WEBVTT - 9021 on 1 with Mark Kiely 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:09.799 It's nine with Jenny Garth and Tory spelling. You guys, 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:14.480 this is really exciting. Uh. We have just recently introduced 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:18.160 a new character on the show, Gil Myers, and we 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:20.760 want to just take a beat and have a little 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:26.960 chat with the man behind, gil Meyers, Mr Mark Kylie. 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.520 It was on for thirteen episodes. That significant even to 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.960 this day, I always remember and a full name, gil Meers, 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.279 gil Meyers. You couldn't just call him gil, you had 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:42.760 to call him gil Meers, jil Meers, Mr Meyers, gil Meers. Yeah, Gil, 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.479 let's talk to him, let's find out. Let's do it. 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:51.600 What what up? Mark? Oh my gosh, how have you 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.120 not aged? Look at you? That didn't reverse You look 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.160 even younger than when you were on the show. Yeah, 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.080 that'd be nice if it was, but thank you. Yeah, 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.400 you look exactly the same. You guys, this is crazy. 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.600 You are are you um calling us from Bermuda where 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:13.440 you're sitting in front of a beautiful blue sky backdrop. Yeah. 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.039 So I live like three minutes from the beach on 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.240 the East coast and I'm there all the time. But 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:20.880 for some reason this year, my my wife and are 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.000 kidding around, so we took a picture of the beach. 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:28.440 We're always going to let me say beautiful. That's where 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.960 we got. So we put it up on the wall. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.080 We could change change the winter kind of thing. Here. 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:38.640 It looks good, looks great. Yeah you are you're are 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.120 you out of the business. You're living in what is it? Massachusetts? 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.800 Now I'm living in Rhoe Island right next to it. 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:51.120 Um around two fourteen, fifteen sixteen, somewhere and there I 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:56.920 did my last film with Robert duval Um. Basically, I 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:00.720 I kind of stopped. I still get some calls. I'll 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.200 probably go back in a little bit. My youngest is 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:07.520 gonna graduate from college this year. Um, but really last 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.720 fifteen years. I no one does this. But I turned 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:14.280 to a professional swim coach and I owned swim teams 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.359 and and uh very very well, you know, kids from 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:19.840 eight years old up to eighteen and then in college. 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.280 So for we put a lot of kids in Division 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.240 one swimming sports was my thing. That that sport was 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:29.040 um and it was a great way for me to 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.560 be with my boys, you guys and moms, you know, 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:37.200 and that was a choice to spend more time with them. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.079 As you guys know, Man, you get a job which 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.680 is awesome, but then you're gone and most of much 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.359 that was traveled and they were little, and I did 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:49.720 my wife and three boys. Man, I wanted to be around. Um. 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.600 So that's the altruistic nice thing, and I was happy 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.960 to do it. So I found that being a swim 0:02:56.040 --> 0:03:01.600 coach brings everything together, you know, um, psychologically, when you're 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.760 training kids and teaching them, it's it's it's all the 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:08.160 skills we use in acting, right, you know that psychological 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:13.079 stuff of how to motivate those kids and understand. Um. 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.120 It was great. It was great. So we're just wrapping 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:20.160 up this year two. I'm going to stop that, um 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.440 and and we'll see what you'll be a retired swim 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.920 coach now going back to acting. I love it. Yeah, 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.600 I might. I mean there's still that option. Um. And 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:34.520 it's a different approach. But you girls know it's like, 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.640 well we do that art, it's a it's seven, right, 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.760 I mean, you're thinking that you're living it, you're doing it. Um. 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.560 And I first took some time away. I was a 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.520 little concerned about that, and I said, you know, why 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.760 go live life, be with the kids, do the thing. 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:54.680 And it's it's been really terrific. Um, so we'll see it. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.720 Sounds amazing and so admirable that you gave up, you 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.360 know what, what you thought you wanted or needed in 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.520 that moment, and and we're there for your wife and 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.200 your kids. It's really lovely. It changes though, you guys too, 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:11.520 write I mean your mom's You've made different choices here 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:17.080 and there. Right. Yeah, but you first into West Beverly 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:21.640 in season three, episode seven. Yeah, that's when we started, 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:26.680 I think what Jeff Melman was directing. Um, we did 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:30.600 not realize that you were originally cast as Rick Dean 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.560 Kane's character. Right, How do I didn't know that? How 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.039 did that go? What happened there? Wait? I can't even 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.159 see it now, Like you're you can't be Rick, you 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.200 have to be Gil. It's well, it's so long ago. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.520 But um, you know, Tore your dad was great to me. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.120 You know, I'm sure you're here all the time, but 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:52.560 he was great to me. And going in and uh man, 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.360 you know, meeting Paul and meeting meeting Darren, eating those 0:04:55.480 --> 0:05:00.160 those guys and girls and Charles Rose and his wife. Um, 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.280 that was on the table and then this part came 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:06.000 up and the only controversy was at the early stages 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.120 of it. When Chris Fronk Cato wrote it, you know 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.800 he was going to be guilty of that. Gil was 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.560 going to be, you know, the real deal guilty of that. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.720 And and me as an actor and a person, you know, 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.760 this is the world, right. So when I just come 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:24.400 off of what did I Do? I did law and honor, 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.000 and I played a really bad dude, right And on 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.400 the streets of New York walking back to my apartment, 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.240 people would say things to me, like, you know, you're 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.840 an awful man. I can't believe you know, It's like, dude, 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.640 it's TV. So I was just so tory and I 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:44.600 know what happens. But Jenny actually never has seen it, 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.000 so she doesn't really know. So she's just seen your 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.560 first episode. I don't know what you're talking about about 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:54.599 you that. It doesn't sound like it was good right now. 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:59.200 So funny, that's so funny, But that's so interesting. So 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:04.640 originally you were creepy. The character was creepy. I knew it. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.360 The writers were starting to figure that out, and and 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.960 me as an actor, I was just concerned because you know, 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.680 sometimes in reality they put that on you, right, who 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:19.839 wants to play that, um, um, and and your dad 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.120 was cool enough to or that kind of I said, 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:23.440 I don't want to do it that way. I don't 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.320 want to do it. And I was too young to 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:30.679 even think that saying nose wrong. But they talked about 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.000 it and then and then they rewrote it so that 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:43.160 I'm well, Jenny Closers, I'm innocently accused incorrectly. Boy, I'm 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.919 still fascinated. So wait you go in you auditioned for 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:51.400 the role of Rick Um to play opposite Brenda, and 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.680 you got the part, like they offered you the part 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.479 and then said, oh no, just kidding or what how 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:59.960 did that work out? Um? They so Dean came came 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.200 in two afterwards. Um. And it was one of this 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.039 has happened a few times in my career too, where 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:09.080 they're they're shuffling going, okay, what do we want to 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.280 do here? And um, and Dean's storyline wasn't gonna stay 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:16.280 as long um, and they thought there was a potential 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.360 that the storyline would carry through for a longer time 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.800 for the writers. I believe that was the decision. I 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.640 don't know, you know, that's what we talked here and 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.840 they're about um and then they kept rolling that guy 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:31.880 out that, you know, rolling Gill into that that unique 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.280 place where you guys know you were young and you 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:35.840 you you were starting out and you were representing that. 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:37.320 And I had to come in as one of those 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:42.080 teachers that could, um be on the borderline, young enough 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.200 to cause a little problem, um, young enough to to 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:51.800 not have too many of the stoic teacher stuff, yet 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:56.960 still a teacher, still in charge, still trying to impact 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:00.160 and I think correctly making mistakes because he was a 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:04.880 fairly new teacher. Yes, so did you play him like 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.680 overly friendly with a hint of creepy or did you 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.800 really try not to because he when you first watch, 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.080 you're like, oh, is this gonna get weird? Yeah? So 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.200 so that's like a Red Herring, right, So you know 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:20.080 a TV and film especially Red Herring is for me 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:24.120 in that part. It's too lay in a little of 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:30.160 those possibilities, right and um really initially too in their 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.360 first four or five episodes, I kind of played everything 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:37.040 a little too slow, but but slower, you know, hoping, 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:41.200 hoping that sometimes that little hand shot would add that 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.680 which way is he gonna go? And when you look 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.240 at television today and you look back then to Um 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.400 or you look at Episodics. You're trying to figure out, 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.400 you know, who done it right, and you're four different people, 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:59.320 so you're trying to leave the life intentionally correct, but 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:06.160 make some shading of like or maybe well, I just 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.920 I don't know what happens, but I did definitely get 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.640 creepy vibes from you, so way to lay it in there. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.000 How old were you when you played gil Myers when 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:19.720 you were cast? I don't know, Um, I should know that, 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:28.080 shouldn't I? I guess, uh right, yeah, Google, that's I 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:33.040 guess I was thirty maybe, So you're practically the same age. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.240 You're playing a teacher to kids that are actually closer 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.320 to your age in real life exactly. That's why we 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:44.560 came in with the beard, you know, to help that. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.760 That was it. The beard was a choice, okay, because 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.240 it was you was a scruffy teacher. I was like, what, Yeah, 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.400 the beard was intentional to help with that, you know, 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.640 um um, And some of the behavior laid in to 0:09:55.760 --> 0:10:00.840 delineate that because it was easy, um to not pay 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.360 attention to that. And then you know, I wasn't supposed 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.000 to be one of you guys. I wasn't supposed to 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:06.560 be your age. I was supposed to be just a 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:10.679 little bit above, just a little older. Wait, so you're 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:19.520 you played this apparently bad guy, teacher, bad guy, okay, 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.120 whatever it is, but that has that transferred over into 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:27.040 your real life being, you know, an educator and teacher. UM. 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.240 Well does anybody ever be like, uh, I don't know 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:36.800 about this guy? So so I was like post nine 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:42.040 eleven UM. Our kids were really young. I think they 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:46.000 were three, four and one, and that's when we had 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:49.480 made the decision like to come back here. And while 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.199 I was here, I was trappling for the first four 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.840 years doing jobs and I said I can't do that. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.320 I want to release stick UM. And so in the 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.280 interim before some coaching, I was like, what do I do? 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.000 And I had a guy, a friend of mine, who 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.920 was a teacher UM and I had the qualifications and schooling, 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:09.240 but he suggested I go work for this UM basically 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.640 a school system that dealt with behaviorally challenge kids on 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.599 all levels, to the to the unfunctional and to the 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.880 high function. And so for a year and a half 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:24.800 I worked intermittently four or five times a week for 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:28.960 this UM school district that did that, and I did 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.320 it because one I was kind of a concerned about 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.600 that that that particular demographic is hard to teach, right, 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.560 um uh. And I learned a lot because it was 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:43.080 uncomfortable at first, and then I met great teachers. Um. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.559 It was an amazing experience to learn how to communicate 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:51.040 and how to put at ease and how to educate um, 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.920 children of different levels that had different disabilities, whether they're emotional, mental. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.800 So I did do some of that, um, but then 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.240 I turned it into the coaching because I really that 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:05.199 pure part. And because of that that teaching on my 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:10.360 team's I would always mainstream some kids that were uh uh, 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.040 you know, had some challenges and let them see that 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.920 they're capable of doing what what the sport was. That's 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:31.600 so cool. I love it. So when you came onto 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:37.280 our show, it was already hit. It was season three. Um, 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.320 what did you think. We're like, oh my gosh, this 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:44.280 is going in on this show. This is big people, 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.960 and like people must have recognized you all the time. 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.680 Do they still recognize you? Yeah? They do from that 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:55.040 show kil Myers. You know that, right, because um, it 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.400 was pretty a wild time coming off from New York 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.120 with a lot of work in New York and coming 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.160 out there, and that was I just got in l 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:02.839 A and and that was a big show, right, and 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.600 you guys were it. You were setting the trend, people 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:09.160 paying attention to, people into it, and um it did. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:10.720 It gave me a lot of presents, and it gave 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:14.160 me other work, but most importantly, it gave me like 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.800 more television experience. Uh, I remember the first day, so 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.520 you're gonna see the episode's funny you didn't. But the 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.760 first day I worked, I had to enter the classroom 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.760 to see Brenda and to see Jason and Andrea because 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:32.840 it was And I did it like three or four times, 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.040 and they kept cutting. No one's saying anything. I'm like so, 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.480 so like the fifth or six times they keep cutting it, 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.040 I'm like that sending me back to one. I'm like, man, 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:42.840 this didn't happen. What's going on. So one of the 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.240 producers came out with a casting director and said, hey, 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:50.480 are you Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine. I don't 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.960 know why they keep cutting. They're like, you're stepping on 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:58.520 Jason's line. Every time I came in, Jason said something 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:00.679 and I stepped on them but knowing would tell me 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:02.800 until then. So it was really funny. So I was 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.080 always more to learn at that stage because I, you know, 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.439 been on daytime and I had done h the episodes 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.360 I could. In New York at that time, there weren't 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.320 many that was going order. There's a couple others coming in. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.160 There was not a lot of work at that time 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:20.520 in television in New York City. Did uh, they didn't 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.960 tell you were stepping on Jason Swein, But did they 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.240 perhaps tell you not to look us in the eyes? 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:31.120 I'm just curious now now they didn't do that. They didn't, 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.120 you know, they'd precursor anything to that. But I was 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:39.200 just amazed that how you guys were handling everything, because 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.040 when when I came on, the show was really spiking 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.320 prior to me coming on and watching that and seeing 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.040 you guys have to handle a lot. And I don't 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:48.800 know if you talk about that or look back at it. 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:54.920 Um your age um coming in, the pressures and and 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.360 all new actors to actors that are getting work in 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:02.840 the beginning, there's a duality of of of a learning 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:07.520 curve and a balance and then you guys, you know, 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:08.880 even though I was the same Maye, you had a 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:13.240 different pressure, um and I can only imagine that that 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.160 that whole for at least the first three years had 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.240 to be an adjustment for you in your own personal 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:22.000 lives working as actors there. What did you think of 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.720 these guys? We're both like, yeah, what do you think 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.080 of the cast? When you because you were there for 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.840 thirteen episodes, that's a lot. Did you mostly work with 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.760 just Jason and Andrea or you know, in the beginning 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.240 was mostly Jason Andrea and I got some stuff and 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.840 feeling and rendering you guys a little bit interactions. We've 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:47.440 had those crossovers, um um. But you know, it was 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:52.160 a really good experience because everybody was really welcoming to me. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.640 Um And I also think because you guys are you 0:15:55.640 --> 0:16:00.600 know right away you're working right. So when I started Withandrea, 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:04.320 she welcomed the opportunity to rehearse, She welcomed the opportunity 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:08.200 explore that, um and sometimes and Jason and Dillon too. 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:12.160 They were really cool and open, which is nice because 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:16.160 when you sometimes come onto shows, the guys can get 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.760 a little tight until they relax, and these guys weren't. 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.920 They were really really cool. It's nice here. The funny 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.080 thing I remember, though, is that it was like a 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.560 Monday morning. I came in and we were waiting hours 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.520 and almost a late afternoon, because I think you too, 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:36.080 character you were like in Vegas, right, and you had 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:40.640 a great weekend and you all missed the plane I 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.720 got Are you kidding? And they're all complaining and whining 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:49.680 because you guys weren't in town. Don't remember this at all? 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:56.440 Do you don't you remember that? Okay, something is vaguely 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:02.840 coming back that perhaps Shannon and I were in Cabo 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.639 San Lucas and missed our flight. Hey, it wasn't me 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:10.679 at all. Maybe this it wasn't this instance. But I 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.520 didn't even remember this story at all until you brought 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.240 that up. And I don't know if the timeline works out, 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.399 but it could. Was I eighteen at this point, Oh 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:27.119 my god, what year was this? Oh gosh? Graduate Okay, okay, 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.240 we were in Cabo San Lucas and we did we 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.879 missed our flight, and that was a call. I was like, 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:37.280 oh god, I was. I was terrified, and Shannon's like 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.320 I got it, I got it, like, don't worry. So 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:44.640 I remember her calling and being like, yeah, we're not. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.359 I thought that was pretty funny. But other than that, 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.879 it was you know, oh my god, yes it was. 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.560 It was a great little tuck towy studio. You know, 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:56.640 it was a cool little place. It really was. Um, 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.280 did you know they filmed porn right next door? No, 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:04.480 but I'm not surprised. I know every block and in 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:09.000 that area. You know, do you remember the fans reaction 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.439 to Gil Myers at the time, and like maybe throughout 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:17.400 the duration of your appearances, like did we like you 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.240 did we? I don't remember? She says we She means 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.399 the fans because she's me and my people. Yeah, I 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.200 mean I think they did. I think in the early 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.679 part it was controversial. But then I think that a 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:30.560 lot of the reactions I would get, or that I 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:34.000 could come be made aware of or or see what 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:39.880 was Gil was liked. Um was like and you know, uh, 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.080 if we were on location and at the school or whatever, 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:44.800 and there might be a lot of fans on the 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:49.640 day on an in screaming at the fence, you know, 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.080 but you know, I'd get a few shout outs, but 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.800 not like we get a lot of attention of the boys. 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:01.720 Oh and Gil, Yeah, we have a question obviously. I mean, 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:06.119 thirteen episodes is huge, Like fans always must have remembered you. 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.640 Um any of your students on your swim team, were 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:13.120 their moms like are they come to the shom meet 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.760 and they're like, are you kidding me? There's Gil Myers. 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.600 So so I don't know anybody else that's transitions from 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:25.439 acting professional. Never heard of that. Um, So it was 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:28.359 kind of like being outed. You know what I'd do 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:32.160 is I didn't. I was never comfortable promoting that anyways. 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:34.600 So I'm working my kids and all the people and 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:36.880 doing my thing and showing them I know what I'm doing. 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:38.920 But yeah, it used to be kind of I think, 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:42.280 I think he's you know, and then someone would you know, Google, 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:44.320 and then it would be you know, all over and 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.960 so more and more and more and more until the 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:49.760 kids started to you know, the young girls and boys 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.919 all I've seen coaching, and I was like, well, I 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:54.679 didn't want them to look at a lot because a 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.760 lot of the movies, I play a lot of bad guys, 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:01.080 you know, I play a lot of on desirable. So 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.119 I wasn't really looking for twelve and unders to go 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:09.160 and watch those, you know, not a good idea yeah, 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:12.040 and the moms. The moms are the moms were attentive, 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:17.720 but Ellen was cool. My life, God bless Ellen. Yeah, really, man, 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:22.600 you know how that is. It's just, oh my gosh. 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.680 So you're you're about to hang up your swim trunks. 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:30.960 See funny I said that. God, And what's next for you? 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:34.560 What's what's on the horizon. Well, that's what's different. You know. 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:38.600 This is the first time ever I've taken like four 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:43.320 months and uh, just hanging out with Ellen, seem do 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:46.399 my family stuff and and kind of reflecting on what 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.200 do I want to do because I've sent off the 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:51.640 remainder of my team. I've sent other other teams. They're 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.640 doing well. I'm in touch with the college kids. But 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.720 I'm just not sure. You know, I've done photography, I've 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.520 had a studio of done other things. You're an empty nester, right, 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.520 that's it. Yeah, and happened although once here and upstairs 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:09.439 it's home for weekend. Never empty empty but yeah, no, 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:13.399 it's never. But and that's cool. You know, it totally 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:17.879 changes things. It's nice. So I don't have a specific 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:20.679 I'm I'm talking to some of the people I know 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:24.040 and and and may take some more work and acting. Um, 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:25.760 or I may go in a different direction. That's the 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:28.440 coolest thing. You can do whatever you want to do. 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:33.119 You can if you're if you just chill about it. 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:37.399 We have to make a living and that that issue. 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:40.679 But it's just I mean the luxury of having this 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:43.600 time and my wife being cool enough to go, hey, 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:46.760 you know, do what you gotta do. Um, because swimming 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.840 is is like acting in the sense that, um, it's 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:54.800 seven and you know, there's no weekends, there's no dinners 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:57.720 with family, there is that stuff. It worked because my 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:02.080 boys were with me, right so so we were together 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:04.280 all the time or if I'm gonna wait for the weekend, 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:08.840 they're there. And that gave a really neat parenting opportunity 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:12.159 to kind of, uh, you know, teach them to be 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:17.000 upstanding young guys. Good for you changing today, you know 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:22.480 how hard it is right with the kid. Yeah, yeah, Well, 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:26.320 all our fans, your fans are gonna hear and see this, 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:29.280 and they're gonna be like, we want you back. So yeah, 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:31.919 we might have to call you. As Jenny sees it, 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:35.720 fill along. Oh my gosh, I hope you don't mind 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:38.399 if you can join us, because I think She's gonna 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:44.119 definitely have more questions as we go. That's fun. That's fun. 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:46.040 I mean when I got the call, it is like Psyche, 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:48.280 you guys are doing this. It's it's a huge interest. 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:51.160 I know. Um, you know Charles is doing his over 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:56.240 there and your fan base. It's really unique and incredible 0:22:56.359 --> 0:23:00.840 and timing wise. Look at the depth of time, you know, 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:03.920 And and we go back and influence whatever you see 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:06.040 in movies. Now you look back at television right now, 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:08.040 you can go back and back and back. Where does 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:12.800 it beginning? A lot of it begins here. Off that's happening. 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:16.640 That comes so easy to others. Now, what if you 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:18.520 you know, what if you guys decided to make up 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:21.440 lind or hairline or head Instagram or that stuff. God, 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:24.119 we talked about that, right or or music or and 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:27.639 I think it's all different now and um, but you 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:31.960 guys get the credit for and we're groundbreaking at the time, 0:23:32.560 --> 0:23:35.639 you know. Um, if we only knew then what we 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:38.920 know now. Yeah, but that's the that's the rub, right, 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:55.520 We never get that. So should we play our game 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:58.120 with him? Oh yes, Oh my gosh, will you play 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:02.040 a game with us? We torture all of our guests 0:24:02.600 --> 0:24:06.600 and make them play this horrific game. It's called Kiss Mary, 0:24:06.720 --> 0:24:10.120 kick to the Curb, Kiss May to the Yeah, yeah, 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:14.880 it's just perfect for creepy teacher. Oh my gosh, and 0:24:15.119 --> 0:24:17.560 you don't go by the actors were not precious. We 0:24:17.600 --> 0:24:20.160