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Speaker 1: It's nine with Jenny Garth and Tory spelling. You guys,

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Speaker 1: this is really exciting. Uh. We have just recently introduced

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Speaker 1: a new character on the show, Gil Myers, and we

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Speaker 1: want to just take a beat and have a little

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Speaker 1: chat with the man behind, gil Meyers, Mr Mark Kylie.

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Speaker 1: It was on for thirteen episodes. That significant even to

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Speaker 1: this day, I always remember and a full name, gil Meers,

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Speaker 1: gil Meyers. You couldn't just call him gil, you had

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Speaker 1: to call him gil Meers, jil Meers, Mr Meyers, gil Meers. Yeah, Gil,

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Speaker 1: let's talk to him, let's find out. Let's do it.

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Speaker 1: What what up? Mark? Oh my gosh, how have you

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Speaker 1: not aged? Look at you? That didn't reverse You look

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Speaker 1: even younger than when you were on the show. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that'd be nice if it was, but thank you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you look exactly the same. You guys, this is crazy.

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Speaker 1: You are are you um calling us from Bermuda where

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Speaker 1: you're sitting in front of a beautiful blue sky backdrop. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I live like three minutes from the beach on

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Speaker 1: the East coast and I'm there all the time. But

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Speaker 1: for some reason this year, my my wife and are

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Speaker 1: kidding around, so we took a picture of the beach.

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Speaker 1: We're always going to let me say beautiful. That's where

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Speaker 1: we got. So we put it up on the wall.

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Speaker 1: We could change change the winter kind of thing. Here.

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Speaker 1: It looks good, looks great. Yeah you are you're are

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Speaker 1: you out of the business. You're living in what is it? Massachusetts?

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Speaker 1: Now I'm living in Rhoe Island right next to it.

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Speaker 1: Um around two fourteen, fifteen sixteen, somewhere and there I

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Speaker 1: did my last film with Robert duval Um. Basically, I

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Speaker 1: I kind of stopped. I still get some calls. I'll

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Speaker 1: probably go back in a little bit. My youngest is

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Speaker 1: gonna graduate from college this year. Um, but really last

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Speaker 1: fifteen years. I no one does this. But I turned

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Speaker 1: to a professional swim coach and I owned swim teams

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Speaker 1: and and uh very very well, you know, kids from

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Speaker 1: So for we put a lot of kids in Division

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Speaker 1: one swimming sports was my thing. That that sport was

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Speaker 1: um and it was a great way for me to

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Speaker 1: be with my boys, you guys and moms, you know,

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Speaker 1: and that was a choice to spend more time with them.

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Speaker 1: As you guys know, Man, you get a job which

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Speaker 1: is awesome, but then you're gone and most of much

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Speaker 1: that was traveled and they were little, and I did

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Speaker 1: my wife and three boys. Man, I wanted to be around. Um.

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Speaker 1: So that's the altruistic nice thing, and I was happy

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Speaker 1: to do it. So I found that being a swim

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Speaker 1: coach brings everything together, you know, um, psychologically, when you're

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Speaker 1: training kids and teaching them, it's it's it's all the

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Speaker 1: skills we use in acting, right, you know that psychological

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Speaker 1: stuff of how to motivate those kids and understand. Um.

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Speaker 1: It was great. It was great. So we're just wrapping

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Speaker 1: up this year two. I'm going to stop that, um

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Speaker 1: and and we'll see what you'll be a retired swim

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Speaker 1: I might. I mean there's still that option. Um. And

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Speaker 1: it's a different approach. But you girls know it's like,

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Speaker 1: well we do that art, it's a it's seven, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're thinking that you're living it, you're doing it. Um.

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Speaker 1: And I first took some time away. I was a

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Speaker 1: little concerned about that, and I said, you know, why

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Speaker 1: And it's it's been really terrific. Um, so we'll see it.

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Speaker 1: Sounds amazing and so admirable that you gave up, you

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Speaker 1: that moment, and and we're there for your wife and

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Speaker 1: your kids. It's really lovely. It changes though, you guys too,

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Speaker 1: write I mean your mom's You've made different choices here

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Speaker 1: and there. Right. Yeah, but you first into West Beverly

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Speaker 1: in season three, episode seven. Yeah, that's when we started,

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Speaker 1: I think what Jeff Melman was directing. Um, we did

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Speaker 1: not realize that you were originally cast as Rick Dean

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Speaker 1: Kane's character. Right, How do I didn't know that? How

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Speaker 1: did that go? What happened there? Wait? I can't even

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Speaker 1: have to be Gil. It's well, it's so long ago.

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Speaker 1: But um, you know, Tore your dad was great to me.

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Speaker 1: So funny, that's so funny, But that's so interesting. So

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Speaker 1: originally you were creepy. The character was creepy. I knew it.

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Speaker 1: The writers were starting to figure that out, and and

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Speaker 1: me as an actor, I was just concerned because you know,

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Speaker 1: wants to play that, um, um, and and your dad

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Speaker 1: I'm well, Jenny Closers, I'm innocently accused incorrectly. Boy, I'm

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Speaker 1: still fascinated. So wait you go in you auditioned for

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Speaker 1: How old were you when you played gil Myers when

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Speaker 1: you were cast? I don't know, Um, I should know that,

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Speaker 1: You're playing a teacher to kids that are actually closer

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Speaker 1: That was it. The beard was a choice, okay, because

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Speaker 1: Well does anybody ever be like, uh, I don't know

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Speaker 1: um uh. And I learned a lot because it was

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Speaker 1: and like people must have recognized you all the time.

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Speaker 1: Do they still recognize you? Yeah? They do from that

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Speaker 1: about Mrs Walsh. That's why I said, Mrs Walsh? All right.

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Speaker 1: you girls are cool enough to ask me on. Thank

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Speaker 1: you Mark so much. We love talking to you and

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Speaker 1: catching up all right, you take care bye. Thank you

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Speaker 1: Mark so much for coming on. That was so much fun.

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Speaker 1: Gil Meyers in the house. Um, So that's it for

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Speaker 1: this episode. We'll see you next time. We love you.