Mark McGrath on Sugar Ray, His No Jumper Fandom, Sugar Gay & More

Mark McGrath sits down with Adam, for a delightful and hilarious deep dive interview about his career, his extensive No Jumper knowledge, and more! https://www.instagram.com/therealmarkmcgrath/ ----- 0:00 Intro 0:15 How the "losing hearing" rumor started on a red carpet, he said it as a joke and it went viral 2:55 Mark won the jeopardy rock trivia at one point: "I dont like to brag but yes" lol 3:30 Being called a one hit wonder w their song "Fly" 5:00 "I loooove music Adam22!" and by 8th grade he tried to figure out how to become a musician full time 6:50 Adam says by way of Nu Metal he went to Hardcore and Metal, Mark says Fred Durst would be happy to hear that 8:15 First album with Nicole Eggert n*ked on the cover, they had to make a statement coz there was so much competition 9:01 Nirvana is directly responsible for Sugar Ray success 10:18 In the 90s you could lie to labels, no social media to counter anything 11:14 The Shrinky Dinx, they started the group to drink beer and play old songs 12:23 Growing up in Newport Beach, Mark was in awe of reggae, he was breakdancing too! 12:54 Changing their name to Sugar Ray, Sugar Ray never trademarked his own name, Mark says he can use it anytime tho 13:00 They told the label they were bigger than they were and 500 songs recorded, one thing led to another and they got signed by Atlantic for 1M 14:43 They set themselves apart by making a music video on a VHS in a pizza box and sent it to every label 15:55 Mark calls Adam the Joe Rogan of the Zesty Disciples 17:27 Adam is really locked in when he interviews ppl which is amazing 18:46 Howard Stern influence + Meat Puppets, one of Kurt Cbain's favorite band, they were gonna record one of Howard Stern's song called “Psychedelic Bee” 20:30 They pulled up to a college while on tour, they recorded the song that day, sent to their manager thru Fedex and that was it, couple weeks later the manager tells them "leave all your s**t in Wyoming and come here to be Howard Stern" 24:50 The Fly appeal, they toured for 2 years with that song alone 27:20 Mark briefly gets emotional talking about the music memories with his mom 29:21 Mark said he hated Fly at first, he wanted to make it heavier like Deftones or Korn, when he heard the original version, super singy/lame and he was like "This aint it, I quit!" 35:00 Mark on getting Supercat on the song, turns out David Khan was super friend with him, called him, and boom! Came to the studio 37:20 They went huge overnight, Mark was ready for it! A dream come true 41:05 You got a tramp stamp? Mark says "I do...! Why WOULD YOU BRING THAT UP!" Mark shows the tattoo 41:51 Mark says Mr Cartoon is kinda the interview that brought him to No Jumper 44:45 How ppl love to hate Limp Bizkit but secretly love them, they're back on the road as we speak 47:15 Feeling the business pressure, labels needing singles, and growing as songwriters 53:45 Mark says King Yella is compelling and Ben Baller is full of it 57:15 The Sugar gay incident, it was a pre-grammy/Oscar party w Madonna 59:32 Ppl outside were already talking kinda crazy to the attendees, and Mark didn't like it, Mark says "I stayed on bid'ness" 59:00 Madonna says Mak walk me to my car, they walk out, he was feelin himself a little bit, as soon as Madonna drives off, he turns around to ppl calling him a F etc, Mark blacked out 1:02:15 Mark praises Desto Dubb! 1:08:00 Mark actually called Pharell for a song to find more success, Mark didnt like the song tho, years later Blink 182 told him Pharell tried to give him the same exact song 1:12:00 Mark points out who can and cannot snitch: “G FACE is "DOOOOONE!!" 1:20:15 Being a host at Extra, Mark asked Al Pacino about Britney/Kevin Fed and he turned him down saying: "You're better than that!" and walked off 1:28:00 The lawsuit rumor that led to the band break up, Mark says 2 of the members left the group and wanted to burn the house down on the way out 1:31:35 Mark says No Jumper is his main source of news entertainment 1:42:00 Bands on average are way better than rappers on stage 1:44:00 Mark and Adam on fatherhood and the s*x drive kinda phases out lowkey after so many years 1:49:30 Adam offers DLow chocolate pills, lol, then Mark asks about Sydney Starr and Wack 1:50:25 Mark inquires about Wack's naked photo, he's so happy it's real 1:56:00 Mark still thinks that he's the least talented to get all the accolades he got 1:57:00 The joy of playing a hit record is unmatched, some artists hate it, Mark loves it and he's forever grateful to be able to do so 1:59:00 Mark asks, have you ever recorded a song, "no", are you lying? "yes!" 2:01:01 One time Mark thought he could still break dance, and his veneers just flew out 2:02:30 Ppl used to confuse him with Ethan Hawke, at some point he started signing autographs as Ethan so ppl wouldn't think Ethan was a d**k lol

Added 7 Sept 2026