WEBVTT - Jason Marsden Meets World 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:23.040 Uh, can we talk about the shocking revelation when we 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:28.960 got together that Danielle Fishel is interested in camping. I 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.760 was telling me about this. This is not something I 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:36.480 ever would have expected from you, and I am so happy. Yeah. Well, 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.640 so many things have happened since I've becoming old, and 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.440 one of them is that, uh, well, for one thing, 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.159 I no longer like to be in the sun, like 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:50.240 the sun. First of all, I've always hated the sun. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.040 I did not always take the sun. I was a 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:57.760 tropical child. We we went to Hawaii every summer as 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.920 a family. When I was a kid, the beach to 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.800 me was always a very calming place and I used 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:04.600 to love to just lay there with a book and 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.480 lay out in the sun. And then so and I 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.080 know people don't it's it's either you or it's not you. 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:14.880 It was Sony Will. You're a tropical person, right, no? 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.040 Oh no. Also, when you struggle with your weight most 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.440 of your life, the beach is not a safe, happy place. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.160 It's a place where everybody is comfortable to take off 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.000 their shirt and your people are going, why are you 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:28.200 wearing long sleeves? Yeah? Nor flashbacks? S Yeah, I mean 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:29.960 I was I can't say I was ever really comfortable 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:31.720 in a bathing suit, but I did really like the beach, 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.400 which doesn't make much sense, but so I did. I 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.720 just always love that. And so to me, any time 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.160 I would think of a vacation or wanting to get away, 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.360 or needing to disconnect or you know, feeling burnt out 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.840 needs some time, I would think tropical location. And then 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.960 as I've gotten older and I've wanted to stay away 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:52.080 from the sun, skin cancer runs in my family. Uh, 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.520 you know, it's just not something I'm interested in doing. 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:59.320 I have become obsessed with the idea of connecting with 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:04.920 nature and like feeling grounded to Mother Earth and seeing 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:09.040 stars and trees and going on hikes and like I 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.519 want to buy hiking boots and I want to buy 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.399 a tent, and I want to figure out, like how 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.520 do you do that? And you know, it's a it's 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.000 a little bit of I'm so excited about it. I 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:21.919 really want to do it. I'm a little nervous because, 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.120 as you know, I'm also very controlling about like my 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.760 kids schedule, and so my kids are very used to 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.560 sleeping in their own bed with perfectly dark and white noise, 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.120 and I think, so what you just sleep next to 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.680 your child and there's like natural light about in the world, 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:38.640 and where do you put the sound machine on? Does 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:40.560 the sound machine borrow that, you know, bother the people 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.120 sleeping next to you in their tents. So I'm a 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.160 little nervous about how it all works, but I also 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.040 think maybe it's good for me to just kind of 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.320 let it all go. And you do realize that the 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.799 white noise that you're simulating in the room is action 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.760 in the world by nature when you're outside. I don't 0:02:55.800 --> 0:03:00.120 think it is out the world it is. It's just 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.000 just you're not You don't have to block out other sounds, right, Like, 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.240 we don't realize how much extra noise there is just 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.600 by living in a city or even a town. You know, 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.639 Like when I watched my parents property, it is insane. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.640 It's always like shocking how quiet it is. Remember my 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.080 parents used to come visit me and be like so 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:20.160 many helicopters. I'm like, really, because I won't even notice 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.800 it anymore, you know, sirens going off all the time. 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.200 My parents used to just freak out. I remember finally 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.639 realizing like, right, no, I'm just like blocking it out 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.600 constantly by living in a city. But what I would say, Daniel, 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:35.040 is that like that that that attitude about like being 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.800 prepared and like obsessing over like do we have the 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.440 right gear, And that's actually really good for camping because 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.640 that you know, camping is all about that. So you 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.160 actually have to put your energy into how how being 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:50.600 prepared and so it's it's it's it's it's a relaxing 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.600 activity in that you have to focus on a lot 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.600 of different things to be prepared. Does that make sense, 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.040 So like you actually get to put all this energy 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.280 towards something and then when you realize like, oh, we 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:01.400 have our tents set up, we have our betting, we 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.960 have all our stuff, then we're just now we're just 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:05.880 in wilderness and there's nothing else to worry about. And 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.640 you reached this place of like absolute calm, especially when 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.960 you like go backpacking, because there's nothing else to do 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.280 and you've hiked everything in that you need and you 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.160 have to be prepared. You have to know like how 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:16.880 much of this is gonna weigh? How much food do 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:18.919 we have for how many days? But it ends up 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.960 being like extremely calming when you realize like, oh, there's 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.039 nothing to worry about there's nothing else to do except 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.920 sit here or enjoy this lake or whatever. And what's 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:31.880 incredible as kids response so positively, Like we took a 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.080 group of kids camping like a year two ago, and 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:36.640 a lot of them had never been camping before, and 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.960 everybody was super stressed out and we got onto the 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:40.880 wilderness and I remember my son and one of his 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.880 friends and they were like, we're bored like five minutes 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:45.839 and I was like, oh my god, I'm gonna kill somebody, 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.960 and they're like, we're so bored. Five minutes after that, 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.200 they were enthralled with rocks and sticks and it was 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.040 just like rocks and sticks for the rest of the weekend, 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.039 and that's all they cared about. And you just realized, like, 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.760 right at a certain point, your brain kicks, and kids 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.280 brains especially kick to this different gear where it's like, 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.119 let's make up our own game here with this stick 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:11.760 and this rock, and it just is thoroughly entertaining. And originally, yeah, no, 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.360 I grew up camping, So I grew up. Every weekend, 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:15.960 my friends and I would go camping, and we we 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.400 did it really cool because we all had dirt bikes, 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.760 we all had motorcycles and so we would we would 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.599 wrap up tents and food and put them strapped into 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.679 the backs of our bikes and ride into the woods. 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.120 And we we built a dirt track in the middle 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:30.680 of the woods, so we'd be doing jumps and all 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.200 this stuff all day, right in the track all day. 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.320 And then you'd set up the tent and we'd hang 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.640 out that night, and you know, you'd strap it back 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.520 to your motorcycle and you'd drive home. It was that 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:42.560 seems really dangerous with a glass eye. Okay, it's not 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:47.680 a class. I were one class on techn Yeah, you're 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:56.880 a glass I discussed about I want the want the pirate. No, 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.880 it's uh. And then the older I got, the less 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:03.640 I wanted to be outside. And then now I've done 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:05.960 something which I never thought I would do, which is 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.000 I kind of want to be in the city, which 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.080 I'm not a city person at all, and it's it's 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.040 every time soon and I go to London, we look 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.560 around and go, Okay, I could live here easily. On extremes, man, 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:21.039 I want a hyper urban environment or complete isolated wilderness. 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.960 What I can't stand is the in between, which hybrid America, 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.000 anything that's in between, just what drives me crazy, Like 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:29.960 when I'm driving into town and there's strip balls and 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:34.120 like why like density, make it densify, densify this like 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.360 buildings that go up and you know, but the idea 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.080 of like sprawl, like stretching out taking up space with 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:43.279 buildings like Los Angeles of Los Angeles, well, you know 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.839 the real problem with Los Angeles. I have come to 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:47.719 love l A. I you know, we've talked a little 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.240 bit probably on the show about how much I used 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.200 to hate it growing up and being on the show, 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.840 and it was always like being anti l A. I'm 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.479 from northern California. That used to be like it's just 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.120 the way you were raised. Um, And I think that 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.520 was ridiculous. Like I love l A for its culture. 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.000 I love LA for its diversity and like just the 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.440 sheer amount of people and things to do like all 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.920 of that. The problem is the sprawl. It's so spread 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.040 out and the lack of trees. Um. I realized that, 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.080 like I need trees in southern California just doesn't have trees. 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.640 It's such a neighborhood. It's a ton of trees. Danielle. 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:19.720 And then maybe you're one of the few man like 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:21.800 even when you go on a hike in Los Angeles, 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:25.160 it's like it's um like brush, you know, it's it's low, 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.840 it's not trees, it's not like big tall oaks or 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:30.880 you know, and and it's just a bummer. Like we've 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.640 just deforceded. And I mean l A wasn't really a 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.680 forested area to begin with as far as I understand, 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.960 but like we've deforested so much of southern California. It's 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.640 it's really hard for me. Like so when I thought, 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.680 like when we talk about getting out in nature, you 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.240 kind of have to drive like two hours outside of 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.920 l A, like you know, other level of nature, Like 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:52.840 what your look because Danielle, our neighborhood, right at the 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:54.760 end of my street not just trees, but right at 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.480 the end of my street it goes into just dirt tracks. 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.960 Like there's there's great hiking all up around us up 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:05.120 and it's desert if you like, which a lot of 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.400 l A people I know love the desert. So they 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.400 escaped like Joshua Tree and it's just that's like their 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.800 happy place, you know, friends live in Palm Spring because 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.240 it's so powerful for them. For me, that's like like 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.840 that's fine. I like it at night, like stars obviously, 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.040 but I need trees, I need mountains, I need streams 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:27.400 like Harry and Mountain. I find it disturbing. Yeah, it's 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.800 just too it's too dry. It's there's no trees, there's 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.160 not enough there. Should we do want a pod meets 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:39.200 World camping excursion? Yes, absolutely we should. I think we did. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.400 I like that idea. I want to go because I 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.120 want to camp again. I just said that to write. 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:44.920 He was telling me about a trip he tipped by himself, 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:46.000 and I was like, I want to I want in 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:47.640 on one of those. Well, first of all, just plan 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.920 on coming up for the July at my parents house. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.880 We do like big camp out every year my parents property, 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.360 and all these families come and kids have so much 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.839 fun and we just hang out for three or four 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.760 days and everybody it's it's basically a music festival without 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.679 any music, but it's become like it's such a wonderful bonding, 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.320 you know, community experience. Adler will come as a beat 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:13.320 bud great two three. Oh that was like a great band. 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:14.560 By the way, are we going on the road with 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.120 this band that we started? Yeah, you guys were really great. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.800 Writer on the drums. Adler wouldn't sing for you, but 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.640 he's really great as a singer. And then Will jumped 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.680 in on guitar. It was Yeah, we had wheels on 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.200 the bus. Was like, it might have been one of 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.440 the best versions I think since the Beatles did it 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.160 in what sixt four. We made up spooky wheels on 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.240 the bus this morning we did like a spooky version 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.640 see Halloween Themes where there were ghosts and were wolves 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.559 on the bus and they all said different things. So anyway, 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.959 welcome to Pod Meets World. I'm Daniel Fishel, I'm Rider Strong, 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:55.720 and I'm Wilfredell. Our guest today is somebody you guys 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.720 have been asking for for a really long time. Uh. 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.240 We should have had him on when we did Model Family. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.680 That was such a special episode for for Will. But 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:09.040 it was also Jason Marsden's very first episode. It's just 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:16.000 justin Justin Marsdale. Sorry calling him Jason Marston all these years. 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.520 Character name is Jason Marsden. Oh I think Jason Marson 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:24.800 was playing Jason Marsden. That's what it was. Yeah, Okay, 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.839 so Jason Marsden played Jason Marsden on Boy Meats World 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.319 for nine episodes. His first appearance, as I mentioned, was 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.560 in Model Family, which was season one episode fifteen, and 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:38.760 his last appearance was season two episode twenty three, the 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:43.079 episode called home Wow. Nine episodes just between season one 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:47.800 and season two, and then I can't wait to talk 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:56.000 to him. Let's welcome everybody justin Marsdale. Hell my god, 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:05.559 Oh stop it. Look at you? How are you? Let's 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.480 make him feel real special? Okay, great, all your faces. 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.160 You look like you're like inside. The actor's gonna say, 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.679 he's got like a studio and he's gotta it's it's 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:21.640 like I'm back stating the Muppet Show. It's unbelievable. It 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:25.240 looks great. It really does. It actually goes along very 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.800 well with my first question for you, which is we 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.640 all feel like you were maybe born a forty year 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.800 old who was just ready for television. Is that true? 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.160 Why are we just going into it? Oh yes, we've 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:42.600 already been interviewing you for twenty minutes. Welcome to the show. 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.400 So I was born forty years old? Is that what 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.280 you said? You were a seasoned actor is what we're 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.040 trying to say. Yeah, you were just like like in 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.560 your first appearance on Boy Meats World, and model family. 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:56.960 It was such a stark contrast for you compared to 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.160 the rest of us. I will speak for all of 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.400 us when I say that us, because we were flailing. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.280 We were totally fumbling our way through it until we 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.880 finally felt felt comfortable in our skin. And then you appeared, 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.680 and you were like quippy and catchy and comfortable in 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.080 your skin and took ownership of the stage and knew 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.040 everything you were doing and found laughs in places that 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.800 weren't even written to be laughs. Were you just always 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.800 that way? Were you born to do this? You're too kind? 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.160 I was so nervous. I mean, if you remember they 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:32.560 brought me in like on show night. That made it 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.040 even more amazing, though, is that you did that on 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.720 the day And I was I was nervous and excited 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.880 because I you know, I had already had a friendship 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.679 with with Fredell already, and so get to work with 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:45.640 you was was a kick. And then and I want 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.440 to like, you know, Fredell. I mean, let's be honest, 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.320 you were lucky to be there. The real stars, you know, 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.760 Ben and Writer and Danielle. I had to try to 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:56.280 impress them, and you guys were kids, your kids for 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.720 kind of wasn't even in the episode, Thank you, but 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:05.280 I wasn't even there. I remember trying to impress. I 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.200 was talking with like writer and Ben and you guys 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.520 are just laughing at every stupid thing I said. I 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.720 was like, all right, because you impressed the hell out 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.480 of us. Of course you were. I looked up for 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.280 you so much because you were such a pro, Like 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.720 you were so comfortable, you knew exactly what you were doing, 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:20.880 you were so funny, and I just remember being like, Oh, 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:25.320 that's that's what being an actor's act. I mean, it 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.040 was like for me, it was still just showing up 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.480 and like, you know, figuring it out as we went, 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.440 and like getting notes and being I just had no 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.120 idea what I was doing. And I remember I feel 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.600 like I had already met you before then, right, I 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.040 must have met you, like around town or something, or 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.400 maybe you just your reputation proceeded you by the time 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.280 you showed up on set. I remember just being in 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:48.840 awe of you and being takes and you would go 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.320 run around. No you know what it was. I always 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:56.199 equate sitcom, especially to music. It's a very specific song 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.120 and we hadn't learned the beat yet and you are. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:01.560 You came in and were like, oh, I've been singing 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:05.600 this song for fifteen years. So it was that kind 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.840 of thing. Let's go, let's take it back even farther though. 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:12.120 How did you start in the entertainment industry? And why 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:13.760 were you ten years old? Because I know you were 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:15.839 ten years old when as the age that all of 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.000 us started. How old were you when you started? I 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.560 was I was eleven? Okay, what was? How did what 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.560 got you into the industry? My parents, you know, we 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:28.360 moved to California and uh, someone had suggested to my 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.240 mother that, oh, you know, your son's cute, get him, 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.280 get him into acting. And my mom went to ching. 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:37.080 What a great idea. But they found a workshop and 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.520 Irvine that I believe still functioning to this day. There. 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.320 I think they've shifted to more online stuff called del 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:47.560 Mar Media Arts and Hello Bud and Bunny Barth and 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.400 the Barth family. Uh, they saw something in me. They 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.160 trained me for twelve weeks. It was all ages. It 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:58.600 was like Thursday nights, seven thirty to ten thirty and uh, 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.600 kids adults, and we did they did everything. They'd tell 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.000 you how to slate for for commercials. They tell you 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.520 how to read copy for film. They did voiceover stuff. Anyway, 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.080 they send me to an agent. The agent signed me 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.680 that day and then like then immediately started send me 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:17.240 out on movies, TV commercials, voiceovers, Uh and uh, And 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.480 I was very fortunate. What was your first worked? All 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.200 the time, I remember working constant, Like I remember like 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:24.880 turning on the TV at the Oakwood and it was 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:29.240 like every channel you changed it be Jason Marston. What 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:30.560 was it? What was the first thing you got? What 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:34.680 was the first first was a McDonald's commercial? Did you 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.440 all do time doing McDonald's commercials? Does anyone else? We 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:44.040 all started doing commercials. Mine was for Mick pumpkin happy Meals, 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.360 and I still have them in my kitchen. If I 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:51.440 pull back this curtain, you'll they'll just be my kitchen. Um. Surprise, 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:56.720 we've got four pumpkin pails. Yes, four pumpkin pails. Yeah, 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.720 we had them for dinner. Do you have that commercial still? 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.440 It's on it's on the tube of you you can 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.880 see it. And I played three characters. I played a 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:11.000 gold prospector and a bunny and uh and something else, 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:15.600 I forget a vampire and uh, and I kept the 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.320 pails And now and like that was like the real 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.800 industrial like bad for you plastic is that plastic is 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.320 not degraded at all. Now the ones you leave bad 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:30.240 for plastics crack, they'll crumble the fetty. So when when 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:34.960 was was was robot? Was robot chocks, Robot jocks, robot 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:46.120 jocks rocks and then robot crashing bird? And where did 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:51.560 you shoot that? Italy Rome? Italy? Yeah, I was gonna 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.560 say twelve. Never been to Italy before? Is me and 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:59.440 my mother? And uh and like there's so lame in retrospect, 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.400 but like I love Italian food. I grew up in 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.040 Rhode Island. I'm surrounded by the mafia. I mean, like 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:07.000 every you know Italian Italian food is the thing. And 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.760 I could not stand the food in Italy. It was 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:16.240 just it was authentic and different. Remember getting pizza and 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.840 so we walked on trying to find a McDonald's. So 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.560 I'm ashamed of myself for that. But yeah, it was 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.560 Stewart Gordon film Stewart Gordon who did a reanimator and 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:32.359 actually created uh honey, shrunk the Kids, many many other things. 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:36.800 Yeah wow, yeah, yeah you were an actor. How did 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.400 you get the call? Then? The night that that they 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.280 called you in to be Jason Marsden on boy Meats World? 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.480 How did how did how did that come about? Why 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.800 were you called in the night of the show. Well, 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.600 I was working on the Tom Show, The Tom Arnold Show, 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.240 and it was the it was just it was just 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.639 worked out. It was it was the last episode of 0:17:55.680 --> 0:18:00.240 that season forever. And uh, for some reason, we got 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:04.640 like we rehearsed, we we did table reads on Friday, rehearsed, 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:06.959 and then did our audience to night on Thursday. You 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:11.960 guys did Monday through Friday. We did the same schedule 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.960 at the beginning always because Michael Michael was a devout 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:20.240 you so we couldn't work after sunset on Friday. Um, well, 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.919 however it worked, it was it was like I couldn't 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.200 work with you guys that we were shooting the same week. 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:28.159 Maybe you on Tom did you shoot out everything you 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.760 needed to shoot out on Wednesday and so Thursday you 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.440 were free. I can't remember. All I know was the 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:35.160 last day of shooting for us. They didn't make any 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.119 special arrangements for me. Um and and I was I 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.240 remember being asked to do boy Meats World and I 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:43.879 couldn't uh and and We just left it at that 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.199 and then like I remember the night that we were 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:50.800 shooting for tom um my agent said, they really want 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:52.240 you for Boy Meets World. Can you do You think 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.280 you can go in on show night and do it? 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.000 And I was like, yeah, I'll come in early. And 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.280 I did. I showed up before y'all did. I. I 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.040 was David Trey was the director. I believe I knew 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.960 all my lines and I did the blocking and uh 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:11.840 and uh, and I nailed it. You did. That was 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:13.600 the thing that was amazing to me because I had 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:15.880 worked with this other actor all week long. I want 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.160 to say his name was Paige. I could be wrong, 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:21.280 and he was a very nice guy, very nice guy. 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:25.400 He just played it completely differently. He played it very 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:29.679 straight man and almost angry. And I remember you coming 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.479 in and us rehearsing, and me the whole time going like, 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:34.960 oh that was a joke. Oh that was a joke. 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.520 Oh there was a was like, oh he's it's funny. 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:39.800 Oh this whole thing is funny. And we've talked on 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:41.960 this show before about how when you work with a 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:45.200 better actor than you, it makes you better. And that's 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.920 one of my performances that I look back at early, early, 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:51.280 early and go like that didn't suck as much as 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:53.720 my normal episodes. And it's because I was next to 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.919 you and I was like, oh, this is how you 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:58.600 do it. We didn't we none of us knew how 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.600 to do this yet. So watching you where you were 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:05.000 like jaded by this point, you were what night seventeen 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:06.840 eighteen and you were like, I've been kid, I've been 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:10.680 doing this for nineteen years ago. Um, so it was yeah, 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:14.639 and I just remember you my cigarette smoke exactly and 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:17.960 we had a ton of fun room and uh, because 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:21.200 we had met years before when you I've told the 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:23.280 story on the on the podcast before where you made 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:25.560 fun of me because um, I was so excited to 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:29.000 meet Perry King from Rip Tide and You're like, rip 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:34.160 he ripped, rushed off the boat from Connecticut, seen a chair, 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:37.160 all excited and I'm like to learn my lines, dude, 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:40.920 stop stop, just drave me with your authenticity, and you're 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:47.399 all whatever, and you got that. That was that was 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:53.560 almost home with Leon Norris. Yes, we had Lee and 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:56.040 that was another Michael j show and Brittany Murphy got 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:59.560 wrestler and and that was how you and I met 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:02.600 and Shylo was there too, right, Yeah, it was between 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.840 me and you and Shiloh and uh and and they 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:07.720 gave the part to me for some reason. Gee, I 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.840 wonder why. It's because you were clearly the best. Yeah, 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:12.520 I was local. They didn't have to put you up. 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:15.400