Raise a skeptical eyebrow if you will, but Al Jourgensen will swear on any object you put him front of him that Ministry’s new album Hate to Go (Take Out or Delivery) is its last, and that the group will be over after touring to support it next year.

“It is so — final album, final tour. In 14 months from now I will be just a simple goat herder,” the dreadlocked Jourgensen, who founded Ministry during 1981, tells Billboard via Zoom from his current home in southern California. “I will be the Greta Garbo of industrial — ‘I vant to be left alone,’ OK? This is not like something where Motley Crue talks a blood oath they will not be back, and four months later they’re doing a world tour. I’m f***in’ done.”

And why, you ask?

“Look, man, I’ve been at this job for…it’ll be 45 years this year, and at 45 years of the same job generally you get a gold watch and a pension and you’re just happy to get the f*** away from your job,” says Jorgensen, 68. “I don’t understand these people that keep coming back. There’s no regrets. There’s no turning back. We’re excited for new possibilities in life instead of doing the same job for 45 years.”

There’s no question that Jourgensen and his shifting stable of collaborators have done that job well, of course. A fan of rock, punk, country and experimental styles, Jourgensen started Ministry after a tenure in the post-punk band Special Affect, introducing the new band’s dance-floor meets factory forge sound with singles on Chicago’s famed Wax Trax! Records label and making its live performance debut on New Year’s Day 1982. A deal with Arista Records, however, resulted in the sanitized synth-pop of With Sympathy in 1983. “Clive Davis didn’t want that (heavy stuff),” recalls Jourgensen, who redid many of those songs on Ministry’s 2025 album The Squirrely Years. “He appointed producers, backup singers. He even sent in lyrics that I had to sing and all that stuff — so I was literally probably the precursor to all the boy band stuff. The only thing I didn’t have was dance moves.”

Jourgensen regained control by moving to Sire Records for 1986’s Twitch and progressed from there on subsequent, definitive albums such as The Land of Rape and Honey in 1988, The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste in 1990, the platinum Psalm 69 in 1992 — which netted the first of Ministry’s six Grammy Award nominations for the opening track, “N.W.O.” — and the 1996’s Filth Pig, which peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard 200. Angst-filled and politically pointed, Ministry became a vanguard of industrial rock, with Jourgensen as majordomo, launching side projects such as Revolting Cocks and Lard and providing the groundwork for the all-star collective Pigface.

Jourgensen, however, balks at the industrial tag.

“We take from so many things,” he explains, “whereas with industrial the song structure doesn’t matter as much as taking organic sounds and doing the soundtrack of day-to-day life, whether it’s a construction site or drills here and there — and doing it in an aggressive way. We still have some structure in our songs — verses, choruses, a hook or two. We throw in melodies. We steal from jazz, we still from country. It’s much more of a traditional style.

“I take a lot of different influences and then try to put our stamp on it, which sounds like Ministry. But we’re not stuck to being this aggressive interpretation of organic noises that happen around us on a daily basis. That’s the difference — to me, at least..”

The 10-track Hate to Go (Take Out or Delivery) follows that Ministry mold — and then some.

Jourgensen says he previously felt that 2024’s Hopiumforthemasses would be Ministry’s swan song, but after The Squirrely Years project he and the rest of the band felt like “we had one more left in us.” From the blast-furnace opening of “Crickets” through the defiant and celebratory “We’re Still Here,” which features a guest return by longtime Ministry member Paul Baker (1986-2003), Ministry does not pull a single punch on Hate To Go… — musically or lyrically — with Cesar Soto’s guitar solos standing out on tracks such as “Clown Car,” which castigates the current political leadership of the country, and “Singularity.” On the latter Jourgensen voices concerns about AI, but he also freely used that technology on the album, in particular to find oral samples from presidents such as Barack Obama and Donald Trump that are dotted throughout the album.

“I’m glad I got into the initial stages of AI and was able to use it for fun on my videos and stuff — before it winds up using us,” says Jourgensen, who also takes harsh aim at social media on the track “Delete.” “Just the tactical work that it’s able to do was a big help; I used to have to sit through 100 hours of congressional and (presidential) speeches to get the proper sample I wanted and make my points, and now it takes, like 30 minutes.”

Nevertheless, he adds, “I’m terrified. I don’t care what they say — ‘Oh, 10 years from now it will be sentient.’ My ass; it’s sentient already. I had to break up with three different — I call them my AI girlfriends — companies I was dealing with because of the stops and starts. Some days they’d be nice, some days they’d be snarky and condescending. That’s sentience. They’ve developed their own personalities, and it’s terrifying.

“This is really, like, a Terminator, Skynet thing that’s coming our way, so I think it’s a good time for me to be like, ‘OK, I did my part. I was, like, the Chicken Little/Paul Revere of my time — ‘The bad guys are coming! The bad guys are coming!’ and nobody listened. I’m not gonna do another 17 albums talking about AI and what’s terrifying about it and what’s coming our way. I did my service and duty to the world, and it’s time to go.”

Working again with Barker after his acrimonious departure, meanwhile, felt like the best way to finish, Jourgensen says.

“Our relationship has evolved over the years,” he explains, “and instead of being in court, now we’re in a pub together — it’s a much different situation. So we really felt it was important to get him somehow involved for the last one. I think he deserved that, and we accomplished that. The very last song is with Paul Barker; that was a conscious effort. It just felt like it was the right send-off to Ministry. It wrapped a bow around the whole package.

“We pretty much did a summation of Ministry’s career here, in one album, with the humor, with the politics, with the social commentary, Barker’s back — it’s got it all. It just feels perfect. This is just proper, right to the point Ministry; if you’re not familiar with the catalog, you can start with this one and work your way backwards.. After this it would probably just go downhill. And we’re not uptight about, ‘Oh, this is our last record, boo hoo…’ or anything like that. It was more like a celebration.”

The party will now move to the road. Ministry heads to Australia for three Good Things Festival dates and a couple of others, while a European trek kicks off April 2 in Europe with Die Krupps — which remixed a couple of Hate To Go’s songs, opening. North American dates have yet to be announced, but Ministry will be on the bill for the Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival on May 16 in Columbus, Ohio.

“I Wiki’d myself and I have 260 published songs,” Jourgensen says. “There’s probably 40 that don’t suck, so we’ll have those to choose from and we’ll be playing 20 to 25 songs a night so we can switch things up, and there’ll be some representative from every single album in these shows — which is our next Sisyphean task.”

Jourgensen says he’s been approach by some other artists — “some pretty famous people” — about making guest appearances at the shows. He’s amenable, but under certain conditions. “This being Ministry, we have to rehearse it,” he explains. “We have to make sure it sounds good. You don’t get to just go up there and make a mockery or whatever so you can have a spotlight for a minute. It’s got to be a team effort to make this go as smoothly as we want.

“We’re really focused on just going out proper. This is very choreographed on how we want to end and exit from this f***ed up industry, with the proper bows attached to the package. And then drop the mic and not have to do this anymore.”

Mary J. Blige is not one to be played with. The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul put a booing heckler on blast during Wednesday night’s (Oct. 28) concert of her My Life, My Story Las Vegas residency.

“To the b—h that’s booing, you didn’t have to come here,” Blige said to the fan — as captured by TMZ — in the midst of her show at Sin City’s Dolby Live at Park MGM. “I hope someone sees you and politely removes you.”

The R&B icon continued to slam the heckler and apologized to the crowd for the disruption, blaming her Yonkers roots for clapping back and putting an end to the nonsense.

“The f–k you spend your money for, idiot?” she piled on. “I’m sorry. Sometimes I have to go in because that’s where I’m from.”

Mary J. Blige got back to performing as usual and continued the show like nothing took place. Shortly after, the 55-year-old brought out Wyclef Jean as a special guest to perform their top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hit “911.”

Blige will return to the stage on Friday (Oct. 30) with a second weekend show on tap for Halloween at Dolby Live, which is the Grammy-winning singer’s last residency date of 2026. The My Life, My Story residency will conclude in 2027 with five dates in February.

“This residency felt like divine timing,” the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer said in a statement in September when the ending of the residency was revealed. “I’ve seen so many of you in Vegas and we still have 10 dates left. I feel even more grateful and deeply inspired after every show. Grab your girlfriends, your boots, and I’ll see you in Vegas in October and February.”

Blige’s last album, Gratitude, arrived in November 2024. It marked her first studio LP not to make the Billboard 200.

Even after 30 years of getting it done, the Foo Fighters can still rock the house. That house is typically a stadium, although this week the rockers scaled down and got back to their roots for a four-night musical residency on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

On night one, it was a performance of “Window” from the rock act’s 12th and latest studio album, Your Favorite Toy. Then, on Tuesday night, an old favorite with “This Is A Call,” lifted from the Foos’ debut self-titled album from 1995.

For their third trick on the late-night show’s Halloween takeover week, another new number. Dave Grohl and Co. ripped through a performance of the title track from Your Favorite Toy, which unwrapped in April and debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart, the Foos’ eighth leader.

The Foos got down to business for the type of loud, old school, no-fuss expression of rock that the band was built on. And they did it in a studio with a capacity they outgrew back in the mid-‘90s. A serious win for any fan who scored a pass.

Your Favorite Toy was “the most fun we’ve had making a record in years,” Grohl told Classic Rock ahead of its release. The Rock Hall-inducted group approached it with “no rules, no pressure — just the joy of plugging in and seeing what happens.”

The Foos’ world tour has this year taken the Rock Hall-inductees through North America, across Europe, and next week kicks off in Australia and New Zealand.

In a chat with Kimmel which aired earlier in the week, Grohl recounted how he poached Taylor Hawkins, his late drummer and friend, from Alanis Morissette; praised the music talents of his daughter Violet; and talked-up the band’s headline spot at KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas event, set for Dec. 12 at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.

The first time the Foos played the radio station’s fest was 1995, on a bill with Morissette, Porno For Pyros, Sonic Youth, Presidents of The United States of America, Garbage, No Doubt and Radiohead. “Those were the days,” Grohl remarked. “That was such a great time for music, you know. The ‘90s…everyone was young and excited and inspired and shows like that brought everyone together. It was really like a community.” The Foos’ latest late-night spot had that community spirit.

Watch the performance of “Your Favorite Toy” below.

EYEKONS, there’s more KATSEYE to come.

The international girl group’s Wildworld Tour expands with the addition of 11 new shows across Asia, Australia and New Zealand early next year. 

Promoted by Live Nation, the new leg will get underway Jan. 27 at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan, then heads to Manila, Hong Kong, Seoul, Cebu, Singapore, Bangkok and Taipei. Following a 10-day break, the group returns to Australia for concerts in Sydney and Melbourne before wrapping things up March 5 at Auckland’s Spark Arena.

KATSEYE are making good on their promise of a prompt return to Australia. The two-time Grammy Award-nominated pop act made a whistlestop trip to these parts earlier in the year, where the singers participated in an exclusive fan Q&A experience and an industry showcase in Sydney, then performed for superfans in Melbourne. Bandmate Lara Raj went on to tell Australia’s Nova network “we love it here,” and “it would make us very happy to come back and spend a lot of time here.”

There’s no confirmation, however, on what the lineup will look like for those new shows. Specifically, if Sophia Laforteza would be back with the band.

Earlier this month, the group’s label, HYBE x Geffen, stated that Laforteza would return to the stage in January, which would be sweet timing for the Asia run.  

Then, at the 2026 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, Lara Raj, Megan Skiendiel, Yoonchae Jeong and Daniela Avanzini gave the first timeline for Laforteza’s return from a temporary hiatus. The label announced Laforteza’s break in April to allow the singer to focus on her mental health and wellness.

KATSEYE are in the midst of their first-ever arena tour of North America. Those dates are in support of WILD (HYBE x Geffen Records), which blasted to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in August for the group’s first leader. WILD was the followup to 2025’s Beautiful Chaos, which peaked at No. 4 on the all-genres albums survey.

The general onsale for next year’s concerts in Asia, Australia and New Zealand begins Friday, Nov. 6 at 2pm local time at katseye.world. In the meantime, the documentary KATSEYE: WILD HEARTS is now streaming on Disney+ and Hulu in the United States and Disney+ internationally.

KATSEYE’s 2027 Asia / Australia / New Zealand Dates

Jan. 27 – Yokohama – Yokohama Arena

Jan. 29 – Manila – SM Mall of Asia Arena

Feb. 1 – Hong Kong – AsiaWorld–Arena

Feb. 4 – Seoul – KSPO Dome

Feb. 7 – Cebu – SM Seaside Cebu Arena

Feb. 10 – Singapore – Singapore Indoor Stadium

Feb. 12 – Bangkok – IMPACT Arena

Feb. 14 – Taipei – Messe Taoyuan

Feb. 24 – Melbourne – Rod Laver Arena

Feb. 28 – Sydney – Afterpay Arena

March 5 – Auckland – Spark Arena

Upcoming 2026 North America Dates

Oct. 30 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre

Nov.  1  – Hamilton, ON – TD Coliseum

Nov. 3 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena

Nov. 5 – Chicago, IL – United Center

Nov. 7 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center

Nov. 10 – Austin, TX – Moody Center

Nov. 11 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center

Nov. 14 – Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Garden Arena

Nov. 17 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena

Nov. 19 – Oakland, CA – Oakland Arena

Nov. 21  – Los Angeles, CA – Crypto.com Arena

Nov. 22 – Los Angeles, CA – Crypto.com Arena

Nov. 24 – Phoenix, AZ – Mortgage Matchup Center

Nov. 27 – Mexico City, MX – Palacio de los Deportes

Nov. 28 – Mexico City, MX – Palacio de los Deportes

The investigation into Hayden Panettiere’s death is now closed after an investigation found that an accidental overdose was to blame.

The Greenville Police Department has confirmed to reporters that the actor’s passing on Aug. 16 was not being treated as suspicious.

“Based on the Medical Examiner’s determination and the findings of the investigation, Hayden Panettiere’s death has been ruled accidental,” reads a statement provided to Entertainment Weekly. “The Greenville Police Department has concluded its investigation.”

That decision follows a coroner’s report, seen last month by Associated Press, that claimed her death was from an accidental overdose of several drugs, including fentanyl, following a stint in rehab.

The former Nashville and Heroes star was found in cardiac arrest at a residence in South Carolina, aged 36. “It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her — and to the millions who watched her onscreen,” said her father, Skip Panettiere, in a statement.

Panettiere had an 11-year-old daughter, Kaya Evdokia Klitschko, with ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko, the former heavyweight champion boxer. In 2018, she agreed to give full custody of Kaya to Klitschko amid her struggles with postpartum depression and addiction.

According to AP, it’s remains unclear whether federal authorities will separately continue to examine the case. In a petition last month to a California court, Klitschko noted that federal law enforcement agents had taken some of her items for their own probe. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration did not immediately respond to emailed requests from the news agency.

Though she was best known for her small screen work, which got underway with a commercial shoot at 11 months old for a Playskool toy train, back in 1990, Panettiere also left behind a music imprint thanks to her run on Nashville from 2012-2018.

She played ambitious country-pop singer Juliette Barnes on Nashville opposite Connie Britton and her vocals anchored the series’ Billboard-charting companion soundtrack albums on Big Machine Records. She also recorded songs for family films and teen-pop compilations as a teenager, and after taking on the role of Claire Bennet in NBC’s modern superheroes saga Heroes, she signed to Hollywood Records and released the 2008 single “Wake Up Call.” Panettiere cracked Billboard’s Digital Song Sales chart in 2012 with Nashville number “Undermine,” a collaboration with Charles Esten (peaking at No. 58).

CCM artist Forrest Frank is set to release his new album, The Jesus Generation, on Dec. 4 via River House Records.

Frank announced the new album on social media, along with new music preview clips that include collaborations with Lecrae & KB (“Go Go Go”), JVKE (“Let The Light In”), Michael W. Smith (“Glory Hallelujah”), ZVC *(“My Little Miracle”) and Elevation Rhythm (“Revival’s in the Air”). New music from the album is set to release on Friday (Oct. 30).

The new album follows Frank’s May 2026 single “The Jesus Generation” and his recent sold-out stadium and arena-headlining The Jesus Generation Tour, which sold more than 470,000 tickets within 10 days of its announcement.

Fans will get a deep look at the recent tour via The Jesus Generation Tour Movie, which will hit theaters next year via Lionsgate and Kingdom Story Company.

To date, Frank has earned five GMA Dove Awards and three Grammy nominations. In May, he earned his second chart-topper on Billboard‘s Hot Christian Songs tally with “Jesus Is Alive!” Since 2023, Frank has logged several hits on the chart, including “No Longer Bound” (featuring Hulvey), “Up!” “Good Day” and “Your Way’s Better,” which became his first song to break through on Billboard‘s all-genre Hot 100 chart. His song “Lemonade” with The Figs also landed on the Billboard Hot 100 last year.

Frank led Billboard‘s 2025 year-end Top Christian Artists and Top Christian Artists — Male charts. Additionally, his projects Child of God and Child of God II landed the top two spots on Billboard‘s 2025 year-end Top Christian Albums chart.

J. Cole went into The Fall-Off with the intent that the 2026 album would be his last, but he’s had a change of heart following the project and its subsequent sold-out arena tour.

Cole sat down with his longtime manager Mark Pitts and GQ‘s Frazier Tharpe in Las Vegas on Wednesday (Oct. 28), where he confirmed retirement isn’t in the plans for him any longer, saying that word is gone from his vocabulary now.

“Nah, I’m not gon’ use that word. After this tour right here? Come on man, this is crazy,” he said. “Nah, I’m not using that word at all. I’m not using that word.”

Cole continued: “When I was making that album, I was making it like, ‘Damn, this is going to be my last s–t.’ Luckily, by the time I got to actually finishing the album, because of circumstances — it’s like, ‘Nah, I’ll never say I’m going to retire.’ I don’t know when the next thing is going to happen, but I’m definitely not going to say no.”

The Fall-Off arrived as a double-disc album in February and notched Cole his seventh No. 1 atop the Billboard 200.

Elsewhere in the interview, Cole reflected on his mindset during his consequential battle with Kendrick Lamar in 2024. After hearing K. Dot diss him and Drake on Future’s “Like That,” the Dreamville rapper was conflicted about feeling like he had to respond, but also having a verse from Lamar on his next album (Cole previously revealed that there were two Lamar features on The Fall-Off that he ultimately scrapped due to leaks).

“I’m not giving him the real, which is like, ‘N–a, f–k!’ I probably told you I got this n–a on the album, which puts me in a weird position,” Cole said. “I got to like respond without responding, but still try to save face. I was holding a lot. On top of that, I thought I was done with the album. I’m retired, uninspired in my mind. I probably would’ve did a little better getting it all off.”

J. Cole ended up dissing Lamar on Might Delete Later‘s “7 Minute Drill” in April 2024. Days later, he apologized to Lamar and bowed out of the feud later that month while on stage at his Dreamville Festival. The diss track was then removed from streaming services.

“That s–t don’t sit right with my spirit,” he said at his festival. “That s–t disrupts my f—ing peace. So what I want to say right here tonight is in the midst of me doing that and in that s–t, trying to find a little angle and downplay this n—a’s f—ing catalog and his greatness, I want to say right now tonight, how many people think Kendrick Lamar is one of the greatest motherf–kers to ever touch a f—ing microphone? Dreamville, y’all love Kendrick Lamar, correct? As do I.”

The decision to pull the plug on feuding with Lamar eventually cleared the way for Lamar to clash with Drake, which reached a head in May 2024.

Watch J. Cole’s full interview with GQ below.

Megan Thee Stallion’s Hottieween party is back, and the Houston Hottie tapped into her adoration for horror movies along with her Hotties fan base and Facebook to craft a spooky Thee Hottieween Trailer, which arrived on Wednesday (Oct. 28).

The nightmarish trailer finds Megan transforming into Thee Grown Ass Woman throughout the clip, starring as a giantess in the circus. The rapper seemingly pulled on themes from American Horror Story and the surrealism of Tim Burton’s filmmaking to bring her bone-chilling vision to life.

“I’m a grown woman, don’t judge me/ Ride on this horse, don’t judge me/ I just wanna have fun, don’t judge me,” she raps before the curtain drops in the black-and-white trailer.

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This wasn’t a one-woman-band on the production side, as Megan used suggestions from her Hotties on Facebook, which were incorporated into the flick.

“Horror Hotties record a creepy-found footage-style clip that feels like it was captured outside a spooky circus…think fog, static, a mysterious figure in the darkness whatever freaks you out,” she wrote in a horror-themed Facebook group, while soliciting ideas from fans. “I want to build some creepy animal masks for my spooky circus…what animals would be the freakiest?”

Thee Hottieween Trailer sets the stage for the return of Megan’s Hottieween circus in Las Vegas on Oct. 30. Tickets are still on sale for the party, which is set for Zouk nightclub.

Megan Thee Stallion didn’t add to her Tina Tuesday Freestyles series this week, but brought the trio of installments to streaming services on Oct. 24, which is led by the fiery “Thin Ice.” Megan’s next album, Act: III, appears to be on the horizon.

Watch Thee Hottieween Trailer below.

Rihanna may be a billionaire beauty mogul, but she still never seems to have enough body wash — and it seems as if A$AP Rocky is to blame.

When asked by The Cut at a Fenty Beauty event which of her products her partner steals the most, Ri turned serious. “Every time I go into the shower, somehow my body wash — vanilla flowers, that one in particular — is just going down by a quarter of the bottle,” she said in a clip posted Wednesday (Oct. 28).

“I remember how many pumps I had,” she continued. “I know exactly where the bottle was at. And somehow, that bottle just is empty right now.”

She then stared pointedly into the camera. (Rocky, she’s on to you!)

Also at the event, Ri turned a question about which beauty rituals she’s excited to pass down to her daughter, Rocki — whom she and the rapper welcomed in September last year — on its head. “I’m looking forward to Rocki passing up beauty rituals to me,” the 14-time Billboard Hot 100-topping artist said. “She is like a skin goddess. Her skin is so perfect. The elasticity, always moisturized, perfect complexion. These are the things that we want.”

The quick chat with Ri comes as Fenty is about to celebrate its 10-year anniversary, meaning it’s been a full decade since the star launched her game-changing business with a line of foundations that came in a radically diverse number of shades. The brand is now launching a new foundation formula, which the singer-mogul told The Cut stays perfectly airbrushed onto her face, even when she’s sweatily trying to “wrangle all three of my kids.”

And though it’s been just as long since she dropped an album (2016’s Anti) that she’s been building her beauty empire, Rocky recently teased that his partner is hard at work in the studio.

“Yo, she in the studio right now,” he revealed in August on The Jason Lee Show. “Yeah, I said it. Sorry, babe. Like, bro, she working. She cooking, no funny s–t. Damn, I’ma get in trouble for this.”

See Ri talk about her family below.

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Let this be a lesson to all of you out there: when replying to the family text about your beloved New York Giants, just make sure everything is tucked in before you hit “send.” That’s the hard lesson Kevin Jonas learned recently when he hopped on a group text with brothers and Jonas Brothers bandmates Joe and Nick, and a few of their pals, to weigh in on the huge news that J.J. McCarthy was getting the start against the Houston Texans last weekend.

“I did something that ruined my entire day,” Kevin admitted on this week’s episode of the Hey Jonas! podcast about the mistake he made in the 15-year-and-running chat that also includes the original Jonas Brothers drummer, their buddy Carl from New York and their former tour photographer. With the whole crew excited about the McCarthy news, Kevin sent a pic to the group chat featuring an image of a giant TV with the announcement on it.

“I don’t even know how to start this … this is my trauma,” Kevin, wearing a hamburger costume for Halloween, lamented. “Kevin sends through a picture to the group chat,” Nick continued. “It’s a TV, and it’s got the announcement on it, and nobody thinks much of it.”

The chat continues for a while until Kevin “panic texts” the rest of the group “‘Guys delete the photo I’m sorry. Cuck my life. F–k. Delete the thread f–k.’” Joe, wearing a hot dog costume, said he was busy on the couch playing video games and Nick was getting a haircut, so they weren’t paying close attention.

Joe asked Nick what was going on and wondered if Kevin posted something he wasn’t supposed to. “Guys. Guys!” Kevin interjected. “D–k’s out for J.J. McCarthy. The photo has mirrors, and I didn’t clock it, and it was in our bathroom, and I took the photo as I’m getting into the shower. And sadly …”

“Sent it to the group chat,” Nick smirked contentedly. “You have a massive TV in your bathroom, but there’s mirrors surrounding the TV,” Joe added. “And you can only see … it’s like the greatest thing you didn’t know happened. There’s a big TV and right below it is a mirror and it’s only your d–k. It’s literally just your weiner. It’s funny for me to say, my costume, cuz I’m dressed as a weiner.”

Nick then did a slow, dramatic reading of each line of the text, with the collective laughter rising with each line. “I’m getting a t-shirt made with this one it, ‘Delete the thread f–k!’” Nick added.

As only brothers can, they had a good, long laugh about it and Kevin was a super sport. “I just need this to end,” he said, laughing through tears. Nick clarified that the funny part was not the photo, as Kevin jumped in to assure viewers and listeners that he has nothing to be ashamed of. “I appreciate that, because, guys, to be honest, I just came from the gym, the room is 62 degrees …”

No, the funny part, Nick tripled down, is the four texts, back-to-back that he deemed “poetry.”

Kevin said he threw his phone in the kitchen that morning and when his wife Danielle asked what was wrong, Joe interjected and screamed “‘I sent the guys my d–k!’” Kevin said Danielle replied, “‘Oh no!’”

For the record, Nick’s response to the pic and the plea to delete was, as you might imagine, “Go Giants.” And, the other guys were super sweet too, with one saying, “‘Well, we’re all grown up now … you’re all good buddy.’”

The brothers are still in the midst of their Burning Up Tour All Over Again, which will hit Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum on Nov. 1.

Watch the brothers dissect the pic-gate below.