1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to I've never said this before with 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 1: me Tommy di Dario. Today I am chatting with the 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:13,319 Speaker 1: very talented Noah Lalande, who currently stars as Cole Walter 4 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: in the Netflix hit new series My Life with the 5 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 1: Walter Boys. Now. The show is a coming of age 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:20,959 Speaker 1: teen drama based on the best selling book of the 7 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 1: same name, and it quickly hit number one on the 8 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: Netflix charts, and it was so popular that after just 9 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: two weeks of premiering, it got renewed for a season two. 10 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 1: It is so incredibly rare to see a show get 11 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 1: picked up that quickly, which just goes to show you 12 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: how many eyes were tuning in to watch Noah and 13 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: the whole cast. Now, the short version of the plot 14 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: it goes like this, there is a horrible tragedy that 15 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: disrupts a teenager's life, so she moves from the big 16 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 1: city of Manhattan to her guardian's home in a very 17 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: rural Colorado. She's then taken in by the Walters, a 18 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: very large family, and she's thrown into a different life 19 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: where she learns lessons about love and hope and friendship. 20 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 1: And then enter Noah, who the all star jock who 21 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: all the guys want to be friends with and all 22 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 1: the girls want to date, But there is so much 23 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 1: more to him that meets the eye, and Noah brings 24 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 1: such beautiful emotion and range to his performance. We have 25 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: such a fun conversation where we of course dive into 26 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 1: the show and his amazing role, but then we get 27 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: to know Noah a bit deeper. We talk about the 28 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: concept of identity and figuring out who we really are 29 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: as individuals in this crazy world. We then segue into 30 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: stepping into a life changing opportunity without letting that four 31 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: letter word fear get in the way, and man so 32 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 1: much more so, Let's see if today we can get 33 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: Noah to say something that he has never said before. 34 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 1: Knowa on Man, how you doing today? 35 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 2: I'm doing very well. 36 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: Congrats to on all the success. Of course, your show 37 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: has I feel like taken over the country, taken over 38 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: the world by storm my life with the Walter Boys. 39 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: It is such a fun, feel good, dramatic, juicy show 40 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: that I feel like people have been craving, especially on 41 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: Netflix with the departure of some other shows in that 42 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: same genre, and it's really, really, really been something that 43 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 1: the fandom has gone crazy over, So for everybody listening 44 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: right now, and for maybe those who haven't had a 45 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: chance to check out the show yet, how would you 46 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 1: describe it? Being so close to the show, how would 47 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: one of the stars of the show say, what this 48 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 1: is about? 49 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 2: Thank you first and foremost for saying those kind of things. 50 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 2: I would describe it similarly to that. I think it's 51 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 2: a show that has a lot of elements to it, 52 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 2: a lot of elements that can appeal separately to a 53 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 2: lot of different sectors of people. You have, of course, 54 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 2: which I think if you go to the internet you 55 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 2: can see there's some love triangle dialogue that takes place. 56 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 2: There is this navigation of tragedy that is from the 57 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 2: very first scene when we pick up with Jackie, see 58 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 2: that taking place, and then you see a lot of 59 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 2: real life things going on. You know in anycoming of 60 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 2: age story, but this one, you feel the presence of 61 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:10,640 Speaker 2: the parents, you feel the presence of the community and 62 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 2: the school. And one of the cool things about our show, 63 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 2: and one of the things that I'll use to answer 64 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 2: your question, is I saw this quote. I think it 65 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 2: was our showrunner Melanie who said she wanted to make 66 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 2: a show that like a fifteen year old daughter could 67 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 2: watch with her forty five year old father and both 68 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 2: sides could be equally as entertained and engaged. And I 69 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 2: think it's kind of a nice way to encapsulate, Like 70 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 2: it's there are parts that are warm and that make 71 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 2: you feel good, and that maybe cater to a younger audience. 72 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 2: And then I think there are probably parts that are 73 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 2: our real life, you know, tribulations, real life things that 74 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 2: you know, the older generation will feel a certain amount 75 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 2: of care because they had to go through that as 76 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 2: a kid, or they're now parenting someone going through that. 77 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 2: So that's my description of our show. 78 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: Well said, Well said, there is something for everybody in 79 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: the show, that's for sure, and I think one of 80 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: the reasons why it's so successful and for you, how 81 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: badly did you want to be a part of this show. 82 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 2: As soon as I read the character description of Cole, 83 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 2: I was very intrigued because there was some mirroring aspects 84 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 2: to his character hit where he was in his timeline 85 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 2: to where my timeline was at that age. Kind of 86 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 2: navigating the loss of athletic career was the biggest thing. 87 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 2: I was a hockey player and that was kind of 88 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 2: my full on identity for a long time, and when 89 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 2: you stop playing, it defines your life for an extended 90 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 2: period of time. And that's exactly what he's going through, 91 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 2: except it's not his choice and it's injury related, and 92 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 2: you know, I wasn't the best quarterback in all of 93 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 2: my hometown McCombe County. But just kind of felt like 94 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 2: you get a lot of characters who are one side 95 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 2: of what Cole was. You know, the kind of jerk 96 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 2: like Jock who gets the girls and stuff. You get 97 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 2: a lot of like that side. But Cole was this 98 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 2: guy who had this step to him because he's navigating 99 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 2: a loss of his own and he's feeling real feelings 100 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 2: for Jackie and for himself he's having a hard time 101 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 2: feeling for So I was very excited to play Cole 102 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 2: Walter and in turn be part of the show. 103 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, you just touched on a bunch of different things. 104 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: So for one, as an actor, you get a lot 105 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 1: of auditions, You get a lot of material to memorize, 106 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 1: put on tape, you know, wait to hear if you 107 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,919 Speaker 1: got it. Most of the time, you don't. As artists, right, 108 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 1: there's so many auditions you get and you just kind 109 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 1: of put it out there and you don't hear back. 110 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: And this was one I gather that felt a little 111 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: more personal to you. You really seem to have wanted 112 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: this one, right. 113 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And it makes every step of that process 114 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 2: meant even more. So many things about being an actor 115 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 2: is waiting and theorizing and hoping, and you send off 116 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 2: your audition tape or you walk out of that audition 117 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,919 Speaker 2: room and it's just you don't know. You know, you 118 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 2: get feedback here and there, but you know, I remember 119 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 2: I did my tape for Cole and the first callback 120 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 2: for me was, Okay, now we're in this realm of 121 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 2: something else has happened. We've done in the first part 122 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 2: one hundred times, but not something else has happened. And 123 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 2: then you get to a chemistry read and I remember, 124 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 2: you know, tying in my dad and my mom and 125 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 2: my closest circle, like, yeah, you got a chemistry read 126 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 2: coming up, and it's so exciting on so many levels 127 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 2: because you're trying to balance out how amazing that is. 128 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:04,039 Speaker 2: And I remember, after everything the chemistry read, every call 129 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 2: with my manager, and I just liked to call my 130 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 2: dad and he'd be like, well, now what I'd be 131 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 2: like Dad, I don't. 132 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: Know, and I love that you found out about this role. 133 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: I believe when you were working in your restaurant, right 134 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: were you doing the love shift and you got a call. 135 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: Tell me that story, because that's so epic that you 136 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: had weeks and weeks and weeks of waiting and working 137 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: and auditioning and then in a second your life changed. 138 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 2: The story of how I got got the uh I 139 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 2: got the part? I like I said, to put ourselves 140 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 2: right back in the seat of getting these calls and 141 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 2: being really excited, and select groups of people know about 142 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 2: what's going on. And at this point we're in the 143 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 2: stage of having a test deal, which I'm sure you 144 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 2: know what it is, but for the listeners or viewers, 145 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 2: that's basically when they showed you your contract what it is. 146 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 2: If you get it and a few people have that, 147 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 2: and then they take you to the final stage and 148 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 2: you either audition or they review your tapes at the 149 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 2: highest level and they decide. So basically, I found out 150 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 2: that I had this deal, and for a week, you're 151 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 2: just waiting, like you know, what could happen in your 152 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 2: life where you're going to be living for how long? 153 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 2: Like everything about this but you don't know if you've 154 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 2: got it, and you're just waiting for someone else to 155 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 2: decide at the end of the day. So for me, 156 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,679 Speaker 2: like you just you have to do something else. So 157 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 2: I just try to keep my schedule the same. I 158 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 2: go to the gym every single day, I go to work. 159 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 2: I just try to stay sane. My my parents are 160 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 2: My dad's calling me. He's like, anything here, anything, Dad, 161 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 2: I would tell you if I hurt anything. So all 162 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 2: this is happening. And I'm working at Bjay's Restaurant brew 163 00:08:55,240 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 2: House in Woodland Hills, California, and it's this quiet lunch shift, 164 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 2: but I know that I can. I'm waiting news at 165 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 2: all time, so my pocket like I'm getting those ghost 166 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 2: vibrations in my pocket at all times. And my manager 167 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 2: calls me and she says quickly, she's like, did you 168 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 2: see your email? And I was like, no, what did 169 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,079 Speaker 2: I get? Like, I mean, I flew to the back room. 170 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:24,199 Speaker 2: Oh my god. She's like, yeah, they something about your 171 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 2: The last zoom audition just like what we're doing now. 172 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 2: The connection cut out and it wasn't high enough resolution 173 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:35,920 Speaker 2: or quality to like send all the way through, so 174 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 2: they need you to read and like that scene again. 175 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 2: They said, you don't have to be fully prepared. They 176 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 2: just they just like want, like they need you, they 177 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 2: need you doing it side by side or whatever. So 178 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 2: I'm like, what do you mean. I'm I'm at work, 179 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 2: I'm wearing my black button down shirt with a couple 180 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 2: like stains on it. I'm sweaty. It's hot. It's super 181 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 2: hot in La. So I ran out to my car 182 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 2: and I set out my phone like on the dash, 183 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 2: and I'm trying to like, okay, can I make this salvageable? 184 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 2: In my head thinking oh my gosh, this means I 185 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 2: must be. They must need this because I'm either close 186 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 2: or I'm about to ruin everything. So I get on 187 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 2: Zoom with the with the casting department. One forecasting apartment 188 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 2: changed my life forever, and they're like, oh no, thanks 189 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 2: so much for coming on at such short notice. We 190 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 2: appreciate it. Yeah, she's gonna be. You have the sides. 191 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 2: I'm like, usually I could set my phone up on 192 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 2: my laptop and look at the sides, but I don't 193 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 2: have my laptop. I'm at work, so I'm like, nah, 194 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 2: I don't have this size. I can pull them up. 195 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 2: Can you read? Send it to me like everything's going wrong, 196 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 2: and she said, well, you know you might be okay, 197 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:53,679 Speaker 2: because we just wanted to call and tell you that 198 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 2: you actually got the part. 199 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: Oh. 200 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:59,440 Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god. 201 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:02,719 Speaker 1: You're reliving it. I see you reliving. 202 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 2: It, and I feel that and and it was the 203 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 2: defining moment of my maybe life, but if not my 204 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 2: life the last eight years. And and you know, it 205 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 2: took it doesn't feel like it took that long, but 206 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 2: it was such a long road to there, and so 207 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 2: many people were a part of it. I cannot stress 208 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 2: this enough. So many people were a part of it. 209 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 2: So I was, you know, so thrilled to get this news. 210 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 2: And so I called my parents. I think they were 211 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 2: both home, and I got them on the phone and 212 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 2: I told them and it was. 213 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: Just, oh my god, that moment, that moment must have 214 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 1: been incredible. And so did you then go in and 215 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: just continue working with your tables? 216 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 2: Well? I did. I put all these I put all 217 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 2: these amazing conversations my manager. I put them on rush 218 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 2: and I was like, hey, I gotta get back mind you, 219 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 2: right before I got the call, I might have skipped 220 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 2: this part of at a crucial time, but right before 221 00:11:58,240 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 2: I got the call. I had one take, you know, 222 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 2: one to rush at. Some of these places are is 223 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,959 Speaker 2: nothing uh not not Bjay's. There's always a crowded room. 224 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:11,320 Speaker 2: But this particular day, there was one older gentleman in 225 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 2: the bar, in the bar area, and he ordered it. 226 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 2: He ordered a burger, and uh, I placed the order. 227 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 2: I went out to my car, came back, went him 228 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:24,720 Speaker 2: to the counter it was there, came down, dropped it 229 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 2: off at his table and he was like, thank you 230 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 2: very much. And I was just like, you're welcome. But 231 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 2: nothing was different to anybody except for me in the 232 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 2: six people who had been contacted at that point. There's 233 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 2: something special about that that I haven't quite articulated about, 234 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 2: that moment of everything changing but nothing changing, and and 235 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 2: remembering that we're all like we're all walking around on 236 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 2: the same on the same earth. 237 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: And there there was. 238 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 2: These these synchronicities leading up to I mean, I remember 239 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 2: it was the day of or the day before. I 240 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 2: was talking to my best friend who knew about all this. 241 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 2: Shout out to him, my best friend Alex. He we 242 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 2: would FaceTime all the time, like and I would go 243 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:12,959 Speaker 2: to the gym. I wouldn't quite have the energy yet, 244 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,199 Speaker 2: so I just put him on FaceTime and we'd talk 245 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 2: for like fifteen minutes. It'd be like a like a 246 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 2: pre workout. We'd just laugh for a while and chat. 247 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 2: And I remember telling him, how would it would be 248 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 2: interested to see how close this was. I was like, 249 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,199 Speaker 2: I got the part. He was like, what, you got it? 250 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 2: And I was like, well, not technically, but I did 251 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 2: get it. And he was like, what are you talking about. 252 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 2: I'm driving to work one day or back from the gym, 253 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 2: and I look over and there's this new sweet food. 254 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 2: I love baked goods, cookies. I love these. My friend 255 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 2: Alex and I also share this love. So I'm driving 256 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 2: by and all of a sudden, this new cookie shop 257 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 2: is going up one mile from my house. And the 258 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 2: sign gets put up and it says Walter's Cold Cafe No. 259 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 2: And I was just like, and maybe that's nothing right. 260 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 2: I like to look into these things. 261 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 1: Now, that's something I called them. 262 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 2: I was like, hey, dude, I got the part. This 263 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 2: is a sign. I got it, and I did. Within 264 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,199 Speaker 2: twenty four to forty eight hours of that one to 265 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 2: two business days after that, I got it. 266 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, So I one hundred percent believe in synchronicities. And 267 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: if you're open and not necessarily looking, but just a 268 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: very open person, then you will get signs exactly like 269 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: you did. And I think that's so cool. And what 270 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: I love about all of this, I think it's such 271 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: an interesting story how you found out at work and 272 00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: you went back to work and you kept kind of 273 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: the secret to close family and friends for a while 274 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: is you are very much someone who lives in the 275 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: present moment and you don't want to You don't want 276 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: to uproot your life, you know, in this completely three 277 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty degree way, and becomes something suddenly that 278 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: is bigger than you, and you want to feel things, 279 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: experienced thing And I think that's really cool. You don't 280 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: always hear that, and I think he'll carry that attitude 281 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: with you for a really long time. And man, thank 282 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 1: god you got that phone call, because I know a 283 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: lot of the fans cannot imagine anybody else playing Cole 284 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: the way you played, and you touched on it earlier. Yes, 285 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 1: he's the jock. He's What I love about how you 286 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: played him is he's very easily could be the stereotype. 287 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: He could be just the one sided, popular cool guy 288 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: that all the bros want to hang out with and 289 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: all the girls have a crush on and he's kind 290 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 1: of a dick and but no, like, there's so many 291 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: layers to him. And as you say, it's because you 292 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 1: identify with a huge loss in his life that you 293 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: also had. So I think that's pretty cool that you 294 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 1: brought that feeling and that emotion and that side to 295 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: a character that maybe not other artists would have. You know. 296 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thank you for starters, because it's an honor 297 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 2: to who you say that and to have people resonate 298 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 2: with Coal, And I do think you're right. I was 299 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 2: very worried about you know, this is definitely the first 300 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 2: sizeable job that I've ever had as an actor. So 301 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 2: I mean I've had jobs, but never to where you're 302 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 2: held to that level of accountability, to where you're you know, 303 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 2: you're living there for five months at a time. You're 304 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 2: bringing a full life to a person and that comes 305 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 2: with a lot of work. But the worry came from 306 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 2: some of those stereotypes. It's like there's a thing in 307 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 2: this show called the Coal effect, but you don't approach 308 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 2: that delicately. I could like hear my friends back home 309 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 2: being like, oh yeah, you think you're cute homepal like 310 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 2: like you know, So, I don't know. I think there's 311 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 2: there are a lot of ways to get kind of 312 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 2: trapped in that side of it. But I don't think 313 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 2: you know, I've I've explained this to to a certain extent. 314 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 2: But the character is is is he's a shell of 315 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:07,439 Speaker 2: himself and he's clinging to what he was when he 316 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 2: was the man, when he was the star, and he's 317 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,880 Speaker 2: he's drifting through this life where people like view him 318 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:18,439 Speaker 2: as that still kind of out of pity, and you know, 319 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 2: he's like clinging on to what he can and not 320 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 2: remembering who he is. And we all know that feeling 321 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:27,439 Speaker 2: is like when things are changing and you wake up 322 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:29,479 Speaker 2: one day and it's like what am I doing? Like 323 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:33,880 Speaker 2: where am I? And high school's a scary time, and 324 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 2: falling in love is a scary thing, and in the 325 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 2: first time, I mean first time. I don't know how 326 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 2: many times people fall in love these days, but every 327 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,920 Speaker 2: time you fall in love, it's terrifying because it opens 328 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 2: the door for something that can destroy you. He like, 329 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:58,360 Speaker 2: especially when you can't define it. So you're feeling so broken, 330 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 2: You're feeling so hurt by your circumstances, What could what 331 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 2: could make that more complicated and difficult? How about somebody 332 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 2: who is dealing with the greatest loss of all but 333 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 2: who in spite of all of that, is providing this 334 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 2: light at the end of the tunnel for you, and 335 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 2: you're just naturally drawn to this person. You're naturally drawn 336 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 2: to the energy that they give off, this this energy, 337 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 2: this healing energy. And for for Coal, I think that's 338 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:29,120 Speaker 2: the first thing Jackie does. You know, he's gonna he's 339 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:31,159 Speaker 2: gonna river her, and he's gonna kind of give her 340 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 2: a hard time, but it's undeniable to feel her, her perseverance, 341 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 2: her like approach to life that is like, I'm not 342 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 2: gonna let anything get me. I'm going to continue to 343 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 2: stay on my path. When Cole all but you know, 344 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 2: the rows, the path out the window. And it was 345 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 2: really awesome to bring him to life. And I'm over 346 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 2: the moon to be continuing to bring I mean, to 347 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 2: go back for another season and continue to tell this 348 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 2: story is amazing. 349 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:04,119 Speaker 1: Which, by the way, I mean, I believe that news 350 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: broke only two weeks after the show premiered on Netflix, 351 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 1: which is kind of unheard of. I mean, that's a 352 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:14,359 Speaker 1: really really fast turnaround for everybody listening. That just is 353 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,880 Speaker 1: not the norm. Yes, the show, you know, hit number 354 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,919 Speaker 1: one and it was super popular and multi multi millions 355 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: of people watched it. But to get that news two 356 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,920 Speaker 1: weeks or so after, I mean, how did that feel? 357 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: Because that is so not the normal? 358 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 2: How like? Okay, so all these things. I mean, you 359 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 2: keep saying, like the how big the show was, how 360 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 2: many people have watched it, how quickly this is? And 361 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 2: I can I know, I hear what you're saying, and 362 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:45,880 Speaker 2: I've heard this from other sources and I've read this 363 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 2: and the proof is in. We got a season two quickly. 364 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 2: But it's hard to wrap your head around. It's a 365 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 2: I think, well because of a few things. One because 366 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 2: it's very much you feel things electronically like in internet 367 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,399 Speaker 2: internet wise, you feel it on the internet, like you 368 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:11,400 Speaker 2: can go on Instagram or TikTok and and you can 369 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 2: feel like, oh, so there are people talking about our show, 370 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 2: there are people watching the show. And I cannot stress 371 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,199 Speaker 2: this enough. And I remind myself this every day. I 372 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 2: am not my accomplishments or my career or the amount 373 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 2: of people that have watched the show. I find that 374 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 2: you know, I don't know if I thought I would 375 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 2: change or if, like you, hear stories about people who 376 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 2: you know, they get a little bit of a grain 377 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:42,199 Speaker 2: of success or fame is an interesting word, but for 378 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:43,919 Speaker 2: the sake of talking about other people, I'll use it. 379 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 2: They get a little bit of this, and people say, oh, 380 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 2: he changed, or she got a big head and she 381 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 2: decided to not you know, stick to who she is. 382 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 2: I don't feel changed as a person by this, but 383 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 2: you can tell there are like I feel a change 384 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 2: from the outside. I feel a change one degree of separation, 385 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,600 Speaker 2: like when a friend tells me, hey, like my boss 386 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 2: said they loved your show and everybody at work was 387 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 2: talking about it today. A friend that works at a hospital, Yeah, 388 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 2: we were at we were in a surgery and like 389 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 2: all the nurses were talking about Walter Boys, and I 390 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 2: was like, your team, it's your team, Cole, And I'm like, like, 391 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 2: that's that. That is That part is where it's hard 392 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 2: to fathom. But as far as like me on a 393 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 2: day to day basis, I feel an incredible amount of 394 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 2: gratitude for the experience and for what it is brought 395 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 2: to the world. It's one person has seen it in 396 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 2: a time when they needed to see it, or just 397 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 2: one person enjoyed it or like it's It doesn't have 398 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 2: to be some profound experience with art like I've I've 399 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 2: talked about this, but I use so many different works 400 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 2: of art to connect to times in my life, whether 401 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 2: it be a new album, a music or a movie, 402 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 2: a TV showed that month that you watch four seasons 403 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 2: of a TV show, even if it's Succession, and even 404 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,400 Speaker 2: if the subject matter is heavy and dark, I'll never 405 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 2: forget the time that I watched Succession, But like so 406 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,880 Speaker 2: many other shows, so I guess to me, it's hard 407 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 2: to wrap my head around that numbers wise, because I 408 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:23,040 Speaker 2: get to interact with a bunch of really great people 409 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:27,479 Speaker 2: who now know who I am via the show. But 410 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,159 Speaker 2: even though that's an increased number, it's not millions or 411 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 2: billions like I don't. I get a sliver of a 412 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 2: sliver of sliver that and it's amazing to see people 413 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 2: react to that and react to me. Although my my 414 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 2: blonde locks are gone, I'm not quite the high school, 415 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 2: every day shaven that I may have appeared. 416 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,120 Speaker 1: Well, I don't think people realize that. So you dyed 417 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 1: your hair for it? 418 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 2: Yeah? 419 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't think everyone truly. I think people 420 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 1: assume you're really that blonde, but you're not. 421 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think I think, uh, in the summertime, 422 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 2: I used to say I got highlights when I was 423 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 2: a little kid. There's some brutal pictures of me. 424 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,919 Speaker 1: Out there, like frosted tips. 425 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 2: You know, they weren't intended to be. But after my 426 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:14,119 Speaker 2: hair dropped a little bit and I didn't maintain it, 427 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 2: it didn't look great. But you know, I get some sunlight, 428 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 2: my hair can become like a dirty blonde. And I 429 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 2: rocked with you know, they do it on set. So 430 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 2: when I got back home, I had like what was 431 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 2: left of it. I actually I came home when I 432 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:32,439 Speaker 2: liked it so much, I went and I red. I 433 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,119 Speaker 2: kept the collar. I like, redid it because it was 434 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,479 Speaker 2: kind of, you know, faltering, and I never got it 435 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:39,720 Speaker 2: done again. I just kind of let it, let it 436 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 2: grow through, And that lasted me a pretty long time. 437 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 2: Give me some gave me a little bit of a 438 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 2: whacky and nobody knew who I was, so it was fine. 439 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 2: I could have messed up colored hair that hadn't been touched. 440 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 2: And that was one of the descriptions I think from 441 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,920 Speaker 2: the book that really came through and the show is 442 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 2: close blonde hair and those moments where it's like hanging 443 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 2: just like ever so slightly over his eyes and you're 444 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 2: having to look through the hair. That was a little 445 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 2: olsho which oh for for the for the audio listeners. Oh, 446 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 2: this is a podcast for the audio listeners. I pulled 447 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 2: the strain in my hair and let it sit ever 448 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:18,919 Speaker 2: so slightly in my eye. 449 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: It was very cinematic, very cinematic. 450 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 2: So yeah, that and it was fun. I love to 451 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 2: explore different you know, different attributes of your character or 452 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 2: you know, physicality, things that when you when you step 453 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,639 Speaker 2: into those their shoes, or you put on those parage 454 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 2: jeans that are a little bit tighter than the actor 455 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 2: maywear in person. I love a nice a nice baggy 456 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 2: Jean Cole Walter does not. He keeps them pretty tight. 457 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 2: So yeah, just certain things when you step into it, 458 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 2: you just you take a look in the mirror. 459 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:57,120 Speaker 1: Well, what's so cool, man, is this role was already known, 460 00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:58,879 Speaker 1: you know, by the people who read the book, the 461 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:03,640 Speaker 1: best selling novel, and it was your job as Noah 462 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: to bring him to life, to respect the character that 463 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: was created in the book. But also to make him 464 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,120 Speaker 1: your own, and that's no easy feat. And I think 465 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: it's really cool that you rose to the occasion and 466 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,199 Speaker 1: you did create a character based on a character that 467 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 1: was already known that made the fandom so happy and 468 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,679 Speaker 1: then maybe people who never read the book so happy. 469 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 1: So that's a very delicate line to straddle. And you, 470 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:30,640 Speaker 1: my friend, you did it, so that must have felt 471 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 1: pretty good too. 472 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 2: Well, well, thank you very much. When you say it 473 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,719 Speaker 2: like that, it sounds really cool, sounds like I'm an 474 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 2: accomplished actor. But I will. 475 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 3: Say, you're just there loads of fear and like a 476 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 3: desperation and just preparing as much as you can and 477 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 3: just realizing, you know, these opportunities they they can be 478 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 3: so infrequent and you never know when it's going to 479 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 3: be your last chance. 480 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 2: And this has been one of my first big chances, 481 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,199 Speaker 2: but you never know if it's going to be your 482 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 2: last one. It's like my hometown Detroit Lions shout out 483 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:12,959 Speaker 2: to the Detroit Lions, mor Ofer City, Dan Campbell. I 484 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,320 Speaker 2: love this team and it was a great ride this season. 485 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,520 Speaker 2: But Dan Campbell said after the season at the press conference, 486 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,719 Speaker 2: and he believes in the team, so he doesn't believe this, 487 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 2: he said this, But as good as it feels, as 488 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 2: close as you feel right now, as close as you 489 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,120 Speaker 2: feel like you could recreate it, it gets twice as 490 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 2: hard next year. You're never guaranteed to be back in 491 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 2: the same spot. And even if you do, now you're 492 00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 2: on people's radar, and now people know you could get there. 493 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 2: So what do they do. They prepare harder for you, 494 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 2: they get more ready for you. Everybody's aware of you now, 495 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:47,439 Speaker 2: so now you have to do it. You can't do 496 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 2: it in silence. You got to do it for real. 497 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 2: And all that's to say, it's a privilege to be 498 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 2: an actor and to be able to have a camera 499 00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 2: on you and to be able to bring these stories 500 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,119 Speaker 2: to life, truly, because so many people spend a lot 501 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,639 Speaker 2: of time trying to do it and the chances are 502 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,719 Speaker 2: few and far between. And you know, as a as 503 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 2: an as an actor, I have so much respect for 504 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 2: so many people I know who have, Like I said, 505 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 2: I said something earlier in the interview, and I and 506 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 2: I don't like to discredit like the amount of hard 507 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 2: work that I've had, but there is no debate. I 508 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 2: know people that have worked far longer and far differently 509 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 2: and had to make so many more changes. That's why 510 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,879 Speaker 2: I don't I don't take I can't take all the 511 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 2: credit for for my my career because too many people 512 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 2: have contributed for me. I'm I'm the face of you know, 513 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 2: you pull up IMDb, I'm it's me, it is my face. 514 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:50,400 Speaker 2: But so many people, hundreds of people, thousands of experiences, 515 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:54,359 Speaker 2: they have created the person that you're talking to today 516 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 2: that has the ability to to be here and to 517 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 2: do to do these things. And uh so for that, 518 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:05,640 Speaker 2: it's just it's doing your service to the craft well. 519 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: And it's obvious you take it very seriously too. And 520 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: I don't want you to discredit yourself too, because I 521 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: know you said, you know six or seven years and 522 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,119 Speaker 1: you may not think that sounds like a lot, but 523 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: it is a lot of time. And I believe, yes, 524 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 1: are there some lucky situations that happened throughout people's lives 525 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,479 Speaker 1: and careers, of course, but you can't have luck if 526 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,919 Speaker 1: you're not prepared, because if that luck comes your way 527 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 1: and you're not prepared, guess what, it's not going to 528 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,400 Speaker 1: work out for you. So keeping your head down and 529 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 1: doing the work and staying focused and staying motivated. Are 530 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,440 Speaker 1: all the reasons why you are where you are. And 531 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 1: I'm not saying other people who have maybe been at 532 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 1: it for ten or twenty or thirty years haven't done 533 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 1: the work either. But you know, the extreme athletic mentality 534 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,880 Speaker 1: of preparation and doing the job is also why you 535 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: are where you are. So don't discredit that side either. 536 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 2: That. I'm careful to talk about it like that because 537 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 2: I think that, especially in this world where there's no blueprint, 538 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 2: if you gave me the script of Leonardo DiCaprio's life 539 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 2: when he was you know, from fifteen on, I could 540 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 2: have done everything the same and had none of the success. 541 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 2: Everybody you have to you have to do this thing 542 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 2: where you allow your own your own authenticity, your own 543 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 2: uniqueness to guide you. And so I don't discredit myself fully. 544 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,479 Speaker 2: I just I have to acknowledge all things and all 545 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 2: the people from you know, my great aunt, sister's third cousin, 546 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 2: Like that's my first connection to living here. So many 547 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 2: people don't have that. I mean I talk to people 548 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 2: all the time that ask me like, what do you do? 549 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 2: How do you start? You just got to jump and 550 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 2: I had, like I feel like I had a parachute, 551 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 2: I do. I mean, I've been so supported and so loved, 552 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 2: you know, and my blanket of love and support has 553 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 2: always been so warm that I could nothing could ever 554 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 2: be that bad. And I just I know there are 555 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 2: so many people in in such harder spots and such 556 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 2: harder spots around the world, doing things that are far, 557 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 2: far more difficult on a daily basis, and I try 558 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 2: to keep them in my mind because the minute you 559 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:19,480 Speaker 2: start to elevate yourself above other people, Yeah, you're I 560 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 2: don't want to say I almost said your garbage. I'm 561 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 2: not gonna. 562 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 1: Say you are full on trash. 563 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't. I don't believe that. I almost no. 564 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: But I know what you're saying. Man, I think that's 565 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: a really valid point. And and all of that is 566 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 1: why you're gonna continue to go on and have a 567 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 1: really deep and meaningful and important career doing the jobs 568 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 1: that mean something to you. And I have no doubt 569 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: this show will go on for many, many, many seasons, 570 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 1: and then beyond that you're gonna you're gonna keep doing 571 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 1: cool things. And if you maintain that sense of gratitude 572 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 1: and appreciation and also your work ethic, you're Golden Man. 573 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 1: That's what's so cool about this show and these conversations 574 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: for me is I get to bring people on, and 575 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: in interviews you get asked a lot of the same stuff. 576 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 1: I almost said shit, but same stuff. Well I did 577 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 1: say shit, so there you go. But you get asked 578 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 1: a lot of the same stuff. What's your favorite scene, 579 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 1: what's your favorite line? You know, what do you want 580 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 1: to see in season two? And that's all valid and important, 581 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 1: and I know the fans love it, but they've already 582 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: heard that. So I like to bring artists on and 583 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 1: get into more of the nitty gritty, more of your 584 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: life story and honor the work, but also learn more 585 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: about you. And I think today you've given us such 586 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: a tremendous insight into the person that you are, which 587 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,360 Speaker 1: is I so appreciate it and I sow value and 588 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:40,600 Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are going to hear 589 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 1: this and be like WHOA, Like that guy is so 590 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 1: damn cool. 591 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 2: You know, thank you. I appreciate that and everything you've 592 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 2: said leading out. I mean, this has been fantastic. I 593 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 2: felt again, I sometimes lose sight of the platform, but 594 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,760 Speaker 2: I do feel like we've just been chatting like every 595 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 2: once in a while, I do peer up and I 596 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 2: see my face in the little self view and I 597 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 2: pull out. I'm like, oh wait, yeah, other people are 598 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 2: going to hear this. But I could talk all day, 599 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 2: so I have no concept of time or when to 600 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:11,480 Speaker 2: shut up. 601 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 1: No, I'm the same way. Listen. That's why I do 602 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 1: what I do. I can talk and talk and talk. 603 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 1: But there's a final question of the interview that I 604 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 1: ask every guest. And before I get to that question, 605 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 1: let me throw one more in for the fandom, who's like, 606 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 1: oh man, we're desperate for season two. So if there's 607 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 1: one main thing you can see for your character for 608 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 1: season two, what would it be? 609 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 2: You know? Tell me I These questions are tricky for 610 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:38,040 Speaker 2: me because. 611 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: I have to you know, what's happening in season two. 612 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 2: No, I don't. I don't. I don't. I have so 613 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:47,120 Speaker 2: little control that I don't like to put much out there. 614 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 2: And everybody, like my parents, my family, they all ask 615 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:56,120 Speaker 2: me this and I do not know. But I'll say this. 616 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 2: I looked at Cole as a version of a younger Noah, 617 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 2: a younger Noah that needed to learn certain things about 618 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:10,239 Speaker 2: life and about what is important in life, whether it 619 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 2: be the people around you, the love that's around you, 620 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 2: about the gratitude, Like there are some things that Cole 621 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 2: has said that I've never said for the record, when 622 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,120 Speaker 2: I make that comparison and is a lose comparison to 623 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 2: this younger Noah, I know that I had to learn 624 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 2: certain things to grow as a human being, and to 625 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 2: grow as a son and as a brother and as 626 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 2: a friend. And all I ask for season two is 627 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 2: that Cole stays on his own path. Things can seem 628 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 2: hard in a moment of time. Or you know, when 629 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 2: you lose football, or you don't get the girl, or 630 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:50,000 Speaker 2: you argue with your family, and these things can seem 631 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,480 Speaker 2: hard in a moment, but they can teach you a lot. 632 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 2: What is more important the result of the argument you 633 00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 2: have with your your father or your brother, or how 634 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 2: you feel when you get back to your room and 635 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,280 Speaker 2: the door shuts and you're alone with what just happened. 636 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,240 Speaker 2: So continuing to engage in what you're doing and to learn. 637 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,200 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm the type of person that I'm very 638 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,799 Speaker 2: lucky for so many reasons, but I'm a human. So 639 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,720 Speaker 2: I have said things I regret, I've done things I regret, 640 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,839 Speaker 2: and you know it's not as much about what it 641 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:25,319 Speaker 2: is you said or what it is you do. It's 642 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 2: that you're present enough in your own life to be like, 643 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 2: oh man, that's on me, and like why did I 644 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,840 Speaker 2: do that? What? You know? What was what was bubbling 645 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,239 Speaker 2: up inside of me that that made that happen and 646 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,799 Speaker 2: what you know, So, you know, being reflective and being 647 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,879 Speaker 2: engaged in your own life to learn from the things 648 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,800 Speaker 2: that are happening to you and the way you're reacting 649 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,360 Speaker 2: to things. And I hope and the viewers may not 650 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,680 Speaker 2: even see it, but I hope Cole continues to reflect 651 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,799 Speaker 2: and continue to stand his journey of like growing into 652 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,359 Speaker 2: the person that he's supposed to be. And so that's 653 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:00,759 Speaker 2: my That's a lit a bit of a cop out 654 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:02,479 Speaker 2: because I would say that I hope that for every 655 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:03,000 Speaker 2: person ever. 656 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,320 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, fair enough, but it's very relevant to Cole's journey. 657 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,239 Speaker 1: So I do appreciate that, and I do like that. 658 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,880 Speaker 1: I think that's right on and it gives a little 659 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,319 Speaker 1: hope for his future. And Noah, lastly, the name of 660 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,760 Speaker 1: this show is I've never said this before, so I'm wondering, 661 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 1: although I feel like you've been so open and have 662 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,040 Speaker 1: said many things in this interview already, maybe you haven't 663 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,320 Speaker 1: said before, but is there something that comes to mind, 664 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,919 Speaker 1: whether it's silly or deep, that you haven't necessarily put 665 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:28,880 Speaker 1: out there or said. 666 00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:32,080 Speaker 2: Before with all of the things that have happened. And 667 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:33,960 Speaker 2: this is not going to be like a too a 668 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:38,160 Speaker 2: two word like I've never said banana potato because that 669 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 2: technically I've never said that, I think unless a grocery 670 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 2: list that I was reading off. But anyway, and I 671 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,919 Speaker 2: thought to myself, inevitably, the reason I'm here is because 672 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,520 Speaker 2: something has changed outside of me. You know, this show 673 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:57,239 Speaker 2: has happened. It's been an incredible blessing, and people are 674 00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,960 Speaker 2: exposed to it. So I've been recognize a couple of 675 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,320 Speaker 2: times in the street, you know, or at the store 676 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:10,920 Speaker 2: or the bath and body works, and you know, you know, 677 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,520 Speaker 2: you can tell that they see somebody that they know. 678 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:16,799 Speaker 2: The thing that I'm saying for maybe the first time, 679 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:22,080 Speaker 2: is I am no different than than anyone because of 680 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:27,320 Speaker 2: what I've done, the fact that we're we are all 681 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:34,040 Speaker 2: human beings. There is nothing we're supposed to do. We're 682 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 2: supposed to find, We're supposed to find the meaning what 683 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,480 Speaker 2: is for us, But no one person is better than 684 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:44,120 Speaker 2: the other. I really do believe that, and people may 685 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:48,600 Speaker 2: act better than others for different reasons of understanding the 686 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 2: thing that I'm saying. And I also I also don't 687 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:55,160 Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about, so this is like I'm 688 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,120 Speaker 2: not trying to sound but you know, I've also been 689 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,879 Speaker 2: to a couple I've been to a couple of events 690 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,200 Speaker 2: where I've seen these people that I look up to, 691 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,080 Speaker 2: people who have done tremendous work, and people who have 692 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,759 Speaker 2: gotten the chance to talk to who you know, five 693 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:10,359 Speaker 2: years ago, I would have been like, oh my gosh, 694 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:15,120 Speaker 2: what would I even say to this person? But being 695 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,040 Speaker 2: confronted with that moment where it's like how am I 696 00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:21,359 Speaker 2: going to approach this heter of the mine? And then 697 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,080 Speaker 2: thinking back to those times and people have approached me 698 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,840 Speaker 2: and I wouldn't say anyone's hero, But when someone approaches 699 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,440 Speaker 2: me and just says, I love Cole Walter and I 700 00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,560 Speaker 2: love how you portrayed him in the show is just amazing. 701 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,880 Speaker 2: My whole family watched it and we just like we 702 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,400 Speaker 2: had the best time over Christmas. We watched it and 703 00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:42,200 Speaker 2: it was amazing. My grandparents they came over and then 704 00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,120 Speaker 2: we had them watch it. If I ever get to 705 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,799 Speaker 2: the point of hearing something like that and not wanting it. 706 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,400 Speaker 2: Then I might be doing the wrong thing because I 707 00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,319 Speaker 2: can't imagine having an impact in someone's life and not 708 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,440 Speaker 2: wanting to hear it. So flash forward to being in 709 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,200 Speaker 2: these rooms with people that I that I look up too, 710 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,839 Speaker 2: and I still look up to them in a way, 711 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,000 Speaker 2: but more so I'm looking at them and I just 712 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,920 Speaker 2: want to give them their flowers, and you know, I 713 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,680 Speaker 2: just like I'm gonna I'm gonna go to tell you that, hey, 714 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:16,480 Speaker 2: my family watched your show and we enjoyed that together. 715 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,759 Speaker 2: That was special for us. And it is kind of 716 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:24,239 Speaker 2: prombing to this perspective, like to some people everything that 717 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,040 Speaker 2: I've done this show will mean everything. To some people, 718 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,000 Speaker 2: it will mean nothing to other people. They'll be jealous. 719 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,440 Speaker 2: To other people, they'll be like very impressed at an 720 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,480 Speaker 2: appropriate level all these things. But at the end of 721 00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:40,520 Speaker 2: the day, if everybody has this different view of you, 722 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:45,080 Speaker 2: you are just the three sixty shade. You know, you 723 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:46,800 Speaker 2: are you, and everyone's going to see you in a 724 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,560 Speaker 2: different light. But at the end of day, we're all 725 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,000 Speaker 2: on our own individual paths, but they all have to crossover. 726 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,200 Speaker 2: So with that in mind, we're all together in this 727 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:57,719 Speaker 2: and I've just I've gotten the chance to talk to 728 00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,200 Speaker 2: people I normally don't get to talk to and that's 729 00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,839 Speaker 2: very special because I love human connection. I love interacting 730 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:10,000 Speaker 2: with people. And for anybody who is curious, we're the 731 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,200 Speaker 2: same and at our core, you know, our hearts are 732 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,879 Speaker 2: the same. And then like the love around us, I'm 733 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:18,600 Speaker 2: trying to give it out as much as i can 734 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,160 Speaker 2: so I can get it back, because it's the most 735 00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,120 Speaker 2: beautiful thing in the world, is to feel loved and 736 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:26,520 Speaker 2: to feel like you're seeing and you know, I see 737 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,400 Speaker 2: you if you're listening to this, you know. And I 738 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:32,359 Speaker 2: don't want to sound cheesy, but like not everybody gets 739 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,120 Speaker 2: the chance to do the thing that they want to 740 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,320 Speaker 2: do the very most in their lives. And I've gotten 741 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,759 Speaker 2: to do that, and I'm I could never have imagined 742 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,279 Speaker 2: being in a better place than I am today, like 743 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,279 Speaker 2: right now, and being able to do that. And for that, 744 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,920 Speaker 2: all of the people that have helped, Thank you. All 745 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,800 Speaker 2: the people that are existing and putting themselves through hard 746 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,520 Speaker 2: times every day and doing something they want to do 747 00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,360 Speaker 2: and maybe losing the faith, Thank you for continuing because 748 00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:02,040 Speaker 2: everybody's important in it. And I look at life the 749 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:03,880 Speaker 2: same way everybody's important. 750 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:08,880 Speaker 1: Oh man, I love that. That was that was a 751 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:12,320 Speaker 1: really cool answer to that question. And I think an answer. 752 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,640 Speaker 1: I've never heard that answer before in any of my interviews, 753 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,040 Speaker 1: So A, I love that, and B I think it's 754 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,879 Speaker 1: a really good reminder for people. And I don't know, man, 755 00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:21,640 Speaker 1: I think this whole interview, I felt like we were 756 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,279 Speaker 1: doing a masterclass on how to feel good and how 757 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:27,400 Speaker 1: to how to like live a life that is meaningful 758 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,520 Speaker 1: and important and kind and all the good things. And 759 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,279 Speaker 1: that's what I'm so excited about with this conversation. And 760 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:36,200 Speaker 1: I hope that you got out of it what I 761 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,760 Speaker 1: got out of it, And I hope everybody listening feels 762 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,239 Speaker 1: like they've gotten to know you in a much more 763 00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:44,080 Speaker 1: intimate and deeper level. And I just I can't thank 764 00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,440 Speaker 1: you enough for coming on and being so vulnerable and 765 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:51,960 Speaker 1: open and really having a real, true, non SoundBite, non rehearsed, 766 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:56,759 Speaker 1: non publicist approved conversation. It's evident this was you, fully you, 767 00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,279 Speaker 1: and for that, man, I thank you, and I agree 768 00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,480 Speaker 1: I could talk to you for five more hours. So 769 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:03,600 Speaker 1: I just I had so much fun today and I 770 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:04,560 Speaker 1: really thank you for it. 771 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,920 Speaker 2: Well, likewise I had. I had an incredible time with you, man, 772 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,719 Speaker 2: it was it was really great. And the other half 773 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,560 Speaker 2: of my what if I never said before is I 774 00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,880 Speaker 2: just did my first podcast because it's my first podcast 775 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:19,480 Speaker 2: and I love podcasts. 776 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,359 Speaker 1: Damn I am your first podcast. 777 00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:26,520 Speaker 2: First podcast, and no, seriously, just an incredible space to 778 00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:28,520 Speaker 2: talk openly, and like I said, I just kind of 779 00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:31,840 Speaker 2: felt like we were chatting so awesome man, Like, really 780 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,400 Speaker 2: really really really enjoy talking to you, and I appreciate 781 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:35,920 Speaker 2: you giving me the space to do that. 782 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:40,920 Speaker 1: Really, it was my pleasure. Everybody go watch this show 783 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,719 Speaker 1: if you haven't already nowhere, where can they find it? 784 00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:44,840 Speaker 1: Where can we watch? 785 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,800 Speaker 2: They can find My Life with the Walter Boys on Netflix. 786 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,359 Speaker 2: And if you like it, we're going to have more 787 00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,520 Speaker 2: for you sometime soon. There. 788 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,040 Speaker 1: You have it, all right, my friend, Until we meet again, 789 00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:58,799 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time. 790 00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:00,799 Speaker 2: I'll look forward to it. Thank you. 791 00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:06,200 Speaker 1: I've Never Said This Before is hosted by Me Tommy Dedario. 792 00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:11,160 Speaker 1: This podcast is executive produced by Andrew Puglisi at iHeartRadio 793 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:15,600 Speaker 1: and by Me Tommy, with editing by Joshua Colaudney. I've 794 00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,040 Speaker 1: Never Said This Before is part of the Elvis Duran 795 00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:22,360 Speaker 1: Podcast Network on iHeart Podcasts for more rate, review and 796 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,360 Speaker 1: subscribe to our show. And if you liked this episode, 797 00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,960 Speaker 1: tell your friends. Until next time, I'm Tommy de Dario