WEBVTT - Extra Frosting with Special Guest Host David Chokachi 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:09.240 This is Frosted Tips with Lance Bass, an iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:15.480 Welcome to Frosted Tips. I'm David Chokichi, guest host filling 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:18.239 in for Lance Bass. Thank you for letting me have 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:22.680 this opportunity Lance. Today, I'm here with my co stars 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:27.520 from the original The Og Baywatch. I brought along my 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:30.880 guest dated Hi, Michael Bergan, will you let me finish? 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:31.560 Yeah, Trow. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.279 I brought along my good friends Jason Simmons, Jeremy Jackson, 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:38.000 and Michael Bergan. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:39.080 Yes, in the house. 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:44.440 We were recently brought together through a documentary that's going 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:50.720 to be released on Hullou August twenty eighth that ABC 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:56.520 News Studios has acquired that was produced and directed by 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:03.480 Matt Felker and also Nicole Eggert. Matt pretty much took 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:09.920 over for the entire shoot, and you know, I know 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.240 the majority of us had an amazing experience with Matt. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.840 I mean we started shooting this uh pre covid so 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.560 in twenty nineteen. I think I shot like my first thing, 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.120 like out at Zoom of Beach, And I don't know 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:26.760 many documentaries that go shoot for five years, because I 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.400 also shot something like two months ago for them. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.240 So Matt called me, well, he kept calling me. I 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:36.680 kept turning, turning the interview down because you know, I'm 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:40.400 not acting anymore, and I didn't really need to do that. 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:44.880 And then he showed up at my open house and 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:46.800 he goes, I swear, I'm not stalking you. I'm here 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.800 to actually look at this house. And he bought the 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:50.560 house No Woodland Hills. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:52.559 He bought that house. It was good. 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:54.880 Yeah, yeah, yeah, talk about dedication. 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:56.240 He bought that house. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.760 And then I said, I'll do your interview if if 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:02.960 I sell your existing house, the other house in Hollywood Hills. 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.320 And that's how you do it, he said, he said deals, 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.279 So I sold his house. 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.840 He got to do what you gotta do. That was 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.200 a cool house, too, great house. Yeah. 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.480 It was the same for him like with Carmen Elector. 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:18.760 He was trying to get Carmen and he just stayed 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:20.880 on our publicist for like a year, just like this 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:22.919 is what we're doing this over and over and over 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.400 and finally that Karen is like, yeah, of course I 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:26.920 want to do it. But it took forever. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:32.560 And same with it was Gregory, Helen Williams. Gregory. 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.760 He wanted he wanted Matt to write him like a 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.680 kind of a formal proposal like I had actually thought, 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.880 like an essay and in essence, and then send it 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:43.240 to him. 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:44.919 I got one of those. I asked for one, and 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:45.480 I got one. 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.320 For real. Oh my god, you're always so difficult. 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.760 You guys get paid to do it, as I got 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:53.839 the deal. 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:58.600 The deal is if you get paid for a documentary, 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:02.520 it takes it from documentary to reality show, and it's 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.960 a whole different category. It's a whole different demographic, it's 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:09.600 a whole different markets, whole different skills, uh sales. So 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.480 nobody can get paid for a documentary if you wanted 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.800 to really be a documentary, which you open up the 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:19.560 doors to way different awards, way different distribution, way different 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.760 you know, viewer perception, like I'm really watching something, this 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.280 is showcasing their real life, not something they got paid 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:30.240 for to fake it or to re you know, Felcher 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:31.720 can't create any scenario. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.040 I just want it. I want my fucking award. 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.160 Dude. Everybody wanted to get paid. Nobody wanted to do 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.080 it for you, Nobody wanted to show up. 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.400 Jason, Why did you? Why did you say yes? 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:44.520 Because Nicole Austin. 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:48.360 Jeremy. 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:53.040 Yeah, Nicole, Like I love Nicole Man. She's like, you know, 0:03:53.160 --> 0:04:00.480 survived this, this this shell, this brand, this uh you 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.240 know type cast of like the pretty girl and like 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.160 gone on to great entrepreneur and gone on to be 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.560 a successful mother, and she's always just been always super real, 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:12.480 like a homie and you know, now to producing her 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.880 own projects and it's rad like, heck, yeah, I don't 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.120 want to be part of of you doing that, going 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.880 from just the ditzy bimbo pretty face to like a 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.680 real person doing real things with a real life overcoming 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.400 real struggles. Like I support that all day long. 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:31.760 We know you have to. Yeah I was. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.480 I wasn't interested, you know, at first, but and you 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.560 called you, called Kelly Packard call I think Alexandra Paul 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.560 called Jeremy. I think you may have reached out to me. 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:45.800 All you guys are like it was so much fun. 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.359 It just I don't know, you know what I I 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.360 I was. I'm a little shy in front of the camera. 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.320 Actually you got. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:54.039 To know that, dude. 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.520 But you're I see you like in your real estate 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.840 mode and you're just like, yeah, but I'm not on 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:01.440 camera or anything like that. 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:05.159 That's just a natural conversation like right now, it's it's fine, 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:06.240 we're talking, you. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.600 Know, Bergen that would come up to me like on set, 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.400 like there was I remember a day like all you 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.640 have to do? Uh. It was in my apartment and 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.919 he was crashing there like in this that we were 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.560 shooting down cover and off Jefferson and then like I 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.680 come in the door and I think you both come 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:24.840 in whatever, I throw my keys. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:26.360 He had to see a couple of lines and like 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.320 but he just could not get it right. Dude. I 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.800 don't know if you remember that the it was. 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.800 That was every day probably you know what, when you 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:40.000 have like one or two lines, that's it, like nothing 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.240 to sink your teeth into, like a juicy scene. 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:45.600 It's so freaking hard. 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:47.680 It's just it's so hard. 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:48.479 I remember. 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.240 I remember in front of a producer session, I had 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.559 one line and I couldn't remember the line. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:55.400 I couldn't remember the line. 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:56.520 I couldn't. 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.160 All that pressure is on on. 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.039 If you would a bunch of lines or like a 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:02.080 whole scene, you would have been okay. 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.760 If I had a scene something to sink my teeth 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:08.640 into and and and get into it. Yeah, that that's 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.480 a lot easier than one line. 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.600 I strangely get that, yeah, you know, because that one 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:15.960 line almost feels like a slap in the face, and 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:17.920 it's like you want to do so good with your 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.040 one thing that you end up maybe messing it up. 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.080 Have you ever done soap opera acting? So I was 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:28.000 on Passions for two months one summer, and you're like 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:33.200 seventy shows and man, that dialogue that you I mean 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.240 you have to remember like monologues three or four pages long, 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.840 not that long, but uh, and it's pretty it's pretty bad. 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.480 Yeah, it's it's it's that was the. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:47.160 Hardest acting I've ever done. Yeah, is on a soap opera. 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.000 Well, if you can, if you can actually take really 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:51.800 poorly written material and. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.000 Make it kind of okay. 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.360 You're you're doing all right as an actor, because I've 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:00.800 had the experience of do you know of things that 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.040 were poorly. 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.000 Written and been like wow, what happened to be brutal? 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:06.960 And then work had the chance to work on something 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.160 that was like so well written that you don't even 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.520 like you just like read the scene a few times 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.200 and you're like, holy shit, I I already know it. 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.120 I don't even have to like really work on this. 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:20.480 It's just like it. It's such a difference, you know, 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:21.600 it's night and day. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.920 I had like kid pressure, so like knowing what I 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.920 said if it was like super lame or like I 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.480 would never say it going back home, you know, to 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.360 Orange County, to like my buddies in school that actually 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.600 surf with. At twelve thirteen fourteen, Visuan line bro, like 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.640 what kind of kuk are you? So I had to 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.880 change a lot of my lines, like dude, look, I 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.760 wouldn't you could never Yeah, I'm gonna get slaughtered going 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.600 back home if I say this, you can't say it 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:49.760 like that. This is how you say it. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:50.000 Yeah. 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.520 So I was always kind of twisting and making everything 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.440 be like proper for the times and yeah, you know, 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.000 for for my age. 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:03.320 And Tom Moore the since passed, I was changing live producer. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.840 He was amazing dude. He would always put his two 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.560 cents in, like, hey, this is you know, maybe how 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.200 you want to say it. I was like, cool, Tom, 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:12.520 it's such a cool dude. 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:13.440 It was. 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.000 I was just always so freaked out, nervous about the 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:21.200 dialogue and just being on in front of the camera. 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.640 And I came from the modeling world for years before that. 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:27.680 Well, it wasn't used before that, wasn't I think when 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:29.480 when you got hired, you had just been on the 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:36.160 billboard on sunset billboard outside eight hundred eight thousand sunset with. 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:37.120 The Times Square. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.760 I was on Depends Sunset. So I mean, no, but 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:40.400 it was. 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:45.120 And I'm not joking. It's like I got into modeling 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:50.160 because you know, some someone told me, you know, you 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.760 can make a thousand dollars modeling a day. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:54.000 Like what a thousand? 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.360 I'm like, I'll do free, you know. So I looked 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.240 into it and got rejected, got rejected, and I found 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.320 an agency in New York, and and you know, I 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.680 was going I was going to the University of Connecticut, 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.760 but I put myself through college with modeling money and 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.000 you have to live there. So when I graduated, I 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:13.520 moved down to New York right away and I lived 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.960 there from ninety two to ninety seven. But I was like, 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.559 I mean I had to like really jack myself up, 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.800 like to be in front of a camera and like 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.320 really suck it up. It's like I was not good 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.840 at it. But I mean I did okay at it, 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:30.400 but it was just it was hard. And then the 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:31.320 same thing with acting. 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:32.440 I got in. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.400 I got into acting because I thought instead of posing 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.800 in front of a camera and I felt like conceded 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.439 staring at the camera, looking at whatever, I thought it 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:42.480 would be easier. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.600 To be underwear, which probably adds a little bit, you 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:45.880 know what. 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.959 Funny enough, when I'm in my underwear, I feel more 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.720 comfortable because I feel like, you know, the joke's on 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.080 me kind of thing, and it just it breaks the 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.200 ice a little bit. But anyway, acting I thought it 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.680 would be easier for me because I'm not staring at 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.320 a camera or I'm being a character or whatever. So 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:06.040 but yeah, but then then I started starting getting nervous 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:07.000 for the camera too. 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.400 Yeah, genus struggle too. For a while, I was like 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.760 she did, yeah, yeah, yeah, she was kind of like 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.920 I just didn't. I didn't. I think it kind of 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:19.560 progressed where she's I think. 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.640 It was more of the circus environment that was freaking 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.760 her out too, Like, yeah, the people behind the boundary, 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.280 Like it wasn't like a little close said, it was 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.800 like hundreds of people Yeah, watching you, seeing if you 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.280 up on? Yeah yeah, yeah, So I think that stressed 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:34.280 her up to Yeah. 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:36.040 I think the more you do it, I mean, I 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:37.520 don't know. I'm at a point in my life where 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:42.079 I'm like the camera like I did this movie it's 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.440 called Shark Warning, but I was like, it's just the 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.760 camera is invisible, Like I don't see I don't see 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.560 the crew. I just see the actor in front of 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.760 me and the space around me. It's like, I just 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:52.800 feel like I'm in the zone. 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.040 Now you're more professional, act more than ever. 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.439 It's like, but in the beginning, yeah, you're like, oh shit, man, 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.120 there's one hundred people staring at me, you know, like 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:03.600 especially stepping onto like. 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.560 Baywatch also, but some of the cops didn't come from 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.480 from drama school or anything like that. So with Gana 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.120 was like learning, like you're learning to act and swim, 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.280 swim and do all this stuff all at the same 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.080 time with thousands of people. 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.720 You know, it was it was well that was me too. 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.400 I mean, coming from the modeling world, I never I 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:28.680 never acted. I never really acted before at all. So 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.280 like when I joined the cast of Baywatch, I mean 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.240 they pretty much picked me up off the billboards, threw 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.840 me on the show, happy to be there. But I 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:40.440 mean I made all my mistakes, you know, along with 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.240 the nervousness, you know, right on set. But I did 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.320 more scenes with you chokes, you know, but come on, 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.080 you had a like like you know, scene after seeing 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.840 Okay to take two and I'm like sweating and trying 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.240 to still remember my lines, and You're like you do 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.400 do dude, it was so easy for you. 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.000 Brandondard right up to me right before the fucking camera 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.640 is rolling and go like looking at his sides, like dude, 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:08.959 I don't know how to say this, like this real. 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:11.240 Yeah, you know. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.720 I mean obviously, I don't think any of us have 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.400 seen the whole documentary, but I've seen little little bits 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:20.320 and pieces, and I mean I myself was, you know, 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.320 I was, you know, originally the same thing, like everybody 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.679 was saying yes to it and you know, a chance 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.320 to kind of Matt really felt like he was gonna 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.640 be able to let us tell our own story, and 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.680 he kind of felt like we never had a chance, 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.640 you know, kind of we're always just stereotypes and that 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.600 then they kind of like left us and like that's 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.760 the image they have and that's the. 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.199 The characterization they made of us. 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.040 Is it's still that those same people, like, you know, 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.480 all these years later, so to come back and especially 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.960 to see you guys all again, you know, and to 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.640 kind of reunite and and also tell like, you know, 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.160 what's happened like or how you got there, what your 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.520 experience is like, and then your journey up until basically 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.720 like now, I thought was like kind of like amazing 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.680 because the show itself, like it does take. 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:12.360 A look of trust her to do a documentary and 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:16.640 to know that the people that you're doing it. 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.160 For and with have your best interest. 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.560 Yeah, but I did find with Matt that he he does, 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:26.320 he does, and he did and I made sure before yeah, 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.120 because you know, people have tried to start stuff before 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.920 and nothing's really happened, so you could be flaky and stuff. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.240 And yeah, the story I've kind of wrote in my 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:38.120 head or from the different data I've collected. And you know, 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.960 number number one, you know, Nicole is awesome. She's always 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.640 been like a sister to me, so I've always known 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.880 she's had my best interest in her. You know, she's 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.760 a family friend. We hang, you know, we have each 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:53.720 other's basswards, whether it's her dieting or me needing a lawyer. 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.480 You know, we've always just supported one of one another 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.720 in some way shape, or form. So I was comfortable 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.040 that with that. But then I met Matt Felker, right, 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.240 and you know, the way he pitched it to me 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.400 is like check it out, dude. Like I'm a kid 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.800 from Wisconsin who like watched and idolized Baywatch. So like 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.360 I became a lifeguard at a pool in Wisconsin and 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.160 they used to make fun of me and call me Hoby, 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.440 And I wanted hair like you know, David Chokichi, and 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.760 I wanted a life like you know, want to like 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.680 emulate my life after after you and like all of 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.120 you guys inspired me so much as this kid growing 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.840 up in this cold, crappy place that I wanted to 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.880 like move to la and be Malibu, like you guys 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.520 like showed me what the ultimate life looked like. So 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.040 I just had that in my mind that I was 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.000 going to do that. And then he moves to California 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.640 and he does it, and he gets wildly successful, and 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:43.680 you know, he's like the sexy guy with the abs 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.960 and the blond hair in the streaks and and and 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.080 he's been living in Malibu. He's wing triathlons and he's like, 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.640 you know, manifested this Baywatch lifestyle and so you know, 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.840 he gets wildly successful produces, you know, projects, does really 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.560 well for himself. He's a smart guy and when this 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.080 came across his nose, he was like, yeah, do I 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:10.400 want to show the new generation what bay Watch did 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:14.280 for my generation? Like how it molded and shaped my 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.000 direction in life. Uh yeah, I'd never be here if 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.560 it wasn't for that show. There's dude, there's a ton 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:24.480 of super famous people like Brad Pitt is on record 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.840 saying bay Watch is his favorite TV show. Oh yeah, 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.040 like you know, Johnny, all these people like, oh loved 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:30.440 bay Watch. 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.280 The makeup trailer, I was in there and they had 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.760 been doing something with Brad Pitt and they had all 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:39.080 these polaroids and he was wearing like the red red 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.880 lifeguard jacket, like doing all these bay Watch poses. 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.200 Look, dude, this guy fucking loves the show, right yeah. 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.760 And he I remember him saying that Michael Bergan was 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.080 his favorite and that that made me feel really good. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.120 Yeah yeah, and you know it stood out for me. 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.280 I mean, I think everybody knows. 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.600 And uh, you know, our good friend of ours and 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:02.200 one of our co stars, Mike Newman, has been battling 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.640 Parkinson's for you know, I think was it ten ten 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.200 years and it's progressed pretty rapidly in the last three 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.440 and it's kind of turned into some. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:13.720 Other things that are not great. 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:18.520 But you know, basically, and Matt would would and Matt 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.520 and Mitch what's Mitch's last name, the guy who is. 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.800 The lifeguard guy? Yeah, I don't know his last name. 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.960 Anyway, Matt, Mitch would take Mike out because he couldn't 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:28.680 do much with. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:30.720 His Parkinson's but he could still paddle and. 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.320 He would always see And so Matt and I took 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:39.720 new Me out last summer and you know, we just 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.080 went like a half mile and Mike was like, I 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:42.880 can't go anymore. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.720 I was like, whoa this? You know, Syrian went back. 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.880 But you know the fact that Matt like he's he's 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:52.520 not one of those guys who's just full of shit 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.560 and just talks like he would drag Mike out there 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.720 because he knew the only thing that Mike could do 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.680 was paddle, and the only thing that gave him happiness 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:06.840 was paddling. And like he consistently became a great friend, yeah. 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:08.720 And also a great coach and teacher. 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.240 He told me how to swim, like I could look 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:12.560 like I could save somebody. 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.640 So that was you know him for like a couple 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:16.480 of months before the show. 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.200 For those of you watching that don't know Michael Newman, 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.639 is that like super jacked guy that jumps over the 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:27.560 big wave in the Baywatch, you know, main title shot 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.080 when when the show comes on and the music comes on. 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.000 He's the guy that runs the best, jumps the best 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:37.040 in crazy shape. He's a fireman, he's a lifeguard, he's 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:39.920 an iron man, triathl I mean, he was everything that 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:44.359 basically Mitch Buchanan, the star of the show, was modeled after. 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.600 So this new Me guy gets like to hang out 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.240 and be in the background and say one or two things. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.320 But he's the guy really living the life. He's the 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.200 guy in the world swim, surf and run laps around 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.080 all of us, you know what I mean. He's a 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.760 real fireman and a real lifeguard. He's saved so many lives. 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:05.680 Who's uh, you know, a first responder, humanitarian. I mean, 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.760 he's just a g Like the whole objective in life 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:11.959 is to be as powerful as this dude is, to 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:13.399 make an impact on the world as much as this 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:17.160 guy has. And and you know now he's basically ailing, 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.400 slipping away from from life, done more than most mental 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.359 ever doing their lives as far as making an impact 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:26.000 on the world, and like this opportunity to give him 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:30.159 like real full episodes, you know, not just a blip 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.280 like he was on the show, but to show the 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:35.560 story behind the guy that really inspired the whole freaking cast. 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.680 Yeah that's beautiful, and yeah. 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.440 Hasseloff is in this thing for like ten minutes, you 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:44.920 know what I mean. He spent ten days with Nui 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.959 Filmy and they went to Hawaii with him at his house, 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:51.760 hanging out with the Hawaiian water safety team, like really 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:52.399 cool stuff. 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.920 Did you guys ever have to swim before the season? 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:58.200 Wasn't the Palisades? 0:18:58.280 --> 0:18:58.520 Yea. 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.800 I was just like, I'm hearing you talk about training 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.320 and stuff like that. I'm like, I trained. I trained 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.359 Carmen Electra in the pool. She would jump in the 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.600 water and hold her nose or whatever. And Greg Bonan, 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:19.160 the executive producer creator, said he goes going lane one 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.119 and just work with her a little bit. 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:25.000 I'm like, gladly, Yeah, yeah, I had to do because 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.320 my character is like an Olympic hopeful, so like you 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.000 can't fake like looking like an Olympic swimmer. 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:31.800 Like, so I was. 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.680