Pete Wentz - In Studio

Pete Wentz hangs with The Woody Show

Episode Transcript

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Welcome back everybody. Hey, wewould lead the Woodie Show, Woody Gravy,
Greg Man of Sea Beast, There'sSammy and please welcome to the studio.
From follow points. Pete Wentz,I'm right I could meet here.
I love that guy, I swearman. Every time I see you,
different hairstyle changes are you Are youmaking a statement with the with the hair

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or is it just like one ofthose things you're just trying looks? Yeah,
I mean I guess I just likerotate through. I mean it's been
long for a while. Yeah,it's been long for a while. It
was like super blonde and then I'vejust kind of been phasing that out.
I don't know. Yeah, Ijust say, yeah I should do that
whatever. It can be like yourown Fortnite skin, you know what I

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mean, just like have different vibes. You know. Do you ever see
yourself going back to short hair thelong hair, Like I said, it's
been here for a while. Yeah, I think so. I think that
there'll be a time, you know, like there's definitely like, uh,
you know, I feel like ifI had a full head of gray hair,
maybe I would or I don't reallyknow. Yeah, at some point
I think I will do the dothe change, but I think it might

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be the last hurrah, So likeI feel like I'll just take it to
the end and then yeah. Yeah, do you use a dice and hair
dryer so you can dry it quickly? I don't. Actually I have I
have a I have a have thedice in headphones, but I don't have
a dice in you know the onesthat I don't know. You got to
look it up on the Yeah,like I have those in headphones where you
get the purifier there. Yeah,look like I do not have a dice

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in hair dryer. I'm I'm inthe market for one free. I'm in
the market. I'm sure one canbe free for you. Has had to
buy one for his wife, that'sall because she's taking too long to dry
her hair. That's why you're deepon this. Dude, changed my life.
Do you do you have to dothe blowout? Or no? No,

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she does she does it. Yeah, lots are hard to do.
I want the hair fun. I'lltry to get us two free ones if
we can please. Pete Wentz ishere and as we announced earlier this morning,
Fallout Boy that's the band you're in. Yes, they're gonna be headlining
the twenty twenty three iHeartRadio Music Festivalin Vegas, Nice September twenty second and

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twenty third a T Mobile arena.Tickets are going on sale next Friday,
June sixteenth, at Access dot com. Hey, before I go any further,
Happy birthday, by the way,Yeah, happy birth Thank you.
How old are you now? Iam now forty four? Remember my I'm
at that age, I know,I'm I was having that argument with my
wife just the other day. She'slike, how do you not remember?
I'm like, because I think whenyou get to a certain point of the

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year, you already start like youstarted identifying as in your case, forty
four, and so when your actualbirthday hits, you have to remember,
Wait, I hap, am Iturning forty four? Yeah? Or am
I going to be forty five?I'm already forty four and forty. Mine's
weird because it coincides with the yearhalf the year, you know, so
like in twenty twenty four, I'llbe the year, you know, like
four and four, you know,so like I'm always like which a jam?

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Yeah yeah, yeah, you don'thave to uh, you don't have
to use any kind of like adiet. I mean you obviously for the
blonde on the on the hair,but you're not using like any kind of
like a No, I don't havelike I get a little salt and pepper
in my beard and sometimes and Iget maybe a little in my sideburns.
But that's it so far. Butit will be. I'm you know,
I have a I have a fourteenyear old. I'm sure it'll be,

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you know, more appearing. Youknow, Dad's so cringe totally saw my
son talks. He's thirteen. Butyeah, So anyway, the iHeart Radio
Music Festival, which is awesome.Have you guys played that before? I
don't. I don't remember. There'sbeen so many of this point played once
in like two thousand thirteen, soyou know how awesome it is. I

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mean the production, and it isI rowed. I think I rode a
maybe we yeah, I rode uha raft Well Steve Ioki played so yeah,
I'm aware, I'm aware enough prettycold. I mean, it is
just the whole production. Bands alwaystalk about like how great the sound is.
So the bands love playing, thefans love being there, Like you
always point out, it's just sucha good production. Yeah, I've always

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wondered, like when you're in aband and you're famous like you are,
and then you run into another bandthat's famous like they are, but you've
never met them in person. Doyou guys just go like, oh,
hey, what's up? Or isit kind of like, oh, it's
nice to meet you, but throweach other? Okay, So that's a
good one because there is like aI think I was like a Prius you
know, the Prius drivers like honkat each other whatever. There is a

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like a general knowledgement or something.But there's a funny thing so like if
you're not super aware, I guessthat over the holiday season, over whatever,
lots of times there's these you know, jingle balls and all these shows,
right, and so like you know, and you play like eight of
them or whatever. Right, sowe'll be like have a dressing room next
to the new kid pop star orpop star or whatever, and we'll get

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to know each other intimately for eightdays and then be like I will never
see you again. But we're like, but I know everything about you know
what I mean? For like eightdays, we know everything about each other.
Yeah, that's funny. I've alwayswondered that. But then there's some
people that like, like, howabout this? Okay? So I was
at I went to the Stella SellaMcCartney fashion thing here or whatever, and

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I was like, I need tofind an exit very quickly, like and
so I took this route that waslike way. I was like, I'm
not saying bye to anybody. SoI did this route really and while I
was mid this route for like abouttwo minutes, I was in like a
per human traffic jam. I'm thisfar away from Paul McCartney, right,
you know whatever, like we're righthere, And I'm like, what do

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you say? Like you couldn't sayanything that this guy has never heard,
he doesn't want to hear, likemy favoritely, you know I did,
so I just stood So I juststood there and then we moved along.
And my girl Megan, she waslike, uh, that was so cool
that you didn't say anything, likeyeah, it was so cool. Now
I don't have anything to regret orany like weird either like or whatever,

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but like that was so rather thatyou said. You know what I mean,
there's a I think there's like ahigh school level of like if you're
if like fall out boys, likethe freshman like he's you know, yeah,
you know what I mean, Likeyou'll just never like that guy doesn't
care or not. Maybe he'd benice, I'm sure, but like you
know what I mean, Like there'sa certain level where like the priest doesn't
get to honk at the other freethat makes sense, it's like a whole

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that he's in his own category.Yeah, he's a Beatle for Christ's sake,
you know, absolutely, Yeah.I feel like there's because I'm not
I'm not big on celebrities in general. Like I'm not I'm not impressed by
celebrity though he will knock people downto get his photo taken with him.
No, real, there are certainfew, like I said, there are
certain people who I have a lotof respect for or Okay, so this

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happened recently. We were at amovie premiere and as we're walking in,
I happen to be like just acouple of feet away, uh from Leah
Thompson. Who oh, Back tothe Future. That's my number one movie
of all time. My wife's like, are you not gonna go say hi?
And I thought about it, andI'm like, I got to this
is my favorite movie. At TheBeatles are your absolute what's your favorite band

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of all metallic? James Headfield standingthere, You've never met him and you're
within a couple of arms lengths ofthem. You're not gonna go out.
You have to write, Yeah,you have to. So I'm also in
that worried because you can have likethe really bad experience which like can sour
you on the thing. You justhave to be like, you know,
you just have to play it alittle careful. Has everybody been like that?
Like you've just been like disappointed andnot necessarily even like their fault.

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It's just like you had an Ithink it's people get an expectation of how,
oh my god, they're they're this, that, they or the other,
and then you meet them and they'renot unfriendly. It just it didn't
one that was that was that wasto me's just like kind of like funny,
but like it wasn't a bad experience. U. It was me and
my my oldest son and he waslike three or four, I think,
and we were at a restaurant.There was a bathroom and it was like

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a single bathroom that was like sosmall you literally could only get one,
like playing bathrooms. He went tothe bathroom and then I was like,
stand right outside the door or whatever. And earlier I'd seen Elvis Costello.
Oh yeah, wow, while I'musing the bathroom, right, you think

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while I'm using my bathroom's gonna sitthe pig while I'm using my bathroom.
Bathroom, I hear through the doormy three year old. I just Pete
all over the floor. I waslike, I walked out of I was
like, I am not even gonnameet them. I'm not even gonna meet
him, you know what I mean. And I was like, let's just

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remain anonymous. Well, Pete Wentzfrom Fallout Boy is here. They're playing
the iHeart Radio not even playing theirheadlining the iHeart Radio Music Festival in Vegas
comes September twenty second and twenty third. Plus they've got their own tour,
so much for the tour Dust Tour, which on June twenty first, that
starts in your hometown of Chicago,Wrigley Field, And uh, that's gonna

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be that's gonna be cool. Whoare you going out with? You're going
out with Alkaline Trio. So yeah, like so we're playing a couple of
stadiums and so bringing the horizon,bringing the horizons ut rollin Serpent, Newfound
Glory. I mean, you're youguys the ones who picked who goes I've
always wondered that, like who getsto pick who goes out on tours?
It kind of like a lots oftimes you'll get like collaborative effort between like
management and label. It's kind ofcollaborative, you know, Like lots of

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times we'll be offered a list ofyou know, potentials, or the bands
will like reach out and you'll belike, we really want to tour with
this band or whatever. But like, yeah, it's collaborative, you know.
And so that tour kicks off againJune twenty first in Chicago. It's
gonna be making its way around,but you can go to fallout boy dot
com for all the info on thatand the other thing I thought was pretty
interesting before we take the break here. So last month they introduced it's called

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chriinal because vinyl's so big, youknow, literally didn't know how to say
that. Yeah, because it's vinyl, right, right, But the records
are filled with real tears from theband. What's the harvesting process? Heard
about this? I'm like, thisis this real? I know? It's
called crinl but is it real?It's in yeah, like tears and what

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were the tears? They're just like, well, there's a couple of ways
to make you cry. You canyou can make yourself cry other than nuts.
So there's there's a there's a mentholstick that is used by actors that
kind of looks like lipstick, butit just basically makes you tear up.
And so then what happened like youhad like some assistant there actually collected uh
some myself, and then there wasa guy who showed me how to do

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it, who was like the technictechnician, you know jar they know,
they go in like a little littlevile kind of thing, right, very
scientific scientific. I don't even knowwhat that is. Yeah, yeah you
do yeah, glass pipet like theywould do if you're doing like a like
a little blood prick test kind ofYes, if you need tears, I

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could give you a talk to.That's so emo. I read that.
Oh my god, that's cool.Yeah, now my god, you love
this show, The Woodie Show.All right, welcome back, everybody.
It is The Woodie Show announced theiHeartRadio Music Festival this morning. Fallout Boys

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going to be headlining a lot ofgreat bands on the lineup this year.
You can get all the information rightnow. Good iHeartRadio dot com. Also
all ninety eight seven FM dot comtickets on sale Friday, Access dot com
June sixteenth, Friday June sixteenth,AXS dot com. Also, if you're
a Capital one card holder, youcan add a Capital one access pass and

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when you're buying your pre sale tickets, you could see Fallout Boy doing their
sound check performance before the concert thatnight. And I've done that. I
think last year was Avril Levigne thatI did this with with Capital One.
And it's cool because like the wholearena is empty, right, I mean,
you guys see this all the time, but it's cool for fans.
Yeah, And so the band's upthere and there's like a full production,
right yeah. I mean they dolike, you know, five songs or

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whatever, and then I'll go upthere and I'll talk to you guys for
for a few minutes. But that'ssomething cool that you could do that not
everybody has access to. But ifyou have a Capital one card, you
you can go there and get moreinformation about that. Eight seven seven forty
four, what is the phone number? Hit us? Some of that text
over to two, two, nineeight seven. Are you still living locally?
I am okay, because so manypeople have like a pandemic and everything

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I ever seemed to like jump shipand a random Yeah. Oh I did
have a question about that actually,because you had one of my favorite MTV
Cribs episodes. Oh thanks, man, because you had one of my favorite
cars of Lamborghini. But then youalso had snow, like fake snow in
your backyard. But like if theydid MTV Cribs today, what would your
house be like today? Oh man, now that you're in your mid forties.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, it'slike, so my youngest is is
the girl. So you remember hername? What would her name? You
know? The girl? Oh well, I always feel like a little weird
when you just go like you saythe person's name and you just assume everybody
knows who you're talking about. Soyes, daughter, So our house is

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like a little bit like a Barbieexplosion, you know, there's just a
lot of and and and and thenshe also of all my kids, I
kept all my toys from the eighties, so like I have Castle Gray Skull
all this. She's like my kids, the one who decided to play with
them. Allo there's just like youknow, Barbie Castle Gray Skull, and
there's just like g I Joe's mixing, you know, like and I kind

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of love it because it's just likeso creative looking and it reminds me a
lot of the eighties when it wasjust like all mixed together and you're like
there'd be crossover episodes or whatever.So yeah, my house uh is more
like that. And we also,yeah, we have like a lot of
animals as well, so it getsyou know, like dogs, cats,
kind of animals, not more thanthat, but you know, like stuff,
it's all a little mess I meanthis in an ice way that sounds

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really messy. Yeah, yeah anxiety. Well, so like it's like big
messy, but not like little messy. So there's not like like you gis
and like you know whatever just likeour dog hair or anything. Like they're
all like pretty like uh, theydon't like really shed, so like it's
all like the toys everywhere like whatever, but like not gross. You would

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walk in and be like, justkeep my shoes, which is why Greg
could never have kids. I'm theonly I'm the only person on this show
that has thought of doing something likebaking with your kids. Yeah, some
of the kids because like they're slow. But I was reading something like you
have to get them involved. Youhave to get them involved in doing like
some of this chores, like justlike let them do it, let them

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be slow, let them be halfasked about it, and then you end
up, Yes, you're gonna endup doing it twice because you're gonna go
back. But you need to instillin them. And they're doing stuff around
the house. I sound that likeif the if the kids cook, help
cook the food, they're so muchmore likely to eat it. Like the
hardes stuff I make is like avocadosor something like that, but like you
make it and then the kids arejust like this is I don't want to
you know what I mean? Likeyou know when they help, when they

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when they when they help. Hangingout with my kids, like spending pure
time with them, like is uhis so rewarding Like it does. It's
made me like feel more fulfilled andhappy and you know what I mean,
Like it's just like are they listeningright now? Is that why? Oh
shoot, that's why you're saying,my therapist, my therapist, I'm so
happy to hear you. But like, honestly, like it's just like and

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I think it wouldn't have happened,Like I wouldn't have noticed it without the
pandemic kind of forced it to happen, of course. And then I was
like I kind of like love this, you know. So all Pete Wentz
is here from fallout Boy. They'reheadlining the twenty twenty three iHeart Radio Music
Festival in Vegas. Also, theygot their own tour, so much for
tour dust which is started. That'sJune twenty first. They're in Chicago.

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But get all the dates, getall the information is go to fallout boy
dot com. Insensitivity draining for apolitically world, The Woody Show. All
right, welcome back everybody. Itis the Woody Show. We got Pete
Wentz from fallout Boy, who ishere. They and fallout Boy Canna be
heading off on their tour starting lateron this month, June twenty first,

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in Chicago, and it's going tobe making its way everywhere. Fallout boy
dot Com for all the information there, And of course they're headlining the twenty
twenty three iHeart Ready you Know MusicFestival, which we are part of in
Las Vegas September twenty second and twentythird of the T Mobile Arena and those
tickets are going on sale next Friday, June sixteenth at AXS dot com.
How's everything going with all the guys. I mean, you're the only guy
here today, but everybody's good.I know. Joe's back. Joe's back,

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a big thing back. He's playeda couple of things with us already.
But his official I guess return forlike big shows that have our actual
fans at it will be this summer. And then so Joe's guitarist for the
band, and he stepped away justbriefly. It's like a mental health break,
right, he just kind of likerecenter or whatever. Yeap, Yeah,
totally. Yeah. I heard.I heard a really interesting thing.

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Not to go all therapeutic on everybody, but I heard an interesting way of
looking at things. When you're someonewho's in the public eye and this is
somebody I was talking to. Itwas one of those people, and I
would imagine it's the same for guyslike you and in a big, high
profile band like Fallout Boy, it'sreally easy to forget who you are as
a person because you're Pete from FalloutBoy, right as opposed to and then
you said, they call it arepresentative. So like you meet somebody new,

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like on a first date, that'snot the real person that you're meeting
on a first date or a jobinterview. That's the representative that you send
who's on their best behavior. Andit's not till later where things the cracks
start to appear or whatever. Andso people who are in the public eye,
they have a really hard time sometimesseparating or remembering who they are,
and so it becomes this like mindup, it becomes this this you know,

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mental health thing where they have tokind of like step away from And
I'm not saying that's what Joe wasgoing through, but I just heard this
interesting thing recently. I wanted tobring it up. But yeah, like
you have to kind of remember whoyou are, who got you to be
in that place in the first place, and then you know, then you
can kind of maybe you know,go on from there. You can grow
from there because you can it's reallyeasy to get caught up in the character

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or the expectation of who fans thinkyou are. Totally. Yeah, I
think that's definitely true. Yeah,I mean at this point, I mean,
you've been you've been such a wellknown band, you've been famous,
even though you kind of scoffed thatwhen Greg said it earlier. You've been
famous for so long, it isit still like weird for you because you're
you know also I mean you're you'reI would say, like you are the
most recognizable person, yeah, fromthe band. Yeah, I mean I

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think that the upside is you couldlike go to kind of like whatever restaurant
you want, you get a tablewhatever you want or something like that,
you know, or whatever, andthen I mean, I guess the only
thing you really do is like whenI go through the airport, I just
like I meet people and they youknow, tell me, you know whatever
you know, and like so it'slike most of times they're coming to be

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totally. So I always think aboutit in terms of like like like my
like my grandparents like works like hardjobs, and you know, like it's
not that aspect of it is notvery difficult, you know what I mean?
I think they do you miss itall not being well known. It's
been so long that it's like hardto think about it, yeah, in
those terms, but yeah, Imean I guess I missed the simplicity.

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But like that also goes with likechildhood or whatever like this the simplicity where
you're like, my biggest problem islike I don't want like I don't want
to do my homework over the weekend, you know what I mean. Like
it's just like it's nice when that'syour But at the time, I was
like, and I tried to remembermy kids about this all the time.
I'm like, my kid is inpreschool, She'll always be like, it's
so boring, and I'm like,you wait, they all are racing to

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get into the real world, andI'm like, the real world kind of
sucks. Yeah, you know whatI mean. Yeah, And you can't
hear it when you're a kid ifyour parents always told you that, and
you're like, just you just youjust couldn't hear it, all right.
A couple of things on the trueor false. All right, so you
have said that you literally wouldn't behere for warn't for Joe Biden. True.

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My parents met working on his senatorialcampaign in the seventies. So yeah,
so Joe Biden's like your secret father. You have a secret Instagram account?
I do. I don't really useit though, honestly, as much
as I should. I have onelike that, like my my friends and
they can just like, you know, it's easier to like keep up with

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people's lives when you just are likeyou're in the feed. But I forget
to do it all the time though. Yeah, I didn't realize it was
like something like that kind of personalI thought it was like because my understanding
was you only allow sixty people.It's sixty people who are allowed to uh
to follow it, and then andthen it's cut off of that. So
maybe that part's not true. Ohyeah, I thought it was like kind
of like a speaker, like asecret club. Yeah no, no,

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no, not like that. It'sjust like for my friends. But then
I got you. I was justthere's nothing great on it because I didn't
forget to use it all the time. Yeah, And we have a debate
on this show a lot like Igrew up. I was born in seventy
six, kid of the eighties,you know, and you know, The
Goonies is one of my favorite movies. Movie of all time, Back to
the Future still number one. Greghere didn't see The Goonies until he was

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an adult, like a month ago. Yeah. Raven thinks it's one of
the worst movies she's ever seen,and she roots for the for Tellies,
yeah, okay, but The GooniesTrue or False was the first movie that
you ever saw in theaters without yourparents. That's true, and it was
life changing. Yeah, it's true. I went to a birthday party and
it was the first movie that youknow, it was like, yeah,
it was just we were at thebirthday party and we saw Yeah, and

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that movie is definitely life changing.Have you guys ever seen the trailer from
that movie? Yes, I'm likethe one where they like where they're like
from the studio, from the mindthat brought you, and it's just like
it's all spelled out like with Spielbergmovies and h what's it? And the
movie trailers were so different then youknow they all voiceover. And then also
with Goooties, there's the big likeremember one of the times they played it

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on TV, they included the octopusthe octopus scene. It exists. Yeah,
it's out there. Yeah there therewas a VHS tape of that,
Cutts. You can see it nowpretty easily. So when you say life
changing, like, what was lifechanging about the Goonies for it was the
fact that it was like, youknow the first time you said that a
theater without your parents or was itsomething more about the movie the message the

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I think it was, you know, being in theater with on my parents.
But I just think that there's something, uh you know, can you
imagine like pitching the Goonies, youknow what I mean? Like it's just
like a strange like magical movie createdall I mean or found all these actors
like Sean Ashton, you know,like I just think, yeah, I
just think it's like I don't knowif they still could make a movie like

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that, they I don't know,like it maybe someone is, you know
whatever, But it just was therewas something so magical about the adventure and
the way they included music and theway they treated these kids as kids.
But they're also like have all theseproblems that they're thinking about about their parents,
you know, Like, yeah,the thing I saw and I don't
remember if you know, if youremember saying this, but you said it
taught you that it's okay to bea loser. Oh. I probably said

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that on the sound when you're whenyou're when you're a loser, you're always
trying to find ways to like,well, Pete Wentz, everybody from Fallout
Boy, thank you so much forstopping by. Looking forward to seeing it
at the iHeartRadio Theater. Go seethem on their tour as they make their
way all across our fine land,starting June twenty first, to Wrigley Field

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in Chicago. Fallout boy dot Com. Anything else you'd like to mention before
we let you go? No,got anything else? Fun? Like give
me some really juicy stuff that TMZwere about or something. Front Striker is
constantly making news with his podcast Tunaon Toast. Oh he gets, yeah,
he got something. Recently. Themost recent thing I think was he
had that guy from All American hisname Tyson and yeah Testament and he was

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in the movie and uh, youknow, he had some he had something
about like one of the other peoplehe was starring in the movie with,
and it got like written up,and Striker gets so excited. Yeah,
of course. Yeah, give uslike a top ten list of people that
you hate. Yeah, give ussomething. I'm not that exciting. Yeah,
I'm not that exciting, super embarrassingor incriminating about Patrick Stump for anything.

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I don't have any of It's PeteWentz, Everybody's boy. It is
the Woody Show. Be right,bet all your weldest dreams will come true
after this. Not all, what'sa few, whatever, it's the Woody Show.