why is this a thing my lips on fire I'm actually okay shut up JC hey what's going on everybody for first we Feast I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and to open up Season 22 we have a record 60 Wings on the table for in sync they've sold more than 70 million records toward
the world and endures one of the finding pop groups of a generation they're also reunited not only on set today but with a new single Justin Lance Chris JC Joey welcome to the show so Jus whatever you start off so nice just kidding go ahead Joey you guys are both background Justin no milk no water Club
is there any wisdom any advice that you'd like to pass on to the rest of the guys before we get started no what you said no milk no water no water I'll try to do that I did I did no milk no water I can't make any promises you know every day is [Music] different okay okay this is good I can eat this one
that's nothing wait that's the start you're going to you're going to eat those words bro oh my God this one's good [Music] yeah so to start I'm curious what's the most marked difference in how you approach making a song together in 2023 versus 25 years ago like is the approach closer to how do we make a classic
vintage In Sync song or is it more like what would insync sound like if they time traveled to 20123 yeah I think the trick was to try to capture both you know to for our fans that that have been with us for so long you know to give them something that felt not necessarily nostalgic but familiar and then you know
see if we could you know take that sound and and make it feel modern well we listen to the world today we're we're obviously influenced by 20 years of experiences but we still want to give them us wait can we talk about that first question for a lot longer that now that's a good tactic oh I like that I'm okay with that
that's good I feel like it's less hot no it is garlic helps I that's how they get you how would you break down the vocal ranges and Sonic mechanics that go into making a great boy band I think the crazy part about it is that you have a lot of these bands that were put together and even the you know really good bands One Direction not that that's
a bad thing yeah One Direction is an amazing band but you have five guys that are amazing singers and great soloists so when they come out and do songs it's like they you fight over where is this going to be we kind of knew we sucked at singing certain things so it was like we just fell into our spots we fell into
our spots and we knew our place you know it was like I knew I'd be the high stuff these guys would do the leads Joy be in the middle and Lance would be on the base so it was a lot easier since we started with a sound rather than five amazing vocalists I mean not to say we're not but I just did I'm good with it I can handle that I'll
take another bite go for it nice I'm thinking I should take smaller bites you're doing keep going lean into it so the end sync stadium tour shows that one's hitting right now there we go it happens releas come a little late right now good but we're good sorry so the N Sync stadium tour shows were such a production from
that fly rail entrance pyrot Technics Justin's beatbox battle interlude slightly regrettable those are great Dr Dr we can file that under you know slightly regrettable bring it back when you think back to the live on stage technical difficulties or malfunctions is there a story that stands out oh tons getting caught in the trapo
platform came up or something honestly that was the scariest that was a toaster yeah we uh obviously pop up in the air like Michael toter what's a toaster toaster is like a it's basically it's a pop-up you literally pop up like when you're watching the stage all of a sudden you see the artist jump all the
way up they don't jump that high we get assistance basically catapulted by it was back in the day though was it was actually a weighted manual thing when they had to release a lever so they had guys underneath there somebody was getting fixed with something I think somebody broke their finger on one the
guy that was on mine walked over there and I'm standing up and JC pops up me I'm supposed to pop up and I'm standing there going I just I'll just get up so as I press rest I pushed down that that box and released the lever as my legs thank goodness nothing was underneath my legs came up the whole thing came up and
slam my leg in between thank God my leg is like a tree trunk cuz uh I didn't break it but man yeah it it did a good number on me it hurt it wasn't [Applause] [Music] fun what's this one Los Cante M we're getting somewhere I immediately as soon as it touched my lips different flavor profile oh yeah it's like a
sweet uhhuh yeah that one that one hits different now if you swallow it quick does that help nope okay wait until you breathe after like yeah yeah about 30 40 seconds that's this guy y the barboa here I like it's pretty good actually good go it's good what if anything do you remember about the first time you heard an insync song on the radio were
you all together we were all together in Germany now we were at a radio station in Germany it's the first guess first couple of weeks we were over there and I remember we were in Two Vans we were like split up and there were so many stuffed animals in the van because over they love throwing stuffies yeah right
and it came on the radio and we just kind of geeked out and we put on a puppet show watching each other the C were here on the radio obviously it was cute all right so this is I'm going to be a lot of fun two wings from now is the halfway point Diablo power jab here at 5 this is only halfway look like a lot on that we're only halfway God I
thought we were like almost done I was going to be impressed myself you ain't a man unless you get in there oh yeah oh this is going to be fun just H that one's going to come a little later mhm yeah that burns oh it's going to be [Music] F oo that one hits that one hits so we often like to fact check the Larger than Life lore
that surround Our Guest so what I'm going to do here is just hit you with some things and you tell me if it's true if it's fact if it's fiction and we'll start though cut from the final edit is true that insync was cast as Jedi Warriors and Star Wars attack now we're getting to the nitty-gritty question
true we were the three a few of us yeah never made it I think I remember I think I remember us getting a call like you never going to believe what happened yeah we were we were we were uh Stormtroopers Jed Jedi Jedi we had to like learn a bit of Sword choreography yeah heck yeah me and Lance were so butt
hurt yeah but they got cut out anyway when you guys got cut out we were like the dumbest thing though is as we were doing this the seeds you're literally going vom Voom like an idiot wish they I wish they had video I wish they had the video of us somewhere I'm well I'm sure they do cuz they filmed it I have asked let's cut to it right now
asked I asked the producer Rick mallum where's the footage cuz I know he has it so let's get that footage please I want to see it well didn't the Star Wars fans go crazy that's while they edited it out yeah yeah they did not like that idea Lance yo true or false went through I can finally say get out Round
of Applause everybody waited 23 years to be able to say that give him a round of applause so let me mop my face off what was that but in addition did you know that trained as a cosmina certified by NASA and we once in a position to be the youngest person in human history to travel to outer space that is true
yes thanks for reminding me lanston gets to be a Jedi and get cut out he got to go all the way to Russia get to be real be a Cosa and got here guys is your commander um yeah no it was uh a very intense situation um first I thought it was a joke that they wanted me to do it but um then I realized quickly that it
wasn't so I went over there trained for half a year became a cosmina and then a week before my launch everything gets cancelled over Insurance cuz you know should have went with Geo Hollywood should have gone with a Geico how about this fact or fiction the hook on it's going to be me has that may punctuation because Justin got a note
from a producer that was yeah I need you to say it more like may like a meaner me uh I don't remember if the specifics were a meanor me but I was I saying it's going to be me and he was like no no no no no no and he was like it's may may you also remember their Swedish accents and they were and they had done a demo
of it and they were like it's like this that was very like semi Lost in Translation yeah well you know what's funny specifically to Max Martin the parts of their English that were broken actually made them catchier songwriters because they would put words away that almost didn't make sense but when you
sang them they were more memorable right and yes it was a specific note that I got and I was just like this guy is crazy and just going to be so mem worthy yeah I knew one day they're going to invent this thing called memes but yes it was specific note and I I did it the way that he requested and that's what made the [Music]
record anything with ghost in it you're [ __ ] uh-oh oh yeah there it comes oh yeah there it goes wrong order stop I don't give [ __ ] so I'd say the Instinct Mania of the early 2000s Rivals any sort of fandemonium that you'd see today when you think about the impressive or horrifying lights yes just wait a second what a
Miss proceed okay when you think about the impressive or horrifying lengths fans have gone to get your attention is there a story that stands out there was one experience where there were uh girls that had gotten somehow I guess through housekeeping in the hotel had gotten into my room and we're hiding in the closet and
I remember coming in the room and like you just heard like surprise well you heard like you heard like you know you I was like H I was like there's ghosts in this S I also I remember one more thing we were on the tour bus and we were leaving this Open Air Festival there was a stampede of fans that was running after
the tour bus and we were and they were running in the field next to the this road where we were and there was a massive like hole in the middle of this field and so you can imagine almost I it it sounds not funny it's not funny though very sad and we didn't laugh no but they are okay so they were F yeah they were fine but it was like a
video game where where you just see the kids running and they're like by large groups and and Lem um all going off the cliff I feel terrible for those for those for those females most of them survive so it is funny yeah you know it makes a great talk show anecdote in retrospect you guys ready to move on
here to Sauce number seven what is this hold on we we've got there you go got sauce going down my throat oh well we we'll wait for you Lance Ginger goat I'm sweating I think we're officially High it happens I catch it around this time every time too that's the one thing I remember about the first time the
serious like I remember looking at you I was like there do I look at the one in the middle there's three of I do feel I'm getting to that I do feel a lot better that you're eating them with us though that well it has to go that way can you imagine if I was just sitting here just barking questions you
all right next Wing Chris next Wing now I dug a little hole I want you guys to run into it's going to be hilarious you're the you're the new official six member oh my yeah have Jack but we're not going to split anything with him point we learned our lesson shame me once okay do you have a most treasured memory from the set of TRL like it's
kind of hard to put in context what a cultural force that afternoon show was well it was the last time that I think the Young Generation flocked to a certain area right after school like everyone watch show now it's all spread out and everyone's kind of segmented but that was the last time everyone had to
show up and it wasn't just us and the back street boys and 98 it was Limp Biscuit it was Eminem it was all these people all watching t RL you know kind of like a big Melting Pot of people watching the same show going well in it was the it was the Pinnacle of pop culture for at least a decade right at
that time if you had the number one video on TRL it was bigger than having number one song in the country remember what I was saying about us shuffling the deck Justin but one sauce does always hold its place correct that is the next one the bomb Beyond insanity it looks like it's like lava this this is the one that sent me into like a
j Che cheers we dip it see you in yours oh God okay here we go see you in the bathroom all right oh I can smell it already cuz that's that's a Reaper isn't it in there oh Jesus yeah that that goes immediate okay holy Moses make this question really quick wow well you know it's kind of funny you say that cuz it's got a little
bit of a wind up and a multimedia angle here all right so what we thought would be fun is to do you know a style retrospective here on D bomb so what we've done is we've pulled some iconic red carpet looks and we're just curious how you reflect when you see those this time around and we'll start where are
they with the 26th and [ __ ] 26 annual American Music Awards I can't see it which must have been an important Moment Justin cuz I saw you revived it for a Halloween costume just a few years ago we did it shrunk we were actually excited cuz we got to design these wonderful why are you talking normal why I can understand what you're
saying I understand we were very excited that we got to design clothes and this is what we came up with such a beautiful thing of crying all about it I like it I think it ages well I love it the best moment for this was Joan Rivers gave us most waterproof a W you want that lubricated just spin on it look at it up next shine it up
Grammy's 2001 wait wait wait I'm not mad at the neither am I neither am I I'm not mad at the outfit I'm mad at the hair can we can we just can we just say what's happening right now what holy [ __ ] why why is it so on the tongue like it's like tongue it's like my M to my throat and the other ones kind of have
like a cycle or a halflife you know like as bad as they are the worse they're going to get and then I feel like you not be so normal this one's just like mouth give me a little bit this just dies no I gu I what you're going through I'm going through too it's uncomfortable you're just really good take a small lot of
practice this is not how look what I look at mom look what I did that was [ __ ] dumb all right up next that's cool I don't care what you say that's still cool I think I have that in a story I'm delirious right now but I think that's cool are you okay I you know what I'm I'm weightless right now I always get uh super liead this and
right now I feel very light whatever Magic Carpet you're on right now that's what I'm talking about that's right it all right a whole new A Whole New World A Whole New World yeah yep how are we feeling fantastic why is this a thing my lips are on fire I'm actually okay shut up JC [Applause] Cheers Cheers all right
okay was I remember that what's the uh like that swearing quote on your show like Let It Fly who's been the worst oh who cusses the most Gordon ramsy by far we actually full Martin sces did Count I think it was what the [ __ ] like 180 or something in the episode alone wow yeah so we'll be tough to break that we'll be
tough to break that Wolf of Wall Street f f f I think we did it broke another record yes put us down goodness put us down baby man when we had Shaq on the show he said that not signing you guys when he had the chance was one of his life's biggest regrets missed it is it I mean I don't I don't disagree with
him is it true that he let you record in his home studio after hearing you guys at an Orlando Magic game doing the national anth well for the for the for the cost of the engineer oh right do you ever see his Jo his toilet seat they're ginormous everything they are I'll never forget like shaking his hand he was like
hey what's up how you doing I'm big sha diesel your fingers his hand came all the way up my forearm and I was like and then even like on our show he grabbed an entire gallon of milk but I remember because of like the scale you know like a regular cup of yeah he was the niest the nicest to us then and he's still the nicest human on earth
burning I feel my face all right go for it open it this is definitely the weekend right now no no last dab we do yeah we are last dab bro put my man do in the math fig this is a fun part [Music] all right stab me up dog I can't even say rhubarb there you go there man I'm getting in there jez I have to add a
little extra just to yeah Glory that's what I'm saying no risk it no biscuit yeah do it for the Gipper give one what is it what is that okay I'll wait till you guys have dabbed it up oh my God Chris jeez dab it up come on I'm not Lefty come on [ __ ] you do right easy hey you are you you're to 10 I need you to six come on friend
there we go there we go let's go least your seat cheal and I'm Italian you're not going to ask us anything after this now right we leave holy [ __ ] uh maybe crap how do I that's good sauce though that tastes good yep at first yeah I'm waiting for it okay the messiest one yeah oh yeah it's it's coming yeah y yeah yeah yep yeah that's a slow
burner yeah that's good so you told lies that's cool that's cool told lies cool that was the second worst I'm just happy I did it without a drink I'm very proud of myself I've seen you like this the the years you know what I mean are you all right I can I'm going to make it I'm going to make I'm not all right
together you know we're in the same way you know what we all wear all and S [ __ ] hot yeah cuz that was 98 Degrees all going in One Direction you know Justin I remember to close out our interview I was almost nervous to ask you about ranking your albums but I appreciate the honesty right so in that spirit with our brains
on fire and mouth Ablaze I'm curious if we can collectively come up with the official Mount Rushmore of insync songs Oh while our brains slow roast in hot sauce I don't even know what the [ __ ] you said but just lean in just lean in four or five four okay um Taran up my heart's up there I would say tar my
heart bye byebye has to be up there bye byebye would be up there then you got it's going to be me it's going to be me up there and then like a ball I mean I thought she knew like the B promise she going yes I promise she I thought she knew has to be up there I thought she knew you know what I put that number one
that's personal personal favorite I thought she knew so I thought she knew byebye bye Tearing Up My Heart it's going to be me yeah how bye bye bye let's go Joey it's going to be disgusting with a with a promise you with this I promise you like sliding in honorable yeah an honorable mention and if I could add drive myself crazy to
that we'll chisel one more Stone and look at you guys taking on the wings of death living to tell the tale now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you this camera this camera this camera or this camera or this camera there's a lot of cameras today let the people know what you have going on in your life right now my ass
is going to be on fire I can't wait you're going to see me locally at Chuck E cheeses bar mitzvas yeah after this heading back to LA I'll be in the bathroom for 2 days and uh yeah but we're all going to be in a better place very I don't even want to I don't even want to go after that that's it Jo so messed
up he doesn't even know what he did what did I say nothing that's that's it that's it I'm out of here man okay can't that was wonderful seriously my fingers are why am I tingling good job guys thank you it's lava snot oh [Music] [Laughter] [ __ ] got it why did I do that again hey what's going on hot ones fans
this is Sean Evans and if you would like to get your hands on the Season 22 hot Ones hot sauce lineup at this point you know the drill heatness.com heatness.com that's heatness.com to get your hands on the hot ones Season 22 hot sauce lineup ice cream not included be careful around the eyes don't say I didn't warn you