Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Dugout Dad's podcast.
Speaker 2: It's the very first episode.
Speaker 3: We're calling it the Daniel Fisher Show featuring Dugout.
Speaker 2: That is not true. This is all of our dugout Dads.
Speaker 2: I am Daniel Fishle.
Speaker 4: You are Patrick and the dugout Dad.
Speaker 2: You are the dugout Dad, the one and only Patrick
Speaker 2: run at you.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I wanted to start talking about.
Speaker 3: Just to get out ahead of this because I just
Speaker 3: want to. We're saying it's the Daniel Official Show because
Speaker 3: she is so much better than I am at this,
Speaker 3: so she is hosting my podcast.
Speaker 2: That is That is not true. I am not better
Speaker 2: at this.
Speaker 3: Like literally, when you just say things Kyle can attest
Speaker 3: to this, We're like, yeah, she just it's so much better.
Speaker 3: Because I would take six takes. I'd go was that good?
Speaker 4: How was that?
Speaker 3: Give me a sec I'd go check my hair, I'd
Speaker 3: stress out it's fine.
Speaker 4: Anyway.
Speaker 1: I didn't expect to find that I was less vain
Speaker 1: than you in this process, but I've discovered that.
Speaker 3: I'm more nervous van like I'm like, you know, neurotic,
Speaker 3: vain neurotic.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's true, You're yeah, let's go with more neurotic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: I wanted to as someone who has uh really leaned
Speaker 1: into the Boy Meets World universe over the last four
Speaker 1: years of doing the podcast pod Meets World.
Speaker 3: I love the universe, by the way, like them like
Speaker 3: the universe, the Boy Means World universe exactly. And then
Speaker 3: I saw someone all bomb that this isn't part of
Speaker 3: the Sandlot universe, and I was like, I've never heard
Speaker 3: the Sandlot universe universe.
Speaker 1: I like this, And I guess some could say is
Speaker 1: it a part of the same universe or no?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 3: Would you it's a multiverse. It's a definitely a multiverse.
Speaker 3: It's you know, somewhere on another.
Speaker 2: The Dugout Dads is the Miles Morales.
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, that turned out.
Speaker 2: One of my favorites right hands down.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay. Can you tell people what is Dugout Dads?
Speaker 1: Is it a spinoff? Is it a reboot? Is it?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 3: It's actually like that one Spider Man who's like Chubby
Speaker 3: that s dug out.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a forty years.
Speaker 4: Eating a little too much.
Speaker 3: He's still Spider Man, but you know he's lost a
Speaker 3: step or two. No, dugout Dad's is a completely original concept.
Speaker 3: And basically I coached my son's little league team for
Speaker 3: it was actually not little league, it was pony ball
Speaker 3: for a couple of years, and I stopped coaching when
Speaker 3: I realized he actually needed a real coach that knew.
Speaker 4: What he was talking about.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm like six to eight, I can you know,
Speaker 3: starfish throw it like that, you know, choke up.
Speaker 4: I'm good.
Speaker 3: But then they start actually needing coaching, and I went,
Speaker 3: I'm going to take a step back here, so I
Speaker 3: became just a parent. But through that whole experience, I
Speaker 3: saw how much, how seriously I took it. And I
Speaker 3: wasn't one of the people that end up on social media,
Speaker 3: you know, getting kicked out of a game or doing
Speaker 3: crazy stuff. But you know, I'd be lying if I
Speaker 3: said I didn't you didn't do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So one my kid made it to the championship game,
Speaker 3: my oldest, and it had been this epic season.
Speaker 2: Congratulations by the way.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, And then he lost in the
Speaker 3: championship game, and the parents in the bleachers we were
Speaker 3: like kicking over coolers and hugging each other and trying
Speaker 3: on each other's shoulders, and we were so sad.
Speaker 4: Uh, they were never going to see each other again.
Speaker 4: This is terrible.
Speaker 3: It was just so dramatic. But they were wonderful people.
Speaker 3: But then I looked out into the outfield and my
Speaker 3: son and his steammates are playing tag five seconds after.
Speaker 4: They lost the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's already behind them.
Speaker 3: Couldn't care less, and I went, this has to be
Speaker 3: a show this, you know, it's such a funny idea,
Speaker 3: you know, the parents wanting taking it so seriously, wanting
Speaker 3: to win so bad, and the kids not really caring.
Speaker 3: So I and I have a production company now him
Speaker 3: you know, media and my business partner Kyle.
Speaker 4: Howard, who we've been friends and you know for a long.
Speaker 3: Time, we are developing things and you know, we had
Speaker 3: this on the back burner because they're like, this is
Speaker 3: a funny idea, but something didn't quite mix. And then
Speaker 3: I went and did an appearance with the other Sandlot guys,
Speaker 3: which we do a couple of year together, and it's
Speaker 3: always so special when we're all together, you know. And
Speaker 3: I came back from that appearance and walked into the
Speaker 3: office the next Monday and is at Kyle remember dug
Speaker 3: out dads. Yeah, that show idea, but the Sandlock guys
Speaker 3: are the dads, and we went that's the show. And
Speaker 3: it's just sort of fallen into place with everyone and
Speaker 3: we've gotten we have these, you know, Sebastian Jones and
Speaker 3: Dan Copleman. Sebastian wrote on Friends, not Seinfeld, as we
Speaker 3: made that mistake, He wrote on Friends, Dan Cobleman did
Speaker 3: Malcolm in the Middle. They just took it on, created
Speaker 3: a writer's room, wrote it. It's so funny. Victor Nelly
Speaker 3: jumped on to direct. He's been just directing for years.
Speaker 3: Got the incredible director of photography, Michael Price, and just
Speaker 3: like got this camera team. It looks like, you know,
Speaker 3: a big budget movie thanks to them and just everywhere
Speaker 3: we've turned. Victoria Fradkin is another producer with Kyle and I.
Speaker 3: She's you know, been in the YouTube world a lot
Speaker 3: and horror. Yeah you know this.
Speaker 2: Is not horrible slasher, so we haven't gotten that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're killing me smalls to a whole new level.
Speaker 3: But it just you know, and then even yourself, like
Speaker 3: people that have jumped on board and made it what
Speaker 3: it is has been so special. I still my voice.
Speaker 3: Let's get out ahead, of this too. I had twelve
Speaker 3: pages of dialogue. I've never had that much.
Speaker 4: Of my life.
Speaker 2: We wrapped several weeks ago.
Speaker 3: I still and I still have you still a sore
Speaker 3: voice box. Okay, so it's not puberty. My voice just
Speaker 3: will cracked throughout this post.
Speaker 2: He thinks you donth protest too much.
Speaker 1: I've heard this story about twelve pages a day for
Speaker 1: a few weeks.
Speaker 4: You know what fixes it? Coffee?
Speaker 1: That is what I've heard. To stay hydrated with coffee
Speaker 1: will make it better. Okay, other similarity to share, it's
Speaker 1: not No, it's.
Speaker 4: Not Samlott universe.
Speaker 3: It's its own original concept, which I'm happy about because
Speaker 3: I don't want to compete with Samlott.
Speaker 4: People have always asked me, do you want to do
Speaker 4: a sequel?
Speaker 3: Would you do a Cobra Kai And honestly, my first
Speaker 3: answer is no, unless Sean Levy directed it. You know which,
Speaker 3: fun fact, Kyle Howard and I started Sean Leavey's career.
Speaker 4: That's right, Sean Levy.
Speaker 3: I'm going out on a limon saying, wow, we did
Speaker 3: we did his first movie. He's done pretty good. Since
Speaker 3: I don't know that you know we helped in any
Speaker 3: of that. But I like to say we started Sean
Speaker 3: Leevey's career address unknown, this little feature we did together.
Speaker 3: That's where Kyle and I met, uh and it was
Speaker 3: out in Utah and.
Speaker 1: We've been so you started Shawn Levy's career, and he
Speaker 1: started your friendship.
Speaker 3: He started our friendship. But I will not do a
Speaker 3: Sandlot sequel unless someone like that is the one ensuring
Speaker 3: that doesn't suck, because you're like, I don't want to
Speaker 3: blow this for everyone totally like we you know, they
Speaker 3: we'll have three generations come up to us and say,
Speaker 3: you've been in our living room for thirty years. That
Speaker 3: means so much to us, you know, And Shauncey says
Speaker 3: it really, it's not lost on us.
Speaker 4: We're humbled.
Speaker 3: It's like people ask if it bothers you, Like, how
Speaker 3: could that bother you?
Speaker 4: Exactly?
Speaker 1: Such a beautiful gift to have been given, to be
Speaker 1: a part of so many people's core memories.
Speaker 3: So exactly, and we just I wanted to make something new.
Speaker 3: It's a fresh idea, but it's with my brothers from
Speaker 3: thirty years ago, and that makes it even more special.
Speaker 2: Well, people may notice that we have an empty.
Speaker 4: Chair here that's going to be filled by all, it.
Speaker 1: Will be filled every episode with a new cast member teammate.
Speaker 1: Some might say from dug Out Dads that we will
Speaker 1: get to talk to and interview and hear their thoughts
Speaker 1: and see what they're up to now, and hear their
Speaker 1: experience with dug Out Dads. Another similarity that we share
Speaker 1: is that there is one very important person from.
Speaker 4: Sandlot, boy who met the world.
Speaker 1: Right, the boy who met the world in the Sandlot
Speaker 1: universe is not a part.
Speaker 2: Of Dugout Dads.
Speaker 4: That's true, and.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to give you the opportunity because I'm
Speaker 1: sure you've been asked a million times on social media.
Speaker 3: Bellswinger, Ellswinger has nothing to do with the Dugout Dad's universe.
Speaker 4: Oh was it not? If you know who Elswinger is.
Speaker 3: You are a true Sandlot I'm sorry, you're talking about
Speaker 3: Benny the Jet.
Speaker 2: I am sorry. Yeah, Well, do you want to once
Speaker 2: and for.
Speaker 1: All address I want to address the elephant that's not
Speaker 1: in the room exactly.
Speaker 3: And the thing is, I don't even have an answer.
Speaker 3: I like, you know, I see the comments on social
Speaker 3: and I like to, you know, answer some funny some
Speaker 3: funny responses once in a while, But I don't. You'd
Speaker 3: have to ask him there. I will say, there's nothing
Speaker 3: contentious about Mike Vitar. You know, the man started out
Speaker 3: as a child to hear over and everyone and became
Speaker 3: a real life hero.
Speaker 4: Like he's a firefighter.
Speaker 3: He was a firefighter in the town that I live
Speaker 3: in La So I saw him a lot. A lot
Speaker 3: of the guys have seen him. Marty Yorke, that son
Speaker 3: of a gun, got his Dodger jersey completed and went
Speaker 3: and saw him at his firehouse and got him to
Speaker 3: sign it. He didn't bring ours with him. We'll talk
Speaker 3: about that when Marty's on the.
Speaker 2: Show, okay.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so he from what I've gathered is he's
Speaker 3: just a private dude now and he just you know,
Speaker 3: we all email him, he responds unless he's fighting a fire.
Speaker 3: He fought the Palisade fires. Like the last time I
Speaker 3: checked in, I asked him, Hey, do you want to
Speaker 3: do a cameo in this? He said, dude, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm just kind of a private guy. And we chatted
Speaker 3: about the Palisade fires and like his you know that
Speaker 3: experience and stuff. So he's a cool dude. I don't
Speaker 3: see him often. I know the guys don't see him often.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he's just not in it.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't that he wasn't asked no.
Speaker 3: We asked him a lot, we you know, not too much.
Speaker 3: You know, over the years, I've asked him a few
Speaker 3: times to do things. He's always politely said no, and
Speaker 3: you know, he's just he's not in it.
Speaker 4: So season two is going to be about finding a
Speaker 4: new third Basement.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Andre Ethier was at the Dodger Stadium with us yesterday.
Speaker 3: He's in the running for the new Benny as a
Speaker 3: pretty good Benny.
Speaker 4: He's a little taller, okay, but it works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we're going to go on the hunt for
Speaker 3: the new the new Benny, the Jet third basement.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 4: But we're going only major League Baseball or ex major
Speaker 4: League Baseball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I've got some suggestions. Yeah, I do.
Speaker 3: Justin Turner is in the running. Okay, good, but he's
Speaker 3: still playing.
Speaker 2: And he's still playing. He's in Mexico.
Speaker 4: Come on. He said he would have done it too,
Speaker 4: but he's busy.
Speaker 2: Gosh, he's so great. Okay, I'm more everyone.
Speaker 1: You certainly did, and I'm happy to hear it because
Speaker 1: I also think it's really important even for fans to
Speaker 1: know it is the appropriate thing to do to respect
Speaker 1: someone's choice to not be a public figure anymore.
Speaker 2: It is not for the faint of heart.
Speaker 1: Everything has its pros, everything has its cons and for him,
Speaker 1: currently he has chosen to stay away from leading a
Speaker 1: public life, and there's nothing wrong with that. So as
Speaker 1: I think fans will be happy to know it's not
Speaker 1: contentious that you guys still talk and text occasionally, but
Speaker 1: he will not be a part of dugout Dads.
Speaker 2: Let's move on to something more.
Speaker 4: Let's stay on this, but let's stand.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about something more funky. Production disasters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god, can we talk about a few
Speaker 1: of the production disasters.
Speaker 4: We had some disaster.
Speaker 1: It was only a seven day shoot, and you guys
Speaker 1: did twelve pages a day, which sounds if you're not
Speaker 1: familiar with the way TV and movies work, maybe sounds like,
Speaker 1: what does that mean?
Speaker 2: It's a lot, it's a lot.
Speaker 3: Of things, four to six in a budge of movies.
Speaker 4: Honesty. Did one page exactly? Sure?
Speaker 2: Yes, for sure?
Speaker 4: One page a week with some days off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we did twelve pages a day.
Speaker 4: It was insanity.
Speaker 3: Again, I always play, you know, the ham porter that
Speaker 3: not the lead, the comedic relief, some one liner, some singers.
Speaker 3: You know, I have never had to learn as many
Speaker 3: lines as I had. And like, you know, I say
Speaker 3: this in another episode that you'll see after this, but
Speaker 3: Tom Griy and I kind of swapped roles a little bit.
Speaker 3: Like he plays Commissioner Biggs. That was his choice in name.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: And he's kind of a jerk in it, and.
Speaker 3: You know, not a jerk, but just tough and you know,
Speaker 3: a little ham porttery and I play this sort of
Speaker 3: straight man, you know. Scottie Small's like out of his league,
Speaker 3: you know, type of guy. So twelve pages was crazy.
Speaker 3: We had the fire department on set at our field
Speaker 3: twice in one day. The first time was for a
Speaker 3: little health scare with someone they ended up okay, and
Speaker 3: then the second time.
Speaker 4: I'll get into it.
Speaker 3: But the fact that Mike Vitar I know we're not
Speaker 3: going on Benny. But the fact that we didn't get
Speaker 3: Benny the jet Actually as a firefighter, we had fifty
Speaker 3: fire trucks. Nothing was our fault. By the way, we
Speaker 3: had fifty fire trucks and not one of them was
Speaker 3: his unit.
Speaker 1: I honestly, once you saw all those fire trucks pull up,
Speaker 1: did you actually think, oh, this is how we could
Speaker 1: get it, this is what we could do.
Speaker 4: The sick part of that, Yeah, that's those are called thoughts.
Speaker 2: We pushed those out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we did shoot at a gorgeous field high in
Speaker 1: the mountains.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and like Angela's crest, like super.
Speaker 2: Private, very private.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 2: Well, now that you've told.
Speaker 4: Them where, well, Angela's crest is very big.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay it could be you know, on the way
Speaker 3: passaiting side.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's true, that's true. But it was also very dusty, so.
Speaker 4: Very We love you guys.
Speaker 2: How why did.
Speaker 1: The fire trucks show up the next night? Can you
Speaker 1: can you tell everyone this? Because I wasn't here for
Speaker 1: this night, so I.
Speaker 3: Was on the phone because after a twelve hour day,
Speaker 3: I would then run my lines the next day with
Speaker 3: Kyle for two hours.
Speaker 4: But on this particularly night, I was like, dude, I'm
Speaker 4: done camp, so tired. Do it in the morning.
Speaker 3: So I leave and we're on kind of like a
Speaker 3: production call, and then Kyle goes, holy shit, the field's
Speaker 3: on fire.
Speaker 4: I gotta go and hangs up on me, and.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh yes, oh okay, And I did nine
Speaker 3: one one holds and fire department holds like, we do
Speaker 3: need to give them more money because that's scary when
Speaker 3: you're an emergency and they don't have enough people to
Speaker 3: answer the phone and it's not on them, Like no,
Speaker 3: we got to figure that out because with the health scare,
Speaker 3: I'm on hold, waiting, waiting, three four minutes. The fire department.
Speaker 3: I'm on hold three four minutes. The guy came on,
Speaker 3: are you calling about the Angela's Crest thing? We're already
Speaker 3: on the way, but it was so Kyle called, and
Speaker 3: it was behind our there's field too, and that was
Speaker 3: our main field, which we had to production design and
Speaker 3: banners and all sorts of stuff. It wasn't around houses.
Speaker 3: I don't want to sound insensitive because I'm like worried
Speaker 3: about my you know, fears, but there were houses up
Speaker 3: really high on a hill. But also in my head,
Speaker 3: I'm like, dude, these guys think we did this right.
Speaker 3: And a neighbor did, like he was like pissed at us,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, dude, it wasn't us. There were these
Speaker 3: kids shooting off model rockets and I've always thought to
Speaker 3: myself because I shoot off model rockets with my son
Speaker 3: and I'm like, are these a fire hazard?
Speaker 4: And now I know they are.
Speaker 2: Yes, they are.
Speaker 3: So these three kids, I'm like, I want to like
Speaker 3: send them a thank you card because they were so
Speaker 3: honorable about it, and they stuck around and they said,
Speaker 3: we did this. It was an accident, which helped saved
Speaker 3: our ass because the police came and saw them, like,
Speaker 3: you know, a big production. Everyone hates productions in La.
Speaker 3: They're ready to be there with the lawnmower and blame
Speaker 3: everything on you. So they started a fire and it
Speaker 3: was pretty massive, like yeah, it was half an acre
Speaker 3: big and it's Angela's Crest.
Speaker 4: Try La.
Speaker 3: This could start like forget our show.
Speaker 2: This could be half of the production.
Speaker 4: Was this?
Speaker 3: This was night three, Night three of seven. Yes, so
Speaker 3: we had already shot two days. We have two more
Speaker 3: on the field. I'm like, we're toast. Anyway, Kyle calls
Speaker 3: me back and goes, dude, I think we're okay. They
Speaker 3: got it out and I'm like, everyone's okay. I asked
Speaker 3: that question. I said, great, how's the field?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he said, honestly, oddly enough, it burned this
Speaker 3: gully that was down below, so the cannibal trees, you
Speaker 3: can't even see it, and oh thank god.
Speaker 4: We hang up. I'm gonna go to bed.
Speaker 3: I get a text five minutes later from Victoria and
Speaker 3: she goes, guys, we.
Speaker 4: Got a problem. Oh my gosh, said I know.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, bab to my wife. I got to
Speaker 3: go to the field and she's like, I don't know.
Speaker 3: She's like, what's wrong. I'm like, I think it's burning
Speaker 3: down because I'm thinking, you know, my biggest fear was
Speaker 3: we got it out, but guess what, Jess kidding, we didn't,
Speaker 3: because that's what happens on fires.
Speaker 4: Yeah, although side.
Speaker 3: Point, it's amazing what these firefighters do. They they would
Speaker 3: circle over in helicopters for days. They send the forestry
Speaker 3: unit in to make sure they're digging. Like the amount
Speaker 3: of manpower that goes into stopping it thing negative, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Another reason they need money.
Speaker 3: Another reason they need money. So Victoria hangs up. We
Speaker 3: got a problem. Victor the director and I are freaking out.
Speaker 3: We drive Finally I got her on the phone. Ten
Speaker 3: minutes later She's like no. I was like, is it
Speaker 3: gone and said no, no, no. The neighbor came over
Speaker 3: thinking we started it got a little feisty, pushed, the
Speaker 3: shoved the commissioner.
Speaker 4: Of the league. The actual was a sweetheart.
Speaker 3: Of a guy, and he got feisty with us, saying
Speaker 3: he's gonna shut us down and stuff had nothing to
Speaker 3: do with us. They chilled out. I don't think any
Speaker 3: nothing sort of happened from that. I think everyone chilled
Speaker 3: out and got cool about it. Yeah, and I understand
Speaker 3: the neighbor. You don't want your house to burn down,
Speaker 3: like that's everything.
Speaker 1: It also seems very coincidental that a huge production rolls
Speaker 1: in and then a fire starts exactly.
Speaker 4: But luckily the kids stuck around.
Speaker 3: It was also around fourth of July, so yeah, a
Speaker 3: lot of fireworks, a lot of this stuff. But it
Speaker 3: was terrifying. I mean, I had never I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3: I was worried filming in Angeli's Crest about oh what
Speaker 3: if there's a forest fire and then we actually have
Speaker 3: a fire on baseball field of all places?
Speaker 4: It right, just too much?
Speaker 1: Do you have that sounds that's obviously a production disaster.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about a production highlight? What was your
Speaker 1: favorite day on set?
Speaker 3: I mean, I was so stressed out yeah, and Brandon
Speaker 3: and Shauncey saw me in my worst moment.
Speaker 4: It was day three.
Speaker 3: It was day three day we had the health thing
Speaker 3: we had, We weren't making our day. It was just
Speaker 3: that it was a full moon, and like, I don't
Speaker 3: believe in this stuff, like that's that's woo stuff like
Speaker 3: my hih s's, you know, all that stuff. The full moon.
Speaker 3: I guess it's called strawberry moon. The moment it's the
Speaker 3: fullest was like seven to fifty nine pm on that
Speaker 3: day and the fire started.
Speaker 4: I kid you not at.
Speaker 3: Seven fifty nine pm. I'm starting to be a believer. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, But a production highlight, I think when it
Speaker 3: was over, just because I was like, we did it,
Speaker 3: We did it.
Speaker 4: It was very hard for me to enjoy.
Speaker 3: I think season two, should we be lucky enough to
Speaker 3: do that, will be so much more enjoyable for me
Speaker 3: because it won't be as much work and I'll like
Speaker 3: make it more of a meal of it and hopefully
Speaker 3: have more money to do this. You know, this was
Speaker 3: a labor of love for us, and you know, we
Speaker 3: we got some investment money and we got some amazing
Speaker 3: brands that came in to fund it. But you know
Speaker 3: it was we were funding it along the way, We
Speaker 3: were you know, overspending along the way, We were doing
Speaker 3: all sorts of things, you know, So I yeah, I
Speaker 3: guess I'll say though, the one scene that we were
Speaker 3: all in the baseball field at the end, and there's
Speaker 3: a fun reason that we're on the baseball field, the
Speaker 3: adults we have a little game we have to play.
Speaker 4: I think that was cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, throwing throwing the ball around with me
Speaker 3: at catcher and everyone in their positions from the sandlot.
Speaker 3: We just you know, a little Easter egg for it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think that was really special. Just the stuff with
Speaker 3: all the guys was probably the most special for me,
Speaker 3: and I could.
Speaker 4: Enjoy it a little bit.
Speaker 1: Well, it was very special to be a part of it,
Speaker 1: I can tell you first hand. And it was very
Speaker 1: nice the last day when to see you give thanks
Speaker 1: to the unbelievable crew that you had who you know,
Speaker 1: was able to put this labor of love together for
Speaker 1: you and with you, and then to hear the response
Speaker 1: back people who have been doing this.
Speaker 2: For longer than we have, even longer than we.
Speaker 1: Have, and we've been doing it for decades to say
Speaker 1: this is one of the best sets I've ever been on,
Speaker 1: and it's one of the most fun I've ever had
Speaker 1: on a set. I know that people watching are going
Speaker 1: to feel all of that because chemistry is not something
Speaker 1: you can fake it is it, Well, you can fake it,
Speaker 1: but it's palpable when it's real.
Speaker 2: You can really tell when it's real. And so I
Speaker 2: know that everyone.
Speaker 1: Watching, we know you know, they liked each other, they
Speaker 1: were in love. You can feel it. It's very similar.
Speaker 1: We are very much like the Notebook. That's right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am your every day Ryan Gossa exactly.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 3: In fun fact, back to the writers, one of the
Speaker 3: things that they said that they loved so much about
Speaker 3: working on this was the short form structure of it. Obviously,
Speaker 3: the intention is to make this into a full length series,
Speaker 3: you know, twenty two minutes. I kind of liken it
Speaker 3: to Silicon Valley. Feels like that kind of single camera
Speaker 3: broad comedy. So I would eventually love to do that.
Speaker 3: But for this particular one, we made three to six
Speaker 3: minute episodes, and the writers it was so rewarded.
Speaker 4: The reason too, they came on. It was so rewarding
Speaker 4: for them.
Speaker 3: They said to write something that they immediately see get creative.
Speaker 4: Like, this whole experience was so fast.
Speaker 3: We had the idea, we loved it, the writers wrote it,
Speaker 3: we got everyone on board.
Speaker 4: We filmed it a couple weeks later.
Speaker 3: I really wanted to film it around the fourth of
Speaker 3: July because if Sandlot is known for a season, it's
Speaker 3: fourth of July. So that was a really special part
Speaker 3: of it. And you know so yeah, So the episodes
Speaker 3: are you know, three to five to seven minutes long,
Speaker 3: and the way we developed it is it's kind of
Speaker 3: the preseason. So the series starts with if you're a coach,
Speaker 3: you know Evel's and the draft, you draft these kids,
Speaker 3: which you know it happens.
Speaker 4: That's to make the team's fair.
Speaker 3: And then what happens is it all all the practicing
Speaker 3: leads up to opening day.
Speaker 4: So our show is kind of the preseason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dugout Dads is the preseason.
Speaker 3: This is the preseason, and it's a short form content.
Speaker 3: It'll probably be the last short form should we go
Speaker 3: on to make it, which I'm sure we will. We'll
Speaker 3: make you know, twenty two to thirty minute episodes and
Speaker 3: it will probably go season by season. But this little
Speaker 3: fun nine episode three to five minutes is the pre
Speaker 3: season of Dugout Dads.
Speaker 1: Yes, and it was really fun to do. I've never
Speaker 1: done short form and talking about how fast it went.
Speaker 1: You called me, I think in may to ask me
Speaker 1: to do this. I do still want to know how
Speaker 1: many people you called before you go to me?
Speaker 4: Literally zero?
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll take it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no one said to us so great.
Speaker 2: There's a good reason for that.
Speaker 1: It was really was like you could tell on set
Speaker 1: everybody was happy to be.
Speaker 4: Ryan Gosling said no, but yeah.
Speaker 2: You asked him to play you me.
Speaker 4: I was just like, go for it, like he was busy.
Speaker 4: He didn't say no.
Speaker 3: It wasn't a hard no right, it was just not
Speaker 3: right now if you can push the shoot and I
Speaker 3: said no, no, no, Ryan, we cannot.
Speaker 2: Not even for you.
Speaker 4: Sorry.
Speaker 1: Uh So I know that watchers viewers are going to
Speaker 1: feel all that same chemistry and all that same fun
Speaker 1: that having you guys all together did, So we encourage you.
Speaker 1: Please check out Dugout Dads. Also continue to listen to
Speaker 1: the Dugout Dads podcast. This chair will not be empty forever.
Speaker 1: As a matter of last time, it will be filled
Speaker 1: sooner than you can say next episode.
Speaker 2: Thank you for joining bye.
Speaker 4: Thank you for watching.
Speaker 3: As I am not the host of this podcast, I
Speaker 3: am leaving the important stuff to the actual host, Danielle Official.
Speaker 1: You can stream Dugout Dads on Patrick Renner's YouTube channel,
Speaker 1: which is at Patrick Renner starting August twenty sixth.
Speaker 2: We hope to see you that