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Danielle Fishel
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Jana Kramer
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Drew Lachey
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Danielle Fishel
have lung cancer, I was in shock. It's a diagnosis that changes everything. So what does it really mean to advocate for yourself when you're living with non small cell lung cancer?
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Jana Kramer
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Danielle Fishel
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Danielle Fishel
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Danielle Fishel
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Danielle Fishel
Give me money for cigarettes I'll never
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Drew Lachey
leave your filthy bed
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Danielle Fishel
I stay the
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Drew Lachey
night and one night be came two or three years the kids are not all right but that's okay cause no one here is.
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Danielle Fishel
It's once again time for Teen Beat, the podcast where I, Danielle Fishel, sit down with interesting people in an attempt to pry into their awkward teenage years and figure out how they turned into fully functioning adults. It's a bit of a quid pro quo, you see, since my own journey through puberty in the 90s was televised to millions and layered with an oversized leather Planet Hollywood jacket. In a nutshell, I gave you my childhood. It's time we hear yours. And this week, I get to do a little time traveling myself because the guest and I have roots in the glorious frosted tip chaos of the Y2K boy band invasion. And we shared a few days of MTV spring break glory in Cancun together. But more on that later. First, he somehow went from US army combat medic to performing in front of tens of thousands of screaming fans in the band 98 Degrees alongside his brother Nick and his high school sweetheart, now wife of 25 years, Leah, who doubled as a dancer and choreographer for the group during 98 Degrees run. They sold over 15 million records, notched eight top 40 hits, including a number one that earned a Grammy nomination with Mariah Carey, recorded with Stevie Wonder, toured with Janet Jackson, and carried on a Motown boy band tradition, following in the footsteps of groups like the Jackson 5, the Four Tops, and the Temptations. And ten years later, in just the second season of Dancing with the Stars ever, he took home the coveted Mirrorball trophy with partner Cheryl Burke, becoming one of the show's most beloved contestants of all time. Throw in stops on Broadway, hosting gigs, comeback tours, a new HGTV competition show, and even a shot on the American Ninja Warrior obstacle course. Almost 30 years after 98 Degrees debut album, he's proof that some 90s heartthrobs never really clock out. But somewhere underneath the white tank top and hair gel, maybe even right next to that tribal armband tattoo, is just a boy in Ohio going through all the same weird teenage milestones you did. And today, we're gonna find that kid. Welcome to Teen Beat. My guest this week, pop star, champion, ballroom dancer, host and home renovation gu guru Drew Lachey.
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Drew Lachey
Hello, Hello. That Was. I'm like, over here laughing. You know, there's. Bringing myself to tears. That was. That was quite the introduction. I forgot I did some of that stuff.
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Danielle Fishel
Right. Isn't it so nice to get to hear all the accomplishments you've had, or at least some of them read back to you?
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Drew Lachey
Yeah. It makes it sound like my life's been somewhat successful.
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Danielle Fishel
It really has. You've lived a very successful life, both professionally and personally. But I want to know about maybe the less stuff, stellar stuff, some of the awkward, embarrassing, worst moments of teenagehood. Thank you for doing the show. I think this is now, at least the second time you've been forced to hang out with me. The first time being in Cancun when I went to visit Lance, and then the minute I got there, Lance and the rest of the NSync boys left to do a random new opportunity to perform a show somewhere. And I was basically solo in Cancun, and Lance said, here, it's no them. I'll just set you up with the 98 Degrees guys. They're the greatest, and you'll just hang out with them. And I literally just followed you guys around for, like, at least 48 hours.
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Drew Lachey
Some random booze cruise in there somewhere. And so there was. I don't. I don't even remember what we were down there for, but, yeah, those were.
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Danielle Fishel
It was spring break.
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Drew Lachey
Well, yes. We weren't supposed to remember it. Yeah, no, it was a. It was a blast. You know, those. Those opportunities, so many of them came along, and it's. When you look back on it, like, there are so. There was so much that was just condensed into those, you know, couple years. It's. It's really kind of this crazy whirlwind of a ride.
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Danielle Fishel
It really is. Every time I think back to it, I'm like, man, even when I would just pop in, because I would, you know, go on tour for a couple of days here and there with Lance, and I would pop in for a few days, and when I think about the things we did on those few days, I'm like. And that's kind of the stuff they were doing for the entire length of the tour. Like every new city, there's a new adventure people want you to go on. And when you're young, you say yes to everything because you're like, you've got the energy. You're not exhausted. Touring doesn't weigh on your body the same way as it does when you're a little older.
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Drew Lachey
And also, you're just. You're scared that if you say no, that's going to be the. The one opportunity that you should have done. Or, you know, it's. There's almost like a FOMO of. Of, you know, you were always taught, like, oh, you got to keep doing this. You got to say yes. You got to. You got to be out there. You got to pound the pavement. So if you said no to something, it was like, oh, the world is going to end.
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Danielle Fishel
That's right. That's right. Yeah. That feeling of like, oh, no, this is all going to collapse if I say no to this. Do you remember that week we were talking about the spring break week? Do you remember then ever feeling like, why did Lance just pawn this girl off on us? Did you. Did you ever. Did you ever wonder that, you guys. If so, you never let on. I have told everyone I've ever spoken to about you guys, about how incredibly kind and nice you were because you just took me in like I was one of your family members. And you made sure I never walked back to my hotel alone. You made sure I always had plans for dinner. Like, anything you guys were doing, you guys just made sure I knew I was invited.
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Drew Lachey
Well, it was either stare at the other three schmucks that are in the group or look at you. So it was like, what was. I mean, you. You're an upgrade to the other three guys. And I'm sure me, me as well, you know. No, I think we just, you know, we're. We're guys from Ohio. So.
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Danielle Fishel
Yeah, you're. You're gentlemen.
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Drew Lachey
Yeah. You want to take. Make sure everybody's taken care if a friend says, hey, you know, yeah, this is somebody that's important to me. Look, look out for her, then. You're going to look out for her, you know?
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Danielle Fishel
Yeah. When I tell people that those 90s boy bands like NSync, Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees, that they were all friends and that they're still all friends, people just don't believe me. They assume it really had to be, you know, like, gang wars and that you guys all had to hate each other. It just wasn't the case. Did you guys experience that as well?
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Drew Lachey
Yeah, I mean, everybody thinks it was like this really bad version of, like, west side Story, like doing, like, boy band dances, battles in the streets. No, I mean, we, you know, I think it was 97. We went over to the UK and did the Smash Hits tour, and NSYNC was over there. They hadn't come to the States yet. They had done Germany, and then they were kind of making their way from Europe to the States. And we were in the States making our way to Europe, and we kind of met in the middle and we were the only two American groups on the tour and, you know, all the same age, all kind of at the same, you know, level of coming up in the business. And we just hung out, we became friends then, you know, Backstreet. We never had that same kind of experience together. We never were on the road together, but we all. We all walked a similar path, you know, so there is a level of respect and appreciation and for what everybody went through the grind, the success. I mean, you look at those two groups and you're like, all right, it's. It's. We're in some good company there.
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Danielle Fishel
Yes.
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Drew Lachey
You know, but yeah, we. We've all. Especially as time has gone by, like, I'll text Chris and Joey and, you know, it's usually something wildly inappropriate and just of course, because that's. That's the relate.
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Danielle Fishel
The relationship. Yep. You're still teenage boys at heart.
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Drew Lachey
We are, we are, we are. Gray hair. But, you know, we still have the same mental capacity that we had as teenagers. Yeah.
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Danielle Fishel
Were you guys all being shopped the same songs? Like, were people. Did. Did everyone make the rounds to see who, you know, who was gonna get which song?
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Drew Lachey
I'm sure there was an element of it. I think once in singapashtree kind of got into the. The Max Martin camp that was kind of their world. And no songs left that world. We had our own Swedish mastermind, Anders Bage, you know, who did like, because of you and no Shame, those songs for us. But I know our first single, Invisible man, that was originally written for Boys to Men and we stole it before it ever made it to them. So I'm sure there was some sort of like, hey, I'm just gonna send this to all the labels and see which one bites first.
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Danielle Fishel
Right.
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Drew Lachey
But once you kind of got your. Your people in. In your pocket and you had this, you know, good working relationship, you didn't. You didn't stray too far from that.
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Danielle Fishel
Yeah, that makes sense. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Drew Lachey
Yeah, I mean, I can tell you for. For a fact, bye bye Bye never came across our CD players, you know, but, you know, I think even if it had, that's not a song that. That we could have pulled off the same way. I mean, we weren't. Our style was very different from. From theirs, you know, and, you know, so we just kind of tried to stay in our lane. You know, the harmonies and, you know, things like that. And leave the ones that required dancing to the people that might be a little bit more proficient at the dancing.
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Danielle Fishel
Let's talk a little bit about growing up in Ohio. Were you guys raised with music playing in the house? How did you and Nick catch this performing bug?
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Drew Lachey
Yeah, I think, like, a lot of people, you know, you grow up, you know, singing in the church, choirs, and all that kind of fun stuff. What was different from us is that we went to a performing arts school here in Cincinnati, and it was a public school, you know, just kind of like you had to audition, but if you got in, didn't matter what part of the city since now you lived in, you could go there for free and train and have all these great opportunities. So we shifted to that. Me in the fifth grade, him in the seventh grade. And we just started growing up doing shows and, you know, singing, everything from opera to jazz to R B and, you know, taking acting and all these different classes. So for us, you know, our exposure was young and from our family, but then once we started at that school, it kind of just exploded.
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Danielle Fishel
I want to know more about this performing arts school. Was it, like, fame? Were kids just dancing and singing in the halls?
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Drew Lachey
Yes.
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Danielle Fishel
You just.
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Drew Lachey
You see a table, you just get on it and dance. No, I mean, to a certain degree, there. There was an element of that. You walk down the hallway, and there would be somebody practicing cello in the stairwell.
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Danielle Fishel
Right.
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Drew Lachey
You know, or you be walking, you know, you get the hall pass, you'd be going to the bathroom, and then the dance classes would be open, and you'd see the ballet classes going on or the modern or whatever. So, yeah, there was a definite fame element to it. But, you know, it was. It was this great exposure for me. I mean, I can honestly say that if I hadn't gone there, I never would have probably pursued a career in the arts, you know, so it definitely changed the trajectory of my life.
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Danielle Fishel
I feel like I may have wrongly assumed that you and Nick were also jocks. Did your school have sports teams? Because you guys are very athletic.
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Drew Lachey
Well, thank you. We had a soccer team that was miserable, but I did play on the soccer team. I think for us, I think most teenage guys, they try and balance that. That jock hood with who they actually truly are, you know, because there is a. A path to manhood that goes through some sort of athletics. Yeah, you know, I think we kind of all wrongfully assume that, but, you know, I think we grew up playing soccer and baseball and all Those things as little kids. And, you know, I think if you're somewhat coordinated and athletic, you can kind of, can kind of make, make your way through it, fake your way through sports. But yeah, I mean, we try and I think, you know, having, you know, a bunch of shirtless photos of you bouncing around out there in all the teen magazines make people think that you're maybe a little bit more fit and athletic than you might actually be.
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Danielle Fishel
Oh, man. We just had Brian Austin Green on Pod Meets World and we were talking about Joey Lawrence, his music video where he, I think, throws a football to himself in one of his music videos. Which is, which is pretty great. So did you guys ever contemplate doing that? Did anybody ever talk about just throwing a football to yourself?
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Drew Lachey
No, there were four of us, so there was always somebody to throw it to.
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Danielle Fishel
That's one of the greatest thing about having friends. Yeah, yeah.
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Drew Lachey
You know, you don't have to do interviews by yourself. You know, you're, you're every. There's always strength in numbers. Yeah, but they did always in these photo shoots, like, oh, here's a football, you know, throw it around. And Jeff in the group, he actually did play football in, in college a little bit. And so, you know, we, we, we come by it somewhat naturally. Yeah, it's not like, oh, we've never, you know, throwed a football in our lives. Here you go. Right. But yeah, it's, we weren't going to the NFL.
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Danielle Fishel
Okay. Your wife Leah, you two are high school sweethearts. Do you remember meeting her?
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Drew Lachey
So I remember the time period because it was the fifth grade when we actually met.
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Danielle Fishel
Oh my gosh. Elementary school.
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Drew Lachey
Yeah. So she went to the performing arts school as well. Okay. So she started in the fourth grade, which is when the school started. I started there in the fifth grade. So there was already like this circle of people, this circle of friends that had already had a year under their belt together.
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Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
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Drew Lachey
And me, I roll in in the fifth grade and, you know, have to, you know, kind of find my way. But I remember, I mean, we grew up classes together. We went out in the sixth grade, we went out in the seventh grade. And then junior year we got together. Got together.
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Danielle Fishel
So funny because my 7 year old or my almost 7 year old, anytime he has little crushes, I always think, what if, what if this is the girl that now if we just stay in the same area, if they keep going to the same schools, what if they Drew and Leah it, they could,
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Drew Lachey
they could, they could definitely drooly it. Yeah. We always Kind of said that to our kids. It was like, hey, you know, it kind of works both ways because you're like, oh, don't worry about that. That kid that's, you know, especially my daughter. That boy that's teasing you or, like, pulling your hair, doing whatever in class. He's. He just likes you.
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Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
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Drew Lachey
Oh, don't worry. He won't be around, you know, past this year. Well, what. What if it's like, you guys that were together forever or, you know, be nice to that person because you never know, you might marry them.
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Danielle Fishel
Yeah, exactly.
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Drew Lachey
It's kind of works both ways.
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Danielle Fishel
I feel like you must have avoided so much embarrassment by not having to play the field too much as a teenager and young man in your early 20s. Right?
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Drew Lachey
Yeah. Embarrassment, Yes. I kind of always say that I'm. I'd never dated.
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Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
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Drew Lachey
You know, so I can't really give dating advice. I just found somebody that I. That I enjoy being around and loved, and it's just been that way, you know, so I can't really give advice on dating. I can't really, you know, be like, oh, well, you should do this. I don't know, what should you do? You know, just don't make a fool out of yourself and don't screw it up, you know, So I think for me, yeah, there definitely was an element of, you know, I don't have to have who I'm dating in magazines or deal with all that stuff. And it was definitely a weight off my shoulders because I'm not. I'm not that kind of. That's not how I'm wired, you know?
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Danielle Fishel
Yeah, no, for as long as you've been in the industry, you've never not been the guy from Ohio. You've never been. You've never been the Hollywood type. So it. You. You've really. I say this about Ryder too. You've really managed to create a life for yourself that is as authentic as humanly possible, considering we work in an. In an industry that's not known for its authentic.
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Drew Lachey
Yeah, well, I live in Ohio again, so, you know, it makes it a lot easier when, you know, I don't have to, you know, drive over the hill to go to my general meetings or this, or have the polo lounge club lunch or whatever. You know, all that stuff. You know. You know, when you're just going to the same places you went to as a high schooler and you're still seeing some of the same people that you grew up with, it. It makes it a lot easier to stay grounded in who you want to be.
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Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
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Drew Lachey
Versus who people think you should be.
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Danielle Fishel
I'd take a meeting at Skyline over the Polar Lounge any day.
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Drew Lachey
Yes.
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Danielle Fishel
Just any day. For sure.
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Drew Lachey
Skyline is, like, my go to, like I said two days ago.
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Danielle Fishel
Oh, it's so good. I feel like when I explained it to people, they're always like, ew, That's. I'm like, no, no, just stop. I'm not going to explain. You just. You have to try it. Once you try it. That's. Finely shredded cheese is so special. Like, I used to have it shipped to me, the Skyline chili cans. But it's not the same because you get, first of all, like, a little baggie of cheese, and I need, you know, a pound of it. Yes. And you can't. You can't shred it as finely as they do it. I don't know. I don't know how they do it.
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Drew Lachey
Oh, they do it in bulk. You know, that's how they do it. Because each. Each entree has, like, literally, like, three pounds of cheese. It's so good.
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Danielle Fishel
I know. I feel like they have to have a special machine that's making it that fine.
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Drew Lachey
And it's great for. It's great for your digestive tract, too, and your cholesterol.
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Danielle Fishel
Correct. It's very healthy. When I. When I tell you that it's chili on top of pasta with onions and truly, well, you don't need the onions. That's if you want them. I like them, but. And then, like Drew said, somewhere between 1 to 3 pounds of cheese sitting on top, and, boy, is it ever good. But it's not like thick chili. It's thin. And I know one of the secret ingredients is, like, dark chocolate, Right?
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Drew Lachey
I don't know. I've never seen the secret recipe, but there is that rumor.
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Danielle Fishel
Yeah, I think that's the rumor. They say it's kind of like a mole almost.
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Drew Lachey
Yeah. But it's like, when you grow up with it, it is, like. It's, like, ingrained into your DNA. It's part of who you are.
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Danielle Fishel
Yeah. I. No one ever mentions Ohio to me without me talking about Skyline.
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Drew Lachey
It's.
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Danielle Fishel
It's easily in my top three favorite foods of all time.
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Drew Lachey
Nice.
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Danielle Fishel
Okay, back to Leah. So she would help choreograph the group's dances, right?
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Drew Lachey
Yes.
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Danielle Fishel
Although I'm not sure any of the four of you really did too much heavy lifting with dancing.
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Drew Lachey
Yeah. So we. We started off when we got signed to Motown. Lorianne Gibson, you know, who choreographed for everybody. She was our choreographer. And it Was like, all right, this is. She was like, being pulled in 100 different directions. She did our first, you know, set of shows and our first album. And then Leah, who was dancing for Radio City Music hall at the time, you know, went to our manager kind of behind my back and said, look, I know these guys. I want them to succeed. You know, I know what they're capable of. Let me. Let me get like, let me try and figure this out. And he gave. He said he gave her three songs. He was like, all right, you do these three songs, and then we'll go from there. And then she did those three songs. The label loved them. It made us look like we actually knew what we were doing, you know, and she's been our choreographer ever since. You know, much to her, you know, frustration, you know, she has to figure out how to. How to polish our dance moves, you know, as much as possible. But. But, yeah, she's a saint.
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Danielle Fishel
Wow. So, okay, do you remember then, the moment when she came to you because you said she went behind your back to try and help you guys out? Do you remember then the moment when she came to you and was like, okay, hi, I'm the new choreographer. I've got these three songs. Do you remember what that moment was like?
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Drew Lachey
Yeah. I mean, so she didn't want to get the job because she was with me. She wanted to get the job on her own merits, which is very respectable, and I appreciate it because it didn't put me in the middle had it not worked out. So I do remember her saying, so I called your manager, I talked to him about this, and this is what happened, and I was like, great. Oh, let's go for it. All right, let's try it out. And she hasn't let us down yet, so, I mean, we constantly let her down, but she definitely carries her side of the bargain.
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Danielle Fishel
Well, and I'm sure having known you all for as long as she has, she knows your strengths, she knows your weaknesses. So there's probably quite a shortcut that she takes where she goes, guess what? Not even going to try this move, because I already know can't do it.
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Drew Lachey
Yep, very true. And.
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Amazon Ad Voice
But we.
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Drew Lachey
We. We're discovering new weaknesses every time we go into rehearsal.
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Danielle Fishel
So it's going to say new strengths.
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Drew Lachey
No, no, we know what those are, and they're diminishing day by day.
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Danielle Fishel
Oh, age, Isn't it lovely with city after city, country after country filled with girls in the audience screaming your name. Did she ever deal with any jealousy?
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Drew Lachey
I don't think So, I mean, I think she. I mean, she's grown up in the art. She's been around it the whole time. She's a performer herself, so she understands kind of what it is. So I don't. I don't think there was ever. I mean, there might have been some, like, why can't you say have a girlfriend? Kind of thing.
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Danielle Fishel
Right.
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Drew Lachey
You know, like when we first started out, because you couldn't have a girlfriend to be an avoidant. But, you know, once. Once we started being like, look, I have a girlfriend, then it was just like, okay, cool. But she. No, she never. There was never a moment where it was like, why are those girls screaming for you?
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Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
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Drew Lachey
You know, I think she was just like, that's great. They're screaming for you. You know, which is a great, you know, situation to be in, as opposed to having to try and convince somebody.
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Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
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Drew Lachey
That something's okay. They know they're there, you know, proud of your success and happy for your success, not trying to, you know, cater your success to fit around with their, you know, their ego needs. Yeah.
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Danielle Fishel
Well, it's good on. It kind of goes both ways because she's obviously a confident woman who understood the industry and was proud of your successes. And on the other hand, it doesn't seem like you ever gave her any reasons to feel jealous, so, you know, I tried. Yeah. Those. It goes both ways. It speaks a lot about you two. You guys have been together through so much over the. What is it, 25 years now you've been together?
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Drew Lachey
We've been married for 25. Yeah. We've been together for another eight on top of that, so whatever. Quick math. 30.
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Danielle Fishel
33.
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Drew Lachey
Yeah. Yeah.
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Danielle Fishel
What do you think the secret is to having made it 33 years together so far?
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Drew Lachey
Just try not to screw it up. That's the. That's the secret. No, I think the. The biggest thing is just having. Having a level of mutual respect for each other. You know, I think regardless of, you know, who's doing what, working, we're, you know, we're each other's biggest supporters and cheerleaders and, you know, I think that's the. The biggest thing, you know, remember why you got together.
- [26:40]
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
- [26:40]
Drew Lachey
And stop trying to find reasons why you aren't happy, but remember, like, all the reasons why you are. And, you know. Okay, so I don't always necessarily get my socks in the hamper.
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Danielle Fishel
Right.
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Drew Lachey
It might be frustrating, but is it that big of a deal? Apparently it is, but.
- [26:56]
Danielle Fishel
Apparently it is. It really is. Socks in the hamper.
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Drew Lachey
They're close. They. They make it close by. But no, I think it's like, you know, just not sweating the little stuff. Just.
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Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
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Drew Lachey
Keep an eye on the prize.
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- [31:51]
Danielle Fishel
Unlike a lot of the other boy band groups, you who you know, they were put together in casting calls and auditions by usually some old creepy dude. The four of you were friends from childhood, right? So you guys put yourselves together, three
- [32:08]
Drew Lachey
of you, okay yeah, yeah. So me, clearly, I've known Nick my entire life.
- [32:13]
Danielle Fishel
Yes.
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Drew Lachey
We went to school with Justin at the performing arts school as well. So me, Nick, Justin, and Leo all went to the same school together. And then a guy that we went to school with met Jeff in LA and then introduced Nick to Jeff. Nick brought Justin in. The other guy didn't stick around, and then I came in. So then that's kind of how the four of us got together. But the three of us knew each other since, you know, before, you know, before puberty.
- [32:44]
Danielle Fishel
Yeah, since elementary school.
- [32:45]
Drew Lachey
Yeah.
- [32:46]
Danielle Fishel
You guys actually took a little bit more of a practical route to achieving your musical dreams. You were in the army and then moved to New York and became an emt. Tell me about that decision.
- [32:59]
Drew Lachey
Yeah, well, going to. Going to the performing arts school, you know, it's kind of like, all right, which. Which theater program are you going to go into? What arts are you going to? And I was like, I don't want to be a starving artist. I don't want to do that. I want to, like, have a normal life. I want to, like, do these things. I want to have some continuity. And then I. So I joined the army because I saw the movie Cliffhanger. You know, Sylvester Stallone is hanging off the side of a mountain, you know, not dropping her. I was like, I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do search and rescue. So I'm gonna become an emt. I'm go to the army for it. I'm gonna get trained, I'm gonna do all this stuff, and then I'm going to live on the side of a mountain somewhere and save people that can't read a map or a compass. And then it's. It's. That path started. You know, I went to the Army. I became a medicine out of. Out of, you know, basic training, medic school. I moved to New York because that's where Leo was. And I started driving ambulance in New York for a private company. So I didn't get the 911 calls. I didn't get those calls. I had, like, strokes and heart attacks, broken hips. You know, a lot of the. A lot of the private nursing home kind of calls. And then, you know, I got a beep on my beeper.
- [34:11]
Danielle Fishel
I love a beeper. Oh, yeah, love a beeper story.
- [34:14]
Drew Lachey
It was great right up until I saw that it was an LA number, and I had to use a bunch of quarters at the pay phone to call it back, as opposed to just one. But it was Nick, and he. He beat Me to see if I've interested in joining the group. So it was. My path was a little bit.
- [34:30]
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
- [34:31]
Drew Lachey
A little bit different than most people's, but, you know, got to the same destination.
- [34:37]
Danielle Fishel
And so what did you say? You get that, you get that page, that beep from Nick. You call him on the pay phone, he asks if you want to join the group. Are you like? Like, well, let me think about it. I gotta talk to Leah. What's. What's the. What's the thought process that runs through your mind?
- [34:52]
Drew Lachey
Yeah, I, I was. I mean, Leo, Leah was actually, she was on tour working for Radio City at the time. So she. We weren't. We weren't together. Wasn't like, oh, let me. It was more like, all right, she's off doing her thing. I'm here in New York doing my thing. Let me call my dad. He's the most practical person I know. So I called my dad and he's like, oh, swole. Sounds like a kind of a once in a lifetime opportunity. I said, yeah, it probably is. He was like, could you go back to driving an ambulance if it doesn't work out? I was like, yeah. He was like, so once in a lifetime opportunity. Opportunity that'll still be there.
- [35:27]
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
- [35:28]
Drew Lachey
Which one you gonna do? And then two weeks later, I packed up my 1988 Plymouth Sundance and drove from New York to LA, learning my parts along the way. And then two days later, we were opening up for James Brown at the House of Blues. So kind of a. Kind of a crazy little whirlwind of time.
- [35:46]
Danielle Fishel
That is so cool. I love that. And, you know, that is something that. That thought process was exactly the thought process I had when I had applied to get my master's degree from Chapman University. I had just been accepted. The same week I was accepted to Chapman for my master's, I got the call about doing Girl Meets World, and I was like, but I, I, my. I thought I was for sure gonna go forward and get my master's. And now this came up. What should I do? And it was like, doing Girl Meets World is never gonna come around again. Getting to play Topanga 20 years after the show ended is a once in a lifetime opportunity. I can always go back and get my master's at any time. And you, you do you always go for the, The. The once in a lifetime? Not so safe, necessarily, but always take that risk, in my opinion.
- [36:36]
Drew Lachey
Yeah. And for me, I was like, all right. I was kind of laying out this plan, like, all right, I'm gonna either you know, join like, ems, New York City EMS or the fire department, or maybe even go to. To, you know, nursing school, because I was still like, doing like, reserve training, so I was like, oh, I can get the army to maybe do my nursing school. And then like, my. My whole head, my whole plan was around, like, first responder, ems, emergency medicine. And then this happened, and then I was just kind of like, what? Wait a second. Yeah, but, you know, growing up performing and doing all that stuff, you know, that. That itch doesn't really go away. It's kind of like part of. Part of who you are. Yeah. So given the opportunity to, you know, scratch that itch a little bit, you know, just kind of had to see what it was about.
- [37:20]
Danielle Fishel
Did you ever save any lives?
- [37:25]
Drew Lachey
I. I hope so.
- [37:27]
Jana Kramer
Yeah.
- [37:28]
Danielle Fishel
Look at you.
- [37:29]
Drew Lachey
My first call on my first day, I lost one, which was a really, really tough way to start my. My career as an EMT. Yeah. So 19 years old, you know, first call, still a trainee. Yeah. Lady. Lady coded on my stretcher.
- [37:48]
Danielle Fishel
Oh, man. Had. She had a heart attack or a stroke.
- [37:52]
Drew Lachey
She had a long list of, you know, medical ailments in history and, and, you know, renal failure and a whole bunch of stuff, but it still doesn't make it a whole lot. A whole lot easier. But, you know, you try and, you know, learn from it and, yeah. Move forward, but. Yeah.
- [38:10]
Danielle Fishel
Wow. Day one.
- [38:11]
Drew Lachey
Well, welcome to adulting.
- [38:13]
Danielle Fishel
Welcome. Exactly. Do you remember your first real pinch me moment in la?
- [38:22]
Drew Lachey
Yeah. I mean, there were a couple. A couple big moments. I mean, the first time you hear your. Your song on the radio, that's a. That's a monumental one, you know, but I think for me, there were ones that were, you know, leading up to it, you know, you get to get to meet certain people. You don't have to wait in line at a club.
- [38:40]
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
- [38:40]
Drew Lachey
You know, those, Those. Those little things that you're like, oh, I'm gonna be standing outside like everybody else. And then you walk up and it's like, hey, come on in.
- [38:48]
Danielle Fishel
Yeah, you walk up. Sarah is there. You're like, whoa, Sarah.
- [38:55]
Drew Lachey
Yeah. And then you become friends with the people. And then, you know, it. You know, it just kind of goes from there. But, yeah, I mean, I think, you know, clearly getting to do a duet with Stevie Wonder. Oh, yeah, that's. That's a moment. Meeting boys to men for the first time, you know, another one of those moments. And then you become friends and you tour together and, you know, those. Those kind of things that you never could have dreamed of when you were listening to, you know, Cooley High harmony and learning all the words to Motown Philly. And next thing you know, you know, Sean's on one side of you is on the other, and you're just like, oh, man, this is my life.
- [39:28]
Danielle Fishel
How did this happen?
- [39:30]
Drew Lachey
Yeah, I mean, so it doesn't. To me, it was always kind of like, I was always the guy that never wanted to introduce myself to anybody. I never wanted to be like, hey, I'm Drew from 98 Degrees. Or like, doing like, because I didn't want to deal with. I'm sorry, who, Right? Like, oh, we're, we're. We're signed to Motown. And then just, you know, my, my frail little ego couldn't have handled that, you know, So I just kind of like sat back and watched a little bit more. But luckily we had some, some people around us that they didn't subscribe to that same thing. And they would just be like, hey, this is 98 degrees. And then, yeah, so I got, I got the benefit of their. Their balls.
- [40:09]
Danielle Fishel
I love that. That's like one of the best parts about having people on your team is that awkward, uncomfortable stuff so that you don't have to do it.
- [40:17]
Drew Lachey
Yeah, exactly, exactly. Everybody needs one of those people in their lives for sure.
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- [43:37]
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- [44:20]
Danielle Fishel
I'd like to talk for a second about tribal arm tattoos. You and Nick have absolutely legendary ones, arguably the best of the decade, if you don't count Pamela Anderson's Barbed Wire. Where did you get them? And were your parents ever against tattoos?
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Drew Lachey
Oh, yeah, I think my parents are still against tattoos.
- [44:40]
Danielle Fishel
So are mine.
- [44:42]
Drew Lachey
No, I. We got them in Atlanta.
- [44:44]
Danielle Fishel
Okay.
- [44:45]
Drew Lachey
Yeah, I actually. In a box somewhere has still had, like, the business card of the tattoo parlor we went to. Yeah, we were recording in Atlanta for our first record, and, you know, I don't. It was kind of like this thing. Like, it wasn't like. It wasn't, like, cliche at the time.
- [45:02]
Danielle Fishel
No, of course.
- [45:03]
Drew Lachey
It was, like, cutting edge at the time. Like, people weren't getting tattoos. So we were badasses for getting tattoos.
- [45:09]
Danielle Fishel
Totally.
- [45:10]
Drew Lachey
You know, and then, you know, you're like, we don't want to, like, get, like, matching. So we got similar. But then the L for our last name, the brothers, is the same, you know, because just kind of us together.
- [45:22]
Danielle Fishel
Yes.
- [45:23]
Drew Lachey
Yeah. So, yeah, it was. It was a place in Atlanta, and Jeff got. Jeff got some sort of writing on his. On his chest, and he thought it meant one thing, and then he's not sure it means. That depends on where you are in the world. It means something else. Yeah, it's. It's. You know, it's all just stories. Life.
- [45:48]
Danielle Fishel
Will, my pod meets world co host and boy meets world co star, had, I think Japanese. I think Japanese symbols, but one of them is he had war on one ankle and peace on the other ankle. And he was walking on a beach somewhere, and someone stopped him and said, huh, your tattoos war? And why this one? And Will said, well, it's war and peace. And he said, no, that's war, but that's to eat. And Will was like, what? And the guy was like, I'm just kidding, it's peace. But it was just so funny because, you know. Yeah. When you don't speak the language, but you get the symbols, you don't necessarily
- [46:36]
Drew Lachey
know, oh, this symbol means daughter. And it doesn't mean daughter, just means girl.
- [46:40]
Danielle Fishel
Right.
- [46:40]
Drew Lachey
You know, it's like you're just a girl, you know? Yeah. You know, little things like that. Yeah.
- [46:47]
Danielle Fishel
You had a number one hit and Grammy nomination with Mariah Carey, an icon especially of the time. Did you get to interact a lot with her?
- [46:56]
Drew Lachey
Yeah, so at the time, we didn't. Like, when we recorded, she wasn't in the studio. We recorded Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. We were on tour. She was on tour. You know, it's like two ships passing in the night. But when we shot the video for it, she did, you know, come out to our tour stop because we were literally like six days a week. We have no time to travel somewhere, shoot a video. So, you know, the thank God I found you video was basically on our, you know, yellow and black, you know, like bumblebee looking, you know, tour set in the middle of somewhere and, you know, the middle of America. And it was just kind of like, all right, let's just make a video for it. And then we did like a Christmas special. And, you know, if we're talking about, like, not wanting to, like, put yourself out there, I actually. So I consult on some. Some movies that film here in Cincinnati. And she came in here and did a Hallmark movie and she directed it and starred in it. And I was, you know, one of the, you know, consultants for some of the performances. And we're at the first table read and she was sitting there like, with her. Her sunglasses on. And we're like. She was sitting across the table from me. And it gets to me. We're like, introducing ourselves and she literally, like, pulls her sunglasses down and looks at me. She's like, I know you. I was like, thank God, because it would have been really embarrassing had you like, hey, I'm Drew. I'm blah, blah, blah. And she like, okay, like, just.
- [48:23]
Danielle Fishel
Just for. Yeah.
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Bowen Yang
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Danielle Fishel
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- [48:25]
Drew Lachey
So at least she acknowledged that we had worked together and, you know, we had a number one together. And so that was. That was good because that would have been really embarrassing.
- [48:32]
Danielle Fishel
Yeah, that would have been tough to be like, I have to say hello again and reintroduce myself. Yes, you also survived reality tv well before it be. It was a way to become famous. The Nick and Jessica era was very much in the spotlight, and that always kind of seemed uncomfortable for the Lacheys. Was that a lot to deal with at the time?
- [48:54]
Drew Lachey
I think, you know, everybody that gets into reality now knows what they're getting into. Yeah, at that time it was the Osbournes and that show.
- [49:04]
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
- [49:05]
Drew Lachey
So it was, you know, the kind of, you know, beginning the incubation period of what reality was going to become. I think early on it was, for the most part reality. Like, we just kind of lived our lives. We had cameras following us pretty much 24 hours a day. And, you know, they got their stuff and then they edited it together. As the show, you know, progressed and as reality TV progressed, they figured, oh, well, let's kind of shape our storylines, you Know, shoot what we need to shoot, you know, and then, you know, save a bunch of money and worry about it. And that's when stuff kind of got a little bit more, you know, a little more annoying, a little more difficult. You know, you're living somebody else's story, living somebody else's life, but, you know, as things progress, you realize you're like, all right, well, in order to control this, we need to get, you know, executive producer credit on it so we can be there for the editing and we can do all that stuff. So you learn as it goes.
- [50:03]
Danielle Fishel
Right.
- [50:04]
Drew Lachey
But it was. It was always something that was a bit of a something. It was just kind of always a little bit weird.
- [50:10]
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
- [50:11]
Drew Lachey
Why? Why?
- [50:12]
Danielle Fishel
Right. Yeah. It seems like an uncomfortable way to live.
- [50:17]
Drew Lachey
For sure it was.
- [50:18]
Danielle Fishel
Yeah. Have you been watching the rebirth of Dancing with the Stars at all?
- [50:22]
Drew Lachey
So the strange part for me is that my daughter, who was not even born yet, my wife was pregnant when I was on the show. She is now a big fan of Dancing with the Stars. So for me, like, this little nugget who was born two weeks after I won, is now watching the show that, you know.
- [50:46]
Danielle Fishel
Yeah. You helped pioneer.
- [50:47]
Drew Lachey
Yeah, I was. I was part of the beginning of, you know, so I. I definitely do follow it, you know, because, you know, you can't be a part of it and then not get asked about it or. Or not, you know, have some sort of connection to it.
- [51:00]
Danielle Fishel
Of course.
- [51:01]
Drew Lachey
I mean, my. The people that I came up with, none of them are really there anymore or they're judges.
- [51:09]
Danielle Fishel
Yeah.
- [51:10]
Drew Lachey
On the panel now, you know, so it's. It's. It's a little different, but. But, you know, I definitely appreciate that that show is still on and that, you know, it kind of like went to. Went to the streaming world, you know, was able to come back because, you know, the arts and dancing and the. The joy that that show kind of has deserves a place on network TV for everybody to see it.
- [51:35]
Danielle Fishel
Yes.
- [51:36]
Drew Lachey
And I do enjoy the fact that it's back and people are still enjoying it and. And new people have discovered it, even though those new people don't know who I am.
- [51:45]
Danielle Fishel
Not true.
- [51:47]
Drew Lachey
Well, that's true. They do show clips sometimes in my freestyle.
- [51:51]
Danielle Fishel
They sure do. Well, now you have also become a home remodel expert. Were you always handy? Have you and Leah flipped properties before? Have you done renovations?
- [52:04]
Drew Lachey
A little bit. So I think, like most people, like, if you redo your house and you hire a contractor, you have some sort of nightmare story, you know, I have one of those I got taken advantage of. And, you know, my. My pride couldn't handle the fact that I got bamboozled and I couldn't. I didn't know it. So I started trying to learn everything I could about how houses work and, you know, what I could do myself. And then you start, you know, expanding on those skills. And, you know, like, literally, as soon as we're done here, I'm redoing a friend's bathroom. So I'm going over there to, you know, finish the drywall and start laying the. The tile, you know, so it's. It's just kind of become part of who I am. And I do find, like, there's a. There's like, a grounding to it, like, doing. Being able to do something with your hands versus, like, everything else that I do is, you know, there's something tangible about it. Yeah, a lot of everything else I do is like, oh, I'm writing this song, and it's. I can't hold it, you know, So I think, like, home renovation number one, there's a sense of pride. Number two, it saves yourself a fortune. And number three, there is this, you know, actual, you know, before and after moment that you can kind of appreciate. But, yeah, we did a little bit of flipping, but clearly my skills have improved over the last, you know, 15 years.
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Danielle Fishel
I also love about a home renovation that you can every day set goals that then at the end of the day, you. You're like, there. I accomplished those goals. Like, today, you're going to do the drywall. You're. You know what? And that's the. Maybe the goal for the day is just. Just finish the drywall before or lay whatever you need to lay in order to put the tile down. Whereas you're right. Like, in the creative arts, there's like, we're gonna record this part of the song, but it still doesn't, like, get you to. You know, you don't. Yeah, it's not tangible. It's very exciting.
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Drew Lachey
Even though I was supposed to finish the drywall three days ago, and I just keep. You know, I just keep sanding, and it's not right. So I keep redoing it and keep sanding and. Yeah, that's okay.
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Danielle Fishel
You know what? I'd. I want a perfectionist doing my home remodel. That's for sure.
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Drew Lachey
As you should. As you should.
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Danielle Fishel
We're about ready to do a home remodel, so I'm very, very interested in this journey. So the. The new show is called Rock the Block, and it's celebrities competing against each other who are paired with experts.
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Drew Lachey
Yes.
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Danielle Fishel
And building in Las Vegas. Right?
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Drew Lachey
Yeah. So it's. It's, you know, four. Four very familiar HGTV faces. You know, so it's Mina and Kim, Scott and Tanya. Me and Tanya were paired up, and then Brooke Hogan, Vernon Davis, Chelsea Misner, and me. So you got, you know, reality star, NFL player, Southern charm, Survivor, and then me, whichever category you want to toss me into. But all four of us also have, you know, either design experience or construction experience or things like that. So it was a lot of fun to kind of get in there. And you're literally given a shell of a house. We all have matching shells, and we had to design and build out these houses, like, each. Each week, you're like this new, new section of the house. And this show has been around. This is the seventh season. It's been the number one show for HGTV for. For a while. But this is just a new twist on it in Vegas, you know, it's like doing construction on the dusty moon. You know, I guess dusty sun is a better comparison. But it was. It was a lot of fun, and I'm excited for people to finally see you.
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Danielle Fishel
Wow. I can't wait to watch. What is the most difficult thing you've done so far when it comes to a. A remodel?
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Drew Lachey
I mean, I think the things that people find the least sexy are the most difficult. You know, like, oh, I'm. I'm running new electric. You know, people are. People don't care about that. They just want to know it's done right. They want to know that the tile is pretty and this the right. Like, yeah, oh, let's take this wall down. I'm more intrigued by, like, the guts of the house. Like, oh, today's plumbing
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Danielle Fishel
pipes.
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Drew Lachey
Yes. Yes. Let's make sure the toilet doesn't overflow. You know, things like that. But, you know, I've done. I've kind of messed with everything, you know, from, you know, pouring foundations to throwing a roof on. So it's kind of like, you know, from the ground up to the. To the top to, you know, you just learn as you go and you find the right people to teach you, and. And it's kind of like anything.
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Danielle Fishel
We kept this little Cancun reunion going as Drew stuck around for our bonus episode coming out this Friday on the dedicated Teen Beat feed. Make sure to check that out and watch Drew on the new season of Rock the Block on hgtv. Teen Beat is an Iheart podcast produced and hosted by Danielle Fishel executive producers Jensen Karp and Amy Sugarman executive in charge of production, Danielle Romeo producer and editor Tara Sudbaksh. The theme song is by Mark Hoppus. Yes, that Mark Hoppus. Follow us on Instagram teenbeatpod
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