What subjects were you best at in school?
Lance: I loved physics and chemistry.
Joey: Drama and chorus. By my senior year, I had all these extracurricular activities, so almost the whole year, I was never in school because there was always a field trip for something to get out of class.
Chris: English and reading were my favorites, but I was best in math, which I hated. I knew if I understood it, I would be a math genius, but there’s no imagination to it and there’s no leeway. Math stops kids from using their imaginations, whereas when you write an essay, you can do just about anything. And you can argue a C, but in math, if you don’t have that number at the bottom of your paper, you’re wrong…and that kills kids.
What’s a life lesson that you learned in your teens?
Joey: “Don’t touch that, it’s hot!” Or, “Go inside and get in your room!”
Justin: Don’t eat yellow snow. I’m still experimenting with that.
JC: As cheesy as it sounds, always be honest. Sometimes when you’re in a bad situation, it’s really easy to lie your way out. But even though it might hurt in the beginning, it’s so much better to be honest in the long run. That pertains to every situation in life. When it comes to relationships or business, if you cover things up with a white lie, it will come back to haunt you, no matter what you do.
Lance: I think the thing I learned was that your parents are always tight, and it was so hard to come to grips with that. But they really do know everything. I mean, I’m on the road 24/7, and my mom knows everything I do. For some reason, she finds out or just knows. I don’t know how she does it.
Chris: I learned a lot of life lessons, mostly stupid things about girls.
Is there anything you studied in school that has proven to be useful now?
Joey: PE, lunch, chorus, drama—I use all that stuff. Dance, I studied ballet and tap. I use that, too.
Lance: I was on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and there was a question I learned in school—that was all worth it. Those four years, all for that one question.
JC: I have no idea. I mean, you take a little bit of everything. I learned a lot in English; I learned a lot in math. Whether you realize it or not, you use certain things all the time.
Justin: Arithmetic.
Chris: Nope! Oh, wait, I take that back. I learned how to bean a kid running from second to third. We used to practice, standing by home plate.
What are some school memories tat really stand out for you guys?
Justin: I still remember the first day of school from each year I went back. The school always had that certain smell to it. I hated school; it’s a horrible thing. The funny thing is, you’re not looking forward to it at all, but there’s something exciting about it for some odd reason.
Chris: I remember the last day of school. My friends and I would go camping. But I hated that one smart-alek teacher who thought he would be the coolest teacher, and you would talk about him if he gave you homework the first day of school. What a joke! He’d be like, ‘I want you to read the chapter and do the questions at the end of the chapter,’ and then, by the end of the year, he didn’t even know what he was talking about. Nobody paid attention; he just wanted to come off as a hard teacher.
What was the most embarrassing thing that happened to you in high school?
JC: That was such an awkward time. In ninth grade, my body just did not catch up with my brain.
Joey: When I was younger, I chipped my front tooth and I had a bond on it. I was swinging this wood stick around in dance class and I whacked it. I looked at it and it was chipped and I was like, ‘Oh that’s cool, I can get that fixed.’ But then I looked and the tooth next to it had split and the facing was off. So I started cursing, yelling, and screaming and the teacher was like, ‘Cursing isn’t going to do anything.’ I had to walk around school the rest of the day looking like a redneck. I couldn’t smile
