Speaker 1: I am all in. That's kiss you. I am all
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Speaker 1: right here, everybody, Scott Patterson, we are gonna talk to
Speaker 1: Adam Wiley. Uh. He appeared in season two, episode twenty one,
Speaker 1: Laurelized graduation Day. Um, and he's gonna join us for
Speaker 1: a little conversation. So, uh, let's bring him in. Is
Speaker 1: he waiting? Is he here? Hey, Adam High? How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm doing well? How are you doing, buddy? Well? You
Speaker 1: look like you're in some kind of three D world
Speaker 1: and that's cool. I am. I am in a it's
Speaker 1: it's the blurry background setting. Oh that's cool, which is
Speaker 1: pretty fun. That's cool. So how are you doing? I'm
Speaker 1: so well? Are you? I'm doing well? So listen, um,
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on. Welcome to the to the show.
Speaker 1: We uh we just loved your performance, uh so far
Speaker 1: of what we've seen of taking all that abuse from Paris,
Speaker 1: and it was just wonderful to watch you were you
Speaker 1: were true. So let me let me tell everybody a
Speaker 1: little bit about you, okay, and then we'll get into it.
Speaker 1: So listen to everybody. Adam Wiley played Brad Langford for
Speaker 1: a total of six episodes from two thousand one two
Speaker 1: thousand three. He was student Children and he leaves children
Speaker 1: and go to another school and reenters after being advised
Speaker 1: by his psychiatrist to face his fears quote unquote Paris.
Speaker 1: You know, so leaves for a brief period during season
Speaker 1: three to be a in a Broadway musical Into the Woods,
Speaker 1: which you actually did do in your real life. That's
Speaker 1: that's the true story. That's a true story. The first
Speaker 1: time we see Adams episode nine, season two, Runaway little Boy,
Speaker 1: in the last seems that season three, episode twenty two,
Speaker 1: those are strings, Pinocchio. You're born in California. Started your
Speaker 1: acting career in candy commercials for her She's Chocolate. Soon
Speaker 1: he got more gigs and ended up over a hundred
Speaker 1: fifty movies and TV. But your theater resume is unbelievable. Um,
Speaker 1: your ticket fences, you were Oh my god, I mean
Speaker 1: just talk about I mean, you're working, you're working in
Speaker 1: uh um. Um. You debuted as Jack and the Tony
Speaker 1: Award winning revival of Stephen Hunts Sondheim musical Into the Woods. Um.
Speaker 1: You were also met a referenced in Gilmore Girls two
Speaker 1: thousand having been done by the character Brad Langford in
Speaker 1: that series. You also played Jack at the Amison Theater
Speaker 1: production in Los Angeles, and you've done a lot of
Speaker 1: regional theater Camelot, Big River. He played Huck Finn one
Speaker 1: ten in The Shade It's Jimmy Curry on the Town Footloose?
Speaker 1: Is Willard precious Son's house arrest is odd? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: mean my god. Plus, now you have a huge TikTok following,
Speaker 1: is that in my readings, you are not you are
Speaker 1: known for your magic, sketch comedy TikTok's I am to
Speaker 1: tell us about the little bit, tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit about that. Well it You know, I joined TikTok
Speaker 1: because there was nothing else to do pandemic um And
Speaker 1: that's really where it started, is how can I still
Speaker 1: have a creative outlet when we're not really doing much
Speaker 1: in the world. So I thought, you know, what are
Speaker 1: my two things that I love most. I love magic,
Speaker 1: which is my hobby, and I it became a profession,
Speaker 1: but it started out with my hobby, and then I
Speaker 1: love also acting and creating comedy and creating contents. So
Speaker 1: I decided to marry those two by um being able
Speaker 1: to perform these sketches by myself being the magician and
Speaker 1: my own spectator, with a character created called Gladys who
Speaker 1: kind of represents every single person, uh, that I've ever
Speaker 1: encountered during magic gigs or shows or or or what
Speaker 1: have you. So it's UM, it's been a wild ride
Speaker 1: and pretty amazing. I love doing it. What's your what's
Speaker 1: your handle on TikTok's? Everybody can my handle on TikTok is?
Speaker 1: This is Adam Whiteley, So it's just my name with
Speaker 1: this is before all right, everybody go check it out.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna check it out too because I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: I'm dying. It's fun. Oh, can't wait. So let's get
Speaker 1: into some Gilmore stuff. UM. So everybody loves your character.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody in the show loves you. Same. Tell
Speaker 1: us how you got the role? Oh? Man? So I
Speaker 1: had done UM a very short lived series called UM
Speaker 1: Love and Marriage with Amy Sherman Palladino and UM it
Speaker 1: was wonderful, such a great show and it lasted three episodes.
Speaker 1: We shot six episodes and UM when Gilmore Girls uh started,
Speaker 1: when she created it and stuff, she she gave my
Speaker 1: my repsical and she said, look, I've got this character
Speaker 1: called Brad. I love to bring Adam in for it
Speaker 1: because I just loved working with him so much. But
Speaker 1: it's only five lines in one scene and that's it. Um,
Speaker 1: But would he consider I'm only bringing in a limited
Speaker 1: number of actors And I was like, yes, I would
Speaker 1: love to do that. I mean, I love you, that'd
Speaker 1: be That'd be awesome. So I went down there and
Speaker 1: I said my five lines, which was a lot of Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm Brad from fifth period Shakespeare. That's pretty much
Speaker 1: every single line I had in the audition too, And
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, that was less than five minute audition.
Speaker 1: Who knows. And I ended up getting the part. Filming
Speaker 1: UM the episode and I thought that was it and
Speaker 1: I was like, great, that was so much fun. Who
Speaker 1: was it? Who was in the room with the audition?
Speaker 1: Amy was there? And who else? Man? I remember, to
Speaker 1: be honest, I only think it was about It was
Speaker 1: probably about three or four people, but I don't really
Speaker 1: remember details of who actually was there. It was. It
Speaker 1: went by literally so fast that it was pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: But you were so she knew you were right for it.
Speaker 1: When you're right for something and you just walk in,
Speaker 1: you open your mouth, and you get the job right
Speaker 1: away because you're just absolutely just right for it totally.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a big believer, and you get a
Speaker 1: percent of the jobs you were meant to happen. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, So what do you remember about your first
Speaker 1: day set on the set? Oh? Man, I remember that
Speaker 1: there was a delay. M I remember hanging out with
Speaker 1: Chad Michael Murray a lot. Him and I had trailers
Speaker 1: next to each other, so we were sitting there on
Speaker 1: on the Warner Brothers lot and there was like they
Speaker 1: brought us in and something was happening with the scene before,
Speaker 1: and so there was a four hour delay and that
Speaker 1: was just me and Chad shooting the breeze and tossing
Speaker 1: a football for four hours. Pretty much was like my
Speaker 1: first day. Now, that was probably me causing trouble again,
Speaker 1: demanding re rights difficult actor that I am. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. Maybe, who knows. I doubt it. Seriously.
Speaker 1: Nobody ever really questioned the writing, did they. It was like,
Speaker 1: you know, we were also just happy to be there
Speaker 1: and be saying those lines that it was like, I
Speaker 1: don't really I mean, you know, I think There were
Speaker 1: a couple of very minor discussions over the years, but
Speaker 1: they didn't last long. And um, yeah, the writing was
Speaker 1: just so good you didn't. It was just such an
Speaker 1: easy job in that respect. And absolutely I remember getting
Speaker 1: specifically the script for when I came back from doing
Speaker 1: Into the Woods and Into the Woods was in the
Speaker 1: in the script and I howled laughing like I. Paris
Speaker 1: personally was at the time my favorite character because of
Speaker 1: how she behaved towards towards Brad and Um, I mean
Speaker 1: I just admired everything about it, about the writing, about performances,
Speaker 1: and was just laughing so hard at every single time
Speaker 1: I would I would get a script, especially that one. Well,
Speaker 1: what was it like working with Liza? Oh gosh, she's
Speaker 1: I think, um as as you as you were aware
Speaker 1: of the audience may may or may not be. She's
Speaker 1: like the nicest person in the world. Um, which made
Speaker 1: it so much more fun because I felt so safe
Speaker 1: in the environment. Um, she was so wonderful. I remember accidentally,
Speaker 1: one time, I think it was the season three rap party,
Speaker 1: I accidentally smacked her across the face. It was an accident, like, okay,
Speaker 1: so here's here's the story. There were appetizers being passed around,
Speaker 1: and I grabbed one and I went to turn and
Speaker 1: she happened to turn around at the same time, and
Speaker 1: I accidentally like ran into her with my aunt and
Speaker 1: I was like, so sorry, I'm so sorry, and she's
Speaker 1: and I think she said, no, it's okay. I think
Speaker 1: I deserve it, and then she smacked me back in
Speaker 1: such a funny and it was so it was such
Speaker 1: like a great moment that I only think her and
Speaker 1: I shared and no one else saw. That was just perfect.
Speaker 1: That is That's a wonderful story. Did you did you
Speaker 1: nail are pretty good? Was it like a slacker or
Speaker 1: was it just like a It was I just grabbed
Speaker 1: something and I turned and I was like, because I
Speaker 1: didn't even know who I who, I accidentally like first
Speaker 1: know when it turned out to be her, I was like,
Speaker 1: of course, it's all psychological, isn't it. It's all yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: seeds were planted long ago, so what was you know.
Speaker 1: One of our favorite lines was about when you said
Speaker 1: you you you tried to build a robot, but you
Speaker 1: were not successful. It's my favorite, my favorite line in
Speaker 1: the show. I love that line more than anything else.
Speaker 1: It's probably my dare I say my favorite line I've
Speaker 1: ever said. It's just I've never I've never built a robot,
Speaker 1: but you've tried, haven't you. Yes? Yes, When I read it,
Speaker 1: I went, yeah, yes, And it was probably you know,
Speaker 1: a little him. He probably tried to clone himself to
Speaker 1: someone that wasn't as scared of anything, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: like just genius. Such a great line. And I'll never
Speaker 1: forget that line or that scene, Like I will never
Speaker 1: forget filming that and reading that and just going, oh
Speaker 1: my onnic, what a home run that line was. Um,
Speaker 1: you know that scene and your character was named one
Speaker 1: of the most underrated characters in the series by the fandom.
Speaker 1: What would you have loved to see more of Brad
Speaker 1: doing in the series? Alright? So I know that I
Speaker 1: was supposed to do a few more episodes, but I
Speaker 1: actually left to do Into the Woods. Um, and I
Speaker 1: was actually guest starring on another TV show at that
Speaker 1: same time in New York. Um, here's what I envisioned
Speaker 1: for Brad. I would have hoped that Brad would have
Speaker 1: become this kind of Broadway star in a way, and
Speaker 1: and done more theater and followed his career and then
Speaker 1: ended up marrying Paris. I just think that that would
Speaker 1: have been so funny, and that she's still bossing him around.
Speaker 1: That is brilliant. That's brilliant. They love each other. Now
Speaker 1: who else? I mean who who better? Yeah? Exactly, And
Speaker 1: I just think that would have been so wow funny
Speaker 1: to say that's that's what I own visioned. And maybe
Speaker 1: when they when we do the prequel, we can order whatever.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know, maybe who knows. Um, that's a
Speaker 1: great idea. That's a great story arc great. It really is,
Speaker 1: it really is. I mean it's just like the laughs
Speaker 1: because you're so ill suited for one another. But really,
Speaker 1: that's that's when the magic really happens, doesn't it. It's
Speaker 1: because I I I you know, I've um people from
Speaker 1: my high school end up getting married. It shocks you
Speaker 1: because they were just the polar opposites, and you know
Speaker 1: they're happily married. But absolutely, Yeah, you have an amazing
Speaker 1: amount of projects that you work on. What's your favorite?
Speaker 1: Oh man? I mean, I'm one of those people who
Speaker 1: feels bad if I pick a favorite, because then I'm
Speaker 1: like all of the others must feel bad. You know,
Speaker 1: I love it. Let's go. I no, no, no, I'm
Speaker 1: not allowing this. I'm not allowing them. Let's go pick
Speaker 1: a favorite. Come on, okay, be bold, and mighty forces
Speaker 1: will come to your favorite category. Though, favorite each category.
Speaker 1: That's just how I am. Let's forget the question. No,
Speaker 1: go ahead, sorry, all right. So, if I'm going to
Speaker 1: pick a favorite, like Basic Voiceover Project of All Time,
Speaker 1: you'd be playing Peter Pan in Jake and the Netherland.
Speaker 1: Such an iconic character. Amazing. Um. If I had to
Speaker 1: pick a favorite musical I've done, I would say, um,
Speaker 1: out of everything, really, playing Huck Finn and Big River
Speaker 1: was my dream role and being able to do that
Speaker 1: was incredible. If I had to pick a favorite TV show,
Speaker 1: I'd simply say Picket Fences because I learned how to
Speaker 1: act on that show. It was such an amazing ensemble
Speaker 1: that I was so young. Um, the stuff that I
Speaker 1: took from every single person in that show was life
Speaker 1: changing and really shaped my career for everything else. When
Speaker 1: you're on show and I was, I was thirteen when
Speaker 1: it ended. Yeah, there were six year old after seven seven, six,
Speaker 1: seven eighth. I was eleven when it ended, So I
Speaker 1: was seven, Oh my god, yes, was seven. It just
Speaker 1: turned seven. Yeah, pretty crazy. I know, I where who
Speaker 1: am I? It's weird when you're only you know, as
Speaker 1: old as I am, which is seven. You're thirty seven
Speaker 1: years old and you can say I've been in the
Speaker 1: industry for thirty two years. That's weird. That's a weird
Speaker 1: thing to say. And so you had so you were
Speaker 1: were your parents involved in the business at all? How
Speaker 1: did you get involved in the business. One of my
Speaker 1: older brothers was doing theater and it was kind of
Speaker 1: like one of those like pay to play type of things.
Speaker 1: Happened to be an agent the audience recruited him when
Speaker 1: I was born. I was like, why is he gone
Speaker 1: so much? Well, he does acting. I was like, I
Speaker 1: want to do the acting. I want to be gone too.
Speaker 1: I want to be gone, you know. So I did
Speaker 1: and it worked out well, and you would be gone. Man,
Speaker 1: I've gone done. No one saw him again. We have
Speaker 1: to talk about the iconic Disney movie under Wraps. You've
Speaker 1: been working on a sequel. Uh, what can we expect
Speaker 1: this time around? Well, um, they remade the project, so
Speaker 1: there was a remake of the project last year. This
Speaker 1: is a sequel on the remake. So I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be Gilbert. That I can say, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be my old character, but um, what I do
Speaker 1: in the movie I'm not fully allowed to say. But
Speaker 1: I can say that you will enjoy it and it's
Speaker 1: really fun. Um, and I really enjoyed working on it.
Speaker 1: I just think that it's really cool to be a
Speaker 1: part of the franchise again for a new generation after
Speaker 1: having kicked off all of the Disney Channel original movies,
Speaker 1: which is crazy to say that I was in like
Speaker 1: the first one ever. That's awesome. Um, so you are
Speaker 1: the CEO of Magic Sketch Comedy. Tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit more about that. Okay, Well, that's basically basically based
Speaker 1: on my my my TikTok YouTube and Instagram, and um,
Speaker 1: the characters all happen by accident. I was sitting there
Speaker 1: in my mother in law's house and I had this
Speaker 1: great idea for her video and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: but I would need to play the woman I'm talking to.
Speaker 1: How can I do that? Oh, she's got some wigs
Speaker 1: somewhere hidden around. I wonder if she'll let me borrow
Speaker 1: a wig. So I did, and I made the first
Speaker 1: one and it went really well, and I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: my magic isn't doing well on social media? How do
Speaker 1: I spice it? Wasn't? It was terrible? How do I
Speaker 1: spice this up so that I can, um make it better?
Speaker 1: And I started making these sketches based on it's loosely
Speaker 1: based on things I've actually heard. So there's always something
Speaker 1: in every video I've actually heard, but the entire sequence,
Speaker 1: most of the time didn't happen that way. Um, I
Speaker 1: kind of manipulate the situation to be a little more
Speaker 1: far fetched fetched and outlandish than it really actually did.
Speaker 1: And um, so I've created this whole world, um which
Speaker 1: just me and the character Gladys who is my spectator,
Speaker 1: and we have I mean, I just have so much
Speaker 1: fun coming up with these sketches and people, actually, I
Speaker 1: feel even though I have my my scruffy beard and
Speaker 1: this wig on and it's clearly me, people sometimes forget
Speaker 1: it's me. Are you doing so? You're doing a different voice, right,
Speaker 1: You're doing a different character, I mean a little bit,
Speaker 1: a little a little bit okay, yeah, she's more like this, thanks,
Speaker 1: you know, but she's she's she's really fun, you know,
Speaker 1: and she says outlandish, outlandish stuff. And I have a
Speaker 1: blast creative and then finally people are like, oh, well
Speaker 1: he's actually really good at magic. I was like, yes,
Speaker 1: thank you, I appreciate you. And you're also really funny.
Speaker 1: I'm like, thank you so much. So I really get
Speaker 1: a kick out of when people notice both things. You know,
Speaker 1: it's really fun. And what's interesting is that the magic
Speaker 1: tricks that are really really clean I've noticed people don't
Speaker 1: really care about. They're like, yeah, if the audience has
Speaker 1: an inkling that they know what happened, or that they
Speaker 1: can kind of detect what happened, the videos blow up
Speaker 1: because then all of a sudden, people are part of
Speaker 1: almost an inside joke, which I've noticed is very fun
Speaker 1: and very cool. Um, that's great, So what's next for you?
Speaker 1: What is next? Well, just shut under Wraps two and
Speaker 1: I'm super excited for that. Um continuing to do my
Speaker 1: magic Sketch comedy and also recently appeared on Lucifer Season six,
Speaker 1: episode one, so you guys can also check that out
Speaker 1: where I happen to play a magician for like only
Speaker 1: the third time in my life. Well, that sounds like
Speaker 1: you are well on your way to have a Las
Speaker 1: Vegas review that character would Wouldn't that be great? Though,
Speaker 1: would you be able to do a stage version of it?
Speaker 1: The characters as a stage version? I could? You know?
Speaker 1: Within with with big budgets comes creativity, so I'm sure
Speaker 1: you could find a way to make anything work. I
Speaker 1: mean we this is we can do whatever. Are you
Speaker 1: ready for rapid Fire? I'm gonna fire questions, ask you
Speaker 1: fire answers back at me. Here we go, rapid fire.
Speaker 1: How many cups of coffee do you have in a day?
Speaker 1: Are you team Logan? Jesser? Dean? Oh no, oh no, Dean?
Speaker 1: Who's your favorite Gilmore girl's character? What would you order it?
Speaker 1: Luke Steiner? A coffee and a slice of pot? Would
Speaker 1: you rather go on a road trip with Taylor or Michelle?
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's not fair. Life isn't fair, young man? Taylor,
Speaker 1: follow the lyric quote and where you lead, I will
Speaker 1: follow dot dot dot? What's the answer? Cautiously? Anywhere that
Speaker 1: you tell me too? Sure? Shared is shared? Uh? Jackson's
Speaker 1: vegetables are Suki's baked goods? Would you rather listen to
Speaker 1: Drella's Harper the Troubadours cover songs? Chi Chilton Prep or
Speaker 1: Stars Hollow High? Come on? Chilton favorite Gilmore? That was
Speaker 1: a quiet. It was a serious question. Favorite Gilmore Girl's memory.
Speaker 1: Oh man, probably uh the graduation episode and getting to
Speaker 1: sing and making up the bong bong part and having
Speaker 1: that stay in the show fantastic. All right, well, I'll
Speaker 1: that'll be later on. I'll be looking forward to that one.
Speaker 1: Adam really enjoyed it. I hope you come back. Um,
Speaker 1: please me to take a little more time next time,
Speaker 1: but good luck with everything. You've had such a wonderful
Speaker 1: career and it's going to be exciting to see what
Speaker 1: you do in the future, because man, you have quite
Speaker 1: the resume, young man, you really really do. Um. And
Speaker 1: I will uh go to TikTok at. This is Adam
Speaker 1: Wiley and check out these videos. I am intrigued because
Speaker 1: I have a sketch comedy head attached to these shoulders
Speaker 1: and I'm always writing bits and I do not know
Speaker 1: how to perform them. And I'll try to figure it out.
Speaker 1: Maybe you will inspire me. Thank you so much, Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for coming on. And have a great
Speaker 1: rest of your day, buddy, thanks for having me. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you. All right, buddy, all right, take care, hey everybody,
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