WEBVTT - Brian Austin Green's second Act 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:05.080 I love the concept of this is the second act 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:07.560 of my life. Yeah, because if I look at the 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:09.920 first act, I had a long fucking life. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:11.640 I did a lot of it. She did a lot, yeah, 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:12.200 from like. 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:16.000 All through school, yeah, all through my twenties, like finding myself, 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:19.400 making mistakes, doing shit. So now I get to start 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:23.120 this second act from who I am now forward. 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:29.040 Welcome to Off the Cop, my personal anti anxiety antidote. 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:33.920 This episode is special because I'm coming to on Location. 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.239 Nineties con is happening in Hartford, Connecticut this weekend, and 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:38.320 I traveled here. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.600 With one purpose in mind to interview this guest. 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.200 Now, I grew up with this person, not literally, of course, 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.279 but in the way we all grew up with this 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.080 person if you were between the ages of eleven and 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.559 twenty five in the nineties. And I remember watching the 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.200 first episode of nine h two and zero vividly. It 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:58.760 was like I had just discovered a drug. 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:01.880 I was young. I was probably too young. 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:03.840 I think I was like eleven, bad parenting. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.880 Woh yes, no, But I hit it from my parents. Okay, 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.160 I hit it because this show was not appropriate for 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:13.080 an eleven year old. But I was so hooked along 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.320 with the rest of the nation, and that show gave. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.880 Us so much. For ten seasons. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:23.080 It covered sex, date, rape, racism, drugs, eating disorders, you 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.880 name the teen affliction, and this show did it and 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:29.399 then some. I think for a lot of us there 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.920 was something we could attach to somewhere in this show, 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.679 something that reflected our life, even though we were never 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:39.840 as cool as these kids were. Well, now one of 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:42.920 the cool kids is here on my podcast, which is 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:43.640 so wild. 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.160 Brian Austin Green, Welcome to Off the Cup. 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.480 Thank you so much, Thank you so much for having me. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:49.760 It's so excited. 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.440 Like when you I said this before, when you reached 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:56.280 out to me, Yeah, I was flabbergasted. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.840 I was like, yet, absolutely because you had so you. 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.560 I have so much respect for you and what you do, 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:09.160 because it's so brave what you do. Like you you 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.040 put your opinion out there knowing that there's going to 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:16.760 be a massive swath of this country that hate you 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.400 for it, absolutely, and you do it anyway, and it's 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.320 that's amazing. I do not do that. I sit at 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.640 these conventions autographs and you know. 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.800 I try just a wash in nineties nostalgia. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:31.720 At this one. Yeah, for sure. 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:36.079 So this is it's they play all nineties music. It's 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.200 all people from like say by the Bell, Like it's 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.680 all the shows and the things that were going on 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:42.360 at that time. 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:43.079 It's awesome. 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:47.320 Do you like doing these I love honest, So I so, 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:51.880 I love so. I love doing these nineties cons They're 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.960 really fun because it is it's my decade. 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:56.680 They're my people. 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.640 Some of these other conventions you do that are very 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.360 h They cover all genres. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:04.399 So they've got horror people. 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:06.480 There, they have fans of anime there, they have you know, 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.800 Andy Serkis will be there and the kids from like 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.720 Lord of the Rings. So then you kind of I 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:15.120 kind of get lost back in the corner, except for 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.480 you know, the parents that can show up after work, 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.000 you know. And so I spend most of the day 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.520 just kind of watching people go by and like trying 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.120 to offer them goodies and shit from my table, hoping 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:28.400 they'll come right right. 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:30.600 Well, I mean it sounds really fun. 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:32.480 What does it feel like to have people care so 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.760 much about a character that you like. 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.240 It's insane. They care a lot, it's insane. Yeah, it's. 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.880 I get it because I felt the same way about 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.240 shows that meant the world. Like I so for me 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:50.280 meeting my heroes, Like my heroes are who are they? Skaters? 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.600 I grew up in nor Hollywood. Yeah, yeah, so I 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.680 grew up skating. So like the first time I met 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.200 Tony Hawk, I was like, I don't care about anything else. 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.840 This is the craziest moment in my life. 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:03.280 So you get that that fantasm. 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:04.640 So yeah, so I understand it. 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.119 So I always try and keep that in mind when 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:13.200 I'm meeting people, so I'm like authentically in it. Yeah, 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.680 I don't understand necessarily their fan Like I don't have 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.599 the same connection to Nino two one zero that other 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:23.000 people do, but I have a connection to life and 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.599 things from when I was a kid, so we have 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:27.560 so much in common that way. 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.320 I try and approach it that way. 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.960 Do you have any personal space rules when you're at 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.800 these like or are you just like hugs, kisses, signs whatever? 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.400 I so not. 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:42.680 I'm no signing bras, but I otherwise I don't have 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.640 space rules, Okay, Like I really, I really try, and 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.160 because the lines get long and people are waiting hours 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.320 for these things, and I can't give them a ton 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.200 of time because I need to try and get through 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.760 the line of people that are there, but I want 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.839 to make it something special for people that are there. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.880 So I hug him, you know, like really make sure 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.360 that I lock eyes with him when we're talking, and oh, 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:05.880 what's your name. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:07.400 My name is Brian, Nice to meet you. What are 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:07.920 we doing? You know. 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.160 It's like I really try and make it as in a. 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.480 Short period of time, the best experience it can be. 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:19.640 That's great. Yeah, have your kids seen ny. 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.760 So they haven't seen nine O two one, Oh, but 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.880 they've seen like pictures and things I have. There are 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.120 a couple fans of the show that are like mega fans. 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:29.640 There's this guy. 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.080 Sure more than a couple, but okay, but I mean. 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.800 Like there they are a couple that are like they 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.000 run all of it. There's this one guy, Darren Martin, 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:42.640 who lives he's up north in Canada, and he's known 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.000 as the nine O two one bro Keeper of the 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:50.240 Code because he's literally got like he remembers everything that 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.960 was ever done on the show. He started watching the 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:58.040 show he was going through dialysis, so he had four 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.839 hours to kill every time he was doing it. So 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.760 he started watching the show and it became something that 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:09.480 just he's so incredibly passionate about. So we have these 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.960 people that really kind of they keep us in tune 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.240 of what is really happening out there and what people 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.120 like and love about it and what they're responding to. 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:24.280 So he's put together these binders of press clippings of 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.800 like magazine things and stuff that we did all through 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.080 the show and even before. And he was kind enough 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.120 to send me one of these binders because he made 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.840 a copy of it for himself. So he was like, Oh, 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:36.880 your kids are going to love this, and I was like, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.080 it's a lot of work that you're doing, but thank you. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.120 And sure enough, my kids love it. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:44.480 Oh my god, I love it. 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.200 They spent all this time going through and they're like, 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.159 oh my god, look at you when you were ten 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:49.719 and twelve. 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:50.159 And doing this stuff. 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.200 It's like me break dancing and you know, doing all 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.200 the stupid teen magazine shit that was happening. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.240 Well, we're going to get into it. There's a lot 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.080 more that I want to get to. I feel like 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.560 you talk about that a lot, and yeah, you're more 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:03.880 than that. 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:05.440 I am more than that. 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:09.640 You're more than that. Well, you're a full person. That's 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:10.800 what we try to do on Off the Cock. 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:14.120 Wait, so can I asker you because I so, I 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:18.160 do podcasts and I have a show also which I 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:18.920 invited you on. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.240 So I yes, so I am. 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.800 It's funny now when I sit with people, I want 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:26.720 to ask like questions also and I want to Yeah. 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:31.280 So I so you started. You watched the show when 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:32.960 it was on before in the nineties. 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.640 Yeah, yeah, oh yeah. 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:39.760 How how big of a show was it for you? Yeah? 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.280 And then how did you get into journalism? Like how 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:44.480 did that happen? 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.640 Okay, Well, it was a it was a big show 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.880 for me. Okay, it was a very big show. I 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.720 think I kind of dropped off when y'all went to college. Okay, 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.200 but for the years that you were in high school, 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.080 it was I was you were like five years ahead 0:07:58.120 --> 0:07:59.840 of me, so you know, to me, I was looking 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:02.640 at my future, which was way better than what my 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.600 future turned out to be in high school. Okay, in 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.240 an all girls Cathol high school, it was nothing like Okay, 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:11.239 no to but no, I mean I was super into 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.880 that show. It was a groundbreaking show to have this 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:20.880 like soapy teen drama. And then I think I got 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:23.760 real into my so called life, which was just one 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:28.200 season like tragically, and then you know, i'd get I 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.400 got into like friends and some of the older folks, 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.079 but no, no, no, it was a big, big deal, big 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:38.920 deal this show. And I got into journalism because I've 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.760 always been a writer. I like asking questions, That's what 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.520 I like to do. So I worked at the college newspaper. 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.679 And then how did that lead to political journalism? 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.800 Though? For you, because that is that was not such 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.320 a leap, that was a huge sleep. That's a choice 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.160 to make in life, like I am going to fight. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.000 Yeah, you know, it's it's not what I what I 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:02.200 thought I was going to do. 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:06.400 I was writing about like culture, and then nine to 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.880 eleven happened, and I lived in New York City, and 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:16.520 so I became then and patriotic, and you know, I 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.720 tried to enlist, and my parents were like to their 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:24.839 only child, they were like, no, please find some other 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.360 more productive way to channel your patriotism. So I ended 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:31.680 up writing about politics. Okay, that really snowballed and took 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.240 over the main you know, my career. 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.199 Yeah, that's so crazy, and it was it used. 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.720 To be fun covering politics when it was normal. 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:43.760 Well, but it's got to be fun covering on the 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.559 level the fucking craziness of what is going on. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:50.360 It's always fun covering something novel and different. And as 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:54.160 journalists we have a front row to history. That's an 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.360 honor and a responsibility. 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:00.720 But it's exhausting. It's exhausting covering politics for sure, Day Today. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:05.920 Okay, back to you, to you you are, Yes. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:07.880 Thank you. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.040 You're heading into season three of Oldish. 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.240 Yes, it's another podcast you host with Sharna Burgess and 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:14.240 Randy Spelling. 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:15.520 Any Spelling Toy's younger brother. 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:20.640 Yeah, getting older is a journey, isn't it. Why do 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.640 you want to do a podcast to talk about life 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.920 at in your stage of life? 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.600 Because well, what else am I going to talk about? 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.240 I'm not going to talk about like the younger stuff 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.480 because that's not I don't really I have five kids. 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.240 Yes, I don't relate to that anymore. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:42.240 And it honestly started because Randy's been a professional life coach, yeah, 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.880 for seventeen plus years. Like he lives in Portland, he's married, 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:49.200 has two kids. He lives very like off the grid 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.959 that way, like they're not they're not really watching TV, 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:53.559 they're not using devices. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:55.080 It's it's really cool. 0:10:56.000 --> 0:11:00.160 So I saw him posting all the time on Instagram. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.359 And I used to do love lines in Los Angeles 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.680 on the radio on camera, and I used to have 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.880 so much fun doing that. And I love the fact 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.920 that you had Adam Carolla who was out of his 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.880 fucking mind, and then you had doctor True who had 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.920 real information. Yes, And I was like, God, that's such 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:22.000 a great blend. And I wish because the country is 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.520 so right or left, but it's just it couldn't be 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.160 more separated than it is right now. I felt like 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:32.280 it'd be so great to have something that doesn't cross 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:36.080 into that at all, that just like isn't formative. I 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.800 love that that's fun for people to listen to. There's 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.920 the nostalgia from us being up, from myself being on 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.760 the show, and now you know I have I'm doing 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.320 it with Sharna, who's the love of my life. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:47.800 Yes. 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.600 So it it started as this, like, oh, it'll be 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.839 a really fun thing, and then the more we did it, 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:58.319 we changed the catchphrase of our show this year from 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.360 age old problems meet New age solutions, and now we 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.480 changed it to the more you know, the less you care. 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.520 And it was like and it was like, yeah it 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:12.640 makes sense. Yeah, great, that's great, And so we just we. 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.839 Really have like we bring in guests and we really 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:19.280 go hard in the paint people, like we really let's 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.880 get into some talk like okay, we'll kind of cover 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:23.959 the simple stuff that people want to hear, but then 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:28.040 let's really and we make them discussions like they're not 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.440 sit down interviews where we have just a bunch of quests, 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.800 like we have questions that kind of give us a direction, 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.360 but then it's like, oh no, all four of us 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.200 or three of us, or whoever is in the room, 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.000 we have this discussion where it's like we hear stories 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:44.439 and we go. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.240 Oh my god, that reminds me of the time when. 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.360 I was doing and it can just go wherever it's 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:48.680 going to go. 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:49.960 It kind of goes wherever it goes. 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.400 But then it becomes something where people that are listening 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:56.520 or watching, they feel like they're a part of a conversation. 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.040 They're a fly on a wall in something compared to 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.880 just to sit down. Because people do sit down interviews. 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:02.880 All the time. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:04.480 Yes they do, Yes, they do all the time. 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.360 And you answer this, you end up answering the same 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:08.920 question all the time, I'm sure. 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.199 So it's so nice to get into conversations where it's 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.160 like totally. It's oh, let's. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:17.360 Share our passion for things, right, share these these situations 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.320 that are really so similar. 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:19.959 Yeah. 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.520 Right, we've lived You and I have lived completely different lives, 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.360 but they're so similar because we are now in a 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:30.360 public space and we're navigating that and it's a changing 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.239 world constantly, constantly. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.160 Yeah, but it's nice to have. 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.319 It's nice to have that experience where you can talk 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:44.040 as people. Right, you're not a actor, I'm not a journalist, Like, 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:45.920 let's just be people. And I try to do that 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.000 here too, on Off the Cup, because the whole guiding 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.800 principle of Off the Cup is to create a space 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:54.600 where mental health can naturally come up. 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:55.800 It's not the focus. 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:57.640 I don't sit down and say, so, let's talk about 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.359 your mental health, right, Sure, it's having a normal comversation 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.720 the way you would with someone, and you'll cover maybe 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.360 a challenge or a dark time or a you know, 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.280 rough patch, and maybe. 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:11.520 You talk how you got out of that, and talking. 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:16.560 Like that and normalizing a conversation about mental health, well, 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.800 it so does, and it takes the stigma away from it, 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.080 it ends the silence. So I feel a greater purpose 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.640 for sure in this podcast too, and that was important 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:26.960 to me. I didn't want to sit down and just 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.560 do a political interview. 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:30.200 Because you do that all the time. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.560 Yes, So I love what you're doing at Oldish. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.040 It's great, and I think there's such an interest in 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.920 talking about this stage of life that we're in, like 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:44.400 whether it's parenthood or fucking perimenopause, don't even get me started, 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.200 or you know, the stage in our career that we 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.040 are that we are in, right, we're not in our 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.760 twenties hungry, but we're not retiring. 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:56.360 Like I think there's some responsibilities I have, like kids, 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.200 Like I have a whole my life is completely different 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.400 than it was to and I'm a whole different person, 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.840 different person. Yes, I'm looking at my future in a 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:06.960 new way. I'm looking at the life that I live 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:07.680 in a new way. 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.280 I've learned so much. Yeah, it's it's a very. 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.120 It's really interesting. It's it's a really cool age. 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.960 And I love that we're sort of talking about the 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.360 stuff that is happening to us at this age and 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.480 there's an audience for that because a lot of people 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:24.000 are trying to navigate all the same shit we are, 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:24.480 you know. 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.520 So it's I think it's amazing too when people can 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.360 do it in an authentic way. Yes, well you have 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.480 to be authentic, like it in a very like we 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:36.960 get very fucking raw and real on that show. I 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.920 love that and and not just with the guests, like 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.920 for me to go, I so relate to that and 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.880 here's why, and to dig into it on my own 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:50.400 ship because I I really learned four or five years 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:55.040 ago that for me to be relatable and for people 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:59.920 to relate to me, I have to show the human side. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.000 Have to get everything you have to get to give. Yeah, totally, 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:04.080 like you cannot. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.120 You cannot have a guard up and be like I'm 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:07.840 just going to give this, but I'm not gonna like 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.000 you have to don't fucking do it. 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.920 Don'n't do it. Just don't do it. There's no point. 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:14.200 There's no point at all. 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:18.160 Sit in your living room, watch episodes of Seinfeld when 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.120 they come on. You know what I'm saying, I do 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.240 and then and then and then like spend the you know, 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.680 spend the mornings with your kids before they go to school. 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:27.280 Yes, yes, you're totally right. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:29.600 There's no point if you're not going to be real 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:39.000 and raw and honest. 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:45.360 Yeah, I want to know what you were like as 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:46.520 a kid. What kind of kid were you? 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:53.520 I was extremely hyper, okay, I was extremely small. 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:54.960 Small in stature. 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:59.640 I was like I was like five four for years 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.240 when we did the first season of the show. Yeah, 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:02.800 so tiny. 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:03.800 When did you shoot up? 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:05.760 I was between seven. 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:07.320 Shoot up in size, not drugs. 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:12.560 When did you so? 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.520 I it was between like seventeen and eighteen, okay, I 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:17.800 was a really late bloomer. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:18.240 Yeah. 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.320 And we did the first season of the show, and 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.280 Iron Zering, one of the guys who's on the show 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.200 with me, used to pick me up by my neck 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:26.159 because I was like this little and I'd hold his 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.840 arms picked me up and it was like this joke thing. 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.439 And season two we came back to work and I 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:33.960 was six. 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.320 Feet Oh my god, I remember that. 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:37.760 Yeah, I remember. 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:39.600 Yeah, that's funny. 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:40.080 Yeah. 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:45.320 And you were you were younger than most of yours. 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:46.480 I'm the youngest on the cast. 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:47.880 You were the youngest. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:49.160 Yes, yep. Yeah. 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:54.080 Were your friends your castmates? Were they protective? Were they 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:55.160 bad influences? 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:56.080 They were? 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.760 They were both tell me so they were. So they 0:17:58.760 --> 0:17:59.600 were fantastic. 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.200 They were. We had a really. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:07.840 Unique, amazing cast there because we were all going through 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:13.560 something that nobody but us understood. There was like new 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.360 kids on the block were massive. Our show was massive, 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.160 so it was like we took over for them, which 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:23.600 was so surreal. It was the whole for me, being 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.080 my age, the whole thing all tenure was was so surreal, 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:31.119 Like I wish now I could travel the places that 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:35.800 I did then because I would appreciate those things now right. 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:36.280 Compared to then. 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.720 I was like, Oh, everybody at seventeen is you know, 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.600 doing all this shit go to Japan to side right, 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.440 isn't this what everyone does in life? 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:45.440 Like, oh, I I love my twenties. 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:49.480 Did you get to go to high school? I. 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.480 For the most part, I went to high school. 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.040 Was it like you had a normal high school experienced? 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.919 I mean we it wasn't until my senior year that 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:57.240 we started doing that on two and no. 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:00.720 So acting the most in high school. 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:02.360 I was mostly in high school. I did a lot 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.200 of set school when I was working on things. Yeah, 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.240 but you know it wasn't None of it was as 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:08.399 steady as nine or two one oh. 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:09.920