I also thought of all the attacks we’d already suffered as a family, and about all the sacrifices we’d have to make to help my father succeed... voluntarily giving up a huge chunk of our business and all international deals to avoid the appearance that we were ‘profiting off the office," Trump Jr. wrote. Unsurprisingly, people on Twitter have been quick to point out how wildly disrespectful it is for Don Jr. to compare his luxurious lifestyle to that of soldiers dying in battle. For starters, Don Jr.'s claims that his family "gave up international deals" to avoid conflicts of interest during his father's presidency are patently false. On top of Don Jr's claims of "sacrifice" being provably untrue, it's deeply tacky for him to make the death of thousands of soldiers about his business interests. Veterans and people with friends buried at Arlington were quick to condemn Don Jr.'s intense narcissism. Just when it seems the spectacle couldn't get worse, one commenter noted that while this story broke Trump's retail portal starting promoting its camouflage clothing for a Veterans Day sale that has no claims to support actual veterans. God bless America, please God, if you're listening... bless us?! Satan has clearly already done a lot of work here.
Instead doing this blog thing this evening I should waste my time listening to this album...
If you're planning on going to the beach anytime soon you might see this brand new beach warning sign...
That's rude. Haha. If you're thinking on cheating on your loved one you might wanna think twice after seeing this...
If I had a TARDIS I would like to go to New York City in the 30s but knowing my luck I'll end up on top of a building waaayyyy high up as the building was being painted...
About two months ago at the Global Climate Strike there were some signs that give us hope for the future...
While others were just snarky...
Ha! So, I was thinking of getting a new tattoo but someone had the same idea I had...
So, do you like Hot Pockets? Well, the store Hot Topic has their own version that just came out...
Best served rawr. So, I have to mention something serious for a minute... Take a look at this pic...
The black cabs of London wait on Westminister Bride to ferry the veterans from Waterloo station to the Cenotaph and back again.... for free. They do this every year, but it never seems to be mentioned in the press. Good on you, cabbies. My cousin Pete is a cabbie in London and I bet he does this as well. So, you know I live in Florida, right, well, there's some stuff that happens in Florida that happens no where else in the universe. So, once again here is...
Eighteen-year-old Nicholas Godfrey has been arrested and charged with first-degree attempt to solicit and conspiring to commit murder. Godfrey tried to use Instagram to order a hit on an employee of his high school. Fivay High School is located in the Census Designated Place (CDP) of Hudson, approximately 45 minutes outside Tampa, Florida. The messages, sent from Instagram account @fivayfanclub, included statements like, “I need a guy who could kill someone...” And an offer to pay $100,000 for the school employee’s “head.” He followed that up with, “No joke, I need him eliminated as soon as possible.” The Instagram account was traced to Godfrey after school officials were made aware of the messages. Police were called and the IP address used to log into the account was traced to Godfrey’s house. After being caught red handed and interviewed by police, Godfrey admitted that he was the one who sent the messages. He was not yet under arrest during this interview, but the criminal complaint said he “freely provided a written statement documenting his solicitation for murder.” Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco refused to reveal the identity, or even the job, of the school staff member who was targeted. He did have a warning for anyone else who might be thinking of doing something similar, though. “You threaten a member of the school district, who’s out there trying to do their job, to educate children, to be part of that process, we’re gonna come hunt you down.” Detective David Dacey said when Godfrey was confronted by law enforcement, he claimed that the messages were nothing more than a joke and he had no intentions to follow through on the hit. “After speaking with Mr. Godfrey, he did not have any clear direction or plan as to follow through with this.” Nocco said that Godfrey’s record, “You look at his past, it wasn’t like this was a bad student. The record did not show somebody who had consistently bad, terrible issues.” The young man’s parents were apparently “shocked” that he could do such a thing. Nocco followed up with a warning for others. “It doesn’t matter if someone says ‘I was joking.’ It doesn’t matter what their intent is. When you do it and you post it out there on social media, you committed that crime.” The Sheriff’s office followed up with a post to their Facebook page warning other teens that “joking” threats are still threats and will be handled as such. According to Pasco County Schools Superintendent Kurt Browning, Godfrey has not yet been expelled from Fivay High School. He pled for more involvement from parents to prevent a similar incident in the future. “I am begging and pleading with parents to step up and step in, and help us keep order and keep civility in our schools, not just at Fivay, but across this district.” Pasco County arrest records show that Godfrey was released on Friday on $10,000 bail, but it is still unclear whether he has retained legal representation as he does not have an attorney listed with the Pasco County Clerk.
Hahahahaha. If you spot the Mindphuck let me know. So, there's this going girl who likes to stop by the Phile and tell us something that proves to us she still thinks it's the 90s. She wanted to stoop by again today and say something, so here once again is...
Me: Hello, Emily, welcome back to the Phile. So, how are you?
Emily: Lance Bass from 'N Sync is here! I'm so excited! I love their new song "Tearin' Up My Heart."
Me: Ummm. that song... never mind...
Emily: Sing it with me... It's tearin' up my heart when I'm with you but when we are apart, I feel it too and no matter what I do, I feel the pain with or without yooouuuuu...
Me: Ummm... is that it, Emily?
Emily: Yeah. So, at my school 10-year-old girls are crying because they broke up with their boyfriend.
Me: I'm sorry to hear that...
Emily: When I was 10, I cried because I missed the morning cartoons.
Me: Okay, then. Emily Enistink, the girl who thinks it's the 90s. That was so dumb.
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Veterans Day
Veterans Day is an annual holiday on which veterans of the U.S. military are honored and commemorated because it's cheaper than paying for their health care.
The 108th book to be pheatured in the Phile's Book Club is...
K.K. Downing will be on the Phile a week from today... next Monday. On this Friday...
The guest will be Jim Cummings. It'll be a fun Disney filled entry. Now for some...
Phact 2: A man named Roger Tullgren in Sweden reportedly went to 300 heavy metal concerts in one year which left him unable to hold down a job. He has succeeded in having his heavy metal music obsession declared as an addiction that requires state disability benefits.
Phact 3: J.K. Rowling lost her billionaire status because she donated most of her money to charity.
Phact 4: It took 20,000 men to build the Taj Mahal that included sculptors from Bukhara, calligraphers from Syria and Persia, inlayers from southern India, stonecutters from Baluchistan, a specialist in building turrets, another who carved only marble flowers.
Phact 5: There is a hotel in Port-au-Prince Haiti with rooms named after celebrity guests such as Marlon Brando and Mick Jagger. In the 1970s, its poolside rivaled that of the Beverly Hills Hotel and Haiti was a popular Caribbean retreat.
Me: Hey, Lance, welcome to the Phile. How are you?
Lance: I'm great, Jason, great to be here.
Me: So, you have a new documentary out called The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story. When did you first meet Lou what did you think of him? I thought he looked sleazy and had a stash of child porn somewhere.
Lance: I first met Lou I remember him being this jolly character that I immediately fell in love with. That immediate reaction to Lou was wow... he already feels like a family member.
Me: Hmmm... okay, how did you first meet him?
Lance: He picked me up at the airport in his Rolls Royce which I've never seen one before in person with Justin Timberlake to welcome me to Orlando and see if I wanted to join this group they were putting together.
Me: What were you doing at the time?
Lance: Well, all I was doing at the time I was a junior in high school so all I was thinking about was the homecoming dance that weekend.
Me: So, what was it like when you go the call to come to Orlando?
Lance: I didn't think anything of it, and when Justin and Lou called to say, "Hey, would you come down to Orlando and meet the guys?" I didn't know what to think because it seemed so far fetched. I was like okay, what is this? So I took the dive and I went to Orlando to meet the guys and just fell in love with everyone.
Me: So did you want to be a performer in some way?
Lance: No, not really no.
Me: Why is that?
Lance: One: I was from a small town in Mississippi so I never had dreams of becoming an entertainer or singer. At that point I just wanted to be an astronaut like the typical thing a kid to dream of. But I didn't know my path could lead into anything professional that way because no one from my town never left. I never thought about doing this as a profession.
Me: Lou was really good at convincing you all they you were gonna be stars, right?
Lance: Yeah, he was so great at selling us on that dream which was great and encouraging and that's what we would want in a good manager. But he was dangling these carrots in front of us, saying, "This could all be yours." Knowing the whole time that he was going to be scamming us out of everything.
Me: In a practical way what did he do for you guys and the Backstreet Boys as a manager?
Lance: As a manager and the president of our label he gave us our first start. His company was the one who funded our very beginnings. The house that we lived in together, all of our dance rehearsals, all of that was paid by Lou and his companies. So that was the investment they put into us.
Me: In the documentary Kevin from the Backstreet Boys and I think AJ both said they saw Lou as a father figure. Did you see Lou in the same way?
Lance: I saw Lou as a family member. The good thing about my situation I had great parents, I had a wonderful father so I never looked at Lou as this father figure that I needed in my life. But a lot of the artists at Transcon did feel that way. Aaron Carter, or Kevin who lost their fathers or didn't have a great one to look up to, Lou filled that void for them.
Me: Do you think they filled a void for him?
Lance: Yeah, I think growing up, and when you see this film, you really get to see the young Lou and why he created this whole persona. So I think all he wanted to do was to be liked and I think that he hatched a plan early on in life to say, "Okay, how do I become rich and famous so people will actually like me?"
Me: So, how big was 'N SYNC at the time when you felt something was wrong?
Lance: We had been working at this point for three years and we spent the first couple of years over in Germany, and it was just absolutely huge. I mean covers in every magazine, number one singles, crazy tours. Then we'd be touring in America for a year and again huge albums selling tens of millions of records. We were definitely on a path to something really big at this time. We were on cloud nine.
Me: Where was your first Number 1? Germany or America?
Lance: Neither. Canada was our first Number 1.
Me: So, my favorite part of the documentary was the story where you say the Backstreet Boys and 'N SYNC were at dinner, your family's and Lou Pearlman your manager when everything changed. What happened?
Lance: It was just us, 'N SYNC. Lou was hyping up this check presentation and again we hadn't gotten paid in three years. We were living off our 35 dollars per diem everyday and so we were excited about this dinner. We had all our family's flown in and our record label from Germany was there and we had these envelopes in front of us. When we got the point to open them and see what it was we were just thinking to ourselves what could this number be. We sold ten million records, crazy amounts of merchandise and they're making hundred of millions of dollars at the record label, so we're thinking what are we about to fall into. And I opened up the check and it was $10,000. It just floored us. I just thought wow, I just worked for three years basically I was making less than $3,000 a year working our butts off. Never had a day off.
Me: What happened at the dinner table? Did someone say something then or dd you just go, "Oh, thanks, Lou."?
Lou: Yeah, no. It was definitely an awkwardness. I'm sure us being polite probably thanked him. But it was very quiet and everyone had been deflated. The only thing I could remember that night was getting back to the hotel and being so upset that I ripped up the check because I knew this was not fair. This was not fair at all.
Me: So, you all got $10,000 checks, what kinda life was Lou leading?
Lance: Oh, he was living a lavish life before we even met him. In the film of course we get to show you how he got there because it it's basically one scheme after the other. He had a wonderful mansion. He had Rolls Royce's and limos. He had drivers, he had so many drivers that would always end up in boy band slater on... LFO... all these different groups, there was always a limo driver in all of his bands. LOL. That's how it all started. He was living in a very, very high life and all these dinners he'd take us to, these lavish dinners you'd be thanking him for them and then in the end we realized oh my gosh, we're paying for all those dinners.
Me: Where did put the money? Did he have a solid gold statue of himself?
Lance: I just don't know what he was spending it on. Yes, he loved a lavish life but I don't know if he was putting it into so many other projects. He did have about 500 businesses going on at one time. Half of them were illegitimate. They didn't even really exist. So I don't how he he blew all of that... or what my conspiracy is that money is buried somewhere. It's buried somewhere and someone knows where it is. Because he enacted a Ponzi scheme and made a half a billion dollars.
Me: You think I should start digging here in Orlando? Hahaha.
Lance: Oh, yeah, I think someone knows where its at.
Me: Maybe it's someone who is reading the Phile. Email me... hahahaha.
Lance: Yeah, give me a call. There are a lot of Ponzi scheme victims that need their money back.
Me: How did your relationship with Lou Pearlman change after that?
Lance: Oh, it was never the same. We definitely stayed in touch after that because being polite we still were like thank you, thank you, but once we saw those checks we called lawyers. We didn't want to leave Lou, we never wanted to leave Lou. We only wanted to renegotiate our contract to be fair. We all know, even at at an early age, the first contact was going to be bad. But in success we should renegotiate. He didn't even want to budge one little thing in the contract. So we knew it was going to be a fight so we went into arbitration with our boss Strauss Zelnick and we gave our side of the story, Lou gave his side and Strauss said, "Guys, I think you have one album in ya. I'm going with Lou." And left. So that was devastating because we knew our career was over at that moment.
Me: Lance, I'm 50-years-old and out of the demographic but I worked a film shoot with you guys at Epcot and my sister Leila was a huge fan, so through that I followed you guys. I have to say I can't figure out, and don't want to disagree with you, that you could be so famous and so powerful yet so vulnerable at the same time. What do you think?
Lance: We were kept so busy that we would have time to even think about it. That was a good ply for Lou to really keep us so busy, not even a day off. Literally we did not have a day off so we were so tired that we would never question anything. It wasn't until that first check presentation where we knew something was wrong. It didn't even dawn on us that something was wrong.
Me: Lou finally was put in a 25-year sentence for money laundering and charges of conspiracy. Lance, how did you feel when he went to prison?
Lance: I never want to see anyone hurt of course but I felt that it was justified for sure. I think he needed to be punished for what he did. I didn't really understand the scope of the scheme that he was running until I started reading why he got arrested. I was just so not in the know of that. It was just horrible to me that he'd already been in trouble with the law before and everybody knows that he was basically a cheat but these people who are abusers like this they double down and triple down on everything they do because they are so narcosstic they start believing all their lies. So when he started to continue to do more bands and acting this Ponzi scheme in Orlando he just got so greedy he just couldn't get enough. He has a psychological problem.
Me: When Lou died in prison in 2016 how did you feel when you heard that news?
Lance: I didn't know exactly how to feel. I've spoken to a lot of people that knew Lou, guys in my band and we all feel the same way. When you watch the film at the end I want the viewers to feel what we feel. It's just conflicted. Because on one hand Lou had really great qualities about him and he gave us our start and we would never have gotten a jump start in our career if it wasn't for him. Then on the other hand he was a criminal and he did some really, really bad things. So how am I supposed to feel about someone that helped me out in a way but also took such advantage of me? I definitely felt relief because it felt like an end of a chapter but I also felt guilty about feeling relief.
Me: What do you mean guilty?
Lance: I just felt I shouldn't be feeling like this about someone passing away which is the ultimate punishment. I felt like I shouldn't be feeling any positive vibes from that. I should've been more sad I felt but didn't.
Me: So why did you want to make a documentary now about all these bands and what happened to these people?
Lance: Well, Lou Pearlman is just an intriguing story. His character is gold for a movie or a documentary. I always knew I wanted to share this story because I'm a filmmaker and I love storytelling. I just didn't think I would do it this quickly because no one expected him to pass away so soon. Then YouTube and Pilgrim media were putting this documentary together and they called me and said, "Look, we would really like you to produce this because it would make it authentic and we want to tell the story you want to tell." I jumped at the chance because at this point the story about Lou Perlman was only told the salacious way, the sex, drugs and rock and roll and he was a horrible person. I wanted to go the journalistic route, to this documentary and give a platform to all the victims and everyone say their piece and then viewers get to judge how they feel about Lou Pearlman at the end.
Me: That being said not everyone is in it. Was it hard to get people to open up and share these things?
Lance: It was. Documentaries are very hard to cast because most of them touch on a dark subject's, something that happened to someone's life in a very negative way. Well, when I did this documentary at first people didn't know what the tone was going to be. Like said everything before has been so salacious and people are afraid to speak about their experiences because they don't want to be connected to a really dirty story. And so casting this was hard, the Backstreet Boys didn't want to do it, AJ is a dear friend of mine and he said, "Look, I'll tell my side of the story." The Backstreet Boys didn't want to give us any songs, Max Martin didn't want to give us any songs. It was really difficult to do but once we had the first cut of the film done and we started showing it to different people that's when everyone started jumping on board and saying, "Oh. I get it. Now this is a legit film I want to be a part of." And so I was just lucky to get all the people we got.
Me: There's been a report over the years of Lou's sexual misconduct, which is touched a little in the film. Why did you think it was important to touch on that side of the story?
Lance: Well, it was something we couldn't ignore. Most of the stuff out there about Lou Pearlman is all about the conspiracy theory that he was a pedophile. There's all this rumors and stories so we HAD to ask the question. We HAD to go down this route and one of the reasons I really wanted Aaron Carter was that's the biggest rumor, his experience with Lou Pearlman and was it right. So in hearing his stories he defended him and it shocked me that he defended him so much but I like that we had this voice of dissent in this film because we don't exactly know what went down there and we see the torture still in his face. So we don't exactly know what Lou was doing in his private life. I have zero proof of anything that went down was illegal.
Me: Did it make you think differently about the relationship you had with this guy?
Lance: No, I always knew when I first met Lou I just assumed as a closeted person myself he was gay. When we wold be all touchy feely and give me massages on the neck and that type of stuff I just thought that was him sadly and having empathy for this guy and be who he really is and that was his way of being around guys. I don't know what it is, I always felt bad for him at that point. It was a little creepy but it never crossed the line for me and I never felt threatened by this guy.
Me: Lou defrauded not just pop stars, but regular inventors. And he used the bands to scam other people. That must be tough to know that, right?
Lance: That's what Lou did his whole entire life. As you see in the film even at 10-years-old he'll take his friends stories and pretend they were his to get something else. He would take the nugget of the truth and create this crazy story and people would believe it and that would get him another job. So, with us to sign with Transcontinental he dangled Backstreet Boys in front of us. He's like, "Look at this group I put together a year ago, look they're doing great in Europe right now, they are selling a million records. This could be you. And this is the contract they signed." So he used them to get us, used us to get someone else, used all of us to get the Ponzi scheme victims, so he was always taking a little nugget of things making it bigger to someone else so they'll invest.
Me: Do you think the music industry is getting better or do you think sleaze balls like Pearlman or taking advantage of young stars like this?
Lance: They will always be predatorial people, it's just the nature of any industry really. A lot of people at top are always going to take advantage of the newer and younger people. This is just a cautionary tale I needed to get out there because we keep getting reminded of this lesson over and over because out of sight and out of mind we gorget about these things. If this helps anyone in their industry kind of see something in their boss, just make sure that they don't get taken advantage of. If I can help one person it makes me happy.
Me: Lance, I have to say that this must be some of the greatest life that anyone could lead. Touring the world, being a huge celebrity, playing sold out shows, changing pop culture in many ways. Does having gone through all this with Lou Pearlman screw up how you remember those times, or does it make it harder to remember those 'N SYNC years fondly?
Lance: Not at all. I look back at those years and it's the best years of my life. We just had so much fun and we had each other. It was a bond and the outlook different because of Lou Pearlman because when we started we were just a very poor band. We lived together with no money and so we were struggling artists for years so it didn't seem different to us because we were just having the time of our lives. We were working our butts off to just get anyone to listen to us.
Me: What's your relationship with the guys in 'N SYNC now?
Lance: Oh, it's great. We're all very close, we do something like this and it's a brotherhood. We're family and we talk daily. I get excited to see those guys, I love living in Los Angeles and they come through a lot so we get to see each other a good bit.
Me: Do you kids group text? Haha.
Lance: Oh, yeah, there's been a group text for years. If that could talk... oh my goodness.
Me: Haha. Lance, thanks so much for being on the Phile. Tell the other guys they need to be on the Phile as well. Please come back again soon and we'll talk more happy stuff.
Lance: Thanks, Jason.
That about does it for this entry of the Phile. Thanks to Lance for a great interview. The Phile will be back on Friday from Walt Disney World with Jim Cummings. Spread the word, not the turd. Don't let snakes and alligators bite you. Bye, love you, bye. Cheers to all you veterans.
I don't want you, cook my bread, I don't want you, make my bed, I don't want your money too, I just want to make love to you. - Willie Dixon
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