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A sound bite comes on that says, "HI! WE'RE THE BACKSTREET BOYS! AND YOU'RE HANGING WITH..." and Howie goes, "What's this guy's name again?" and the guys answer, "PRIESTLY!"
Priestly: Ladies and Gentlement, from the Backstreet Boys, Nick Carter!
Nick: Hey, whassup? he he
Priestly: How ya doin?
Nick: I'm just chillin, talkin to everybody in Baltimore. he he
Priestly: Very very cool. Well, Nick, we wanna kinda play a 20 questions with ya, if you will.
Nick: No problem.
Priestly: I wanted to open the phone lines up to the listeners, but I know they'd explode. So, instead I kinda did a lil, secret, I dunno, searching, if you will, and hit some fan sites...
Nick: How cool...
Priestly: ...The adore the Backstreet Boys and we wanna kinda see if this is true or not. The first thing I read, is this true? No matter what country you guys are in, you travel in this luxury bus, that's got 5 beds, a stero, a GIANT screen tv, a VCR, and a video game station?
Nick: Oohh, definitely, not true.
Priestly: (laughing) Definitely not true!
Nick: Well definitely, see over in Europe, the uses are defferent. They're more, they're more so like a regular coach would be.
Priestly: Really?
Nick: Tey have bunks in em, but they're really not...they, they have seats up i the front, just ya know, lofts over there and everything. And yeah, they do hae TVs o them, and we play a lil bit of PlayStation. But, it, it definitely doesn't have a big screen tv.
Priestly: Oh, I was getting ready to say, you're ot dealing with oe of those flat screen TVs, that are like 32 inches big?
Nick: yeah, I wish (laughs)
Priestly: (laughs) It would make touring a lot nicer, wouldn't it?
Nick: Yeah.
Priestly: I hear ya, bro. Alright, here check this one out. Before every show you guys focus for a few minutes, you high-five each other, you hug, you pray, and the you hug again.
Nick: (snickers) (high-pitched voice) Yeah...yeah...I guess you could say we do that...
Priestly: You got some kind of ritual? Or is that close...
Nick: (says something I can't understand) Well, I mean, it's just something to ??? give big ??, ya konw?
Priestly: I gotcha!
Nick: Ya know, and of course we always give our love before we go up on stage.
Priestly: You're a good bunch of guys.
Nick: yeah.
Priestly: And I know this. Alright now, here, this is what I'm gonna roll the dice on, okay? And say that this is definitely not ture, cuz if it was, you guys would be like sticks. (Nick and Priestly chuckle) It says here that each of you lose 4 pounds during a performance. I mean, I know you're working...
Nick: Lemme, lemme tell you what...
Priestly: What's that?
Nick: I mean, we've...you definitely lose a lot of weight up on stage, I mea, cuz you drink a lot of water, you tend to drink a lot of water, because basically, you wanna, ya know, keep everything hydrated, I guess you'd wanna say...
Priestly: Absoloutely.
Nick: And, um, when you're on stage, you just, you sweat a lot, especially 2 hours nonstop, just dancing and stuff. So I mean, you could lose like 2 pounds, I wouldn't say 4.
Priestly: I was gonna say, 4 pounds a show? (Nick coughs) You guys are gonna be nothing by the end of, ya know, 3 shows! There's not much to you guys...
Nick: (laughs like "I can't believe you said that") he he
Priestly: So, uh, let's see here, what else? Cofirm or deny this for me. Your name comes from a popular teen hang-out called the Backstreet Market?
Nick: Uh, it used to be, a long long time ago, which was like early 90's. Ya know, it was a place called The Backstreet Market.
Priestly: Really?
Nick: And it was a fact that, um, whether, whether or not...that was exactly where we got it from, which was like, ya know, a couple names you throw out, different things...see how they sound together. You always wanna come out with something different.
Priestly: I hear ya. Well, uh, I gotcha on the phone. We're gonna hang out, we're gona talk some more, let's go to commercials...I just want the proof (Nick is talking in the background, but I can't make it out). Ladies and gentlement, who are ya?
Nick: (Since he was talking, he's now lost) What's that?
Priestly: Go head, tell...
Nick: Who am I? okay, (laughs) I think I'm Nick!
Priestly: Nick Carter from the Backstreet Boys! Ya think? No, I kow for fact! Alright, hang on the line, and we'll be right back!
Nick: Alright.
Then they break for commercials
Priestly: Hey, it's Priestly, back with Nick Carter from the Backstreet Boys. Uh, born in New York, Jamestown, huh?
Nick: Yeah, I was born up there.
Priestly: I'm a New York boy, too, myself.
Nick: it's really upstate (laughs)
Priestly: Really...Yeah it is, I'm a Long Island guy, myself.
Nick: Really...
Priestly: But, uh, we're talkin a lil bout you know, we're doig the 20 questions, and ya know, kinda confirming and denying the facts that the fans seem to be circulating on the internet. At 9 years old, you were in the musical The Phantom of the Opera?
Nick: Yeah, I wasn't actually in the musical...it was in school.
Priestly: Okay...
Nick: And it was just a, it was like a school play, and I kinda got lucky to get the part cuz, first place, becasue I was in a different grade, and one of the guys had dropped out...or uh, he didn't wanna do it.
Priestly: So it's a great opportunity.
Nick: The teacher heard about me, heard that I was a singer, and, uh, she offered it. That's how it kinda happ...how that went. It was a cool lil thing for school.
Priestly: It says here, this is an interesting thing, I thought, that when you were younger, you were kinda unsure about your vocal talent and your opportunites in the music world, that you were focusing on sports.
Nick: Ye, well I, no I said, I think what they wer tryin to probably say was I would have LIKED to have been in sports.
Priestly: OH
Nick: Yeah, I think that kind go...misconstrued. I never got to go to high school, so it's like, cuz I jumpred right our of junior high into the group, and then immediately I did tutoring.
Priestly: AH
Nick: So, from then, ya know, I, I never got to experience high school, so I would have loved to have gone and played sports and do some of dat. And actually I still wanna pursue some type of sporting career after this.
Priestly: Well, what kind of sports you into?
Nick: Um, I'm into...personally I love, I love football. I love, ya know,watching the (??) of football, I love watching sports in general. I love to play basketball...
Priestly: Mmmkay..
Nick: I love playing basketball, and that's probably something I wanna do. I'm sure, ya know, if we ever get some time in the future, I'd go to college and play some basketball.
Priestly: Excellent!
Nick: ...OR football
Priestly: If you were in college, (Nick coughs) what would you be interested in studying?
Nick: Um, I dunno, I think I'd probably--it definitely wouldn't be math! (Priestly laughs) Cuz math is not me and the ??activity?? I think I'd be uh...some type of, some type of history. What would you call that? Uh..
Priestly: It would be history! Yeah, it would be history, like, uh history, socialogy, that kind of stuff.
Nick: Yeah, so it would kind be cool to like get into archaeology or something like dat.
Priestly: I could imagine what it would be like, being Nick Carter, going to college.
Nick: I know, it would be kind of...odd. (laughs)
Priestly: Bombarded, you would be, man. That would be nuts.
Nick: It'd be fun.
Priestly: Yeah, I think you'd have a REAL good time. Uh let's see here, other things about you...this was interesting...I did some research, ok? And is it true that you've recently developed an allergy to cats?
Nick: No, I've HAD that allergy for a long, long time.
Priestly: It says that you have a cat named PINKY!
Nick: Ooohh, my goodness!
Priestly: Oh
Nick: That was...do you know how long ago that, that cat in particular? That was bout, almost like, that was like, 9 years ago.
Priestly: Really?
Nick: I've had that cat, yeah. She was Pinky, and the reason why we named her Pinky was she had, uh, 7 toes.
Priestly: That's a freaky cat!
Nick: Yeah, anyway, it was like a little thing, a 7-toed cat.
Priestly: Well also, I got these notes here, on a terrior named Boo Boo?
Nick: Yeah...(stutters) Yyou see, that's, tese are all old, old types that I used to have back in the day.
Priestly: What happened to Sinbad the golden retriever?
Nick: SIMBA
Priestly: Simba?
Nick: Yeah (laughs)
Priestly: See, I'm tellin ya, I got these weird butt facts!
Nick: (bursts out laughing) SINBAD!! HAHAHA!!
Priestly: Exactly, from your fans, and I wanna set em straight, man!
Nick: (Nick is like coughing up a hairball now) Woo, yeah. His name is Simba, he's still pretty bad. (Priestly laughs) Mean, ol doggy.
Priestly: Awww
Nick: But he's cute, he looks like Simba from The Lion King, like a big ol' teddy bear.
Priestly: I betcha he's mad, cuz ya know, Daddy's always on the road, and he's gotta do his thang...
Nick: Yeah, I know (laughs)
Priestly: He just wants attention, that's all Nick.
Nick: It's cool, man. He's running around, doing SOMEthing...
Priestly: So, I know you're bussy, but what about giving us a vocal intro to one of your songs?
Nick: Ummm, hmm, let's see..which song didja wanna hear? Uh...
Priestly: I was kind thinking about "As Long As You Love Me"
Nick: "As Long As You Love Me"?
Priestly: Come on
Nick: Uh, let's see.. (bursts ut into an awesome version of his first verse of the song)
Priestly: That, THAT IS FANTASTIC!! Ladies and gentlemen, NICK CARTER!!
Source: Backstreet.Net
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