More Time With: Mark Hoppus

Summary

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Teen Beat – "More Time With: Mark Hoppus"

Host: Danielle Fishel
Guests: Mark Hoppus, Jensen Karp
Air Date: January 9, 2026
Episode Focus: Embarrassing Teenage Moments & Mistaken Identity

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Episode Overview

This candid bonus episode of "Teen Beat" with Danielle Fishel dives into the hilariously awkward—and sometimes cringeworthy—moments that shape our teenage years. Danielle, Mark Hoppus, and Jensen Karp explore their own teen (and adult) blunders after playing a listener-submitted story, all centering around embarrassing mistaken identity mishaps and wardrobe missteps. The tone is nostalgic, self-deprecating, and filled with infectious laughter as childhood vulnerabilities become the backdrop for building connections and empathy.

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Key Segments & Insights

1. Listener Story: Mistaken Identity on the Band Bus

[00:55–02:44]

• Voice Memo from Jessica:
  • Jessica recounts a classic teenage goof from her days in a small-town Canadian high school band.
  • She describes an ongoing "game" with her best friend: sneak up and tap each other on the rear end.
  • During a school trip, Jessica accidentally smacks the male band teacher’s rear, mistaking him for her friend.
  • Her immediate reaction: pretending to sleep out of pure mortification.
• Quote:
  • “That person takes a half step forward, and I see my best friend still sitting beside me. And I thought, huh? Then who is that? And that's when our male band teacher actually chose not to acknowledge it. But I was mortified." – Jessica [01:49]

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2. The Spiral of Mistaken Identity Stories & Escalating Embarrassment

[02:44–04:44]

• Jensen's Stories:
  • Growing Up Wild:
    • Emphasizes that his crew's youthful pranks went well beyond Jessica’s tame anecdote.
    • Shares a story about pantsing friends—sometimes in public.
    • Tells an outrageous tale of a friend mistakenly groping someone, thinking it was his wife ("butt knife"), only to discover it wasn’t her.
    • Quote:
      • “This is grown man shit.” – Jensen Karp [03:24]
  • San Diego Fart Incident:
    • Jensen describes a prank gone wrong: intending to prank his friend Mark, he instead farts in the face of a random older woman on the street.
    • The woman's disappointed look left a lasting mark.
    • Quote:
      • “I turn around and go, haha. And it's just this old lady on the sidewalk in Downtown San Diego, 1993, who just looked at me like, why would you do that to me?” – Jensen Karp [03:40]
    • Danielle and Jensen reflect on how disappointment by a stranger is far more painful than anger.

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3. Clothing Choices & Trying to Fit In

[04:44–08:06]

• Jensen’s Miami Vice Fashion Fiasco:

  • Given money to buy his own back-to-school wardrobe, Jensen showed up in a full "Miami Vice" getup: salmon pink pastel t-shirt, sport coat, pegged pants—feeling cool but out of place.
  • Reaction: immediate ridicule from classmates; Jensen lies, blaming his grandma for the outfit before trying to blend in.
  • Quote:
    • "So I show up to school looking like Don Johnson, and people are like, oh, my God, Mark, what the hell? You think you're in Miami Vice?" – Jensen Karp [05:32]

• Danielle’s Grunge Era Fail:

  • Danielle recounts showing up on her first day at a new school in 1993 wearing a formal black pantsuit with shoulder pads—utterly overdressed amid grunge-era peers.
  • A student sneers, “Are you going to a funeral?” Her mom (much cooler, Danielle admits) takes her shopping that very afternoon.
  • Quote:
    • “As I walked down the hallway, I saw a kid coming toward me... scanned me up and down, just utter disgust. And then as he passed me, went, ‘Are you going to a funeral?’” – Danielle Fishel [07:01]

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4. Danielle’s Celebrity Mistaken Identity—An Eminem Encounter

[08:06–11:00]

• MTV Spring Break Mix-Up:
  • Danielle dates Lance Bass (of NSYNC), who tasks 98 Degrees to look after her in Mexico.
  • She spots a bleach-blonde guy (thinking it’s a 98 Degrees member), sneaks up behind him, and pulls up his sagging pants.
  • It’s not her friend—it’s Eminem.
  • Eminem’s security guard (secretly amused) did not intervene.
  • Danielle is mortified, apologizes awkwardly, and Eminem introduces himself as “Marshall.”
  • Quote:
    • “Eminem whips around so fast. That was his pants I pulled up. I had never met him, and I was like, oh my God.” – Danielle Fishel [09:23]
  • She runs into Eminem again years later, paralyzed with fear he’ll remember her as “the girl who pulled his pants up.”

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5. Reflections on Embarrassment & Adulthood

[11:00–11:16]

• Danielle:

  • Describes how memories of these humiliations surface in the middle of the night.
  • Quote:
    • “Sometimes you wake up at like 2 o'clock in the morning…every awful thing you've ever said or done pops into your head.” – Danielle Fishel [11:02]

• Jensen:

  • Jokes that his humiliation reel is running all the time, not just at 2am.
  • Quote:
    • “My mind doesn't wait until 2 o'clock in the morning. Mine's like, pretty much on a constant reel.” – Jensen Karp [11:12]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “He and his wife were out one night, and she's walking up the stairs in front of him in a miniskirt, and he goes up her miniskirt, like, bam. Butt knife. Straight up her miniskirt into her butt. G string.” — Jensen Karp [03:01]
• “I have thought about that story when I…you have a hard time falling back asleep, and for whatever reason, every awful thing you’ve ever said or done pops into your head.” — Danielle Fishel [11:02]
• “That was grown man. Also, as a teenager, probably my most embarrassing moment was…” — Jensen Karp [04:44]

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Episode Tone & Atmosphere

• Warm, Relatable, and Humorous: The trio share authentic slices of teenage awkwardness with self-aware wit.
• Inclusive: Listener stories are invited and celebrated, reducing the sting of embarrassment by creating community around shared cringe.
• Comforting Nostalgia: Reminders that even celebrities endure (and laugh about) their most embarrassing memories, making growing up a universal experience.

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Major Timestamps

• 00:55 – Jessica’s band teacher butt-tap story
• 02:44 – Onset of mistaken identity stories
• 03:40 – Jensen’s “Downtown San Diego fart” mishap
• 05:05–05:56 – Miami Vice school fashion disaster
• 07:01 – “Are you going to a funeral?” pantsuit incident
• 09:23–10:15 – Danielle’s Eminem pants-pull story
• 11:02 – Reflection on humiliation replays at night

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For Listeners New & Old

If you’ve ever quietly replayed an awkward moment from your youth (or last week!), this episode will remind you that everyone—even your favorite pop-culture icons—has their own library of cringe. Pull up a chair, share a laugh, and remember: we all have that one story that keeps us up at night.

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Transcript

[Jessica]

This is an I heart podcast. Guaranteed human.

[Mark Hoppus]

Give me money for cigarettes. I'll never leave your cooking bed. I stay the night. And one night we can't do a three kids. That's okay. Cause no one here is take me.

[Danielle Fishel]

Well, we have a little bonus episode that I want to do. I asked our Pod Meets World listeners to send us voice memos detailing their own awkward teenage stories.

[Jensen Karp]

Okay.

[Danielle Fishel]

Mostly so we don't feel so alone. And boy, did they deliver. I wanted to play you one of my favorites, and then we can talk about it and maybe even share some of our own most embarrassing memories.

[Mark Hoppus]

Great.

[Danielle Fishel]

So let's hear from Jessica, a friend from the north.

[Jessica]

Hi, Danielle and team. My name is Jessica. I'm a listener from Canada. Huge fan of Pod Meets World. So excited for Team Beat. So my embarrassing moment goes back to circa early 2000s, when I was in high school and I grew up in a really small town in rural Canada, where we were about two hours away from the nearest amenities like Starbucks and all of the cooler ones. And I was in the high school band, like the one with an oboe. And we were off to a band competition. And a big part of the appeal for us was hello, bye, bye. We were so at the mall. And I should probably preface this part of the story by saying this was 100% consensual between my best friend and I. We had this ongoing silly game where we would try and spot the other one in the hallways at school, sneak up behind them, and tap him right on the rear end. And at the mall, we continued this game and my best friend spotted me, like, at least three times before I spotted her. And I was determined to get her back at some point. So fast forward, we're now on the school bus at the end of the day after the competition, heading back to town. And I should probably mention that in band, you also wear matching uniforms. And it's dark out, and I'm sitting beside my high school boyfriend, and my best friend is sitting beside me just across the aisle, and she stands up to talk to somebody, and I think, this is it. This is my moment. And I really went for it. And I swing and I get a raid in the rear, and then that person takes a half step forward, and I see my best friend still sitting beside me. And I thought, huh? Then who is that? And that's when our male band teacher actually chose not to acknowledge it. But I was mortified. And I literally threw my head to my shoulder and was like. And pretended to be sleeping. It's something that we still giggle about to this day. Anyway, thank you so much.

[Danielle Fishel]

Oh, do you have any Embarrassing mistaken identity?

[Jensen Karp]

Yeah. Well, that's so tame. I mean, that's really tame compared. Like, I remember when we were skateboard shitheads growing up. I remember going to the bank with Tom and our skater friends and literally, like, pantsing each other down, like, past our underwear, nude, in a bank line. Like, that's what we. That's what we did. And I met, like, Tom's manager, this guy named Jimmy, who's our friend, dear friend. He and his wife were out one night, and she's walking up the stairs in front of him in a miniskirt, and he goes up her miniskirt, like, bam. Butt knife. Straight up her miniskirt into her butt. G string.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah. Wasn't her.

[Jensen Karp]

Oh, my grown men. This is grown man shit.

[Mark Hoppus]

Gosh.

[Jensen Karp]

Butt knife.

[Danielle Fishel]

Ah. Right up there. Oh, sorry.

[Jensen Karp]

I thought you were someone else.

[Danielle Fishel]

What. What was her reaction?

[Jensen Karp]

I don't know. I never got that part of the story.

[Danielle Fishel]

Ooh, that seems like an important part of the story because.

[Jensen Karp]

Yeah, but, yeah, mistaken identity. Well, when we were skateboarding in San Diego one time, we had gone to the thrift store downtown, and we're leaving, and my best. One of my best friend Mark, is sitting right behind me, and I jump up and spread my legs and I fart as loud as I can right in his face. And I turn around and go, haha. And it's just this old lady on the sidewalk in Downtown San Diego, 1993, who just looked at me like, why would you do that to me? And it was so humiliating. Like, I want to laugh about it, but, like, the. I remember the look she gave me was like the betrayal of mankind against this poor old lady.

[Danielle Fishel]

Why did you think this old lady was your best friend?

[Jensen Karp]

Because they're about the same size, they're both small. And he had been right behind me, but then he had stopped to do something else, and I just assumed that the guy behind me was her.

[Danielle Fishel]

That sounds very much like when you get in trouble for something from your parents, but they're not actually angry, they're just disappointed.

[Jensen Karp]

Yeah, she was really disappointed.

[Danielle Fishel]

If she had been angry, it would have been funny. Yeah, kind of. But the fact that she was so disappointed in you made it really sad.

[Jensen Karp]

But that was grown man. Also, as a teenager, probably my most embarrassing moment was. I think it was either seventh or eighth grade. My dad was finally, like, you can buy whatever you want for your first day of school.

[Jessica]

Okay?

[Jensen Karp]

Like, as far as clothing goes, Like, I'm not going to help you buy clothes. You're old enough now. Just pick whatever you want. This is your budget. Miami Vice was really big that year.

[Danielle Fishel]

Oh, yes. Okay.

[Jensen Karp]

So I got, like, a sport coat.

[Danielle Fishel]

Oh, I love it.

[Jensen Karp]

Like a salmon pink pastel T shirt. These, like, you know, light brown kind of pants that I tacked just like these.

[Danielle Fishel]

Okay.

[Jensen Karp]

Pegged them just like this. And wore, you know, not necessarily boat shoes, but I think, like, slip on vans, perhaps. Did my hair all up. First day of school, walked in. I felt so cool.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah.

[Jensen Karp]

Because Miami Vice was awesome. It was a great show. It was dark, it was arty. It had great music. And I was really drawn to the music and the vibe, but I have no Miami in me whatsoever and definitely not a grizzled Miami detective in the cocaine scene at all. So I show up to school looking like Don Johnson, and people are like, oh, my God, Mark, what the hell? You think you're in Miami Vice?

[Danielle Fishel]

It's like, no, no, no.

[Jensen Karp]

My stupid grandma bought me these clothes, and I had to put them on. And so I took off my. My. What do you call it? Sport coat and threw it in my locker and unrolled my pants and just felt like an idiot.

[Danielle Fishel]

My first day of junior high, I insisted on getting very dressed up because I had just moved from Orange county to Calabasas, and it was 1993, and I was convinced that everyone was still gonna get dressed up like we did in Orange County. And so I wore a black shoulder padded pantsuit. A1. Like a jumper, like a one piece. And it had little white flowers on it. I wore pantyhose and ballet flats. And in 1993, at A.E. wright Middle School, everyone was into grunge, and I showed up, first day of school, new kid, not a single soul. And everyone was just like, what is going on with her? And as I walked down the hallway, I saw a kid coming toward me. And he. I saw. Literally, I could picture his face right now as he scanned me up and down, Just utter disgust. And then as he passed me, went, are you going to a funeral?

[Jensen Karp]

Wow.

[Danielle Fishel]

And I was like, yes. Now I have to leave here early to go to a funeral. My mom picked me up that day, and I was like, mom, we are immediately going shopping. She's like, I tried to tell you, my mom was so much cooler than I was.

[Jensen Karp]

She showed up the next day, flannel beanie all the way down. Converse mud honey T shirt.

[Danielle Fishel]

Correct. And I was like, all right, this is my new. This is my New vibe. I swear. I have a couple of stories of mistaken identity that keep me up at night. But the number one story that keeps me awake is I was a. I was a true super fan of Eminem when Eminem first came out. And I went to MTV spring break, and my boyfriend at the time, lance bass from NSync, was also going to be there. So it was like, this was very exciting for me because I was 17, I was going on spring break for work, but I could go a few days early because Lance was going to have a couple of days there.

[Jensen Karp]

Wait, Lance is really your boyfriend?

[Danielle Fishel]

True story.

[Jensen Karp]

Okay. I thought, like, I didn't thought it was like a projection.

[Danielle Fishel]

No, no, no. He was my. He was my real life boyfriend.

[Jensen Karp]

Got it.

[Danielle Fishel]

And so. And he was going to be there a few days early, so I went a few days early just to spend time. Got it. I arrive in Mexico for spring break. I think it was Mexico. Yeah, it was like Cancun or something. Maybe Cozumel. I don't remember, but it was. Yes. And I get there and literally that night they get a call that they're going to go, they're going to leave. They're not going to be there for the next few days. They're going to go do a show somewhere. And now I'm alone in Mexico for spring break because I don't have to work for a few days. And Lance basically assigns me to the 98 degrees guys. He's like, I'm not going to be here anymore. You don't really know anybody else. These guys will take. Take care of you. They're nice guys. Great. So now I'm like an honorary member of 98 Degrees and their girlfriends. So on one of the days that I'm there, I see one of my friends from 98 degrees and he's leaning up against like a. A fence, like a. Like a railing. He's leaning up against the railing, and I see his bleach blonde hair and I'm like, why are his pants below his underwear just massively sagging? Which was not really the style of the 98 degrees.

[Mark Hoppus]

Yes.

[Danielle Fishel]

And so I decide that I'm just gonna sneak up behind him and pull his pants up. And I do. I walk up and I grab his pants and I yank him up. And I see a man standing next to my friend just start giggling. And I look at him, wondering why he's laughing. And Eminem whips around so fast. He's. That was his pants I pulled up. I had never met him, and I was like, oh my God. And immediately I went to go say, I thought you were insert name from 98 degrees and was like, cannot do that. That's not gonna make him happy. So I was like, oh my God. I, I, I thought that you were, were somebody else. I'm so sorry. I, I don't know you. And he was like, no. And it was his security guard who was laughing. Why security guard? Did you not stop me? Yeah, except for the idea that I think he thought this was going to be really funny.

[Jensen Karp]

Yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

And then anyway, Marshall introduced himself to me and I was like, hi, nice to meet you. And I have thought about it.

[Jensen Karp]

Have you ever seen him again?

[Danielle Fishel]

I saw him then one other time where another boyfriend I had was doing his, one of his music videos. And I also did something stupid that day. My best friend was going to University of Michigan and I was wearing a Michigan sweatshirt, not thinking about the fact that he's also from Michigan.

[Jensen Karp]

Right.

[Danielle Fishel]

And so I was so nervous he was going to recognize me as the girl who pulled his pants up many years before. But he didn't, but he was like, oh, cool, are you from Michigan? And then I was like, no, my friend goes to school there. And it was just like, all right.

[Jensen Karp]

Well, you should have pulled his pants down.

[Danielle Fishel]

Pants him and run out.

[Jensen Karp]

Yeah, exactly.

[Danielle Fishel]

But I have thought about that story when I like, you know, sometimes you wake up at like 2 o' clock in the morning, you have a hard time falling back asleep, and for whatever reason, every awful thing you've ever said or done pops into your head.

[Jensen Karp]

My mind doesn't wait until 2 o' clock in the morning. Mine's like, pretty much on a constant reel.

[Danielle Fishel]

Just a loop. You go to sleep to stop thinking about that. Okay, well, thank you so much for joining us on this bonus episode of Teen Beat with Danielle Fishel. You can follow the podcast on Instagram @teenbeatpod and make sure you are subscribed to our feed. That way, every episode just ends up on your phone when they're released.

[Jensen Karp]

Hell yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

Even these fun bonus episodes. Merch is available [e-mail] and remember, you too can share your embarrassing stories just by sending in a voice memo. And it could end up on our next episode. Email them to teenbeatpod Gmail.com I'd love to hear from you, Mark.

[Jensen Karp]

Thanks. Glad to be here.

[Danielle Fishel]

Thank you so much.

[Jensen Karp]

Absolutely.

[Danielle Fishel]

Can't wait to see you again. Next time, just over fun stories at dinner.

[Jensen Karp]

Let's do it.

[Danielle Fishel]

All right, bye.

[Jensen Karp]

Bye.

[Danielle Fishel]

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 Romo producer and editor Tara Sudbaksh. The theme song is by Mark Hoppus. Yes, that Mark Hoppus. Follow us on Instagram teenbeatpod.